Chapter 38 Sage
It was time. Lucian’s tech was here, and he wasn’t stuck as a bat anymore. We still didn’t know what Elliot and Petros had planned, just when we saw them in class, it was game on. They would not even drop a single hint like which class we should expect them in.
I considered they might be in Arcane Magic since Professor Gefn was the reincarnation of Freya and in the same pantheon as Loki.
She’d been Team Ivar from the start since he was the reincarnation of Thor and hadn’t made any secret she didn’t care for Lola after she pointed the finger at him.
Professor Gefn’s disdain grew when she found out Lola’s mind hadn’t been messed with and she’d done it on purpose.
She was also the one helping dead students cross if they didn’t go to Khalid.
I was pretty sure if Elliot and Petros wanted to get up to something in her class, she would have personally held Lola down while they did it.
Except it didn’t happen in Arcane Magic.
Lola asked a million questions about healing, but nothing directly about getting pregnant, which was stupid because Professor Gefn was a love and fertility god among other things and could probably help if she wasn’t actively planning to kill her with the rest of us.
The only class we had left today was Magical Combat, and I really didn’t want to run laps again.
They did say a dingus owed them a favor and Professor Adamastus was technically supposed to be part of Morgana’s group, but had hang-ups about the age difference and power dynamic since he was a teacher.
Maybe if Elliot and Petros caused complete and total mayhem in combat class, they would run laps and the rest of us would be left out of it. Though technically, I was a co-conspirator, so maybe not.
I was right. They were both flanking Professor Adamastus dressed identically in black tank tops and black sweatpants.
They were standing with their feet spread and their hands behind their backs like they were waiting for orders.
Professor Adamastus had that tick above his eye that he got right before he made us run laps because he probably knew this was about to be a shitshow.
“These two chuckle fucks won their lottery their first year. I could lie and say it was because they are mated to a brilliant woman, but they were motivated to master their magic, too. They both took magical combat seriously so they could defend themselves because they love to fuck with people. We’re going to have a lesson in fighting someone magically stronger than you today. ”
“Can I try?” Edmund asked. “One of them stole from me and the other gave me a wedgie like we’re still children.”
Edmund wasn’t any more likable than he was before. His nose was healed and he could have been in potions when Liam broke everyone’s enchantment, but he was in Headmaster Mykene’s office demanding Liam’s expulsion and Professor Gefn’s reaction when he asked for justice.
Quite literally, everyone tried to tell him he was being drugged and to stop drinking in Lola’s dorm room, but he wouldn’t listen.
Then, she decided to dump him since the rest of her minions were gone.
He wasn’t getting dosed anymore, but he kept trying to cling to Lola like a fart.
Morgana said any potion should be out of his system by now, so he was siding with her instead of everyone else by choice.
Which was why he got a wedgie from a trickster. Petros stole indiscriminately.
“Edward, you can barely run two laps and you’re wholly unremarkable in the rest of your classes because you’re focused on the wrong shit.
You’re also one of the biggest whiners on either side of this university and no one wants to listen to it when you get your arse kicked.
If you want revenge, you have to make sure you’re capable of it first,” Professor Adamastus said.
“My name is Edmund,” he muttered.
“Then be your own person so people learn what your name is. Everyone, come grab a flag out of this bag. You’re going to spend the rest of this lesson trying to keep it away from Elliot and Petros.
If you’ve figured out how to shift, you’re welcome to do that.
Though you should try not to kill anyone.
And if you died in potions class, you should be as careful as possible, even if you don’t stay dead. ”
We were pretty sure Lola tried to kill Adrian in potions class. She accidentally knocked hers over, and it got all over him. He died again and based on the stink eye Professor Thornheart gave her, the potion wasn’t supposed to be fatal, even if mixed wrong.
We knew it was on purpose and I could just feel it was for deeper reasons that Adrian talking about who killed him.
Adrian had to be the key, but unless they could find a basilisk, they couldn’t kill him.
Radames was a giant snake with a hypnotic gaze, but from what I understood, he was different from a basilisk.
Ivar and the guys knew something was going to go down when Elliot and Petros showed up, but they were barely containing their rage.
At this point, both Lola and Radames had killed Adrian.
Ivar was pissed for like, five minutes that Astrid had killed him, too, but he was also in a relationship with a bear shifter, so he understood it was an accident.
“Think they’ll make it hurt?” Ivar growled.
“Hermes and Loki were both considered tricksters. They might not leave a single bruise on her physically, but it’s definitely going to hurt,” Khalid said.
“Especially since everyone here follows me on social media and I’m going to record it and post it,” Adrian said.
“Adrian, you’ve died ten times since you found out you were a phoenix. Maybe pay more attention to not dying again in our most dangerous class?” Alexios sighed.
Ten times? I knew about potions because I was there and they let it slip he cracked his head open in the shower trying to have shower sex with Iman, but I didn’t know about the others.
“They aren’t after me and keeping my flag is just basic rugby. I got this, mate. And next time, I won’t toss grapes in the air and catch them in my mouth since none of you can successfully do the Heimlich.”
“You got killed by a grape?” Liam snorted.
“Is that not as sexy as taking a switchblade between the eyes?”
“I made you a big, beautiful Pavlova with fairy fruit to make up for it and, technically, I thought you were going to eat Sage’s brain, so it could have been considered self-defense.”
“Game on!” Professor Adamastus yelled. “Everyone who still has their flag by the end of class gets five hundred points towards the lottery.”
Khalid, Lucian, and Liam all took a defensive position around me, but Elliot and Petros weren’t gunning for us yet.
They didn’t even go for Lola right away.
They’d already mastered portalling thanks to lessons from Morgana, so I had a feeling none of us were going to have flags by the end of the lesson.
Petros and Elliot disappeared and reappeared right in front of Edmund.
“Boo!” Petros yelled.
Edmund shrieked and then Elliot lifted him about four inches off the ground by the back of his underpants. Elliot dropped him on his face and then blew him a kiss.
“That was pathetic, Edgar.”
They snatched his flag and disappeared again.
When they reappeared again, it wasn’t in front of Lola, it was in front of Radames.
Except Petros was flying this time. Elliot was in front of him.
Elliot somehow conjured a giant cartoon-looking sledge hammer that he whacked Radames in the face with.
There were seriously cartoon birds around his head as he slumped to the ground. They took his flag.
Liam was laughing like a maniac, but they’d eventually come for us. Elliot and Petros disappeared again and didn’t appear again right away. Lola shrieked as she was yanked in the air by an invisible rope. When they appeared again, there was a toilet on the ground.
“Put me down!” she shrieked.
“Ah, shite, they are going for the swirlie,” Liam laughed.
“Are they going to…?”
“Dunk her head in that toilet? Yeah.”
“What if she uses her magic?”
It would destroy Morgana if she exploded and ate their shades.
But if Lola fought in the light of day instead of in the shadows, she’d have to run.
She wanted to be here. There were no witnesses when Radames killed Adrian, but our entire class was here.
She couldn’t say it was an accident like Astrid because if Elliot and Petros disappeared without a trace and never showed up to be escorted to the void, it was just a red flag and she didn’t know we knew.
I suppose she could just kill us all and lie about what happened because of the whole not knowing we knew thing, but, hopefully, she’d figured out Headmaster Mykene was too smart for that.
I just had to hope she wanted answers about pregnancy or whatever reason they hadn’t left enough that she just let Elliot and Petros dunk her head in the toilet they conjured.
I didn’t know if I could do that if I was in full control of my magic because I knew Elliot and Petros wouldn’t be dunking her head in a clean toilet. I guess we were all going to see how committed she was to all of this.
I was understanding why Elliot and Petros took out Radames first. He couldn’t hypnotize anyone while he was unconscious.
Elliot and Petros seemed to have mastered portalling.
No one had seen Lola’s powers in action, but without Radames’s venom to paralyze them, they could just portal away if she decided to fight back.
Yeah, they’d clearly planned this out.
Lola was cursing and tried to grip the toilet bowl so she didn’t go in, but she seemed to have a lot of control over her magic because the rest of us couldn’t seem to help it bursting out when we needed it.
Petros grabbed her ankle to force her down. He was good. I was watching for him to steal the phone and I couldn’t even tell if he did it or not. Elliot grabbed her other leg and Lola got dunked hard enough to knock her out. They took her flag and the toilet and both men disappeared.
When they reappeared again, they body tackled Lucian and took his flag, but they didn’t prank him. When they moved on to the rest of the class, it was less cartoon sledgehammers and swirlies, and people actually had a fighting chance to keep their flags.
Professor Adamastus scared me when he snuck up behind us.
“I let those two menaces loose on your class so you could get answers off a phone. They made sure the two people with a vested interest in keeping the contents of that phone a secret would be unconscious while you download the data. It would make sense if you all ran off the field and tried to hide given that’s what your classmates are doing. ”
I looked around and it was utter chaos. Elliot and Petros weren’t knocking people out of giving them wedgies, but they pantsed at least three people and tripped everyone else they took flags from.
Lucian picked me up and zoomed me behind a tree while Liam screamed about cheating. Once all of us were hiding, Lucian got out his tech and connected it to the phone.
“How long will it take?” I asked.
Because we knew they didn’t stay dead, but we didn’t know how long it took them to come back. We also healed faster than humans, so I didn’t know how long they’d stay unconscious.
“It’s just downloading texts, call logs, and photos since that’s all this phone can do. It depends on how many there are, but it shouldn’t take the whole class. The camera on these phones suck, so I wouldn’t imagine they’d take any with it, so that should cut down on the time.”
It probably didn’t take nearly as long as it felt, but eventually Lucian disconnected the tech and said he had everything. As soon as we stepped away from the tree, Elliot and Petros were there to take our flags. And somehow, Petros stole the phone back from Lucian.
“I’ll make sure this gets back to her. We won since none of you have a flag. Adrian didn’t die again, so Ivar can’t get mad at us. Thanks, this was fun. Even if there’s nothing on the phone, I feel loads better,” Petros said.
“We’re going to keep giving Edwin public service wedgies until he gets better taste in friends,” Elliot said.
Well, none of us won the contest with the flags and got any points towards the lottery. My team was ahead by a lot because Lucian had so many points to start and Professor Kane really liked Khalid.
But I was dying to know what was on Lola’s burner phone.