The sky turned orange and red as the sun started to hide behind hills and clouds, a fresh breeze blew past the curtain of the window as Larissa stared outside the window, a lush green forest beneath the beautiful evening sky.
She took a short nap in the afternoon. She usually doesn't sleep in the afternoon but it was the only way for her to avoid small talk with Luna, it wasn't because Luna seems like exchange students or anything or annoying but because she doesn't like to talk much to anyone. As Larissa silently looks at the sunset.
"The breeze carries the lush forest smell along with it, don't you think Larissa." Luna said with a cheerful voice as she looked outside the window.
"Indeed." Larissa gave a short answer that almost feels cold reply, even though she didn't mean it but her social battery is always low making others feel she is being rude. Luna doesn't react much to Larissa's one word reply as she sees her not getting engaged in the conversation with anyone in school as well, she seems to be introvert and shy.
Suddenly strong gust of wind blew pass the window as sky turned dark as strom was about to arrive, loud lighting sound resound throughout their hostel.
Larissa takes a few steps back in fear as she is shocked and scared by a sudden thunder strike, She falls on to Luna standing behind her. Luna caught her before she fell onto the ground.
"I'm sorry, I wasn't prepared for this sudden thunder strike." Larissa was embarrassed by the fall back and apologizes to Luna with an apologetic face.
"There's no need for you to say sorry."
"Who would have that such that such sunny day and beautiful breeze would suddenly become wild storm, so don't say sorry for something you can't control nor change it"
"But you can always lean on me, if you ever need help or just hand." Luna said with calm and warm eyes with sweet Nd comfort giving a smile on her lips. Wind blew her wavy hairs in the air like dancing northern lights.
Larissa just kept staring at Luna's shining eyes and came back to her senses a few moments later.
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean too." Larissa said with nervousness as she couldn't help but give a glance at Luna's face.
"Dear, I told you it's okay. You don't have to ever apologize to me for anything as we are friends from now on." Luna said with such a beautiful face that Larissa couldn't bear the thought of rebutting her words.
"What's your first day experience at school?" Larissa said with a smile on her face even though she wasn't much into casual conversation but since Luna has started talking she couldn't just ignore and do her daily things as both of them are classmates and roommates now.
"It was quite good considering everyone was nice to me and the first person I could talk to were you and what about you Larissa." Luna starts talking about how everyone talked to her and what they talked about in school and after the school ended.
While this wasn't the same case for Larissa as she always stood out among her classmates and in town but here in the city and at high school she just appears as one of the many beautiful girls.
Not being able to stand out from the rest of the people as Luna does and other girls from her class but she doesn't care about that either as her main focus is her main goal and reaching her goal by any means possible.
"I'm glad to hear that you are enjoying the high school life Luna." Larissa with a calm voice said that not many people talked to her but only for a few moments before doing their own things.
Larissa start thinking about her experience today at high school."I think this academy lives up to its name of being one of the best in the whole nation."
"I think it's not that bad here and the only interesting person whom I found interesting is Edward in our class, you know he has fire element power." Luna said as she remembered the gloomy and skinny looking boy. No-one talked to him today as he was left out by everyone including them. Larissa also saw him for the first time in class and she didn't know about his circumstances either and she wasn't much interested in knowing about anyone from his classroom.
"I was unaware about the fact that he has fire element power, and I was unaware of the fact that his family was killed by a werewolf, when everyone started to talk about him today, that's when I got to know about him for the first time." Larissa said as she doesn't want to look mean and rude about someone's loss.
"What happens to his family is terrible but I heard he still has his little sister alive." Larissa said as she remembers the few things she heard today from others about Edward.
"Larissa, I did hear from someone that his sister is alive, but she's still in coma and when the werewolf attacks their family. Everyone died including his relatives too and no-one knows who killed that werewolf."
"The fire element power Edward has comes from that same werewolf that killed his family that werewolf also had fire ability. When police came to their home, they didn't find a werewolf's body, but they did see a massacre left behind by the werewolf." Luna said with a mysterious smile on her face as this kind of thing always excites the teenagers. Gaining superpower through special encounters or gaining superpower through tragic incidents or becoming the thing you hated the most.
"Then how did people confirm that Edward had that werewolf power?" Larissa lowered her gaze in confusion written
"What am going to say next might shock you but it's true, When police search around the house they find video recorder on phone when they saw video, there was slightly blurred figure enter the next moment Werewolf dead on ground with its chest carved out there wasn't core in it chest."
"When the next morning came, Edward Snowden and his sister were in hospital when they ran some tests on Edward they found out that Edward had been awakened with firepower inside him."
"Came and sit beside me Larissa, we can talk more about people and things"
"I don't think I will Luna, I'm quite good with sitting on my own bed, we can still talk from our own bed." Larissa kindly denied Luna's request."
"What kind of power do you have, Larissa." Luna asks curiously as it's quite normal that people share their superpowers with others as teenagers.
"I don't have any elements of power or strong background Luna, but I do have martial arts that passed down generation after generation of my family."
"Martial art that's awesome Larissa. So, what kind of weapon or techniques do you use." Luna asked with shining eyes full of curiosity.
"Martial arts that my family uses is actually sword art." Luna said sword art is the most common type of weapon used by most of the martial arts family.
"What kind of sword do you use Larissa, is it a long sword, great sword, bastard sword or different kind of sword? Well, I'm not very knowledgeable about swords." Luna asks as she lies down on her bed and looks at the plain white ceiling in their room.
"It's a long sword." Larissa dropped her shoulder in disappointment as sword art is the most common weapon among martial artists and it also has the most variety of techniques but common one not rare.
"What kind of power you have, Luna, I already told you about mine. Now, it's your turn to share about your power." Larissa asks with hesitation as she never asked questions like this before to anyone but now it's normal as most students share their power openly and it also becomes quite common knowledge for others soon or later as to what power others have in the academy.
"The only thing that you told me is what kind of sword you use but not the sword art name Larissa." Luna jiggled after saying this looking forward to seeing what Larissa would say after most of the people didn't tell anyone about their family martial arts. After that is their family secret techniques to give information about their martial arts is the same as betraying their family.
"Sword art that family has its name is Obliterate sword art." Larissa said with an embarrassed fake laugh as it feels cringe and corny to say such a cliché name.
"That is an awesome name for sword art, its name is something MC would use in movies or anime." Luna let her imagination run wild as she thinks of devastating attacks that shake the land like earthquakes.
"Now that I told you about my sword art name, now it's your turn to tell me about your power, Luna."
"I have quite a common type one, its super strength. I'm physically stronger than the others, that's all. No uniqueness at all." Luna said while lowering her gaze and smiling.
When Larissa looked deep in Luna's eyes as if she was suspicious of Luna's real identity. A seeing that Larissa eye showing suspicious towards her, Luna made little awkward laugh and said to Larissa."If you think that I'm werewolf then your guess is wrong, I know that my last name raises suspicion towards me. After all, Proklyataya is one of the strongest werewolf families in the Bessmertny empire".
"I didn't mean that way, Luna." As everyone knows most of the humans escape from the Bessmertny empire to different continents but migration also came with the cost as between the human werewolves also manage to sneak creating distrust and discrimination towards those who came from Gora continent that is now being known as Bessmertny empire.
"Don't worry about that, I'm already used to this type of thing. It didn't affect me much." Luna said this while smiling, so Larissa didn't feel bad.
There was a brief silence in the room for a while as it became awkward once again, as if remembering something Luna's eyes started to glow with excitement."Hey, Larissa, which class you are going to choose, logistic or combat class."
Larissa didn't hesitate to think about an answer for second,"Combat class, it's an obvious answer Luna. I use sword art."
When Luna heard what Larissa said she gave a loud, silly laugh, "That perfect choice you made there, I'm also going to combat class."
"Larissa, we are going to be together there too." Luna's answer and loudly with silly laugh made her seem like she's planning something there, looking at Luna made Larissa shiver run down her spine. Her nature isn't anything like the way she looks.
'She's definitely going to create trouble there.' Larissa murmure silently to herself, but Larissa didn't know at that time Luna could hear her loud and clear, but she didn't say anything to Larissa, as she just kept smiling. Larissa suddenly wakes up from her sleep, her forehead is covered in sweat. Her eyes looked dreadful and fearful.
"Bad dream?"
Larissa turns her head to the sound of voice and Luna's face visible thanks to light from her phone. Larissa remained silent for a moment and calmed her mind. "Yes, that was a bad dream. Just a bad dream."
Larissa tried to say it as calmly as possible but her reaction of clutching the bed sheet tightly with her hands didn't go unnoticed by Luna. Larissa lifts up her face to see time on the clock hanging up on the wall. It was 2:54 AM and from the look on Luna's face she didn't seem to sleep at all this time. Larissa turned her face at Luna again but before she could say anything Luna spoke first.
"I know, it's late but I can't fall asleep at all. I'm really bored at the moment so I was just scrolling down on UsTube. Hehehe."
Luna was using her phone when she looked at the time, then she realized that it's already 11:30 pm. "Hey, Larissa, it seems like we talk so much that we forget about time. It's already 11:30 pm, I think we should sleep now to wake up early in the morning."
"I didn't realize that time flew by so quickly."
"Good night Luna"
"Good night Larissa"
Next day in early morning Luna slightly open her eyes and could see blurred figure standing in middle of the room when see opens her eyes completely see could see Larissa doing some wired movement one time it looks elegant and next moment it seems like deadly wild animal going to attack.
Larissa's whole body was covered in sweat. She was doing this for about ten more minutes after she stopped practicing, she looked at the time on the clock, it was 6:30 am in mourning. She turned her head to Luna's bed as she's still sleeping. "When are you going to leave your bed Luna. I know you have been awake for some time, it's already 6:30 am."
"If you feel it would be better not to be late again for a second time in class, then get ready already."
Luna smiles embarrassingly as she looks outside the window and can see the morning sun warm light coming into the room through the window.
"I'll be ready in a little while." Luna said as he walk to take shower first, Larissa looks out side the window as swift gale of wind floats daisy flower petals in air, smell of fresh air calms the mind but peaceful moment didn't last for more as consent buzz of message coming to Luna phone.
Larissa looked at Luna's phone on her bed as the buzz on the phone didn't stop even after one minute and it started to irritate her as noise got on her nerves but it's rude to look at someone's phone without their permission but it might be an emergency too?
She doesn't know what to do at the moment as it's improper to look at text in someone else's phone but if it's an emergency she can quickly notify Luna. Larissa looks at the bathroom door, it's still closed, 'Should I let her know about the constant stream of messages coming to her phone to take a look at what these messages are about?'
Larissa decides to notify Luna about this but maybe she can take a peek at the screen too as her phone screen brightens up by message, Larissa took a few steps forward to look at the phone screen on Luna's bed. There's only one thing written in all messages.
"DID YOU TAKE YOUR MEDICINE LAST NIGHT?"