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Chapter 7: Puberty times 2

You know what sucks right now, having wings. Now before you say it you try having two new appendages burst out of your shoulders and you tell me how perfectly you walk, Because I fell a total of 50 times!-trying to get back to the dannare school. Just, just why. But, on with the story.

“There we go, all registered. We are happy to have you Thomas and if you have any more questions about this place please feel free to ask me, Ms. Williams, or Ariana here. Oh and also how is that cane treating you?” Due to my numerous falls, Achilles gifted me one of his spare canes much to the amusement of Ariana who I know without a shadow of a doubt will make fun of me non stop. I don’t know if I should see this as a challenge or one of the most agonizing things to happen to me recently.

“Speaking of which, Ariana, would you mind showing Thomas around. I’m sure this must be awfully confusing for him.”

“No problem Achilles, come on old man. I’d like to finish up before your body gives out”

“If I could hit you without face planting I so would right now.”

“But, you can’t so follow me old stormy” At her words I felt a tingle within my wings as I smelt and heard the slight hum of electricity course through them seemingly in agitation.

“First stop is the library” She led me through the large rotunda to two large wooden doors, each etched with images and writings. In the middle of the split was the opening of a book, each of its pages split perfectly down the middle as from the book rays of light radiated around the book like a crown of light as below the spine of the book was etched in a banner which was written in seemingly Hebrew as I looked upon it I couldn’t read a syllable of it until I felt my brain churn into over drive automatically translating the words as I nearly had to grip my skill from the speed as I read what it said. “knowledge is power that shall last for generations” When we pushed upen the doors the library was exposed in all its glory and majesty.

The room was so massive and large, but also held an age which seemed impossible, as it seemed to stretch on farther than the eye could see, changing and growing as it seemed through the time of humanity itself. The shelves began as stone, later to wood, and later a metal of nothing I have ever seen in my life. Even the books within them seemed to stretch on through the history of man as I am ninety percent sure this has every book ever recorded by man and much more as it had stone, clay slabs which later turned to papyrus and pages and books made of leaves and wood, then finally parchment and paper. But as it continued I saw tablets and if I'm not going insane holograms.

When I saw everything I breathlessly said. "I'm in heaven" to which Ariana snickered and whisper oh my goodness he’s a bookworm.

"I never took you for the person who loved to read?!" She laughed incredulously

"Of course I do! Reading is amazing it is one of the best skills I ever learned! But I've never seen this many books before, there has to be millions of them here" From behind us a striking and stilled voice spoke behind me as it carried a slight southern accent.

"Actually there are precisely 100 trillion and 7 billion books and documents and rising" At the sudden voice behind me my wings seemed to try to have its feathers stand on its ends as it seemed Ariana’s were no different as they delivered a flash of fire in surprise as we both turned to the mysterious person behind us.

We were both met with a girl with raven black hair with a number of dark blue tinted spiked bangs resting on her forehead as they curled around her deep tan skin. Her eyes were a radiant emerald green as they lay behind a pair of rectangular thick-framed glasses resting on her nose. She appeared to be wearing a handmade denim trench coat with a black t-shirt which she seemed to be holding a stack of books to her chest as she had on a pair of faded blue jeans which I call grandma pants due to them going over her waist. As on her feet, she wore sharp toed black farm boots. As I continued to look I began to see two pitch black wings jetting out of her back. For some reason on the wings, they had a weird design, on the top of her wings appeared to be dark green vines while on the bottom of her wings she had dark blue swirls which reminded me of when water swirled down a drain. Overall she looked nerdy, and for some reason, all of the instincts of my body were saying in unison to run from her as it felt like I was looking at death, which unfortunately caused my body to twitch as I felt electricity surge throughout me wildly.

Ariana’s face morphed from surprise to relief. “Oh it’s just you Alley, how are ya?”

“I am doing fine, thank you, Ariana. Now, who might you be? I have never seen you around the sanctum before?” She stepped towards me as her eyes drifted to every part of m body analyzing and examining me piece by piece as if she was thinking of a million ways to kill me then hide a body, which made me really unnerved/

“Uh...my name is, Thomas. Ariana brought me here just now, and it's nice to meet you Alley?” Each word I said was measured and cautious as I outstretched my hand. After a few minutes of agonizing silence, she returned the gesture, reeling back her hand as quickly as she shook it.

“My name is Diana, Alleycat is my surname. Until I say so otherwise please address me as Diana.” Her tone seemed to be a mix of meekness and ferocity as I was left wondering who the heck has that as a last name! I guess my confusion was apparent as she sighed out in annoyance.

“Alleycat?”

“Just don’t question it!” she blurted out quickly with annoyance as it seems this was a common reaction.

“Yes, Ma’am!” I said instantly much to the delight of Ariana who instantly began laughing her butt off. “So Diana, do you go to the Library often or are you a book nerd like me?” At my words, she zoomed towards me with a look of excitement and immense pride.

“Yes I am!”

“Yes! there are more of us!” We both got really giddy as we vomited our love and admiration for books at a seemingly endless pace as a wave of information and all around geekiness filled the library to the brim until I began to grow curious about her.

“Hey who is your angelic parent anyway?” Immediately after asking this her demeanor changed quicker than a flash as she instantly went back into her shy persona.

“It’s Azrael”

“Awesome, I have no idea who the frick that is”

“He is the angel of death”

“That explains so much actually” She looked at me with surprise and disbelief as she continued

“How so?”

“Welllll, for the whole time I was around you I felt the presence of death at every second”

“Finally someone notices! Thank you for that. Now then who is your parent?”

“Ramiel why?”

“I asked due to my hair standing on end even though I fell no fear from you whatsoever. Your body is too small to wield a good amount of strength, and your eyes despite resembling storms show no sign of a fighter and-”

“Okay okay, let's just stop analyzing me!”

“Why you must always analyze each and every opponent whether weak or strong, in this case, you are the first which says you are of no threat”

“What did I just say!”

“Still though Alley it’s still surprising to hear that you’re a child of Azrael, you seem more like a child of Uriel”

“Why does everyone say that?! I am a deathly weapon!”

“We know, it’s just that you spend most of your time in the library”

“But why wouldn’t you this is the best part of the sanctum!!”

“Amen sister!!” Before the both of us could continue I felt what was left of my shirt being dragged by a certain blacksmith as it was clear she wanted to avoid me and Diana from talking again.

“See you later Alley I have to show this nerd around some more!”

“Oh, it’s nerd now huh?”

“Don’t complain, you said it yourself”

“Yes I did, and I take pride in it!!” Ariana playfully rolled her eyes

“Alright, then Mr. Pride lets keep this tour going” And true to her word she continued the tour literally dragging me to every location. I don't know how to feel about that. The tour went from showing off different classrooms to storage, and beyond, but the place that had Ariana the most excited was the technology/forgery room. It looked like a mixture of a volcano and a really high tech futuristic lab, ranging from hammers and anvils to laser beans and plasma cutters and inventions so amazing I can't even describe them. The room was amazing to look at, as were the other rooms, each room was personally customized and stylized each providing their own masterpieces in their own right. And as I looked at Ariana she looked at home as she seemed to glow with pride and happiness. That I couldn’t help but get caught up in it as well as I began smiling as well. At that point, I was glad Ariana had her eyes closed because I was probably staring at her with a dumb look on my face.

“now then, this is my domain! It is the forgery, technology, or blacksmith room! It’s my favorite classroom as well as my sorta workshop, besides my room that is. In this place we create, innovate, fix, and change weapons and inventions. It’s honestly a sight to see when everyone’s here. Hey don’t go all quiet on me now say something”

“Heh, arent you supposed to be the one telling me stuff gear head? But honestly its amazing, i’ve never seen anything like it.”

“Good, I’m happy it is, now then I wanted to ask you something right quick”

“Che cos'è?”

“I’m gonna assume that what is it, I wanted to ask you what weapon do ya want?” My face must have told the whole story as s? It’s he began to chuckle. “what’s with that face? Pffft what you thought you’d be here without learning to fight. This place is here to teach ya how to protect and keep yourself safe. Would be useless if we sent you into the real world without any experience. So what is it?"

"Uh, can you show me what you have?"

"Ok I'm only showin, ya though. For what's next it'll have to be a surprise"

"Oooookay?"

"Oh calm down it's good! Follow me stormy" She led me to a room in the back of the room as it held a lest of every weapon imaginable in mankinds history as it wrapped around the entire room housing thousands of weapons and variations. As I walked into it she motioned for me to choose as I walked up to each image as I held my hand out towards each feeling nothing each time. As I kept moving it repeated and repeated until my hand landed on a pistol. When my fingers touched my eyes windened as they saw images crack to life as I saw a row of battlefields, enemies and so much more. So many images rushed through my head leaving me frozen until ariana knocked my hand away as her face showed a mix of overwhelming excitement and worry.

"Hey, Ariana" As soon as I said her name she was taken aback which caused me to smirk as I continued. "I found it"

"A pistol huh?"

"Yep!" Before I knew it Arian was all over me measuring parts of my body giving me a blush as she measured mainly my hands and waist as this kept continuing her face grew and even brighter and brighter smile as her wings moved and jingled with happiness as when she was done you would think her eyes were stars by how bright and excited they were.

"eeeek I'm gonna make you the best pistol ever! I cant wait to begin, oh I can start today! ooooooo I can't wait!" As we kept walking out of the room she continued speaking rapidly ganing more and more speed with each sentence then paragraph. It was at this point when I saw all of her passion for building or crafting as I couldn't even say anything except look at her in amazement.

"OH, I'm such an idiot! I have to show you your room too! Come on follow me Thomas we have to hurry!" At her words she bolted out of the door as I followed behind her thinking this is the second time today I am running for my life, yeah that seems about right. After and an ungodly amount of running we finally made our way to my room Alpha 7.

"Whew, we finally made it. Thanks for showing me around, and for building me a weapon, thanks again Ariana"

"de nada, but! Don't thank me yet, I still have to show you to gun. After that you can thank me all you want!"

"Pffft alright then gear head"

"Awww, I liked hearing you actually say my name"

"Well too bad tesoro! Anyway buenna notte"

"Buenas noches"

After we each said good night I slipped my card into the holder as I entered the door, which is reaaaaly long as it seemed to be the size of a double door as it slid to the side as my wings went through it easily with no feather being harmed. The room around me was colored in pure white walls with golden lining. To my left was a red and gold door etched with the images of a phoenix and a dragon soaring from a blazing fire towards the bottom of the door as peppered around the door seemed to be pictures of steaks for some weird reason. Beneath the flames of the door the floor seemed to be made of red carpet as it continued to stretch in every direction before stopping dead in its tracks at a golden brick floor. Above the golden bricks was a bright gold yellow door reflecting the light as it touched upon the metalic surface. The door was designed in rays of light exploding in every direction, like a sun rising over the horizon as they began at the bottom of the door. As soon as I placed a single foot in the doorway, a previously white door changed before my eyes. The door was decorated in black and blue colors with silver tendrils of lightning arcing across its surface as in the right top and the bottom left corners of the door were decorated in spiralling clouds as if I was looking at an old painting, as in the dead middle of the door was a bird of prey with its wings outstretched. in both directions. Beneath the door the floor transformed into silver tiles finishing the cascade, as each room was split into three pieces, each divided by the floor.

“Woah” I whispered in disbelief. As I walked forward I noticed two beanbags, one orange, the other yellow as they each looked towards a long floating tv that hung above a game console. What interested me most of all were the occupants of the chairs as one of them turned to face me.

“Oh! You’re our new roommate, right? Heya!” He excitedly paused the game he playing as he made his way towards me. He had pale skin and warm firey red eyes, with both enhanced the orange freckles which dotted around the bridge of his nose and beyond. As if someone got a Cheeto and painting across his face. His face looked elfish in appearance as he had orange short hair that was styled with a cowlick around his forehead. For one reason or another, he had on camouflage everything and I mean everything, he had on camouflage shirt, pants, and even socks and shoes. If you were to take him outside you would lose him instantly. The main thing that caught my attention was his wings. They were red and gold and resembled a phoenix.

"Sup my names CJ what's yours?" As he spoke he was extremely excited as an Irish accent broke to the surface as he held out his hand waiting for me to shake it.

"Ciao, I'm Thomas, who's that over there?"

"Oh that's Blake-speaking of which BLAKE! Are ya going to say something?" The only response he received was a wave before blake restarted the game. From that wave I noticed a few features of his body, he appeared to have straight golden yellow hair with gold and yellow hair as he seemed to produce his own area of light.

"Hey! Don't unpause it without me! Uhhh, sorry 'bout that, Blake is slow to open up to people" he said sheepishly rubbing the back of his head

"Don't worry about it" I shrugged "If Goldenlocks doesn't want to talk I won't make him." CJ smirked as he had to hold his mouth trying not to laugh

"Goldenlocks pffffft, I'm definitely gonna have to use that!" After saying this goldenlocks himself turned towards CJ and looked at him with platinum eyes as they showed all of the annoyance giving the message of don't you dare. which caused CJ to finally chuckle.

"Don't worry Blake I won't, not sure about him though. Oh! Thomas were you the one that was dragged around like a rag doll by that spirit earlier?!"

"Yep! I got turned into a human lightning rod, but I at least got my wings out of it so I'm fine with it.

"Cool! Oh yeah, do you know your parents? The angel one I mean!"

"Yeah, it's ramiel"

"Awwwww Blake the streak is broken!!"

"What the heck, what streak"

"oops sorry about that, me and Blake don't know our angelic parents,...so we made a streak about the roommates who didn't either! The most we know is that mine was a fire angel and Golden-" Blake threw a pen at CJ hitting him on the head which he rubbed from the pain.

"OW! Blake's was a light angel. Ow, that hurt, are you in a bad mood or something today?" he questioned with obvious fake tears.

"I warned you didn't I" Blake's voice was monotone with a hint of playfulness or was that annoyance, I couldn't tell.

"But, that aside you're the son of an archangel that's really cool!' he smiled giving me two thumbs up as there was now a red bump in the middle of his head.

I yawned into my hand suddenly as all of the experiences from today weighed heavily, falling on me all at once. "Im going to sleep see ya both tomorrow, ciao" with that I entered my room, crashing instantly atop my bed.

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