The Astral soul system-Chapter 134: The golden boy(1)
Zyro opened the door and exhausted, walked back to his bed under the gaze of his roommates and dropped face first into bed.
"I can’t believe it’s actually gone. I looked everywhere and I couldn’t find it" Zyro said, his voice muffled by the pillow.
He’d spent so long searching it was already night time. If it wasn’t for school rules saying he couldn’t be outside the school at night, he’d have kept searching to the next morning. He was already planning on immediately going back the next morning when he suddenly heard one of his roommates... the one with blonde hair.
"Looking for this?"
Zyro looked at whatever Maximilian was about to show him, preparing to say no when he suddenly realized it was the necklace.
Maximilian felt a gust of wind blow and in a few seconds Zyro was already in front of him. He didn’t say anything and just snatched the necklace out of his hand, shocking Maximilian.
"Hmm?"
Maximilian looked at Zyro who was focusing completely on the necklace, not at all bothered and mostly curious.
"..."
"... Sorry. Got a bit excited. This is just... really important"
Maximilian looked at it thoughtfully. So this thing had special value to all three of them... but why?"
Zyro put it on, sighing contentedly as he once again felt complete.
Maximilian wanted to ask what was so special about the necklace and what was going on with the three of them in the same body but at this point,Neo and Xavier were fast asleep and the girls had already gone back to their dorm. He felt like if they were going to get answers it would only make sense for them to all be there since it was all of them that fought.
"Glad you’re satisfied. You’re... not going to try to go anywhere while we’re asleep, right?"
At first Zyro looked confused about why Maximilian would even ask that but he still shook his head.
"Nope, I’m staying here for now.... I don’t really have lots of places left to go...."
"..."
"..."
"...Goodnight "
Maximilian said before pulling his sheets over himself and closing his eyes.
Zyro looked at his sleeping roommates and smiled. Luckily he didn’t need to explain things tonight. He honestly preferred Zen did the explaining but he wasn’t sure if he was ready to let them out.
Zyro walked to his bed and instead of laying down he sat on the edge, thinking about everything that had happened. He was still very confused about the current state of things but he was an optimistic person at heart.
"Three years.... Zen..."
Zyro tried closing his eyes to sleep but the moment he did,the first thing he saw was red, followed by the sounds of screams and wailing.
"MURDERER!!! MONSTER!!! DEMON! "
He quickly opened his eyes, his breath slightly ragged
"Yep. Still not getting any sleep tonight...or ever"
With sleep out of the question Zyro’s thoughts wondered to Sable, Zen’s...or rather, his blood sister,a second generation original. He recapped everything Zephyr and Lilith had discussed in the afternoon and wondered if it really could be true. Everything was just a theory but the fact was that Zyro had seen "Vampire Original" in Sable’s species tab.
He spent the next few minutes thinking about her and anything else to keep him occupied through the night, and ended up thinking about a lot of things, like Freya, what exactly was she? Was she dead or just... something else? He tried to find out what Zen had been doing for the past three years but for some reason there was nothing he could find out,those memories just weren’t there.
He suddenly felt like someone was watching him and he instinctively looked towards Maximilian who was still asleep and even had his back turned to him.
’... guess I imagined it?’
He went back into his thoughts but in the end he decided instead of just guessing, he might as well ask Zen himself.
He suddenly closed his eyes and when he reopened them he was in the castle that had been completely rebuilt and was in perfect condition.
He greeted Freya and Lilith before heading towards the dungeon.
"Hey guys"
Zaine turned around from the wall, glaring at him threateningly while Zen simply opened his eyes, seeming to have been meditating despite the five foot tall distraction in his arms
Zyro sighed. He could just tell these two had been fighting before he got here. It seemed even now somethings never change.
"Get me out of here,Now!"
Zaine threatened, trying to break the bars with his hands.
Although a bit startled, Zyro stood his ground.
"No. You two are just gonna mess things up again"
Annoyed and extremely unstable, Zaine started raging out, threatening Zyro while struggling to break out.
Zen ignored the pointless tantrum and looked at Zyro, asking.
"How are things going so far?"
"Good...i guess"
His gaze fell on Sylphie who had her legs crossed and her eyes closed nonchalantly.
"I thought you two would have found a way out by now"
Zen looked at Sylphie in his arms and replied.
"She lost too much of her essence to the mutation. Right now she’s much too weak"
Zyro nodded and sat down right next to the bars.
"So I was thinking..."
"You want answers?"
Zyro nodded.
"I refuse"
Zen said emotionlessly. Zyro sighed, for some reason he wasn’t suprised. He was about to try something else when
"However, there are somethings you both might need to know. Some things i found out while you were... indisposed"
Even Zaine was a bit shocked when he heard that as he temporarily stopped and looked at Zen.
"I..."
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Zaria got up and stretched, yawning as she got out of bed.
She rubbed her eyes and suddenly heard Diane’s voice in front of her
"Hey, sleeping beauty. Get ready, we’re gonna be late for class in a while"
Zaria nodded, opening her eyes for the first time and gasping in shock at what she saw.
"Dia- why don’t you have any clothes on?"
She asked looking at her blonde roommate who still had water dripping off her naked body.
"I just got out of the bathroom. What do you think, genius? Oh,also I used your shampoo"
Diane said confidently, seemingly undisturbed by her current state.
Zaria sighed.
"Warn me next time,Geez!"
"What’s the big deal, guys do this all the time"
Diane argued, putting her hands on her hips, exposing herself even more.
Zaria just sighed and massaged her temples
Diane suddenly seemed a bit concerned and asked
"Are you okay? You were acting weird yesterday, like you were sick or something"
"Yeah, just really stressed out... and tired, but I’m fine now"
"Well you better buck up, today we have to deal with the new guy"
Zaria sighs
"Yeah. Where’s Jade?"
"In the bathroom"
Zaria’s eyes widened.
"What?"
"Yeah... we’re definitely going to be late" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
Zaria sighed as Diane chuckled and left to get clothed. Strangely enough,Jade was the one who spent the most time in the bath, mostly because of her hair which she had to straighten out every morning otherwise it would curl up a little bit everyday. Zaria didn’t understand why she did this or why she didn’t just find a permanent method but she didn’t ask.
She briefly wondered if it would go faster if she went to help Jade but she brushed off the thought and just went back to sleep. Aurora and Gemma were definitely going to scold them but there was nothing they could do.
After a long and chaotic shower, the three girls finally made it to class, and just like they expected, they were late.
Aurora stared them down while Gemma, the class AI scolded them in front of the class for a good five minutes before letting them off.
The boys were already in the class although they didn’t end up sitting together.
Zyro smiled and waved at them, gathering weird stares from everyone.
Ever since he got to class this morning, Zyro had an infectious smile on his face that lit up his surroundings everywhere he went,it was like looking into the sun. At this point, Zen was famous enough to be known for his silent indifference and moody behavior so seeing the same person looking like he actually took the time out of his day to make himself look presentable while smiling was just weird. And that wasn’t even all, Zyro’s style was completely different from Zen’s. He had combed his hair to one side, allowing both his eyes to be visible and although they still had the hypnotic effect on people,it didn’t have the same terror element.
Throughout the class even Gemma was perturbed. She paid personal attention to him, staring right at him and when Zyro asked what was wrong she said she was waiting for him to fall asleep and ignore the class, and when he said he’d never do that, she didn’t believe him one bit, saying he’d slept through literally every class up until then .
Surprisingly, Zyro paid attention through the whole class, stumping even Aurora who knew for a fact that this class was useless to him.
His roommates in the back were honestly facepalming every five seconds as Zyro didn’t even bother pretending to still be the same person , unlike Zen who’d do anything he could to avoid attention, Zyro just didn’t seem to care.
No one could pay attention during the class because of this,it was that much of an oddity. As students left the class to head for their extra classes, some were still staring at him and murmuring.
"Finally" Maximilian said and was about to head for Zyro when they suddenly heard Aurora’s voice.
"Zen. My office. Now"
Zyro clearly understood that she meant him by Zen and although a bit curious, he followed behind her as she headed for the office. He could remember her being nice to Zen and Zaine so he hoped nothing changed.
He stepped into her office, the door closing behind him and the first thing he noticed was a pair of glowing eyes staring at him indifferently
"Who are you?"
