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They only had a few more weeks left of the term, it had gone so quickly! From his first day, feeling vulnerable and meeting his best friend Xevphera, to Lalna's birthday and the confusion the next morning! A lot had happened in the five weeks, but there was still two more to go, and there was no way the strangeness was going to stop!
It was just a normal day, they went to their lessons as usual and then went back to their dorms, again as usual. Lomadia, Sips and Nilesy were the first to split off, going into one of the rooms, next was Xevphera and Rythian, going into their room and finally Lalna and Xephos in the room next door. "Have you managed to remember yet?" Lalna asked him as they both flopped down on the same bed and the scientist got out a packet of strawberry laces and a few lagers ready to share. He had trusted Lalna with the secret of what happened on his birthday. The spaceman shook his head.                  "Not yet." he stated, taking a strawberry lace and kicking his shoes off.                                                                                                                       "Don't worry, no-one else can remember! We were hammered!" he laughed and Xephos smiled. Lalna always knew how to make a bad situation fun.
They sat on their bed for a while, waiting for the hall light to go off, signalling that it was curfew and the students needed to get back to their rooms, in this case however the rest of the group would come into the two friends room and have a few beers and a laugh. Mr.Sjin had caught them a few times, but didn't seem to mind, just told them to keep it down and not let themselves get caught by anyone else. He seemed to like them and even let them call him Mr.S instead. He was defiantly Xephos' favourite teacher out of the whole academy.
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The group had all been in Lalna and Xephos' room for about half an hour now, when Mr.Sjin opened the door and leaned in casually                                "Hi guys, i'm gonna need you all out here for a moment please?" they all looked to each other then to the teacher                                                          "What have we done?" Sips said in a girly flirtily way                                                                                                                                                  "I wouldn't be a bad girl." Xevphera said mockingly and quietly to Sips and the group all laughed. The elf was definatly coming out of her shell more.       "Don't worry guys, you're not in trouble, just need everyone out here for a moment." and with that the teacher nodded and exited the room.
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The whole dorm was standing in the dorm room, a place where they all hung out most of the time. The room reminded Xephos of the dorm room he had read about in Harry Potter, there were a lot of similarities between the academy and the school in the book. The jocks sat on the middle sofa and the rest of the dorm (which wasn't very big anyway, probably the smallest in the entire academy) were all stood around the furniture. The group of friends were last to get there and stood around the back where the door was.
To the front of the room Mr.Sjin was introducing some new students. Two boys stood at the front, one was blonde and taller than the other. The later had dark brown hair that flopped slightly over his eyes, they seemed to be friends.                                                                                                      "So this is Martyn Sapling and Toby Hash-tag." Mr.Sjin stated, putting his hand to the side in an introducing way. "They'll be joining you all in your classes and are here from, well one of the more upper-class parts of the country." the jocks sniggered and the main one, who Xephos now knew was called Honeydew, threw a crumpled piece of paper at the smaller one, making the blonde step in front of him defensively.                                              "Honeydew!" Mr.Sjin said and gave the jock a look, he didn't seem to like the jocks, almost as much as Xephos and the rest of his friends.
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Well it had to have been expected hadn't it? Turns out the new exchange students were more upper-class than the teacher had made them out to be. They were from the sands region, where King Israphel was from! This obviously made the jocks jump at any opportunity they had to hurt or torment to new students. But that died down a bit over the course of the week, Xephos felt really bad. Whenever the smaller of the two would get hurt the blonde would stand in the jocks way and take the beating himself, poor guy.
They were in arithmetic now and the teacher (Mr.Panda) had placed them all in a seating plan as to not spur on any arguments between the group and the new students. The taller of the two, Martyn, had been at in Xevphera's usual seat next to Xephos and the elf had been moved in front and sat next to Toby. The rest of the friends had chosen seats around the two that they seemed to be comfortable with.
"So after that my father managed to find a naturally green horse in the wilderness! It didn't even cost him that much to get a contract to keep it on the ranch!" Martyn was explaining to the group who all looked at each other, did he realise how stuck up he sounded? His accent didn't really help at all.       "Sorry, I guess I am rambling quiet a bit, perhaps we should move away from you guys."                                                                                             "No, stay its fine!" Xephos stated.                                                                                                                                                                             "So how much did the contract cost?" Xevphera asked as nicely as she could.                                                                                                              "Only a few hundred Yogdollers!" Martyn answered cheerily. And the elf opened her mouth to answer before closing it gain and turning back to her work.
"What are these drawings?" Martyn asked curiously                                                                                                                                                   "Oh those are Xevphera's, she draws on each of her desks to kind to show that there hers."                                                                                          "Ah, they're very, interesting." the elf raised an eyebrow at the boy who looked a bit on edge. "oh no they're very good, just not the type of thing I would expect you to draw." he stated and the elf raised her eyebrow again before getting back to her conversation with Lalna and Rythian.
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They were in Lomadia, Sips and Nilesy's room that night and all were talking about the new students.                                                                           "They aren't brothers like I thought they would be." Xevphera stated "They seem to have a good attachment to each other though, especially in the sense that Martyn keeps sticking up for him and is willing to take a beating for him." the others agreed.                                                                        "Do you think they mean to sound that, how do I put it, stuck up?" Rythian mused and the others thought about it. It was a good question.                     "Well they are from Sand-Land, they were probably raised around a bunch of children who acted posh aswell."                                                               "Yeah but take silk shirt here." Sips said, motioning to Xephos with her thumb (Silk shirt seemed to be a new nickname for him since the dirt trader had asked him what type of shirt he wore and he had answered with silk.) "Well you told us you were raised into money, but you don't act like that."             "I've never really been that open a person really." he stated "Besides most of my money I donated to charities and used to help people not investing in things for myself. Much to my fathers dismay." he said quiet modestly though going quieter towards the end of his sentence.
"Maybe if they kept their heads down more they wouldn't get bullied as much, I mean that's worked for most of us hasn't it?" Lomadia asked                  "Yeah until Xevph whacked one of them around the face!" Lalna added before laughing, the others joined in.                                                                 "Or maybe if we just give them a while to settle down and see how the rules are different here, I mean they are from somewhere different, we cant expect them to adapt in a few days." Xevphera stated, ignoring the others. Xephos nodded and smiled                                                                          "We should just explain to them if they're being a bit, right?" he asked and the others agreed.
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The next day the group stayed with the new guys, inviting them to sit near them in their lessons, though sitting where they usually sat this time and letting them sit next to each other. They seemed alright, but they were too snobby! Whether they realised it or not it got very annoying and Xephos and the rest of his friends found themselves taking a disliking to the two.
For the last two lessons they didn't really listen to what the rich boys (as dubbed by Sips) had to say, and they seemed a bit disappointed by this and kept their mouths shut, even when the group asked them questions they just nodded and gave a sat look. Had they realised that the group was getting annoyed?
They all went back to their dorm after that, Martyn and Toby had been given a separate room that was next to Lomadia, Sips and Nilesy's room. It was free period. Lalna had gone to hang out with his 'adopted' sister seen as they hadn't talked in a while, though Xephos thought this funny because whenever the scientist did go into the girls room he would always come out with sips' pink nail polish on and a bit of eye shadow over his eyes. He usually just said "God I really need to stop falling asleep in there!" in an annoyed voice while slouching over to his bed and lying down.
However this time as he expected Lalna to walk through the door, he was surprised to see Martyn.                                                                                "Martyn? What are you doing here?" the rich boy fiddled his hands around in front of him and looked to the floor.                                                           "I-" was all he said before looking back down to the floor.                                                                                                                                           "Come in." Xephos said kindly and sat up on his bed, pushing his schoolwork to one side. "Now what's up?"                                                                   "I know you don't like me very much." Martyn stated, his voice was different, it didn't have that posh ring to it as it had in class. He sounded like a normal guy, and looked like one aswell now that he wasn't wearing the red cape he usually wore.
"What, ovcourse I like you." Xephos stated, sitting on the edge of the bed and looking towards the awkward boy in front of him, it wasn't his fault.           "I can tell, I don't want to be this posh little brat, please just give me a chance." Xephos felt sympathy, and familierality, he had remembered being like this his whole life with his dad.                                                                                                                                                                                 "Look, its just." he walked up to the blonde and put a hand on his shoulder, thinking of words to say. He was much taller than the other and tried not to make it seem like he was towering over him on purpose.
"You just need to, have a laugh, loosen up a bit!" he then had an idea at the boys confused look. He walked over to the little fridge him and Lalna hid under his bed. He pulled out a few beers and went to get the others, pushing one of the beers into the blondes hands as he walked past "Wait here! Oh and you look cool without the cape." he said before smiling kindly and walking out, and him and the others entered a few moments later.
"What's happening?" the blonde asked and the others smiled at him. Toby walked towards his friend.                                                                            "Yeah, what's going on?"                                                                                                                                                                                          "Well, were gonna show you how to have fun." the elf stated, walking forwards. the group of friends opened their beers and the two rich boys opened theirs, copying the group and taking a swig.
"Well that's got a kick to it!" Martyn stated and Toby coughed as he swallowed. The group laughed and Lalna began a game of tag with Rythian, his usual routine. Pretty soon everyone joined in, even the new guys.
Xephos had the feeling they were going to fit in well here.

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They only had a few more weeks left of the term, it had gone so quickly! From his first day, feeling vulnerable and meeting his best friend Xevphera, to Lalna's birthday and the confusion the next morning! A lot had happened in the five weeks, but there was still two more to go, and there was no way the strangeness was going to stop!
It was just a normal day, they went to their lessons as usual and then went back to their dorms, again as usual. Lomadia, Sips and Nilesy were the first to split off, going into one of the rooms, next was Xevphera and Rythian, going into their room and finally Lalna and Xephos in the room next door. "Have you managed to remember yet?" Lalna asked him as they both flopped down on the same bed and the scientist got out a packet of strawberry laces and a few lagers ready to share. He had trusted Lalna with the secret of what happened on his birthday. The spaceman shook his head.                  "Not yet." he stated, taking a strawberry lace and kicking his shoes off.                                                                                                                       "Don't worry, no-one else can remember! We were hammered!" he laughed and Xephos smiled. Lalna always knew how to make a bad situation fun.
They sat on their bed for a while, waiting for the hall light to go off, signalling that it was curfew and the students needed to get back to their rooms, in this case however the rest of the group would come into the two friends room and have a few beers and a laugh. Mr.Sjin had caught them a few times, but didn't seem to mind, just told them to keep it down and not let themselves get caught by anyone else. He seemed to like them and even let them call him Mr.S instead. He was defiantly Xephos' favourite teacher out of the whole academy.
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The group had all been in Lalna and Xephos' room for about half an hour now, when Mr.Sjin opened the door and leaned in casually                                "Hi guys, i'm gonna need you all out here for a moment please?" they all looked to each other then to the teacher                                                          "What have we done?" Sips said in a girly flirtily way                                                                                                                                                  "I wouldn't be a bad girl." Xevphera said mockingly and quietly to Sips and the group all laughed. The elf was definatly coming out of her shell more.       "Don't worry guys, you're not in trouble, just need everyone out here for a moment." and with that the teacher nodded and exited the room.
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The whole dorm was standing in the dorm room, a place where they all hung out most of the time. The room reminded Xephos of the dorm room he had read about in Harry Potter, there were a lot of similarities between the academy and the school in the book. The jocks sat on the middle sofa and the rest of the dorm (which wasn't very big anyway, probably the smallest in the entire academy) were all stood around the furniture. The group of friends were last to get there and stood around the back where the door was.
To the front of the room Mr.Sjin was introducing some new students. Two boys stood at the front, one was blonde and taller than the other. The later had dark brown hair that flopped slightly over his eyes, they seemed to be friends.                                                                                                      "So this is Martyn Sapling and Toby Hash-tag." Mr.Sjin stated, putting his hand to the side in an introducing way. "They'll be joining you all in your classes and are here from, well one of the more upper-class parts of the country." the jocks sniggered and the main one, who Xephos now knew was called Honeydew, threw a crumpled piece of paper at the smaller one, making the blonde step in front of him defensively.                                              "Honeydew!" Mr.Sjin said and gave the jock a look, he didn't seem to like the jocks, almost as much as Xephos and the rest of his friends.
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Well it had to have been expected hadn't it? Turns out the new exchange students were more upper-class than the teacher had made them out to be. They were from the sands region, where King Israphel was from! This obviously made the jocks jump at any opportunity they had to hurt or torment to new students. But that died down a bit over the course of the week, Xephos felt really bad. Whenever the smaller of the two would get hurt the blonde would stand in the jocks way and take the beating himself, poor guy.
They were in arithmetic now and the teacher (Mr.Panda) had placed them all in a seating plan as to not spur on any arguments between the group and the new students. The taller of the two, Martyn, had been at in Xevphera's usual seat next to Xephos and the elf had been moved in front and sat next to Toby. The rest of the friends had chosen seats around the two that they seemed to be comfortable with.
"So after that my father managed to find a naturally green horse in the wilderness! It didn't even cost him that much to get a contract to keep it on the ranch!" Martyn was explaining to the group who all looked at each other, did he realise how stuck up he sounded? His accent didn't really help at all.       "Sorry, I guess I am rambling quiet a bit, perhaps we should move away from you guys."                                                                                             "No, stay its fine!" Xephos stated.                                                                                                                                                                             "So how much did the contract cost?" Xevphera asked as nicely as she could.                                                                                                              "Only a few hundred Yogdollers!" Martyn answered cheerily. And the elf opened her mouth to answer before closing it gain and turning back to her work.
"What are these drawings?" Martyn asked curiously                                                                                                                                                   "Oh those are Xevphera's, she draws on each of her desks to kind to show that there hers."                                                                                          "Ah, they're very, interesting." the elf raised an eyebrow at the boy who looked a bit on edge. "oh no they're very good, just not the type of thing I would expect you to draw." he stated and the elf raised her eyebrow again before getting back to her conversation with Lalna and Rythian.
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They were in Lomadia, Sips and Nilesy's room that night and all were talking about the new students.                                                                           "They aren't brothers like I thought they would be." Xevphera stated "They seem to have a good attachment to each other though, especially in the sense that Martyn keeps sticking up for him and is willing to take a beating for him." the others agreed.                                                                        "Do you think they mean to sound that, how do I put it, stuck up?" Rythian mused and the others thought about it. It was a good question.                     "Well they are from Sand-Land, they were probably raised around a bunch of children who acted posh aswell."                                                               "Yeah but take silk shirt here." Sips said, motioning to Xephos with her thumb (Silk shirt seemed to be a new nickname for him since the dirt trader had asked him what type of shirt he wore and he had answered with silk.) "Well you told us you were raised into money, but you don't act like that."             "I've never really been that open a person really." he stated "Besides most of my money I donated to charities and used to help people not investing in things for myself. Much to my fathers dismay." he said quiet modestly though going quieter towards the end of his sentence.
"Maybe if they kept their heads down more they wouldn't get bullied as much, I mean that's worked for most of us hasn't it?" Lomadia asked                  "Yeah until Xevph whacked one of them around the face!" Lalna added before laughing, the others joined in.                                                                 "Or maybe if we just give them a while to settle down and see how the rules are different here, I mean they are from somewhere different, we cant expect them to adapt in a few days." Xevphera stated, ignoring the others. Xephos nodded and smiled                                                                          "We should just explain to them if they're being a bit, right?" he asked and the others agreed.
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The next day the group stayed with the new guys, inviting them to sit near them in their lessons, though sitting where they usually sat this time and letting them sit next to each other. They seemed alright, but they were too snobby! Whether they realised it or not it got very annoying and Xephos and the rest of his friends found themselves taking a disliking to the two.
For the last two lessons they didn't really listen to what the rich boys (as dubbed by Sips) had to say, and they seemed a bit disappointed by this and kept their mouths shut, even when the group asked them questions they just nodded and gave a sat look. Had they realised that the group was getting annoyed?
They all went back to their dorm after that, Martyn and Toby had been given a separate room that was next to Lomadia, Sips and Nilesy's room. It was free period. Lalna had gone to hang out with his 'adopted' sister seen as they hadn't talked in a while, though Xephos thought this funny because whenever the scientist did go into the girls room he would always come out with sips' pink nail polish on and a bit of eye shadow over his eyes. He usually just said "God I really need to stop falling asleep in there!" in an annoyed voice while slouching over to his bed and lying down.
However this time as he expected Lalna to walk through the door, he was surprised to see Martyn.                                                                                "Martyn? What are you doing here?" the rich boy fiddled his hands around in front of him and looked to the floor.                                                           "I-" was all he said before looking back down to the floor.                                                                                                                                           "Come in." Xephos said kindly and sat up on his bed, pushing his schoolwork to one side. "Now what's up?"                                                                   "I know you don't like me very much." Martyn stated, his voice was different, it didn't have that posh ring to it as it had in class. He sounded like a normal guy, and looked like one aswell now that he wasn't wearing the red cape he usually wore.
"What, ovcourse I like you." Xephos stated, sitting on the edge of the bed and looking towards the awkward boy in front of him, it wasn't his fault.           "I can tell, I don't want to be this posh little brat, please just give me a chance." Xephos felt sympathy, and familierality, he had remembered being like this his whole life with his dad.                                                                                                                                                                                 "Look, its just." he walked up to the blonde and put a hand on his shoulder, thinking of words to say. He was much taller than the other and tried not to make it seem like he was towering over him on purpose.
"You just need to, have a laugh, loosen up a bit!" he then had an idea at the boys confused look. He walked over to the little fridge him and Lalna hid under his bed. He pulled out a few beers and went to get the others, pushing one of the beers into the blondes hands as he walked past "Wait here! Oh and you look cool without the cape." he said before smiling kindly and walking out, and him and the others entered a few moments later.
"What's happening?" the blonde asked and the others smiled at him. Toby walked towards his friend.                                                                            "Yeah, what's going on?"                                                                                                                                                                                          "Well, were gonna show you how to have fun." the elf stated, walking forwards. the group of friends opened their beers and the two rich boys opened theirs, copying the group and taking a swig.
"Well that's got a kick to it!" Martyn stated and Toby coughed as he swallowed. The group laughed and Lalna began a game of tag with Rythian, his usual routine. Pretty soon everyone joined in, even the new guys.
Xephos had the feeling they were going to fit in well here.