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Olympus Academy

"She's pretty sexy for a seventeen year old!"

"Professor!"

"Chillax Minerva! It was a compliment! At least I didn't call her ugly!"

An annoyed huff.

"Seriously, Demyx, this is not the time for your...compliments."

"I agree with Integra."

"You ladies need to learn how to kick back and relax sometimes!"

A chuckle. "I'm with you Professor D. They don't know the meaning of relaxed."

Rip stirred at all the commotion. Annoyed and surprised at how these so called Professors were acting. Honestly! They acted like a bunch of children!

"I think she's waking up!" a young British voice announced, and Rip heard shuffling.

She opened her eyes, and was immediately met with four faces. The woman on her right looked around sixty, and wore a pointy hat over her tight bun. The man next to her was young with an odd mullet, and a curious face. Surprisingly, there was a green woman on her left. Rip immediately felt uncomfortable next to her, maybe it was that mischievous smirk of her's. The fourth woman was standing next to the green woman. She was a bit short, but she was pretty with short blond hair that stuck out on its ends.

"Alright, Professors! This isn't a zoo so stop staring!" a nurse said, pushing her way through the Professors and Rip caught a glance of another woman standing by the window before she was blocked from view by the nurse.

"She needs her rest and I don't need you lot looming over her like a bunch curious monkeys!"

"Apologies, Poppy," the woman with the pointy hat said, tearing her gaze away from Rip, "but we just wanted to check on the conditions of the young lady."

Poppy huffed. "I just told you, she needs her rest," she shook her head, looking at Rip. "The Headmistress needs to build up the security! Its a wonder how those Shadows got onto school grounds!"

"Well, you can talk to me about the problems of the security since I'm here now, Madam Pomprefy."

Heads turned to the doorway, and in came a beautiful brown haired woman with twinkling eyes. Although she looked friendly, Rip felt this eerie aura around her that made everyone feel like they had to obey her.

Poppy had turned slightly red, and stuttered. "H-Headmistress! I..." she pointed furiously at the Professors. "They're bothering the patient! I can't have them preventing the young lady from her rest!"

The Headmistress only smiled. "I suppose then, that I'm not allowed to speak to the patient, yes?"

The nurse turned brighter. She grumbled and walked away, letting the Headmistress take her place.

Rip scooted up in her bed, noting that she was in different clothes now, and her uniform was hanging on the wall next to her bed. The Professors all gave each other a knowing look, and started out the hospital wing.

Rip finally saw the person who was at the window. She was a young blond woman, and when she looked at Rip before leaving, her blue eyes pierced into her's, sending a chill down her spine. There was something odd about that woman. She was different from the rest of the Professors...

When the door had finally shut behind the blond woman, the Headmistress smiled at Rip. "I hope you are coping well after what happened this morning?"

Rip nodded, then she went straight to the questions without hesitation. "What were those hints back in the woods? And why were they after me? Why is this happening? Where am I?"

"One at a time, my dear," she said, and Rip muttered an apology. "You are at a school called Olympus Academy. Our school is for children like you who have powers that are said to be myths."

"How did you..."

"I know a lot of things, Rip," she said with a mysterious smirk. "Besides, you wouldn't have been able to gone through that barrier that protects this school unless you are a student or staff here at Olympus."

Rip processed all this information. Was she telling the truth? And earlier that morning with those...things, that really happened?

"You...you know what I am?"

"You are a vampire, my dear," the Headmistress said without blinking.

She talked to her like she was just another person. Like she wasn't a freak. She treated her like someone, not something.

"So...that's...that's what I am? That's what I've always been?" she asked as if she were asking herself.

"We can't help who we are, we can only think of ways that can change us, but most of the time they don't work."

Rip opened her mouth to say something, but the Headmistress held up an elegant hand. "Rest my dear. You came a few days earlier before the school year starts and you need your rest. Tomorrow, if you are well, you may join myself and the other Professors in the lunch room before exploring."

With that, the Headmistress left, leaving Rip behind and alone in the hospital wing.

LIEbe

"What do you think of her?" she asked, leaning slightly towards the Headmistress who was occupied with her steak.

The woman didn't bother to look up. She already knew who she was talking about. The woman was obviously fascinated by the girl but would never admit it. All the teachers were, especially after the young girl's grand entrance.

"I think that she will make a wonderful student."

The blond woman pursed her lips in frustration. She wanted a specific answer, not what that she would make a wonderful student.

Scoffing, the Professor turned back to her own steak. "I beg to differ."

"Oh?" asked the Headmistress, curious of what she thought.

"The way she had stepped on the grounds of Olympus you know that there will be a lot of chaos in the future," she ate a piece of her steak, glaring at the girl of the topic who was eating and chatting with the Professors Demyx and Seras. "Not to mention who she is and what of her history..."

"We are not to talk of her history, Integra," the Headmistress said sternly, and the blond woman tensed slightly at his tone. She was the only one who could ever have that kind of effect on her.

"I was just stating the truth," Integra said, taking another bite.

"I know you were, but please refrain of telling her about her parents. It may further endanger her," she said, looking concernedly at the young girl who laughed at something the music teacher, Demyx, had said. "I fear for her safety."

"Is this why you let her come here?" the Professor questioned her. "Aside from the fact that she belongs here?"

The brown haired woman nodded. "The orphanage she was at was no longer safe. Humans do not have the abilities to protect themselves from Mythical creatures, even if Abeona was there to protect her."

"I couldn't agree more, Headmistress," a voice said, and Integra clenched her knife.

Beside her a woman had taken a seat beside Integra. She sat lazily in her chair, brushing a hand through her short messy hair.

"Humans are weak and pathetic," she continued, and the knife in Integra's hand shook.

Noticing this, the Headmistress placed a comforting hand on her wrist, holding it tightly to prevent her from doing anything rash.

"You may think so, Professor Blitz, but humans are fantastic people. They have strengths just as we have ours. They are intelligent and have their uses."

"Think so?" Zorin scoffed. "I know so! The only uses that they have is providing me blood!"

Integra stood abruptly, her chair groaning as it was forced back. She glared down at Zorin who just grinned back up at her. This caught the attention of the other teachers and the only student, looking confusingly at Integra.

"What's wrong Professor? Done eating already?"

"Integra," the Headmistress said when the said woman clenched her fists.

Biting her lip to prevent every insult and curse that tried to escape her mouth, Integra stormed away. The teachers watched her go, shaking their heads at Zorin who just shrugged. The Headmistress's lips formed a thin line, eyes following the blond woman who walked down the aisle.

Rip watched the woman storm past, her fists clenched at her sides and her eyes glaring at the door that Rip was sure it would turn to ice. A scent had lingered in the air as she passed, enticing Rip with a shiver of hunger. There was definitely something odd about that woman that made her different from the rest of the Professors.