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The entrance was a massive arched gateway with massive railed gates thrown open to the sides. There was no apparent automated mechanism and Blaze wondered how any angel could manage to open or close the gates by herself. An angel was posted inside a guard post on the right.
"I am sorry. Families not allowed on the campus grounds except during visiting weekends" the guard shouted as she saw Jie Er and Rebecca accompanying Blaze. They nodded back.
They had already known that. Classes were about to start, and families weren't allowed inside the campus grounds.
Jie Er and Rebecca had wanted to come to Tir a couple of days early and help him settle down in his dorm, but Blaze had been adamant about doing it himself. He had already had that experience on earth and he did not want to feel anymore like a kid. Besides, a short farewell was easier than a prolonged one.
"I will visit you next week, Blaze Er" Jie Er replied emotionally as they stood at the gated entrance. They hadn't been apart for more than a day, since his hatching.
"You don't have to, aunty" Blaze replied, feeling equally emotional, as Jie Er hugged him tightly. He struggled to keep his eyes from turning moist.
"She is coming whether you want to or not" Rebecca replied wryly from the side, trying to put up a nonchalant front. Blaze knew better.
"I will see you next week too, aunt Becky" Blaze grinned at her from Jie Er's shoulder. Rebecca scoffed but didn't deny it.
"I wish you could bring Sky along. I hope he won't miss me too much" Blaze said, hugging Jie Er from the side.
"I am sorry, Blaze Er. Sky will have to learn to be by herself. You should visit the week after the next. Students are allowed to visit their families every alternate weekend. You should take advantage of that and visit sky whenever you can" Jie Er replied.
"Are you sure it's for Sky you want him to visit?" Rebecca commented.
"Oh, shut up Becky" Jie Er laughed, her voice cracking a little.
"I guess, I will get going" Blaze finally said, separating from Jie Er.
"Bye Aunt Becky. Take care of Aunty Jie Er" he told Rebecca, giving her a warm hug. He gave her butt a tight squeeze before he let go.
He turned around and walked to the gate without turning back.
"Blaze Er Lokra. I was asked to report to the principal's office at 9 today" Blaze told the guard, passing her the letter of admittance.
The bright gray-haired angel, gave Blaze a once over, perused the letter and handed it back to him.
"Third building on the right. There will be a stele saying administration building. Find someone to help you in there" she replied with a smile.
Blaze turned back and gave the two angels a nervous smile and a wave before he took the wide marble paved path leading into the academy. Jie Er and Rebecca waited until Blaze's form disappeared out of sight, before they took off to head back home.
Blaze could've flown to the building, but since he was supposed to be a first year he did want to garner any unnecessary attention yet. The marble pathway was long and winding, and it passed through splendid gardens and lush trees with foliage of fall colors.
The first building he came across was a massive structure with two tall spire towers on either side of the path, connected by a wide central bridge over the pathway. 'Library of Ashur" a stone stele near the entrance gave identity to the building. The bridge was lined with windows and Blaze could imagine the desks lying underneath them. He could already see himself sitting near one of the windows and peering out in contemplation, gazing at the splendid view of the gardens.
The entertainment building was a few hundred feet away from the library and to the left of the pathway. Blaze spotted a couple of netted courts to the right of the building. The odd thing was there were three nets in the middle, at different heights. An angelic version of badminton or tennis?
Finally, he spotted a wide two storied building with a central tower that reached six floors. A stone stele on the outside indicated that Blaze was at the right place. An adult angel flew in from the west and landed in front of the building. She gave Blaze a cursory smile and stepped in through the tall wooden doorway.
Blaze steeled his nerves and walked in. He was reminded of his first day at college. He had been similarly nervous, although there was no logical reason for it.
A few angels moved about busily on the red carpeted hallway and a blue haired angel sat at desk facing the doorway. A gorgeous stone carved spiral stairway behind her, lead to the upper floors.
At the head of the entrance was a portrait of the founder of Tir academy, and the walls were lined with portraits of previous principals and other luminaries related to the school.
"Sixth Floor" the blue haired angel told Blaze, giving his letter a fleeting glance.
Blaze sighed and began the long spiral around the tower. Why the hell did the principal have to be on the sixth floor?
A brunette secretary occupied the entrance room of the sixth floor. She was a younger angel in her early hundreds and seemed quite pleasant as she browsed the letter and asked Blaze to have a seat at the chairs lining the wall.
"The principal will see you in a bit. We are waiting for another student" she told him as he sat on the plush brown seats.
After about fifteen minutes, the door of the staircase opened and in stepped a cute looking angel. At a height of around 5'2 she was quite small for an angel and Blaze assumed her to be a first year like him. By Earth standards, she seemed to be around fourteen or fifteen years of age.
She had long bushy orange hair that covered her ears and reached just below her shoulders. Her eyes were large, pretty and orange, and were slightly turned up, with bright orange mascara lining past the edges. She had a piercing gaze and a neutral expression, which gave her an air of broodiness.
She had an angular jaw that tapered down to a small but rounded chin. Her lips were full and pouty, and her nose was sharp and turned up.
A double maple leaf ornament adorned the side of her head, and she wore a short green and leafy one-piece dress that made her seem like a wood elf.
She was very petite and seemed a little nervous as she eyed the secretary and Blaze with unsure eyes.
"Please have a seat. I will notify the principal of your arrival" the secretary replied, getting up and knocking on the door behind her.
"Hi" Blaze said to the young angel, as the secretary entered the principal's office.
"Hello" she replied shyly.
"The headmistress will see you now" the secretary returned and held the door open for them.
Blaze made way for the younger angel and followed her. The principal's room was a cozy looking place, with a couple of comfy couches on the side and numerous books littered around the room and the shelves.
The principal herself sat behind a thick black glass table with legs of mahogany. Four wooden chairs sat in front of the table.
"Hello. I am headmistress Fiora d'Aragon. The two of you have been admitted with the highest recommendations, but your academic achievements have not been properly measured. I've called you here to take an exam to see which grade you can be placed in. I hope you two are ready for it" the headmistress said in pleasant voice, getting up from her chair behind her desk.
Elyssa had already warned him about a potential placement exam, but Blaze hadn't cared enough to prepare for it.
The headmistress was a lean and tall woman, with long crimson hair that was tied up in a top bun. Her long legs made her seem taller than she was, and her black one-piece suit skirt accentuated her hourglass figure. The suit along with thigh high netted stockings did not reveal much skin besides the pushed-up cleavage of her breasts.
Fiora radiated contradicting auras of both strictness and gentleness. She had narrow but wide slanted green eyes, and high thin eyebrows that rose up in an angular arch. Her nose was sharp and slightly hooked, giving her an air of eagle like perceptiveness.
She had high cheekbones that narrowed down to a sharp chin. Her lips were thin and bow shaped, but the crimson lipstick gave them prominence. A pair of narrow black rimmed glasses finished the stereotypical look of a hot professor.
Blaze gave her the evil eye as she walked up to a shelf and pulled out a couple of stacks of papers.
"Follow me" Fiora said, leading them through a door on the right of her room. It was a small class room with a mini blackboard, a teacher's table and ten or so study chairs.
"These are shortened versions of all the finals up to the sixth year. Pick the hardest one from each subject that you think you can pass. The passing grade is usually 60%, but I need at least 75% to let you skip a grade. They should take you a few hours. Any questions?" Fiora explained.
"I have a question. Can I cheat off her?" Blaze asked in mock seriousness.
The two angels looked at him as if he suddenly grew a couple of horns.
"I am joking. If I wanted to cheat, I can just use the books in my space ring"
The response wasn't much different.
"That was a joke too" Blaze sighed, finally eliciting a small giggle from the younger angel.
"If that is all, I will leave you to get to your tests. You can come to me if you need anything else. I will be in my room. And oh, I will know if you cheat" Fiora replied without as much as blink and walked out.
"Some angels just don't have a sense of humor" Blaze commented.
The smaller angel gave him a weak smile and walked up to her closest stack. Blaze shook his head at the low-key response and followed her to his own set of papers.
Blaze quickly browsed through the pile and finally picked a 4th year chemistry paper. He felt that he could answer most of the questions in the 5th year as well but he wasn't completely sure about it.
He glanced at the other angel and was surprised to find her holding the same test. She seemed to be glancing at his pick with equal surprise. But before he could make a comment, the girl quickly shuffled back to a chair, pulled out a quill shaped pen and started furiously answering the questions.
Blaze sighed at her reticence and went to solve his own test. He picked a seat a few chairs away from her and pulled out his own quill pen. The pens in Azra-El were mostly shaped like quills, with ink held within the feather shaped container at the top.
Soon, Blaze was completely immersed in solving the questions and only brought up his head and pen when he finished the last question on the test. He looked to the girl and found her taking the quill off her paper right at that moment.
She looked at him and Blaze grinned back cockily. He had started a little after her and finished a little earlier. The girl immediately looked away and walked up to the desk to get her next exam.
Blaze followed her and browsed through the remaining tests while keeping an eye on what the girl was picking. She picked a fourth-year physics paper.
Hah! Blaze gave himself a mental shout of triumph, before picking up the fifth year Physics paper. He openly displayed his choice as he walked back to his seat in a mock strut of pride.
The girl was a little annoyed, but she didn't want to take the risk of picking a test she couldn't completely solve. She simply went back to her seat and started solving her own paper.
Soon, however, the two of them began an unspoken competition of who could take the harder test and who could finish them sooner. Blaze was a tad faster in finishing his tests, but he severely lagged in the difficulty of social sciences and art tests he could choose. His only saving grace was math; even the sixth-year math test did not pose him a challenge while the girl could only solve the fourth-year paper.
It was past noon by the time the two of them finished their tests, almost simultaneously. They gathered up their answer sheets and walked back to the headmistress' room.
"You are done?" the headmistress asked, taking the papers from them. "Why don't you wait outside with miss Alice, while I go through your answers? Alice should've arranged a light lunch for you. You two must be hungry. I will call you when I am done" Fiora replied.
The two angels walked out of the office and found an assortment of sandwiches arranged in a platter on the secretary's table.
"Can I?" Blaze asked Alice, reaching for one of the two plates on the side. He grabbed four half sandwiches of differing contents and beelined for a chair. He was starving.
The girl politely asked the secretary once again and picked up a couple of sandwiches only after she received her nod. She sat a few seats away from Blaze and began to slowly munch on her lunch.
"Is this your first year too?" Blaze asked after a little while. The secretary seemed to be busy shuffling through some documents, so trying to strike up a conversation with the quiet girl was his only option.
The girl looked confused for a moment before she looked at Blaze with a little surprise.
"At Tir? Yes", she replied curtly but politely.
"What do you mean?"
"I did my first year at Balaman academy. It's in Lanoan" she explained, seeing the puzzled expression on his face. Lanoan was a country on the Anoan plateau, to the south of Varan,
"Oh. How old are you?" Blaze wondered out loud. It was hard to imagine her being older than twenty.
"Twenty-nine"
"Oh. I will be twenty in a couple of months. It's nice to meet you. I am Blaze" he replied with a smile. She seemed a little short for her age but so was Elyssa.
"Siofra. Nice to meet you too" the girl replied, sprouting a tiny smile. Her name was pronounced 'sheef-ra'.
"So, what brings you to Varan, Siofra?" he asked after a while.
Siofra gave a tiny pause before she answered.
"Mum is an ambassador. We might be staying in Aranya for a decade or so"
"Oh? That's so cool. Where do you come from? Where else have you been?" Blaze asked, suddenly noticing that her accent was in fact a little different.
"P..." Siofra started, but before she could answer, Fiora's head peeked out of her door.
"Come in, Ms. Siofra" Fiora said, before going back in to her office.
"Good luck" Blaze whispered as she got up and walked in to the principal's office.
Blaze fiddled around for a few minutes before Siofra came out of Fiora's office. She told the secretary that the headmistress wanted to see her, before she looked at Blaze as if unsure about what to say.
"Which year?" Blaze asked her.
"Fourth" she replied softly.
"Good! I hope we can be in the same class" Blaze replied as the secretary came back out. Though the level of tests they took were different in different subjects, Blaze expected himself to be placed in the fourth year as well.
"The headmistress will see you now. Follow me Ms. Siofra, we will get you settled in your new dorm"
Blaze waved her goodbye and stepped into the office with a bad premonition. They weren't going to be in the same dorm? Was he put in a higher grade?
"Have a seat Ms. Blaze" the headmistress said monotonously.
"The duchess has exceptionally extolled your qualities, Ms. Blaze. Honestly, I was a bit skeptical at first, but I must say I am quite satisfied with your performance. Especially, if your strength is in fact on par with your academic ability" she praised him somewhat expressionlessly.
"Thank you. Is it too much to ask to be put in Elyssa's year" Blaze joked. He knew he wasn't going to be placed higher than the sixth.
"No. In fact, you will be starting with the other first years"
Blaze blinked stupidly for a couple of seconds.
"haha. Good joke, headmistress" Blaze started to laugh, but Fiora didn't bat a lid. "You're serious?"
She nodded.
"What? Why? You put the other girl in the fourth year. I belong at least in her grade if not higher" Blaze protested.
"Maybe. If we go by your math scores alone, I can even put you in the seventh year. But you're severely lacking in your social studies. You were actually slightly below 75% in the history part of your test" she replied solemnly.
"But that's easy material. I just have to spend some time reading and I will catch up on it" Blaze replied, regretting not preparing for the exam. He didn't think the principal would be so particular about a placement exam. Maybe cheating off Siofra had not been such a bad idea.
"That may be so. But the academy's role is to provide you with an all-round education, which includes your social skills. I firmly believe that you should spend at least your first year with angels of your age" she replied.
"But you put Siofra in the fourth year. She is only twenty-nine! How am I that different?" Blaze continued his protests. He was finally starting to get annoyed at being considered a child amongst the angels. It was sweet when Jie Er did it, but it wasn't so cool when he was forced by other adults into doing things he did not want to.
"Her situation is unique. Besides, she has already spent her first year of schooling among peers of her own age. In fact, if you pass all your social studies exams, I will allow you to do the same for your next school year. I may have considered placing you with Siofra if all of your tests were above the fourth level, but now my decision has been made" Fiora replied firmly.
Blaze harrumphed and started pouting. There wasn't much else he could do. His only hope was to try and slowly convince the headmistress to let him change classes during the school year.
"There is another matter I need to speak to you about" Fiora said after she gave him a few moments to simmer.
"What?" he replied, more harshly than he intended.
"Your mother sent me a letter about your... uh... issue"
"What did she say?"
"She said that you have a thing on your body, which if not attended to at regular intervals, will cloud your mind. I didn't quite understand it fully, but according to her, you need someone who can take care of it when the need arises" Fiora explained.
"I am not a freaking cripple. I can take care of it myself" Blaze replied brusquely.
"She said that as well. I am not going to get involved unless you want me to. However, I have a background in anatomy and I am quite interested in inspecting this unique organ of yours. Would you mind showing it to me?" she asked with eyes that suddenly sparkled with interest.
Blaze felt his evil grin sprout on his face.
"Sure. But only if you let me switch classes as soon as I pass my social studies exams; even if it is during the middle of the year"
Fiora thought for a moment before she relented with a sigh. In her experience, it was hard for students to switch classes once they made friends. She felt that even if Blaze passed the tests, he wouldn't want to move in the middle of the school year.
"It's a deal"
"Well, come over and sit on my desk. It will be easier for me to look at it. I read it was in the place of your vagina?" Fiora asked, showing emotion for the first time since they met.
Blaze grinned wryly and walked around over to her desk as she pulled back on her chair. He climbed on to her desk and sat in front of her.
He pulled up his shirt a little and waited for Fiora. She gave him an uncertain look and then grabbed his boyshorts and slowly pulled them down his thighs.
His member popped out flaccidly.
"Interesting" she said reaching out a hand to touch it. She paused for a moment and looked at Blaze for confirmation. He nodded, and she gingerly touched him with her finger.
Her touch made his blood rush into his member and it elongated.
"Oh my! It grows! I wonder what the mechanism is? Doesn't seem muscular..."
"It can grow bigger. Just caress it. Don't be too hard though" Blaze encouraged her.
