I had always gone to public schools so to find out that your schedule changed each day was a wild concept. I had changed classes and teachers before but not for every class. Each hour was labeled by a lettered block. Every day the first two hours followed by 30 minutes of break then two more hours followed by an hour break with another two hours with a 30 minute break with then 2 final hours each day. 8 classes seemed excessive but each class was wildly different.
Turns out every semester two classes always exist for every student. Physical Amplification and Weapons Training were always given to each student as both of these classes would be utilized for life. Physical Amplification sounded a lot cooler than the class actually was, the class sucked to be honest. Every day a new activity pushes your physical limits to their limit. The concept was barbaric but efficient.
I still remember that first day having the PA class first before anything else. I was sweaty and tired the first day of school going into my second ever class. A couple of the kids had already given me weird looks as I pushed myself on each of the exercises that we were shown. I hadn't realized I was the only one to push myself that day not knowing that they would be setting benchmarks from that performance.
To me it didn't matter, I didn't know how to do anything less than 100%. I knew watching them slack off was only going to hurt them in the long run as long as I stayed the course I would surpass them. I often have wondered if the wisp gave me confidence or if it was me the whole time.
My next class was beast anatomy. The knowledge to know the weaknesses of the beast usually would mean the difference between life and death. I read the first page that we were told to and suddenly that voice came to my head again.
'This is all wrong, fairies are not aggressive creatures, they are defensive and will not back down on their own territory but for sure not aggressive. Who could possibly think a fairy is aggressive after meeting a simple tiger or bear. The writer of this book clearly didn't do their research.' Wispy, as I started to call my beast, said to me.
I honestly didn't listen to Wispy in that class but I remember how it was the first time I realized Wispy knew what it was talking about. I too had seen a fairy be quite docile and friendly to my neighbor once. I too had thought I had only heard bad things about them but the interaction between my neighbor and the fairy made me question the common knowledge.
The next class was a hand to hand combat class where I punched for an hour. Literally that is all I did, punch left, punch right, punch left high, punch right low. If someone was counting my punches I would be interested to see what the stats were that day but I punched more that day than I feel I have punched since.
The class before lunch was my botany class which I paid zero attention to be quite honest. The examples they held up Wispy were able to supply more advanced information than what the books offered. I realized before lunch on my first day of school that there were classes I would not have to pay any attention to at any point and those classes would become my eventual meditation classes.
At lunch was the first time I saw her, I didn't think she noticed me but she claims she saw me that day as well. I know for a fact I was staring at her the entire time taking in every inch of her beauty. Her name was a mystery at that moment, Madeline "Maddy" Young, had black curly hair and round black eyes with pale white as snow skin. That day she looked like a small porcelain doll. I also didn't know that she had a Life Fairy beast which gave her an angelic beauty boost. Her wings hadn't sprouted yet and plus she would eventually figure out how to wrap her wings around her body.
Her lips curled up at the corners as if she was always smiling. Her small round button nose just screamed cute. Her jaw line fit her face to a perfect level. I found myself staring simply at her jaw, like who does that? As a ten year old you really haven't had any hormones course through your body but I can still remember that day and moment as I believe it activated my hormones at that moment.
I knew I was into girls from that moment forward as I spent all day trying to think of ways to get her attention. How could I get her to see me, what could I say or do the next time I see her to get her to notice me. Have you ever spent all day trying to figure something out and not figure it out? Yeah that was that day as the next four classes didn't even exist in my mind.
Of those four classes the weapons training was the best despite not having one figured out yet. The class on beast mastery governance was interesting to find out the history of beast masters and the different levels of leadership but it really didn't matter to me. There was a class on the religion known as Kristos which I definitely never paid attention to anything in that class. The last was societal positions for us to possibly want to pursue over the course of our schooling such as being an adventurer upon graduating and what those options equaled for the more obvious disciplines.
That night in the room the guys and I were all joking around about what we saw today. The different types of beasts that everyone had, the difference between their own. The night was full of laughter and just an overall great time. I went to bed that night thinking I was really thankful that my parents sent me here despite always feeling I never amounted enough for them.