Sorry guys, got caught up on reading some novel yesterday.

Here is chapter 9. Enjoy. It's not that interesting, if I do say so myself.

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Chapter 9: Paradise Island Academy

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Sounds of footsteps continued for few minutes. Then, a creak like sound of door opening was heard.

"Leader Von, Why are your faces like that? Our mission succeeded, right?" said Lucy.

Von must be muscular leader.Then, his somewhat rough voice sounded:

"No, our mission failed. When we went to the young lady's room, she was not there. Did you see anything out of ordinary from guard?"

"No, he was with me the entire time. And he was panicked and worried in the morning. He said it should be reported to his master as soon as possible." Lucy sounded urgent as well.

"That means someone beat us to the punch. She is from a high class family. Someone other than our employer must have given another organization a job similar to ours. But, how did they take her away without us noticing anything?" said the voice of Von.

'Hmm , this is typical talk, nothing fun at all.' I thought. Then I got an idea.

"Alright, nothing we can do. Lets head back t-" the leader stopped in middle of talk because a letter came out from Lucy's necklace seemingly out of nowhere.

The room was quite dark so, I appeared in a corner using stealth technique using my darkness magic. What was about to happen won't be fun if their faces were not seen.

When the letter came out they were extremely surprised. One of the subordinate picked it up and gave it to his leader while saying:

"It is addressed to you."

The leader opened the letter and out aloud:

"To the leader of this group and it's members. I thank your your organization for such a beautiful present as Lucy. I enjoyed her t-t-throughly. Please tell your higher ups that I sincerely thank them that they provided me with such cute and lovely girl to spend the night. P.S.: Sorry Lucy, job is job. I am sure you understand. But it was truly a refreshing and fun night. Yours truly, Luthius."

Their expression were sight to behold. They seemed surprised, then shocked and further angry, again bitter and even more angry.

Bam

The leader smashed the table and sent splinters flying.

Lucy was shocked and surprised as well. And appeared slightly angry as well, but then she sighed.

"That bastard. He knew all along. We have been played, that fu*k*r." shouted the leader in rage. That was truly amusing.

'Ah, typical humans. They want to play with others but they don't want to be played with.' I thought.

I returned to my dimension and with dimension still linked with the portal on Lucy's necklace, I laughed. I laughed so that they can hear. I could have appeared before them and dealt with them and it would have been interesting to see their reaction but I controlled myself because next time we come to city they will try again, I am sure and that would be even more amusing.

'Haha they must be looking around for source of laughter with an expression like monkey searching for food.' I laughed even more thinking that.

Anna was also grinning widely. I closed the link and said:

"Alright, lets go Paradise Island Academy."

I took Anna by waist sprouted my wings and tail, came directly over ocean bay and started flying in the direction of Paradise Island Academy.

"Looks like Academy will be fun." said Anna while looking at me.

"Ho ho ho, next six years will be most troubled years Paradise Island Academy has ever seen." I said while grinning.

After flying for two hours, a outline of large island can be seen in horizon. There are many people flying in same direction as us while riding flying beasts.

After flying for another hour. Maybe others could not but I could clearly see the academy. It was huge or massive to say the least. I could not even see the the total of Island. I must say this island must be as big as a small country with population of a hundred million. So, it is a big island. It looks like it is sort of rectangular. I can see whole of breadth because I am at least an hour of flight away from island.

But not all of it is academy. I see a river crossing across whole breadth of island. It is cleanly separating academy area and forest beyond that river. May be they are two separate island. It is bizarre to say the least. I mean where do you see an area filled with buildings in small hills and by their side is green plain fields. Both are mixed here and there. There is plain there and immediately after that is a hill and plain again and again hill. It's like hills are placed in plain fields. After that you can see tall man-made wall. After that there is river bisecting the island though unsymmetrically. And after river you a big forest with towering trees. Bizarre, truly bizarre, yet it looks beautiful from high up in the air and from far.

As we kept nearing the Island, a big board made of earth with two of their pillar's supporting the board planted on top of two separate hills consecutive to each other, can be seen. The massive earth board is painted white with purplish golden words written on them, which read "Paradise Island Academy".

There are different areas seemingly separated from each other by cluster of trees. In areas where there are no trees there are hills, fields and buildings. And by no means are these areas small. There are many different buildings in each areas. There is a slightly bigger hills on each area that are bigger than most hills in same area and on top of that hill is a board similar to academy's sign board but many times smaller. And a area in middle of academy part of island only has one large building. The board atop the hill in that area reads: "Administrative office area" As we are already relatively closer so, I cannot see other areas clearly though. So, we headed straight toward academic office area. We land on that area and there are many people out there already but it's not crowded. Because it is first day for registration there are still more days for registration.

Anna said that the representatives of different academy visit cities to recruit students and if they are satisfied with students only then they give invitation to that student. The procedure is completed after coming to academy. Anna got invitation from Paradise Island academy in recruitment process in city of Roselawn. And academy only accepts 200-300 students each year.

We went into to office building there are four counter with about 10 people in each line for registration. We also joined a line and after few minutes it was our turn.

The middle aged registration lady gently smiled at Anna as I was looking from behind her. Anna said without giving the lady chance to speak:

"I am here for registration."

The lady smiled and said:

"Alright, give me your invitation letter."

Anna took her invitation letter out to the lady. She checked the letter and gave a piece of paper to Anna and said:

"Fill your information here."

Anna took the paper and filled the paper with information using a magic pen. And handed the paper to the lady. The registration lady took it and read it. She looked surprised for a second. After fully reading she looked at Anna and said:

"You have a familiar. Can you summon him for a second?"

"He is here." said Anna while pointing towards me.

"Eh? but he looks like a human." said the lady.

I grinned and sprouted wings, tail and bigger sharp nails. I didn't want to show my true form. The lady looks surprised.

"Oh, he can hide them. Alright, go to first year area, and go to office there and give them this in reception. You can look for this place's map over the counter near that door. And be sure to attend first year welcoming ceremony on 30th day which will be held on arena for first years." said lady while giving a piece of paper

We nodded and left. We took map from the counter and went out the building.

I looked at map, this academy is too big. This is detailed map of academy. The area I saw are for different purposes. Each year has separate areas, and there is paved road joining each of these areas and is separated by cluster of trees in between areas. The first year area is in north east direction. These areas surround academy office area which is in middle. The area adjacent to 1st year is 2nd year and so on. They make almost a circle and academy office area is like centre of this circle.

We head in direction of first year along the road. After walking for about forty minutes we arrived at first year area. Only this area is so big, how big would total academy be. There is separate building for each stage classes. There is one building for 4th stage students, 4th stage means both 4th tier warrior and 4th circle mage. Likewise there is a building for 5th stage, 6th stage and even a seventh stage students, boy's dormitory, girl's dormitory, cafeteria, teacher's office, a huge arena, a football field sized four training areas and another office for first years. This is only for 1st years, there are similar facilities for other years in their respective area. And classes are separated by which affinity of magic you have. Anna will be attending water and air magic classes.

We arrive in front of office. It is small one storey building. We entered. There in office was slightly old lady who had few white hairs, was sitting in counter. When we approached her, she looked at us and said:

"Alright, give me the paper you got from main office."

Anna gave her the paper. She looked at it carefully before writing things on register she had with her. After her work was over, she looked at us and said, giving a key to Anna:

"You are allocated room number 405 of girl's dormitory number one and your familiar is to stay with you. Alright boy give me your paper."

"Hmm.... But I don't have any paper. I am just her familiar." I said pointing at Anna. The old lady was surprised when I said that. Ho, at least her lazy poker face changed.

"But you are a human." said the lady.

I do same thing I did in main office. The lady was again surprised. Then nodded. Anna was smiling the whole time.

We went out the office and toward dormitory. There were four six story building near each other. We went to the building written 1. We went to fourth floor and went to fifth room.

In each floor there are five flats. We opened the door and went in, there is small hall room and a door to left and right. There was another door straight ahead. I went to door straight ahead and opened it, it was quite a big room with a bed and study table and chair. The left door opened for bathroom. The right had a relatively small room and one bed was there, this must be familiar's room. There was study table as well. In hall there was a small four person couch, right next to door on familiar's room and another two person's couch next to door of student's room. Two couches made a L shape.

We sat on couches. And she said:

"What should we do next three days? And we have to send a letter home about our arrival."

"Hmmm.... for now we go eat lunch in cafeteria. Then stroll about the first year area, eat dinner, sleep. Tomorrow we go to Academy city. And don't worry about letter home. I can personally send the letter, you just have to write one." I said.

"Okay", she said and we went to cafeteria.