Host 21

Host 21 is the first host of Act Three, twenty first host of Season One, and the twenty first host of the series overall. It is also the premiere of Act Three.
==Synopsis==
Benvolio and Cedric butt heads again as Ben continues to antagonize the students of Lefebvre. 
==Plot==
=== The First Night ===
At dinner, Maverick finds a new student, Elliot, sitting in his spot. He introduces himself to him, staring at him for a long moment before he leaves to do something. Elliot, left at the table, is confused as to why everyone around him is so tense. Everyone looks at each other before partly explaining, Elliot doesn't believe that Maverick could be any real threat. Seungmin explains what happened during Host 10 to Elliot and he still isn't convinced.
Maverick is heading back to the commons after dinner when he runs in Blyth and Chess, who intend to annoy him, Maverick doesn't give them anything to work with so they both leave, bored. Afterwards, Maverick finds Elliot in the hallway, who explains he's lost, Maverick offers to help him, Elliot accepts. The two of them notice Cedric sitting alone and unresponsive at the dining table, they try to get his attention but he doesn't say anything. Maverick goes and drops Elliot off at his dorm, and he leaves afterwards, Maverick tells him he better not catch him out past curfew.
Blyth goes down to the piano room and plays for a little, but when he emerges from the records room, Maverick is waiting for him and gives him detention for being out past curfew. Maverick heads outside and finds Benvolio on the path walking back from the cemetery, he gives him detention. Benvolio yells to warn anyone else that Maverick is coming for curfew, Mav gives Ben another curfew. He continues and finds Chess and Elliot in the cemetery, he gives both of them detention. Blyth shows up and also gets detention, Maverick gives up on Chess and Blyth and lets them just leave. Maverick drags Elliot back to the building. 
Once back at his dorm, Maverick finds that Seungmin is in his dorm, looking through the drawers of the desk. Seungmin explains they're only looking for tea that Finch would have. Maverick, who was actually listening when Seungmin talked about him in the commons earlier, subtly confronts them, telling them they shouldn't talk about people behind their back. Seungmin is confused by this and says they were only telling the truth, so there should be no issue. Maverick tells Seungmin that he didn't, quote, "assault" Finch, because he didn't seriously injure him and the damages that were caused wouldn't hold up as assault and battery in a court of law. Seungmin ends up apologizing to Maverick before they leave.
=== Combat-Defense Class ===
Breakfast goes as normal and everyone heads to Combat-Defense class afterwards. Today's focus in class is kicks, Ms. Lefebvre pairs everyone in the class up and gives them punching pads to use to practice. She takes the class to the sandpit and they get to work. Benvolio and Cedric, who are paired together, begin to bicker immediately. Benvolio, with the intention of getting Cedric angry, tells him he's weak and makes more snide comments before he walks away to go punch a tree. This infuriates Cedric, who pursues him, beginning to yell at him as he grabs him. Benvolio accidentally burns Cedric and this prompts him to kick him, the two begin to fight each other, spitting insults back and forth. Finley tries to break up the fight but fails. Cedric questions Ben and why he torments him so much, Benvolio begins to cry and shake after Cedric says that. Cedric turns around and storms off, pursued by Maverick. Class is dismissed but several people stay to continue training.
=== Midday ===
Maverick finds Cedric in the bathroom and comforts him. At the sandpit, Benvolio bursts into flames, a first show of his Ignis Inferi, he is consumed by fire. Finley attempts to help Ben but he eventually just passes out. When he does wake up, Finley heals him and tries to comfort him. Rain makes an anti-werewolf comment towards Chess, who's still at the sandpit. Blyth takes action against Rain and him and Chess get him down onto the ground. Blyth breaks Rain's mask, revealing the burn scars on his face. Chess decides to leave but Blyth and Rain continue to go back and forth hurling insults at each other. Ada works on finishing the protections spells in the greenhouses. Seungmin and Finch play piano together, and Maxwells enjoys Edmund the griffins company in the barn. Before lunch, Elijah and Chess randomly run into each other and begin to fight. Lunch goes as normal afterwards.
Finley and her younger brother, Jack, talk, Jack is worried about Finley over exerting herself when helping other people, which happened when she healed Benvolio. She doesn't accept this. Chess and Blyth go to the piano room to play together, but they find Finch and Seungmin already there, they kick them off the bench and take it instead. Finch and Seungmin head upstairs and begin to get in a small verbal fight, Seungmin grows nervous and begins to scratch at the dragon shaped scar they have beneath their eye, they ruin the design by doing this. Seungmin leaves Finch and rushes to the bathroom to stare at the ruined scar, beginning to have a breakdown. 
=== The Evening ===
Chess and Blyth get into another verbal fight and leave each other. Dinner in the commons goes as normal. Elijah, Nerva Purgatorio, and Jack all talk with each other during it. Finley finds Rain and tries to comfort him after what happened with his mask, she offers to help fix his. They bond with each other for the night. Seungmin and Finch meet up in Finch's dorm to talk about their families and all the expectations put on them, they make up. Benvolio goes down to the commons, looking for Cedric, but he doesn't find him so he decides to mess with Max. Elijah shows Nerva around the school and flirts with her during this time, he also briefly tells her about what happened with Maverick during Host 14. 
 
Benvolio tries to get Max to punch him, and he quickly refuses. Ada gets up and tells Benvolio off, saying that he shouldn't try and get Max to punch him just because he wants him to. Ben turns on Ada and begins to insult her, Ada tells him he's like an open book and needs to not act like he's not. Benvolio gets in Ada's face, she continues to talk, and then shoves her back. Maverick shows up and sees this, he begins to gang up on Benvolio and taunt him the same way Ben taunts Cedric, telling him to "cry and let it all out". Benvolio is on the verge of tears, Finley shows up and tries to break everything up. Ben headbuts Maverick who overreacts in response for sympathy points. Benvolio goes and storms off afterwards. Finch and Seungmin arrive in the commons and try to reassure Max after Benvolio insulted him. Maverick and Ada are both frustrated, they notice that Cedric isn't in the commons like he was just a minute ago, they go to look for him.
=== The Night ===
At the path in front of the school, Benvolio begins a ritual that will allow him to return home. Elijah, who followed him outside, sits nearby in the grass, talking with him casually. Ben burns the ground in the designated area the ritual is happening in. Headmistress Waterford suddenly arrives, and is not pleased with Benvolio's uncertified use of portal magic. She asks for the forms stating he may leave, he hands them over. Waterford scolds him for performing and unsupervised ritual, she tells him that all the time he spends away will be counted as a suspension on his record. Waterford also gives Elijah for simply being there. Benvolio offers Waterford a possible "donation" to prevent the punishment she described, she accepts and says that she will be in contact with his parents before she lets him leave. Benvolio disappears into the night and Elijah goes to the greenhouses to hang with Nerva for the rest of the night.
At the cemetery, Cedric contacts his demon and rewrites the rules of the contract. Cedric, who wishes just to be happy, exchanges the control of his body during all days of the month to the demon and gives him the ability to lurk in his mind for the possibility of happiness. Maverick and Ada arrive just after the ritual is complete and Cedric acts like he doesn't know what happened. Cedric says he planned to just get rid of his contract with the demon. The two of them are suspicious as the ritual is set up right behind him. Max, Finley, and Jack all arrive on the scene and begin to question what happened. Headmistress Waterford arrives and waves Max, Finley, and Jack off. She takes Cedric, Maverick, and Ada all back to her office and gets testimony from all of them before deciding to give Cedric fifty detentions and force him to spend time with Clericus to get his ritual license. 
Cedric heads back to his dorm and Ada and Maverick go to comfort him there. We learn that Max and Finley and temporarily rooming with Cedric after Benvolio kicked them out. Ada, Mav, and Cedric talk and they decide that Ada can watch over Cedric while he's possessed during the full moon. 
==Trivia==
* Host 21 is the first host Pharoah TetzcaCoatl appeared in.
*Host 21 is Neko's first host.
*Host 21 is Jess's first host.
==Gallery==
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2020-03-08_21.00.14.png|Cedric and Benvolio's fight.
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Category:Act 3
Category:Season 1
Category:The Chronicles of Lefebvre