Rose's Academy for Mutants and Orphans Book 1

# Prologue

“We need… control,” Rose said, pacing the floor with Erik standing in the shadows.

“I know, there are too many of them, too many!” Erik spat, pounding his hands on the stone wall.

“We need to create… a sanctuary, remote. Somewhere he’ll never go, more descriptively, somewhere where he will die if he goes,” Rose replied grabbing a pen and notepad. She jotted some notes down,

“Rose’s Academy for Mutants and Orphans, we’ll be able to keep them there, keep them safe,” she offered.

“Excellent, truly excellent,” Erik said.

“Okay then, we break out and start building, we have to use the powers,” Rose said.

“No, I’m not doing that, I won’t do anything with my powers-” Erik began,

“Why!” Rose screamed.

“Except kill you,” he spat and held a knife to her neck.

“Erik, don’t do this!” Rose cried.

“Three, two, one!” he counted down.

He put the knife down, then a giant glowing orb was next to her neck.

# Chapter 1

Delta was going outside for a morning run when he heard the mail truck slowly rumble by his house. He checked the cluttered mailbox, loud music blaring in his headphones as he picked up a red-gold note.

“Hmm?” he mumbled as he began opening the letter, it had been pinned to the mailbox with a knife.

In a moon, you will have a choice. You either continue your sad, miserable life in hiding or follow your will and come with us. We know you’ve been hiding in the safety of your house or living in an alleyway, but now you have a chance.

Here you will learn to harness your powers, or even gain them, you have a once-in-a-lifetime choice, choose wisely and don’t be late

When you come, you need a pet, or we will provide one. You will be given a dorm, each one housing only one person. If you choose to come, just follow your will.

We regard all people the same, and it would be great if you came. Term starts in a moon. If you refuse, then burn this letter, throw the ashes into the Mariana Trench, and never speak of it again.

Principal Rose

Rose's Academy for Mutants and Orphans

“This… seems interesting,” he said, grinning as he picked up the knife. Little did Delta know, millions of people all over the world were getting the same note and knife and the next month, ‘following their will’.

## 1 MOON LATER

Delta gathered everything useful into a suitcase,

“Bye everyone see you later!” he said hastily as he exited the house.

“Are you sure you want to do this?” his mom asked.

“Pleeease stay!” his sister begged. He ignored them and sprinted out the door, his cat following him. He wandered through the entire city, muttering something about it being too hard to find. Soon enough, he went on a bus, and he felt an urge to go to Nevada.

“No animals!” the driver snapped. He had been practicing this moment for months ever since he found out he had magic, Nows the time, he thought to himself. He focused on the cat, then the roof of the bus, then it was on top.

“Just stay there, okay?” he whispered. It just let out an annoyed ‘meow’.

It took hours for the bus to slowly drive, the engine sputtering and coughing until the ground was enveloped in the moonlight. After the long ride ended, he walked for miles straight into the Nevada Triangle, a mythical place where there had been a report of a missing pilot… err, entire plane. After wandering around for hours he collapsed.

# Chapter 2

He heard strained voices, Could this be a student, maybe? Or a student, we need to take him back to Rose! Then, Load him into the truck with the others, they need medical care immediately, and Why did we have to choose the Nevada Triangle of all places? From what sounded like a younger employee. His cat had curled up around him, tired from digging its claws into the roof of the bus and following him for miles into the Nevada Triangle. He pets it slowly as they drive to the academy. After a quick ride, a gleaming building comes into view. It’s like one of those mind tricks in those shows when you are in the desert where you see some giant mansion but it’s fake, Delta thought to himself. Another kid sat up next to him.

“I’m Koro and this is Ikkuku, my sister,” he greets, pointing to a younger girl next to him.

“Orphan or mutant?” Delta asks.

“Both,” he replies.

“I’m sorry. I’m only a mutant,” he said.

Delta heard an annoying buzzing noise,

“What is that!” he snapped, sounding annoyed.

“Executioner wasps,” Koro says, “This is my snake,” he adds, holding up a small viper.

“You brought a venomous snake in here!” Delta shrieked.

“Don’t worry, he doesn’t bite unless I tell him, or if he’s provoked,” Koro soothed. Delta sighs as they pull up to the building, the snake slithers onto Koro’s lap.

“Wanna pet it?” Koro offered.

“S-sure?” Delta whispered, he slowly brought his hand down, shivering as it went down the smooth, scaly creature. It was a bit - calming.

He put the hood back over his face as we pulled up in front of the building, the dark, medieval-looking castle and lawn full of dried grass, and the dark murky lake looked like something straight out of a fantasy novel. They didn’t even realize that they had gone through a cryptic forest that could’ve been full of various dangerous creatures. Delta leaped out of the truck and Koro helped his sister down, the snake going back into his pouch along with a dagger.

“Where’d ya get the dagger?” Delta asked

“Made it in two ways, we’re here and I created this dagger,” Koro answered as the glittering black dagger cut through the air in front of him. He grinned and they walked into the academy. Then Koro sprinted straight into a combat class and ‘killed’ a ton of training dummies with his dagger like a sensible person, that’s what sensible people do, right? Later, he handed Delta a notebook and pen,

“Record whatever happens here in there,” he whispered.

# Chapter 3

Uhhhhh… hi? I’m Delta and Koro just gave me this notebook and a pen so I’m recording what’s happening. So, I’m in my dorm just drawing a dragon waiting for magic class to start so I can duel Koro. Well, who knew being a mutant was stupid because we don’t even get dragons, according to the other students, dragons never even existed! Except for the fact that Koro told me they keep the dragons in the South Tower.

“ALL STUDENTS REPORT TO COMBAT CLASS!” a voice rang out through the halls, echoing around the stone walls.

“Is that really how big this place is?” I murmured as Koro and he marveled at the labyrinth of a school.

“Yeah,” Koro replied as they sprinted to Combat Class.

“So, when are we going to explore the South Tower?” I asked curiously.

“We can’t, Rose uses magic to hide it from us, something must’ve happened there,” Koro said grimly as his wolf, Harbinger followed him to Combat class. I reached down and pet Harbinger,

“Where’s the snake?” I asked.

“The snake was Harbinger’s disguise, he uses light manipulation, he also has water manipulation,” Koro explained as they walked into the Combat Classroom. I stared intently at the dual scimitars on the wall, gleaming in the light of the room.

“Those are laced with Fer-de-lance venom, you need a LOT of training to use those,” Koro warned. I sighed and sat down, then the teacher handed two katanas to me.

“Cool!” my eyes sparkled as I held the wicked-sharp swords in my hands. Harbinger wrestled with a fox on the other side of the room as Koro and Ikkaku dueled, her holding the scimitars and Koro holding his dagger.

“No fair, how come she gets the scimitars, I’m older!” I complained as they heard a Ching! Of metal clashing against metal and felt the heat of sparks flying as various students dueled. I grabbed the katanas and started dueling with another student, knocking the weapons out of his hands and blasting him against the wall with heat manipulation. I grinned and high-fived Koro,

“Wanna duel?” Koro asked, looking at the katanas as if scanning them.

“Sure, why not,” I said as we walked into the sandy arena. I held up my katanas as Koro held up his dagger. I silently counted down under my breath, then brought down both of the katanas on Koro’s head. He turned around and smashed his dagger into the grooves of the katanas.

“I may be blind, but in a way, I’m the least blind of you all!” he said as he spun around, knocking me out of the way. He then brought the handle of his dagger down on my head and knocked me against the floor, I began to take all the heat from the sand and blast it into him, the air turned to smoke, then he grabbed water from the air and blasted it through everything, replacing the smoke with air.

“Combat class is over, please report to Blacksmithery class soon!” the teacher announced.

“Delta, please stay in here for a minute,” they said.

I moaned and sat down.

“You have potential, great potential to sum it up, and I think you’ve earned it,” she said, handing me a flaming longsword. My eyes lit up and I gladly took it,

“Thank you so much!”  I said hastily as I ran out of the room.

I'll try to add new chapters as soon as possible, chapter 4 isn't finished.