Lance Orion

by bethgilbert\_art

**Lance Orion** is the son of Azriel and Stella Orion. He is the younger brother of Clara Orion, and the Guardian for Darius Acrux. Lance was an aspiring pitball player, a former teacher of Cardinal Magic at Zodiac Academy, and currently holds the position of Master of the Zodiac Guild.

## History

### Early Life

Lance had a happy early childhood, and spent a lot of time with his father and Clara. At a young age, he began learning Dark Magic. He spent a lot of time with his father collecting bones of dead fae so that they could practice Dark Magic.

Lance attended Zodiac Academy, and graduated five years before the events in *The Awakening.* While at Zodiac Academy, students from Aurora Academy visited, and Lance met Gabriel Nox for the first time and they quickly became friends. During his time at Zodiac Academy, he was a great student, getting As in all his finals, and he was the star of the pitball team, playing Air sentry. He had plans of joining the Solarian Pitball League after his graduation.

### Origins of an Academy Bully

About a week before his Solarian Pitball League tryouts, he notices something off about Clara, so he and Darius Acrux follow her. They discover that Darius’s father Lionel Acrux, and Lance’s mother Stella plan to use Clara to bridge the gap between Solaria and the Shadow Realm. Lance is forced to become Darius’ Guardian, and they are forced to watch the ritual. The ritual fails and Clara is lost when she becomes consumed by the shadows.

Lance misses the Solarian Pitball League tryouts while mourning for Clara, and he realizes that as Darius’ Guardian he can never pursue that dream anyways. He is offered and accepts a teaching job at Zodiac Academy.

#### The Awakening

At the end of the school year, Lance is assigned to find the Vegas twins in the Mortal Realm by Lionel Acrux. He spends three months searching for them and finally finds them in the day of The Awakening. Running short on time, he is unable to explain their family history, Solaria, and Zodiac Academy. When the twins prove uncooperative, he uses Coercion to get them to come with him.

Most nights at the Academy, Lance spends some time with Darius partially to help him and partially to satisfy the needs of their Guardian bond. Some nights they follow tips from one of his friends, Francesca, to go hunt Nymphs. Other nights he teaches Darius Dark Magic so he can get an edge on his father.

On the first day of teaching the first years Cardinal Magic, he notes that he, inexplicably, can not keep Darcy Vega out of his head and wonders what her blood tasted like. He writes off the intrusive thoughts of her Order emerging as a Siren. During the lesson, Principal Nova comes in to assign Tory and Darcy Lessons to help them catch up. Lance is assigned to be Darcy’s Liaison. At their first lesson, Darcy comes in caked in mud and looking like a swamp monster. He helps clean her off, and she expresses her gratitude. He tells her he doesn't want her gratitude and instead drinks her blood. He describes her blood as the sweetest, most appetising blood he had ever tasted. Afterwards, he spends some time reading her palm and sees a complete power line, the Girdle of Venus, and Ring of Solomon which interprets to her being a powerful, but compassionate, kind-hearted, and self-sacrificing person. He also signs her and her sister up for Order Enhancement with all Orders so that they can try to figure out what Order they are.

On the second day of class, Lance calls Tory aside so he can read her palm, and saw a complete power line, like her sister, and the Mount of Jupiter that was cut by some small lines. He interprets it and finds that she too is a powerful Fae, and she is confident, ambitious, but hindered by a deep-rooted fear. After reading her, he impulsively decides to try Tory’s blood, and Kylie Major records it and posts the video to Faebook. Caleb Altair runs into the room and attacks Lance for drinking from his Source. They fight for a while until they come to an agreement that Lance can take Darcy as his Source.

On the first Friday, Gabriel visited Lance in the evening to warn him that he is having some dark visions. Later in the evening, he heads into Tucana to meets Francesca for drinks at Andromeda Place. While Francesca tries to talk to him about their relationship and getting more serious, Lance is completely distracted by Darcy who has shown up to the bar with Tory, Sofia, and Diego. When he finally draws his attention back to the conversation, he just asks Francesca for more information on Nymphs. While waiting to order drinks, Darcy overhears a snippet of their conversation and thinks that he wants to kill here and her sister. Lance and Francesca promptly leave, and he textes Darius that they are in town. A short while later, Darius tells him that he just ran into the twins who were running from something, Darius suspectes it to be a Nymph, so Lance and Francesca go to meet him. They then hear a scream and Lance runs towards it, finding Geraldine Grus being attacked by a Nymph. He attacks and kills the Nymph, then begins healing Geraldine and calls for help.

Right before the first school dance, Gabriel visits him to try to intervene and curb his drinking habits and tells him that if he doesn’t start getting a hold in his life and following his instincts he will miss out on his best possible fate. He also warns Lance about the Heirs and tells him to be away from them and the Vegas for a little bit.

At the dance, Lance spends most of the time watching Darcy and Seth. When Darcy steppes outside, he follows her and warns her about Seth. After warning her, he steppes away for a bit as Gabriel instructed. He steppes back outside and feels a sense of dread. Outside, he finds Darcy crying with her hair hacked off. He comforts her until they hear Tory’s scream. He runs with Darcy to the Lunar Lesser building and finds Darius and Max holding Tory in the water under a layer of ice. He jumps in and to grab Tory. As he pulls her out, she is already unconscious. He checks her pulse but can't hear her heartbeat. He is able to bring the water out of her lungs using his Elements and then heals her. Livid, he tells Darius that he is disappointed that he acted just like his father would have. He gives the Heirs two weeks of detention, unable to punish them more because of their status. He turns back to Tory and continues healing her, even though he, like the Heirs, don’t want the twins to take the throne. As they are about to leave the building, a student screams and he runs outside to find a charred body. Before he even has time to process the scene, Gabriel comes flying to him and tells him to go stop Darius from fighting his father because if Darius goes, Lance will die. Darius wants to go to stop his brother, Xavier, from being beaten, to take out the anger and frustration from the events of the night, and distract himself from the look in Tory’s eyes. Darius insists on going, but Lance is able to stop him when he tells Darius that going to fight Lionel will result in Lance’s death.

#### Ruthless Fae

During the assembly for Astrum’s death Orion goes to his office only to find the door broken and inside there is Darcy holding his bag of stardust. She tosses some stardust in the air in an effort to escape but because of his vampire skills he is able to reach her before she transports, so he transports with her. They appear on top of Aer tower where Darcy lands on her back with Orion on top of her. He goes to grab the bag of stardust but she throws him off the tower using her air magic. Thankfully he possesses air magic as well so he manages to fly back to the roof. Darcy tried to run away from him but he manages to trap her against the wall using a powerful blast of air and takes the stardust.

After the assembly is over he sends Darcy a message with information about how to grow her hair back. The message appeares to have been sent by someone named Lance and that was when Darcy learns his first name.

A few days later Orion saves Darcy from Seth and his pack by dragging her in a dark hallway so they couldn't find her. They have an intense moment and then she tries to leave and go back to her room but Orion won't let her go because they have a liaison session even though he is late. He ends up throwing her over his shoulder and carrying her to his office where they finish their lesson.

Later that week he assists the F.I.B. agents to conduct a search of every student’s room as part of their investigation into Professor Astrum’s murder and the fire in Darius Acrux's room.

Because the F.I.B. declare that Professor Astrum is killed by a Nymph, he is assigned to look after the princesses and he saves Darcy when she's attacked after her Astrology Class in the Earth Observatory.

When he attends a gala hosted by Lionel Acrux along with the twins and the the Heirs, he ends up alone with Darcy in the Acrux pool room where he drags her to the bottom of the pool and kisses her. During the gala he also overhears his mother talk with Lionel about their plan of retrying the ritual that caused his sister's death.

During a Pitball game, Nymphs attack Zodiac Academy. Orion rides Darius in his shifted form in the middle of the battle. He is overpowered by a Nymph and is almost killed but Darcy saves him using a powerful blue flame that incinerates the Nymph. Afterwards they team up and Orion helps Darcy channel her powers and defeat the Nymphs.

## Appearence

In his normal form Lance is tall with dark eyes, brown hair and a carefully styled beard. He has a single dimple on his cheek.

6´7ft tall

In his Vampire form he looks the same but has two fangs.

## Personality

Lance is known to be fiercely protective of the people he loves and will do anything to protect them. Lance is very strict in class and does not like to be disrespected in any way from his student. He has no problem with giving out punishment in class and this can often result in that people think he is cold. But then he is around the people he cares about and love he shows a other side of him that is sarcastic and caring.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Clara Orion

Clara is Lance's older sister. Growing up they were very close and they where always on the same side regarding their family’s relationship with the Acruxs. She was the only family member who he really loved and he was willing do anything to save her from herself.

In Origins of an Academy Bully he instantly notices when something is off with her behavior and he does everything in his power to help her but he’s not able to save her. After she disappears he’s so heartbroken that he misses his tryouts for the Solarian Pitball League thus giving up on his dreams.

#### Stella Orion

Stella is Lance's mother. Their relationship is very strained because of her involvement with Lionel Acrux and the disappearance of his sister .

#### Azriel Orion

Lance loved his father very much and he was very close to him as a child.

### Romantic

#### Darcy Vega

Lance meets Darcy when he is sent to earth to retrieve the lost Vega Twins.Then she becomes a student in his Cardinal Magic class in her first year at Zodiac Academy. They both are attracted to each other but fake it since teachers are not allowed to have any relationships with students.

#### Francesca Sky

Lance and Francesca met in Zodiac Academy. They became great friends and later Nebula Allies and she helps him and Darius Acrux hunt Nymphs by giving them information of their whereabouts. Francesca wanted to be involved with Lance but he never returned those feelings.

### Friends

#### Darius Acrux

Lance has known Darius since they were young due to his family with the Acruxs’ and even though he is six years older than him they are very close .

In Origins of an Academy Bully, Lionel forces them to make the Guardian Bond. After that, Lance was is able to feel Darius’ emotions and his physical pain. They can't stand to be away from each other which was why Lance had to give up his very promising career and Pitball and take a job as a teacher so he could be close to Darius.

#### Gabriel Nox

He meets Gabriel during his last year in Zodiac Academy when the Aurora Academy Pitball team visited Zodiac Academy for a match. They are Nebula Allies and best friends.

## Motivational quotes by Professor Orion

"YOU DO NOT HAVE A PLACE AT ZODIAC ACADEMY"

"YOU ARE NOT UNIQUE"

"YOU ARE NOT PURE"

"YOU ARE NOT FRIENDS"

"YOU ARE ALL BOTTOM-FEEDING LOSERS"

"YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF HORNY TEENAGERS"

"YOU ALL PASSED THE RECKONING. THE STARS MUST BE FUCKING WITH ME"

## Quotes

"In Solaria, blue means royal. And to me, blue means you."

“I love you, Blue. I loved you then, I love you now, I’ll love you tomorrow even if I’m no longer on this earth. No time exists where I won’t love you.”

“Fae fight for their place in the world, Blue. They don't ever bow out of a fight. If the Heirs have beaten you, then you're not one of us. And you never were.” (Chapter 4, Ruthless Fae)

"There is no story I would choose to live in but ours."

"I want to see you rise. To be the most powerful Heir of them all and crush your father beneath your heel.” - to Darius (Origins of an Academy Bully)