First Night Rats

Spoiler:

The chatter of feet echoed in his chambers. Night sky overcame the academy, as his first night stay in the city was tonight. The semester that he would be apart of hasn’t started yet, it was mid-summer when he came. Lukxiel, back crawled each time the feet danced along the stone walls around him, and his curiosity was about at its limits. Not even his itch for adventure made him feel this annoyed, and question just what could be bustling around in hallways after dark besides other students? Looking over turning on his right side, off in the distance of his chambers sat a clock tower. Tuning himself to the beat of the hands, and then his eyes to swing off the mandala, trying to sink himself back into sleep…

“Skreewww…. *pity patter*”

A few hours had gone and flew by in the hands of time. The screech from rodents croaked and travelled right down his spine. Jolting. Lukxiel’s covers fell to the ground, and he sprung from his bed like water had been through on him. Whisking his head left to right, and right to left he knew he wasn’t making it up anymore. In the darkness two ruby jewels broke through and stared at him. A confused look came over the child, but his sense and guard was on alert. The chattering noises slowly began to echo once more like earlier in the night. Standing up from his bed, he made his way slowly towards the red eyes that had been staring at him. His toes feeling the cold lifeless stone underneath him as he got closer to what started to appear to be the mirror across his room. Before he could turn around a large rat was on him, jumping from above in a rafter delivering a stinging bite on the boy's arm as he instinctively threw them up.

“ Ack.. this damn academy has rats!! ” Swinging his left hand down , swatting the rat on the floor , and stomping on its head just as quickly. His face turning sour seeing in his feet was now covered in blood, guts, and rat face. He rushed out from his dark room. “ Skreewww…!! “ Came from down the hall as soon as his door shut behind himself. Smacking his head, the boy moved down towards the noise. Other students seemed to be used to the rats, or simply not too bothered. Lukxiel, however, planned to sleep peacefully tonight. Blackish, red blood trailed behind him as a single footprint and came to a stop when he spotted the next three rats making all the noise. In the scene laid out before him, one trash can looked to be knocked over, and one of the rats seemed to have a long white curtain covering it. “ Nasty rats! You would think the walls didn’t allow for such large creatures to slip in. “ He barked out in annoyance. Opening his left palm turning to face the rats like he’s a pitcher; Shaping sunseer magic into an ornament sized ball, and throwing between the three rats. The small sized ball exploding his Sun’s Flare, releasing a D-tier blinding stun.

“SKSKAKAKEKERRRRRR… ” The rats screamed, as they ran in the opposite directions, or into each other as they cried out. These cries met the sound of plopping steps, his sweaty, clammy feet picking connecting to the stone cold floor. Waddling, or stomping side to side however one might’ve seen it, B-tier leg strength was rocking on the backs of the blinded rats no chance for them to attack, no chance for them to run, just a pigeon toed almost imuchakk boy. The hall wall would be painted in the large rats blood,  but Lukxiel yawned after picking up the bodies and shooting them into the knocked over trash can like a ball. “ Clean up in the hallway! ” He yelled, before running to the showers to wash himself off. His robes were slowly starting to smell from the blood, but with the noises gone and a fresh shower ahead he might just get some sleep now.

log: