History is easier if you are part of it

Two days have passed and the students still give me looks when I passes. I don't know if it's because I spend time with the two dark faeries or because of my scene with Charm. I ignored them as usual. You got this Talia! You avoided everyone from the past two days. You just need to get by today, and it's weekend already.

Oh who am I kidding? I barely managed to avoid anyone. I entered the lecture hall. Maybe I should just sleep? No, no. The class is history, I wanted to learn this badly. The mentor started discussing but I noticed that Siche and Blaze are not here yet. Are they skipping classes? Not like I care. I should focus in the class now.

"How many ruler did we have in the Light realm so far?" Ms. Tora asked.

"2!" The class said in chorus. 2? So His Majesty, my Father is only the second? There was no ruler before?

"Yes. And their names are? Ms Natalia, can you tell us?" Ms. Tora looked at me. Why me? There's fifties of student here, why did she chose me?

Wait, if there's only two, then it must be my Father and Grandfather. I just hope I'm right. "Late King Shaun Nataniel Flare Sr., then His Majesty, Shaun Nataniel Flare Jr.?" I'm not quite sure of my answer. But I'm sure that's their names, it's pretty easy to memorize, Sr., Jr., is the only difference. And when my brother becomes king, you just need to alter it with III.

"Thank you, Ms. Natalia." Well that was easy. I guess studying history is easier if you are part of it. "And in the Dark realm?"

"3!" "2!" The class was torn between 2 and 3. This dark realm surely has issues, I laughed inside me.

"It is considered three, students." I can hear murmurs around. "The first one was Late King Illum Black Ashv Sr., followed by Late King Illum Black Ashv Jr. When their second king died, Late King Illum Jr.'s queen consort, took the throne since their first-born son had just got born." So that's their history. At least rulers of both realms have something in common, they just use Sr. and Jr. because their lazy to come up with names.

"Miss, is it true that no one has ever seen their crown prince except for the ones directly serving him?" One student asked. What? No one have seen him yet? Are their traditions different from us? Almost everyone have already seen my brother in our realm, but why their crown prince is in hiding?

"That's also what I heard, but don't easily trust rumors. It's best to believe it if it would be written here in our history books for assurance." Ms. Tora answered.

"They also said that no one knows his powers. Is it true that his power is so rare that they are hiding it?" A student asked.

"From what I heard, they're keeping it a secret because it's of no use." Charm told off the student who asked before her.

"No. They said they are preserving it so when enemies come, they would be so shock." The girl retorts back.

"Right. And their subjects don't even know his name. But they think he would also be using his grandfather's and father's name, and being the III." A student added.

"Ok students. I clearly told you to believe only what's written here on the book. We have more to discuss, focus on the lesson." The room came to a hush when Ms. Tora spoke again. "So let's go further back, when our realm is not yet torn into two." So there was a time like that. Ms. Tora goes blah blah blah. No one is even listening until she reached the ruler when the realm was torn. "Many faeries think that Late King Alumnus was the reason our realm is like this right now. Late King Shaun Sr., and Late King Illum Sr., was his loyal subjects before. Late King Alumnus was described as ambitious, greedy and cruel ruler. His wrongdoings led him to his end. Before he died, he put the two late kings incharge. Late King Illum Sr. wanted to uphold Late King Alumnus' ruling but Late King Shaun Sr. was against it. And that is when our realm started to drift into half." She was about to say something but the bell rang. It's already time, students are already heading for the door. Ms. Tora, not having a choice, took her leave also. I think that was enough knowledge for now.

I'm walking towards the door that leads outside but I saw the two dark faerie on the corner, focused with something. They seem concentrating in front of a stool. What is that? I was curious so I approached them.

"O-o-o-o-oooooowwww!" They are both gasping. What's with them? I think they noticed my presence, they looked at me, dropping all the expressions they had earlier. Now they're looking at me blankly. They surely are weird.

"What in the?" I looked at what they're doing. It was a stoolplay, it's a digital pad where you can play. And they're playing hoops? It's just shooting rings into a stick. "What are you? Kids? You were so concentrated like you were planning to murder someone. Is that why you are the talk of the school?" This kids are really weird.

"Hey you're older than us." Lumine exclaimed. Me? Older?

"How old are you two?"

"We're sixteen. We're one grade lower than you." What!?

"If I haven't saw you guys playing hoops, I wouldn't believe you." So they're one grade lower than me.

"Hey don't tell anyone you saw us." Lumine told me.

"And can you stay there for a minute or two until we finished this. You should tell us if someone's coming." I could hear the please in Zeno's words when he said that. I laughed audibly, these two kids are interesting.

"Don't you have one in your realm?" I asked them carefully, trying not to disturb them.

They just hummed in agreement. They don't have one? Poor boys.

"Got some fearful companies there, ain't you?" The two boys were shocked, and I was also. Blaze stood before us, his expression an abstract.