Chapter 88: Invitation

We were in the water on the leviathan giant's back traveling to an Artia port

"I will help take you back to the surface" the leviathan said "It is as an apology from me, I never meant for a god to reveal himself to protect a human, I only wanted to test you"

"That's fine, I got a lot out of this"

I then turned to Jake

"Say you're not going to treat me any different are you?"

"No, I've been told by Nova himself to treat you the same, so I must follow his orders, to receive blessings from him, you must be very special" he chuckled

"Are you sure you're not hiding anything else from us?" Professor Emma raised an eyebrow

"Positive"

"So you are hiding something! You never answer with 'positive' before" she pointed out

"Is this the so called women's intuition or something?"

"That is what they called it, yes" Jake nodded

"Hey Leviathan! When we get to the surface, can you roar and scare people?"

"That does sound like fun" the leviathan replied

"Don't do that! What if someone has a heart disease and die because of you" Professor Emma argued

We ignored her argument, the leviathan rise from the waters at the port, roaring and scaring everyone till they wet their pants.

We then hopped off the leviathan.

"A moment before you go child" the leviathan said as she lowers her head. My hand then got this burning sensation, I looked on it and it was similar to a bond symbol but it was light blue in color

"What is this?"

"If you were to inject your mana directly into it, I would come to your help, this is the least I can do since you return my egg to me" She said

"I've never seen this before" Professor Emma observed

"Not many beasts can learn it" the leviathan explains "Its most commonly used by us rare beasts like dragons or phoenixes, sometimes we do not want to form a bond so we do this, it's called a nexus, you not knowing it isn't rare. Farewell, I wish you safe travels"

The leviathan then went back into the water, I gave a warp crystal to Jake who crushed it and entered it to go back to Gloria, I then warped us to the academy.

"See you in class tomorrow Perseus" Professor Emma waved goodbye as she head off "Don't pull off stupid stunts while I'm gone"

I warped to my dorm room and stayed there before I heard a knock on the door, Damon opened in, and Eleanor walked straight in, followed by Lucas, Cecily, Albert and Aenon.

"Why didn't you tell us that you arrive?" Eleanor crossed her arms

"Cuz I didn't need to? I can just meet you guys in class tomorrow"

"Wow, you are such a great friend" she rolled her eyes, she then picked up a tiger cub "Here say hi to Rosie Magus, my bond, isn't he adorable?"

"Uh hi, I guess, so you got a bond while I was away, nice!"

"I got mine too" Lucas said as he pointed to a raven on his shoulder "Jet Stoll"

"Both of yours are in the first stage of bond right?"

They both nodded

"So explain again, why are you guys here?"

"We were wondering who's going to be your partner for the ball?" Albert replied

"What ball?"

They then explained to me what it is and when it's taking place

"I would ask Eliza, but she doesn't like fancy things like this"

-And you also got friendzoned- Ace chuckled

-Don't remind him- Diana scolded

"Who are you guys bringing?"

"My parents already arrange a person to accompany me" Lucas said "I didn't even have a choice, but hey at least she's cute"

"I'm going with Cecily" Albert said as Cecily started to blush

"Our parents tried to arrange our partners, so we decided to go together instead" Cecily added quickly

"My father tried the same thing" Eleanor shrugged "But I can just ask Balor to accompany me, unless you want me to go with you instead"

"You can ask Cordelia, I'm sure she'd be happy to go, she already gave you her contacts" Damon suggested

"Who's that?" Eleanor asked quickly "Did you already find a girlfriend in the few days you were gone?"

"Let's not be pushy here, she's not my girlfriend, but I don't think I wanna go, what's the point anyway? Like is there someone there that I should be impressing?"

"Well there's the many noble household that are invited, the royal knights, the royal family, adventurer guild and the military" Eleanor answered

"I'll think about it, but from your answers, it seems that I was right, no good people to impress"

They the tried convincing me that I should go even I have to go with any partner. They then left my room.

"Just the word military alone, leave my mouth with distaste, tch. I hoped that showing off would both impress and scare them away from me, but nope."

-Do you miss them?- Dabria asked

-Why wouldn't I miss those bastards? They're the reason I keep goofing off, I can't let them look down at me crying about them-

"It's fine to not go" Damon said "We can come up with many excuses"

"Yeah I know, sorry I bummed everyone out"

-No need to apologize, with us, you can show your weak sides whenever you want, we'll be here and comfort you- Diana rubbing her head against my face

*****

The next day after school, I saw a letter in my room from Urie.

'If you still want to be turned, come to this location during your school's ball' the letter said

"It's about time"