​"Everything that I am is a gift as well as a curse."

Rumors about an infamous Mage-sprout - Azalea "The Bewitched"- had been circling around the Hunter's Council. Such rumors tend to attract the attention of various organizations. It's easy to tell with the uncanny similarities the men enquiring often possess. These malicious gossips had produced troublesome situations for Azalea's demon hunting job. Most hunters are afraid to team-up with her and some people are reluctant to make a hunting request with her involved.

During her solo hunt in Dimatagpuan Region, four students from the renowned school, AB Academy, appeared before her with an odd offer. This academy's Headmaster had grown a sudden interest in her skills as a Mage and he wants her to enroll as one of his scholars. It is the most unexpected offer which might as well bring the greatest change in her current lifestyle. Is she prepared to leave behind her normal daily life of hunting and fighting, to turn it around into an unusual daily life of socializing and schooling? How will she respond to her new environment as she learns more about who she really is?

Defiant

Eighteenth day of Sapta’xahr, 4044 AOT 


Eldoon New City, Nalkad Island, AB Academy grounds 


A boisterous noise blows everyone’s senses awake. They all start to search for the source of the noise. The students that are resting in their dorm rooms run quickly to their windows to see the source of the disturbing noise that they are hearing. They look up the sky to find something that is not supposed to be there. A light air craft tours through the aerial territory of AB Academy. They have their eyes wide open as they gawk at the plane flying lowly around Nalkad Island. Observing its size, it probably only have four people riding at most. After flying around the island once, three people with parachutes drop at the center of the academy’s premises. While the three people in parachutes are slowly descending towards the roof the school gymnasium, the plane that carried them starts spiraling down to the direction of the administration building. 


Counter 9: Rain of Calamity (part 1)