Meeting

Next morning, Damien wakes up nice and early, and makes his way to school.

He meets up with Emmy and the others. 

"Good morning." Damien gives Emmy a kiss and waves to the others.

"Good morning, Damien." The girls reply as they walk through the halls together.

"What are you planning to do today after school?" Damien asks the girls.

"Well, I really don't have anything, I want to catch up on some class work, since, you know, it's been quite crazy recently. I've been slacking." Lauren replies as she runs her hand through her hair. 

"Hm, I'll probably do the same too." Jessica says.

"Same here. Are you still going to visit Ariel today?" Emmy asks.

"Yeah, I am." Damien says with a slight nod. 

Out of the corner of Damien eye he sees Randell gesturing toward him.

"Sorry girls, I gotta go see Randell." Damien says as he starts walking toward Randell.

"Who's Randell?" Lauren asks.

Jessica was shocked to see that Lauren had no idea who Randell was. "He's literally one of the top 5 students at the academy, they say he's an unmatched genius of our generation. He also the son of the headmaster too." 

"Damn- what's does he wants with Damien then?" Lauren asks with a slight amazed tone.

"Dunno." Jessica answers as she grabs Emmy and Laurens hands, "but we gotta go!" And pulls them away to class. 

Damien approaches Randell. 

"Hey bud!" Randell says as he stretches out his hand indicating he wants to dab up with Damien. 

Damien dabs Randell

"Hey, what's going on? This is a first." Damien says with a curious tone.

"Well, my pops want to meet you." Randell says gesturing down the hall.

"You're pops? Who's that?" Damien says looking at Randell with a suspicious look.

"I knew I liked you! He's the headmaster." Randell says as he starts leading Damien down the hall toward the headmaster's office.

Damien was surprised by this revelation, but he just shrugged it off after a few seconds. "Cool. Why does he want to see me you know?" 

"Well, probably has to do with recent events. You'll also be meeting several of the elders of the academy as well." 

Damien's eye twitches as Randell says recent events, "What do you mean recent events? And elders?"

Randell laughs, "Man, you got a lot of questions. You know with Tyler and shit. And just think of the Elders as chair people that help drive the academy in certain directions. They help keep it in order and help my old man run this massive machine." 

Damien just nods as they step in front of the headmaster's door. There is a majestic design of a lion on the door, the wood is a dark brown with a gloss coating. Making it shine as the light reflects off it. The handles are golden and seem heavy. As Randell opens the door the atmosphere shifts. Damien feels an oppressive aura emitting from inside, as he steps in front of Randel and enters, he receives all eyes on him. 

"Welcome Damien." A loud but clear voice can be heard from the back end of the room. Sitting in a big chair behind a massive desk is a man looking no older than 50. He seems well-built and fit, kind of putting it to shame so of the students here for how well he looks. 

"Greetings." Damien says as he takes a few steps forward, but every step Damien takes the pressure on his body keeps increasing. Damien looks around the room and sees a few of the elders releasing some of their magical powers to oppress him. Damien retaliates, his eyes start glowing blue and the pressure lessens on his body and the room shifts into a battle of dominating auras.

Damien starts approaching the sit that's been placed in front of the headmaster's desk. As he gets closer, he starts noticing a smile on the headmaster's face, as if he's proud to see Damien fighting back. 

"Alright, that's enough." With just those few words coming out of the headmaster the pressure on Damien dissipates. "Come, take a seat, Damien." The headmaster points to the seat in front of the desk. 

Damien nods "Alright." 

Damien sits down. "Why'd you want to bring me here?"

"You already know. As my son likes to talk." The headmaster gestures to Randell to leave the room and close the door.

"Well, then, since that's out of the way. What did you want to know?" Damien says as he leans forward in his seat.

"We will get to that in time, boy." one of the elders said. 

Damien turns his attention toward the elder, he looks old like he is in his high sixties, with a long white beard, and no hair on top of his head. He is quite skinny as well. You can see he looks frail, but the power emitted from his body is nothing to scuff at. If he wanted to, he could destroy Damien easily. 

"I ain't no boy, sir. My name's Damien." He says with an incisive tone of authority. 

Everyone gasps as Damien establishes himself in the presences of the elders and Headmaster. 

A few seconds of silence falls as a burst of laughter can be heard from the headmaster. "HA! God your just what I expected! You do not disappoint. Your Uncle was right." The headmaster smiles at Damien. But Damien just looks at the headmaster flabbergasted. 

"Wh-what?" Damien eventually squeezes the words out of his throat.

"No need to be surprised. But that's for another time, I summoned you here today to see what your person was like, and to see what reasons you had to take out Tyler." The headmaster says leaning back in his chair.

"Wait, wait, wait, you-" Damien shakes his head. "Alright, it doesn't seem like I'll get my answers for now." Damien sighs.

"Good, now what reasons did you kill Tyler?" The headmaster asks.

"He hurt, drugged, raped, and almost killed some of my friends here, and almost killed me twice. Once I seen him standing over my friend ready to rape her, all I could see was red and the next thing I knew he was falling to his death. The vibrations from my hands as my fist crushed his body and the pounding of my heart being heard in my ears was drowning out everything." 

The headmaster nods, and barely audible whispers can be heard being exchanged from the elders.

"Well, I guess that settles that then. But there's a few issues here." The headmaster gestures toward one of the elders.

"You killed my grandson." He stands up, the man looks to be in his mid-sixties, with a full head of hair and a small beard. He is well built, seems to be quite fit. Looks like an old man version of Tyler. 

Damien turns toward the old man, "Well, sir, if it's any consolation toward your loss, I only meant to beat him to near death." 

You can hear the headmaster stiff his laughter. 

The old man starts turning red. "You took out my successor of my family! How will you repay me?!"

"If that was your successor then I helped your family out by taking the trash away. And repay you? I think you owe my friends and I some compensation for what YOUR grandson did." Damien eyes start radiating a blue hue. "One of my friends is still in the hospital because of what he fucking did. His gang of fuckheads are still out there! Kidnapping and selling human beings! AND YOU DARE FUCKING TELL ME I OWE YOU COMPENSATION!! Don't make me fucking laugh." Damien waves his hand at the man gesturing Damien is done talking to him.

The old man releases his aura toward Damien, but before anything escalates any further a loud slam can be heard by the headmaster "That's Enough. Your excused Elder." The headmaster stares the elder down as he slowly recalls his power back and exits the room. 

The headmaster fixes his desk, "You got balls kid." 

"I can't have people push me around here anymore. Not when everyone such a dick here." Damien says.

The room fills with laughter.

"Well, Good! Just want I wanted too here. Damien, I want you to join the Dragons Duel." The headmaster says staring at Damien.