Chapter 3 Three

Ravenna pov

Looking out the window as the houses and shop blurred by ,I turned around and asked the woman

“How do you know me?" It was strange that someone I didn't know came to take me away telling me to trust her “And what do you mean by people like us? Who are you?"

The woman smiled and thought how was she to tell this child that her best friend who she hadn't seen in decades came to her dream begging her to save her child.

“Dear you are very important to me and certainly to other people let just say I had a dream about you"

" What do you mean by that, are you a prophetess or a seer like in the stories?” I was confused at the words she was saying.

The woman laughed, " I am much more than that, have you ever heard of elves?”

Nodding as I answered"I have only seen it in stories” .

"They are real and I am one of them,” the woman answered, shifting her hair to one side and her pointed ears came into view. " And you can call me Charisma though no one calls me by my name anymore. The headmistress will be fine too.”

I was too shocked to even understand what was going on, an elf? Clearly she was joking.

“Then where are we going?" I asked her

" We are going to Blakehurst academy a school that have been around for three hundred years now people like you and me and many more could live peacefully and keeping the balance in the two world, though some enemies do have the pleasure of trying to destroy the peace we fought hard for"

Mrs Charisma explained.

I was confused more by everything she was saying and none of it made sense. I was just an ordinary girl dropped off at an orphanage and had grown up in a foster home. What?I don't have any pointed ears like her.

“Do you know my parents?" I asked, clenching my hands on my lap.

She placed her hands on mine and sighed “Me and your parents go a long way back before everything was destroyed we all lived peacefully in our realm and some of us lived among the humans then but sadly human greeds grew wanting something that were never theirs and use the knowledge we had shared with them to turn against us,the rest of us that survived had to escape to our realm closing the passage between the two realm".

“Where are my parents? Why did they abandon me?.

She looked at me sadly and she couldn't bring herself to answer me the one thing I wanted to know.

Feeling the tears I had tried so hard to hold back all eighteen years streaming down my eyes, I wiped them with the back of my hands.

"Come here child" Mrs charisma said, pulling me in a hug.

I let the tears fall, all the times I had spent asking myself what did I do wrong”

"Shush dear they didn't abandon you, they died protecting what they loved, you were the most beautiful thing that came into their lives ".

I pushed myself off, cleaning my tears “ what am I?".

“Your mother was one of the most powerful witches and your father was the last lycan of his tribe, so you are a hybrid of two races that's why they had to send you away from the people who were after your blood ,you do have your father's eyes and your mother's beauty and grace”.

I felt a warm feeling rise in my chest when she said that.

She looked away "And I will live to regret that I couldn't save my best friends”

I looked out the window as the silence deepened, then the car turned to an empty road. A circle appeared on the road. I stared at it in awe as our car passed through it.

Then we arrived at a big black gate with the head plate WELCOME TO BLAKEHURST ACADEMY and two statues standing side by side one was looked like a wolf and the other looked like a tiger,

"That's a leopard” miss charisma said beside me “they are on second top on our kinds”

As we passed through the gates which opened by itself I was surprised that all the things I had seen in books existed, a boy was sitting at the fountain. He had pointed ears which looked like a cat and two girls were swimming in the pool on the other side then I saw their tails,mermaids. I gasp "wow"

As Mrs charisma walked to the building I followed her behind as we entered the school building I was more surprised the building didn't seem like the ones I was used it ,the design and everything was different as I followed her behind, the wall were filled with pictures, statue, I looked down feeling insecure at an unfamiliar place.

We kept on walking down the hallway before she stopped outside a door pushing it open.I followed her inside and she pointed at a chair for me to sit on.I sat down looking around the office.

Mrs charisma opened a locker pulling out some files and came over giving me a pamphlet.

“Here take this it will help you know your way to your assigned dormitory and someone will bring you your uniform”

As she was speaking someone opened the door to the office and a young boy walked inside .

“Ernesto, how many times must I tell you to knock, “ Mrs. Charisma said.

I felt his gaze on me and out of curiosity I looked up staring at his eyes which seems to be drawing me in, he had grey eyes you will think he was blind , I looked away I could feel my ears turning red

He was handsome, even handsome couldn't describe him like he looked like those men I had seen in Clara books when I sneaked a peek.

“ Have you heard from my father?" he asked.

Oh dear, even his voice was deep and brain melting.

“Ravenna dear you can now get going use the pamphlet as a guide I will summon you soon"

I nodded as I stood up and as I passed him I felt a shiver down my spine. I reach

ed the door and went outside, their voices fading as I closed the door behind me.