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"Ah, my dear esteemed benefactor...My proud, beautiful flower of evil. You are truly the fairest one of all. O magic mirror, thy wisdom I entreat...Reveal unto me the visage I seek..."
A unknown voice rings in her mind.
"You, whose image the Dark mirror did beckon forth...If your heart bids it, take the hand of the one reflected in the mirror."
A unknown hand appears if front of her. She unwillingly reaches out to hold it.
"As flame reduces even the stars to ash. As ice seals away even time itself. As great tree swallow even the sky. Fear not the power of darkness. Now-demonstrate your power.
A bright light flashes in front of her as she covers her eyes. Once the light is gone she opened her eyes blinking at her state of exhaust.
" Mmnngg. Gezz, what a dream that was. What was voice just now? Was it really just in my head?"
Before she could react she felt something hard in front of her and both sides of her arms.
"OWW! What the heck?!" she movers her arms to get a feel of her surroundings. "Hey...what is this? Where am I?"
Yukiko tries to remember about her as she recalls the moment she was heading to some place but a strange carriage showed up.
" I recall someone taking me, but I don't know why."
She then hears noises that resembles small footsteps.
"Hey, is someone outside right now? Do they know I'm in here? What should I do?"
Before she had time to think of her options, a scratchy voice came out.
"Okay, the coast is clear. Now to get my paws on a robe."
As the voice stopped talking Yukiko thought in her mind.
"Did that person said 'paws', perhaps it was just a figure of speech for them."
The voice then say...
" Mya-ha! Maybe I can do it swiftly by having it taste my fire!"
Yukiko sweet dropped."Uhh...did that person said he's going to set something on fire?"
Next thing she notices her surrounding are being covered with blue flames.
"AHHH!!! WHAT IS THIS?! GET ME OUTTA HERE!!!" she panicked and she manged to escape her prison and fell to the solid ground.
Yukiko winches in pain as soon she opens her eyes, she notices the area she's at the moment.
"What in the world?! A strange room? Floating coffins? Wait, was I in one just now?"
Before she asks more questions, that same voice caught her attention.
"Huh?! What are doing up?! You were supposed to be sleeping!"
In her mind she wants get a grip on her situation, but her fears got the better of her.
"AAAHHH! A TALKING CAT!"
"Who are you calling a cat?! I am Grim, the upcoming powerful mage and I'm here to take your robes!"
"My what?" As Yukiko looks at herself she is shocked at the outfit she is currently wearing. She checked the pockets but she didn't have anything on her except for the pink-colored pendant she had when she was an infant. "How did I get in theses?"
"Doesn't matter!" Grim says angrily as he approached her in small steps. " Now hand over them right now or you gonna become barbecue!"
Yukiko's emotion is only present fear as she look for an exit until she spots a door and tries to distract the talking cat.
"Hey someone is coming this way!" She point to and empty space in the room.
Grim gets scared "Nnah! Where?!"
Yukiko gets up and ran past him towards the doors. "Seeya!"
"Why you...how dare you trick me!!!" Grim yells as he begins to blast his fire ball out of his mouth.
The whole chase was Yukiko trying to escape the monster coming after her while dodging the flames. She knew she was average in athletes but Grim was not better at him aiming. Yukiko was able to enter a room to hide from Grim. As soon as she managed to regain her breath she sees a few books floating in the air. She sit down as she took a few deep breaths.
"Just relax, deep breath... okay I've recently arrived at a place where a monster is trying to burn me alive, I'm wearing a strange outfit without my phone and wallet, and I..." something in her mind hit her as she tries to remember her past life, she realizes most things about herself is missing. She knows her name is Yukiko, her hobbies are playing instruments(mainly the violin) and playing with animals, she know how to clean and cook, she has a multitude of favorite foods but also doesn't eat food with tomatoes, olives, pickles and any condiments. Her birthday is on September 14th. Other than that, she doesn't recall anything else. Nothing about her family or where she came from. "Did I grew up alone, or was someone taking care of me? Cause if either one is the case then why do I have this?" She takes another look at her pendant, the one that she knew she had with since her birth. She doesn't recall who told her, but this pendant is said to protect its wearer from corruptions. At least that was she was told before.
But before she could start moving again, blue flames had blasted the door open causing Yukiko to fall back.
"Haha I found ya! Didn't think you can escape me!"
As soon as Grim is about to blast her with fire again, a rope is wrapped around his body.
"Myha!! What is this?"
The moment Grim got caught, a strange man with black fashionable clothes with a bird mask and a top hat appears. "Consider it tough love". He then looks a Yukiko who gets herself up from the floor. "Ah I found you at last dear student."
Yukiko thought 'Student? Is the guy reffing me?'
The man gets peeved. "Now you listen here young man! Just because you've got yourself out earlier than the others and summoned your familiar doesn't mean you have any privilege to do as you please!"
Both Yukiko and Grim were confused,"Huh?"
Grim yells, "What are you talking about I'm no one's master! Now let me go or I will burn your cape off!"
The man exclaimed, "Geez I heard familiars can be rebellious when they were summoned but this is extreme. As for you young man I hope you understand that if you want to attend this academy you must follow the rules to a T."
Yukiko asks " Uh excuse me sir but, who are you?"
The man excuses himself. "Oh, I should introduce myself. My name is Dire Crowley, the headmage of Night Raven College!"
Yukiko is flabbergasted of what she just hear. "I'm sorry, but did you say Night Raven College?"
Crowley seemed confused at the question " Why yes, this is a prestigious school with young mages such as yourself are gathers by the carriage and tone selected as a proud student of this school. Surely you're heard about this before coming here didn't you?"
Yukiko couldn't come up with an answer since she had no idea of where she came from so she responded with an 'I don't know shrug'.
Crowley thinks, "Hmm, perhaps you couldn't recall everything since you've got out off you coffin when you arrived. It could be a guess, but what can we do?"
Yukiko glares at him for a moment and thinks Crowley is the type of man who acts all non-slant about other and cares about himself.
"Well here we are." Crowley said as the three arrived at the door. "This here is the Mirror Chamber, here you will be selected to a dorm the mirror decides for you. From there on you will be surrounded by your fellow students and learn everything you can bout the proper use of magic."
"So there really is magic here?" Yukiko asked
Crowley laughs" Why obviously otherwise we wouldn't be a magic school! Now come along now the guys will be waiting for you by now!"
Just when Crowley places his hand on the door handle Yukiko had a look of dread on her face. "Wait, did you just said 'guys' as in plural?"
Crowley explained "Why of course, this is an all-boys school since the very beginning."
In the back of Yukiko's mind she has the face of displeasure as she realizes that not only she woken up.to a world with magic, but also entered an all-boys school.