Elemental Shining (Paranormal Public Series) by Edwards Maddy

Author:Edwards, Maddy [Edwards, Maddy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-12-06T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“Now, the teams for this semester,” said Zervos, rubbing his hands together with glee. I had a hard time not staring at him in disgust. We had been excited not to have a class with Zervos this semester, but now that Risper was gone we were stuck with him again. The other professors—Lambros, Korba, Jenkins, Dacer—were lined up behind him.

The deans were also there, and when my eyes landed on Oliva he gave me a nod of encouragement. I nodded back, wondering who my team would be.

“As was announced,” said Zervos, his voice crackling as much as the fire, “you will be spending a night with your Tactical team outside the protections of Public. This is a trial. We can no longer bury our heads in the sand and pretend that the demons aren’t coming after us. They are. Maybe if we got rid of the elemental it would be different, but unfortunately that is not yet an option. You must and will face what is coming to you. Or you will die.”

Keller’s hand tightened around mine and I saw Sip and Lisabelle both start forward. Zervos turned his malicious eyes on them, gleeful. Lough grabbed their elbows and held them back.

“Don’t make me get mean,” said Lough, seriously. Lisabelle was so taken aback her eyes widened in surprise.

“He’s right,” said Lisabelle to Sip. “Not the time or the place.”

Sip continued to fix her steely purple gaze on Zervos.

“Let us first review the rules of Tactical,” continued Zervos, unperturbed, “for those Starters who are unfamiliar with Tactical, for those of you who just couldn’t be bothered to pay attention the last time around, and for the many more of you with crappy short term memories. We split students into teams. Ideally, we have one student from each dorm on each team. This allows for students to work together and learn from each other. Of course, that can’t always be accomplished perfectly because of the different numbers of students in each dorm. It is my great disappointment to say that it’s an unfortunate truth that one team will get stuck with an uneven five instead of the usual four.”

Zervos took that opportunity to glare at me again, then he continued. “The point of Tactical is to improve your fighting ability while working together, and working against a competent and unpredictable opponent. You win by capturing your opponents. Points are awarded based on how important your opponent is. When that fails, seniority counts. Starters are the most expendable, with some weight being given to special status, such as a princess or the child of a diplomat, or if a Starter has shown exceptional skill in a certain area.”

The vampire professor didn’t mention Lough or me, but I knew that we, along with Trafton, were worth the most points. There was only one of me and only two of them. Princess Dirr was also considered a prize, as was Lisabelle, because although she was a member of Airlee, she was the only darkness mage.

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