The Earth After Rebirth

Saanvi gave her a sinister grin, "Isla Silva, liking a boy. That\'s very rare."

In their previous school, Isla had been confessed to more than she cared to remember and she had shot every single one of them down. She never grew interest in the opposite gender until she came here, to Eden Academy.

It was a new and strange feeling, she often wondered why the first boy she liked wouldn\'t be approved by her family, and most of all, Kiro never showed any romantic feelings towards her. Even after she kissed him. She thought it may be karma since she rejected all of them before.

"Well, whatever, it\'s not like he likes me back. I don\'t want to push it either, Kiro doesn\'t trust rich people."

"That\'s his loss." Saanvi rolled her eyes with an annoyed expression.

"It\'s with good reason though, look at what Isaac did to his family."

Saanvi looked a bit ashamed, she had forgotten all about that. That was her main flaw, if a problem wasn\'t hers, it was not rare that she\'d put it out of her mind. She also didn\'t know why, but Kiro reminded her of her older brother, that\'s why she got the urge to bicker with him all the time.

The campus around them was lively, thanks to the trial that just ended. Everyone was discussing, gossiping about Ursa and Isaac. Even though Isaac distanced himself from the incident, people had their suspicions. Everyone had seen them together on campus, on occasion.

Nobody was bold enough to speak up though. That\'s just the kind of power and influence Isaac had over this school, thanks to his family\'s status. The gossiping only ended in whispers nothing more.

Just then, her phone rang. She groaned seeing who it was, she bit her lip and contemplated whether or not to answer. She decided to answer, if she didn\'t, she\'d be on the news in a matter of days.

"Dad," She said attempting a smile.

"My little Rosie, where are you?" Concern plagued his voice.

He couldn\'t see where she was because phones had a feature that blurred out backgrounds. It was automatic, so you\'d have to manually press a button to undo it.

"I\'m at school." She smiled and pressed the button, sure enough, Eden academy 1st year campus was in the background.

"Rosie, you ran away from home, just to go to school?" He was taken aback, Isla didn\'t like this school, the last he checked. He was surprised when she decided to stay, he thought she just wanted to make him happy.

"Uh, there was a crisis that needed my attention. Sorry for leaving without saying anything but dad, I\'m of age now, you can\'t say I ran away from home."

He cleared his throat, suddenly the tie on his neck felt like it was strangling him to death, so he loosened it a bit. He wasn\'t quite ready for his youngest to grow up, he wasn\'t ready to let her go.

"Rosie, I\'m your father, I\'ll always worry. What crisis? Don\'t tell me your siblings were correct," Isla momentarily blushed, it was subtle but her father noticed it. "This is about some boy?"

"No." She quickly got Saanvi in front of the camera, "see? I\'m with Saanvi."

Her father waited for her to explain what the crisis was, what was so important that her daughter had to leave right after his birthday celebration.

"The Blakeson\'s. They\'re harassing people here, even my friends. One even almost got expelled because of Isaac\'s shenanigans, as I was a witness I had to make sure that didn\'t happen."

"This friend of yours, who is she?"

Saanvi almost burst out laughing. Even her father didn\'t imagine his daughter was helping a boy she really liked.

"No one you know dad, can I go now? I\'m safe at school."

Jesús Silva was no idiot, he could tell something more was up but he didn\'t pry any further, he\'d just do his own research and find the boy that had captured his innocent daughter\'s heart.

"Good bye Rosie, be well."

The call ended, Isla could finally breathe freely. She didn\'t want any more rich dad\'s going after Kiro. She felt like, it was her responsibility to protect him from high society and that\'s what she\'d do.

"Dodged a bullet," she softly said.

"I know, you know, he won\'t let it go. He\'s probably researching the incident right now." Saanvi reminded her.

"I know, I know." She sighed, and started thinking of countermeasures to protect Kiro from even her father.

Isla hadn\'t played the game in a while and since school was out for the day because of the trial, she had time now. They both walked into their dorm rooms and wore the gear, logging in.

Ding!

[Congratulations you\'ve awakened your true blood. You\'re descended from great spirits and high elves. Your new race is Sprite.]

[You have unlocked a subclass, seducer. You can use speech, dancing and music to bewitch anyone. The music you play will be carried by the spirits of the wind and whispered into the target\'s ear. Your dancing will hypnotise anyone you target.]

"Seducer? What the hell, this is embarrassing!"

[You\'ve unlocked three new skills, Elemental Manipulation, Illusionary arts and transformation.]

[As a result of your awakening, you\'ve unlocked a new stat called Constitution. Common swords can do nothing to your bare skin now.]

[Due to being a descendent of the spirits, there\'s not a single spirit that can defy you. You can have every one of them at your mercy.]

[Congratulations guardian on awakening your true blood, when Asgard is in danger, you\'re the first line of defence.]

"How ominous."

Isla started to see the world differently. What was once invisible for her was clear as day. Colours she didn\'t know could even exist, the atmosphere was full of tiny little lights. At first it was blinding but gradually, she got used to the brightness.

[All stats are raised by 10]