Next period - General Affairs

The food from that cafeteria really was something special, you were expecting to go there and have to pay for your food but were happily surprised to find out that the food there was free, and seemingly served throughout all hours of the day. This Academy wasn't cheaping out on the rearing of their future war ****, that much was certain to you. As you made your way leisurely to next period, a pair of hands pulled you into an empty class room full of beakers, books and science equipment, shutting the door behind you.

Looking at your could be kidnapper you lower your guard, a rather flustered Cery had both your arms pinned up against the closed door, your eyes couldn't help but wander to her sizable and revealing cleavage. Her face portrayed a mixture of both anger and bashfulness, like she didn't know which way to feel.

"S-so I spoke to Anna to confirm my suspicions from last night..." She went on, you gulp audibly as you try to stammer out an explanation but she silences you before you could even start. "Which is fine... I overreacted this morning and I'm... Ahh jeez are you really gonna make me apologize?!" Cery huffed, growing redder and redder in an uncharacteristic fashion, you found it adorable but wouldn't dare tell her so right now.

"What I mean to say is... I'm a Lamia alright? I'm a predator, I find a boy I like and I don't wanna give him up. I've already staked my claim on you, back in Ignis, in the village I grew up in, if two people staked a claim on the same person then they'd fight to claim their partner." She hissed her tongue out, clearly frustrated. "But Anna doesn't want to fight, and because this is human territory I have no right to **** her to fight for you. Just know that I'm a more capable partner for you, I'd actually fight to keep you and make you mine, she's a coward, a wimp and doesn't deserve you at all." Cery vented, all the while you stood there pinned against the door. This was a new and even more frightening side to Cery, yet somehow you could feel she was **** even as you felt her grip tighten around you.

"I'll leave it for you to decide." And with that the snake lady pushed you aside and slithered down the hall, you were shocked at what had just taken place. You knew signing up for this shared dorm with 2 other girls was gonna cause nothing but trouble, you mentally sigh. You had a lot to mull over, what Cery said made some sense I guess, but then again why should Anna have to fight for your sake? You'd only known her for a day. Maybe you'd made a mistake by choosing Anna? Maybe Cery cares for you way more than Anna ever could, or maybe the snake is just horny and looking for a quick lay.

It was then that you heard the bell ring, luckily your class was right around the corner, you hurry along and make it just as the last student was making his way inside, you manage to slip in the queue without the teacher realizing you'd only just arrived. Wiping the proverbial sweat from your forehead you take a seat next to Anna once again, she looked at you and smiled, you couldn't help but notice there was something off about that smile though.

The teacher grabbed the classrooms attention by opening a rather large hardback book, the front and back covers slamming down with a deft thud. The young blond haired woman with glasses traced the books paragraphs with her index finger as she read, she had a slim waist and what you assumed were B cup breasts, given she had layers of cloths covering her chest, she wasn't much older than you or your classmates either which shocked you, she was perhaps 23 years old, a difference of 5 years and she was the teacher and you the student, it somehow didn't feel right.

"Afternoon class, My name is Ms. Bailey and I'll be your general affairs tutor, in my class you can expect to learn about the social political going ons of Tabula Rasa, the Fleshless Ones global movements, and various important snippets of information that can and will help you on and off the battlefield." She brushed a strand of blonde hair out of her eyes and kept tracing the book for a little while in silence, after a short while she looked up to her class, she had soothing emerald green eyes.

"First notion on todays agenda are the Fleshless, little is truly known on their origin other than they were created by Null, the self proclaimed jealous god, we're unsure how this happened and we can't even trace them back to a singular point in time. They've existed for around 60 years from our best guesswork, and seemed to appear on each continent at the same time in small bands." Looking back to her book, she prodded something on one of the pages and then returned her gaze to the classroom.

"Since their initial appearance, tens of thousands of the Fleshless and hundreds of thousands of the Fallen have been killed, and yet we see no end to their reproduction, they're cropping up out of seemingly nowhere and throughout the past 60 years, scientists and professionals are no closer to finding out the truth to their origin, how they're replenishing their numbers or indeed understanding any part of their anatomy." Ms. Bailey held up a scientific drawing of a humans anatomy for the whole class to see.

"This is what we know about humans, everything that makes us tick we have at the very least a rudimentary understanding. We haven't been able to dissect or analyze a single Fleshless one, you see when they die, they turn into a brown and black corrosive sludge that the soldiers call MudBoils, due to the fact that if it comes into contact with human flesh, it will create inflamed boils across the contaminated area, the boils will quickly swell and shoot toxic puss out that acts as a gas based narcotic." The whole class grimaces at the thought, you'd heard these stories from the injured foot soldiers you'd seen in infirmaries while growing up, you'd always just assumed it was just talk to scare kids into behaving.

"It's not an uncommon case where on the battlefield, soldiers who are infected by the MudBoil will have the puss shoot out of them, which will soon make them **** and inadvertently fall into the puss itself, causing the soldiers body to be consumed by the corrosive sludge." The thought was depressing, you'd have to keep that in mind. "It's because of this that long ranged combat is advised versus a Fallen, either that or be very careful of your footing, the Fallen have been known to use their **** as a kamikaze attack to take you with them, often times they'll try to grapple you, and if you happen to kill the thing while It's on top of you then you can expect to receive severe casualties." Ms. Bailey continued, and that's when it clicked in your head, that's why they were training you to use hand to hand combat, if you were being grappled you needed to know how to escape it so you wouldn't need to die alongside the kamikaze attack.

However through her explanation something didn't quite add up, sticking up your hand the teacher wordless grants you permission to speak with a gesture of her hand. "Ms Bailey, even if we can't dissect their dead body, why isn't it possible to trap them, cage them up and then run experiments?" You could tell a few other students were thinking the same thing as you, Ms Bailey looked up from her book to meet your inquisitive gaze.

"Indeed if it were that simple it would have already been done, this line of teaching would usually be reserved for your mental fortitude training classes, but since you've asked the question and it pertains to the subject matter at hand I don't see why I shouldn't trespass on Miss Tina's field of expertise just this once." She points to her head. "Brains, we've all got one, at least I should very well hope so." A small laugh murmurs through the classroom. "The Fleshless are able to manipulate us through some kind of cognitive magic, we at the RotchDale fighting institute have borrowed one of the Slithian State funded magic academy professors to better help train you to fend off some of the nefarious impulses you're goaded into while under the Fleshless ones influence." She goes on, memories flash back to those poor injured soldiers and how they'd told you of voices in their heads telling them to do dreadful things.

"To answer your question Mr. Strong, it just isn't feasible to train everyone to deal with the mental attacks inflicted upon them by the Fleshless, and even when the academy does their best - there is still a very common chance that the Fleshless one can penetrate through all of the defenses put in place. Every Fleshless that has ever been detained and caged for transport has been freed from his confines some way or another, either on the journey back or in the middle of the city, causing **** colatoral damage in several cases that I can recall. It was deemed too dangerous of an operation and since then, scientists have given up on trying." You look thoughtful for a moment, you could see why they'd want to stop but you couldn't help but feel disappointing at the scientists for giving up like that.

"Anyway that's enough of that, if you all flip to page 23 we'll begin reading in silence about the natural remedies for MudBoil injuries if your state funded pills aren't available." You and the rest of the class follow her lead and begin reading up on herbs and plants with stimulative properties. The rest of the class went by purely reading out of the hefty hardback, reading or retaining the written word never was your strong suit but you soldiered on, resolved to do your best given your fortuitousness for having been accepted into RotchDale.

After the class had ended and you looked towards Anna who was also staring at you with a hint of nervousness - even guilt? You weren't sure. As the class dispersed and left to go home for the day, Anna brought you to one side of the classroom clearly intent of having a word with you.

"Look Lance, Cery and I had a little chat earlier, and I guess you could say we both aired out our feelings." Anna put bluntly, you were pretty sure those feelings must have been pretty strong given Cery's accounting from earlier. "Cery really cares for you, and if I'm honest... Last night was just a fling between us, I don't wanna be locked down and was just looking for a fuck buddy, you were just my type and I." She paused. "What I'm trying to say is, sorry, if you thought there was anything more between us I'm sorry for leading you on like this, it wasn't my intention." Anna was clearly quite pained that she may have inadvertently hurt you by not communicating things properly.

"And that's why, I understand if you'd choose a relationship with Cery over a friends with benefits situation with me." And here you were again, being put in a place where you had to choose. You were kind of hurt that Anna didn't want to be with you like that, like it was somehow your fault, like maybe if you'd have done better in bed then she might of dated you or something, but another part of you felt kind of freed from your commitment to her. After a little silence period for you to absorb the situation you smiled a little.

"Thanks for letting me know sooner rather than later, Anna. I think I just need a little more time to take this all in, I think it was also partly my fault for expecting things to develop to that level just because we had sex." You answered truthfully, Anna cracks a smile with you.

"Are we good?" She asks hopefully, you nod your head yes. "Yeah, we're good. Just let me sleep on it and I'll give you an answer, see you back at home, I've got some training to catch up on." You play with the training band around your wrist idly. Anna stands on her tip toes and kisses you on the cheek, followed by quickly leaving the room - you couldn't help but watch her ass sway as she left the room. Damn this was gonna be a hard choice.

"Do I want a relationship or do I just wanna fuck?" You find yourself asking yourself out loud, silence was your only answer. Whatever, you'd have plenty of time to think about it later, leaving the classroom you beeline towards the training grounds, deciding to do double laps, pushups, pullups and squats to make up for missing your morning regime.

After you'd made up for lost time, you were a sweaty mess and desperately needed a shower. Jogging home you passed by some of the students from your class that had been there when you had fought against Jack, their reactions to you had definitely changed from what they were before, some of them even greeted you with a wave. And all it took was for you to stand up for yourself for a change, you wish you could have gone back in time to stand up for yourself sooner.

Entering your dormitory apartment you sauntered inside, you could hear the shower running. Damn it, guess you'd have to wait for your turn, sitting down on the couch you picked up one of the books lying about and mused over the texts not really retaining any of it really, you were so tired already from reading all day. It was then that you heard a door open, Cery had come out of her room with nothing but a towel covering her naked form. You felt like you should look away to respect her modesty, but you were enticed to keep admiring her form.

She was human from the belly button up, her wide hips were swayed to one side and her seductively plump tits were apparent even through the layers of wash cloth covering her, as your gaze trailed upwards you finally arrive at her face, she had a knowing smirk plastered across her face.

"Oh, it seems like someone has done a lot of physical exertion, oh but I was just about to go for a shower. If you want to go for a shower, and I want to go for a shower." She pauses as she brings a finger to her lips, trying to act as innocent as she could. "However will we solve that little problem?" She asks seductively, you already know what she's getting at, it wouldn't be cheating if he took her up on that offer, after all he and Anna weren't seeing each other, it was just a one night stand. Even while seated you could feel yourself erecting slowly at her sensuous hips swaying left to right.

Are you going to let your dick decide things or are you gonna hold out for Anna for whatever reason?