Journey To Eden

Seven days had passed since the junior students joined Aisen College and many of them had become very serious in training since their growth parents were quite strict and incredibly hard on them. 

This made a lot of students not to interact as much. One of such cases was Ezra and Nova. Since joining the school, they had both become to indulged in their training that they didn't interact as much. 

Nova was usually seen at the port training with mother Pinky and Ezra was anywhere Graves and Khan told him to be. Although despite his very strict training, Ezra still found time to hang out with Lilah, who had also become very distant due to her 'relationship' with a senior called Levi Dolaria, from the western continent.

Although during the course of that first week, there was something strange happening involving the major staff of the college and the word leaders. Finally all the world leaders and the school's administrative staff gathered together in a meeting held by the Jelani family head, Amira Jelani, elephant user and Koko's mother. 

"I appreciate all you being able to make it for the meeting." said King Amira.

"For what purpose does the King of the south have with us?" asked King Beverley, bear user and head of the Beverley family.

"It's quite unusual to see Ms. Amira attend a meeting like this, much less hold one." said Queen Arkwright, wolf user. 

"That would mean that she has worth our time unlike those previous meetings we've been having." said King Mochizuki, catfish user.

"You flatter me, Mochizuki. And once more, you're correct." said King Amira. "Pinky, I take it you are training a student with an Elder God in him."

"That's quite correct, you Majesty. Nova Albatross does possess the Eternal Phoenix, but he absolutely has no idea or association to Eden. As a matter of fact he even resents the Elder Gods." said mother Pinky, Aizen college's one and only, director of studies.

"Good that you brought up Eden, so you do have an idea as to what I'm going to say." said King Amira.

"Yes, we do, King Amira. We know of Eden's appearance in the Southern Empire." said Father Khan, the college's vice chancellor.

"That's not all, Khan. It's open. Eden is open." King Amira paused momentarily waiting for her words to sink in. "I know what you thinking. This crazy woman has come with false reports about Eden's opening."

"That isn't what we are thinking." said King Mochizuki.

"It's just that similar reports have been received from all over this past week and many of them have no evidence to justify their claims. It's like as though someone is trying to cause panic." 

"I understand where you're coming from, Mochizuki, but in this case, it's first hand information from my own eyes." said King Amira as she began narrating her experience.

"It was four days back when then first meeting was held. I chose to skip it, naturally, and I did but not without reason. In he southern most part of the Southern Empire, a nomadic tribe sent word of a strange gate that felt a ominous as the gates of the underworld."

"Immediately, I knew what they were talking about so I quickly set out to village and that when I saw it. Gates shooting up to the sky, with golden statues on either side and as open as a dead fish's mouth."

"The sight was both beautiful and terrifying. My men and I immediately entered into the garden and to my surprise, the place was vacant. Only trees, mountain, waterbodies and lands occupied the garden. All other monsters and animals were gone including them."

"We spent about three days searching before Eden changed positions and our search found that the Divine Sword of the Eternal Flame, Yahweh, was gone and so were the Elder Gods."

Everyone's eyes widened out of surprise they all knew what was in store for the earth if they didn't think of something. 

"There is only one thing we can do now to stop this." said King Mochizuki.

"Indeed. This matter is far too grave to not use that." said Queen Arkwright.

"Are we sure they are all ready?" asked King Beverley.

"It doesn't matter. By the time they are part of Aizen college they are strong enough." said Pinky. 

"Looks like there is no other option." said Khan.

"Alright then. We are all in agreement then. Aizen college better collect the 100 students to fight for the world. It's time to unleash project Ten Of Tens."

The meeting came to an end and a decision was made project Ten of Tens was to be launched in the up coming weeks. 

The students on the other hand had no idea what they were about to get themselves into. Many of them continued to train to become stronger and among them was Ezra, who was from his 5th sparring session with mother Graves. That's if we can even call it a sparring session when it was actually just an ass whooping except that Ezra was given the chance to land one clean hit.

He was absolutely exhausted from the training session that he just fell onto the benches in exhaustion not knowing that their was a girl staring at him intensely. He finally notice her staring and sat up.

"Hey, you're Alba, right?" he asked.

"Yeah, I am. What's the matter?" she said coldly.

"You're always sparring with father Khan and Koko but I never see you interact with anyone else, why?" Ezra asked innocently.

"Is that so?" she said as she removed her shoes and looked into them. "It's because I'm strange."

Ezra didn't understand what she meant. "Strange, how?" 

"It doesn't matter. Forget it." she said as she stood up to get out of the training ground. 

Ezra quickly dashed in front of her and blocked the exit.

"Get out of the way." she yelled.

"I'm not. Mother Graves says that we need to get to know each other and all my friends are kind of on their own things so you're the only people I can actually talk to."

"So you want me to fill your void of loneliness?" 

"Yes, I am not leaving until we interact." said Ezra as he continued to block the door.

"God, you're stubborn. Looks I'll have to kick your ass like Graves did." 

"I'm not weak, you know." 

"Sure." Alba said as large snake appeared behind her. The snake looked at Ezra and its hood sprang open. 

Bond: 555

A gust of wind formed around Ezra as he donned on the armor and held the sword in his hands. 

"Are we fighting that raven lady? Oh, it's that cute white-haired girl and she's a snake user." said the eagle in Ezra's head.

"Were you asleep this whole time?" asked Ezra. 

"For the fourth and fifth ass whooping only." said the eagle.

"You can talk to your eagle?" asked Alba surprised.

"How did you know I was talking to my eagle?" eagle asked.

"It's the only thing that follows you." replied Alba in a disappointed tone like she was surprised he even asked the question. 

"That hurts. Anyway, I'm not leaving until you talk to me." Ezra said.

"Didn't think that you were that desperate? Guess I'll just have to kill you." Alba said with eyes that spoke of a bloodlust.

Ezra held his sword close to himself as the snake growled menacingly. He then shifted his leg for a battle stance but before he could complete it, the snake's teeth had already sunk into his shoulder. 

He looked at the girl before hearing the eagle yell "poison" in his head. He immediately sunk his sword into the snake's head before cutting its head horizontally loosening its grip on him.

"Most impressive." Alba said, her face glowing in joy. "I know that you're not the type to fight someone holding back. Neither am I so let's go all out."

Bond: Lucifer

Just then the giant snake turned to dust that covered the Alba's whole body creating a black armor with a belt in the shape of a snake around her waist and no helm. She then removed the belt turning it to sand before forming a kusarigama.

Ezra looked at her transformation and couldn't help but smile. 

"Looks like I'm fucked."