Tyrantess

“Sable, did you hear what I said?”

The teacher for Homeland Security Studies was standing at the front of the classroom waiting for a response. Sable did not hear a single word any teacher had said for the past two days. She was troubled and depressed after her private meeting with Principal Rook.

She had admired him. His strength. His power. His always cool, perfect composure. She even thought he was handsome as an older guy and had a bit of a crush on him. As the strongest kanon user in the school she wanted to be praised by him.

Sable wanted somebody, anybody, to be proud of her for once.

Her death grip while deep in thought had left the classroom table broken and warped. The student next to her noticed and his eyes widened.

Sable had believed her day was finally coming. She would finally be acknowledged. Of course her friends, and teachers said she was the greatest, but it didn’t mean anything coming from them.

Everything had been going perfect for the last four years: she was the top student, the favorite of both the Principal Rook and the Director, and the odds were she would be assigned to a prestigious position within the organization.

Everything had gone her way up until the day that girl showed up…

She had never seen someone so full of themselves in her entire life. When that girl was being shown around the facility by the principal, she had the audacity to cuss and talk to him like they were old friends. The way she talked to him, a great man who deserved respect and admiration, sent Sable into a rage.

She followed them to the second floor training area and then challenged the girl to a match. It was customary for the fourth-years to get roughed up and hazed. That’s the kind of place it was after all—survival of the fittest.

I’ll teach this girl a lesson. In fact, I need to hold back from killing her outright. It would be too embarrassing if I did that in front of Principal Rook…

However, Sable was beaten spectacularly in front of her friends, her classmates, and even worse the principal. She swore from that day on she would get revenge on Angel, she would make sure she suffered as much as she had suffered!

But nothing she did worked.

Sending Angel down to the lower levels using her special access card—a card given to her by the principal showing his immense trust and confidence—backfired.

Beating Angel up in one hit was so unsatisfying that it pissed her off even more.

And the final icing on the cake: she let her guard down when fighting demons and had to be saved by that girl!

She smiled at me, a genuine smile.

Like everything that happened meant nothing to her.

Like she’s better than me…

Now Angel was the principal’s new favorite pet and she had been cast aside. Just like before, just like at home.

Sable was walking in the hallway to the next class when she suddenly hit the wall so hard with a reinforced kanon punch it left a fist sized crater. CRACK! The students around her jumped back in surprise and fear.

The meeting with Rook gnawed at her mind.

“Sable, you are being reassigned for the joint mission. During the final match you will lose your final match to Angel. Understood?”

It was supposed to be her for the mission! Yet her new mission, and its implications, were too depressing to think about…

Now everywhere she went she saw Angel making new friends. The girl was the talk of the school after the demon attack. To rub it in even more she was given a special designation within the school as a provisional officer.

She was now higher ranked than Sable…

Even the first-years gathered around Angel accepted her as one of their own. It was all too cruel of a joke.

“How’s it going Sable? Why the long face?” Angel asked without a hint of irony.

For some strange reason, the one person she wished to see the least of—was the one person who wouldn’t leave her alone!

Angel walked next to Sable but the red-haired girl ignored her and sped up. Isn’t it obvious I don’t want to see you!

“Hey wait up!” Angel is practically having to jog to keep up with Sable’s long athletic stride. “I was wondering if we could, you know, hang out or something.”

“Why?” She responded coldly.

“Well it's just that I wanted to talk to you.”

”We’re talking now aren’t we?”

”That is true. But what I wanted to say is—I’m really grateful for what you did for me, for healing me. I feel really good and…”

”Good for you.”

“Yes, and I also wanted to say I’m sorry for whatever I did to you in the first few days when I came.”

Excuse me? Is this girl mocking me?

“… I take full responsibility for my actions and hope I can make it up to.”

”That’s nice.”

”We got off on the wrong foot which is my fault. The truth is I want to be your friend…”

“What?!” Sable choked out in surprise. A few students saw them and heard the commotion.

“I’m sorry if I’m being too forward. To be honest I’ve never done anything like this before. I know it must have come off as weird right?”

Sable had a hundred nasty things and slurs she wanted to throw in Angel’s face right then. She wanted to hurt this girl so bad but she couldn’t. This girl was the new alpha of Mount Weather Academy and she was the omega bitch of the pack.

I’ll just say I’m busy, don’t make a scene you’re being watched by your peers. Don’t say anything you’ll regret. Just keep calm, yes, just like Principal Rook. Just be…

Angel smiled and reached out for a hug. Although hugs and physical contact was quite common in the southern culture, especially the church crowd that Angel was brought up in, Sable was not brought up that way.

Sable didn’t remember what it felt like to be hugged or loved. Which is why she took it extremely poorly…

“Get away from me!” Sable screamed. She shoved Angel away instinctively.

The force sent Angel falling to her back hard.

Sable looked around and saw her underclassmen and her peers staring at her with disgust and anger.

No wait, you don’t understand it was a mistake…

Students rushed over to make sure Angel was okay, while the rest whispered ugly things about Sable under their breaths.

“What’s wrong with her?”

”Is she jealous of Angel?”

”Didn’t she used to be cool, what happened?”

”I forgot this is what she used to be like…”

“Yeah, the Tyrantess is back…”

She had to get away. Sable pushed past the gathering crowd. Just then she happened to see her best friends, Dolly and Rosy.

However they didn’t smile or greet her, so she walked past in silence.

When she was far enough away Rosy leaned in to whisper to Dolly.

Because Sable excelled in academics, particularly in fields regarding the human body, she was highly skilled at enhancing her body with her natural kanon abilities. She boosted the sensitivity of her hearing to eavesdrop on her friends—

“It’s so awkward to see her.”

”Yeah totally, I can’t believe we used to be friends with her.”

”I mean like, we weren't really. She is the Tyrantress after all.”

”Thats true, she was just convenient to use as a teacher’s pet.”

“Angel is way cooler anyway and she’s super nice.”

”Yeah, she actually acts like a human being.”

They laughed so loud it hurt Sable’s ears. The pain went deeper than her head, going into her soul.

I’ve always been alone, nothing’s changed.

I don’t need friends, they drag you down and stab you in the back.

I’m better off by myself…