Page 55 of The Goddess is Angry
“You tried to hurt my twin,” Matilda growled.
Matilda’s eyes were amber and her canines were elongated. Their dad was on them in an instant. Professor Morningstar put a hand on each shoulder and gave it a comforting squeeze.
“Breathe. I took care of it.”
The Krauss women were about to have a baby god and a Hellhound physically and cosmically whoop their asses. I’d be running, but these two weren’t exactly smart.
“She’s still expelled,” Headmaster Krauss sniffed. “Lying about your race on your admissions form is grounds for expulsion.”
“We didn’t,” Professor Morningstar sneered. “We knew she might want to take her necklace off while she was still in school. The board knows.”
And just then, Azren and Loki appeared with the board. Azren swooped in with a vial and made a motion with their hands. The potion on George flew off her face into the vial. They stuck a cork in it and went to wrap their arm around Drake.
Drake was livid. I could only imagine he felt violated. He’d feared this since I met him. Kayleestolepart of him to disfigure George and hurt Oscar in the process. West was comforting Oscar with me and signing for him. I didn’t know what was going on with Church. He was the first one to know she had a secret. He looked stunned and a little angry that’s what it was.
His grandfather pushed his way forward. The board was short one person. There were nine people the last time they were here. There were eight now, and it looked like Church’s grandfather was in charge now.
Azren filled them in on what happened because we all saw it. Headmaster Krauss kept trying to interrupt, but Azren must have glued her lips shut like they did Kaylee. That wasn’t all. When Azren was finished, our potions professor stepped forward.
“Basilisk potions take weeks to brew. It wasn’t done in the lab here or I would have known. It had to have been done at the Krauss home over Yule break. Furthermore, there’s not a single student in this college who could pull it off without help. It also gives off a pretty noxious odor in the initial stages. Not only do I think Lindsay knew about the potion, I think she helped make it.”
I let my nails grow into claws. That bitch hurt Oscar. She tried to hurt George. She was an adult charged with our care and she tried to disfigure them. I was going tomaimthat bitch. Her dress caught fire, and some asshole put it out. Let her burn.
I felt a hand on my shoulder and realized it was Loki. He shook his head at me. Before I knew it, the Paranormal Investigation Bureau was spilling into the room. Fuck. When Professor Morningstar said he had it handled, he had ithandled.He sent Azren and Loki to fetch the board and called the Paranormal Investigation Bureau since they broke the law.
Azren passed the vial over.
“I collected the potion off of the victims. Drake says Kaylee broke into his room to steal his genetic materials and claimed it was because she was trying to invite him to the moon orgy. They didn’t know George was a god when they threw the potion at her because she had a necklace that made her appear as a witch, but they did hurt Oscar, a very promising Brujo. He’s already been healed.”
The potions professor didn’t even have to say there was no way in fuck Kaylee brewed that potion on her own or that she didn’t use the academy potions lab to do it. They snapped into action and dragged Kaylee and Lindsay Krauss off in handcuffs. It was immensely satisfying. She hurt my people. They were both screaming they couldn’t do this, and it was all George’s fault, but fuck them. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They threw Basilisk potion in front of a full dining hall.Everyoneknew messing with Basilisk parts was a life sentence.
“Anyway,” Loki yawned. “Azren doesn’t want to be your headmaster. I’m a complete shit choice for it. Freya might do it, but she’s got other crap on her mind. Your shitty board passed up an amazing warlock becauseyoudidn’t let him in your little university to be an alumnus. You hired a petty bitch with a vendetta against a child and a history of disrespecting gods. You brought this on yourself. If you have any hope of saving face from this scandal, you’ll put my brother-in-law as headmaster where he should have been all year.”
“And I warned you about something like this when I refused to vote for her,” Church senior said. “I was her headmaster for four years. I’m board president now and I’m calling a vote for Gabriel Morningstar for headmaster.”
Church’s grandfather was probably a hell of a headmaster. George told us her mom and aunt were terrified of him. He wasn’t an energy vampire, and he didn’t even use his grandson like Church’s dad did to get what he wanted. The old board president abused their position and broke the rules, so he just used decades of scaring college students to make himself board president and get the best choice for headmaster running this school.
“Gabriel Morningstar is one of the best Dark Arts professors in this country. People apply here just to study under him. How will we replace him?”
“By letting him pick someone he’s taught. His Dark Arts program is in high demand for various professions. Gabriel has been teaching here for nineteen years. Many people specialized with him from an academic standpoint. He taught them everything he knows and then they continued to study when they graduated. If you ask nicely, I’m sure they’d love to teach here.
“And Gabriel gets final say, not us. He taught and mentored these people, so he knows who isactuallysuited to teach, not someone with a famous name or relative who shouldn’t be anywhere near students. That’s how we got into this mess where the headmaster and her daughter nearly disfigured two students with a very illegal potion in front of the entire student body.”
Oh, man. Ireallyliked Church’s grandfather. By the time he was done, Professor Morningstar was now Headmaster Morningstar, and I was pretty sure between the two of them, there were going to be some amazing changes at the Academy of the Profane.
I could finally process that my girlfriend was a god. She tried to tell us a few times, but there were some pretty big omens that interrupted her. Oscar looked like he was still processing and Church looked a little angry, but West didn’t look the slightest bit surprised.
Now that the secret was out, honestly, West shouldn’t have been the only one who figured it out. Her dad was a fucking primordial. We’d met her mom and aunt. They were powerful witches. Power was inherited. If George had ended up a witch, she should have had the same power levels as her mom, but she didn’t. She wasmuchstronger. We should have guessed.
I wasn’t mad. If she kept that from us, there was probably a reason we couldn’t understand. I was willing to hear her out because she’d been keeping this secret since she was born. She probably wasn’t ready to reveal it to the world yet, but she was forced to. Thefirstthing George did wasn’t cosmic revenge or even trying to lie about it.
She healed Oscar, so he wasn’t in intense pain or had to deal with permanent disfigurement.
George turned to us.
“I’ll explain in my dorm room. Ren, did you realize that was you who set her dress on fire? When you gained the power of fire, you got another tail.”
I whirled around, even though I knew I couldn’t see it. There were many different things that could earn me a tail and unlock a new power. I could, apparently, start fires now. I was definitelynotgoing to use that responsibly, but I couldn’t even celebrate because this could shatter us.
