Third Person's POV

A week later, Dymitri and Skye are always with Ali. Sometimes, Bridget and the rest of the gang looked for him. The past days, Khalil became more gloomy and sometimes, he would act like paranoid of something, scared that the Prince would already spread rumors about him being gay.

Today, Dymitri and Ali are on their way to their PE Class, already wearing their PE uniform and chatting some of their mistakes they did after taking their quiz on their previous subject. As the two entered the room, pairs of eyes immediately landed on them, as they noticed something. The hall have many students, until realizations struck them that there are two more sections that will share the hall to them because they taking their own PE Class too.

They went immediately to their class which they sat on the floor as their professor lectured them for 10 minutes. They all listened until the professor temporarily stopped as another professor excused himself to grab the attention of the professor.

"Oh Professor McDurant, what could I do for you?" The professor asked as his students looked at the Beasts and Creatures professor with curious eyes.

"Good morning prof, I just need you to discuss a few things about the Selection." McDurant explained making the prof more serious.

"Okay. Class, excuse us please. When I came back, you can start your laps and training." He said as the two started to walk away not until McDurant's landed on two particular persons namely Khalil and Dymitri.

The two looked back until the two flashed a innocent smile. McDurant smiled back until they finally took their privacy to talk about the Selection

Dymitri and Khalil's classmates began gossiping, minding their own worlds and businesses.

"Selection? What does that mean?" Demi asked to Ali innocently.

"Selection means that the Gods and Goddesses, as well as the Crystal Heart of Zelquestria has or will start to select the right candidates for the position of Pillars. The professors will conduct a meeting later this afternoon to wait for the message of the Gods abd Goddesses, and the Crystal Heart will act as the bridge to the professors to tell them the clues for the Pillars." Ali replied looking at his friend.

"Oh." The only thing he said.

"Is that so? Why clues if the Heart could tell the names of those candidates?" Demi added.

"The Heart is not that easy to read Demi. The heart will only give the professors some clues and those professors will work to find those candidates for the Selection."

"Okie. Thanks Ali. You are really smart you know." Demi said smiling to his friend.

"Ooh. Don't compliment me Demi. I'm just telling what I know to you so you can be enlightened." He replied patting the gray hair of Demi.

"Okie." Demi pouted and waited for their prof. Not a few more moments until their prof finally came back. He told them a few more instructions and lectures until he commanded them to begin their laps.

The class obliged and they began to run a lap inside the hall. The two had only 4 laps until Ali stopped midway, gasping for air.

"W-wait a minute. I surrender. I c-can't do it anymore." He panted while Demi stopped too, but not too far away from his panting friend.

As a matter of fact, Dymitri can't proceed the laps too. The two were short for air, not to mention their small body frames that made them look fragile and weak.

"Dela Torre and Villacroixe, you can take a break for now. You can continue your laps a little later. I don't want to see one of my students here faint because of jogging 10 laps." The professor saw them stopped, seeing their panting he called them.

The two looked hesitant but the professor gave one final stern look so the two went to the bench and sat there to rest.

The two sat there peacefully, looking at the students who currently running a lap. Their peace eventually ruined by some person, who they sorta avoiding since last week.

"Looking so rough Kitten." Their heads snapped to direction of the intimidating King who stood up a few meters away from them.

Khalil looked beside of the King, only gulping seeing the figure of the one he secretly loves. His hands began to shake as his mind suddenly flashed the scene where Kieffer McGregor assaulted him.

"King." Dymitri said innocently as his eyes landed to the Prince.

The Triple Crown walked towards them, closing the distance to them.

"What are you doing here?" Dymitri asked them.

"Can't you see what we're wearing?" Ace replied.

The kid looked their outfits, they are wearing PE uniforms but their muscles are bulging out. Chest are puffing out and even their abs are evident in the picture.

"PE Uniform?" Dymitri asked innocently tilting his head slight.

King calmed himself seeing how adorable his Kitten in front of him.

"Exactly." Ace said after he composed himself from the cuteness of the purple eyed kid. Even Prince was caught by his spell too.

"It's not the only reason why we're here Kitten." King mused looking to Prince by his side until his eyes landed to the person next to his Kitten.

"Prince would like to talk to your friend Kitten." He said.

Dymitri looked to the Prince. He admits that he's angry to Kieffer because he did that to Khalil but also, he's disappointed and upset too. He thought that Kieffer would be a kind person but after he saw he assaulted Khalil right in front of his eyes, his hope for Kieffer rumbled.

"I want to talk to him, in private." Kieffer said as walked to approach Khalil but only stopped after Dymitri stood up and hid Khalil behind him.

"You can do it here." Dymitri said.

"Dymitri, I want to talk to him in private--" his words was soon cut off after Dymitri's eyes lit up in purple shade, looking straight to Kieffer's eyes.

"If I caught you again doing that thing to Khalil, I promise that I will send you to the hospital wing with just your tongue not getting bruised. Understand?" Dymitri sternly said, making the Prince gulped in nervousness as this the first time he saw King's Kitten behaved like that.

He admits that King always threatened him but not this kind of threat coming from a second year Omega.

"U-understood." He stammered, mentally smacking his self in embarrassment.

No way, and he means no way that he stammered in front of everyone, besides to King, but as he stuttered, he can feel his reputation being crushed, especially to an Omega like Dymitri.

He could feel his friends, especially Ace snort at him but restrained himself not to laugh or he will get a black eye later from Kieffer.

Dymitri's eyes came back ro normal and he looked back to see Khalil. Khalil looked at him with an assured look giving a signal to Dymitri that he's going to be alright.

The purple eyes kid sighed and moved away. Khalil stood up and looked at the Prince who's looking at him. He can see the regret and sadness in his eyes. The two moved away but before they could walked away far, Dymitri looked Prince one more time with his glare. Kieffer was awed but stopped himself from adoring the kid and focused himself to the person beside him.

Dymitri was left together with the King and Ace. He looked to them, giving a curious look, looking like a curious puppy.

"Look, he's staring us like a cute little puppy. Is he adorable?" Ace said through their mind link.

"Shut the fuck up. I thought you're a homophobic bitch?" King spat.

"Uh huh, but to this cute little fella in front of us, I don't think so."

"Shut the fuck up Exequile, or you'll regret it."

"Okay, okay. I'm fucking shut my mouth. Calm your dick bro." Ace said finally stopping.

"I think I should go, right King?" Ace said, looking to King while his eyebrows wiggled, giving a signal to King that he can have some time with his Kitten.

King looked him annoyed and rolled his eyes, earning a laugh from Ace.

"Bye Dymitri." He said, waving his hand until he walked away, leaving the two in each other's presence.

King stood there until he walked to Dymitri.

"We could sit down you know." King said to him, pulling the kid's hand down until the two finally sat together.

"Why are you still here?" Dymitri grumbled.

"You don't want me to be here Kitten?" King asked him raising his eyebrow still, holding Dymitri's hand in his large one.

"It's n-not that. It's just, you k-know, you're an Alpha. You don't want other students near from you except from Gammas right?" Dymitri asked innocently.

"So what if I tell you that I want to be near with you? Is that okay?" King asked him.

Dymitri furrowed his eyebrows in confusion.

"Why would you want to be near to me?"

"Because I want to. Why? You don't like it?"

Dymitri looked away, feeling the heat came up to his face and he's sure that it's turning red now.

"Are you free later?" King asked making the kid looked at him.

"Maybe, after this class I have a free hour because our professor have some important meeting. Why?"

"Well, I thought I could treat you to a lunch maybe? I know that you're still upset that I stole your first kiss back then--"

"Yahhh!!! Don't say that!!" Dymitri freaked out and immediately put his tiny hands to King's mouth to cover it and prevent him from saying things that would embarrassed him more.

King was stunned from his actions. No one dares to touch him, even his flings are not allowed and even his oh-so-called girlfriend Trinity is not allowed to touch him. King mentally smirked as he took Dymitri's hands to his and looked intently to his Kitten.

"You know, for an Omega like you, you have the guts to touch me." He mused.

"Hey! You touched me first you know! A-and I don't know. It's just I freaked out after you said those things." Dymitri defended.

"Like what? That I stole your first kiss--"

"Hey!! Can you stop it!?" King let a chuckle after seeing his Kitten act like a child like someone stole his candy.

"Okay, but we will go out later okay?"

"O-okay." Dymitri finally said looking away because he can feel the second wave of heat coming from his face.

"Good Kitten." King exclaimed patting his head.

"Hey! I thought I'm a kitten? Why are you patting my head like a dog? And please don't pat my head. I feel like an animal." Dymitri argued pouting subconsciously.

"Okay, okay. Calm down." King chuckled.

Meanwhile,

As Khalil and Kieffer walked away, they stopped outside of the hall and faced each other. Kieffer looked so hesitant as he faced Khalil. He gulped the lump that stuck in his throat and took some courage to speak. As one of the Triple Crown, they never apologize to anybody and when they said anybody, they mean that they didn't apologize to someone who's weaker and low to them. But this time, he should apologize to Khalil because of what he did that he's sure that he caused trauma to him. After knowing that Khalil was a victim of rape, he nearly smashed himself to a wall because of guilt. He didn't meant to go too far to that, after all, he and Ace are homophobic and he felt disappointed after knowing that his secret admirer was a boy.

"I would like to apologise for what I have done to you last week. I'm sorry." He said loud and clear.

"Uhm, It's okay Prince. I know you didn't no harm but I can sense that your disappointment and anger made you do that to me." Khalil said genuinely. After all, he's gifted with some healing powers and he can sense the aura coming from Prince that he's guilty.

"Just forget it Prince, I'm okay now. And I will leave out of your sight if you're near. I don't want you to feel guilty anymore. What's done is done and it happened already. From now on, I will start avoiding you whenever you're near or in the same space with me, I will also stop putting some stupid love letters in your locker." After Khalil said that, Kieffer can feel his heart clenched.

"I hope we're okay now." Khalil offered him a genuine smile before he walked away but Kieffer held his hand, making Ali to stop.

"I'm..." Kieffer was hesitant to say his stupid idea. Admitted or not, he doesn't want Ali to stop putting love letters inside his locker. It's like Ali's love letters make his day more joyful because he can feel that the words written in each letter was genuine and pure, unlike like what he did to his flings like sex and some other stuffs.

"It's okay Prince, I mean it." Khalil said with a small smile, pulling his hand away from Prince.

He finally walked away, leaving Prince behind. Somehow, Prince was angry to himself not knowing why but his feet immediately ran to Khalil. He can't understand his self why the heck his doing it.

Again, before Khalil could enter the hall, he held Ali's hand and pulled it back. Khalil was taken a back and nearly fell but Kieffer catched him and helped him composed himself.

The two looked at each other's eyes for a short moment of time until Kieffer was first to put his self all together. He was about to say something when they felt the hall building shake. Their eyes widened after they heard some shout of panic inside the hall. When the two walked in, they saw the students running all in panic.

King was protecting his Kitten away from the running students as their eyes landed on the monster outside of their building. Envy was in the window, scaring the people inside until his claw hit the glass windows, shattering into pieces of shards.

Envy went inside, and began to scare the students. Khalil and Kieffer went inside together, coming to King and Dymitri's place.

"What's going on? Why Envy is here?" Khalil asked.

"I don't know Ali. It's just he suddenly appeared outside and began to scare us." Dymitri immediately replied, subconsciously holding King's muscled arm.

"We have to evacuate the hall." King demanded, looking for Ace who's starting to command other students to exit the hall and call some help from the professors.

Their eyes landed on the smoke who eventually began to appear beside Envy, after the smoke became clear, a man wearing a half mask covering his upper face appeared.

His wearing a black coat, black slacks and some weird looking scepter in his hand. The scepter is all black, but there's a green orb connected to it.

"At last." The masked man said looking around as if he's looking for someone.

"What do you want here?" Dymitri's professor in PE asked courageously. The masked man turned to him.

"Why do you even care, piece of trash?" He spat aiming the scepter to him.

"But because I'm in a good mood, I'm going to tell you. I'm here to abduct the candidates for the Selection." He said with a wicked grin.

The professor paled after hearing those words. He knows that the Selection will be taken up soon but, he is too early.

"You know professor, it would only take a few more minutes until I hunt them down." And with that, the professor paled even more.

"Geez, what a coward." The masked man said and struck the professor with the scepter's powers making him an ancient statue.

The crowd gasped after the scene but they began to panic more when the masked man turned to them.

"Envy! Kill them all!" He commanded and the Sin roared. Envy turned to the he running crowd, he looked them as if they're meat and he is ready to devour them. He took one girl and hold her, half crushing the screaming girl for help. He held her halfway to his mouth when he felt his wrists burn, ending up letting the girl go.

The Sin was furious, after he held his wrist to prevent further damage, he roamed his eyes to whosoever tried to damage him until his eyes landed on the huge body frame of the intimidating King. The King's eyes was darker this time as he manage to put a curse on Envy's wrist.

Envy gritted his teeth and made a ball of fire in his hand, he launched it to their direction but eventually deflected when Khalil stepped out and cast a protective enchantment.

The masked man was fast to dissolve the ball of fire into thin air when he waved his scepter.

"Well, well. What do we have here? Some heroic students eh?" The masked man mused with a grin.

"Too bad Envy's not alone." He said until the whole wall beside them shook and began to crumble. Their eyes widened after seeing two more Sins outside.

"Shit." King muttered.

"Greed, Pride. Kill them all." The masked man ordered and the Sins roared in response, causing to shake the whole building.

"And as for me, I'mma start haunting those candidates." He said and vanished into thin air.

The Sins began to attack, launching some fire balls and arrows into the students direction.

"Ace! Help me evacuate the students. Tell them to go out and then, call for teacher's help." King commanded through their mind link. A simple 'yes' was replied and then, they saw Ace began to order them to evacuate the hall safely.

As for King, his eyes darkened and began to crack his knuckles. He's craving for a fight and with the Sins in front of them, he's even more excited.

He turns to his Kitten which hiding behind him.

"Stay away from here Kitten. Go get someone for help." King said to him in a soft tone.

"B-but--"

"No buts okay? I got this." King immediately cut his words and then patted the kid's head.

"Kieffer, guide them outside." He demanded and Prince only nodded. King looked back to his Kitten and then, flashed a smile.

"Go. Now." King's deep voice boomed and Prince obliged.

"Come on, let me take you out of here." Prince said and held the two in the wrists, dragging them.

King looked at the Sins, a grin was plastered to his face. He focused himself and gathered his energy. His hands went darker as his veins begin to bulge out. He cracked them again but this time, together with his neck.

"Okay fucking Sins, let's have some fun." He said and begin to attack.