The Shadow Princess

---The Start of the Battle---

By Andre Geramayne

Prologue:

Confidential (Ha! Not anymore…)

Student Profile

Property of Sentra Dome Academy

Exclusive Quality School for Shadows

Year Filled: 2008

Name: Ariana Geramayne Deronada, Princess

Special Abilities: Pending

Birthday: December 7, 1993

Class: Grade 6

Class Rank: 1

Biological Parents:

---Domovoi Philip Deronada---

---Elizabeth Athena Deronada---

Biological Siblings:

---Alessandra Garnette Deronada

---Caesar Deronada---

---Ramon Deronada---

Educational Markings:

Healing: No Grade, See Attached Mentor’s Report

Warrior Abilities/History: 100

Mind Abilities

---Predicting: 99

---Mind Image-Reading: 99

Physical Education

---Flying: 99

---Balancing

…on Water: 95

…on Skies: 95

---Sports

… Flying: 99

...Basketball: 99

...Baseball: 99

...Football: 99

...Soccer: 99

...Tennis: 99

…Running: 99

...Swimming

---Underwater Breathing: 99

--- Strokes: 97

--- Speed: 100

---Transportation: 100

---Dueling: (Slashed out of the Curriculum)

...Sticks: 100(Slashed out of the Curriculum)

…Manual: 100 (Slashed out of the Curriculum)

…Swords: 100 (Slashed out of the Curriculum)

Music: 100

Arts: 94

Invisibility: 100

Object-Manipulation

---Floating: 99

---Disappearing: 99

---Shrinking: 99

---Expansion: 99

---Coloring: 99

Force fields and Defense: 100

Enchantments & Spell Casting: 100

Element Manipulation

---Fire: 98

---Water: 98

---Earth: 97

---Sun: 99

---Skies: 94

Time: 95

Emotion Control: 90

Invention: 97

Anatomy: 99

Mathematics: 99

Language

---Speech: 100

---Writing: 100

---Reading: 100

Signed by: Anna Theresa Hidalgo, Principal

---This is strictly confidential, for the student’s guardian and the Sentra Dome Academy Staff only---

Confidential? Right. I was sneaky, and often reminded and rewarded myself of that gift through my naughty plans and evil schemes. Earlier today, I sneaked into the File Room of Sentra Dome Academy, spending half an hour copying my grades manually and satisfying my curiosity concerning my grades. I was rewarded as my Class’s Top 1, but also labeled as the “Talent less One” because I didn’t have “Abilities”.

Sure, my grades were tolerably high (except for Healing), but there weren’t any subjects that I showed most potential for. For everyone who knew me, I didn’t have any specialty.

This was a very bad thing when you thought about it, because here, in our world, your Abilities were the basis of your occupation. Your excellence and potential for those Abilities were the basis in which others will judge you, and not your overall presentation.

Intrigued, I checked my Student Profile to see how I scored.

Well…not exactly.

Sure, I was intrigued, but a part of me went through all that trouble and rule-breaking for the thrill.Who knew? If someday, I bragged about my most recent achievement and nobody believed me, I could then have a written proof ---the copy of my Student Profile. No one outside the school except your parents was allowed to see your Student Profile, and the papers were not taken outside of the Office. This was my written proof that I did sneak in the File Room, passing all the cameras and guards UNTRACED.

I smiled my twisted smile as I slipped the paper in my bag and followed Petunia, one of my guards, to the black car that took me home every day.

Tomorrow was the last day of school, and I had more plans up my sleeves. No more studying. That gave me more time and more chances with my naughty plans.