The Golden Throne

He was sitting down when someone asked, "Can I come in?"

Liu Feng looked at who it was. To his surprise, it was Amelia herself.

"Well, to have the princess herself grace me with her presence, it is my honor. Please come in.", Liu Feng said, half joking, half sarcastic.

"Oh please. Just shut up. Why do you have to be such a pain?", Amelia asked. Liu Feng just smiled and looked outside his tent.    Liu Feng could see that outside the tent all the boys were looking at them with vicious eyes. He didn\'t mind them, and came back into the tent, closing the curtains so that no one could see what was going on inside.

"Why did you close the curtains? That might give people the wrong idea.", Amelia protested.

" \'Might\' won\'t work here Amelia. You shouldn\'t worry at all. The people outside will DEFINETLY get the wrong idea. So, why\'d you come here? Done with setting up your tent? I see that you had lots of help.", Liu Feng said.

"Yes, I did. Lots of it. All the boys were fighting, and some of them broke my tent. I didn\'t even ask them to. Some humans are just so irritating, they get onto my nerves. You have an extra one right, Arad\'s? Can you just set it up next to your tent? I\'ll sleep there.", she said, quite dejected.

"Well, who asked you to be so.... well desirable? Look at me. I am a prince. But, with the right disguise, no one cares about me.", he said.

"No one cares about you? Liu Feng, you took out the entire Glade association, and after that, the King of Glade came to the campus, but you left unscathed. You are the talk of the town. You are in no position to give me that lecture. Now, will you give me that tent or not?"

Liu Feng nodded. He took out the tent from his luggage. He went outside, where there were many boys just staring at him. He did not mind them at all, and shoed them away before putting up the second tent next to his own. There were no one near him, and it seemed that the Glade association incident had caused him a lot more than a bad rapport with the Glade kingdom. Once the tent was set up, Liu Feng went back into his own tent, while Amelia came out. She went to the second tent next to Liu Feng. The boys were all ready to fight with Liu Feng, but who could?

"All right, now that most of you have set up your tents, go out and fetch water and logs. No one is an exception. You aren\'t the only princesses and princes I have taught. Now go fetch them, or you\'ll go without food tonight.", Cordelia said.

Liu Feng looked at Amelia, who was also outside right now, and said, "For now, stick with me. The forest is a dangerous place, and it\'s better to stick with someone in case of an emergency. I already promised your brother that I would look after you."

"Why do you think I am so weak? I am one of the most powerful people in here. I have a contract. Do you keep forgetting that?", Amelia said, clearly offended that Liu Feng thought that he had to protect her at every turn.

"This is just a precaution. Who knows, maybe we\'ll need each other."

Amelia nodded. The both of them went to the river clearing, where there were lots of other students. Amelia went forward to fetch some water, but Liu Feng stopped her.

"Don\'t be so reckless. Water bodies are one of the most dangerous parts of a forest. You don\'t know what\'s inside. Let me check.", he warned her.

Liu Feng closed his eyes, and started using mana perception to see what was within the water. His eyes paled and he shouted, "Get away from the water. There is a beast coming your way.".

A few students who were playing in the shallows of the water heard that and started moving to dry land. One of the boys almost got there, and he jumped, but a mouth jumped from the surface, and devoured his leg. The boy shouted, with pain as he lost his leg. Blood was streaming from the injury, and all the students who were there, looked away.

A teacher suddenly appeared, and took the boy back to the camp. All the students were apprehensive and they all ran back to the camp. Amelia was going too as well, but Liu Feng stopped her again.

"Do you want to go hungry today? Remember what Cordelia said? We have to bring the water first. Do you really think they wouldn\'t anticipate a few monsters in the water? They killed the chicken to scare the monkey."

Amelia thought about it and then said, "But how will we get the water from the river? As you said, there are monsters in them."

"We don\'t need to. Some of our friends have already taken the risk and got some water, but they forgot it here when they scurried back to camp. Let\'s just say a few monsters could have knocked them over…", he said, rubbing his hands.

"You are evil, Liu Feng. Fine, we\'ll do whatever."

"Evil? I saved two lives. This is the least thanks I can get.". Liu Feng took the two filled buckets and replaced them with the empty ones they brought. He knocked over the empty ones and then went back to the camp with Amelia.

Everyone was at the camp. It was clear that something serious had happened. Liu Feng went forward to see, and he saw a person on the floor, without his head. Amelia went forward too, and when she saw the body, she paled. 

"How did this happen? Aren\'t the teachers supposed to take care of us?"

"It hasn\'t been a day, even, and there is already a death?"

The students started whispering, and gossiping. They were all afraid now, seeing the possibility of death, and they were all outraged, at the nonchalant attitude of the teachers.