"There world is not as you see it," Miss Ailes begun, eyes sparkling, "There are three realms that lay upon one another. These realms are: The Human Realm; The Heavenly Realm; and The Shadow Realm. For centuries these three realms have lived in peace. You humans have lived in the Human Realm, oblivious to the other realms. Traditionally, when they died you'd be sent to the Shadow Realm, and the demons would separate your souls from your bodies. Then your souls would be sent to the Heavenly Realm, for the angels to purify them, and give them a new body in the Human realm. Except the human has population expanded too far; there were no longer enough souls for each human. Now many humans live with only a fraction of a soul, or none at all. In fact it is extremely rare for a human to have a whole soul. You humans probably wouldn't see this as a problem, but a soulless human can't die. Humans without whole souls end up stuck in the Shadow Realm, where they become demons. The demons are getting angry with their lack of living space, and the ones who used to be human are furious about what have had to become. So the demons are going to invade the Human Realm, planning make it their own. All you innocent humans shall be killed in a blood frenzy. Angels- of which all of the staff, including me, are- used to be strong enough to hold off the demons. But over the years we have grown... weak. While our bodies do not carry the power to oppose the demons, the few remaining humans with whole-souls do. We angels shall pass on our ancient powers to the whole-souls, and teach the whole-souls how to use their powers. Wondering how this relates to you? This academy was created for the purpose of raising whole-souls. Which, in case you hadn't figured it out, makes you lot the blessed whole-souls. We shall teach you to safely fight demons as well as *cough* some of *cough* the normal curriculum. We also shall strongly encourage things such as team work and working together, since you can't take on an army of demons alone. Welcome to Pure Field Academy, young whole-souls!"
Arden's jaw had dropped to the floor at this speech. Demons? Whole-souls? Magic Powers? He was sure it had to be a bad tasted joke. But the serious eyes of Miss Ailes, and the tense atmosphere that had filled the room, told him otherwise. Arden pinched himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming. After not awaking, Arden took in a deep breath to try to accept what was happening.