Vanessa's POV
"Vanessa! Vanessa Mallory… Wake up… The bell rang like eight minutes ago" Vanessa's best friend Ruby Alto shouted.
"Uh-nuuuhh…Whaaaahhd? Vanessa was still half-asleep. Her head hurt, and the world was spinning around her.
"Ness… we're free! Summertime!"
"Oh! Right…Summer…"
"Yeah"
"So…Come on…"
"No, don't wait for me…I'm having another headache. I'm going to go to the nurse, but then just straight home today." She could see the disappointment on Ruby's face.
"Okay" Ruby said, and left.
Vanessa went to the Nurse's room, a small room isolated in the woods on her school's campus, and knocked on the orange door.
"Nurse Gray?" No response. She walked inside. There was nobody in there, but she helped herself to an Aspirin, knowing that the nurse would let her. Vanessa was known for her random painful headaches. THUMP THUMP THUMP BANG CRASH! She turned around, only to see a Lion with a goat head on it's back, and a snake head for a tail. A Chimera! She read about those when she studied Greek Mythology. She grabbed the first thing she could find to use as a weapon – a ball-point pen. She threw the pen into the monster's snake-eye. It hung there, and the monster turn around all three mouths snarled. She quickly grabbed another pen and threw it, blinding the second eye of the snakehead, but falling out and clattering to the floor. The blind tail swung about wildly knocking items off of the shelf. One makeshift package rolled over towards her, the package unraveling as it rolled towards. She looked at the tattered remains of the paper wrapping. The words written on it were "To: Vannessa Mallory, You will need this. From: Nurse Gray" Inside the package was a long needle-sharp knife.