Chapter Two: In Which Shilo Gets Carried Away
Shilo kept her eyes shut tight. She heard the tapping, clicking sound of shoes and the scraps of chairs against the freshly polished tile. Then there was nothing. Class was ready to start.
You can do this Shi! They are just a group of kids, powerful kids, but kids none the least.
Shilo took a deep breath in while she opened her eyes for the first time to her new students. Looking at the young faces, the faces that could talk about her to their very powerful parents, Shilo started to feel a clinching grip in her stomach as it became harder and harder to let go of that deep breath.
Come on Shi, pull yourself together breath.
And say something for crying out loud, silence is not going your friend here!
"Helloooooooo Class!" Shilo nearly shouted with a mixture of emotions ranging from e xcitement and anxiety. " How are we doing today?"
Shilo's got the response of mumbles and grunts with one of the princesses sitting in the front row said and exfusastic "Great!"
Joy a kid that is happy to be at school.
"Okay class well you all can already tell that I am new here. I am your permit cultural teacher; you can call me Ms. Shilo, or preferably just Shilo, I am why too young to be called miss."
Shilo got a few laughs from the sea of board faces.
"So class I don't know about what you were studying before I got here, but I am going to start at my favorite topic, lost cilvazations," said Shilo as she walked over to her big, heavy stack.
"Let us begin…" she started as she searched for a secret treasure, glancing up only once to see eager eyes, "ah here it is!" Shilo stood back up and walked over a strange statue over to her desk. The small object was completely made out of stone, cracks covered it from all corners, and some places near the bottom were missing huge chunks while on top it was highly noticeable that something was broken out of the center of the artwork. But no one among the on lookers could guess what the small sculpture was.
"What I have here," said Shilo as she hold it up to be sure the kids in the back get a good look, "is the head of King Alttic-O-Somoe."
That got their attention!
Shilo could tell right off that her students were not just eager to learn about this forgotten art piece, but excited. The moment the words left her mouth and float around the room into the ears of her little listeners, heads jumped up, boys lean forward, most likely wanting to know if it was a real head inside the stone, while the girls pushed back against their sets, most likely not wanting to know wheatear or not that was in fact a real head.
" King Alttic-O-Somoe," Shilo started walking around the class, "was the fifth and final king of the jungle kingdom known to us as… anyone?" Shilo looked up, and for the first time took a good look at the tearrias and crowns that sat perfectly on top of most every head.
She frozed.
Stupid move Shi. Really stupid move!
"Well?" piped up an annoyed voice of a student.
"Huh? Wha?" Shilo haft said broken from her thoughts.
"What was the kingdom?" the same voice as before asked.
"Oh , well… hm..," Shilo tripped and tumbled out her words in a mush of gibberish that even babies wouldn't laugh at. Her voice which while not at a teacher volume, was still loud enough, became more and more quite whispers, now all the students lean forward just in hopes to hear her.
"T…the kin..king…dom was… called… Otropomiss. The kingdom had been lost for over 500 years until it was recently rediscovered by… well…" Shilo trailed off on that. Her eyes darted to the door, wondering if she could make a brake for it. Slowly she started to inch her way toward her only means to escape.
I hand shooted into the air." ! Opus.. I mean Shilo?" I was the same princess in the front row that responded with "great" at the start of the class.
Drat my escape will have to wait, my teaching job calls.
" Yes?" Shilo answered in a whimper, stopping all plans of escape.
"How was the kingdom rediscovered?"
"Oh, well that is easy, I found it."
Shi come on quit with the scared puppy act and speck up!
An unknown force must have enchanted the classroom as Shilo's barely understandable words were all the suddenly heard though out the room. The class was in an uproar of excitement just by those three last words that Shilo barely even whispered out. The room was filled with student after student saying "wow" and "wait till I tell my folks about this," and then above the mass of voices the chipper voice of before was once heard by Shilo.
"Shilo, how did you found the lost kingdom?"
Shilo, who was in a state of amazement, allowed the words to enter her and sink in before she trusted herself to speck on the topic of her great adventure, while the class grow painfully silence waiting for an answer.
"Well, if you really must know…" started Shilo who became more focused on reminiscing about her past than her current situation, "I was taking a class with an arcgilogy about two years ago. I never really got along with my teacher, he was a firm believer in the idea that woman belonged at home, which are values that I do not uphold. So I bet him that I could find the kingdom which he longed to see, the kingdom of Otropomiss."
Shilo's tone became more and more confidant with each word that came out, she soon forgot about her nervousness as her voice become of that no of a teacher but of a story teller. As she started talking about green of the leaves and the hot stickiness that made up the jungle, the class was perfectly still, trance by her words. The story started to pick up when she got to a part about the old rope bridge that nearly sent her falling to her doom of a bottomless pit. Shilo's voice still gained more and more volume and started to show off the eager personality that Shilo was trying so hard to forget she had.
"… the tiger had knocked all the air out of my lungs as it plunged me to the ground." Shilo's voice rang out in urgency, Shilo was on the floor now with her left arm propping her up as her right stayed above her head to show where the tiger was, "I reached for my digger but when my hand touched the leather harness, the wooden handle was nowhere to be!" The faces of students looked on their teacher with trill and excitement.
"Then just as the tiger's mighty skull crushing jaws were about to tear into my soft flesh-"
RING! Went the bell as all the students jumped back into the proper sitting position.
Shilo stood back up, no making eye contact with the young ones as she straiten the wrinkles out of her dark red dress.
"Well? What happened next?!" This was a new voice this time, belonging to a young prince.
Shilo looked back up at her class.
"Well as you all can see, I survived the tiger, found the kingdom, made it back all in one piece, and of coursed I won the bet." Shilo said in a matter of fact tone.
The students were not pleased with Shilo's abridged ending; they all packed up their belongings while noticeable groans and sighs escaped their lips. But all exited the classroom with no protested.
Shilo took a breath of relief.
Not so bad Shi. Now if only I can keep up the performance for seven more classes.
This day was certainly not going to be easy.
Author's Note: Okay guys I hope that you are all enjoying this so far and don't worry characters from the show will get involved soon. But any ideas about who is the happy princess sitting in front is? Bye for now dudes.