Chapter 3: Phase 2
As the bell rang for the fifth lesson of the day, Arthur and his mates headed to English.
"When are we going to do it?" Asked Gwaine eagerly, as though he was a mischievous five year old.
"Patience Gwaine!" Merlin hushed, smiling to himself.
"Uh oh! The man has something up his sleeve again!" Percival grinned.
"Indeed I do!" Merlin continued to smile impishly.
"What is it?" Arthur asked, intrigued.
"Ah, now that would be telling!" Merlin replied, tapping the side of his nose and entering the English classroom. The other lads looked to one another feeling anxious and interested at the same time before entering the classroom themselves.
Morgana gave her death stare as Arthur dared to walk past her desk. Ignoring her, Arthur sat at his. Suddenly there was a loud thump followed by an array of laughter. As Arthur turned round he noted Helios and Mordred laughing uncontrollably at Merlin whom they had obviously tripped up as he was sprawling around helplessly on the floor. Just then, Mr Alined- The teacher- walked in.
"What is going on in here?" His voice bellowed loudly as his face turned to thunder. The class fell silent and all eyes were fixed onto Helios, Mordred and Merlin. The three boys stared at one another.
"I'm waiting for an answer!" Mr Alined added. Helios winked subtly at Mordred before putting on the most innocent voice he could:
"Sir, Merlin here tried to hit me with his book. I didn't mean to hurt him, I was only defending myself!" Mortified, Merlin looked to the teacher whom walked up to where he was sitting in a heap on the floor of the classroom.
"Is this true boy?" The teacher asked menacingly, practically growling at poor Merlin as he towered over him.
"Of course not! I've got more sense than that sir!" Merlin replied.
"Really sir, I saw him do it!" Mordred chipped in; trying to smirk like Morgana did though seemingly failed.
"That's rubbish!" A voice yelled across the classroom. Everyone turned to see Arthur who had jumped up from his seat. The teacher's eyes narrowed.
"I wasn't talking to you Mr Pendragon." He snarled.
"But it's true sir! Merlin did nothing! Helios tripped him up!" Gwaine added.
All of a sudden, before Mr Alined could say another word, the class broke out in a riot. It was Morgana's team against Arthur's team. Exercise books and dictionaries were flying out of control over the room like malfunctioning aeroplanes; pencils and pens were firing across the room like machine gun ammunition and general fights mainly between the boys were breaking out.
"Class!" The teacher screamed, but his loud bellow was drowned out by the noise of the battle being fought within the small space.
Arthur was distracted as Helios pinned him up against the wall.
"This is for what you did to Morgana!" He roared as he punched Arthur hard in the stomach several times. Winded, Arthur fell to his knees, clutching his belly as pain throbbed.
"Arthur's down!" Gwaine mumbled. Then he delved into his bag.
Meanwhile, the girls weren't quite as violent with actions, but more so with their words.
"Gwen, you're so poor I bet your father has to sacrifice his breakfast for you!" Morgana laughed alongside Sophia and Nimueh.
"That's not true!" Gwen fought back the tears. Both Freya and Vivian put a reassuring hand on her shoulders.
"What the hell are you protecting her for Vivian? I thought you were on our side!" Sophia snarled at the blonde.
"You all put me in a mess with Arthur. If I had known you were doing it to separate them, I would have never agreed to flirt with him!" She snapped back.
"You shouldn't under-estimate us. Just because we enjoy learning doesn't make us freaks!" Freya shouted.
"Actually it does!" Nimueh retorted.
"You're the freaks!" Gwen found some courage and screamed back.
"How so?" Morgana walked forward, staring right into Gwen's face.
Merlin was watching in astonishment. The whole situation was out of control, or so it seemed. He noted Gwaine sneaking toward the girls.
"What are you…?" Merlin asked inquisitively.
"Ssh!" Gwaine continued, until he was just within reach of Morgana's huddle of girls. He readied himself, hoping they wouldn't turn around and catch him. Frowning Merlin noticed he had something round and white in his hand. Gwaine held it behind him.
"NO GWAINE!" Merlin yelled, but it was too late as Gwaine hurled the flour bomb toward the girls. At the sound of Merlin screaming Morgana turned. She didn't expect to be greeted with a parcel of flour hitting her face. The room fell silent. Everyone held their breath as they awaited her reaction. Wiping the substance from her eyes, she frowned and looked like she was going to kill someone as she scrunched up her fists and screamed:
"HOW DARE YOU!"
Everyone tried to cover up their laughter as flour covered her hair and clothes. Then Leon threw another flour bomb. Only this time at Mordred whom immediately stopped chuckling to himself as the package of flour impacted his rather immaculate uniform.
Once again, a riot broke out. This time, great amounts of flour were flying across the room, and before long the air in the room was so misty, it became hard to tell who was fighting with whom.
All hell had broken loose until the door to the classroom opened. Mr Alined stormed in, followed by a shocked Mr Physicist and Mr Pendragon. Suddenly, a flour bomb flew through the air and splattered over Mr Pendragon's pin stripe suit.
"What is going on in here?" He exploded. Everyone fell silent and stared through the misty air at the silhouette of teachers. They recognised the voice of the head in an instant and cringed when they knew how much trouble they'd be in.
"Why are you all behaving in this outrageous manner?" He screamed. Wincing with pain, and rising from the floor, Arthur limped over to the headmaster- his father.
"It was my entire fault." He mumbled.
"What?" Mr Pendragon asked, hoping he hadn't heard correctly.
"I said it was my entire fault!" Arthur repeated louder.
"Arthur!" Merlin stepped forward, knowing that he shouldn't take the blame.
"How could you cause such a thing? You are my son! I expect you to set an example for the rest of the students! And here you are, fighting, throwing flour bombs and causing Mr Alined to require assistance in controlling this class!" Mr Pendragon lost it, screaming his head off at his son whom bowed his head down as he received a very nasty telling off in front of everyone. Merlin; Gwaine; Leon; Percival and Gwen all felt incredibly guilty. Then one by one stepped forward.
"Sir, it isn't just Arthur who should take the blame. We all should as well." Merlin admitted head down along with the others.
"We all had a part in this." Gwen added.
"All of you will have after school detention for an entire month where you will be writing lines for all of your actions". The group groaned quietly.