I dare you, try going to school with a bird on your shoulder. Unless you're a falconer or an austringer, you're just going to get a lot of weird looks. Besides, no one trains hunting pigeons, or pidgeys, whatever. I'm calling Lawrence a pigeon so people don't think I'm completely insane.

"Would you stop calling me a pigeon?" he finally said to me after one of my classes when the hall was empty. "It's like calling an Aston Martin a Yugo." he ruffled his feathers a bit.

"Hah, I thought I was the only one that made car references. Everyone always looks at me weird when I do." I chuckled a bit. "But pidgeys don't exist. At least, they're not supposed to. You have no clue what people would think if I started calling you that, thinking I'm delusional. "Oh, look at that crazy nutjob, acting out fantasies."" I said the last part in a mock voice.

Lawrence just looked behind me. "Oh, bloody hell..." he muttered.

"What? Someone hear me?" I looked behind me. It was Andy again. "Oh..."

"I said I was going to kill that thing. Get out of the way and I'll hurt you, too!" he yelled.

Me and Lawrence just looked at him like he was an idiot. "...what?" Andy said, obviously not getting why we weren't scared of him.

I shook my head. "Get out of the way and I'll hurt you? Don't you mean, "Get out of the way or I'll hurt you?""

Andy paused for a short moment. "Er...well...yeah. Dammit, stop correcting me!"

Lawrence snickered. "I think that needed corrected. Seems like a pretty crucial conjunction to me."

I laughed. "Ah! Somebody else who knows their English terms!" I said. I then realized I was looking at Lawrence when I said that. Andy looked at me like he'd just heard me speaking in some dialect of Ancient Greek.

"What the hell? Did you just...what...I..." he shook his head. "Are you talking to that thing!" he finally said.

I shrugged. "Maybe, maybe not. Would you know the difference either way?" I laughed. "Maybe I am, or maybe I'm just freaking you out."

Andy came up to me and lifted me up by my shirt. "Maybe it won't matter when I break both of you!" he said with a rather violent tone to his voice. I yelped as this happened! Maybe I shouldn't have been so smarmy with him. Though, just as he reared his hand back to punch me, something shoved him back, hard! That sent him, me, and Lawrence to the ground. I looked up and immediately knew who it was that had delivered the shove. He had medium length white hair, pale skin, red eyes, and was wearing a black trenchcoat and black jeans, like he almost always was. If there was anybody in the school that was the weirdest and most unpredictable, it was this guy. Aros Roth. He was glaring at Andy, but even when he was mad, his voice sounded really calm. Though, I wasn't sure how mad he was, since he was smirking.

"Really? That mad over a little bird? Tsk, try controlling your anger for once." he said, shaking his head a little.

Andy looked furious. "Control my anger? How about I redirect it?" he ran towards Aros, swinging his fist at him. Aros dodged his punch, punching him in the gut and shoving him back, making him stagger and cough. He only yelled out and tried to hit Aros again. By this time people were watching, but that didn't seem to distract either of them, Aros grabbing Andy's arm and giving him a hook across his jaw, then punching him in the gut, which made Andy keep over before Aros gave him an uppercut to his face as he let go of his arm, making him stagger and fall to the ground, not unconscious, but looking quite dazed. I could hear people muttering and talking to each other during this, people keeping their distance.

Aros just stepped back from Andy a bit. "Hmm...here is a thought, how about redirecting your anger onto something inanimate? You might have better luck with that."

Andy just growled. "I'll get you for that. You'll see..." he stood up, though not looking like he was going to try to attack again.

Aros scoffed. "If you would devote as much time to academics as you do now to bullying people, maybe you would actually pass all of your classes in a semester for once."

"Cram it! What I do isn't any of your business." Andy said, storming off. Finally the people dissipated to get to their classes as the bell rang. I picked up Lawrence gently. Didn't seem like he got hurt when we got knocked over.

When the other people cleared out, I tried to thank Aros. While I was trying, though, he pinned me against the wall with his arm, looking me in the eye. He didn't seem mad, though he was creeping me out. "I know what that bird is. I have more experience in that field than you know. Maybe more than you will ever know. People will come for you if you keep up on your path..." he stepped back. "I do not know who, but they are coming for me, too. I cannot stop it, but you have a choice." he said before running off. I didn't do anything for a moment, finally shaking my head a little.

"Any clue what he was talking about?" I asked Lawrence.

He shrugged. "Got me. I'm not sure if he knows what he's talking about. He seems a bit mental."

"I don't know." I said. Was he? Honestly, I was kind of glad to know I wasn't the only one who knew about what Laurence was. What he said worried me, though. When he said something, he was usually right. It was actually a bit creepy. "I still think we should be careful."

"What? You think he's right? He's off his rocker!" Lawrence exclaimed.

"Eh, I won't argue with you there. But when says something will happen, he's right. Usually." I said. Granted, him being right was usually predicting natural disasters, but...still. Creepy, right?

"Hmm. There's something really strange about him. I can't quite put my finger on it." Lawrence said.

"You mean besides almost everything?" I replied.

"Well, almost like there was something...inhuman about him. Ah, never mind it, maybe he just gives me the shivers." he said, ruffling his feathers a bit. He wasn't the only one. Aros gave a lot of people the creeps. If it wasn't for him, though, me and Lawrence would probably not be in good shape right now. All I knew right now is it wasn't going to be good for our health if Lawrence kept coming to school with me, at this rate.

Though, at least I got something amusing before I left school. As I was going to my next class, I heard Andy and Lucas again.

"That stupid son of a-"

"Cool it, Andy. Tha' guy's a bettuh fighter than you are. Jus' face it."

"Then why don't you get him! You're into boxing, for crying out loud!"

"Whoa, ya think I's nuts? 'E's no boxer, but 'e could lay me right out flat. 'Sides, jus' 'cause someone's not a boxer don't mean they don't fight. If you's gonna make people think ya smart, at least act it."

"Grr, I told you not to say things like that!"

"Or whut? I can't beat Aros, but I sure can lay your sorry ass flat."

"Oh, yeah? Bring it, come on!"

"You dun' mean that, stupid."

"Come on!"

I just chuckled and shook my head, leaving them to their arguing. I don't think they actually traded blows. Just them arguing like always. I was already late to class, though. At least they'd be later than I was.