Chapter 10

Authors note: I want to give out special thanks for my first two followers (TheAwesomePercyJacksonFangirl and feeqar). Now back to the story.

There was a 15 min warning bell that sounded so we could get ready for our next class, and it was music to my ears I dropped to my belly sore from doing pushups for the past 30 min nonstop. Every time I would slow down or give up Rosé just slapped me with the flat of her blade which was easily 20lbs which is rare in a two handed great sword, they were usually only 8lbs, and she only used one hand while pretending to sleep on the ground next to me. I tried to run away once but she just picked me up with on hand by the shirt and told me if I wanted to quit then I would have to beat her. Then she threw me aside. I rolled to the ground I got up and tried to run again but she caught me and threw me again.

"Very well you can go to class but I want you back here at 1740" she said then gave a giant yawn got up and walked out of the hall, but before she walked five steps she turned around and added, "If you do not come back I will hunt you down." She no longer looked tired she looked hungry like a wolf.

She wanted me to run. I could see it in her eyes I was only a baby deer that she was playing with. Then I remembered in the seven dwarfs story how the dragon only wanted to play with the dwarf but then cut his tongue out. Her eyes went back to tiered sleepy eyes and she continued to the door.

The net had opened up in several places and student dropped the 15ft to the ground got out of the way for the next person and went to class. Many students rolled when they hit the ground to break the fall others just made the stone ground shake and walk away unharmed. I could see Mathew Winter drop to the ground without rolling and start taking to his girl friend that came out in the same manner. They both didn't have a single cut or bruise or anything unlike most of the students around them were healing minor cuts to both clothes and skin though the ones fixing their clothes all had a single white glove on their hands. When the cuts were mended they took off the glove and put it in their pockets.

I needed one of those gloves. My once clean uniform was now cut and covered in dirt from being thrown to the ground 5 times in a row. Kaleb and Arvola didn't look any better Arvola's knuckles were bleeding and Kaleb's uniform was in pieces he was even missing his right sleeve and you could see most of his nasty scar on his chest with new tiny cut all over his body.

"What happened to you?" I asked Kaleb as he looked in his school bag for extra clothes of course there wasn't any.

"I got tangled up in the barbed wire I was supposed to curl under, and what about it looks like your complete covered in bruises"

I looked down at my body and I did look a little darker than normal but I couldn't feel the bruises maybe because my whole body was covered in them and I was numb at the moment. "I was thrown around like a Frisbee for a bit then beaten with a sword for the other bit. What about you?" I said to Arvola looking at her bloody knuckles.

"Well that stupid bunny made me hit that padded poll nonstop, my legs did a little better their not as bloody." She said holding her hands steady in front of her. "Can you grab my bag for me it's over by the doors; I don't think I can pick up anything. How am I going to put on my uniform when I can't feel my hands?" she said as we walked to the exit. I grab her bag for her as Kaleb went to our rooms for a quick change. I walked her over to the watery triangle the lead to her dormitories. That when we saw most of the first year water student all in shambles entering the triangle.

"Did all the first years get a beat down" I said to Arvola as she waved over the black haired water girl that I had seen in the sorting, she had been the second one sorted. She also looked like she took a beating too, her left eye had been blackened nearly shut. She looked like a sad pirate with a limp.

"Yeah must have but I wonder why?" she said to me, then to her friend "who gave you that nice shiner!"

"if you can believe it, it was our officer Corrina she was trying to teach me how to dodge, but what happed to your hands."

"Our other kindly officer Adam."

"What the guy with bunny ears how could he have done that, did he put them through a meat grinder?"

"I will tell you everything but I need to change for class can you take my bag?" she said to Violet. She nodded and took the bag I offered to her. She said thanks to me and we split up. She stepped through the fast flowing water and shattered into snowflakes with her friend and sank into the ground. I turned and went to my triangle to wait for Kaleb. Then I turned back to watch the water student exit their triangle by steam rising from the ground then water droplets forming in the mist then freezing into a statue of the person before shattering and a Black haired boy shock then stepped out of the triangle.

Kaleb materializes a few moments later his ash forming his body the given life he steps out of the triangle towards me and we headed for class in the South East hall.

We made it to class with two minutes to spare this class was taught by a woman and when everyone was seated in their desks that were arranged just like the history class room except she didn't care were we sat. Kaleb and I sat in the second row next to Daymond that looked like he had been stung by a hundred bees, his face and hand could barley hold the pencil he was getting out of his bag. Looking around at the other students I could see that more than half of them were covered in so sort of injury. Victor didn't even have a shirt he was only wearing his black jacket, and he was holding his arm across his chest as if it was broken.

"Well I can't say I am surprised, all of you look like you came out of a battlefield. So who decided it was time to check out the gym during lunch?" the teacher asked, crossing her arms.

More than half the class raised their hands and everyone who did had some sort of injury. There were loads with ripped uniforms and just as many black eyes. The ones who didn't raise their hands looked scared but didn't have any wounds to lick after class.

"What happened? Why are they all beat up." Said a dark skinned boy with wavy brown hair raising his hand when everyone put theirs down, he must have been in the air house.

"Well this stupid school has a tradition for the fourth years. Where each one chooses a first year to train, then they have them fight each other to get in the upper part of the net. It's horrible; I never understood why everyone is so crazy about fighting. Of course I am just a normal teacher, who is paid to teach math at this crazy school." Then she paused realizing something "I am sorry, I flew off the handles again. My name is Wendy Morton; you may call me Mrs. Morton."

Mrs. Morton was a middle age woman, with a kind smile, and brown hair that reached down to her thighs in a tight braid. She was wearing a plain black skirt and a white button up shirt. She didn't have an elemental stone visible like all the older people here, maybe she had it in her purse or something. Then I remembered that she said she was normal, did that mean she wasn't an elementlist?

She started to do roll call like the other teachers, but when she reached Shayleen's and Abby's name no one answered. I looked around but I couldn't find either of them, maybe they got lost. But Shayleen didn't seem to be the person who would get lost when given simple instructions. Mrs. Morton checked marked their names and continued, everyone else was here. She put her list down and started to explain what kind of math they were going to be covering over the semester. When the door opened and the two missing students walked in. Abby was completely covered in ash and cuts while Shayleen looked unhurt, however her once white hair hung to the center of her back was now cut roughly at her neck. She looked at the teacher bowed in respect and walked too two empty seats in the back of the class with Abby.

"Are you girls alright?" Mrs. Morton sad with concern.

They nodded and got their Mathematic books out. Shayleen's face looked like it was ready to kill someone and for some reason I didn't doubt she could. I could feel cold energy in the room now, as if hating the world. Slowly the power faded from the room and after the teacher regained her train of thought she continued.

The class went by smoothly after that, we learned a little bit and got more homework. A few students fell asleep, I almost fell too, except Kaleb kept poking me when I nodded off, and I did the same for him. After what we went through in the gym, I wanted to lay on the ground and go into hibernation, but school was more important. The teacher was kind to those who had been beaten up and fallen asleep. She would ask the person next to them, to wake them up gently, and then continued her lesson.

When the bell rung she asked Abby and Shayleen too stay after class and explain why they were late. I got up putting my books in my heavy bag and told Kaleb that I had to go to our rooms and grab my cauldron. He came with me to get his too which were both too big to put in our already full bags. The other fire students came to and we all past through the fiery triangle portal. I emptied my books out grabbed my potion and transfiguration books along with the tray of ingredients I bought in the Fort. Then we all ran back to the triangle and to our Potion classroom that was located "1NE1 B" we didn't go through the North Hall which would have been faster instead we went to the East Hall. When we got there I jumped back because for a second it looked a lot like the North hall except there was no net and instead of a metal jungle, it was a real jungle with large trees coming out of the ground, vines everywhere and animals either sleeping or chasing each other on the branches. The students walking along the branches weren't fighting either. They just walked casually across to one of the many tunnel in the walls. I couldn't see Bruce which meant he was probably asleep in one of the higher trees.

"Wow this is creepy," Kaleb said looking for an obstacle course that wasn't there.

I understood completely, this looked too much like the North Hall where we were beaten up, and more or less tortured. I looked for the ground floor entrances to the first corridors nearest the center of the school. Daymond and Victor were all ready walking to it closely followed by some other students. Kaleb and I shock our heads and followed, it was the second classroom of the left with the words "Potions, Professor Evans" in printed on the wooden door. This classroom was more like Mr. Wayne's class. It had the four setter metal lab tables set up around the classroom. There were a few cabinets in the room also holding different vials and bottled creatures. The teacher wasn't in the room at the moment so we sat down at a desk next to Victor who seemed really happy not to be next to girls this time.

"I wonder what this teacher will be like." I said to Victor and Kaleb.

"How much do you want to bet it will be a guy?" Victor said smiling.

"Bet you a dollar it's a girl" I said to him bringing out my wallet, and taking a dollar then putting it on the table.

"You're on!" he said fishing a dollar out of his bag.

Kaleb shook his head grabbed his own wallet and said "I am betting the teacher isn't human."

"That not fair you have more chances of being right, name three others that the teacher can't be." Victor said.

"Fine" he took a moment to think then said, "Werewolf, Fairy, and… Dwarf."

"Wait then who get the money if it s a female Elf?" I said.

"The loser has to give 50 cents to each" Victor said easily then frowned realizing he would be the loser in that scenario.

I looked at my phone there was 2 minutes left before class would start, could we give the teacher detention if they were late thinking back to what Professor Blackwell said to Kaleb and I. One minute to go, 30 seconds, five, 4, three, 2, and the door opened. The teacher stepped in the room then the bell rang, she was a female elf no doubt about it, she was tall with long dark blue hair that seemed to shimmer like light on a mountain stream. She walked in the room without making a single noise, I couldn't even hear her black high heel shoes step on the stone floor. Though I could see that it made contact with her shoes, there just wasn't any sound as if someone pushed mute on her whole body.

"Welcome to potions I am glad everyone has made it here on time, including me." She gave a small smile.

She looked to be in her 50's but I wasn't sure how elves age and if it was different from humans. Her voice sounded as though a river could speak English, it was soothing and made you think of icy water rolling over rocks. There was also something else that was harder to catch was there an accent to her voice. I haven't met a lot of Canadians but she sounded a little like an old family from Canada. I don't know who else to describe it, you could understand her but the sound of her voices was too different, not human.

"My name is Mrs. Evans I am also head of the Water house, and a Forest Elf."

At the word Elf I looked at her ears to find that they were sharper and longer then fairy ears, but her eyes held the greatest different. They were a deep hazel and had no pupils or sclera (the white part of an eye) just hazel eyes with faint green veins on her eye lids, and around her eyes that faded to her regular skin color. It looked quite beautiful and it matched her flower printed dress perfectly.

She went through roll call like all the other teachers but this time Shayleen and Abby were present. Setting in the back of the class with Sarah and Ashley, they were trying to get rid of the chopped up look.

Professor Evans set her list down and started her speech, "In this class we will focus on body type potions like healing and manipulation. If you want to make love potions you can sign up for those classes next year I think they are located in the North West section. For your first day of class I think we should try some healing poultices, so we can heal some of your wounds. I should also warn everyone here, after class you should all go to the gym otherwise every fourth year that hasn't picked a first year will go hunting for you. Either way you will get hurt so you should pay double attention in this class today if you want to learn how to heal faster."

We didn't use are cauldrons today we mostly just crushed Aloe Vera and added a few special mushrooms that were grown by dwarfs under the mountain. Then she taught use were most of healing plants could be found and what they looked like, most could be found around the school. Then she went over a couple of poisons plants that could kill most animals.

Making the poultice was hard you had to crush the mushrooms and Aloe Vera just right so it would be runny but could still be applied easily. We had to weigh some other plants so we could add it to the mix. Kaleb barely had time to stop me from adding the wrong plant. If I had added it I would have had to toss the whole thing and try again. Then after a bit I told the professor what I had almost done and she said if I had done that it would have held my skin but also turn it black. Needless to say I was a lot more careful.