It was a very good day for Barry Allen. It also was his first day at his new school- "the CW high" of Silverstone city, one of the finest high-schools in the states. According to the brochure that he showed his stepfather the school had a high demand of the students who passed its gates-an exemplary behavior as well as the excellency at any class they chose. Barry talked his dad all summer long to get him signed up for this school, eventually Joe said yes, and here he was at the gates of the CW's.
He was terrified. It was understandable-he was about to experience the worst day of school, the first one. Being the "fresh meat" he never actually had a chance so as he embarked on his journey in this school stress was his dominant emotion.
As he entered the main campus, he immediately crashed into someone "dam it!" he heard a girlish voice cry, he looked up and in front of him stood a girl with very blue eyes and a curly blond hair that was falling in waves on her back and shoulders. "I'm so sorry" Barry instantly said" here, let my pick your books" and he bent down, picked her books from the floor and gave them back to her. "I don't know you" she stated simply "I'm a new student in here, that's my first day" Barry answered her question "I'm Barry by the way, Barry Allen" he gave his hand out for a shake and she replied with her own hand and a smile "nice to meet you Barry I'm Kara Danvers" Barry realized that he shook Kara's hand a bit too long and pulled his hand back while Kara was about to leave "listen" he called out "since I'm new here would you mind pointing me to the labs-my first lesson is there and I don't want to be late on my first day…" Kara tilted her head to the side "the labs are next to the auditorium, where I learn communication and media science-I'll just walk with you, we can make it still and Mr. Wells is not that harsh a teacher" Barry shrugged his shoulders "you're the boss" he stated smiling at her.
They walked together and Barry noticed that some of the boys were carrying bows, quivers and wooden swords. "what is that?" he asked, kind of intrigued "that is what you will be doing at sports." Kara saw the look on Barry's face and gave a small chuckle "girls still learn martial arts, we just don't train with weapons" Barry looked dazed by this new information and he seemed out of words-he never imagined that in this school he will learn how to use a sword or a bow, he thought that he will only have to get good grades in his main subjects, the demand to use weapons and perhaps compete in a swords match looked very scary.
"so, you know kung fu or something?" he asked Kara in a teasing voice "as a matter of fact I do, along with many other forms such as judo, mui thai, taekwondo and jiujitsu." Barry had a hard time thinking that this school will be so abnormal, he did expect some differences from a normal school, but this was just wild. "do you know which house you have been sorted into?" asked Kara with interest "I hope that you will end up in the league" Barry's confused look at Kara made her blush a little "right, you are new in here, I forgot that" Barry smiled widely at her "if you forgot that, that means I'm doing a good job at being a fresh meat" Kara giggled "well, since you have reminded me of that fact-I might as well give you the whole story, I have warned you" Barry just gave smiled "bring it".
"It starts with two people-Bruce Wane and Lex Luthor" Kara spitted the last name in disgust "two of the school's best senior students in that time formed up a rivalry between the two of them, after a while each one of them formed up a little club of supporters that stood up for his side in the argument. Soon the school was divided to two houses-the league and the legion. Each student that is registered for this school is being watched for some time before he is sent to one of the houses."
"What was the accident that brought the two guys to fight in the first place?" Barry asked; this whole thing made his head feel dizzy-what kind of school is this? First the swords and then this?! What the hell is going on? And where, in the name of god are the teachers in this school? Do they all accept this kind of wackiness as it is? "once you are within a house you will get to know, one way or another" were Kara's elusive answer "here it is, the labs. Nice to meet you Barry-hope to see you in the league soon".
'Damn' thought Barry as he walked to the white, metal doors 'what had I gotten myself into?!' he thought as he passed through the doors into the class. When he raised his head to look at the class he was amazed- as a science nerd he got excited at all the amazing gear the labs had' they had centrifuges, microscopes(good ones, not the toys you often see in school's labs), and a vacuum chamber to name a few. The class room itself was a large room with many science related posters glued to its walls; the chairs and the tables in the room were laid down in a sets of three chairs for one table, there were about four tables in the entire class. Barry slowly wandered to the tables and sat hoping he did not catch anyone's seat; as he sat down a middle-aged man stepped into the class while whistling for himself, not fully aware for his surroundings.
In what seemed to be surprise he noticed Barry and approached to his table "I have not even the slightest idea who you are but you are the first student here that arrived on time for my class, enough with the chit-chat now, you are the new student Barny?" the entire sentence was spoke in such a speed that Barry had to take a moment and think about it "yes, I am the new student and it is Barry not Barny" the man smiled and looked at Barry dead in the eyes while doing so which kind of freaked Barry out "my bad, I'm just bad with names-well, let's talk about me a little more. Unless you are scientifically a moron you understand that I am the teacher of this class. My name is Harrison Wells" Mr. Wells reached out a hand for Barry and Barry shook it: "nice to meet you Mr. Wells".
"you know, probably, that as a sophomore you will have some gaps from the other kids in class that is why I'm going to stick you with the two best students I have, do you give me your agreement?'' asked wells. "yeah, I think it's a good idea" Barry said with relief, he was the best in his school in all science-related subjects but in this school it was a different league from what he used to know. He wasn't scared, just determined to prove both himself and his stepfather that he was right picking this school for himself. Mr. Wells just nodded in return and walked to the front of the room when the door burst open.
"Mr. Wells, sir I'm so, SOOO sorry for being this late, I was at the library and I was just doing a little research about the movement of time in a…"
"Cisco!" wells yelled at the guy in the door "I don't care the slightest bit why you were late, I've learned to deal with it but I don't want that to become a bad habit of yours"
"I'm sorry sir, won't happen again" said Cisco and was in the middle of walking to his place as wells said "Cisco, this is Barry, he is new and as a way to introduce him to our lessons I want you and Caitlyn to be with him for a while, within our lessons of course" Cisco looked around and spotted Barry and smiled widely as he approached the table Barry was sitting in "what's up dude? First day, must be terrifying right?" Barry gave a chuckle and nodded "yep, and the swords didn't help either" Cisco looked confused for a second and then he just shrugged his shoulders "you don't have to use swords or combat training in sports- it's a possibility. There are many sports teacher around this school-some are more wired then the others, besides, do I look to you like the kind of guy who fights?" Cisco finished pointing at himself; Barry did realize that Cisco was way too chill for fighting and he didn't look very sports-like. "so, what do you do?" asked Barry "I'm a tech guy and a scientist" Cisco said with a subtext that said, 'is this guy for real?' "no, I get that, but what do you do?" asked Barry again and explained himself "I just wandered what a guy like you-a normal guy, does" Cisco seemed to understand the question finally and answered "I do all kinds of stuff: helping the house on missions via disabling booby-traps that the legion had set up around the school during the…" "wait a minute" Barry cut into Cisco's sentence with excitement "booby-traps?! For real?" Cisco nodded in return and looked kind of casual about it.
At that moment, the door burst again and this time it was a female who stood there. she throwed a little "sorry" at Mr. Wells, and rushed to the seat next to Cisco and Barry. "hi" she smiled at cisco and as she passed her gaze on Barry her smile looked a little smaller as she just asked him "who are you?" in a slightly shaking voice. "hi, I'm Barry-I'm new here, nice to meet you" the girl looked at cisco and he gave a slight gesture with his head and only then she spoke "I'm Caitlin snow, nice to meet you". she offered him a hand which he shook and then he asked "are you also a tech expert like cisco?" she gave out a small laugh "no, I'm a biologist in my expertise" Barry smiled at her "cool" he stated. Caitlin gave him the feeling of a hunted animal 'I need to figure out what's going on with her' he noted for himself "so you are going to be a doctor or something?" barry asked and Caitlyn nodded quickly once "that's cool".
At that exact moment, the door opened and into the class barged three students. They seemed more menacing then cisco and Caitlyn, something about them just felt off for barry, like the air got thicker suddenly. "eobard, Solomon, leonard-I want your work done by tomorrow, no excuses" Mr. wells seemed more formal with those students then with cisco and Caitlin. One of the students, eobard, looked at barry for a moment then he whispered something to the other two and they laughed loudly as they walked to their seats, Barry's impression of the three got reaffirmed because of it. Several other students came late and after 15 minutes of students barging in spontaneously the lesson began.
Barry never had a lesson like this one, it was amazingly hard to keep up with Mr. wells as he quickly talked through the subject of light and it's mechanics, then he started to go deep into the theory side of the stuff he talked about, showing all kind of equations that confused the hell out of barry. As he tried to keep up, he looked over to cisco and got nervous as he saw that cisco is understanding everything 'shit, this is way harder as I thought it would be' he thought. "barry If I would want you to create a force filed out of light how would you do it?" Mr. wells asked suddenly, barry was caught off guard and thought for a moment then answered "I would calculate the number of electrons in the light particles and try and detract some electrons and then I would create a devise, a battery actually, to give electricity to the particles which is going to make them bound together to a solid light1, or so it supposed to go" barry got really nervous as Mr. wells took a moment to think about his answer "this is the easiest solution and there are many different factors that are needed to be taken to consideration, but this is, generally, the idea good job barry" Mr. wells smiled at barry and cisco gave him a small high-five, barry felt relieved as the lesson continued, he felt as if he proved himself to Mr. wells.
The lesson ended at 9:15 and as he walked out, he bumped into a guy dressed in black t-shirt with blue eyes and a blonde, almost white, short hair. Barry started to apologize as the guy took barry by the throat and slammed him into the wall "watch where you go, idiot!" barry had a hard time breathing and he tried to struggle for air but the guy was very strong and his grip was formidable, barry managed to catch him off guard and kick him in the crouch and the guy stumbled back in pain and let go of Barry's throat. Barry was birthing heavily and stared at his attacker, the guy got to a fighting position and barry saw that the guy knew what he was doing 'I've messed up this time' he thought in fear as the guy approached him. Before the guy was able to strike barry someone shouted "hi! Damien! pick at someone who knows how to fight back!", down the hall, another guy in a green hoodie approached the scene and stood between barry and Damien. "look who it is, Mr. 'goodguy'" Damien said mockingly "here to rescue the maiden?" he pointed at barry sarcastically "why won't you test you lack Darhk?" said the guy who was apposing darhk, darhk just snored and walked away. barry turned to thank his savior but the guy was about to leave. "wait! Wait" barry run after him and caught him" I just want to say thank you for putting yourself on the line for me and…" "next time run" the guy said simply" you are no match for a guy like darhk" barry was a bit shocked at the bluntness of the statement although it meant no harm. "you are new around here aren't you?" the guy asked in interest "one of my friends told me about you, barry isn't it?" barry nodded in return "yep, that's my name" the guy looked at barry as if he was assessing his value "it was very brave of you to kick him, good thinking under pressure, I'm Oliver by the way, Oliver Queen".
1 I'm not a scientist, give me a brake