If you told Willow on that Wednesday that she would be betrayed, Hurt and Used against her will by two different beings, She would have been nice and would have told you that you were totally going to pass your Oracle exam.
When she first opened her eyes she saw her clock, it read 06:59, One hour and one minute before school started. She smiled, Today was her favorite day of the week. She made her way to her wardrobe and got dressed in her usual green Hexside uniform. It was Wednesday and that meant it was her day at gardening duty at the school greenhouse, It wasn't that hard it was just her walking around making sure the plants were getting enough water, Sunlight, making sure the carnivorous plants were fed. Once she was dressed she left a note for her dads and left the house ready for the day.
She was about to start walking to school when she heard a hooting noise, she looked up and saw an Owl flying towards the house carrying a parcel with the Hexside school logo on it, for a moment she thought it might be Owlbert, but she noticed it was more black than brown.
Willow's eyes widened, today was the day.
The owl landed in front of her, it placed the parcel on the ground in front of Willow and looked at her expectingly, she knew what this meant, He wanted a tip.
"Oh, um, there are some mice roaming around the attic if you want some but there's not many of them." Willow held the door open and the Owl hopped inside.
She tore at the parcel, inside was a brochure, she gave a cry of joy and started to run to school, her friends were going to be so impressed.
The brochure Willow was holding onto was for Hexside school, adorned on the cover was her face, and on it were the words "Willow Park, Plant prodigy of the year," in all fairness she wasn't the only student who was on a cover, Each track had chosen their best student to put on various different covers, Bump said it was an attempt to try and show parents that Hexside was a wonderful place which encouraged their students to do their best, Bump was unlike many educators in the fact that he actually meant it.
As egotistical as it sounds she loved the cover. It reminded her of how far she had come, a few months ago she was flunking the abomination track, a weak witch. In just a month things had turned around. She had friends who cared for her. She had made peace with an old friend, all in all, She was getting good grades..
Her life was worth living now.
She was thinking of this when she tripped over something.
"Ahhh."
Three things went through her head after she had recovered from her fall, it was something she had done after the many time the school bullies had tripped her up. a little checklist to make sure things were okay.
"Are my glasses broken?" Willow felt her face, they seemed to be in one piece and the lenses weren't cracked, Next was "are my clothes okay?" she stood up and looked down at her school uniform, It looked fine, and then the third question "are the things I was holding okay?" Willow looked for her brochure and school books, thankfully they were just in front of her undamaged, "Thank goodness," she said to herself.
That's when she heard something, a muffled voice behind her, turning around she saw someone lying on the ground. From their small size and Green skin she knew they were a demon, she ran over to help them.
"Oh, My goodness, " she said concerned, she grabbed his arm and picked him up. "I'm so sorr..." Willow froze when she saw his face. It looked horrible like someone had created the more evillest looking figure in the universe, She saw his teeth all pointed, she looked at his eyes, one was Pale blue with just above and below it was a scar, the other eye was yellow but half-open. He was wearing a uniform Willow recognized as belonging to the Hexside Janitorial staff.
"Watch where you're..." the demon started to say before looking at her, "Oh, I apologize, I shouldn't have been in your way," he said politely.
"Oh no," said Willow apologetically. "It was my fault, I'm so sorry."
"Don't worry about it, It was only a mistake, just forget about it," the demon then started to pick up her books. Willow joined him.
"Thank you said Willow, she felt guilty for being horrified by this demon's appearance, he had snarled at her but she had just hurt him so that was understandable.
"Don't worry about it, Now I think you need to get to school."
"Thanks, What's your name?" asked Willow
"Oh, Comm... Grime, just Grime." said the demon.
"Thank you, Mr. Grime," said Willow before turning around.
"Oh, Don't thank me yet, Miss Park," Said Grime.
,
"How did you know my last name?" said Willow worried.
"It's on the cover," said Grime indicating the brochure, "Also I like to say things like I'm a villain, It's a hobby of mine."
"Oh," said Willow it was her time to be embarrassed, she turned around again.
"See you later," said Grime maliciously.
Willow turned around again
"At school in my role as a custodian," said Grime in a happier tone.
Willow looked at him for a second then shrugged, "Okay see you later," before running off to school.
"You will at that." said Grime sinisterly, he shook his head, "I've got to stop doing that."
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As Willow neared Hexside she smiled, she was just in time to start her duties, other students might complain at having to get up early, but to her a girl who loved gardening it was an extra hour of school doing something she loved
she was halfway to the main doors when something exploded in front of her.
Willow fell down backward thankfully managing to hold on to her bag, the brochure however was lying next to her. she looked at the crater that had been left by the explosion, in the center of it was a simple rubber ball.
"Well, looks like Half a Witch Willow is being her usual nerdy self and going to school early."
Willow sighed, for years the owner of that voice had made her life a living hell.
Hello Boscha." said Willow Annoyed.
"Let me guess, You're here to water the flowers like a good little plant nerd."
Will stood up and saw that Boscha was standing in front of her with that superior-looking grin, she tried to walk around Boscha but the other girl just stepped to stand in her way.
"So, I heard they put you on the cover of this year's Brochure, gotta say, standards have fallen quite a bit, Maybe they should have chosen the star Grudgeby Player instead of a girl who needs to grow better friends."
Willow could have let that off but no, not this, She had earned that place on the cover by being the best in her class, Boscha wasn't on the cover of the potion track variant, She was not going to make her feel bad about this."
"Maybe they realized that Grudgeby isn't really a talent," said Willow.
What was that" said Boscha her voice full of rage.
Before Willow could respond, Boscha grabbed the magazine from the ground. "Huh, looks nice, probably would look nicer in flames," she said with malicious glee, Boscha started to draw a circle with a red line following behind her movements Willow was going to try and tackle Boscha, Boscha was stronger but maybe she could stop her from...
"You know with moves like that I can see why you're an all-star." said a voice from behind Willow.
Boscha stopped drawing her flame circle and was staring at whoever owned that voice.
Willow turned around to see a girl wearing the Hexside uniform, however, there was a strange addition to the uniform, a Hood covering the majority of the head. Underneath that cowl was a Caucasian face, on it was a beauty spot on one cheek and a Scar on the other, A sell tuff of blonde hair stuck out of the hood, in a way she kind of looked like one of Luz's anime heroes.
"What did you say?" demanded Boscha
"Nothing just the fact that you need to bully this girl Kind of proves how insecure you are."
Willow watched this girl worrying about what would happen next.
"Oh, I don't need to do this, " said Boscha trying to appear tough.
"Of course, you don't, You just need to pick on someone smaller than you, Kind of pathetic really."
"Who are you calling pathetic," said Boscha hesitantly.
"You know what would work better, Ignore her, She'll mess up eventually and then you're queen again, so why not give...," The girl turned to look at Willow "What's your name?"
"Willow."
"Give Willow a break and forget this ever happened."
Boscha looked at Willow then the girl and then at the magazine, Willow watched this in amazement as Boscha threw the magazine on the ground and stomped away.
Willow watched this in amazement, this girl had actually convinced Boscha to stop. "That was..." she started to say.
"No worries," said the girl smiling. "You just gotta speak their language."
"Thank you," said Willow smiling. "Who are you?"
The girls smiled "I'm Sasha, Sasha Waybright, It's my first day, And they want me to choose one of these Track things."
"You don't know what track you want to do?" said Willow, "I mean you could do them all, That's what Luz does."
There was a brief look of shock on Sasha's face like she hadn't expected that to be a thing but it was gone in a second."Oh, yeah, But I just want to choose one, I'm kind of curious about what I should though, Any suggestions?"
Willow smiled, "Well I'm with the Plant track, you can shadow me for today, it's the least I could do."
"Sasha nodded. "Cool."
Willow started to walk into school followed by her new friend, today was going to be great.
She didn't notice the smile on Sasha's face, one that screamed Victory.