~
We'd disposed of the
basilisk, by bringing it to the local dump, but the next day in school I
started to get worried again, because I remembered that Miss Lajend had about
forty other basilisks. They mightn't have been grown yet, but they could still
be dangerous in a group.
"What's the matter Cass?"
Tommy approached my locker.
"forty basilisks." I
muttered. "My life was so much less complicated before I met you people. Get up
in the morning, come to school, talk to friends, go to soccer practice, go home,
then go to sleep. There was no get up fight basilisk, go to school fight evil
werewolf syndicate, come home and fight who knows what! Life was simple!"
"Yeah, but life is so much
more fun now, ain't it?" Tommy kissed my cheek as he walked away.
I sighed walking down the
hall to biology.
"Lets see what fun
creatures she has for me today." I growled opening the door. I walked in and
sat down in my seat, waiting for class to begin.
"Oh. My. God." Becky had
just sat down and was staring wide eyed at me.
"What is it now Bitchy." I
couldn't help it, I just wasn't in the best mood.
"Hal just said that, Denise
said, that Jess said that she saw Tommy Dawkins kissing you." She finished
taking a breath. "Is it true?'
"What's it to you?"
"You're a sophomore and
he's a senior, duh."
"Yeah it's true." I looked
at her slightly. "But it's not anything major, Ok?"
"Merton must be doing
something to him." She shook her head and turned to the blackboard.
"I don't what the problem
is that you have with your brother, but he's a really nice guy and just don't
see why you hate him!" I glared at her.
"He's a freak!" she said it
as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Don't even get me
started." I said angrily. "Just shut up."
"Are you and Tommy going
together?" she just wouldn't give up.
"Yes we are." I lied trying
to get her to shut up.
Her jaw dropped open.
"No…?"
"If you're not going to
believe me don't ask!"
"Detention Miss. Black." I
looked up to see Miss Lajend standing over me with a detention slip. "Be here
at 3:00 sharp."
I groaned and Becky
smirked.
~
I showed up at the biology
room after last period. I sat in the back of the room, just so I could jump up
and leave if the situation proved necessary .
"We'll start when my other
students arrive." Said Miss Lajend from the front of the room. there was a
medium sized basilisk wrapped around her torso. After about five minutes her
other students arrived. Tommy, Lori, and Merton sat down at desks. We all shot
each other looks.
"Good you're all here."
Said the teacher. She adjusted the basilisk so its eyes were directed towards
us. I stared down at the desk. "You've been harder to kill than I thought. I
wouldn't have had to kill Merton and Lori, but now I think I will, just for the
fun of it."
She walked closer to us,
trying to get us to look into the basilisks eyes. We all refused, and she put
it down letting it come to us by its self. I was looking around the classroom
trying to find something to defeat the basilisk with. Like lightning an idea
struck me.
"This whole killing thing,
couldn't we just talk about it?" I asked standing up slowly. The rest of them
looked at me.
"No." the basilisk came
closer.
"I didn't want to have to
do this but…" With a clunk the basilisk fell backwards, swaying from the hit in
the head I'd given it. Tommy and Lori grinned standing up to join the fight. I
left them and ran to the front of the room. Merton ran to the back, I noticed
something slipped up his sleeve. I focused on what I wanted to do.
"Sorry Mr. Washington,
please forgive me." I muttered as I grabbed the US flag out of its holder. I
broke the wooden pole that it was stapled to and threw the flag down into the
corner. The stick was sharp enough to impale something with, say a snakes body.
"Lori!" I called across the
room. she looked up and I tossed the stick to her. Lori held it above the
basilisk ready to kill it. Suddenly I felt my neck being squeezed.
"Put the stick down."
Instructed my captor.
"Ambrose." Tommy growled.
I started to be lifted off
the ground, and I now had to struggle even more to breath. I turned my head a
little and I could see a werewolf, not unlike the ones who'd attacked us in
Merton's Lair. Merton was still in the back of the room by the cages, his hands
were behind him. The werewolf squeezed harder, I gagged, and wolfed out.
"Put her down." Said Lori,
she backed away from the snake.
"Tell your friend to get
away from the cages." He said.
Merton slowly moved away,
as if trying to complete something. Finally he was far enough away, and the
werewolf threw me down to the floor. I slid across the room, gasping and
coughing for air. The stick was three feet away from me, and Ambrose wasn't
watching. I reached for it and picked it up. Then I stood up next to Tommy and
Lori. The snake was next to Lorie. She noticed the stick behind my back. I
passed it to her.
"What was that?" Ambrose
looked at us.
"It's over." Lorie held up
the stick, and then plunged it through the basilisk.
"My baby!" Miss Lajend ran
over to the snake. "It's dead!"
"Why do I not see a problem
with that?" asked Tommy sarcastically.
Ambrose looked at all of
glaring. "You haven't seen the last of us." He ran out of the room into the
school hallway.
"Merton what were you doing
back there?" asked Lori.
Merton grinned. "They're
all dead."
We all looked into the
cages.
"Was that today's chicken
surprise?" I asked getting ready to barf.
"Yeah, I didn't want to eat
it so I figured the snakes might like a taste."
~
Miss Lajend quit after the
basilisk encounter, and things returned pretty much back to normal in
Pleasantville. Well as normal as they can get at least. I think Merton's trying
to create a genius shake…
(A/n- 'bout the ending, the
next one's going to be about what might have happened if TnT hadn't become dumb
in time to destroy the computer that had matched Tommy's finger prints. Of
course it'll have my trademarked character Cassandra in it, and the first part
will probably be out in a few days or so, I have to go back to school tomorrow
so it'll take a while.)
- Loonybin, 4/29/01
