Chapter 2
Tea Leaves - Decoding
Clover = good luck to come
Heart = romance in your future
Shriveled Heart = break up
Reaper = death to come
Those are the four symbols Ms Hollyhock told us to memorize for a quiz today. I forgot to study, so guess what Caitlyn and I were doing? Right. Studying on the way to class. We were just getting to the "reaper" (and were outside the classroom), when we heard a scream from inside. We ran in to see whom had screamed and why, when a mouse ran by. Myrtle, being deathly afraid of rats, went hysterical. Caitlyn and I had gone a little ahead in our work, so Caitlyn looked at me, horrified. "Aki, that.." she began, "That was no ordinary rat!" I nodded. We both understood.
Rat = Death
We ran in, where we saw Ms Hollyhock leaving over something. We got closer, and to our horror, there lie Russell, dead as a doornail.
History of the Rat
1764: An elderly wizard, age 81, was turned to a rat. He angered and killed one person for every wizard there was in town, 14. 1502: Shermand Hall, age 72, as a rat, killed 12 people with an energy ball, or Kante. Present: And so, the rat became a symbol of death because of many incidents in the past and present, including the 2 mentioned above, the Mortal "Bubonic Plague", and many others. Later the same day, scribbled on (Professor) Hollyhock's door, was this:
BEWARE THE RAT. IT WILL RETURN..
All in Russell's blood.
The first thing Cait and I noticed was the claw marks. A young girl, maybe 14, took DNA samples and handed them to us saying, "Would you this to the chem. Lab? Please and thank you!" She then ran off.
We did as she asked, yet no one was in the lab. Cait, being a chemistry buff, began running tests. Her jaw dropped. "Akima," she started, "There is absolutely so DNA in this! It's like it was wiped!" She then screamed as a rat scampered across the floor. I ran into the hall, only to my terror, to see this:
HES BACK...
And where the young girl had stood, lied the shadow of a giant reaper. We followed some bloody claw marks to where the girl's body was lying, a double-edged sword through her heart.
The corpse was later identified as Carmen Shao, 14 years old, just arrived here to begin Divination courses. There was a funeral and a banquet in her honor, and all classes were postponed until the following week. This bummed Cait and I out. We snuck down to the Chemistry Lab every day, running more tests on the so-called DNA sample. Nothing turned up for two days. Then, we thought we had a break-through: * "Aki! I found something!" yelled Cait, excitedly. I ran in the room and sighed, "Well, its something alright. But it's not DNA." We finally gave up on it and began sneaking into the divination classroom instead of the chem. Lab.
Clover = good luck to come
Heart = romance in your future
Shriveled Heart = break up
Reaper = death to come
Those are the four symbols Ms Hollyhock told us to memorize for a quiz today. I forgot to study, so guess what Caitlyn and I were doing? Right. Studying on the way to class. We were just getting to the "reaper" (and were outside the classroom), when we heard a scream from inside. We ran in to see whom had screamed and why, when a mouse ran by. Myrtle, being deathly afraid of rats, went hysterical. Caitlyn and I had gone a little ahead in our work, so Caitlyn looked at me, horrified. "Aki, that.." she began, "That was no ordinary rat!" I nodded. We both understood.
Rat = Death
We ran in, where we saw Ms Hollyhock leaving over something. We got closer, and to our horror, there lie Russell, dead as a doornail.
History of the Rat
1764: An elderly wizard, age 81, was turned to a rat. He angered and killed one person for every wizard there was in town, 14. 1502: Shermand Hall, age 72, as a rat, killed 12 people with an energy ball, or Kante. Present: And so, the rat became a symbol of death because of many incidents in the past and present, including the 2 mentioned above, the Mortal "Bubonic Plague", and many others. Later the same day, scribbled on (Professor) Hollyhock's door, was this:
BEWARE THE RAT. IT WILL RETURN..
All in Russell's blood.
The first thing Cait and I noticed was the claw marks. A young girl, maybe 14, took DNA samples and handed them to us saying, "Would you this to the chem. Lab? Please and thank you!" She then ran off.
We did as she asked, yet no one was in the lab. Cait, being a chemistry buff, began running tests. Her jaw dropped. "Akima," she started, "There is absolutely so DNA in this! It's like it was wiped!" She then screamed as a rat scampered across the floor. I ran into the hall, only to my terror, to see this:
HES BACK...
And where the young girl had stood, lied the shadow of a giant reaper. We followed some bloody claw marks to where the girl's body was lying, a double-edged sword through her heart.
The corpse was later identified as Carmen Shao, 14 years old, just arrived here to begin Divination courses. There was a funeral and a banquet in her honor, and all classes were postponed until the following week. This bummed Cait and I out. We snuck down to the Chemistry Lab every day, running more tests on the so-called DNA sample. Nothing turned up for two days. Then, we thought we had a break-through: * "Aki! I found something!" yelled Cait, excitedly. I ran in the room and sighed, "Well, its something alright. But it's not DNA." We finally gave up on it and began sneaking into the divination classroom instead of the chem. Lab.