Winslow High School 8:15 January 3rd, 2011
It felt good to finally shove the stick bug that Taylor Hebert was into the locker. She had proved over and over she was prey, but prey that came back over and over. I quickly became pathetic to bully her, but out of habit it became something to do. Something that Sophia felt was needed even, but part of her had drawn a line. It was when she pulled out the flute from her locker. Seeing the filigree expertly scored into the metal of the flute made it something that you just could not destroy.
Taylor had begged for it back and it was fun to mess with her that it was destroyed, but Sophia had not done so. She went to a music store and asked for a ruined version of such a flute and the man was resistant to such a foul prank that he chased her out of his shop. The second guy did the same, but the third did help as I explained I wanted it gone over and tuned. Cost a bit, but I had a destroyed version that would be good enough to fool Taylor and a carefully polished antique heirloom still sitting in my room.
I might be a predator, but I was not a complete bitch like Emma turned into. It was why as soon as the lock clicked closed, I whirled on her and yanked her hard by her hair as I opened the locker next to Taylor's. That look of complete shock and betrayal was fucking perfect. Emma who fought the bangers that got her to save them from the ABB was just a black sheep that tried to run with the wolves. No, Sophia had given her some training and she had helped as she went out on patrol, but in hindsight she had been little more than bait.
It was why for months she pushed the idiots that had lockers next to Taylor to ask for a different one. Why the lockers stank with different smells as Sophia switched out what was rotting inside. The point became very clear as Emma and Madison suggested putting bloody tampons and other rotting things in her locker and it slowly turned into stuffing Taylor inside as well. However, Sophia decided she was done with this. Done with the rat following the fake wolf who the rest of the school saw as the queen bee of the school who was followed by Sophia. She was the true predator in this school.
It was not Emma they feared but Sophia, and it was time they all understood they were all prey in her eyes. It was time that Emma realized she was not a predator. She would never be one, and she had gotten Sophia caught which still pissed her off.
"What are you doing! I will..."
Sophia punched her in the gut as she shoved her in the second locker right next to her former best friend. The door slammed shut and the lock snapped shut. Sophia turned and her eyes fell on the next rat. Madison with her eyes nearly bulging out of her head in fear still looking impossibly cute.
But her cutesy act was just that. She did little things that worked to make her look cute, childish, lame. It was not hard to make her cower in fear, just that when you did, she looked fucking cute. She did not even scream when I grabbed her by the hair.
"No..." Was the only thing that came out of her mouth. The only thing that didn't make her look cute. She was even easier to stuff in the third locker. She was smaller so Sophia had added more bloody shit to fill it up as she marked this locker for her. Pads were sticky, and the entire locker was lined. The lock snicked closed as the hallway was silent except for the banging and pad muffled screams for help. There was some retching and the third worm started to scream.
"Sophia you can't do that." Julia was one of the girls that followed Emma around. She had failed even worse as she did nothing to torment Taylor in her computer class like she was told to do, but still enjoyed the perks of being in Emma's click.
"I did, so what."
"You can't leave her in there. Get her out." Julia demanded. Sophia turned on her as she made to walk only for it to be a feint.
"Why? Your next." The crowd backed away from her as she turned to run except there was this banger from the Merchants there that she had turned down several times. He had no problem shoving her close enough for me to grab her by the head. The fourth locker was opened by another Merchant punk and Julia tried to fight, but she was even more pathetically weak then Madison.
"Get her out of there. You can't be doing this. This, this is murder." Greg wimpy Veder, dumbest kid in the school, and the only one who could not keep his mouth shut. My arm snaked out and I felt as well as heard the satisfying crunch of bone. His nose broken he reeled as he staggered giving me plenty of time to open the fifth and final locker. He was holding his nose bleeding and he mumbled out whatever. It was not like I could understand him without him having a broken nose.
He was about the same size of Taylor, so I enjoyed banging him around. His locker had the same fly and bug infested treatment. I had to use my hips to get the locker closed and the clasp down enough to thread the lock hook in place. It clicked in place as I grinned wickedly at the surrounding students. I planned for only getting Taylor and Emma inside the lockers so the other three were pure bonus.
"I am the Alpha of this school. The wolf that you fear. It is the reason the Merchants don't bother me. The reason the Empire does not dare touch me. The reason the ABB stays out of my way. You all pretend at being the top dog here knowing there is a wolf stalking you like the sheeple you are. Now get to class." The students blinked and a few held their phones up a bit higher.
"Now!" Sophia reached for a locker, and they all vanished in a mad scramble that made Sophia smile.
She had cleaned up every bit of evidence that she could. Her Bully phone long gone. Emma and Madison's phones and computers wiped clean and the email accounts they used to torment Taylor were deleted. Most predators don't play with their food like a house cat does. They kill and eat period. All the teasing the pushing the shoving and tripping was just that, playing. Sophia was done playing with prey.
Yet the school had changed. Sophia did not bother to bully any other of the kids. She was done with that, but not done with showing who she was if you got in her way. The five had come back to the school over several weeks.
Greg was the first to come back and he rarely opened his mouth in any of the classes they shared. Julia and Madison came the following week and they both avoided Sophia like the plague if they could. Several times they had cowered out of fear as she passed them by. Emma surprised her by coming back as she was sure her father would have transferred her to Arcadia or to Immaculata.
Taylor came back and was the same Taylor that she had shoved into the locker. Though there was a subtle change she just didn't know what it was. The anger was there, and she held herself wary, but Taylor did not fear Sophia. It bothered her a bit, but other than killing her she was done with Taylor. As she felt there was no point in doing anything more. Though Sophia surprised Taylor by giving her the flute back without a word.
It would be the last mean thing that Sophia would possibly do to Taylor as it had a note in Emma's writing inside telling Sophia everything that should be done with the flute. It made Sophia feel strangely good about not destroying it, and it was the first time she could remember smiling over such a thing.
Several months pass and the school had done their best to bury the event. The police after interviewing half the school gave up the case. Sophia figured the PRT had something to do with it. It was the only thing that she could think of the reason why she never got asked a single question. Then in the middle of a patrol five capes she had never seen before stepped out in front of her, Clockblocker and Browbeat on his first day.
"Who are you?" Clockblocker asked.
"I am Speedy." The smallest one steps out to the side. rats and mice pooled around her feet. Her face was that of a mouse and it was not a mask but a Shaper state. Her costume continued the mouse theme.
"I am Squeaky and these are my squirrels." Male from the voice with dozens of squirrels that moved in formation around him. He had a long tail that swished and twitched just like a real squirrels, but you could hear the servos. It was not until she noticed that more than half his Squirrels were mechanical.
"I am Penny Purcat." She was taller than Minnie and shorter than Daffy and had several dozen cats mingling with the ducks. Her costume was of an orange tabby and her tail moved perfectly in tune with her other movements.
"I am Tweety." Birds flew around her or were sitting on the backs of some of the cats or the ducks if a mouse or rat was not there already. Her yellow wings expanded and contracted after flapping several times making the wind move much faster then it should have.
"And she is Bugs!" All four of them said eerily together in perfect unison. She wore a light gray body suit with white panels with the only thing that was exposed being her long wavy brown hair.
Unlike the rabbit from Looney Tunes this Bugs had ant antenna coming out of her head. They twitched as she moved. There were also no cuddly bunnies surrounding her feet as a massive swarm of insects rose up behind all of them.
"That I am, and we are the Crazy Capes." Clockblocker took one long look around as the Looney Toon theme music began to play while bugs, birds, mice, rats, squirrels and cats surround the three.
"Mother." He whimpered as Vista screamed. Sophia blinked several times behind her mask and then began to laugh a bit more crazily then Bugs.