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Chapter 2
School Starts
Valkyrie was reading the schedule, when she heard a far away knocking.
Valkyrie got our of her chair and stuck her head out her door. Another knocking came, hurriedly.
Tanith was unpacking last time Valkyrie had checked. So she walked down the hallway, through the living area and opened the door to the corridor.
"Finally! Hurry Up! Quickly get Tanith!" Skulduggery rushed into the room Ghastly in tow.
"What?" Valkyrie said, letting herself be shoved and pushed aside.
"The Feast is on in the hall! If you don't hurry we will be late!" Ghastly said walking quickly down the hall to fetch Tanith.
"Oh," Valkyrie whispered, "thats tonight?"
"Yeah!" Skulduggery said looking at her,"I thought you were intelligent!"
"What! Now you think I'm stupid because I didn't catch the fact that we have a feast tonight!" Valkyrie kept in anger and emotions bust, causing Valkyrie to be surprisingly calm as she angrily looked at Skulduggery. "What in any god do you have the right to judge me in that way?"
Skulduggery backed up and almost fell over the couch, "I'm sorry," he murmured looking at the floor.
He has no right!
Valkyrie was still glaring at Skulduggery when Ghastly came back pulling a surprised looking Tanith behind him.
"Are we running away?" Tanith joked as Ghastly kept pulling her along into the corridor. Valkyrie grabbed their room keys and rushed out of the room, to join the rest of the students flowing towards the end of the corridor.
Arrgh! And to think I…
"Arrgh!" Valkyrie followed the flow in which the students were going.
"Valkyrie!" Skulduggery called,"Valkyrie Cain!"
Stop shouting my name!
Valkyrie stopped and pressed herself against the wall letting the other students go by.
"Valkyrie?" Skulduggery stopped in front of her.
"What?" She demanded.
"I didn't think you would stop…" He whispered quietly.
"Well, I couldn't have you shouting my name to the whole school." Valkyrie replied sternly.
"Oh," Skulduggery looked at the her closely,"Sorry"
"Arrgh!" Valkyrie moved away from the wall and headed towards the stairs.
"Hey, wait!" Skulduggery easily caught up to her, matching her steps.
"Where are you going?" Skulduggery asked
"Where do you think?" Valkyrie snapped back rolling her eyes. They were speeding down the stairs, managing to catch up to the other students.
"It doesn't look like we're going to be late?" Valkyrie murmured looking at the crowd.
"Yeah," Skulduggery replied looking at her,"but we want good sits."
"I don't really care where I sit…" Valkyrie murmured confused.
"Oh, really?"
"Yeah."
"Well, you don't have to sit with us…"
"I'm pretty sure the tables are going to be big."
"Yeah?"
"Only the three of you taking up one table?" Valkyrie asked, they had managed to get into the hall. Where tables big enough to hold over fifty students, they were circular and could be broken down into smaller groups. When all of the students were in the hall, they congregated around the specific table they were going to sit at.
"What are we going to do? Not sit?" Valkyrie asked as they joined their age group.
"Didn't you ask anyone what it was like here?" Skulduggery looked at her questionably.
"I don't have any 'magical' friends." Valkyrie had done the air quotation makes when she said magical.
"I'm magical…" he whispered.
"Yes, but I didn't know you until today!"
"True."
All of the students moved forward grabbing hold of tables and chairs, separating them.
"Skulduggery!" Someone called from a table.
"Looks like someone saved us sits," Skulduggery walked towards the table, pulling Valkyrie along by her sleeve. When they reached the table the table, there were only two sit left and a girl was complaining.
"China? What is the problem?" Skulduggery asked the complaining girl.
"Skulduggery, your group of stupid hunks of muscle has taken one to many sits!" The girl complained. Valkyrie stared at the group sitting at the table.
Are those the guys that Skulduggery and Ghastly were with? What did Tanith call them?
"I don't see any extra sits?" Skulduggery looked at China then to Valkyrie. Thats when Valkyrie got to see China, she was pale with black raven hair plaited down her back, she wore a light blue skirt and shirt-the shirt having a pink embroidered flower on it-China's eyes were a cold blue that startled Valkyrie, as they gazed at her like a hawk.
"Who's this?" She snapped at Skulduggery.
"This is-" Valkyrie stopped Skulduggery, cutting him off mid sentence.
"I'm Valkyrie Cain." Valkyrie smiled sweetly at her.
"China Sorrows." China replied surprised.
"Well, I offer my sorrows to you," Valkyrie said
"Ah, why do you offer your sorrows?"
"Because for you lack of eye site and that you won't be getting your extra sit." Valkyrie looked at China, who was now blushing as she quickly escaped the group.
"Nicely done!" A boy with ruffled hair smiled at her, as she sat in between Ghastly and Skulduggery.
"Ah, thank you," Valkyrie said looking at the rest of the table, the only other girl was Tanith. "Ah?"
"Oh where are my manners?" Skulduggery said smiling at her.
"Left in you grave," Ghastly murmured, if Skulduggery did hear him, he didn't show it.
"Valkyrie Cain," Skulduggery began,"this is Saracen Rue." Skulduggery pointed to the boy beside him. Saracen Rue smiled at her.
"Anton Shudder," he pointed to a bot that looked a bit younger then the rest, but when his eyes rose, they made him look older.
"Erskine Ravel," a boy with dark hair and golden eyes.
"Dexter Vex," Dexter was a boy with muscle, he winked at Valkyrie, but then his eyes fell upon a girl behind her. Valkyrie didn't know if she should feel insulted or just role her eyes. She did both.
"And this is Hopeless."
"What? Only one name?" Valkyrie asked, looking at the boy.
"Yep." Hopeless said it like he had to answer that question every day, "It sums me up."
All the boys nodded.
"Thats not true!" Tanith was the only one who disagreed.
"My father agrees with it…" Hopeless muttered
"Lets change the subject," Ghastly murmured giving the hint so someone could change it.
Valkyrie nodded. But no one said anything.
What was it that Tanith said earlier?
"What's the dead men?" Valkyrie asked.
"Ah," Skulduggery said looking up surprised,"it's what we call ourselves."
Tanith scoffed.
"What?" Skulduggery asked, everyone was looking at her.
"Its sexist that you don't allow girls in the stupid group!" All of the boys had gasped at the 'stupid' insult.
"How dare you!" Saracen said looking at her.
"You muggle!" Hopeless said pointing at her.
Valkyrie sat there as an argument started, it looked like it was rehearsed.
Okay… I think I understand.
Valkyrie watched as Harry Potter, Twilight and Doctor Who insults were through across the table, Valkyrie only catching a few of the insults.
"You Mudblood!" Ravel.
"Even Captain Jack Harkness wouldn't flirt with you!" Tanith
"Oh, go join the Edward Cullen's hair fan club!" Dexter?
"Your patronus is a cake!" Hopeless…
Valkyrie watched calmly, wincing occasionally at the insults that would need ice later. While she was watching she could have sworn Skulduggery winked at her.
If he thinks I'm not angry anymore, he's got another thing coming!
As soon as Valkyrie's thoughts finished silence erupted. Conversations end mid sentence as everyone looked up to the front of the hall were a long rectangle table was placed. An old women with grey strikes in her chocolate brown hair, that was tightened into a bun. Her face lined with wrinkles coming together when she smiled down at the students all sitting in front of her expectingly. Raising her arms slowly she started to speak.
"Welcome," her voice rang out through the hall,"to BlackRose Academy."
Applause.
"I'm Headmaster Marrow, today has been a big day for the first years," People had clapped when she announced who she was.
"I hope that BlackRose Academy will be like your home while you are here."
A younger looking man rose, Headmaster Marrow kept speaking as the man, who was one of the teachers found his was around the long rectangle table.
"Good luck to all of those who have exams coming up and good lock to everyone else! This will be a good year!" Headmaster Marrow stepped back letting the young man step forward.
"Hello everyone, welcome," the man wore glass and was blading, grey hairs covering his head, "I'm mister Vigilance, I do teacher magic, but I also am Vice Headmaster."
He smiled, pleased with the title.
"I am here to remind you all of the rules.
He stopped. Pausing for some unknown reason.
"Rule one," He held up one finger,"no going out of the school grounds, unless in company of a teacher."
He changed to two fingers.
"Rule two, everyone must be in their rooms by nine, a curfew that is set and won't change. If you find yourself locked outside, you will stay out there the night."
"Rule three," Three fingers raised,"no harming other students, it is not tolerated and you will be sent home and no accepted back into the Academy again."
Mr Vigilance had eighteen more rules, topics being, Harming, school grounds, other students, magic.
Valkyrie stopped listening when Mr Vigilance mentioned, "…no speaking in foreign languages in class, unless…" when he said this she looked a Tanith mouthed,'damn, I was so plaining on doing that!' causing Valkyrie to smirk, and get a disapproving look from Ravel.
When Mr Vigilance finished and sat down. Headmaster Marrow hooded and all of these people came in carrying food.
When the table Valkyrie, Tanith and Skulduggery were sitting at was full, they decided to speak all at once.
"Well then…"
"Oh My God!"
"Wow!"
"Whoa!"
"Yes!"
They all looked at each other and laughed. They began eating and arguing and telling tales and jokes.
They laughed the night away…
Beep!
Beep!
"Arrgh!" Valkyrie rolled over, feeling with her hand for her phone.
She couldn't find it.
Valkyrie opened her eyes and rose her head. Her room was still dark but light still seems to force it's way through any gaps in the curtain.
Where am I?
Then her eyes widen. And she jumped out of her new bed onto her new carpet.
Beep! Beep!
Beep! Beep!
Valkyrie waled towards her desk to turn her phone alarm off. She glanced at her schedule.
First years to the hall.
Valkyrie almost skipped to her new personal bathroom. She showered, washed and dried her hair. Put her school uniform on.
The BlackRose Academy uniform was black and green. The girls wearing black - just above the knee - skirts and a green button up short sleeve shirt that had the school emblem embrued above the chest pocket. The BlackRose Academy emblem is a large black rose with the words:
νερό αέρας χώμα φωτιά
Written underneath the black rose.
Hmm… Maybe I would ask what it says?
Valkyrie walked into her room grabbing her whit socks and black shoes, moving to the end of her bed she sat and pulled on her new knee high white socks and her slim simple black shoes.
Valkyrie stood up in her new uniform, and looked towards the window. The curtain was still obscuring the view. Slowly Valkyrie walked towards it.
Thoughts rushed through her head.
What if I hate it?
What is there's fog?
What if it's so beautiful I'll be late!
Valkyrie shock her head.
This is ridiculous ! It's just a view behind a curtain!
Valkyrie whipped the curtains open angrily, she froze. Valkyrie was looking down upon the Black Rose academy grounds. Her mouth hanged opened as she starred.
The view was absolutely beautiful, looking down upon she could see all the different gardens the academy with held, the rose garden o her left going down the side of the castle, to Valkyrie's right was a gigantic maze that stretched to the boarder of the Academy grounds, Valkyrie only just making out the iron fence. Right in front of Valkyrie was an oval that had huge old oaks and willows providing shade around the edges of the oval going of into woodland, the maze cut through the right side woodland to circle off the school grounds. But from Valkyrie advantage point she could make out a lake behind the maze.
Wow…
The bright colours of summer making everything green and sunny had almost blinded Valkyrie. She opened the curtains all the way, letting the summer raise light up her room.
There was a knock at her bedroom door. Quickly Valkyrie rushed towards it.
Tanith stood there wearing here school uniform she had wavy blonde hair out but a black head band pushing the hairs out of faces. She also left her top button undone showing a sliver necklace that had the letter 'T' hanging from it. It held a white and red crystal in the centre.
"Do you think we should bring our school bags?" Tanith asked smiling at her,"and how are you going to do you hair?"
"Oh." Valkyrie rushed to her bath room, her black hair still ruffled from blow. "Damn…"
Valkyrie grabbed a hairband and tied her hair up into a pony tail.
"I'm taking my schoolbag…" Valkyrie said as she walked back into her room to find Tanith standing by the window. "Beautiful isn't?"
"It's just amazing, I can't believe I'm actually seeing this!" Tanith turned away.
Valkyrie nodded at Tanith completely understanding.
Hmm… If only my parents actually cared…
"so what you want for breakfast?" Tanith said walking toward her room.
"Hmm?," Valkyrie grabbed her school bag hosting it onto her shoulder,"what do we have?"
Tanith walked back into the hallway with her her school bag hosted onto her shoulder.
"Umm, we just have breakfast bars…"
"Well, I guess I'll have a breakfast bar."
Valkyrie and Tanith made there way down to the main hall.
When they were in the hall, Valkyrie was able to take in the greatness of the main Academy hall. The sun lightened the hall up, making it possible for Valkyrie to look at the delicate intricate drawings.
"Oh my god! Look at this!" Tanith said her hand raised to touch the cream wall that had gold trails falling from the ceiling that had four chandeliers shaped into a rose.
"Wow, were did they get the money? And just why?" Valkyrie said staring at the rose chandelier.
"Maybe they stole it?" Tanith murmured
Valkyrie shrugged turning away and walking up to a line that had other first years. Tanith followed, starring at a group of girls squealing and jumping.
"What do you think they're so excited about?" Tanith asked
"Were getting our timetable," Valkyrie said looking at Tanith,"they most likely got separate classes thats why they're so happy."
"Your sarcasm hurts me." Tanith said faking hurt with her had on her chest.
Valkyrie grinned.
"Penology Griffith." A girl ahead told the teacher.
"Hmm? What do you think penology means?" Tanith asked looking at the girl when she walked away.
"What dose Tanith mean?" Tanith looked at Valkyrie.
Tanith blinked.
Tanith blinked again.
Valkyrie looked at Tanith in a silence that Valkyrie had grown accustomed too.
"You should meet Skulduggery?" Tanith asked looking at Valkyrie
"I'm going to call you 'Tan' and I have had an encounter with Skulduggery" Valkyrie smiled.
"I like you," Tanith said nodding,"I'll keep you"
"Fred Garrison." A boy with red hair walked to a group of boys.
"How do you think or teachers are going to be?" Tanith asked
"If we get Mr Vigilance for magic," Valkyrie fake9d sleep.
Tanith giggled.
"Trix Savour."
More students came into the hall. As some left in a hurry. Valkyrie watched in silence as the line shortened.
"Gruesome." Said the boy that stood in front of Tanith and Valkyrie, the boy was still short and had a bit of child like looks to him. The teacher, that was the old women that gave them the rooms out. The old women raised a grey eyebrow at the boy.
What type of name is that?
"Wow" Tanith murmured quietly
As soon Gruesome walked away Valkyrie walked up to the old women.
"Valkyrie Cain."
The old women went through the sheets of paper until she found the timetable with Valkyrie's name on it. When the old women handed it to Valkyrie, Valkyrie smiled. The old women kept her face in a mask of boredom.
As Valkyrie walked away she read through her timetable as Tanith got hers.
MAGIC
ENGLISH
HISTORY
Oh! My! God! I have magic first period!
Valkyrie spun seeking Tanith, almost knocking Tanith over in the process.
"Ahh!" Valkyrie jumped in surprise.
"Oh my god! What do you have first?" Tanith panicky asked.
"Magic." Valkyrie quickly answered
"Yes, same!" Tanith jumped,"second?"
"English"
"Damn! I have history then english."
Their smiles dropped.
"They started comparing the rest of the subjects, finale coming to the conclusion that Tanith was only in Valkyrie's magic, geography and sports class.
"Damn! I wanted to be in you're fighting class!" Tanith said as thy headed towards the main halls entrance.
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