Detention with bloodthirsty teachers from hell, or somewhere... Lyrian's POV.
We walked into the classroom with our heads down, trying to avoid the glaring eyes of Mrs. Sphine. If only she taught math instead of Religions, it would've made more sense. I looked around and saw the many heads of students turn up and stare at us. For some reason, it made me feel a little self-conscious. When Mrs. Sphine coughed, they all returned to what they were doing.
"As punishment for being late to my class, you will all separate into different spots in the class, not one of you will communicate to each other." She sneered; her eyes seemed to look right into my soul. I was kind-of scared, but then again, what's the worst she could do? A teacher is really, only just a teacher.
Kaylee walked to her seat in one of the two front corners, I took one of the back corners to try and escape from being the odd one out. I looked around awkwardly, looking at Raven, Kaylee and Safdeisha all in turn. They did not look back.
Today's lesson, was once again ancient Greek religion, and about the many tales of monsters and how the heroes would defeat them. I stared numbly at the blackboard, not really caring. I knew all of this stuff already.
"Now, I have a riddle for all of you. Whoever guesses it correctly will get two bonus marks." Mrs. Sphine made it look easy, but what she wrote in her writing, was kind of odd. But I knew the answer right away, don't ask me how as it took my brain five minutes to read the damned thing.
I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
I stared at the riddle, I would never, ever say it out loud, Mrs. Sphine would sneer and say that it took me to long and so I wouldn't get the bonus marks. I watched the clock instead; it was sort-of entertaining I guess. I fiddled around with the pencil in my hand and eventually snapped it. Mrs. Sphine continued her mad rambling at the class, calling us all first graders because we couldn't solve a stupid riddle. Wow.
She then taught us about the Sphinx and the other monsters that could be killed only 'indirectly'. I bet a million bucks you could defeat a Sphinx, just avoid the lion loins, the great bird wings and whatever else. Yuck, I think I'll save that for Hercules.
I disliked the word monsters anyway, so I just zoned out as our evil teacher decided to make our life even harder.
"Okay class, into groups now. Pick a number."
Perfect, just freaking perfect, now I could be claimed national know-it-all about Greek mythology. Freaking hell.
I walked up to the front of the classroom at my turn, and reached my hand into the bucket, I pulled out a square sheet of paper with a scratchy four written on it. I sighed, heading to the seat at the back again until she told us to sit in our groups.
Mrs. Sphine wrote the rules of what we would be doing in our groups then told us to get into our groups, my group had a really weird kid who claimed he saw ghosts every day, and lived in a haunted mansion. I glared at the Mrs. Sphine the whole time, but she wasn't unnerved at all, in fact I think I pushed her to be even more horrible.
"There will be NO communicating with other groups during this activity. You will all be assigned ONE Greek monster and will do individual research with the help of your group members." She instructed, her lips were pulled tight and she brought a bag around with random monsters inside it. The odd kid in our group pulled out our monster, in large scrawl print, the ghost kid read it out loud.
"The Mormo?" He looked at everyone around the table, I looked at him with a plainest face I could manage and he quickly looked away. I was used to that, no one seemed to be able to look into my eyes for too long.
"The Mormo was a vampire-like monster who would bite bad children and steal them from their parents." I said boredly with a yawn.
"Correct Mrs. Connors, you're good at something after all." She smiled at me, but I knew she was just pretending, she was a good actor sometimes.
"Whatever." I said, disrespecting her entirely. I chuckled to myself when she huffed and turned. Kaylee grinned at me, she'd heard everything.
"Hey freak, will you concentrate for just one moment?" I snapped, turning to face the girl at the end of the table. She did not just say that.
"Oh too bad, you aren't deaf after all." She sneered, clipping a flimsy burette in her hair. I slammed the table and she screamed as sparks flung at her finger tips. My eyes widened and she stared at me, her blue eyes staring at me in horror.
"You freaking weirdo!" She stood up and ran out of the room. What did I do? I slammed the table because she angered me, I didn't mean to give her an electric shock and I doubt that was even me anyhow. Urgh, today is definitely weirder than it's supposed to be. I watched a Mrs. Sphine's face turn angry and she looked like she was about to kill me. I still did not know what was happening.
I looked away and began to write as much as I could manage about the stupid Greek monster. Time finally sped up and it was five minutes until the bell rang. Phew.
I quickly walked over to Raven, "Hey, how boring was class for you?" I asked her, a yawn bursting from my mouth.
"It was so-so, personally, you provided my group entertainment." She laughed; her grey eyes looked behind me at someone. I –very reluctantly- turned and met Safdeisha's face very close to my own. I sighed in relief.
"Well, we have detention now... Goodbye freedom!" She moaned, sitting on the table with a pout. I tilted my head and let Kaylee rush to my side excitedly.
"So, how about we go get some food after the detention?" She beamed at us, I just stared.
"Sure, I'll pay." I said with a half-smirk.
"Alright, let's do it!"Safdeisha smiled, she looked around distracted. Raven stared at me,
"How did you make that girl cry?" Raven asked curiously.
"I didn't." I raised an eyebrow giving her a'question-me-more-and-this-may-be-your-last-breat h' look.
"Oh right..." She laughed lightly.
I rolled my eyes and fiddled with my slightly dampened sleeves, chewing on them again. The bell rang loudly on the wall above us. I glared at it as the sound reverberated through my skull. Safdeisha gave a little squeal of pain, Raven didn't budge and Kaylee seemed to be used to it.
I gave a smile, feeling my cheeks grow a little sore from chuckling. I looked at the floor, then up at my three best friends. "Let's get this over with shall we?" They nodded at me and we all sat down, splitting up into twos, me and Kaylee sat down on the left side of the room, Raven and Safdeisha took their seats on the right. I really hated detentions...
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The detention started off naturally, lines, glares and the throwing of paper aeroplanes across the room to each other. Kaylee and I wrote notes to each other, but she looked rather pale. The two teachers looked at their feet, waiting at the door as if blocking an entry out into reality.
Something doesn't feel right, She wrote onto a piece of paper, folded it and threw it my way. The sound of it collide with my desk seemed to annoy Mrs. Sphine, and she strutted up to us, snatched the note into her claw-like hands and threw it out into an already full garbage can. Kaylee looked fearfully at the teacher and began desperately folding a sheet of paper.
It ended up as an origami crane, but something was different about it. When she threw it at Raven and Safdeisha, it actually FLEW. It looked... alive.
Its wings fluttered gently, and glided across the room effortlessly, Raven caught it as quiet as she could. She slowly unfolded the paper and stared at it, giving us a nod when she had caught on to the message, she was about to write a reply but Mr. Morrison turned around, his beady eyes were gleaming a bright red, and I fell backwards off my chair and hit my head on the table behind me. Well done me. When I looked back, his eyes were back to that dull brown. Scary that is.
"Mrs. Connors, is there a problem?" Mr. Morrison asked me. Was that a growl I heard?
No, it couldn't have been, I'm getting paranoid. "No, of course not sir, there is nothing wrong here." I lied, getting back to line 20 out of 700, which was pointless as I had written everything entirely backwards or sideways...
Time slowed down until minutes seemed like hours. I glared at the paper, I was now on line 25 and it was getting harder to concentrate due to my ADHD. The words and letters spun in loops across the page. Kaylee was having the same problem and so was Raven by the looks of it.
I put my pencil down and laid back on my seat, Mr. Morrison did not look happy, in fact, he looked rather murderous.
He approached me, his brown eyes turning red like igniting earth. I cringed, noticing how pointier his teeth were.
"Mrs. Connors, I suggest you get back to writing your lines, or you shall regret it." He grumbled in his annoying voice. Me being me, I immediately retaliated, but I shouldn't have, because my life took a huge turn after that.
"Oh yeah, what will you do? Your old, you're ugly and you are just about the worst teacher ever." I laughed, and watched his eyes narrow; his skin looked like it had split at his forehead. I widened my eyes, as I looked into his bright red eyes.
"So be it, Lyrian Connors, you had better be prepared to draw your last breath." Mr. Morrison grinned, and his smile got wider and wider until it showed two neat rows of fangs, longer than a foot each. I screamed, and was thrown backwards into the wall.
Mrs. Sphine also began to change; her ugly face began to go back in time until she had the pretty face of a young woman in her twenties. I gasped, noticing how her body had managed to turn into a lion, and she sprouted the wings of a great bird. Mr. Morrison also grew wings, but his were liquid-like and leathery-looking. Ugh. I really need to stop insulting my teachers.
"You've been very naughty children." The bat-like monster flashed his foul teeth at us all in sort of smile or grin. I really need to remember that I'm in a life or death situation...
"Kaylee, Move it!" I shouted, and she ducked just in time as Mr. Morrison had tried to claw her head open, flying right over her. He landed next to what used to be my religions teacher. I stared, open-mouthed in wonder and fear.
A knock came at the door, and everybody stared at it. The exit to freedom, if only I could run for it!
"Ugh, who is it!?" Mrs. Sphine's voice hissed
"I smell more half-bloods." The science monster said, and a young boy walked in. He must've only been sixteen, and he was going to die!
"What do you want?" said the growl of our ex. Science teacher.
"Sorry, I was wondering whether you'd be interested in taking a quick survey." He asked cluelessly, holding up a bronze-like pen and a clipboard. Could he not see the weird monsters in front of him? I saw a girl suddenly appear behind Raven and Safdeisha and point at us while whispering something
to them, they crawled over to us as quiet as they could manage, and the girl vanished again. She reappeared right by my side, and I took a second glance at her before getting under the table and watching the boy closely.
"Just out of curiosity, would you consider yourself to be an evil mythological Greek monster?" The boy asked, uncapping his pen, which suddenly turned into a three foot long sword. My mouth gaped wide open again and I stared, wide-eyed as the boy grinned at the two monsters.
Mrs. Sphine shrieked, trying to claw at the boy, but he skilfully dodged it, with a parrying move to his left as Mr. Morrison took a swipe at him too. I watched in utter terror.
"He's gonna die!" I said, trying to get out from under the table. The girl put her hand on my shoulder and shook her head.
"He knows what he's doing." She said knowingly, a twinkle in her grey eyes.
I looked at my friends, Raven was silent, and was looking around carefully as if trying to find an escape. Safdeisha was having a panic attack and Kaylee was trying to help her. I sighed and looked at the girl who was keeping a close eye on the sword boy.
"Sorry, I haven't introduced myself, I'm Annabeth Chase and-"
But something cut her off, a window smashed and I heard a huge slam onto one of the tables by the sword kid. The person who landed on the table looked almost normal, curly brunette hair and brown eyes that looked at the monsters fearfully. Note how I said 'almost normal'? Well, that's because he was half goat. Two furry legs and two little horns poking through his curls... Well, I guess I just naturally accepted what was happening. Partly because I didn't want to have a panic attack like Safdeisha, and also because both of my teachers were now monsters- well, were monsters the whole time. So, just when I was about to open my mouth to ask what in the heck was going on, a hand covered my mouth.
"Hey Perce, how's it going-" But something cut the goat boy off.
Raven had flown from her hiding spot under the table and latched herself onto the goat boy. His eyes widened and both of them fell to the floor with a sickening crack. I winced on impact.
Raven had a goat obsession, we couldn't be sure why, but then again, none of us knew what was going on right now anyway. Kaylee seemed excited now, and Safdeisha? Well, she had a neutral expression playing on her face. Well, it's better than a panic attack I'm guessing.
I watched as the 'Perce' kid raised his sword, jumping in front of the goat boy, I saw the two monster teachers hiss angrily at even the sight of sword. Well then... Our ex. Science teacher looked directly at me and licked his front fangs hungrily. I recoiled back into the blonde girl, shaking slightly.
She smiled faintly, "Don't be afraid of the Bogeyman."
"He's not the Bogeyman." I gave a frown.
"No, no he's not." She agreed, and then focused on the kid fighting the monsters, and her eyes narrowed. He seemed to be getting slightly tired by fighting the monsters on his own, and his accomplice was trying to unlock a wild Raven from his legs. He was definitely struggling but seeing as how Raven was glued to him, and was reluctant to get off, the Perce kid was definitely going to die. I had a plan to get Raven off of him though.
I dived across the floor, and flew straight into the wall on the opposite side of the room. I reached into Raven's bag and pulled out her goat book.
"Hey Raven! I am about to burn your goat encyclopaedia." I laughed evilly and watched her jump of the goat hybrid. She came after me now. I knew better than to touch Raven's things without her permission, but I had no choice.
Before she got to me, I threw the book straight at Mr. Moron and it struck –very hard- into one of his fangs, ripping it straight out of his gums. I grimaced at his scream as blood trickled from his blackish gums. The fang had gone straight through his long devil-like tongue. He screeched even louder and then Perce took his chances, thrusting his long sword into the creatures skull.
That was the end of Mr. Morrison the vampire demon/monster under the bed as he had exploded into a big cloud of yellow vapour and just to add- it stank.
The goat boy emptied some water bottles and let their contents spill onto the floor, he grinned at me, but then stopped seeing my confused expression. You'll see, he mouthed at me.
Sure enough, as Mrs. Sphine-monster-incarnate pounced on Perce, the water that was on the floor, had pushed the monster off him and made her fly out of one of the many windows. I stared, horrified but glad. The three strangers, Annabeth, Perce and goat boy, had rescued our lives. I nodded at them.
"Thanks." I said, with only the smallest hint of a smile. Because, my head was still trying to process what had just happened. I sighed, and collected my bag.
"We would've introduced ourselves earlier today had we've known there were monsters too." Annabeth apologized. "This is Percy Jackson, Grover Underwood, and I'm Annabeth chase. You three are demi-gods or more commonly known as half bloods, and we were sent to retrieve you." She said seriously, then shouldered her pack and left. I followed Percy and Grover too, and then I remembered something. These were the three who I had eavesdropped on earlier, I should've known, but my fate had an odd way of working inside my head.
We followed the three out into the school yard and listened to them debate on how to get back to 'camp'. I stared and then when they'd finally decided, Percy turned to us.
"We're going to split you up, one of you will go with Annabeth, likewise with Grover and two of you will come with me understood?" We nodded, but I sensed hesitation in Percy's voice, like he wasn't entirely sure of himself. We had no choice but to follow these three now, because, I did not fancy going back into school and getting eaten alive. Thanks, but no thanks.