CHAPTER TWO

Two weird substitute teachers

I told him ''Uh, excuse me is this seat taken?'', Carlos replied in a calm and not nervous way '' No, but it's a free country right? You can sit wherever you like.''

''Yeah it is!'' I said half amazed, I told him ''Hi, I'm Danny; we are in the same classroom?''

Then I thought what a horrible question to someone you are supposed to know or something. He might have brain washed the kids in school including the teachers or maybe everyone is playing a game ''Make Danny go crazy'' since everyone seemed to know him but me.

''Yeah I know we have been in the same classroom for 11 years'' Carlos Said sniffing as if I had some sort of smell.

I was going to ask him who he is and why did everyone in school knew him, when I got interrupted by an announcement: ''Who are..''; Broadcast by the principal ''This is principal James speaking, the PE teachers is sick and incapable of coming to school but no worries we got a substitute teacher Mr. Thatcher and the science teacher broke her arm in a hiking accident and Mr. Shaw will be your substitute teacher today, thank you that was all''.

The bell rang and I had to go to class but it was very weird how two teachers weren't able to come to school. What a coincidence. My next class was PE, hopefully the teacher might let us play soccer or basketball, but we didn't know what Mr. Thatcher would make us do. He seemed like a normal PE teacher he was big as 6.5 wearing a sweatshirt and sweat pants.

Mr. Thatcher said, ''All run 5 laps around the basketball court then start playing 5 on 5, boys first.''

Carlos had to stay seated since he had crutches and couldn't walk and even less run so the teacher didn't mind him, he was more concern on the students that were doing great at the time, like he was studying them and keeping a close eye on everyone as if something was going to happen which it did.

As I was jogging one of the bullies pushed one of the kids to the floor as usual but this teacher didn't even care, even if he was watching the bully.

''Come on, you are all doing great, a couple more laps'' Mr. Thatcher smirked as he said it like he got what he wanted. But in a couple of minutes he got in the phone with someone else and went away. Carlos was watching too but he wasn't paying much attention, he was more interested eating his salad. I thought he ate during lunch.

The bell rang and I went back home as always even if this time Carlos was following me; far behind me, I wasn't sure where he lived but I knew he didn't live close to me because when I stopped outside of my apartment to open the door to enter the building he kept walking.

I went up to my apartment and my adoptive parents were doing chores. I already knew I was adopted because they told me when I was around 14. It was a regular afternoon my parents asking me how was my day? What did I do? Did you sleep in class again? You know stuff like that. Just so you know my adoptive parents are Jerry and Kate Ross, they aren't the best parents, they work too much, but they are good and happy together.

We seem like a happy and loving, normal family? Well think again, once in a while they get a report card from the school principal saying I broke the showers in the boys locker room which they have no proof that I did it, since they just exploded and some bullies pointed it was me and the time that the pool overflew turning the place into a huge water polo room, it took 3 days to notice that the doors where leaking water and when they opened them they shot out like a river flooding half the school and then again they held me responsible for it, since I was the last one getting out of it.

I have no idea how I was responsible of any of that since I don't remember what I did, because those time was when some bullies where bulling me and that just happened instantly, since then no one has bullied me but they still say I'm responsible for any problem that happens at school. I'm the boy of massive destruction, I got that nickname, bullies call me that and some others kids follow them and say the same names to me.

The next day looked like it was a normal day, boy I was wrong. Still, Carlos came to school and the same routine, him following me, good thing it was my last day at school and tomorrow our summer starts. The class was science with the substitute teacher.

Mr. Shaw, he was big as a basketball player, he had a small amount of hair like he became a monk before becoming a science teacher, he was making everyone participate in the naming of the elements from the periodic table, they say the name and he asks you what is it used for or the other way around.

Well as usual it goes wrong, I accidentally misread Lead and said, ''Lame'', and everyone starts laughing.

The teacher looked at me seriously as if I did it on purpose or I read it wrong. I was glad that spelling was over when we change to laboratory work. Mr. Shaw did some sort of mix that created a huge amount of smoke and air like a smoke machine which was pretty cool except the huge man with one eye and an axe on his back was a bit weird. Good thing I wasn't the only one seeing it when everyone started screaming and running from the room.

I ran as far as the other students but I made it out of school, when suddenly this huge roar came from within the school and I saw Carlos running which was weird he wasn't using his crutches he was hopping or jogging, let's say trotting with one other person following him. The only thing I figured out was that She had a weapon some sort of sword or blade.

Carlos ran next to me and said, '' Come on, Danny lets go, come with us before that Cyclops gets to you''. I just stood there thinking and trying to process what he said ''Cyclops''? Was he really making this up? When the girl grabbed me by the hand and started running, I guess I was running too.

When we were running away from school I saw two things come out from that door, one huge figure with an axe, I guessed it was a Cyclops like Carlos said, and the other was smaller but looked like a red furred lion with a human face for a head, it had horns and wings and a tail with spikes. The only thing I did was run even faster.

We ran a couple of blocks and we found a taxi just 200 meters away we were running like hell from those creatures. They looked like hunters and we were their prey.

We hopped into the cab and the girl said, ''To the camp and step on it''.