Academy of realization - Maria D. (i can read book club txt) 📗

whistle signaling the end of the match. Clapping rang through the gym as everyone cheered at my success (or Sarah’s failure, as they are one in the same). The teachers rushed to check on Sarah and one of them had to take her to the nurse’s office.

“Here, go to the nurses office as well, you look pretty banged up,” he said offhandedly, handing me a pass.

I nodded silently and slowly made my way.I was directed there, having used my staff for support.

I knocked on the door and heard a voice say, “Come in.” I walked in and saw Mrs. Murdock- a lady in her mid-thirties with black hair- sitting at her desk. When she saw it was me she smiled and shook her head slightly, seeing as I was a frequent visitor -mainly due to magical exhaustion- and ushered me to a seat.

“What seems to be the problem Aiden?” she asked, addressing me by my first name instead of my last like everyone else.

“Well I think I may have broken a rib,” I said as nonchalantly as could having to endure the pain in my chest. She raised an eyebrow but said nothing.

She walked over and felt my ribs through my shirt. “Yep you broke the third and fourth rib on the left side of your chest,” she signed, delivering her diagnosis.

I let out a sigh and winced at the pain. She rolled her eyes and said, “quit being a baby, I can fix that in a matter of seconds.” I nodded as her hands were enveloped with a warm yellow light.

She placed her hands on my broken ribs and I let out a sigh as the pain was relieved. She wrote me a pass back to class and I left with a thank you and a goodbye. I dismissed my staff and made my way back to class. As I walked in I heard a resounding boom and saw Anthony walk away from his fight unscathed with the biggest smirk I had ever seen. Applause erupted from the bleachers as medics rushed to the ring to patch up the poor sucker who had to fight him. I went and sat with my friends all of which gave Anthony a congratulatory pat on the back. When I sat down Anthony looked at me quizzically.

“Conjured staff, seriously?” He asked with an arched eyebrow.

I nodded and winced as I heard a scream and smelled burnt hair. I looked over to see Jesus walking over with a smug smile on his face.

RIIIIIIIIING! Every person in the gym stood up as one and rushed to the locker room.

Now when I say free for all, I mean it. If you tripped you may well get trampled. I sighed as I shoved through the crowd and made my way into the locker room. I quickly changed, grabbed my stuff, and left. I shouldered my way through the throngs of people in the hallway and walk to my next -and favorite- class… lunch. 

Chapter 2

 

“SPLAT!" I looked up from my tray to see Chad sprawled on the floor with his food splattered all over his shirt. I look over to see Ralph snickering with his henchmen. Chad stood up and tried to walk away when a clone of Ralph suddenly appeared in front of him. The clone raised its fist to hit Chad when a blur made its way in front of the real Ralph.

“Lay off him Ralph,” I heard Will’s voice sound out loud and confident through the lunch room.

“Oh yeah, what’re ya gonna do about it, Willy” Ralph retorted, poking Will in the chest.

“I’ll start with breaking that finger off and shoving it so far up-”

“Guys, guys, guys,” Jesus started, “stop before this gets out of hand”.

“Why don’t you bud out and go make some wine,” Ralph said giving Jesus a hard shove.

“You know it’s not pronounced that way”, Jesus growled recovering quickly.

I rolled my eyes before standing. I turned to make my way over there when suddenly a voice rang out.

“ATTENTION!!!” As one every student in the cafeteria stopped what they were doing and stood, saluting as they did so.

“Can anyone tell me what is going on here”, the man said addressing the room.

“Hmm, no one, I find that hard to believe”, he said sweeping his gaze across the mass of people before his eyes locked onto me.

“Mr. LeRoy, would you kindly tell me what is going on here”, he said beckoning me forward.

I made my way to his side before telling him what happened, “Ralph pushed Chad over, and as Chad tried to walk away he put a clone of himself in front of Chad-”

“Enough” he barked “I get the picture” Mr. Saunders said. “Ralph come with me to my office” Mr. Saunders said beckoning to Ralph.

“But Mr. Saun-” Ralph tried to say before Mr. Saunders cut cut him off.

“But nothing Ralph my office, NOW” Mr. Saunders said turning on his heel and walking out the door to the lunch room, Ralph following close behind.

I made my way to my next class after the lunch incident when Will appeared in front of me.

“And where were you” he said pointing an accusing finger at me.

“I was going to jump in if you guys needed help but you had it covered” I replied walking around him.

“You’re like eight feet tall-”.

“Six two” I said cutting him off mid sentence.

“Whatever, what I’m saying is you’re tall and we could’ve used you as intimidation” he said as if he was presenting the facts in a court case.

“Yeah, I can see why” I said chuckling.

“Ya know what LeRoy, screw you” he said speeding down the hall.

“I don’t swing that way!” I called down the hall after him.

I cursed as I looked at one of the clocks down the hallway and ran the rest of the way to my history class, I made it just before my teacher shut the door. I slid into the only seat available which just so happened to be at the very front of the room.

“Alright class today we’ll be covering the human and dragon war-” That’s all he got out before the sound of crashes echoed from outside.

A voice came over the intercom “This is not a drill, I repeat this is not a drill everyone to battle stations we are under attack”. We sat there dumb struck before our history teacher snapped us out of it.

“YOU HEARD THE MAN GET A MOVE ON” he practically roared at us. I moved first getting up and running out of the classroom and into the throng of people in the hallway, I took a left and ran down the halls the quarters for the janitors were on. This took me to the front door, I exited the school and was surprised to see chimeras. Not the ones that were lion, snake, and goat which were the rarest no these were artificial ones created by magic, many of them walking on two legs. I pivoted on my right foot and jumped back which allowed me to narrowly avoid a swing from one of them. I summoned my short staff and raised it to block the incoming blow.

I braced myself and was surprised when nothing hit, I smelled burning flesh and hair and looked up to see a charred chimera turn its attention to Jesus as he stood there with his hands burning. As the chimera was about to charge I returned the favor by hitting the chimera in the back of the knees dropping it to the ground.

“I’ve got this one” Jesus said running over to the fallen beast.

I nodded at him before turning to charge into the fray only to be knocked aside as another one of the beasts backhanded me away. I rolled several feet on the ground before rising to my feet and rolling to the right to avoid another’s charge at me, I got to my feet as the beast stood over me. I jabbed my staff into the things throat, its gorilla face contorted in pain as it felt its throat being crushed. This isn’t working I thought to myself I don’t have any reach with this thing I thought as I brought up my staff up blocking yet another clumsy swing.

I got an idea and pressed one of the ends of my staff into the beast’s stomach and willed it to extend, the staff grew at an alarming rate almost doubling in size - it went from half as tall as me to a few inches over my head- and throwing the creature backwards.

“Nice power pole Goku” Jesus said running away from yet another chimera. Only to turn around and blast it with a face full of fire. He rolled to the right and ran away in the direction he came from.

I ducked a swing from one of the lumbering beasts and turned around using the staff to sweep it’s legs out from under it. I felt the ground start to shake and I heard a deafening roar from the direction of the school.

"ALL STUDENTS AND FACULTY BACK INTO THE BUILDING" I heard our principal yell with a magically enchanced voice.

I turned to the building and started to run only for a hand to reach up and grab my right ankle, it was the chimera I had just toppled. I started lashing out with the foot that wasn't in the beast's grasp, crap I thought to myself it's too tough to damage without a weapon and my staff won't be any help....craaap I need a sword. An arrow whizzed past me and lodged in the things eye, that was all I needed. I was out of it's grasp and sprinting full speed to the front door. As soon as I entered the building and closed the door a jet of fire hit the courtyard and torched some of the beasts. 

"Heh and you said old smokey wasn't up to the task" Talion- our resident teacher of magical creatures- bragged.

"I didn't think he was" I heard the principal admit."His scales are starting to lose their luster around his snout"

"That doesn't mean anything-"And that was all I played attention to.

Smokey as you probably know is our school's dragon our "guardian" more like fatas- 

"Yo LeRoy, good work out there" I heard Jesus say as he bounded up behind me with a huge grin on his face. 

"You too man" I said clapping him on the back.

"Alright kids good job, we're now doing a school wide roll call" said Mr.Saunders pulling out a gigantic roll of parchment.

There were several hundred goans as we'd have to be here for a few hours at least, even the freshman and sophomores have to have roll call even though all they did was hunker down in their dorms.

As name, after name, after name, was called I sat on the ground in the courtyard against a wall. I heard my name and get called and I yell as loudly as I could "I'M HERE GODS ABOVE I AM HERE", this elictied quite a few chuckles from the people around me.

 The beauty of getting your name called was that once you reported in you could go back to your dorm or the gym and pretty much do whatever you want, I quickly hopped up and walked with a brisk pace to my dorm. As