Thursday, May 22, 2014

Academy of Powers: Chapter 5


"WHAT?!" You could probably hear me all the way back home. I had gone through all this trouble to learn I couldn't use my powers? "Whaddya mean, I don't?!" Sir had gotten back up. He pulled his cape up to his mouth like Dracula. It absorbed the powers we blasted to him. He put the cape down and left us one last grin. Then, with a ZAP, he dissapeared. Electra put her hands down. "With resurrection... it's the same as life and death. Only in times of extreme sadness, danger, worry, stress, and anger can you access it. Any other time, it's worthless. You can do a little healing with life, and a little hurting with death, but resurrection... they need to even it out. Since your power is as strong as Life and Death combined, you can only do the things in special times. Whew, I explain stuff to you a lot." She explained. Saurus nodded, his black jaguar head bobbing up and down. He tried to talk, but it came out in a roar. I jumped back. He did a low growl, which was probably supposed to be a sigh, and his paw went up to his muzzle. He was doing the jaguar-version of a face palm. He very, very slowly morphed back into a person. "She's RRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! I mean, she's right. Sorry we forgot to GGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWLLLLLLLLL! Tell you. Guess it was an accident." He roared again and almost shook the whole room, but stopped. Shaely was on the floor, pooped. Electra and I walked over and asked, "How're you feeling?" She sighed, then said (In French), "Bonté. Mais je me sens tout à fait bien, Electra et Arian. Je suis un peu fatigué, quand il sera de la rupture du jeûne? Bon amour, j'ai pensé une pensée sombre. Je vais dire à ta plus tard? Bonne journée." I groaned. I had no idea what she had just said, but I said, "Mm..... Ok?" She smiled then walked away. Liya walked over to us, black hair trailing behind. "Ah, xin chào!" Saurus leaned over and whispered, "She was raised in Vietnam. She speaks a little English, and tries to speak it all the time." She slowly thought, then said, "What are your doing?" In a very, very, very heavy Asian accent. I stared, and then said, "Erm.............. Nothing?" She cocked her head thought, then said, "If you are a civilian....? Then why are your still doing here?" I stared, then slowly walked away. Saurus and Electra followed me. "She's kind of.... odd." Saurus said. Electra nodded harshly. "But seriously, Arian, you should have picked Electric." Saurus nudged her, and laughed. Then they looked at my head and their jaws dropped. "Erm, Arian? You're hair is kind of.... silver." I give her a weird look. "Uh, ok....? Wait, whaddya mean, SILVER?!" I ran over to the glass door and the crystaly glass showed my reflection. I gasped. I had shiny silver cropped hair, copper-colored eyes, paler-than-before skin, and I was half a centimeter shorter. My clothes, somehow, had changed too. I was wearing a white shirt under a silver-and-black vest. I had dark gray jeans, and black sneakers. I looked at myself. "This isn't me. Wha- why did I change?"
"THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, IS OBVIOUS." 
A voice said. I twirled around, and saw the Cheshire smile of Sir. I clenched my fists. "What do you want?" Sir inspected his nails. "Oh, nothing, darlin'. Just answering' a simple question, darlin'. Over those old, disgusting, life-filled years, I noticed something. Though you children aren't by slightest related, you... act alike, look alike, and talk alike. But you, darlin', are too different. The spirit changed you. Notice you're different, beg to differ." I gave him a glance, and took a deep breath. "Dude, why me?" I could practically see his eyes flare. He took out his sword and held the tip on my throat. Sir stepped forward, but Electra held him back. Sir snarled, "Never. Call. Me. Dude." My neck stung, and I realized I was bleeding slightly. "Darlin'. I'll tell you the name of the resurrection before you, when you're ready. When you're ready." He sheathed his sword and cut my skin, but I couldn't feel pain right now. My hands clenched into fists. "No. I'm not accepting it." I growled. "Mm? I didn't hear you?" He glared at me.
"NO!" Sir jumped. I raised my fist, now engulfed in silver and blue mist, and struck it too the ground. A crack appeared, and A bone claw gripped the hallway's tile. I bony hand- that looked quite like a dragon's paw- arose. I saw a head burst out, then the rest of the body. Thank goodness the school's hall was gigantic. The bone dragon's eyes were the size of king-size beds, and the head was as big as a school bus. Its wings spread to the size of a jet plane, and the body was just.... big. It was bigger than central station and Madison square garden combined. It was squished into the hall, but wasn't broken. Electra and Saurus's jaws dropped. "...no way..." Electra started. Saurus finished for her. "...you resurrected.... the most powerful, but dead monster. The... the.... Mongolian Bone Bringer." It roared and looked down at Sir, holding his black velvet suit on a claw. It ate the black velvet then flung Sir back down. "AM I CORRECT WHEN I SAY YOU LEARNED THE LESSON, TAUGHT BY FIFTY TONS OF BONE?" The dragon snarled into his ear. Sir nodded quickly. The dragon placed him down and dived back into the hole, it's tail knocking down a stash of lockers. Sir moaned in agony. "It is time... you are ready." I immediately knew what he meant. "TELLMETELLMETELLME!!!" I yelled. I was so eager to learn of my dormitory ancestor. He grinned that same old Cheshire grin. "Darlin'. It was Celeste DeLeon Hawk." Celeste DeLeon Hawk. Celeste DeLeon Hawk. Where had I heard that? Suddenly, it hit me. MY jaw nearly dropped to the floor. "Mom. You chose too?" 

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