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"Ugh, leave the educating until school properly starts"
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The sun was high in the sky and shining down upon me as the sound of the school bell echoed in my ears.
I was leaning against a locker while waiting for Claire—who was taking for sweet time setting her books neatly in her locker. I was half zoned out as I waited, but the sound of Mary loudly slamming her locker shut brought me back—also making me realise Mary was looking right at me.
"Jim Lake asked you to the dance and you didn't tell us?" Mary yells at me frantically—Darci also standing next to her with her arms crossed and a disappointed look on her face.
"Spill it Y/n, before Mare and I go kaboom!" Darci exclaims as I nervously glance to Claire before looking back to the two curious girls.
I knew the interrogation would happen sooner or later...I was just hoping for it to be later.
"There's not much to tell, except... I sorta asked him" I say with a shrug of my shoulders, not really thinking it's a big deal.
I was wrong.
The two gasp in shock—Mary acting like I told her my grandma just died, and Darci acting like a proud mum.
"Good, girl!" Darci says with a large smile—making me let out a small laugh.
"Excuse me, Darci. Do not celebrate. Educate." Mary says as she points a stern finger at my face, wiggling at around at me.
Darci nods as she looks to me—attempting a disappointing look but I can tell she's happy for me.
"Ugh, leave the educating until school properly starts" I groan as I lean against Claire, away from Mary's finger.
"That's not the way you do things, Y/n! There are rules to being on top of the social food chain. What sort of world do you think we live in?" Mary exclaims.
"An equal one?" I question.
"Not even close" Mary says with a roll of her eyes.
I sigh before glancing away from the prodding girl and happen to catch Jim's eyes. I smile at the boy with a small wave—Jim returning it with a small chuckle. He then seemed to notice Mary ranting at me and raises a questionable eyebrow at me with a smirk, making me playfully roll my eyes.
"My goodness really?" I hear Darci ask making me tune back to the conversation.
"You don't want to know. Look at my face and tell me that you do not want to know what happened" Mary says making me stand in front of her and stare in her eyes with a blank expression.
"I do not want to know what happened" I say seriously.
"Well I'm gonna tell you anyway" Mary says and goes on a rant about who knows what.
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I walk alongside Jim as we enter the gym. I immediately spot Coach Lawrence—the two of us sharing large smiles as he walks up to me.
"L/n!" He yells as he gives me a fist bump.
"Coach!" I exclaim with a smile as we laugh at eachother before I continue to walk alongside Jim.
"Why does he like you so much?" Jim questions with a laugh.
"I'm a likeable person" I shrug.
"Cant argue with that" Jim says with a smirk making me playfully punch his shoulder.
"Shut up" I grumble, about to make a more witty comment other than shut up (it's my go to line when I'm flustered) before a scream interrupts us.
"I'm Steve! You're not Steve! I'm Steve! I'm Steve! I'm Steve!" Steve yells as he runs out of the boys change rooms, screaming at the top of his lungs.
Everyone watches him go in silence before chatting away again like nothing happened.
"I think he's Steve?" I joke as Jim laughs.
"SAT season. I'll tell you, one kid snaps like a snow pea every spring" Coach Lawrence says.
I then notice Claire running over to us excitedly making Jim and I look at her confused.
"So...Shadow dancer?" Claire asks.
Here we go again. Claire insists that because we are now Trollhunters with cool powers and weapons, we need superhero names. I've tried to tell her that a cool superhero name doesn't exist—because in real life they're super cringey, but she doesn't listen.
"Sure...if you want to be bullied on the internet" I remark causing the girl to sigh.
"Ugh! I just-don't you think I should be coming up with my own name?" Claire questions, wanting to come up with a cool name herself but not knowing any cool ones (mostly because they don't exist).
"Uh, yeah. Sure. Got any others?" Jim asks her.
"How about Queen Death Viper 5000 of the Shadow Realm?" Claire asks playfully.
"Ooo, I like that one" I laugh before freezing.
My ear starts to feel a weird tingly feeling—I immediately slap the side of my head, trying to get rid of the horrible feeling, not realising I had just paused in the middle of the corridor.
Jim seemed to realise I wasn't following anymore and stopped to look back—watching me with a confused face.
"You good?" Jim questions, snapping me out of my thoughts as he walks over to me.
"Yeah...fine" I mutter as I feel my eyes slightly glaze over. "I uh, need the bathroom, save me a seat?"
"Yeah, sure" Jim says confused before I run off.
When I make it to the bathroom—I slam open the door, slightly panting as I continuously blink my eyes, trying to keep them opened when they suddenly felt so drowsy.
I lean my back against a toilet cubicle door and bring my hands to my eyes—rubbing them roughly before closing them tightly, and then it stopped.
I slowly bring my hands away from my face and look around at my surroundings—a fearful expression on my face.
Where the hell did the bathroom go?
I realise I'm now standing on the side of the road in front of my house? Well this isn't creepy.
The sky is dark and gloomy and all the streetlights are off expect the one infront of my house. I stare at the light as it flickers—a horrible feeling swirling within my gut.
This is just a dream.
I decide to slowly walk up to the door of my house and carefully open it, cringing as it creaks loudly.
"Mum?" I ask tentatively only to hear my voice echo throughout the house—it almost feeling like a ghost whispering the words I spoke back into my ears.
"In here sweetie" I hear my mums voice say, but it sounded different.
The voice sent a shiver down my back. It was too overly sweet, too happy to be my mum.
I hear giggling and talking coming from the kitchen so I tentatively make my way there, my footsteps echoing as I walk.
I look inside the kitchen and feel myself freeze on the spot—my eyes glued to the figure with my mum.
"Hey sweetie, how was school?" My mum asks, but all I can focus on is the guy standing next to her.
"Honey, you alright?" the guy asks, his voice familiar yet so unfamiliar.
I know him. I know I do. Why do I know this man?
"I-I don't, what's going on?" I stumble out as I look at the two adults—they're wide fake smiles making me feel more unsafe and scared.
"What do you mean? Your home! This is your home! We're a family sweetie!" My mum says with a sickeningly sweet smile.
A family? No...
"Just like you've always wanted" The man says with a joyful laugh, but it doesn't sound joyful—it sounds dead and creepy.
I continue to stare at the man blankly before I feel my eyes widen at the realisation. No...no...
"Dad" I whisper as I take a cautious step back—making them take steps forward, getting closer towards me.
"This is your life sweetie, this is your home" My mother repeats as they close in on me.
"Home?" I whisper in confusion, my back hitting the wall as I feel the room get smaller and smaller—the two figures getting closer and closer towards me.
"Home" They repeat making me cover my ears with my hands.
No...no...no...
"Stop" I whisper as I hear them chant home over and over in my brain—the sound echoing and slowly driving me insane.
"Stop it!" I scream loudly as I close my eyes tightly—reopening them to find my surroundings have changed and I'm back in the bathroom—Claire and Toby kneeling in front of me.
"Wake up!" Toby yells loudly before he slaps my face, hard.
"Ow! What the hell Toby!" I yell as I cradle my face with my hand.
"Oh, sorry, you weren't waking up" Toby says sheepishly.
"You alright? You look a bit pale" Claire says as she places a hand on my forehead.
I don't know how I feel. What was that? Why did that happen? Why was I seeing this creepy illusion of my fucked up family?
"Fine...wait, what happened" I ask as I start to stand up, realising I was crouched in a ball on the ground.
"Oh Crab! No time! Come on!" He yells before he grabs my wrist and tugs me out of the bathroom, pulling me through the school corridors before I can even get a word in.
"Toby!" I yell frantically before he shushes me and hands me a cotton wad.
"Stick that up your nose!" Claire explains making me sigh and do what they say, deciding not to question things right now.
"We have to protect Jim!" Toby yells making me nod my head and run with them, although still not entirely sure what we're protecting Jim from.
The three of us ran, searching the school before we made it to the gym. I sigh in relief as we spot Jim walking around the gym in slight confusion, the doors wide open.
"There! There's Jim!" Toby yells as we run towards the gymnasium.
Just when we almost made it to the door—a cackling figure steps infront of it. Angor Rot. He sends us a sinister smile before slamming the door shut on our faces.
"No, Jim!" I yell as we start banging on the door—grunting as we try and pull it open.
"Y/n, use your powers!" Toby yells making me nod and put my hands up, only for nothing to happen.
"No, no, no! Why won't you work!" I yell as I wave my hands around frantically—the stress of the situation making my thoughts get all jumbled.
"Maybe it was the pixie things" Toby suggests.
"Pixie things?" I ask, still completely clueless of what happened.
"Not important! We need to get this door open" Claire says making us nod.
I immediately perk up as I remember that I have my staff. I summon my staff from my bracelet and take some steps back.
"Move out of the way!" I yell before I ram into the door with my staff in front of me, successfully opening the door.
I quickly turn my staff back into a bracelet as we all run into the gymnasium—immediately spotting Jim crouched on the floor.
"Jim!" Toby yells as we run towards the boy.
"Your alive!" Claire yells.
"Jim! Your alright!" I sigh as I launch myself into his arms, Toby and Claire doing the same so that we're having a group hug with Jim squished in the middle.
"Oh man!" Toby says as he snorts out the cotton. "We really thought we lost you"
I still don't know what really happened but I know it was bad.
"I'm fine, really" Jim says as we all start to stand up, Jim keeping his arm around my shoulders.
We start to walk out of the gym as students start cluttering out in the front, all chatting in confusion about having weird hallucinations and seeing things.
What I've gathered from the situation. Angor Rot let out weird pixie things that make you see things. That's what I'm going to assume happened.
"You sure you alright?" I whisper to Jim as we walk behind Toby and Claire.
"I'm fine, you fine?" Jim asks as he squeezes my side to his.
"Totally good" I smile.
Complete lie, but he doesn't have to know that.
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Claire and I sit on the school sign as Toby and Jim stand next to it, all of us watching as students get picked up by parents—everyone still confused on what happened.
I then hear the faint sound of footsteps from behind us causing me to swiftly turn my head to find Blinky running towards us, huffing and panting.
"Blinky?" I question, gaining everyone's attention.
"Oh! Oh...By Deya's grace! Uh, you're alive! Master Jim, I had to run the entire way, with a lavatory stop or two." His stomach grumbled, the noise definitely catching our attention, our faces twisting in discomfort.
What did that troll eat? I mean human...troll-human?
"Oh, dear. Your automobiles are the most obstinate machines. How did you survive Angor Rot?" Blinky asks.
"Long story. Have you heard of the Inferna Copula?" Jim asks as I follow his line of eyesight and look to a ring sitting on Stricklers finger.
It's honestly a pretty ring.
"Indeed I have" Blinky responded as we all sit in silence, wondering what's yet to come.
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Authors note:
I wasn't sure what to write for the pixie thing but I thought the whole 'daddy issues' thing would be a good way to go
Also I have a Regulus Black and Hiccup Haddock book in my drafts and I have no idea if I should publish one of them? They're Oc books
Hope you enjoyed this chapter!