Fear Academy (Started but still accepting)

Pearl

So, there I am. In the gym, no one to talk to. I see Molly coming in, and she slides beside me on the bench. I look at her and smile. She returns the favor.

"Hey." Molly says. "So... What was that back there?"

I groan. God, what is wrong with people if they see one girl and one boy together, alone on the roof? Why do they get such wrong ideas?

"I didn't mean to ask in that sort of way. I was just--"

"It's okay." I say interfering. "We're just friends."

Molly nods and looks around at the people in the gym. There's Ms. Wenchester working out again, punching her bag. And then there's--

A text pops up on my cell phone screen, and I jump in to look who it is. Maybe it was Annabeth? It's been LONG time since we talked. But no. In fact, it was a person who I never expected to get a text from. Chase. Oh, was I delighted! I go on to read it.

Hey. S'me. What do you say about dinner tonight? Lots of people are meeting up at that pizza-place on campus. I'll pick you up if you're up for it.

Pizza-place? Hm. I punch in my reply.

Heyy. Sure, I'd love to. Sounds like fun.

I press "send" and off it goes. I see Molly staring at what I was texting and she gives me a grin. Oh, great! I turn to her and shrug.

"Just friends, huh?" she asks me, laughing.

"Molly! Shut up." I say, in a friendly way.

Well, this was going to interesting. And to be frank, I'm a little excited.

When Ian comes back to our room, we sit together sobbing for a while. Then she tells me she has to leave the school and is considering living in the woods. I sigh. I think I'm actually going to miss her. "Well, stay safe." I say. Then I get an idea. "Not to sound rude, but you don't mind if when you leave I ask Raven to move in here with me, so I can keep an eye on her, make sure none of the other vampires get her in the fued, and none of the mortals get her for hanging out with a vampire?" She actually thinks that its a good idea, she said she would be gone by morning. I help her pack up all of her stuff, and she goes to sleep. I hop down to Raven's room and knock on the door, it's late but luckily I didn't wake her up. I tell her my idea and she starts packing up, she should be completely packed by tomorrow afternoon and then she'll just move herr stuff in. After that I go back to my room and go to bed.

The next morning is a Thursday, and just as I get up, Ian is about to leave. I give her a hug, and yes, I start crying AGAIN! I tell her goodbye and good luck, and then I get ready for class. I pull on a pair of dark green jeans and adark purple sweatshirt. Then I put on my pendant and on my right foot I have a neon green tennis shoe with yellow laces. I put my books in my bag and hop down to class, but then I remember, it's a teacher-in-service day; no classes! So I hop over to Raven's room to help her pack. Then as she is bringing her stuff to my room, we run into Steve, I ask him, since I can't help Raven carry her stuff if he will. He does and in no time the three of us are in mine and Raven's room, unpacking. We finish before lunch time, so we decide to go to the cafeteria and get some lunch. We all sit in that corner table we always sit at, but instead of me and Raven bringing ipods, I have her carry down my boombox. I put in a rock CD, and crank it up, just to annoy everyone else in the room. It's fun to annoy those who are such jerks to us. Then the three of us spend the rest of the day hanging out in the room, listening to music and such. For once I can honestly say I have made true friends. Later on that afternoon, Raven and I go down to drama, because extra-curriculars aren't cancelled today. After reherssal, we go back to our room and practice to the CD for a while. We actually had a fun day for probably the first time since school started this week.

I have to tell the other vampires about Raven and Steve though, how they are on our side. I decide to call a vampire meeting for tonight at 10. I go around and inform all the other vampires, and they agree to come. Since Raven and Steve are on our side, I tell them to be at the meeting as well, it would make it easier on me than having to explain what happened at the meeting to them. I go down to the cooking room, yes they actually have a room where students are aloud to cook; and make some ham-roll-ups, and brownies. Then Raven and I go to the on campus convenience store and buy some soda, because even though not all vampires do it, some of us, like myself, eat mortal food as well, so I want to accomidate those that I can. We have all recently had blood, and I wouldn't know where to get any right now anyway. Around 9:30 I start outting all the chairs and stuff out, and I put the snacks on my desk and the sodas on Raven's. Then around 9:50 Steve shows up. At 10 all the vampires start showing up, they all look suspiciously at Steve and Raven, but they don't say anything. Sarafine, of course, is the last to show. When she does arrive, we begin.

"Thanks for coming guys," I start off, but before I can get out another word, Sarafine starts up with me. "What's with the freaky mortals? And where's Ian? Why are we here? This is stupid. This is the worst vampire meeting ever." "Sarafine, just get out! You obviously don't want to hear what I have to say, and I really didn't want you here to begin with, but a vampire meeting is for all vampires, so I thought I'd be nice! But obviously that has no effect on you!" She sits back down, "If you don't want me here, now I have to be here." she says. "Anyway, guys this is Raven and Steve. They are mortals, but they are on our side. They are not to get caught in any crossfire, and they are to be watched as if they were one of us. We have to protect them, and they have agreed to help us. Now does anybody else want to add to that list of mortals to be protected?" I sit back and nervously await their reaction.

I didn't go to Sammy's funeral. I hated funerals. Instead I went back to the dorms and did nothing for a while. Nadia came back after, but she didn't talk to me, and I didn't talk to her. She sat in her bed and cried for a little bit, then left. I pulled out my guitar and started playing. After that I decided a work out was what I needed a workout and headed for the gym. On the way there I spotted Isobel and walked over to her.

"Hey Isobel," I smiled at her. "how's it going?"

She just smiled and kept working out. She was working on a punching bag and doing a rather good job at it.

"Pivot on your foot and put your body into it. You'll get more force out of it." I smiled and walked over to another punching bag to get started.

I don't know how long I was working on it when a picture of Samms'y body filled my head. I got so mad I did a double spin kick and broke the punching bag off it's chain. Silence filled the entire gym. Everybody stared at the gym bag which had flown clear across the gym, then at me.

"Pent up anger." I panted trying to catch my breath.

People still stared. I just ignored them and went on to the next puching bag when Kai walked up.

"I bet you didn't expect this when you came to this school didi you?" he asked

"Hell no I didn't." I laughed.

"You owe me a new punching bag." I followed his gaze to the spot against the wall where it rested.

"Send me the bill." I told before aiming a kick at the bag and shoot.

Kai stopped it mid swing. Our eyes met and held. He knows I hate it when people touch me while i'm working out. What was he up to?

"On second thought," let go of my leg with a smile and turned to face everyone else. "may i have you attention please!"

They all looked in his direction. "You all know me as yes?"

He looked nack at me and smiled. "But you know nothing about Ms. Wenchester here."

I waved hello.

"She just broke valuable equipment." He commented. "Don't you think she should pay fir it?"

What the hell is he doing!?Everyone nodded and shouted yes.

"Or," he held a finger up. "I could fight her for it."

WTF!? Is he on crack?

"Most of you don't know, but Ms. Wenchester has multiple balck belts in Martial Arts." Kai wouldn't stop smiling .

"I have a couple my self including, Tae Kwon Do, and I propose a match." he looked back at me. "Do you accept."

All eyes were once again on me. I stepped forward and held my hand out. "I'd be honored to Headmaster"

He shook my hand. "It's settled then, tomorrow night right here on the mat at 8:30, things go down."

Everyone begain cheering and hollering and screaming in excitement. His grip on my hand tightened and he pulled me against him. "Good luck my beautiful Amazonian Warrior. You'll need it."

"I'll get you for this." I promised.

With that he walked off. And he was right. I would need luck to beat him. In all of the black belts I have, Tae Kwon Do isn't one which Kai knows. He knows this because he's the one training me.

Well this was certainly akward. One minute a punching bag was beating me up, the next Ms. Wenchester was instructing me, and then Kai came over and challenged her to a fight. Teachers fighting!, that is certainly something that does not happen in normal schools, but then again this was definetly not a normal school. After the workout I decided to head back to my room to play my keyboard I caught Gray on her way out and nodded to her when she suggested that we should get lunch together tommorrow. I tied my haor back in a loose ponytail and sat crossed-legged on my small dormroom bed. The room was really quiet, just how I liked it when I worked. My dad had taught me how to play the piano when I was little, over time I had gotten as good as him maybe a little better and that was saying something. Since he played concerts. A knock on the door spooked but I calmed down when I realized it was just Ms. Wenchester.
"Hello Isobel, I was just walking by when I heard you playing. It was really good." She said entering the room.
"Thanks," I said blushing at the praise. "Do you play?" I asked.

Smiling at Pearl's reply, I text back, Great. I'll swing by at 9:00.

I get to my dorm, Tatsel out somewhere, and close the door behind me. I look through the closet, my eyes wondering around all the jock jackets to finally find a nice casual button-up shirt. I throw that on with a pair of faded jeans, and wear some high-tops. I keep my hair like it usually is and freeze when I hear a knock at the door. I walk to it and open it, swallowing when I realize who it is. Saraphine.

Swallowing, I glance around awkwardly, "Oh, um...hi. Tatsel isn't here right now--"

"Pft. Why are you dressed all nice?" She inturupts me, eyeing me.

I look down at myself, "Yeah... I actually am--"

"You going on a date?" She smirks.

I try not to lash out and nod, "I don't really know. I guess. Why are you here?"

"Tatsel isn't here?"

I shake my head, "Nah."

She says nothing more and I blink a couple times before closing the door.

Nine o' clock comes and I make sure I have my phone before walking to Pearl's dorm. I knock and she answers. She looks beautiful. I blink and clear my throat before flashing my famous smile, "You ready?"

Luna

"Sure." I smile and step inside.

I followed her over to her bed and sat down.

"Do you have a guitar?" I leaned back against the wall.

"I have two actually." she hopped from the bed and pulled the guitars out of her closet.

She handed me one before sitting back down. I strummed a few chords and realized it was out of tune. I fixed that and began again.

"You can tune by ear?" she asked.

"My grandpa taught since I was old enough to hold a spoon." I laughed. "He was
best."

"Was?" she asked.

"He dropped dead of a heart attack when I was fourteen. " I answered.

"Aw," her voice. "im so sorry"

"it's fine." I shrugged. "Do you know A La Nita Nana?"

"The spanish lullaby?" she smiled. "Of course."

"Sit back and learn from the master." I took a deep breath and let my fingers do the talking.

I remember my mom singing my sister to sleep at night with this song while dad played. I knew this song ny heart. It as the first song my grandfather taught me. My heart always hurt after I finished playing. Like it did now. I opened my eyes not realizing i'd closed them. Isobel looked like she was about to cry.

"That was so beautiful." she started crying.

"Oh," I started to panic. "Please stop crying. Last time someone cried I got dirty looks all day."

She wiped her eyes and took a deep breath. "Where did you learn to sing like that?"

"Choir." I answered. "And it runs in the family."

"So what's up with this fight between you and the dean?" she nudged.

"I have no idea." I sighed. "I was gonna pay for the punching bag, but he went and screwed it up. And the only reaso he picked Tae Kwon Do is because he knows i
I don't have my black in it yet."

"Why would he do that?" she frowned.

"He's the one training me, so he knows all of my moves." I fumed.

"Well, how about we play and get your mind off things?" Isobel offered.

I gave a wide smile. "I would like nothing better."

Pearl

I feel rather excited! He's going to come by 9.00 and I'm super hyped. I run to my dorm, biding Molly farewell. Then closing the door, I look at myself in the mirror. I did buy that blue floral dress just recently. I could wear that. Or maybe that gorgeous red dress that comes around with a belt. No. No. Blue is rather fine. I switch into the dress, and look at myself. Looks very summer-like. I love it. Then conditioning my hair a little and blow-drying it, I leave it open and grab on to my black stilettos. I wear my new chandelier earrings and some of my make-up. Grabbing my purse, I take one last look in the mirror. All good!

I step out of the dorm and I see Molly coming in again. She stares at me, fully amused and gives me a huge thumbs up. I think I have a nice feeling here. She leaves and just after 5 minutes, Chase drops by and I welcome him inside. I stare at him.

Woah. He is so hot.

I blush a little, and he gives me that smile of his which sends me into thousands of pieces. "You ready?"

I nod and say, "You look so good."

"Thanks. You too. Lookin' amazing."

I smile and look to the ground. We're walking to the pizza-place and I see few of Chase's friends by and I give them a quick wave. It's freezing outside, though. I see a huge number of students at the pizza-place. It must be great fun. I look Chase again who happens to be looking at me again.

"Is something wrong?" I ask.

"No. Nothing's wrong. Just checkin' you out." Chase says and I frown at him. He laughs and says, "Just kidding! Let's go." I smile happily and we make our way inside the pizza-place.

Raven

It takes all of my will-power and self-control to not puch Sarafine in the face after that snide remark. Instead, I challenge her by saying, "What? You got a problem with me? Half the school wants to kill you guys and you want to make me want to kill you too?" But no one pays attention to what I'm saying. Instead, all eyes and ears are on her and Trinity. Unfortunately, Trinity decides against kicking her out. Too bad. I would have loved to see the look on Sarafine's face if she did.

A few minutes later, everyone is settled and the meeting begins. Basically, Trinity tells them about me and Steve, and how we're on their side. She also informs us that the new mythology teacher is as well. I knew there was a reason I liked her. Then they talk about Ian leaving, and about the girl that died a few days ago. Then the room gets very quiet.

After a while, the meeting comes to a close and people disperse from the room to head back to their own dorms, I assume. After everyone has left, even Steve, the room is very quiet. To break the silence, I say jokingly, "Hey, do you want to go grab a bite to eat at the pizza place? I've heard their garlic bread is to die for."

After a few brief moments of silence, we both burst out laughing. After she has recovered some, Trinity says, half joking and half not, "Don't tell that to Sarafine. She'll think you're serious about the garlic bread."

"What's her problem, anyway? Why does she hate us so much?" I ask her, not really expecting much of an answer, and I don't get much either.

"I don't know." Trinity responds unconvincingly. She's a good actor, but not that good. I don't press it though. She'll tell me when she's ready to.

Changing the subject, I suggest we practice more for drama club. Soon, we are singing at the top of our lungs along with the Grease soundtrack, jumping on our beds and dancing, making complete fools of ourselves. We only stop when the guy in the neighboring dorm almost punches a hole in the wall, he is banging on it so hard, and screaming at us to stop. He's one of those jerky jock a**holes, so we just end up just turning it up even louder, screaming, Chang-chang changady-chang shoobop" as loud as we can. All in all, a fun night.

Surprisingly the meeting goes well. When everyone has left, Raven and I joke around a bit. She asks me why Sarafine hates me, I really don't want to answer that, so I just say I don't know, but I doubt she believes it. Then we decide to reherse a little more. When one of the jerks in the next dorm over yells at us to stop, we turn it up louder! We have a really fun rest of the night.

The next morning is another teacher-in-service day, and I actually remembered this time! I slept in and when I woke up, I was a little surprised that Raven was still sleeping. She must have heard me take a shower though, because by the time I'm dressed and out of the bathroom she's up. "Did the shower wake you up?" I ask. "No. Your rendition of 'Spice Up Your Life' by the Spice Girls did though." she responds, a little sarcasm in her voice. "Sorry," I say innocently, "I didn't realize I was that loud." We go down to breakfast and make some small talk while we eat. Then we go back to our room and mind our own business. Raven must be finishing some homework, I already fnished mine, so I pull out my laptop, and record some instrumentals, then I add them in to a song I wrote. I'll add the vocals when no one else is around. I play it back after I finish, it sounds great! Raven seems to like it, because she looks up from her work. Then I decide to go for a walk, well, more like a hop. I run into Sarafine, she's going on about something, I just tune her out; but she doesn't like that I'm ignoring her, before I know what happened, she has me pinned on the floor, my crutches thrown to the other side of the hall.

Spoiler

OH MY GOSH. I'M SO LATE! I'M SO SORRY, GUYS!! How do I fit... in... hmmmmmmm.

Domino
I ran past a few girls as I hurried to.... where was I going again? I ran smack into one of the girls. I took a step back, still dazed, and fell backwards. What was happening....? It was Sarafine, I think.. and there, on the floor, Trinity? What was happening?
"Uh... er... I'm sorry.. Sarafine, is it? I was just.. Uh.." I stuttered.
I felt my face grow hot. Why was everybody staring at me? Especially Sarafine? I awkwardly helped myself up and smoothed out my shirt. I held out my hand.
"Er, need a hand?" I said awkwardly.

Asther
I stared at Domino .... especially because he had ruined the race by trying to giggle at Sarafine. She was a vampire. I think everyone knew already. It was a matter of time before she got caught. I knew Domino always liked her. That was why he was always so.... awkward around her.
SARAFINE. SARAFINE. SARAFINE. The name twirled around my head as I turned briskly around and everything went back to normal.

Luna

Today was another damned in service do dad thing. Too bad I wasn't going. The night that Sarafine attacked Heike i'd found a cute little meadow to practice in and that's where I was headed right now. Then I heard somebody yell and went to investigate. What I found was Sarafine on top of Trinity. I dropped my bag and ran over.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" I pulled Sarafine off of Trinity.

She yanked away and hissed at me. "Mind your own buisness!"

"When you're in school and attacking another student it is my buisness" I simply realyed the fact.

"This is between me and her!" she spat.

I ignored her and turned to face Trinity. "Are you ok?"

"Look out!" she yells.

I turn around just in time to catch Sarafine by her throat and lift her into the air.

"Do you wanna die?" I ask. "Because you will if you keep attacking people."

I lowered her to the ground and pulled her closer to her down. "Don't think for a minute that I won't drop you. I'm not afraid of vampires remember? I don't let fear get in my way."

"Let me go." she rasped.

"I didn't take you for stupid when I got here, but then you attack a student, and then a person on crutches. I honestly didn't think anybody was this stupid, but you've proved me wrong." My hand twitched.

"Let go of me." she rasped again.

"If you hurt anyone else at this school, i'll take you down." I promised. "And if you come after Trinity again you'll be the one needing crutches."

The hand around her throat loosened and she dropped to the ground when Asther and Domino walked up and offered a hand. I turned toward Trinity and went to help her up.

Spoiler

OH MY GOSH, I'M SUPER STUPID. I forgot to read the whole story before posting, sorry, folkiesss.

Domino
I stared at Sarafine and shook my head. No, I didn't like her.
"Uh, er... sorry... I'll just be going.. now... "
What was it? Had it been drinking all that blood last night? Sammy... was dead.. and there was no more time for crushes on a well-known vampire. He might as well have a crush on all the girls at school.
At least Asther was still here with him. Wait, where'd she go?
"Oh, um... Ms. Wenchester.. is it? I've.... missed... some days at school.. so.. do I need to catch up or anything?" I stumbled with my words.
Being an antisocial social guy was.. weird..
It didn't make sense.
"Me too," Asther spoke up. "Me and Doooomiiinoo were... hanging out with some cousins for a while, and had to miss school. We arrived today."

Ms. Wenchester stopped Sarafine and helped me up. She gave me my crutches and took my back to my dorm. I invite her in to sit and she accepts, I don't know where she went, but Raven is out. Ms. Wenchester takes a seat in the chair at my desk and we talk for a few minutes. "I have a question," she tells me, "Why does Sarfine attack you so much?" "Well, when she bit Heike, I saw her and told Ian, so she feels like I betrayed vampire kind, she keeps trying to convince the other vampires to turn on me, but at least they have some sense!" I explain, "By the way, thanks for helping me out back there." "Sure, I think you need to keep an eye out from now on though; you never know when Sarafine will strike again." We talk a few more minutes and she goes. I like Ms. Wenchester, she's not like most other teachers, she actually cares, and looks out for her students.

I hop down to the music room, and sit at the piano, I start plaing an original tune and start singing along, this always calms me, though I can't shake the feeling that someone is watching me, but I quickly dismiss the idea. I really think someone is here, then I hear someone, and I think I see a shadow in the corner of the room, I just ignore it and continue. After a while I go back to my room, feeling very relaxed. Raven is back and I tell her about what happened with Sarafine, this puts her in a bad mood; I don't think I've ever seen Raven mad. She's still pretty ticked off when we go down to drama, but she hides it when we begin rehersal. When we go back to the room, she's still pretty steamed so I decide to talk to her about it. "Raven, you seem pretty upset about what happened with me and Sarafine today, want to talk about it?" she looks at me, "I don't like when people mess with my friends that way, It angers me that people just let her do that stuff to you, and no one does anything except Ms. Wenchester!" I understand her point and we talk until she feels better. We go down to dinner after she's calm and, to my surprise, and dread, Sarafine is there. I try to avoid eye contact, but then Raven decides to approach her.

Steve Cresley

I was walking past the music room when I heard, well music coming from beyond the door. I decide to see what it is and find Trinity there playing the piano whilst singing along. The song was so nice that I didn't want to disturb her and so I just silently slipped in and leaned against the wall next to the door, simply listening to her play. When I checked I had been standing there for ten minutes at which point I left before she noticed me.

Raven

My eyes lock with Sarafine's across the cafeteria. All of the sudden, I want nothing more than to strangle her until she's unconsious. Maybe for longer. Lightning fast, faster than I knew I could move, I am across the room, gripping Sarafine by the throat. But as I am lifting her off the ground, (Wow, I didn't know I could do that either. Guess that's just what rage does to you.) she lashes out, kneeing me in the stomach. Instantly, my grip loosens and I collapse on the floor.

Before I know what's happening, Sarafine has me pinned, just as she did Trinity that morning. But Mrs. Wenchester isn't here this time. In fact, as Sarafine repeatedly punches me in the throat and full-on in the face, she snarls, "Too bad little miss-Luna isn't here to save you now."

Then, Trinity, who has crossed the room, says menacingly, "But I am." and launches herself at Sarafine. Sarafine turns just in time to see Trinity charging her, and is tackled to the floor. I move out of the way just in time. If I had not, I would have been in the tangle of arms and legs that is Trinity and Sarafine. Instead of just watching, I decide to make myself useful and grab one of Trinity's dropped crutches. That should make as good a weapon as any. After a while, Trinity and Sarafine seperate just enough for me to join the fray.

For the next minute, hour? we are all just a rush of movement and energy. Just impacts, misses, cruches of bone, and pain. Then incoherent yells, different from the steady chanting of 'fight' from the other students. I ignore them. Until, of course, the teachers and administrators that have gathered pull us apart from one another.

A well-known and feared voice rises above all of the rest. The headmaster's. "All of you," He gestures to the whole cafeteria, "Will be severely punished for either participating or encouraging this act of violence. Girls, come with me." He gesture to me, Trinity, and Sarafine.

I follow him, my heart sinking, thinking, My mother will be furious. She'll say that this is the exact behavior she was trying to fix by bringing me here. I think that I have lost, and was just about to resign myself to whatever may come, and that Sarafine has won. Then I notice that one of her contacts fell out during the fight. So does everyone else. All of the students take in a collective gasp. I grin, knowing that Trinity and I have won. For now, anyway.