Young Writers Society

Chapter 2

“Explain again what happened,” the headmaster said.

“It went dark and someone appeared. Then we were stuck on the wall and that’s when it happened, when whoever this Black Queen is killed Karloline,” Gray said, head in his hands, his hair catching fire every so often. 

It was all a blur and all I remember is lots of talk, some yelling and Gray and I being sent to our dorm. Ok, so if you’re a little bit confused, I have taken over for a bit. And I, I mean Jon, Jonathon Lee, Gray’s best friend and roommate. Stuff like this is going to happen all the time cause Gray sucks at story telling. And sometimes he just forgets things, like at this moment.

“I swear on my life I will find this Black Queen and end her,” Gray mumbled, flopping onto his burnt bed.

“You know nothing about her and what she can do. And obviously she’s stronger than the both of us,” I said as I sat at the desk, using my abilities to research anything about the Black Queen on my laptop.

Gray responded but I was too busy in my head and with the laptop to notice what he said. What I found was nothing helpful, just a band called the Black Queen and not much else. 

“JON, earth to Jon,” Gray yelled out.

Gray actually caught my attention, and I lose concentration on my laptop, making the lights flicker and probably heaps of other stuff break.

“What? Sorry, what were you saying?”

“I was saying the teachers won’t do anything about the Black Queen. They never do anything.”

I was just about to respond when our door opened and a whole bunch of people were standing at it, all of them saying some rather colourful things about me.

“Jon, you owe me a new hair dryer. You made smoke come out of it,” Illyana yelled out, not putting in any Russian, which was odd for her.

“Why do you even need one?” I said as I fixed the hair dryer I could feel in her room that was broken.

“Because I was doing Morgan’s hair,” Illyana said, with Gray perking up at the mention of his crush.

“I’ll go do it for her,” Gray said as he got up from his bed and pushed his way through the crowd.

Illyana just shook her head and laughed at Gray, before making her way through the crowd.

“You better fix the wifi you put in or our mum will kill us,” Ajax said as his sister behind him was making hand signs at me, which from my time with the Jackson twins told me wasn’t anything nice.

“I’ll get to it after I find out what Zoe wants,” I said, pointing my chin to the tall girl behind Ajax and his sister.

“New heat lamps and light bulbs, Zoe just said as she went back to her room.

“Obviously I’ve got to get new heat lamps and light bulbs for Zoe, then fix the wifi.” 

“You better,” Ajax mumbled before storming off. Violet signed some stuff towards me that I didn’t understand. 

“Yeah whatever, Violet,” I said waving her off.

After Violet left, all that was left was Keto, just staring at me, arms crossed. I’d know him all my life and those eyes of his, bright green, just shredded through me

“Hurry up and sit down before lover boy comes back with hands for feet and feet for hands.”

“How’d the meeting go about the Black Queen?” Keto said softly.

“How’d you know about her?”

“I have my ways,” Keto said slyly. “I’ve also got other sources about who this Black Queen could be.”

I got up and closed the door. I didn’t want Gray to hear any of this because, for starters, he hates Keto and if he did believe Keto, he’d hunt down everyone Keto listed.

“Go on.”

“Ok, so my pack has done some digging and has found a registration of every supernatural. There’s a few female superhumans with abilities like the Black Queen, however, the most recent died 6 years ago. In a fire. All that was found were her initials, S P.”

“That’s not much to go on. And since when did you have a pack?” I said as I opened he door back up.

 “A lot of things can happen when you’re off by yourself,” Keto said as he walked out of my room.

I was all alone now, in my head, going through what Keto just told me. It was hard to dwell on, knowing not too long ago, Karloline was alive and this Black Queen must of been watching us.