MIXED

Chapter 3

The class was a bit noisy following the following the previous incident. People in nurse uniforms went back and forth, carrying injured students out of the class room. The uninjured ones watched as their colleagues, who they had barely known for a day, writhed in pain. The activities went on for a short time until the last injured student was carried out.

Miss handel, who stood by the teacher’s desk, took off her glasses and dropped her books. Looking as the students as began “I trust that you all know why you have gathered here today” with a slight pause, she continued as she walked down the floors of the classroom, staring into the eyes of the students “But for the uninformed, I’ll make it short. To put it simply, the goblins have resurfaced and the world now relies on you, as our only hope, to put a stop to them.” She said solemnly, drawing a gasps from some of the students.

Meanwhile,

Walter lay awake in one of the school medical beds thinking about the things he had seen when a knock sounded. With a bit of struggle, Walter managed to answer the door “Are you by any chance, Mr walter?” a rough face was revealed on the other side. With unkempt beards and hair that looked like it hadn’t felt the touch of a shampoo in years, the danger raiding voice of Louis baker asked Walter.

Walter remained silent for a moment before he answered “yes I am. Uh…what’s the matter?” he tried to keep his calm as the day’s events kept flashing in his memories. Silence persevered in the room as Louis stared down Walter. It was like the man was about to pounce on him or something. Expecting something bad, Walter's heart raced but the tension was soon broken by a broad and honest smile. Louis’ sudden smile reached his eyes as he ruffled walter’s hair “ah it’s been a long time since I’ve seen you. Come here and give me a hug” he said, bringing Walter into his tight embrace. Walter was surprised at this, he had never met this man in his entire life but the man seemed to know him…what the he’ll was with this school?. He struggled a bit and got out of the man’s arms. An embarrassed cough came from Louis as he scratched his head “ehem…you probably don’t know me but it’s fine. Now for what I came here for. You have been summoned by the principal”

The last part of Louis sentence was like a heavy stone that dropped in the waters of Walter’s heart, making large waves. He was going to the principal's office on his first day of school! “oh god, I’m in trouble. Is this how I’ll leave this school? What would my dad even say? What would I tell him? That the school is full of a bunch of strange human like animals?” Walter’s head was full of turbulent thoughts.

Watching the expressions on Walter’s face, Louis tried his best to assure him “ Calm down, Mr skull face probably just wants to talk, don’t be scared…” he said. Walter who had been having a mini panic attack was a bit calmed at the words. As usual he started thinking “since it’s just talk, then it’s probably fine it won’t be any thing bad...Wait, the principal was called Mr skullface? Why would someone have that kind of name? Someone with a name that managing couldn’t be up to no good with me. Im a dead man!”

In a beautifully decorated room, a man sat quietly appearing to ponder over some things. The room was dimly lit but one could still make out the gingery hair of the man in the room. Hair like that of the flames, eyes that hid the history of the bearer with little to reveal. The man sat with his gaze fixated on the door, like he was waiting for something. Suddenly he caught a whiff of something…a smell. Like one of a wild animal mixed with a more calmly but still raging odour. “he’s here” the man said to himself as he relaxed his body and prepared to receive the guests.

Outside the door,

Walter had grown cold feet a while ago and was basically being pushed by Louis baker. Exasperated at Walter’s behaviour, Louis kept trying to assure him that nothing was going to happen to him But he fell on deaf ears. Finally reaching the door, Louis stopped pushing walter and fixed his clothes. Walter was already feeling mega scared by the time they reached the door, as the both of them stood with no one reaching to knock or even open the door, a deep baritone voice came from the other side of the door “come in”. The voice send a shiver down Walter's spine but Louis was seemingly unaffected and he just plainly opened the door.

The ginger hair of the man was the first thing Walter noticed, then the bony face of the man. It looked like the man had no flesh on his face at all. A moment of realization hit Walter, now he knew why they called him Mr Skull face! It wasn’t because he was dangerous or something, he just had a…Skull face. “leave us” the man spoke and Walter was confused, was he telling him to leave? After summoning him? He realized what the man meant when Louis left them and close the door behind him.

The room was quiet, the two males in it just stared at eachother…well to be more precise, one stared at the other while the other tried to avoid his gaze. Walter was a bit overwhelmed now, what was it with this man and staring? “sit” Mr Skullface spoke. Walter quietly obeyed , sitting down with his eyes still avoiding the man's gaze. “Look at me” the man's voice commanded., and Walter as always quietly obeyed. He maintained his courage and stared directly at the principal for once.

The principal brought something from his drawer and placed it on the table, it was a ball like object. Apparently made of metal with a red button on it. He stared at it for a while then he pushed the button, the ball bisected and suddenly it was like they were in night time! Walter's mouth opened, it was the same thing that had happened back with miss Handel in the class. The principal looked at Walter's surprised expression and he said “look at my hands”. Walter looked as the man raised his arm up and something strange started happening, the hairs in his hand started increasing drastically. They grew until they eventually covered his whole arm. The arm got bulky…very bulky! And long sharp claws emerged from where his fingernails should have been. The principal was a werewolf!