Learning from the Worst

Weirdest Place

When Cameron first walked through the door of the new learning place she expected some guard to start patting her down, taking away any sharp object or something, but instead she learned fairy tails are real.

"Hold up, the vampire, witch, mermaid, and alien are gonna train us to be good?" She asked.

The cop, Lisa just shrugged "Yeah pretty much. Now I have to there was another incident at the correctional facility."

When Lisa had walked out the door, Tandy (the vampire) turned to us, "So, we don't know your names, ages, why you're here, or your favorite color." She pointed at the girl standing next to Cameron, "Name, age, why you're here, and favorite color."

"Um... I'm Lenaora Wish, but call me Lena. I'm 16 years old, and my favorite color is purple."

"Hi Lena, and why are you here?" The mermaid one, Siren said.

"I'm here because I beat up a kid.... again"

"Ok thank you for sharing." Rhett said then pointed to the dude next to Cameron with a cool tattoo down his arm. "What about you?"

"I'm Jared, 17 years old. I was caught selling drugs to high school students, and I like the color blue."

Rhett pointed to Cameron next, "And you?"

"I'm Cameron, I'm 15, and I'm here because I was caught shoplifting for the third time this month. My favorite color is," Cameron shrugged, "I don't know, navy blue?"

The dude next to Cameron put his hands up, "This whole thing is dumb. What they actually expect us to learn from you?"

The witch, Pepper didn't address his behavior. "Ok, Cameron and Lena your bedroom is upstairs third room to your left. Jared and whoever you are," Pepper motioned to the dude who refused to answer the questions, "Are upstairs fifth door to the right."

Cameron and the others headed upstairs into the rooms. 

The room Pepper had told them was theirs was large. There were three beds. One was decorated in a weird way, made out of rope and seaweed. Cameron guessed that one was Siren's. The other two were normal brown, wooden beds that had nothing on them. At the end of each bed was a white dresser. The walls were light blue, but old and had scratches and smudges in some places.

"Sorry, we...we didn't-I guess we would've cleaned or something if we knew you were coming." Siren apologized.

Tandy came in with a few pairs of clothes in her arms, "These are some pajamas, we can go shopping tomorrow for real clothes." Tandy placed the clothes on one of the white dressers.

"So you're a vampire?" Lena asked Tandy.

"Yeah....it's a lot to take in I guess."

"Lisa said you were one of the earths most powerful vampires, is it true or was she just being modest?" Cameron asked.

"I guess I'm a powerful vampire, though there isn't much to compare too, most vampires were wiped out in 1884."

"What happened in 1884?" Lena questioned.

"Most of us were caught trying to get...... food, and were experimented on. Most didn't make it."

"By food do you mean......" Cameron trailed off.

"Yeah I mean blood."

"So what's true about vampires and what's not?" Lena excitedly asked.

"Turning into bats is false. Sun is bad for us, but if we have a witch friend like Pepper here, we can have a temporary sun necklace that protects us. We can be super fast, but can't fly or anything. Glamour or compulsion, whichever one you prefer, is for vampires like me that are..... well ancient. Same thing with the whole super strength. Oh yeah, and heightened senses are part of the whole vampire stuff."

"What about mermaids?" Cameron looked at Siren.

"Most myths were correct." Siren said. "We turn into....a mermaid when we touch water, we can control water and some weather. Can't talk to fish, but that'd be cool. Worst part about being a mermaid is-well look." Siren opened her mouth wide to reveal each tooth to be sharper than Tandy's vampire teeth. 

"Witches?" Lena continued after a few minutes.

"We aren't going to explain that," Tandy laughed. "It's to complicated." 

"How about you guys go settled in while we ordered pizza." Siren offered.

"Extra garlic for me." Tandy yelled at her.

"Isn't garlic bad for you?" Cameron asked totally confused.

"Nope, that's basil. Geez you get distracted by one dude throwing garlic, and suddenly garlic is bad for vampires."

"What?" Lena asked. "Never mind don't answer, I don't want to know.

"Good choice," Tandy walked out of the door.