Fangs and Wands

6. The beginning of the End

   The action is already in full force when I finally reach the common area. Small children are being directed through the underground tunnels to the safety rooms and the older students are arming themselves and heading outside.

    It seems no one around here waits to be told what to do in emergencies, everyone already knows their position. The teachers are just assisting and making sure everything is going on smoothly. Well as smoothly as it can be in such a situation.

    I make my way outside where the real action is. I've noticed from the previous attack- which was by me if I may add- that the students fight together but separately. They attack with different strategies and independently. Which cannot be very fruitful.

    The troll is gigantic, and very ugly. Larger than Hulk himself. I think five of us can fit perfectly into his palm. He is really dirty, with grass at his back, his head, his belly and his armpits. From what I've read, to camouflage him when he sleeps. You can easily mistake him for a piece of land and might as well sit on those rocks. I don't want to imagine all the insects and reptiles on him.

    The troll has the advantage of the night on us. Nobody saw him coming. I spot Allison, Rebecca and Lizzie holding their wands at a distance, they must be planning something.

   "Hey guys." I say reaching them.

   "Hellena! Where have you been? Do something. We have to stop him before he totally destroys our school!" Lizzie exclaims the moment she spots me.

    To her, I am a superhero. She believes me capable of anything. I look at Allison for help, she knows how useless I am.

     The troll is rather dumb. He unearths a full grown tree with one hand and shakes it out then examines the tree closely before throwing it away. He takes a moment to scratch his disgusting head in thought before moving on to the next object that is unlucky enough to be in his way.

    "It's like he's looking for something," Lizzie says what we are all thinking. He does not even seem to notice us, or care about us?

    "I just don't understand how he got through the barrier," Rebecca says. "We'll have to check it while you fight the troll Hellena. It can't be that hard, hardly any match for the dragon."

    Apparently, she too believes me to be a superhero. "I...uh... I..."

    "Hellena!" Stacy comes running to me. "Where is Nick?" She whisper shouts.

    "I...uh... I..."

    "You didn't kill him did you?"

     "No!" I say too quickly. Why does everyone accuse me of that. Do they not know how powerful he is?

     "Then go get him. We need him right now."

      "Do you know how far his room is?"

     "Just use your teleport." The  confused look on my face makes her add, "Austin can take you there." It's like she thought this through.

     "I threw a whole bag of sleeping dust on him. I don't know when he'll wake up."

   "What!?" Everyone echoes at once.

    "Oh come on, he's just sleeping, not dead. Allison will tell me the remedy and he'll be awake soon. What's all the fuss."

    "Hellena, I don't know the remedy. We've never really cared what time people woke up. Just as long as it's after we're long gone. I don't know how to wake him up." Allison says. One thing I've learned about her is that she never jokes.