Back To School: A Sequel

Derek's First Level: Culinary:

Derek made his way to the other side of the school, something in him told him to go to the Culinary classroom. As he got closer, he could hear talking inside, it sounded like a bunch of kids.

'Oh god... is Timber traumatizing a bunch of new students?' He thought as he stood outside of the door to the kitchen.

Eventually, he headed inside. The teacher was nowhere to be found, so he approached a tall guy wearing a black chef's shirt.

"Hey, uh, where's your teacher?" He asked.

"Chef Corvidald?He's in the other room-" The guy said, before being hit in the back of his head with a jet of water.

Turning around, there were three other kids at the dishwashing sinks, one holding a sink sprayer and the other two trying to hold back laughter.

"You're screwed," one of them said as the guy who Derek had been talking to walked over to deal with them.

As that was happening, the teacher finally came back. Just as Derek remembered him. His name was Basil, and he was blonde and strict. Derek leaned back into the shadows of the giant ovens behind him, slightly intimidated by the chef. He walked silently as Basil talked to some of the students, soon enough they all began to leave. Eventually, the classroom was nearly empty, leaving only Derek and Basil.

"You're allowed to leave, you know?" Basil said to Derek, snapping his head to face him.

Derek remained silent as Basil briskly walked towards him.

"You can talk." He said, staring Derek down despite being shorter.

"I- uh, I can't leave now, I need some sort of item, I figured you'd know about it." He stammered out. "I'm uh, I'm Derek by the way."

"Oh, you're the one I was told about." Basil paused for a second, like he was thinking something over. "I'll tell you right now that none of those students are real, they're simply just copies of what they really were back then. Think of it as just... a hologram, like that sort of thing."

"That's uh, good to know." Derek replied, shuffling his feet anxiously.

"What are you so nervous about, Derek? I'm not going to hurt you." Basil smiled, his teeth looked oddly sharp. "Your item is a very specific knife."

"That's... good..." Derek felt less nervous, but still felt on edge. "So, uh, where is it?"

"It's somewhere, I'm not going to make this easy for you. You'll have to figure it out yourself." Basil replied, pushing his glasses up on his nose and seemingly shuddering a bit. "I'm... so hungry..."

Derek thought of many extremely inappropriate things he could say in that moment but for once, he thought before speaking. He could've also swore he kept seeing someone in the corner of his vision.

"Is... someone else here?"

"What do you mean by that?"

He saw it, he knew that he did. There was a tall, dark haired man. There was definitely someone else here. Derek flicked his eyes back to Basil, who was licking his lips.

"Can I just have my item? Please?" He began to plead. "Come on man."

"Calm down Derek," Basil looked like he was getting tired. "You need to actually try looking for your item."

"Are you, like, okay? I wouldn't be against anything weird but still-" Derek began to move away from Basil.

"No, I-" Basil sighed. "I'm just very hungry..."

"That's, uh, that's not really my problem-" Derek saw it now, someone clearly standing behind Basil.

He moved away from Basil more, who kept trying to get closer- like he was trying to corner him. Basil looked at Derek like he was a feast, and it made him feel many emotions but mostly unease and fear. He kept creeping closer as Derek kept backing up, eyeing a closet door in the corner of his eye. He noticed that Basil was now gripping a knife that was in his pocket.

"I'm so, so sorry Derek..." Basil spoke like he had just run a marathon. "I'm very hungry, and you're the only piece of meat I can find on such short notice..."

Derek spun on his heel and practically jumped into the closet that was now behind him, slamming the door in Basil's face. He heard the man slam his hands on the door, begging Derek to open it.

"Derek please..." He leaned against the door as Derek pushed away all thoughts in his mind and only focused on trying to not get murdered. "I only want to eat you..."

"Please shut up! And go away!" Derek yelled at him, like it would do anything.

"Okay, look, I have the knife you need now please just let me in." Basil spoke quickly to him.

"Like hell I will!" Derek yelled at him. "I'm not letting you or your weird ghost friend eat me!"

"That's my teacher, you idiot-" Basil muttered, slamming against the door again. "I won't eat you, I promise... I'm very hungry but I promise that I won't eat you..."

"I really don't believe that, Basil." Derek began to feel the door slowly begin to open, realizing far too late that the door did not have a lock. "Wait no oh god oh no-"

Basil peeked through the crack of the door, smiling with sharp teeth.

"Please just come out... I'm so hungry..." He groaned. " I need to eat, Derek..."

Derek didn't know what he was doing, but he opened the door. This turned out to actually be a good idea as Basil and his ghost teacher were leaning on it, and they both fell over. Luckily, they didn't take Derek down with them. The ghost faded away, he couldn't do much. Derek moved fast and pinned Basil, grabbing his knife-wielding hand to prevent any unwanted stabbing.

"Please... let me go..." Basil groaned like he was tired. "G-get off of me... you're suffocating me..."

Derek sat on Basil's back, as he was stomach down, fidgeting with his hand until the knife slipped from his grip. He grinned, feeling confident and full of power.

"Finally. Why're all you chefs so difficult?" He tilted his head jokingly, now finding the situation strangely funny.

Basil's only response was panting and groaning. He was still very hungry and desperately craving human flesh, but was also incredibly tired from being subdued. Derek slowly stood up, standing above Basil, who was still laying on the ground. He smirked and walked away as Basil tried to muster some strength to get up, which he couldn't.

Derek left the kitchen and continued on his way, deciding to go and find Ally to see how she was doing.