CCSS (Creature Comics Short Stories)

The Investigation 0.2

 When I woke up, I was in a school. My partner was beside me. She pulled my hand and dragged me inside. She pointed to a girl nearby with a tall person behind her."Mr Fedric?!" I gasped. "Get used to it.Your going to see him a lot here."my partner said. I suddenly remembered that I never asked my partner's name or how she got us here. I asked her and she said her name was Alina and also told we I was gonna find out how we got here later. I had a lot of questions but I kept my mouth shut. We followed the girl Alina was pointing to her first class. It was languages.
We stood in a corner and no one seemed to notice us. I was worried we were ghosts but Alina reassured me we aren't dead yet. The students in the classroom were avoiding each other like strangers but I got the impression that they are actually friends. We waited for five minutes and at last the teacher came. The teacher was apparently named Ms Citruse because each teacher had those name card thingies in front of them. She looked very strict with a neat hairstyle and wrinkles. She was about to teach when a student came. She scolded the student terribly and he looked like he would cry."Listen up babies. You all are in special class for a reason. This little boy shall now be punished and kicked out of my class. Maybe that will teach you." scolded the teacher. There were some swear words but I'm not writing them down. The student pleaded and asked where he was going to go but the teacher told him she didn't care and its his fault for being late, completely ignoring the fact that clearly had dirt and mud all over his face that indicates he probably got held up at a puddle or something on the way here.
The little boy faced his head down and walked in shame all while crying. The class didn't make fun of him but instead felt pity. He didn't deserve to be treated that way I thought. My partner just looked at him with pity and just balled her fist. The teacher ignored this like it never happened. She instead proceeded to teach about how to say sentences in mandarin. She asked the students to translate the texts in the book to english and say the sentence with correct pronunciation. The girl we followed earlier seemed pretty calm because she seems to study until there was a hard part she couldn't solve. The teacher asked what was wrong with her. The girl seemed really scared and tried to answer very softly but she only managed to translate two hanzi from the book. The teacher kicked her out too and told her if she can't get that question right she might as well be dead.


The girl joined with the boy and some other students from her class. There were like 15 of them including other classes. Alina and I followed the little girl. They were locked in a room with nothing to do. In other words, it was prison. They finally were allowed to eat and go back to the their classes. Physical education was next. Their teacher told them that they had to do it or he's kicking them out. Alina fixed her eyes on that one girl and saw she was struggling. The teacher nearly kicked her out but thankfully class ended.


The next class was okay but the last class was just wrong. The teacher only kicked her out because she couldn't write. I mean could you blame her? She had a cramp since PE but the teacher chose to ignore it even when several students told him. The girl was more than determined to go in but couldn't. Didn't stop her from peeking through the windows. Alina was punching the teacher but of course he couldn't see her or feel her but it was hilarious. The girl was then brought home by her foster father namely Mr Fedric. Alina managed to track them down and follow them.


The girl's house was big but she went straight to her room to do some homework for the next day. She had to do a video for PE, translation and 60 hanzi writing for mandarin also not to mention some words from german and a bit of spanish. She also didn't know whether she had homework for math or not because she missed every single bit of the lesson. She tried to do it until she suddenly stopped and held her heart. She was breathing heavily and crying. She also collapsed until Mr Fedric told her to come down for her report card. The girl took a deep breath and headed downstairs.


Alina and I felt pain in both of our hearts as the girl slowly walked down with tears. She walked fast and tried to wipe her tears as she headed to the massive dining room filled with a long table and chairs. It was very clean but intimidating. The girl closed her eyes and tried to looks way when her foster dad began fat shaming her and judging how she puts her clothes. He also thinks she is lazy and that her report card should be better. He also began telling her she's not worthy of his time and all that. He took a big sigh and told her to go paint something. I was confused why he would say that to her since he just scolded her badly but Alina sushed me and told me to follow her.


The little girl locked herself in a room and began blasting music while painting. She painted abstract and a beautiful scenery in a canvas. She began dancing and even if it wasn't graceful or on beat but she looked happy. She tried singing but failed so instead she began debating herself about the advantages and disadvantages of having lights. It wasn't long until her foster dad busted in and asked what she was doing. The girl handed her picture carefully and her father said it was awesome. She smiled after he left and also after he told her he was going to donate her art. I thought that was a sweet thing to do but Alina was already running towards Mr Fedric with her game face on.


When I caught up to her, she was already in Mr Fedric's personal office which personally looked very cool. It was furnished and had a very fancy looking cat statue on his desk. Much like a president's desk but better. Alina and I kept our mouths shut to hear his very angry conversation on the phone with someone."What?! You were just going to sell her painting for 2,500 dollars?! Get out of my phone call peasant I can find much better offers than that!"he screeched. After a minute or two, another bidder called and offered 10,000 dollars for it. Mr Fedric looked pleased and agreed. "That's so mean..." I said. Alina told me that I should wait a bit longer and she was right.

I agreed to wait a bit more and I was so glad I did. It turns out the little girl from earlier had eavesdropped the phone call and was hiding behind the door. She looked shocked and sad. She began running into her room and started crying. At that point my heart was just broken. I suddenly felt Alina grasping my hand and purple smoke covered us. When the smoke cleared, I was back at the hotel in the wooden chair. I was confused, mad and sad at the same time. Alina told me that was the truth. I asked if she's a witch and even though she hesitated but I soon found out she just opened the book a few days before when searching for clues like me and that happened.


I decided to go and call the officer from earlier to interrogate Mr Fedric. "IS IT TRUE YOU ABUSED YOU CHILD SIR?!" I screamed in his face. "L-l-listen here, I can assure you this is a misunderstanding. I had nothing to do with the child committing suicide." He began interrogating me instead about what was I doing just barging into rooms and messing with people's stuff. That's when Alina came in and said casually,"He didn't, I did." Mr Fedric looked like he saw a ghost and stammered. Alina went on, clearly enjoying the moment "Hello father, how've you been? Not too healthy are you?" Now I was confused. Father? How? What?
Alina walked around her father enjoying his fear and confusion. The officer tried to break the silence but an icy cold stare from Alina silenced him. This went on for a few minutes until Alina said,"So, should I tell them or you?" Mr Fedric went pale but tried to keep calm."Tell them what?" he stammered. Alina said,"About how you pushed a foster child into ending her life? About how you lied to her? About how you are basically favoring the rich?About how you lied to the world that you made those paintings?About how you try to photoshop your pathetic school to look nice?". "Ok, one,I didn't push you. You fell off yourself. Two, I told you poor people don't deserve you drawings. Three, what do you mean photo- FINE! I DID push you and pressure you. I DID favor the rich so NO FILTHY peasants can see your art. AND I DID photoshop my school because that is what sells, Lina. But what are you all gonna do? Do you think they're gonna believe a couple of kids and an officer over a millionaire?" he exclaimed.


"Guess he's right Alina and officer maybe we can't convince the people.....unless, we told you there was a camera recording all this and that the media is right behind that door say hi and smile by the way." I smugly said. Now Mr Fedric was surprised when he got cuffed and brought to the police station. The officer thanked me and said the camera was ready to interview me after Mr Fedric and himself had a go. I smiled as he skipped into a nearby camera. "Well, I guess I should be going too..." Alina said. She tried to sprint but I managed to catch up with her by taking a shortcut through an alley. She asked me what I wanted and I told her I needed an answer."If you jumped off a building does that not mean you are dead?" I asked. She smiled and said,"Well, I'm not supposed to tell it but you seem to like justice so I'll tell you. It might sound crazy but a narwhal with wings caught me at the last moment."


Before I could say anything, a narwhal with flowing wings and soft scales appeared behind her."Art, meet uhm what's your name again?" she asked. "Arthur" I whispered because of shock."Art, Arthur. Arthur, this is my Art. Basically my imagination brought into one due to some incidents and took form of my best friend when I was a child. Anyway I gotta go bye! If someone asks for proof check the book! You can message me for further information!"said Alina. I was stunned as Alina and her art flew up to the sky and even more shocked when I found the book in my hands. I smiled and began heading towards the hospital where I would tell my mom the crazy day I just been through.

The end....

author's note :
Hello, this is unfortunately the ending of part two of the investigation. But if you want more stories like this, follow and read my collaboration with Creature Comics! Check their story out and also my two stories, Sushicats and A girl's art! Hope you enjoyed the story and have a nice day!

-Uni28