The School of Tomorrow

Harry Trust and the Warehouse of Weapons

When I woke up I was laid down around a bonfire, with Estrella, Laguna and Eris around us. Estrella was happily cooking some marshmallows while Laguna and Eris had a profound and philosophical debate about Which type of Mill was the most iconic.

-It is clear as day that water mills are the best and the most iconic mills.- Laguna said calmly. -Whenever a movie enters a fantasy land, there's at least 3 Water Mills, frankly, Windmills are overrated, not only are they slower and less efficient, they can only be used to mow down grains.-

-No, windmills fed Europe for more than 500 years, it is essentially the breadbasket of European history.- Eris replied. -Water mills effectively destroy the environment by needing to divert water courses.-

-Why are you debating mills?- I asked them, gingerly getting up. -I thought you were magicians.-

-I didn't know magicians were prohibited from talking about old and outdated structures.- Laguna replied to me. -Anyways, good morning Barry, how was your sleep?-

-Bad, I just blacked out.- I said. -Where are we?-

-Behind a blast door.- Laguna said, pointing to the door in my left. -We decided to wait for you to wake up.-

I looked around us, the hallway was short and small, with two pillars in the wall behind me, both had levers.

-What do they do?-

-No idea, you're the explorer, we decided by popular vote.- Laguna said. -Eris and I voted yes, Estrella voted no.-

I pulled one of the levers and the lights went on, I then pulled the other lever and the blast doors opened in a fast whistling sound, we then walked towards the door, and by we I meant I, as when I got close enough to the door Laguna kicked me in the back, sending me into the other room and closed the blast doors.

-Hey! Stop messing around Laguna!- I shouted, banging the cold metallic door. -Open the door!-

-Explore the room a bit Barry! If the Behemoth isn't there we'll open the door!- Laguna said. -You have a 50-50 chance!-

-Of what?-

-You either get attacked by a Behemoth or there's no Behemoth there!- Laguna said. -We believe in you, but just to be sure we're cheering for you behind this Nuclear Blast Door!-

I sighed and started tip toeing with my back to the walls, trying to find anything in the complete darkness, of course I had the fire spell that could illuminate the way, but it's not the best of ideas to light a fire in a room that you don't know what is inside, or who is inside. I made my very slow way until I bumped into something, I tattered it with my hands and it was a lever, or at least I hoped it was a lever, because I pulled it down, and half the lights went on, revealing some sort of hangar, it was the size of a football field and had several chests all throughout the walls, in random spots throughout the hangar desks with mountains of papers stood, with papers scattered all over the ground, and on the Hangar stood several machines in concrete podiums, they looked like very rudimentary tanks, some tractors with cannons strapped in them and engines in the back.

-Laguna, you can come, there's no Behemoth here!- I shouted at the blast door. -But there's a lot of stuff!-

The Blast Door opened and they came out of the corridor, and immediately Eris and Estrella were awestruck with the creations, Laguna was as impassable as ever.

-How interesting, this is a workshop.- Eris said, immediately opening the chests and grabbing everything and putting everything into some pouches. -They aren't uncommon but I never saw one this advanced.-

I opened one of the chests to see what they had inside, a lot of cobwebs, some jewels, several scrolls and your ordinary household items, like a flame thrower, a pair of boots with wings and a sword.