The Raven Mystery

Chapter 2: Ten Years Later

"Luke! You're going to be late!" yelled Mr. Conner. A young boy opened the door. His auburn hair swept by the breeze as he came out. "Sorry dad." he said. His dad hits him on the head and says, "What do you do in there anyways?" Luke just smirked and said, "It's for me to know and for you to find out. Now I got to go. Bye Dad!" he pats his father on the shoulders and goes in the school bus. Mr. Conner waves goodbye and goes inside. "Hey newbie, what's your name?" says a boy who threw a can on Luke's head. Luke held his head and kept walking towards the back seat. One girl moved her leg as Luke walked towards the back and he tripped, dropping his bag. Everybody laughed at him but he just ignored and sat at the back. As he sat down his head started hurting, he then saw flashes of people screaming, blood spattering all over. He tried to stop it but it just kept on going on and on. He held his head, closed his eyes and started breathing heavily. Suddenly, a kid came towards him and asked, "Hey are you all right?" Luke opened his eyes in shock and looked at his surroundings. The kids were looking at him with confusion. He looked at the one who went near him. He blinked some five times and said, "I-I'm Fine." he took a deep breath looked at him. "Thank you." said Luke. "Thank you for what?" he said confused. "For coming over, I thought everyone here just wanted to pick on me because I'm a new student." Luke said. "Nah, it's just those two. By the way, my name is Scott Winslow, and you are?" Scott said. "Luke Conner. Nice to meet you." he said. Scott patted Luke's shoulders and said, "Nice to meet you Luke! By the way why were you holding your head earlier? Was it something they did?" Scott said. "No, it's just... umm. I just get nervous on the first day." Luke gave a faint smile. "Well, okay. No need to worry, the school isn't that bad. As long as you give a good impression they let you in with open arms." Scott said and smiled. "I hope so, my last school wasn't as great." Luke said. Scott looked at him and asked, "How come?" "It's just so...*sigh* it's hard to explain." Luke said. Scott nods his head and says, "Don't worry, i won't force you if you don't want to." Luke smiles and thanks Scott. "I have a feeling we're gonna be best of friends Luke my boy!" Scott said as the bus stopped. They went outside and Luke saw the strangest school he has ever been to. It was an old building five stories high with two more buildings by its side. A lions head hangs on the main building and on top stands a statue of a man wearing a cape and holding a book. The walls are covered with moss and around the school are lifeless trees. "This is one strange school." he said. "It's Autumn, they're preparing for a fright night or something. Luke! Since you're new here, I'll give you a tour." Scott said as they entered the school building. "Aren't you gonna be late if you do that?' Luke said. "I only have like four subjects today I have two whole hours to waste. Now come on!" he said. Luke took a deep breath and followed Scott.

Scott lead Luke to the different areas in the school. Luke followed Scott intently, trying to remember the different places he allready showed him. Scott turned around to see Luke jotting down notes. "Luke, this isn't a class. You don't need a notebook on this one." Scott said. "Sorry, force of habbit." Luke said putting his notebook in his pocket. "You are something Luke. I've never met anyone like you." Scott said. They continued walking. As Luke was following Scott, he tried to grab his notebook from his pocket. When he took the notebook, his pen rolled off somewhere in a garden. He went to the garden and tried to find his pen. He found it near a bench. When he stood up, Scott was nowhere to be found. "Scott?" Luke said. He went back to the hallway but he couldn't find Scott anywhere. Luke let out a big sigh then suddenly, someone grabbed him from behind. Luke turned around and grabbed the persons arm. "Scott?" Luke said.  Seeing Scott shocked he let go. "Dude, you frightened me there." He said. "No, it was my fault. Didn't know you had some ninja moves hidden there." Scott said smiling at Luke. "Remind me not to get in your bad side." Scott joked. They were laughing and talking about what happened earlier. Suddenly, Luke turned around to look at the garden. He noticed that no one was around. "Hey, Scott, what is this place?" Luke asked. "This is the last part of our tour. The place we are currently looking at is the very first entrance of this school. Apparently, there was a huge fire 20 years ago. They had to Renovate the school. You see that stone block in the middle, that was where the statue of our founder was. After the fire, the statue was completely destroyed, mostly because of the rampaging students. They had to make a new statue but it didn't show the founder of our school anymore. Anyways, this served as a memorial garden to the tragedy that happened that day. If you see closely, there is a plaque in the center of where the statue used to stand." Scott explained. Luke was looking around the garden for a while then said, "So where did they put the tennis court then?" Luke said. "How did you know about the tennis court?" Scott asked. "There's a part of the court edge right over to the left of the garden." Luke pointed at where he was talking about. "Wow, you're absolutely right. There was a tennis court here but ever since the fire they never rebuilt it. It's amazing that you find that out so quickly." Scott said. "Yeah..." Luke said.