Did Mr. Maralyte buy the whole USS Enterprise? Dexter thought.
Or so he thought it was. That may resemble something like Captain James Kirk's ship that aims to go where no one has boldly gone before, but it looks like crashed version of the ship from far away.
As the Guinessee landed into the superschool's(let's call it that way) landing pad, the ramp lurched forward and out came the students, wearing cadet-like uniform-slash-armour and carrying their luggages, their boots clanking against the seemingly metallic pad. Dexter was the last to leave, and as his first step met the landing pad, the plane suddenly turned invisible, and three seconds passed, three booster flames shot out and the flames flew on their own.
"Nice tricks Captain Obvious has got there..." Dexter said while the others had their jaws open, as if they were in shock.
"Come on, guys." Dexter said, slapping Emmeline on the head as he passed by. The elf regained consciousness and he followed Dexter.
The group of unlikely plane passengers walked on to the sleek, platinum gates that were shaped like a Venus flytrap with its mouth tightly shut. All of them just stared in awe.
"Wait," someone said from the crowd. "How do we open it?"
As if on cue, a trapdoor in front of him slid open, and out came a shrunken man in his fifties, wearing a jetpack with a pair of robot hands behind him. He was crouching as he landed on the floor, creating a hole of attraction inside the crowd.
"How do you open this gate, you say?" he said. "I'll answer that: Only I can open this door."
He lifted his hands, and the robot hands followed the same motion. Some of the students were watching intently. Even Dexter got fascinated. How can he command those mechanisms to follow him?
The old man turned to the gate. He lazily flicked his wrist and gestured his hands towards the middle. The robot hands then turned into speedy blazing things that randomly poked the gate at different points. The students at the front got terrified and ran to the back.
The robot hands became faster and faster than even Dexter could not catch up with the speed of motion going on before his eyes.
As the old man crossed his arms, the robot hands stopped and the teeth line of the gate opened to show a set of cobalt alleyways stretched across a hill leading to the school, visible from afar like a space warship on top of a high mountain.
"Okay." the old man said as he turned around to face a shocked audience. Then he studied the expressions of each and every student in the crowd.
"I would assume you are the First 365, by the looks on your innocent faces." he added, smirking. "I am Barrie Enginehound, weaponry and smithing teacher in this school, and the First 365 gatekeeper. I shall lead you now to the school grounds safely."
The students followed Enginehound through the cobalt ways, babbling nonsense to Dexter's ears as they went.
Dexter looked around. He seemed to notice that everything inside was coverec in chrome and cobalt, even the trees. He also saw five other Guinnessee sized planes but they bore different names that were large enough for Dexter to read. They were Ridley, Damarnymum, Yexelyx, Onomatopoeius, and Jyvlyckystychkhn(he can't read that one.)
He also saw other students going to the school from different areas. He also saw that they much more mature than themselves. He assumed they were students in higher years. There were even tall people towering above their groups.
Moments later, they reached the school. It REALLY did look like the USS Enterprise with some X-Wings stuck to it. There were large hangar-like doors with students pouring into it. He also saw the gatekeepers of the other five levels. One was a large cybercyclop holding a yellow flag while saying "Second 365 Zone. Welcome." in a chilling metal voice. An elf riding a red pegasus was hovering at the gate to his right shouting Welcome to the students below him. And he saw a tall blue alien (not an Avatar) ushering the Fourth 365 students into a gate, and then he saw a shaman-like, long faced being welcoming him and his fellow First 365-ers into the gate labeled F-365
This school is wonderful. Dexter thought. I hope there would be more surprises inside.
Indeed, surprises will await him and his fellow students inside.
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Maralyte High: The Window in The Office
AdventureA normal family? Dexter has one. A normal school? Dexter doesn't have one. As he gets enrolled into a strange school called Maralyte High, where space and myth come together, he finds himself stranded between being a loner and being normal. Well, wh...
