The Battle for Utopia

Chapter 2:The fight

Ms.Burke had a serious look on her face, and everyone who was talking shut up. We all looked at her, waiting to hear the announcement. "Class, as you all know, there is a war going on", Ms, Burke began. "Yes, miss, we know that!" Johnny, the class clown retorted. The teacher glared at him, and  then the entire class did, including his buddies who always joins him in interrupting class and making all of us, including the teacher laugh, so he shut up. "Now class as I was saying" Ms.Burke began again, and we all instantly turned back around to look at her, and listen quietly " there is a was going on and I have been chosen to go to war, and fight for our planet". We all gasped in unison, we heard that a teacher would be chosen to go to war, but we never thought it would be her, I myself was mortified. She was so beautiful, and so young, what if she got captured by the enemy, or worse. "But that is not all I must do," she said "I must choose 10 students from this class to go with me".  We all stared at her wide-eyed. We were shocked. We did not know we could go to war, we are all very young. 

"Your parents all knew this could happen", Ms. Burke explained "so they all signed a form when you started school that if you were picked by you teacher to go off to war, you would go". We all gasped, we had not been told any of this. "But" Ms. Burke said"I will not force any of you to go, I would like everyone who would like to go to write your name on a slip of a paper and put it in here". She held a black hat in her hand. She waited for all of us who wanted to go, to write our names down on t a piece of paper, and tear it. Her bear claws rapped on her desk almost impatiently. You see, she has a strong connection with bears, so she had a bear paw-type arm instead of a regular arm. Maybe they think she is powerful, maybe that's why they choose her. 

When I tour my piece, I noticed with dismay that I wrote my name on a pink piece of paper, and everyone else used white paper. I raised my hand sheepishly, and asked"Ms. Burke, I used pink paper, is that okay?" She just looks at me and says"That's fine Serenity." I hoped I would get chosen,  that way I can defend Ms.Burke.  We passed the hat down the line, and I counted the names that went in. There were 12 names in total, and there were 35 people in our class, so a lot of us did not want to go. Out of all the people who put their names in, I could count about 10 of us(me included) who would not be scared and could become really good fighters if given a little bit of training. 

There was Tommy, a shy boy who grew a tail when he was wet, people always picked on him by throwing water on him, and that would make him late to class. But, when he Jeffrey, the main guy in the class who picked on him snickered  when he was not in class on time,  Ms. Burke knew immediately where he was. He was in the pond behind the school, he always dragged him there, whenever he put water on him.  Ms.Burke would take a towel to him (she was prepared for anything, she had dry towel in her drawer at all times), take him out of the pond, and dry him off, the best she could, from head to toe, until he got his legs back. He could also manipulate water and fire, which could defiantly come in handy in a crunch. I was one of the few people who was actually nice to him, the only other person was my best friend Jasmine, and sadly, she is not a fighter, she is so shy. Her and I are the exact opposites, well on most things at least.

As much as I hate to admit it, another person who would make a good fighter is Jeffrey. Everyone in class hates him, but he has amazing power. He has eagle wings, and can flap his wings so hard, he can blow people 50 yards away from us easily. If we both get chosen, then I guess I will have to stand him for the time being. 

And then there is-"Serenity" Ms. Burke called out,  knocking me out of my daze"are you with us?" I looked at her, and noticed again, that everyone in the class was staring at me. Twice in one day, way to go Serenity. "Yes ma'am." I said, confused.  "You are the 10th person chosen, congratulations!" Everyone was still staring at me, and I was getting annoyed "What?" I mouthed to Jasmine and she pointed to the front, where 9 other people were standing beside Ms.Burke. My dumb self did not get it until Ms. Burke said, "Serenity, will you join us up here please?" I nodded, and almost ran to the front, I wanted to stand beside Ms.Burke, but I got stuck next to Jeffrey, since apparently he was the 9th person called and I was the 10th. "Class" Ms. Burke said" these are the 10 people who will come with me to fight for out planet. To be continued...