The Tragedy Of Mr.Tallhat

Nicotine

Puff puff went the smoke of the pipe the old man was holding, carved from troll tusk ivory, a truly beautiful pipe. " Um...Uh...Sir, may i ask where this class is?" The young man, who wore a white button shirt and a red bowtie, holded up a piece of paper to the old man, who sat behind the counter in the hallway. Puff Puff " hmmmmm" the old man stroked his beard " Ahah." he took the paper from the young man and marked where the class was with his quill " Be off now, boy". The boy, who couldnt be any older than 17 stuttered a simple yes sir and walked off into the direction of his class. It wasnt very far or hard to find, the door was labled "Zoological, Biological , Engineering and  sciences" " must be my class." he muttered to himself as he slowly opened the door. As the door opened he was greeted with looks from a man sitting on a desk infront of the room and people sitting in desk filling the majority of the class. " Ahhh, finally the last student....hmmmmm you must be?" the man spoke in a very fast way " Well sir i-" before the boy could answer he cut him off" AHAH, you must be the odd Mr.Tallhat?" "yes si-" again he was cut off " You dont need to tell me im right...because well, I know I am, now please Mr.Tallhat, take a seat where you can find one..your a little late to the battle for the good ones though if i may warn.". Mr.TallHat saw an empty seat which he then walked toward, sitting down the desk was wiggly and the chair unconfortable. The desk was next to the wall in the back of the class on the left side (teachers left) next to him was girl, looked the same age as him,  hair blacker than tar, she wore, usually what men would wear, a red suit, a black under shirt, red pants, black shoes, and a white bowtie and to top it all off she wore a tall red  tophat, he couldnt help but stare, she was beautiful. Her skin looked very pale, she looked over and saw him staring "Well are you going to stare or say hello." he looked shocked she even talked to him and he replied studdering " Oh im sorry Madam, names timothy tallhat, please just call me tall hat, whats your name?" her red lips formed a smile and looked him in the eye with her emerald colored eyes " Hi there timmy , its nice to meet you." she reached her hand out after saying this, " Tallhat madam, Tallhat." he grabbed her hand to shake , " Formalities bore me, and so far you do not, please do not make me bored of you.". her smile grew ear to ear exposing her incredibly white teeth as she gave a short but strong handshake. " Wait im sorry but you still havent told me your name ,madam." He said, she gave a short chuckle, " Its Iveline Jacto, the infamous red hatter." she said and she winked. They were interrupted by the teacher " Class begins now, todays subject is zoology." he walked over to large metal cabinets, with locks on the opening handles. He took a large key from his waist pouch and unlocked the lock on the smallest cabinet, he reached his hand in and brought it out. On it was a small scaly, white , winged creature " Can anyone tell me the name of this creature?" Iveline was the first and only to raise her hand, the class went silent " Iveline." " Its a mountain pygmy false dragon sir." she replied confidently " EXCELLENT  IVELINE EXCELLENT, this particular species of false dragons live only on the highest mountain tops in the Dragoona preservation, can anyone tell me what makes a false dragon not a true dragon?" Tallhat and Iveline raised their hands at the same time " Mr.Tallhat can you tell me ?" he nodded and also answered confidently " True dragons have to have at least  2  jaws, a tail, carnivorous, breathe fire, and wings." " AGAIN ANOTHER MARVELOUS ANSWER, you see this specie of false dragon lack the ability to breathe fire and only has one jaw, so less teeth and less fire, NOW Tallhat , can you tell me if water dragons are part of the dragon family?" Tallhat look stumped for a moment but then said " Well this currently being a controversial subject, its most likely they are either a branch off from the dragon family or are a completely different species, for they lack the ability to fly or breathe fire, but they have characteristics dragons do not such as gills to breathe under water, webbed toes, and some the ability to secrete to lethal mucuses into the water they are in,as well as some have large sail crest on their back, and some have skin flaps which flare out on their necks, but they share the minimum of 2 jaws, a tail and being carnivorous, i personally believe they are a branch of the dragon family."