Blackwell Academy

Chapter 5

The air smelled thickly of blood, I almost chocked on how strong the scent was. I opened my eyes, being met with the sight of a dark room, yet a spotlight was overhead gazing at me with it's artificial light. 

I tried to move, but instead was stuck in place by chains at my wrists. I looked down to see the cold gray metal of the chains. They were attached to iron bracelets that fit perfectly around my wrists. There was no way I could get them off and escape.

 Where am I? What am I doing here? Why is it so dark? How did I get here?

Questions filled my head, I was so confused. I tried to struggle and get out of the chains despite my observation. But as I pulled my body away from where the chains connected to the ground, the bracelets only grew tighter around my wrists. I stopped pulling because of the pain of the metal digging into my skin. I looked down to see my hands covered in blood from the cuts that were now slit into my wrists.

Suddenly, out of the dark, a man came forth from the shadows. I looked at him with widened eyes. He was quite finely dressed, as if he were going to a wedding or funeral. He had dark brown hair, finely trimmed. Who was he?

As I scanned him I saw he was holding something in each hand, a knife and a whip. My eyes screamed at the sight of a knife, wanting to touch it, the smooth flat of the blade and the tip in which to trace gently against my skin, to feel it's light tickle of pain.

I looked at the whip curiously as he straightened it from it's coil. The man's eyes were shadowed, as I could not see them. He raised the arm that held the whip, I knew what was to happen next. I braced myself for the slash of the leather devil's tail. It came across my back, leaving a deep pain in it's path.

I refused to scream or cry in pain, for I knew all this wanted was a satisfying reaction, only to feed to more pain. Instead I looked at the man and laughed in his face, which made him whip my own. Blood seeped from my cheek, coming down like the tears I refused to shed. I laughed again, challenging him to do his worse.

His lips turned to a fierce frown, he slashed again and again and again. I was bloodied and bruised by the time he'd stopped with the the whipping. Slashes cut across every inch of my body, oozing out crimson liquid.

He dropped the whip at his feet, gripping on to the knife firmly now. I sighed, more torture. It was starting to get boring now. He came closer and raised my chin with the tip of the blade.

I smiled at the man, a smile that taunted and made fun of him. He was boring, the only thing that would make this exciting would be my Degarrhth...

What? I was confused about why I couldn't think the word, so instead I tried to say it.

"Give me my Dherrvth.." Once again the word was gargled and sounded like static. Everything flooded into my mind at once, the realization of this being a dream as I opened my eyes to see the real world again.

Darn, I really wanted to touch the knife...

My eyes opened slightly, my dark orbs splitting through the pale white of my skin. I went to sit up, but I felt something atop my shoulder.

Slightly turning to see what was there, I saw that it was Harry leaning on me, fast asleep. He looked so peaceful and relaxed, so refused to move.

He sat there, leaning on my shoulder, gently breathing against my arm. I light blush grew to my cheeks. What was I doing!? I sat there next to him, silently panicking in my mind, not understanding my own thoughts.

I stared at him, not knowing what to do and wishing he'd just wake up. But of course, he just stayed there, breathing gently and evenly, occasionally making faces in reaction to what he was dreaming about.

Suddenly, I heard Mr. Stranger teacher's voice call out,

"Students! We are going to be at our destination in about five minutes! So get your things ready!"

I was relieved when Harry awoke due to Mr. Stranger teacher's call. He sat up sleepily and rubbed his eyes. I took this chance to sit up as well. He blinked a few times and looked around, stopping when his eyes met mine. A sweet little smile came into his lips as he gazed at me. I smiled back, wanting to bang my head against the window for slightly blushing. Seriously, what is going on with my thoughts?!

I decided to shake off the feeling, and instead begin to check that all my items were in my bag. Harry did the same next to me, checking his own belongings and seeing if any hard fallen out during the ride.

The five minutes went quickly, for the bus soon stopped in front of the entrance to the water park. I grabbed my bag and stood up, waiting to be excused so I could out of the stuffy air of this boring bus. Though, things weren't so boring..

I glanced over at Harry, whom was standing next me, staring off into space. I averted my gaze back to the bus doors, watching them open and seeing the teacher walk out as he called to us to follow him.

We all filed out, staring at the entrance to the water park. It was pretty big, with a big colorful sign that said SPLASH N' SLIDE WATERPARK.

I glanced around, trying to find the othbers when I saw him. Jason. I gritted my teeth and glared at him.  What was he doing here? I thought. I didn't want him to ruin this trip. Yet sure enough, I knew he would.

Harry noticed my glare and waved a hand in front of me, snapping me out of the thousands of murderous thoughts that filled my head. He had his arm out and pointing somewhere. I followed the direction he was gesturing to and saw our group of friends.

A friendly smile broke across my face. I made my way through the crowd of students, Harry trailing close behind until I met up with the others.

"Heyo!" I called to them as I got near, they all turned towards us and smiled.

"Hey, do you know when we're actually going into the park?" Alfred asked, gesturing towards the entrance of the park.

"No sorry, but I think they're just waiting for everyone to get off the busses." I made a guess on what might be happening. I was glancing around at everyone, students climbing out of the busses, teachers standing on the outside of the mass of students that was crowded in front of the entrance, staff members peeking through the doors with strange looks on their faces.

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Hey guys! Sorry that this might be a bit boring, and that I'm kind of cutting this short, but I am only doing that because I still have a lot more to write and this is already pretty long. So, I will get to writing the next chapter as soon as possible and I apologize this update took so long.