Laughing thunder [#Wattys 2018]

Chapter 5: Time to fight with rocks

     As I walked out of Mr.Watts class I looked at what my next class was and apparently it was rune studies, and I became interested in it because I think I read about them in a book once so seeing this as a class got me interested. So when I went towards the class a little quicker and as I walked I noticed the world seemed a little clearer now that I've unlocked my S.E.

"Huh, cool." I thought aloud. After about two minutes I made it in front of another classroom, except this one had vines and grass on the door spreading across the walls until it reached the next classrooms. When I walked in entered the classroom I instantly noticed the ground was jungle-like with soil and tree roots as well as grass. This time this room actually had desks but they seemed to be jutting out of the ground. They were long connected desks in a U formation with two sets of tables. They were made of a polished light brown wood with grey styluses inserted in holes with jade colored smooth stones in front of each grass chair. I walked over to a petite girl with shoulder-length black hair. She looked about my age. She wore a light blue shirt with a black jacket with a dark blue horizontal blue line running through the middle and she wore yoga pants with a shoulder bag resting beside her. From that, I noticed her wings they seemed to resemble an Owl's and they had a creamy color with brown patterns that transformed into ripples across both of them reminding me of sound waves.

"Hey is it okay if I sit here?" she turned her head and I got a better look at her face. She had a pale complexion with Asian facial features and pale white blind mystifying eyes that if I were to look at long enough would be trapped in. She gave me a friendly smile and said

"Sure go right on ahead."

"Thanks," I said as I sat next to her. "My name's Thomas what's yours?" I asked trying to strike up a conversation.

"My name is Noel and nice to meet you Thomas" she held out her hand

"Likewise Noel," I said accepting her gesture when I saw her with a silver violin bracelet which with my new vision radiated a hidden power. "So-"

"Are you blind?" she finished for me.

"Uh, yeah, sorry if I was rude"

"No worries people ask me that all the time and yes I am but don't worry I can see you clearly with my spirit energy so don't worry

"Ah, I see, so what is that on your wrist because I'm seeing a lot of energy coming off of it"

"Oh, this? This is my weapon it's actually a violin."

"Huh, cool!"

"Thanks! What about your necklace? What kind of a weapon is it?"

"It's a mix of a cane and a sword and a scythe I think"

"That sounds nice I bet its useful"

"I don't know I never used it before but apparently from Ariana it's really useful. So it probably is. So what do you think of school so far?"

"Hmm, it's certainly interesting...Like it! What about you?"

"Yeah I like it too," I notice in front of us a few guys were giggling and appeared to be making fun of Noel. LIke imagining to be blind. For some reason, this made me extremely mad despite only knowing her for a limited time and I was about to get up but I found my wrist getting grabbed by Noel.

"Thomas, don't worry its fine honestly let's just ignore them and get back to our conversation" she seemed to calm me down instantly so I sat back down and we continued talking for a few minutes until the teacher appeared in a swirl of leaves. When they all fell to the ground they revealed a woman in her 30′s. She wore long bell bottom jeans with a horizontal white and black blouse that was tucked into the jeans with a short denim jacket that reached the bottom of her chest. She had a curvy build with brown ebony skin with a large black afro with light brown highlighted tendrils that made it look like an explosion. Her eyes were wooden brown with green highlights, and behind her were green and black wings that resembled palm leaves. To me, every part of her screamed sarcasm.

"Okay, class~I am your Rune-studies teacher. Ms.Hill" even her speech drenched with sarcasm as in mid-sentence some of her words were drawn out unnecessarily long. "My job is to teach you how to use, create, and summon runes and learn of their us-" She stopped suddenly because of the same boys from earlier who were making fun of Noel were now making fun of her. She looked unimpressed and had a look of attitude and annoyance.

"Excuse me, gentlemen, it seems you have a question" The idiots giggled like school girls who would probably take offense for that analogy. The ugliest of them said.

'Hey share some of that ice cream on your back" they each laughed like it was the funniest thing in the world.

"So you got jokes, do you? Well, have you ever heard of slapstick" She made a thick tube of leaves and vines and smacked them each on the head. Probably lessening their intelligence even more. The whole class laughed at this and on their faces were fiery red blushes.

"Now I trust that there will be no more interruption, now as I was saying. I'm here to teach you how to use, create, and summon runes and their uses and secrets. Runes are symbols of power, among other things, they can create elements, summon objects, heal, rebuild, defend, attack, enhance and much more. For now, we're focusing on the basics."

From one of the roots on the ground, she made a wooden stylus with a black point that glowed light green. From this, she drew 26 symbols with a letter for each underneath.

"Now fun fact about runes and styluses. We can use a variety of materials to make either one but to our knowledge so far wood makes the best styluses with plastic being a close second. For runes, stones are best but truthfully these stones are mostly for storage and reuse because you can write your own with only a stylus but these stones are recommended because they don't drain your own spirit energy they just store what you've written. Like this"

She wrote runes that spelled out Light and from the symbols appeared a blinding harsh light that caused us to cover our eyes until it ended.

"Remember class for what incantation you use you will have to memorize it because if written or cast incorrectly they become dangerous and unstable most likely being a danger to you as much as your enemy. For when you go into the field or are in a fight I recommend having a variety on standby as well as a mixture of materials for sudden uses and to always have a spare stylus. Now for the rest of class time practice working on your own runes and uses for them. And don't interrupt my reading okay?"

I went to work practicing on runes and what to write when I and Noel got sprayed in the face by jets of water from the idiots from earlier. I was boiling with anger and annoyance. I really didn't like bullies especially those that will do things to people I care about so I devised a plan and told it to Noel. And I convinced her to join me in a prank. I drew a rune that was to bind and Noel would follow up with a rune that would make them float so I finished them off with a rune that would kick them in the air with them screaming for it to stop so, me and Noel obliged their request and sent our S.E into one last Rune and sent them flying into a hole in the many trees and vines around the room and all you could see was there backsides and legs struggling to get free. We both laughed at this and high-fived each other and practice with each other until the damned trumpets blared again signaling us to leave. We both said our goodbyes to each other as we walked to our next classes with me having a slight blush as we separated.