Carmen Komode.
That's my name.
It always has and always will be. The thing you don't understand about me is I'm not just some ordinary girl. I'm a half dragon; yep, you did read that right and I'm not lying either. I go to a school in South America, Bolivia to be exact. It's a special one just for people like me half monsters, for some people it's easy to blend in because they look exactly like humans. Mika Elrond, one of my two best friends, is a half elf. Not the ones who help cobblers make shoes, more like the ones from Rivendale in J.R.R.Toliken's Lord of the Rings. Then there's Aretimis Swift, she is a half wolf. A bit like a werewolf but isn't so vicious. She does have a dreadful temper when provoked as well as during a full moon.
Ok, so back to me, I can't just go out exploring because I have scales. Yeah you read that right as well, I have scales on my face, arms, legs and stomach which makes it very hard to not be noticed among kiiles; I'm sorry that's what we call humans. Mika is so lucky, she just has pointed ears and is taller than average but Aretimis, like myself, cannot leave either. She has hazel fur and claws. As well as this, she also has these cute wolf ears that help her hearing and are on top of her head. She can move them to show emotion. Then, of course, there are half phoenixes, half cat and plenty of others that are simply ineffable. Then there's Bella Donna she's half wood nymph. You can tell that by the pale green tint in her skin. The boys all think she's the bee's knees, but, to be honest, she's as poisonous as her name.
Every school has a mean girl and Señora Piccada's Colegio para la salvaje y raro - which usually goes by the simple name of Piccada Colegio - is no different. Today, at the boarding house, when our House Matron, a half augerey, rang the gong that symbolised that it was time for visiting day, guess who was the first up - Bella. She raced over to the window and started her daily routine of spying on the centaur boys riding up from their specially designed stables/dorm room.
"Omg! They are so hot!" she squealed, "Someone make my bed for me, I am dreadfully busy."
I rolled my eyes and look over at the bed next to me where Aretimis was, in wolf form, curled up, sleeping on the end.
I forgot it was a full moon last night. That explains the reason why my trunk is a mess and the curtains have been slightly chewed. Aretimis - I just remembered to say - is the only half wolf in the school so she gets very lonely when we're all asleep at a full moon and she has no-one to play with.
I gently shake her awake and straighten my sheets. As a half dragon, everything I own is either burnt a bit or in tatters from when I have lost my temper and my scales have spiked outwards.
"Wakey, wakey, my wolf friend." I coo, tickling her under the chin. Slowly, the hazel wolf melts back into the shape of a fifteen year old girl, sprawled on the end of her bed.
"Ugh." She muttered, "What's the time? I was up all night, 'slept for the last three hours. I'm starving."
Mika giggled, "No change there, then, Areti."
Aretimis growled and her eyes flash, dangerously, "Watch it." She said, "You could be my next meal, Mika."
Aretimis is always making threats like that, and the thing is, she never means those things...unless, of course, that person happens to be Bella.
"What did I say, freaks!" Bella's ordering us about again, there are only four other people in this dorm besides her. Mika, Areti, me and another girl, a half basilisk this time, who's name is Tiena Serpan.
Tiena is short for serpentiena. That kinda makes sense seeing as she has yellow eyes with black slits for pupils and a long snake's tail instead of legs. It's her tail that is the reason she gets bullied on a daily basis. Even though centaurs are technically similar to her, horse bodies instead of legs, they still find reason to bully her.
