The Tanian Legends

CHAPTER 1 - ITS REALLY SCARY

"What?! Dont leave us!" I shouted, but he was already gone
My brother was the only thing I had. His name was Jay, he was just a year older than me. He had grey hair, with brown skin and a large burn scar at the bottom of his eye, no one would guess we were brothers. Our father was a teacher at Valak Innovation Camp, 3 miles away.

One day, he went to work, but never came back. I haven't heard from him ever again, I didn't hear anything from Valak ever again. I was grieved, losing my father was bad enough, and then now my brother? Its crazy, he was one of, if not the only person I could trust 100%. I wanted to look for my father, but my mother didnt want us hurt, but now that my brother ran away to find him; maybe i could run away too. Maybe I could have quested to find him, like what my brother did now.

I should probably introduce myself, I am Leo Angelo. Im currently twelve and I am a student (if you can even call me one) at Xilos Academy. A academy for students with issues. Lots and lots of issues. You're probably thinking "Its not that bad, how can it get worse?" One of my classmates had dyslexia and ADHD, and had killed one of my classmates using a book; throwing it at him and pushing him into the cabinet, making his head bleed.

Another classmate of mine had threatened our old math teacher and assaulted him, and poisoned his drink, after a few days, he took the drink, thinking it was coke. You can probably guess what happened next. Most of the time, I couldn't focus at school at all. Me and my few friends had one common fear, darkness. Though mine was the worse. I took night classes too, and if I knew something, its that night, nyctophobia (fear of darkness) and school didn't mesh together like rice and beans.

I still dont know why my mother, Starley Angelo, sent me here. There were way better options in the neighbourhood. Loktus and Thunder Academy, similar but better academies. Back to the point, the front of the school literally had the caption "where troubled kids come and go" which is really scary, as every failing student mysteriously vanished. I mean, maybe not to someone like you, but as a person who's grades are all in the range of 74-82, I was just a nobody, in a class of nobodies.

One of the flagship events of Xilos was the scouting program, where we would go camp at the nearby mountain, I didn't care about it. The school was divided into 13 groups, named after the thirteen zodiacs. I was in group 12, named "Ophiuchus". The last camping trip would be in a few days, after that, the scouting program will be gone, which would sadden everyone, as everyone loved scouting.

Well, everyone except me. I wanted to just walk away, or just call in sick like every other camping trip. Though, Ms. Victoria had convinced me to give it a chance. I wanted to believe her, it would get better. I was so-so wrong.

Some words about Ms. Victoria, she was my favourite teacher. She taught english, the one class I wouldn't fall asleep, or get kicked out. She was an amazing writer and teacher, she wrote a novel and promised to read it if everyone would get a 85+. Thats not happening with me here.

She even let us use cellphones in class (assuming we could finish the ten essays she would give in a short amount of time) and to me, that was the best offer you could give me.

I tried not stirring trouble, like every other school year. I didn't want to open up either, I didn't want my few friends to worry about me. That was until my best friend Benedict, a guy with a blue and brown eye, approached me and asked whats wrong.

"I.." I hesitated at first, but then I saw his eyes, like he was saying "Look, you can trust me. I'll keep it to only us."
So I explained to him that my brother had ran away from us, and the backstory about my father going missing.

He replied "So it has begun"
"what do you mean begun?" I asked with intrigue
He ignored my question, and instead he just continued like he never heard me, which didn't help me.

"Hey, do you want to go to my house?"
"For what?" I demanded, he seemed hurt from that. " Nevermind, I didn't ask anything"

Ean, one of my other friends, walked up to me. Every time I would look at him, I would feel nervous. His mischievous smile, marred by a small scar on his cheek.
"What are you guys talking about?" he asked
"A party" I said, maybe too loudly

As soon as I said that, Lynn, a red haired fat wench had said in a sarcastic tone "Can I join? Im sure your poop- I mean food would be tasty. Oh wait, your homeless!" She said

To absolutely nobodies surprise, the whole class stared at us, some of her friends were laughing at us, murmuring about "The Three Smelly Ones". I thought that punchline sucked, and I was pretty pissed myself. I tried listening to what our counsellor would tell me. count to ten, control your temper. To my surprise, it worked. Instead of punching her in the face like I would usually do, I just tried my best to ignore her.

"No one was talking to you" I said

The whole class gasped, one of my classmate was yelling "fight fight fight!"

One of my other friends, Travis, had thrown his notebook at her, ironically, it was his Values notebook. I almost giggled. I glanced at Lynn, her face filled with anger, and for once, I couldn't blame her. They had started a fight. Lynn kicked Travis in the shin, which made everyone laugh, everyone except Travis. While I was distracted by watching them, Mikey had approached me from behind. I turned around and accidentally punched him in the eye.

I guess I should explain this guy too. He had beautiful blue eyes, and was really close with me and my brother. He was the one person I could count on when I needed someone to talk to. I never knew why he was so close to me even if I hurt him 24/7.
Mikey tried to stand, "Ow"
I offered him my hand, "Sorry.. Did you get used to it?"
Mikey giggled, "Yeah, I did"

"Thats the twenty-seventh time" Ean said
"You've been counting?" Benedict asked "I thought it would be in the hundreds by now"
"Whatever" Ean said "So Mikey, do you want to.."
"Go to your house?" Mikey asked
"My house" Benedict corrected "After the field trip"
"Oh, sure!" Mikey said enthusiastically "I have nothing to do anyways"

Then I looked back at the fight, Travis' nose began to bleed, Lynn had a black eye. I felt guilty, knowing I started this.
I was about to jump in but then Mikey pulled me back.

"You're already on probation" He said, obviously pained, "Let him be"
"I have to help him!" I said
Mikey was obviously worried, "You'll only hurt yourself!"

I ignored him, which probably hurt, but I wasn't going to abandon a friend. I yelled "Stop!" at them, a heard Benedict's voice behind me "Expected" he said. I wanted to punch him too but I just let him be. I couldn't win a three sided fight.

Unfortunately, Ms. Victoria entered the room, before I could punch Lynn's face. They were called outside, and then we never heard from them that day.

Then, the day I dreaded finally came, November 11, day of our field trip.