Gods School Book One: Into the Forest

Club Day

Elisha walked out. Their tour guide was showing them around. "Wait one second," she said suddenly. She left for a moment and came back with three cups. "This is a coffee with nectar. You can get it at the cart over there." She pointed a little way off. "Now, it is important to remember that you aren't goddesses yet..." she was cut off by Elisha spitting out her coffee.

"What!"

"You aren't technically aren't a goddess until you complete your domain ceremony."

"Oh."

"You aren't able to see any of these tables unless they are for your year. The tables were made by kitsune. And yes, kitsune do qualify as godlets and goddesslings. They never become true gods or goddesses although..."

That was when Elisha saw it. It was a club that fulfilled her heart. A democracy club. "Oh," said the girl. "That club is sooo boring." She flicked her hand to the side and rolled her eyes. "All they do is keep the school up and running. The president is elected every 2 months. They do stuff like a presidency on earth." She flicked her hand again and blew a bubble with the bubble gum she had created in her palm. After flicking her hand, the illusion started to waver. But she could still see it. "Come with me, I'll show you the cool stuff."

But Elisha walked over to the democracy club booth. "Hi, what do you do here?" The girl at the booth looked surprised to see her. She was just about to answer when her tour guide came over and scolded her for going to a terrible club.

"I wanted to come to this club. So I WILL!!!" Everyone looked surprised. She heard someone in the crowd whisper about how she had never seen someone stand up to Her before. That was what everyone called her apparently. Her. Or She. Or Miss. But never a name. Elisha just didn't get it. She had once known this girl. She was Mia, daughter of Mars. They had once been childhood friends. But then she had left for school and never came back. "Mia, why are you like this?"

Mia's eyes widened and her mouth gaped. She looked about at all the people rallying behind Elisha. Even the illusion walked out and stepped behind her. "You all made a mistake." Slowly her power began to condense behind her. But Elisha just turned and signed her name on the sign-up sheet. Royoko immediately followed.

"The fact that we used to hang out disgusts me," said Elisha. Then she stalked off.

Mia slipped her hand out and all of the people immediately ducked. The illusion for democracy club exploded as much as an illusion can explode. "You WILL regret that Elisha. you will." Then she walked out. All of the people continued being frightened of her. Elisha and Royoko could see it in their eyes.

Elisha snarled at Mia. All of them were cowards. Mia manipulated them into listening and obeying her. The way she acted, you would think that she would be in a democracy club. Though Mia was more of a monarchy club person. They used to play kings and queens. She flicked her hand over toward Mia. "Oh irimaniso. Why are you a cowerdess Mia? You've changed. We used to play Monarchy Monopoly. Now you wouldn't even look at the game."

Elisha looked at her friend. "Sorry. Wanna try out for the Mag Stacking team?"

"Yeah." Elisha was the champion mag stacker. Since it was easy to speed stack, this sport involved a series of revolving mats, that one must, one. stack the cups on, and two, keep them up. The best part was when you started, you were in the air. You couldn't make a mistake, or your cups would fall. The better you get, the higher you go. Elisha was the all-star. It made many people wonder. Really it was because she was such a neat freak, that she made it perfect in an instant, thanks to years of practice.

At tryouts, she crushed all the competition, with a time of 6.742 seconds for her cycle stack. Royoko barely made it, but the kid who beat her got a time of 8.934, while Royoko got a time of 8.971.

But Elisha was not about to let her friend not join a sport. As she looked around, she saw a sports table labeled Mazeball. The girls loved Mazeball. It used illusions to make it easy and fun. It was sort of like karate, basketball, and soccer. By using kicks to swing the ball into the hoops, they used illusions to make it harder to find everything. Oh, and it was in a maze. "Royoko, MAZEBALL!!!"

Royoko ran over and grabbed a mazegi, which looked like a karate gi, only slimmer. This one was emerald, with electric blue currents snaking their way down the sides. As she entered the maze, the coach chose 4 other girls and assigned one to block the net, which is done by karate blocks and punches. "Let's see what you got... Royoko," said the coach, reading the name of her clipboard

Royoko ran into the maze and immediately swung her leg at the ball, causing it to fly in the air, straight to a fellow competitor, Ally, daughter of Athena. Ally then swiped up and made it fly up into the air, before slamming it with the bottom of her foot to Minnie, daughter of Mars. She was small but strong. Minnie twisted and flung herself through the maze until she reached the ball and spun it to Royoko, who kicked it over the wall to the last girl, Violet, daughter of Vulcan, who swung around and kicked it toward the net. But Posy, daughter of Proserpina, blocked with a quick broom sweep. It spun back toward Royoko, who kicked it back. This time, she got nothing but net. Everyone's mouth fell. "You're in," yelled the coach. "You, Posy, come back again. We'll see about you. Minnie, same"

All the girls left except for Ryoko, who got an official mazegi. As they walked around some more, they saw Violet signing up for crafts club, and Ally signing up for logic games.

"Looks like everyone found something," commented Alyssa.

"Yeah."

The girls went back to their rooms and started to chat. Elisha's had a spell to keep it neat and a pile of books. The lavatory had a waterfall shower and a pool bath. The bed was blood red with a map of Rilisha's, from Coder, Killer, hometown. She had a writing desk in one corner and a copy of her books on the corner. Her bookshelves were arranged by genre, then author and then series. It was not that confusing. Just look for the genre, in that genre, look for the author, then look for the series by that author. However, her room was so crammed with shelves that you could barely find your way around.

Royoko's was much more practical. It too had the extravagant bathroom and the bookshelves, but there were considerably less, and the selection changed often. Her bed also changed. She had all her stuffed animals lined up, just like Elisha's and she had a single spot for her to sleep in. Elisha had considerably less, but both girls still had a lot. Royoko's books were placed at random, yet you could always find what you needed. She had a cozy reading/doing homework nook. Both girls love loved their rooms.

Royoko began to get a couple of books. She sat on her seat and began to read. Meanwhile, Elisha began to write a new Coder, Killer book. This one was a very exciting adventure. She couldn't wait to reveal Countess Chesire's newest scheme. The countess wanted to make the world's biggest unit of destruction. It was a bomb so powerful it would vanish the world. Rilisha had just discovered the plot and was informing the presidents of the United Worlds so that they could evacuate earth in case she couldn't stop the bomb when the dinner bell rang.

Royoko darted over. And the girls ran to dinner.