As soon as he got up, I tried to kick him away. But my mistimed attack gave him the chance to counter my move. Despite not seeing anything, he caught my leg mid-air and launched me to the side. Luckily, I didn"t hit anything on my way and fell down on my arms.The princ.i.p.al left me lying there and turned toward Melis, who were still trying to drag the students out of the room.
"Melis!" I shouted. She looked at me and saw the danger she was in. However, it was too late. The princ.i.p.al and Melis got into a fight of brute force which Melis was guaranteed to lose.
I got up and tried to get to him, tottering. I caught the princ.i.p.al by his shoulder and pulled him back, but not before he managed to punch Melis. Fortunately, it wasn"t a very bad one.
With unexpected agility, the princ.i.p.al turned around, hurling me away. I fell down, and the princ.i.p.al was on top of me. There was a great pressure on my chest. I couldn"t lift him. He tried to punch me a few times, but I could dodge simply by moving my head.
Suddenly, he started screaming crazily, and rolled on the floor, away from me. Melis was there. She had the stapler in her hand. That was some good thinking on her part, and a very timely rescue.
While the princ.i.p.al was still on the floor, Melis carefully approached him and stapled various parts of his body. The princ.i.p.al was shaking. He tried to reach out to where he thought Melis was, but couldn"t.
Meanwhile, I got up and the partial paralysis feeling on my body, which was caused by the weight of the princ.i.p.al, started clearing up.
"Let"s go!" I said. Melis looked at the princ.i.p.al laying on the ground, who was crying in agony.
"We can"t leave him alive." she said. That caught me by surprise.
"Wh Why?"
"He is under command of the evil." she said. "If we let him live, he will eventually get back up. And we won"t like the consequences."
"We are not murderers!" I said. "At least, I am not." I couldn"t say this second part out loud.
"If you want to talk about morals, think of your students." Melis said. "You know this is the only way."
Melis kicked the princ.i.p.al"s face, breaking his jaw apart. His bones were dislocated, his teeth were broken. The sides of his lips were ripped open farther apart than I thought was possible. His tongue was seen dropping out of the widened mouth cavity, as a lifeless lump of meat. With his skin torn apart by his own bones, blood was flowing out of every hole.
Watching this was making me feel sick. I looked away. Insted of waiting for Melis to do whatever she was trying to do, I got my half-naked students out of the room. I carefully placed them side by side in the hallway and began inspecting their wounds. It was horrible.
The injuries of the students were more often located on their backs. Some cuts and open wounds on their bodies were closed using office staplers. I have never seen something equally cruel in my life. The pain aside, an infection caused by such action could end up killing them.
The sounds from the princ.i.p.al"s room stopped after a while. Melis came out of the room, breathing heavily. She was... tired. She must"ve tried too hard to make sure the princ.i.p.al wouldn"t come back to life.
"Go." she said to me.
"No." I replied, looking at the students.
"I will take good care of them." Melis said. "Although she is slowly being pulled into the darkness, mother"s powers can hide me for a while... However, you have to go."
"..." I certainly didn"t want to leave my students there.
"I promise." Melis insisted. "They will be okay. But if you stay here any longer, you won"t. Go!"
"You promised." I said and walked away.
On my way, I noticed that some of the metal doors and iron bars I have seen while coming here were removed. Unfortunately, I had no time to examine the building, or the nature of these occurrences.
While making my way out of the school building, I remembered Ilayda. I had to get her out as well. I was only hoping that she didn"t encounter anything weird in the building, and wouldn"t ask too many questions about all the noise I had just made upstairs. If that was the case, I would have to tell a pretty good lie.
I entered the teachers" room anxiously. To my relief; I found her sleeping on one of the chairs with her arms connected, putting her head against a wall. I slowly approached her in order to wake her up.
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"Hey!"
She didn"t react.
"Ms. Ilayda?"
Nothing.
"Ma"am, the sleeping beauty, wake up!" I raised my voice.
Her eyes slowly opened. She was blinking pretty rapidly.
"Are we there yet?" she said as she yawned.
"You are about to miss your lesson!" I replied. Hearing this made her get up pretty quickly.
"Where, when, who, why, how?"
"The extra duty, remember? We"ve been here for hours." I said. "And, Miss, you have been slacking all this time. It is time to go home."
She slowly came to her senses.
"Ahh, shorry." she said. "Couldn"t resist the... sleep."
Without spending more time in there, I guided her out of the building. After we got out, she was feeling good -awake- enough to walk and find her way on her own.
"What was that in the hallway?" she asked me.
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
"What? Didn"t you see? There was this... like... blue light hanging overhead... Like a really dim one, but... ugh. It was weird, maybe it was purple." she tried to explain. I had no idea what she was talking about, but I was curious. On the other hand, if this had something to do with the spirits... It wouldn"t be good for her to know.
"You are sleepy." I said. "Are you seeing fairies too? Tell me you do."
"Come on, I saw it!" she said. "I"m awake!"
"Well, why didn"t I see it then?" I asked. She paused. Rolling her eyes around, she thought about it for a while.
"I am sleepy." was her response.