Book of the Underground

by Cody Hyde

  Inside the school building, Sheila continued to fight the evil creature who was once Lauren. Somehow she had managed to break free of her grip again.

  The two began side-stepping in circles, staring into each others’ eyes, unsure who was going to make the next move.

  Then suddenly Nightwing’s tail swung through the row of windows along the outer wall of the classroom from outside.

  Sheila quickly ducked out of the way and Lauren was unfortunately brushed aside. The tail then swiftly disappeared.

  Sheila stood completely back up again, turned, and noticed that the evil Lauren appeared to be semi- conscious. She walked over to her and put a hand to her throat.

  Lauren struggled to breath for a moment... but soon went silent.

  A voice from outside was then heard. “Charlie!” yelled Will.

  “Charlie,” repeated Sheila out loud in relief.

  She ran to the long row of broken windows to see what was going on.

  Standing out in front of the building she noticed Will and Starr outside of Greg’s car. The two were staring up at the roof.

  Sheila quickly poked her head outside and looked up. She could hear the dragon’s roar but couldn’t see any details. All she knew was that Charlie was up there with it.

  Swiftly she shot out the window, wings spread, and flew towards the top of the building to join the battle. It was time to take out the dragon.

  From atop of the school building Nightwing let out another mighty roar, spitting fire into the sky. Its evil eyes squinted as soon as it noticed Charlie, who had just made it to the top from the fire escape.

  “Hey!” yelled Charlie to the dragon, catching its attention.

  Nightwing took a few steps toward him, continuing to stare evilly. He was ready to make his kill.

  “Charlie, no!” cried Sheila, who just landed on top of the building as well.

  Both Charlie and the dragon turned to face Sheila. The dragon looked confused.

  “Sheila,” responded Charlie.

  “So which one of us do you want to blow smoke rings at first?” interrogated Sheila.

  Nightwing first turned back to Charlie, who kept his sword raised, then back to Sheila. It made its decision and spit fire at Sheila.

  Sheila quickly spread her wings and dodged out of its way.

  At the same time Charlie ran towards the dragon. With a powerful leap, sword in the air, Charlie made the biggest jump he has made yet. He landed atop of Nightwing’s shoulders, his legs around its neck.

  Sheila flew in circles, Nightwing having a hard time finding her like the first time.

  From below, Will and Starr watched nervously.

  Will really didn’t want to lose his best friend. “Come on, let’s go,” he ordered. “I can’t let anything happen to him.”

  “Alright,” agreed Starr.

  The two quickly headed towards the fire escape leading to the top of the school.

  Charlie struggled to hold on to the dragon, which was turning its head left and right continuously. It was still focused on Sheila.

  “Charlie, stab it already!” she ordered. “Aim for its heart!”

  “I can’t!” he replied, dizzily trying to slide his way towards the the dragon’s heart.

  Will and Starr shortly arrived to the top.

  “Hey!” they yelled out to the dragon.

  The dragon turned its head to stop and look… the perfect time.

  “NOW!” ordered Sheila.

  Charlie fell along the side of the dragon near its chest, hanging onto one of its spikes. He then with his open arm forcefully stabbed his sword through the beast’s fully exposed chest area where its heart was beating heavily.

  Nightwing tried to catch its balance as he came crashing down, roaring one last mighty cry and one last breath of fire.

  Charlie leaped off of him to join his friends as they watched the monster lose its balance and fall from the building.

  Dust from the school grounds brushed into the air, and slowly disappeared.

  Charlie, Sheila, Will and Starr stared down at the kill.

  The evil dragon, Nightwing, was dead.

  “Well, we finally got him off our hands,” said Charlie, out of breath.

  “Finally,” said Sheila. Will and Starr just continued to stare down at the dead dragon, their hearts racing.

  “What else could go wrong?” asked Will with sarcasm.

  Wrong question to ask. A head suddenly shot out the window from the room below them, an undead entity! Its arms reached up and pulled Will into the room.

  “Aaahh, help!” he cried.

  “Will!” cried Charlie and Starr in unison.

  Sheila quickly went to Will’s rescue, being the first to enter the room below. Charlie and Starr followed.

  Inside what was a classroom, Will fought with the undead entity. He pushed the creature off of him, then threw a punch... but the Power of Victor seemed to have worn off again, and he didn’t have a weapon either!

  The undead entity grabbed a hold of Will’s wrist as he tried to throw a punch at it.

  Sheila then quickly threw the creature off of him and it landed on the other side of the teacher’s desk of the classroom.

  Charlie and Starr walked up behind them, Charlie resting his hand on Will’s left shoulder.

  “You alright?” Charlie asked.

  “I’m fine,” he replied. “Our powers wore off again.”

  But Starr had no response to their powers being worn off this time. That’s when they all realized whose classroom they were standing in....

  The evil undead creature stood back up and began to scratch her pointy claws alongside the chalkboard in front of them. Charlie, Will, Starr and Sheila all covered the ears.

  Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech!!

  Where the evil teacher stopped scratching its claws along the board was where a recognizable name was clearly written: Mrs. Guanty.

  Charlie had to be the one to put a stop to her. He leaped up on top of the long desk and stood facing his now monstrous English teacher... and thought of the just the right thing to say to her: “How’s this for fictional literature?”

  Then, with his sword raised, he prepared to

  exterminate the evil Mrs. Guanty, but Rocky entered the room from out of nowhere instead.

  Picking up the evil English teacher, Rocky walked up to the other side of the classroom and threw her out the window. When she hit the ground she disintegrated.

  Charlie, Will, Starr, and Sheila all turned to face Rocky.

  “Well, Rocky, you once again showed up at just the right time,” said Charlie.

  “Bravo,” commented Starr.

  “Go Rocky,” said Sheila.

  “Thanks, guys,” said Will.

  “Let’s get to the library now, shall we?” announced Sheila.

  “Let’s go,” replied Charlie and Starr.

  “Hold on,” responded Will, who appeared to be trying to crack his back.

  “Here,” said Starr. “Let me help.” She walked over to him to crack his back, putting her arms around his chest, his arms crossed. “Hold your breath, okay?”

  “Okay,” he replied.

  She then lifted him off the ground, and a pop was heard.

  “Ahh, that’s much better,” responded Will in relief as Starr let go of him. “Thanks.”

  “You’re welcome.”

  “Now we can go.”

  “Alright, then,” responded Charlie.

  Sheila and Rocky had already left the room.

  Charlie, Will and Starr followed. They were now off to the library to attempt to close the portal to the Underground.

 

 


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