When I left the Director's office, I stood outside his door for a while.I felt a distant but existent exhaustion.It felt like I had just come from a light jog. Summoning weapons wasn't as easy as it looked.I was in no particular rush to return to the Renchiology lecture. I figured that I was probably missing valuable knowledge of a visceral nature. But, I assumed that Mr. Kajulu would just think that I was still in the Director's office.I caught sight of Wish.She was in front of the board between the left entrance to the foyer and the recycling bin. She had what looked like a folded poster in her arm and a mouth full of drawing pins.When she saw me, she spat the pins into her left hand.“Hey Dave.”“Hey, you good?”I noticed then that she was a chain-user.“I'm good and you?”“Besides studying, I can't complain.”She flattened out the poster against the notice board and pinned it.That fragrance...It was as alluring as the first time I smelt it. It gave a much-needed burst of a

Another reoccurring dream.This one is not quite as frequent as the others, but way more terrifying.Human corpses carpet the charred ground around me...Blue, orange, and red carcasses of creatures I've never seen before...Invaders, mixed in with lifeless human bodies in mangled and twisted positions.A hot, putrid smell thickens the air and assaults my nostrils.A scream from my left.A man is being torn apart by a grey thing. It uses its razor-sharp talons to slowly tear his jaw and front torso from the rest of his body.A few meters ahead, a man is driving his spear into the throat of a jaundice-colored hunchbacked humanoid thing. The Invader lets out a phlegm-like gurgle, its dying breaths. Its feast on the insides of a woman with a sword in her pale hand is brought to a halt.The woman’s lifeless eyes are glued on me.An obsidian-colored vulture-like thing emerges from the thick black mist that blankets the battlefield. It floats in one spot, its large wings flapping loudly. It

“Good morning class, sorry I'm late!"It never failed to amaze me how Ms. Hernandez was always late for the lecture. This was because she always walked like she had ants in her pants.“Alright then!” exclaimed Ms. Hernandez.She clapped her hands together.“I understand that we were about to move on to Barbarey Wexley and her contribution to the establishment of the Association's Headquarters", she said, “Am I right?”No one said anything.Someone coughed.“I'll take your silence as confirmation. Okay! Today I'm not in the picking mood, so I'll lead this one.”She ruffled through her books and papers. She picked up a thin text with aged covers barely held together by a cracked bind.She read from the book,“Now, the most interesting thing about Barbarey Wexley is by far her battle with sexuality. Wexley was born as Barbalee, a male in a small town in Australia. However, she claimed that she always felt like a female on the inside. At the age of seventeen, she decided to take action by

I rushed to the bathroom before I made my way to the Renchiology lecture. The whole time, I cursed myself for asking such a stupid question.I never ask questions, ever, and when I do, I decide to correct a grammatical error?But that look...Mr. Kajulu was not in a particularly good mood that day.“Daniel!”“Huh? I mean yes sir!”“What are the different groups of Renchiology and their classes?”“What. Are. The. different classes, uhm...”“I didn't know I was lecturing a parrot; I want a 1000-word essay on the Climatic influence of the Otherside on the evolution of Renchi, due tomorrow.”Dan hung his head.Dwayne laughed."David! same question. "“Renchi are classed into three main groups. Fliers, walkers, and swimmers. Fliers are Renchi that can fly, walkers use their legs to traverse the ground, and swimmers inhabit water bodies. These three main groups are further classified into six classes. Class A, B, C, D, E, S and SS.”I had read about it in the library a few days before.“Even

Soo Wong raised his hand."Yes?" said Mr.Hulio.“Isn't that thing too dumb to train on?” he asked.“Why do you say so? Have you ever fought one?”“I mean it's an A-rank.” chimed in Clarissa.She was a short and wide girl with thick blonde braids and a thick accent.Mr. Hulio smirked.“Okay then, why don't you and Clarissa show us how dumb it is then.”Mr. Hulio gave a mocking bow and gestured towards the simulation.They crossed the invisible threshold. It stretched and wobbled like electric jelly as they entered the ally way.The Klob imitated a crab walk before looking at the two in turn. Its curiosity evident even without a face.Clarissa summoned her bangles and punched her fists together. I'm not sure if this was in an attempt to intimidate the Renchi, but if it was, it didn't work.Soo Wong summoned his staff and swung it around flashily like those monks from the kung fu movies.Again, the Klob did simply stared at him.Soo Wong then decided to raise his staff and launch himself