“Especially since everyone here follows me on social media and I’m going to record it and post it,” Adrian said.
“Adrian, you’ve died ten times since you found out you were a phoenix. Maybe pay more attention tonotdying again in our most dangerous class?” Alexios sighed.
Ten times? I knew about potions because I was there and they let it slip he cracked his head open in the shower trying to have shower sex with Iman, but I didn’t know about the others.
“They aren’t after me and keeping my flag is just basic rugby. I got this, mate. And next time, I won’t toss grapes in the air and catch them in my mouth since none of you can successfully do the Heimlich.”
“You got killed by a grape?” Liam snorted.
“Is that not as sexy as taking a switchblade between the eyes?”
“I made you a big, beautiful Pavlova with fairy fruit to make up for it and, technically, I thought you were going to eat Sage’s brain, so itcouldhave been considered self-defense.”
“Game on!” Professor Adamastus yelled. “Everyone who still has their flag by the end of class gets five hundred points towards the lottery.”
Khalid, Lucian, and Liam all took a defensive position around me, but Elliot and Petros weren’t gunning for us yet. They didn’t even go for Lola right away. They’d already mastered portalling thanks to lessons from Morgana, so I had a feeling none of us were going to have flags by the end of the lesson.
Petros and Elliot disappeared and reappeared right in front of Edmund.
“Boo!” Petros yelled.
Edmund shrieked and then Elliot lifted him about four inches off the ground by the back of his underpants. Elliot dropped him on his face and then blew him a kiss.
“That was pathetic, Edgar.”
They snatched his flag and disappeared again. When they reappeared again, it wasn’t in front of Lola, it was in front of Radames. Except Petros wasflyingthis time. Elliot was in front of him. Elliot somehow conjured a giant cartoon-looking sledge hammer that he whacked Radames in the face with. There were seriously cartoon birds around his head as he slumped to the ground. They took his flag.
Liam was laughing like a maniac, but they’d eventually come for us. Elliot and Petros disappeared again and didn’t appear again right away. Lola shrieked as she was yanked in the air by an invisible rope. When they appeared again, there was a toilet on the ground.
“Put me down!” she shrieked.
“Ah, shite, they are going for the swirlie,” Liam laughed.
“Are they going to…?”
“Dunk her head in that toilet? Yeah.”
“What if she uses her magic?”
It would destroy Morgana if she exploded and ate their shades. But if Lola fought in the light of day instead of in the shadows, she’d have to run. She wanted to be here. There were no witnesses when Radames killed Adrian, but our entire class was here. She couldn’t say it was an accident like Astrid because if Elliot and Petros disappeared without a trace and never showed up to be escorted to the void, it was just a red flag and she didn’t know we knew.
I suppose she could just kill us all and lie about what happened because of the whole not knowing we knew thing, but, hopefully, she’d figured out Headmaster Mykene was too smart for that. I just had to hope she wanted answers about pregnancy or whatever reason they hadn’t left enough that she just let Elliot and Petros dunk her head in the toilet they conjured.
I didn’t know if I could do that if I was in full control of my magic because I knew Elliot and Petros wouldn’t be dunking her head in a clean toilet. I guess we were all going to see how committed she was to all of this.
I was understanding why Elliot and Petros took out Radames first. He couldn’t hypnotize anyone while he was unconscious. Elliot and Petros seemed to have mastered portalling. No one had seen Lola’s powers in action, but without Radames’s venom to paralyze them, they could just portal away if she decided to fight back.
Yeah, they’d clearly planned this out.
Lola was cursing and tried to grip the toilet bowl so she didn’t go in, but she seemed to have alotof control over her magic because the rest of us couldn’t seem to help it bursting out when we needed it.
Petros grabbed her ankle to force her down. He was good. I waswatchingfor him to steal the phone and I couldn’t eventell if he did it or not. Elliot grabbed her other leg and Lola got dunked hard enough to knock her out. They took her flag and the toilet and both men disappeared.
When they reappeared again, they body tackled Lucian and took his flag, but they didn’t prank him. When they moved on to the rest of the class, it was less cartoon sledgehammers and swirlies, and people actually had a fighting chance to keep their flags.
Professor Adamastus scared me when he snuck up behind us.
“I let those two menaces loose on your class so you could get answers off a phone. They made sure the two people with a vested interest in keeping the contents of that phone a secret would be unconscious while you download the data. It would make sense if you all ran off the field and tried to hide given that’s what your classmates are doing.”
