Chapter 21_ You're Back

"You see defense is being able to

understand when you are being attacked

and when you are not. It is not only when a

person charges at you with swords and

daggers that you can be attacked. You can

be attacked with words, facial expressions,

and a variety of other elements. As magical

students being trained in defense, you

should be able to recognize when a person

is attacking you and know the possible

ways to defend yourself." Teacher Hunter

said.

I think I was starting to get the teacher's point.

"What I did was to attack him with words indirectly which caught him off guard, he

wasn't expecting me to call him out the way

I did. Can anyone in the class tell me what

he was supposed to do when I requested

him to tell me what he did?"

Hands shot up the air.

The teacher called on to a girl. "He was

supposed to defend himself" she said and

sat down.

"Good, now how was he supposed to

defend himself?" the teacher asked again.

No hands were up. Finally, another girl

volunteered to talk. "By also accusing you

of doing something wrong the way you

accused him. That way, you accused him and he accused you too" she said.

The whole class sat her down with loud

applause.

"Thank you but I'm afraid you are wrong,

the teacher said to all of their dismay.

Everyone thought she was right and was

applauding her before even the teacher

declared her correct.

I thought something was wrong with her

answer because I had another thought

about the answer on my own.

"Anyone who can answer me correctly?" he

asked again.

I was shy to talk at first because I was not

sure of my answer but I decided to answer

anyway.

I raised my hand.

"Yes please." the teacher motioned to me

and I stood up.

"Defense is not only about fighting or

physical exchange like you said so when

you said he did something wrong and he

was sure he didn't, he was also supposed to

defend himself by saying and standing firm

that he did not do anything wrong. That

was the best defense in this kind of

situation."I said.

This time, the class was silent. Nobody

applauded me and I understood them. They

applauded the first girl for the wrong

answer, they didn't wanted to do it again.

Or maybe that's what I thought was the best

defense in that situation I wanted to say.

"You are....?" the teacher dimmed his eyes

"Medusa Clarke sir" I answered.

I like your thoughtfulness you got the

answer correctly," he said to my most

amazed and awe-stricken self.

Did the teacher just say I got an answer

Correct?

Me?

Medusa Average Grades?

Ok wow, I'm truly surprised. The claps from

my classmates increased the swelling of

my redhead by a 110% pace.

I sat down while Teacher Hunter continued

addressing the class.

"Look who's smart" Mia giggled.

I rolled my eyes " Would you please

concentrate on the class Mia?!"I blurted

out.

She was fond of picking on me. Well, she

doesn't do it alone, I do pick on her too.

"You need to recognize the type of attack it

is for you to defend and win. As magical

students, it may be when you're here in

school, you might get hypnotized and

possessed by evil spirits and demons that

escape the portal of their dimension onto

this dimension. I know you might not know

this yet but it's not just in this dimension

people get possessed there are lots of

possessed people in the other dimension

too. Many of your friends have evil spirits in

them and are acting and living normally to

the outside world but have been wrecking 

havoc in secret."

He turned to the board and drew a structure

on it. I think the structure was supposed to

represent a human. He had drawn a straight

line and drew a horizontal line on its top

before drawing two slants line on the

bottom.

He drew another two more of the figure.

"Imagine figure A this is you " he pointed at

the first figure. "And this figure B is your

possessed friend" he pointed at the second

figure. "This figure C here is your third

friend". He touched the last figure.

"figure B who is possessed might act so

nice and holy in reality but might be the

cause of the disruption between figure A

and C through manipulation. These evil

spirits have nothing else they do except

possessing and cause mayhem among

people who have been living their lives

peacefully" he tutored on..

"Excuse me, sir" a boy raised his hand.

The teacher used body language to motion

for him to speak.

"So how do we get the spirit out of figure B

or how do we know that figure B is

possessed?" the boy asked.

"Mundanes don't usually know when their

friend or family is possessed unless they

are possessed by low amateur spirits, if

they are possessed by the veteran spirits or

demons, there is little or no chance they

Would be found out but as magical students

you will be taught about all there is to

know about recognizing a possessed

person and defending yourself from being

possessed by demons, and other spirits

he replied the boy.

"Demons are real?" another student asked.

"Yes, they are. Do not make the mistake of

being ignorant and saying spirits or demons

are not real. Look at you, someone who has

no powers wouldn't believe you have

powers unless they see it in action. Even

when they do, they'll still deny and look for

other excuses because normal people do

not want to believe in out-of-ordinary

matters. Once you go on missions, you will

have physical encounters with demons and

spirits" he finalized.

Demons and spirits in the other dimension?

When we go on missions? That meant we

would be fighting demons and spirits.

I remembered the annoying jerk was a

demon controller, does that mean he

actually controls demons?

Why was I thinking of him again?!

His words echoed in my ears again. "What

are you doing?" What does he mean what

am I doing?

That question always haunts me for some

reason I do not know.

"Our goal here in defense class is to teach

you various ways to protect yourself and

your friends. This class is crucial and

essential to your missions when you start

going on them. There are also some

missions that are not concerned with

demons and spirits, missions concerning

governments. Those missions are assigned to us by the government. They are missions you need to do as patriots." He said.

I knew it!

The government knows about the magical

institutions.

"The government knows about the school?"

someone asked.

"Yes, how do we want to survive? We need

the government's finances and resources.

However, the national missions are shuffled

between each school." Teacher Hunter

explained.

"Now, what is defense? Before venturing

into a topic, you have to know the meaning of the topic."

"Miss Clarke do tell us" the teacher called me. 

What?

Why was he calling me all because l

answered a question correctly? What if I get

it wrong?

I'm not that smart! I'm just an average

student. Was this teacher after my downfall?

My head that got swollen before started to

swell again but this time, it was swelling of

tension.

"Defense is..."

Oh no, what if I say the wrong thing?

I crouched and touched my stomach "I'm

sorry sir please I would like to go visit the

toilet" I said holding my bowels and acting

as if I was pressed.

The teacher nodded and told me to go ease

myself. I thanked him and got out of the

class.

When I opened the door of the class, I

heaved a sigh of relief. If this feminine man

was after my embarrassment and if he was

coming for me, I am more smarter than he

thought,I smirked and giggled to myself as

I strolled to the toilet.

I passed by each class that have teachers

in them.

Some of the other seniors were not having

lectures and they were all busy with one

thing or the other. Most of them were

shouting, some practicing their powers on

dolls.

I got to the restroom and opened the tap.

sprinkled some of the water on my face.

Strangely, I was not pressed before but on

getting to the restroom, I started having the

urge to urinate.

I went to the toilet and opened the sink, I let

loose the fountain of water that rested in

my bowel and got out.

I checked myself inside the mirror and

adjusted my clothes and hair.

Oh, Medusa, who gave you the right to bee

so beautiful. " I said to myself in the mirror.

I smiled at myself for being silly, I suddenly

missed going to parties with the girls.

I walked out and smiled inwardly at how cunning I can be. I made sure to waste

enough time before returning to class.

I noticed the class was unusually quiet and

when I opened the door, I met Teacher

Hunter sitting on the chair in front of the

class.

As I walked in, every eye in the class was on

me.

I got nervous as I did not know what was

going on, even the teacher was staring at

me.

As I moved closer to him, "Miss Clarke,

you're back" he said.

"Yes sir" I replied with a low voice as I was

totally dazed and confused.

"Good, we have been waiting for you." he

said.

Waiting for me? Why?

"Now tell us what defense is" I heard his

tiny feminine voice say to me and I

suddenly wished I had powers. If I had like

Mackenzie's powers, I would mind control

him into beating the hell out of himself.