Harper's Story

Harper’s Story

By: Addie Smith

This book is dedicated to my 5th grade teacher Tess Peterson

“Harper, Harper, wake up. It’s library class,"said Briony. Harper, my best friend, replied with one of her crazy answers like always.

“Hhhh what, what happened? Are you ok? Are their Empusas try to kill us?"said Harper.

“No what in the world are you talking about?"said Briony.

Briony was worried for his friend. Harper said she had visions but no one believed her. All of the other schools she had went to had blown up or vanished. Briony was worried that he too would disappear with the school, if the school disappeared. We go to a private school for troubled kids called Nicely School. We hated the name and the school logo, a giant yellow smiley face.

Chapter one

Briony and I were walking into history class together like usual. When Mr. Cadmen announced “Tomorrow is a field trip to the Museum Of History, to wrap up our studies of the Greek gods period in history. Do you have your permission slips? Today we will be stud…"

When someone interrupted, and all I heard after was, “Oh no I ate it."and I knew that it’s Briony speaking. Briony often stress ate odd things but he is still my best friend, and Mr. Cadmen is my favorite teacher. As Mr. Cadmen wrote on the chalkboard I drew in my history book a picture which I titled APOLLO with my sharp pencil. Apollo is my favorite Greek god. He is my favorite god because he was the god of most everything I love, music, the sun, archery, health, and truth. He also had a herd of bright red cows. Mr. Cadmen hobbled over as he is crippled and does not have full use of both legs.

He asked, “Do you have your permission slip?"

“Uh, yeah."I said and pull the crinkled paper out from the my backpack that had a bunch of griffins on it.

“Miss Aria, your mother is good at returning things quick."said Mr. Cadmen. He then hobbled back to the front of the classroom and said “Ms. Alcie is so nice to be coming with us on our trip."Miss Alcie is my horrible typing teacher that always gave me daggers and favored my least favorite person Desi Malone! Desi is always picking on Briony because he’s skinny and crippled. Briony usually hobbles around, but on Taco Tuesday you should see him run!

Well I am not a total crazy troubled kid. I was accused of many thing I did not do. Like in third grade when they said I had somehow “blown up the school”. That was Becky North’s fault, but when Becky North had blown up the school the adults said that no Becky North had ever gone to the school. It’s frustrating knowing what had happened and everyone telling you that you’re wrong and then there was… well you get the point. They called me a delinquent, even though I did nothing wrong. Well besides turning the

snobby Becky North to dust with the coin my mom gave to me on my fifth birthday. My mom said it was a gift from my dad, and my dad had said that I was old enough to have it. I remembered grabbing it and mom telling me, “Hold on sweetheart you have to promise to use it only in a life or death moments."in that voice she had that sounded like honey. The coin had got me out of trouble every time with super odd beasts that wanted to kill me. It worked awesome! With one flick of my wrist it would vaporize monsters. My eyes fluttered open and Mr. Cadmen was over my shoulder. “Harper are you okay? You were unconscious for an hour, you okay?"He said it really concerned, not mad like most teachers had talk to me.

I said, “Yeah, I’m fine."He said school was over and asked me again before I left to go to my dorm if I was fine. Then he asked me to tell him if something was ever wrong, with school or in general, and he would be happy to help.

Chapter two

Everyone in Mr. Cadmen’s history class was in the bright yellow school bus, I and Briony were sitting together and Desi was with one her evil “friends”. Desi and the friend were taunting Briony. “I am going to beat that girl up,"I said. I stood up and Briony pulled me down. “Hey!”

"Sit down. You know that you will get kicked out of Nicely if you touch her and she knows that too,"Briony said.

“Fine, like anyone cares!"I huffed annoyed.

"You will not have me, and I care and you know it,"Briony replied.

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I loved all the Greek stuff it was awesome. Our class had stopped at some big marble statues of people. There were letters on the stands and the letters started to move so I could read them. The first stand read Demeter, the second stand in the middle read Hera, and the third read Hestia. Mr. Cadmen then asked who are these statues. I quickly raised my hand. “Yes, Harper,"said Mr. Cadmen

“They are Demeter, Hera and Hestia the three daughters of Kronos who were swallowed by their dad because he was scared that they were more powerful than him. Later their younger brother Zeus tricked his dad into drinking a poisoned wine."

“Very right,"said Mr. Cadmen. We moved to a room with clay jars they all had people and the same words that moved so I could read them. One had a man pushing a rock up a very steep hill. It read: Sisyphus. The next jar had a man in a pool of water too low reach and food too tall to reach. The words said : Tantalus. Mr. Cadmen hobbled over to a jar that had picture of a man with a lion cape. Mr. Cadmen said something that I didn't hear because I had my earbuds in. Then Mr. Cadmen said, "Harper?"I pulled my earbuds out.

"Can you repeat the question Mr. Cadmen?"I said.

"C an you t e ll h im wh o th at is?"said Desi in a slow mocking tone. It made me want to punch her. I gritted my teeth.

Then I replied, "That is Heracle. His roman form is more famous, Hercules."Mr. Cadmen nodded, a sign that he wanted me to go on. "Heracles did the twelve labors to show he was a worthy hero?"I ventured.

"Very good, Harper. Anything else?"said Mr. Cadmen. I shook my head because I did not remember anything else. "Very well,"said Mr. Cadmen.

"Harper, we need to talk,"said Ms. Alcie.

“Ok?"I said and followed her. I knew that she was waiting for a time that I would do something wrong, so that she could punish me with a bunch of typing test or in school suspension. We walked into a room with old markers for people who had died. I looked around trying to find my typing teacher and heard.

"You will join them, in death,"said what Harper thought had been her typing teacher because it/she was a manticore. The manticore had a female like humanoid face but the rest of her was animal, lion body, dragon wings and scorpion tail. A mean smile smeared on her face.

“Ms. Alcie? What did I do?"I said trembling and got ready to run.

"You little er…"She shrieked in rage. "You are strong too strong. DIE!"she yelled. She launched her body from where she set in the window.Paws out in front of her and her claws retracted. Her teeth gnashing. Use the light, call to it, said voice. It was regal and at the same time like a teen’s. So as the monster descended on me I did what the person in my mind had said. I thought of the light coming down on the monster and burning her , and in my mind I said please help me light I need this please. Then I opened my eyes light came through the window. I cupped my hands in a circle and aimed my hands at the monster in a burst of light the typing teacher was only gold dust.

"Harper?"I heard. Then Briony came around the corner.

"I killed the typing teacher!"I said

"Calm down, Mr. Cadmen sent me to look for you..."said Briony. He had seen the golden dust. He pulled me down the hall to were Mr. Cadmen was having lunch with the class. “We need to go now,"said Briony

"Where?"I asked

“To the van, come on. Blhaa. "said Briony half listening to me and chewing on his shirt.

"Oh, all right come on let's go to the van,"said Mr. Cadmen. Briony dragged me along as Mr. Cadmen raced on. Not a hobble, a run.