Ah, another day. Surely you've gotten over the loss of Kai. What? You haven't? Oh, well, that's too bad. Classes are back up and running! However... Mrs Midas is strangely absent from her classroom as well as Principal Celeste... Could they be in her office? Or the staffroom, maybe? How peculiar...

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Ryland stood outside his room. Jay had challenged him to a roller skate racing competition.

"Aren't you coming to class?" Valkyrie turned, nearly out if the door.

"Nah. Jay challenged me to a roller sate competition and I refuse to be beat by a moth." Ryland blinked,"Have you seen her, by the way?"

"Sorry, no." They sighed.

"Hmm." Ryland crossed his arms.

"I'd better get going. Bye Ry." She waved, walking out.

"See you." Ryland hummed.

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Cloud walked into history. The tension in the air seemed so thick that they contemplated grabbing a knife to see if they could cut through it. The teacher, Principal Celeste, was not there however. All that was left was a history textbook on each desk

"Hmm. "Cloud sat down, blinking.

EPR sighed as it walked in shortly after.

"Oh... Hi."

"Greetings "E.P.R nodded slowly.

A tired looking Circe walked in with a frog on her head, though she did not seem to notice

"Circe, there's um... A frog, there." E.P.R pointed.

"Ugghhhhhh! Darned things been bothering me for the past 10 hours!" She groaned.

"Have you tried putting it back on the pond?"

Cloud giggled.

"Ya think?" Circe rolled their eyes.

"Just a suggestion, no need the get hostile."

"Why is it so unwilling to go awayyyyy." Circe complained. "And hey, wheres the teacher?"

"Principal Celeste is in the staffroom, accompanied by Potions Professor, Mrs Midas." E.P.R stated after a brief scan.

"Well then, wadda we do?" Ivy asked, skipping in.

"Well, we could go look for 'em." Cameron suggested, poking his head into the classroom,"The teachers are definitely up to something."

"Ivy, go on my behalf and video tape it. I am going to sleep now." Circe pointed.

"All those interested, follow me." Cameron then walked out.

Ivy skipped after him, holding a camera.

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Jeremiah sighed, looking around. Ever since the fight, more and more people completely skipped. Miss Morton was again, running late, but Fern was still there. She seemed to be reading a book. Jeremiah quietly played the piano. Fern continued reading, softly humming along to his melody.

"Have you ever wondered what this school would be like without the murder?" Jeremiah quietly asked.

"Probably very nice, we'd want to be here." Fern sighed.

"I was thinking about stopping Hades myself but then he killed Kai... And I  watched the whole thing as a ghost. And no matter how much tried, I couldn't move, to help Kai or run away," Jeremiah sighed, a tear running down his cheek as he remembered the traumatic experience.

Fern bit her lip and placed a hand on his shoulder, "Hey, look at me... Nobody's gonna let that happen again."

"As long as Hades is still at this school, chances are anything could happen,"

"Well, I'll try and protect you." Fern smiled.

"Thanks Fern... I'm probably going to head back to the dorm. Wearing a mask all day is suffocating." He sighed.

"There's no one else really here so... You don't need to wear it." Fern mumbled.

"True, I guess I could... But the windows are open and lights and crap y'know? My room is perfect."

"The teacher's not gonna show. I'm sure she wouldn't mind if I covered the windows and turned off the lights."

"I mean, yeah," Jeremiah started closing the curtains.

Fern smiled and turned off the lights.

Jeremiah took of his eyepatch and Hoodie before taking of his mask and breathing the fresh air.

"Pretty." Fern thought.

Jeremiah came down and stared at the ceiling,"I wonder what the teachers are up to though..."

"Me too.." Fern nodded slowly.

"So what has been your favorite part of the school so far?"

"You." Fern quickly covered her mouth.

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"Just stay quiet." Cameron whispered as they reached the outside of the door, open just a crack.

Ivy nodded and then stayed extremely still so she would turn invisible.

"I've had it with you, Cassiopeia! We are not your puppets and we will not stand by you any longer" Mrs Midas yelled.

Ivy's eyes widened.

"Oh, Aurelia, you thought you had a choice in the matter? How cute." Principal Celeste chuckled, "What can you do to stop me? You're a human. I'm practically a god."

"Is that so?"

And with that, an explosion was heard within the staff room.

She scrambled back and whispered,"Maybe we should go."

"No, we have to stay." Cameron urged her.

He peeked through the door crack and noticed a massive hole in the staff room, both teachers were now outside.

Hades, who had been skipping class to heel his wounds, heard the explosion and rushed in,"What the-"

"Hades-" Cameron glared at him before ducking as a ball of fire flew over his head.

"CASSIOPEIA! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?"

"Stay out of this, Hades!" She turned to him, in turn getting thrown to the side by Mrs Midas.

Hades held a wither Skull, debating on weather to help the principal or deal with the spies.

"This is no place for any of you." Mrs Midas shook her head, setting up a golden coloured shield around herself to block an oncoming attack from the Principal.

The fight caught Ryland's attention and he watched from a distance.

Hades turned to Cameron,"Yeah, I'm going to have to eliminate you and your little pal over there,"

"Is that so?" He raised a brow, drawing his sword.

"It is, and this time my potion of strength won't run out mid battle," Hades hissed, chugging a potion of strength 2 before charging.

"Shit-" Cameron muttered, blocking with his sword.

He was completely unprepared but Ryland narrowed his eyes and rushed in, stabbing Hades' ankles. Hades dropkicked Cameron into a wall before blasting the floor, practically creating an earthquake for the small boy.

Cameron winced as he fell to the ground, still managing to pick himself up.

"Come on then, do your worst!"

Ryland screeched and tumbled over,"Get fucked!"

Hades finally drew his sword, and charged at Cameron, intending to finish the job.

That's when a golden light surrounded Cameron. This... Wasn't supposed to happen.

"AURELIA, STAY OUT OF THIS!" Hades yelled, deciding to go attempt to maul Ryland instead.

"I'm not going to let you murder my students!" She yelled back before flying into the wall.

"Bitch." Principal Celeste muttered.

Hades took this opportunity to round house kick the weakened gold shield. Cameron slid back, spreading his wings. Hades wasn't going to give in and neither would he. Hades grabbed a crossbow with an arrow of slowness that he had prepared to kill Cameron with and shot his wing.

Cameron looked at the arrow,"Ow, bitch."

"Fight him, you dumbass. Don't just stand there!" Aurelia shouted at him.

"Please do, this is getting boring as fuck," Hades launched at the now grounded god with a butchers axe.

"Jesus Christ-" Cameron put his hands up and managed to catch the axe, mere inches from his face,"Oh, I'm surprised that worked."

"How did that work?" Hades shook his head, loading up his crossbow again.

"How am I supposed to know?" Cameron shrugged, pulling down a cabinet to use as a makeshift shield.

Hades used a wither Skull to blow up the cabinet, all the wood prices completely missing Cameron. "How the f-"

"I'm a luckily bitch." Cameron smirked, charging at Hades.

Hades pointed the now fully charged crossbow at Camerons head at point blank range,"Take another step and you're fucked."

"Ah, see." Cameron blinked.

"Now drop your sword and surrender."

"Jokes on you, I don't surrender." Cameron backed away.

Ryland scrambled to his feet and growled. He had nothing he could do! Except... Ryland reached into his pocket, turning something over in his palm. He sighed, then yeeted it at Hades. The object exploded on impact, a few feet in front of the half-wither. Not expecting it, Cameron jumped back in surprise. Hades was knocked back a couple feet.

"What the hell was that? A fire ball?" Hades guessed before throwing a potion of poison on the ground, intending to kill the small boy who had no armor whatsoever.

"Hades!" Cameron yelled, jumping onto him.

"Goddamnit," Hades hissed, falling.

"Shit, that worked. Uh-" Cameron quickly tightened his grip on his sword

Ryland jumped and found a crack in the wall to hide in. Hades, tired because of the armor weight, hit the ground bellow him with a with Skull, not being affected but launching everyone around him away and giving them the wither effect. Cameron, once again, flew into the wall and landed on the ground, coughing.

"I swear to fuck, how are you guys still alive? Especially the small one."

"Why are you even asking at this point?" Cameron struggled to his feet.

Ryland shrugged, grabbed another one of the objects, threw it at Hades, and shouted, "Engineering! Get fucked!"

"Y'know what?" Hades placed down tons of TNT around himself and threatened,"Take another step and you two are going to hell. I have another totem so I'll be fine but I can't say the same for you two."

"Does it look like I can physically take a step?" Cameron nearly fell over.

Ryland narrowed his eyes, stepped away from the crack and then throwing the object It creted a smaller explosion at the crack. He repated this several times unti he had his own safe bunker.

"Try me, nether spawn!"

"Racist. Anyhow," He put away the tnt calmly before drop kicking cameron once more.

"It's the only insult that came to mind." Ryland offered,"It's not what you are, it's that I just don't like you."

"Bitch."

"Now that you literally cannot move," Hades put his blade on Cameron's neck,"Any last words?"

Ryland squinted. He should throw a bomb, but he wanted to give Cameron a chance ot defend himself first. Cameron's eyes glossed over again and he grabbed the blade of Hades' weapon and used it to toss him aside.

"Hell yeah," Ryland put his bomb away. "Make him wish he never spawned!"

"WHY DIES THIS KEEP FUCKING HAPPE-" Were Hades last words before being launched, the wall cracking and breaking, leaving him stuck in the rubble.

Cameron then returned to his feet as if he was never injured, brushing the dust off his trousers. The Half-wither sighed, eating enchanted golden apple, drinking every positive potion he had on him, and charged, completely done with this bullshit. Cameron, unfazed, used his sword to block. Hades, realising they were at a stale mate, pulled out an End Crystal and blew it up, popping his totem.

Cameron smirked,"That all you got?"

Ryland pressed himself back into the crack, wincing as debris cut his cheek. Ivy snuck up behind Hades and stabbed him in the back with an arrow from Circe.

"I swear to f- hold on," Hades put a sword to Ivy's throat,"Try anything and the girl gets it."

Cameron stopped,"Hades, this is between us. Let her go.

"If this was between us then why... wyhy have I been stalling for Cassiopeia this entire time?" Hades cackled.

Ryland quickly ran out of his hole, throwing a bomb directly at Hades. It exploded in smoke as it hit him, leaving black particals in the air.

"Get down!" He hissed.

"Wh-"

And he was thrown away a third time, this time regaining his balance in the air. Hades went through the smoke, seeing through it and kicking Ryland out of the room.

"Thanks!" Ryland shouted as he flew thew the air.

As if on cue, a bunch of small explosions went through the air where the particals were.

"FUUUUU-" Hades tanked them, before looking for Cassiopeia.

Ivy wriggled out of Hades's vise-like grip and ran out of the room. Cassiopeia was stood near him after she'd flung Cameron.

"Hades, move."

Hades backed up. At that exact moment, Cameron landed where Hades was stood, cursing under his breath.

"Please die. Thank you and have a lovely day," Hades said, not interfering.

Cassiopeia was then pulled back by something grabbing her. Hades raised an eyebrow.

"What the-"

"Sorry Cassiopeia, I cannot let this continue."

Mrs Midas had her wrapped in magic.

"Fuck. Never mind then," Hades stomped on Camerons fallen over body before shooting multiple wither skulls to distract Mrs Midas.

And that, there was a flash of light...