I yawned and checked the clock. Ten more minutes of Mr Jeoffrey's droning lecture and then I'll finally be free.

It was the final Friday of the term and The steaming hot classroom was causing a thick sheen of sweat to form on my entire face. I could swim in thousand degree lava and come out like I'd been in a swimming pool, but the weather today was one of the rare Scandinavian Summer days, and though compared to a day in Phoenix it would be like the middle of winter, Everyone wore vests or T-shirts and shorts.

I watched the seconds tick by. one. two. three. four. five. six ...

Vanessa was on the opposite side of the classroom, she glanced at me and grinned tiredly. The heat was making me edgy. Dragons, as reptiles, were affected by the weather, and the heat was giving me a constant adrenaline rush. It was irritating to say the least. Today it would barely take me an hour to get home.

Five minutes.

I Picked up my pen and doodled on the desk. Mr Jeoffrey, engrossed in his poetry book as he read, didn't notice.

I drew a nightfury, it's wings outstretched and tail lifted in the defensive pose. Teeth drawn and pupils slitted.

two minutes.

Mr Jeoffrey finished off and put his book down.

'Now I know some of you my have had trouble sleeping,' He glared at me and I felt my cheeks redden, he had seen me doodle the dragon. Uh Oh.

'And I know that It's ... one minute and twelve seconds to holidays, but for homework I'd like you to find several poems from the sixteenth century or earlier, and, using those poems as your basis, create your own. I want it at least a page long. It's not hard, and I expect one from all of you on the first day, Thank you. And-'

The bell rang.

Everyone stood instantly and stampeded out, leaving Snag and I to straggle out last. I stopped at my locker to drop off a few books, I felt someone staring at the back of my head, I turned and saw Colin staring at me. I hadn't actually noticed him this last month. He'd stopped glaring at me and whispering behind my back. I didn't really care any more, seeing as how the only people he talked to was his unnamed posy, and they even had started to get irritated.

He jumped as I looked at him. His face was pale and sweating and I could smell alcohol from the opposite side of the hall.

He walked down to the steps and hurriedly walked down them, glancing at me.

Drinking? At school?

I shut my locker and followed him down the stairs, but he took a corner down an opposite hallway, and I carried on down to the entrance by myself.

Practically the whole school was outside, not in any rush to leave. I spotted the group at the gates, probably waiting for me. Tim and Vanessa were talking about the Holiday homework, Steven and Thunder were wrestling and the four twins were cheering them on, I reached them and Vanessa high- fived me, 'Holidays! Yes! Can you see if I can stay at your place for a week?'

'Hmmm.' I pretended to think bout it, 'I'd have to move my trip to Mexico back, but sure!'

Vanessa laughed.

I smiled. But stopped almost instantly, the sensors in the back of my head tingled. someone was staring at me.

I turned around, Colin was standing at the entrance to the school, glaring straight at me. Something glimmered in his hand. A steak knife.

He began waking towards me, people began to notice the knife, at first they laughed, but slowly it died away. People moved away from him, giving him a clear path to me.

He stopped. Meters from me.

'I know what you are!' He yelled.

Thunder dropped Steven, who he was helping up from the floor behind me, and the twins did double takes.

'I KNOW!' Colin yelled again, 'YOU'RE NOT HUMAN!'

Vanessa moved closer to me.

'YOU'RE ALIENS!' He yelled.

There was a split second of silence, where Colin stumbled and a squashed beer can fell from his pocket.

'He's drunk!' Someone yelled, and within moments the school had swelled into hysterics.

Colin's brow furrowed and he whipped around, snarling. 'Don't laugh at me!'

Nobody noticed.

'I'LL PROVE IT!' He screamed and came running at me.

Vanessa was pulled away from me by Snag, who moved lightning fast, and I watched the steak knife as it came slicing the air towards me.

I ducked.

The knife whistled over my head, and a lock of my unruly hair fell to the concrete.

Colin slashed savagely again and again, and each time I ducked or swerved out of the knife's way. He became faster and wilder, spurred by pure drunken rage.

A voice yelled over the cheering school, with a microphone. 'What is going on here?!'

I turned my head to see Principal Liston and Professor Jeoffrey standing at the entrance. The crowd scattered so they got a clear view of us.

Suddenly A sharp pain sliced through my chest. I cried out and stepped back. Colin reeled away from me as well, blood dripping from his knife, which, seconds before, had ripped across my chest.

I stumbled to the floor, breathing heavily. Blue flames emitted from my mouth. No ... No ...

'Scorch! Don't do it!' I heard Snag. But it was too late.

As a defence mechanism, whenever a dragon feels threatened, they turn into their more powerful form to defend themselves. And now, I could feel the nightfury.

I dropped to my knees as my black wings grew and spread from my shoulders. People screamed. The tail spread out and the scales spread like ink over my body. My eyes change and sharpened and my ears slid up and became black and pointed.

I stood again, as a dragon.

Chaos erupted. People screamed, swore, ran, and panicked, Colin dropped his knife and ran. I looked at The group. The dragons were glancing each other, and Thunder whispered orders I couldn't hear. The human twins had their mouths open in a silent scream, and Tim was clinging to Shade's arm, whispering in her ear. Steven had grabbed Vanessa and was shielding her.

'Scorch! Fly!' Thunder yelled and ran forwards, jumping and changing in mid air. People screamed again and I noticed phones risen high. People were videoing this?

The twins wrapped arms around each other and ran in unison, changing next, and Shade puled away from Tim and left next. Snag was last, he looked at the others, who looked on the verge of fainting, 'We're so sorry,' he said, and changed, flapping up between Steven, who was still gripping Vanessa, who was fighting him.

She stomped on his foot and he yelled, she ran to me.

'No! Vanessa!' I said, moving away.

'I'm coming with you!' Vanessa vaulted onto my back and gripped my horns.

'Vanessa!' Steven yelled, 'Get away from it!'

It? I'd turned from a friend to an It?

I turned to glare at her and brought my wings down, lifting up and zooming above the crowd, catching up with the group with ease, Snag was hitching a lift on Shade's back, and Thunder, his large wingspan attracting the most attention, led us.

Vanessa wrapped her arms around my neck and whispered, 'What now?'

I looked at her, and flicked both my ears.

A/N : AAAAAAHHH! I'm fangirling my own book! Comments and ideas on what happens next? I'm aiming 100 likes to post next chapter!

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