Chapter 1 part 2 Introducing Shadow and John

Sitting here watching the teacher trying to control a griffin that was anything but tame, he found himself wondering how he could possibly avoid him as much as possible, and how he was going to spend his time during the autumn half term. The classroom becomes chaotic within minutes as the griffin grows out of control, I pay it barely any mind, numb to my surroundings, dissociating from reality temporarily. I was lost in thought for a bit until I noticed a glimpse of something, Charles Delaney racing across the quad and another boy following him, Tremity Zane himself. My mind twists, my blood boils at the sight, that should be me in Charlie's arms, that should be me kissing him, not Tremity, no, never him! What does he have that I don't? But…then again what does it matter? He'll never be mine so long as my life is the way it is.

I should just focus on escaping from this life and my studies, that's it, that's all, no more. I can date when it's safe to do so, in the meantime I'm just going to have to suffer in watching this disgusting display. He turns just in time to see a giant bird fly at them, but thankfully it's only after Justin.

Justin screams, flailing his arms around trying to get the bird away from him, but to no avail unfortunately. ‘GET IT OFF ME, GET IT OFF ME, GET IT OFF ME, GET IT OFF ME’ Justin screams, ‘MY FATHER WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS. I'LL SUE YOU ALL. I SWEAR. YAAH…ARGH.’ I mutter under my breath, ‘Don't smile, don't smile, don't smile don't smile, don't even laugh, no laughing!’

A teacher bursts in suddenly from another classroom, I've never seen her before, and yet she's oddly familiar to me. Who is she? Is she new here or something? I wasn't aware there was a new teacher at this school, nobody mentioned anything. She strides over towards Justin, her nostrils flaring, her mouth downturning toward a grimace. She manages to slowly calm the creature down before slowly removing the talons from Justin's marred face. Once the creature is safely with her, she walks over to the teacher and begins reprimanding him on proper etiquette when dealing with a creature like that in the classroom before vacating the room. Whoever she is, she's definitely respected by some of the students here judging by how they look at her, and the teacher seems to as well. Who was that woman?

John's POV

The chaos of class, the screech of the gryphon, the screams from the students, all of it is making my ears ring and giving him a HEADACHE! He was about to intervene or vault out of class depending on how far this teacher was going to go with his incompetencies, until the gryphon attacked Justin Mordent-Skurn, then he couldn't help but snort, and then I couldn't contain my laughter anymore and began to laugh uproariously. This has made his day. He's glad he came to school today if it meant witnessing this, otherwise he would have hated to miss it!

Unfortunately a witch came in and put an end to that terrible boy's misery, which he's fucking appalled by, but… he knows that while technically this is a school, and they don't want a death to occur on their turf, he wonders about whether it had been one of the other less financially inclined students, would they have cared then to prevent that students demise or not? He finds this female teacher curious though, she seems oddly familiar for some reason, but he's certain he's never met her before. As the class winds down and the gryphon has been tamed at least for now, and Justin had his injuries tended to by the school nurse, he begins to grow bored again, so rather than sitting back down he decides to leave class right now, and follow the mystery teacher to find out more about her. Everyone is distracted by what happened anyway, so sneaking out of class is easy enough for him.