Gore. Finish The Story Contest - Week #55
This is my entry for @bananafish's Finish The Story Contest - Week #55
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Previously on Foreigner
A fiction short prompt by @dirge, based on true events (obviously, not my ending, I hope so)
“You can’t to do that,” she said in her broken English.
Her face was contorted in a rage, highlighting the wrinkles that came with late age. Lee Minkyung slammed the door behind her as she entered. “Other students. Yes. Say this is not equal. You can’t do that.”
Lee Minkyung pointed her finger towards the student in question, Park Dasol. The child’s lips still quivered in fear and anxiety, after having flunked her summoning test with a total and complete bomb.
“She failed. Yes.” Minkyung said. “Why you give her…another chance?”
Sarah Lopez folded her arms. Her excitement after first having met Minkyung deteriorated five minutes after their first class together, half a year back. Where Sarah’s style was calm, orderly and authoritative, Minkyung’s was hectic, erratic and authoritarian. The perfunctory policy of the Korean Magical Education Bureau regarding Korean instructors always shadowing foreign instructors in the classroom weighed on Sarah. It was Minkyung, and Minkyung only, that she butted heads with. Every day since then had been like brushing teeth with a razor blade.
This conflict, Sarah knew, was inevitable.
All other classes were perfect. Latin Summons accompanied with Bek Jinsoo, went smooth and the children brought out a myriad of lesser demons without error. History of Incantations with Lee Jaeyun was exciting, with students ready to participate, eager to learn the variations on Germanic blood rites and how these symbols shifted over time.
Sarah didn’t want to hate Minkyung. But damn if that bitch didn’t make it hard as hell not to.
So when Minkyung taunted Dasol in front of the class for failing to summon a basic familiar, that was the last straw.
Minkyung paced up to her and pulled Dasol’s breathing mask down, asking her why she was afraid to speak in front of the class. Dasol, large for her age, and in fact the largest girl in the school, stared down at her feet. Minkyung pulled the mask and let it snap back on Dasol’s face and at that, Sarah intervened.
She’d never interevened before. A foreigner wasn’t supposed to intervene in a Korean’s affairs. Especially an older woman’s affairs.
But Sarah did. And when the class ended, she brought Dasol along for an opportunity to summon the familiar with just the two of them in a side room meant for student studying.
Minkyung rambled on about how unfair it was. And Sarah finally broke.
“Shut up,” she said. “Stop talking and leave. Let me talk to Dasol. Let me help her, and that will be that.”
“Excuse me?” Minkyung bawked. Her neck shrunk back like a turkey and her splotchy makeup grew disheveled as the woman’s taught skin stretched over her face.
“Leave!” Sarah demanded.
Minkyung protested. Then they heard it.
“Hajima!!!” Dasol shouted in Korean. Sarah knew enough by this point to understand.
The student was shouting ‘stop’.
But she wasn’t talking to her teachers.
And now, my final
"Hajima!!!"
She repeated that phrase over and over again, enervating Lee Minkyung's patience,
"I'll teach you to respect your superiors," threatened Professor Lee.
The room shuddered completely as if it was going to break in two. Sarah lost her balance and fell on her but; large striations made their way through the four walls. Park DaSol's body rose a few inches from the ground. The sound of breathing through her mask became louder.
Annoyed Lee Minkyung began reciting a counterspell to put the student back down. Her voice stopped drastically and her hands moved like a reflex as she felt pressure on her neck.
The teacher was struggling at the great force that lifted her above Sarah. Her voice became inaudible as her throat narrowed.
Lee looked at Sarah and her eyes begged for help.
Sarah backed away in panic. Professor Lee's mouth opened abnormally, looking for a breath of oxygen, her fingernails ripped desperately trying to break the invisible loop that squeezed her neck.
Sarah nervously tried to search her mind for runes. She began to recite counter-spells one after the other towards the spectrum that held Professor Lee, but these bounced off Park Dasol's aura, becoming visible with each impact she received from Sarah's spells cast.
Park DaSol's expression drew a Machiavellian smile
"Never again", uttered a double voice from Park DaSol
Lee's eyes turned white and after a sound of bones breaking, her arms fell inert, swinging to the sides of her body.
Sarah gave a scream that froze the nerves of teachers teaching in adjoining classrooms.
A sense of fleeting relief crossed over Sarah's face as she saw Professor Lee's head leaning toward her, but Professor Lee's inert eyes still looked up at the ceiling. And spinning around her own neck it ripped itself from her body.
Guttural sounds from an exposed esophagus expelled a stream of warm blood that bathed Professor Sarah's body. The contrast of the crimson on her white shirt caused a nauseating feeling that stirred Sarah's stomach.
Horror flooded her; she ran for her life to the exit. But her attempts were useless, her shoes slipped on the blood, and no matter how hard she tried, she fell back to the ground. Suddenly she felt claws holding one of her legs, pulling her back.
Another scream filled the room. Her fingernails drew grooves on the wooden floor.
Two teachers entered the room to help her.
"Run away!" Sarah's heart-wrenching cry froze their blood, paralyzed by the scene they were witnessing. Their severed heads still moved their lips with an expression of astonishment as they rolled between the desks of the room. While their decapitated bodies fell, staining scarlet the entire entrance.
The ghost lifted Sarah from the floor, taken by her leg. The pressure of blood filling her head made her lose consciousness. The invisible claws pressed hard until they broke the bones of her leg like toothpicks. Sarah awoke with a scream of pain.
Park Dasol's breath was cut short by the effort and her poor heart could not bear the power of the entity she had summoned.
In a final heartbeat, the heart stopped and the entity vanished, dropping Professor Sarah unconscious.
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I like how this shows playing with spells one doesn't understand will get you hurt or dead. How often do we do this to ourselves as we write? If one is unconscious about one's thoughts, a whole host of problems arise.
Isn't spelling fun.
Hey! Thanks for passing by...
Yes. It's dangerous to play with spells, and even more so if you're a bullying victim. That could be baaad for everybody... 😁
You know, I won't advocate going to school atall. I really advocate, starting off with travelling, exploration and doing practical things instead of wasting time in classrooms, not everyone suceeds at studies and it should not be made a big deal. Focus should be on finding out what one has potential and talent in and investing on it. I certainly won't ever go to school or college again, makes us feel like a failiur if we don't study well, make friends so others say inspite all the education you did not suceed. So bad it is.
I understand your point of view. There are two things I'd like to tell you: The first, that you go to school or college, usually happens because of the parents' obligation, obviously they want the best for you (if you put yourself in their place, wouldn't you do the same? do what you consider best for your children?), not knowing whether or not you want to go to college or continue in school. Second, the problems with schools and colleges are the teachers. The real professors (I mean those who care about their students, not those who are going to make a salary) will let you know the true meaning of school and university. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find good teachers.
I'm glad you took the time to stop by
Thesedays, homeschooling is coming up. I speak it out of personal experience too. Because I had problems in school in socialising, was ragged its because I have some passivity problem was not assertive enough. And I did not even pass school, failed and basicially even now parents call me a failiur that after providing the best of education I have not come up.
So, school is not for everyone. I would definitely advocate exploration and learning from the real world and getting solid skills of confidence and good personality through outdoor experiences. Because it's horrible if from a young age, you are programmed to think, "you are stupid", "you are failiur" , "you don't have friends", "your provably mentally retarded" ... low self esteem issues.
But its my opinion. And yeah, I would never make that mistake of having kids especially now when the world is in crisis of having no water, no good air to breath and so on. If I adopt one, I won't send them to school, I would travel, I would let that kid explore his strenghts. School is not the only way to succeed , it's just a practice that's not going to gaurentee anyone's sucess .
I'm very sorry about your experience at school. It wasn't nice for me either. But the only one who can overcome and transcend those experiences is yourself. When you realize that you are free to be whoever you want to be and delete all that programming that they introduced you when you were young.
But it was nice for me in college because I knew good friends and we were freer to experiment and obviously, the alcohol and the parties were great.
At school, most people love to be mean, maybe expressing what they can't do anywhere else. It's always a chain, they'll repeat the damage they get from others.
I understand your point of view and I am aware that in this world there are many horrible things, you do not need to watch horror movies (it has always been my philosophy). Do you want to feel terrifying and thrilling? Then walk through one of the neighborhoods of any third world country at night. Here, where I live, there are many dangerous neighborhoods. And in the newspapers, you see the news of the horrible things people do.
But well, just as there are bad things, there are also good things.
I wouldn't know if the school was necessary or not. On the one hand, many of the successful people I know never finished school.
But knowledge is necessary. Maybe in the not too distant future, they'll just inject the information into us like in the Matrix movie.
Without going too far, lately, the courses are transmitted over the internet (at a distance). The teachers surely will be robots or artificial intelligence.
It was nice writing to you. I'm in discord too, with the same nickname if you want to talk someday.
Thanks for sharing
Yup... It's very true I have to be grateful for what I have and that's in plenty. I had a lot of issues I guess which was unresolved, mostly very passive and timid personality which made me really uncomfortable at school. So, that was the issue and it might have percolated to other aspects - friends, studies, general smartness and so on. I guess not all kids are having such issues so its a small percentage of kids who might have suffered like me.
Coping skills are required also and I could not cope with others and was slow and low performer, generally quite low thought of, avoided, made fun off etc. There was a time when people hated to sit next to me.
I am glad you take a positive outlook. But there are a lot of people as you said who did not go to school and are doing well , it depends on weather they find their passion and invest and grow with it.
But in the end, its only happiness and your actualy development of skills aligned with your natural talend that matter.
I am a great believer in power of travel experiences, adventures, meeting people, doing volunteering, going and spending time with Nature etc, that will give you more than what knowledge school gives. And I have heard a bit about homeschooling that involves all these experiences I think and I would any day opt for it, but ofcourse that's after meeting other people who have experienced and done home schooling.
Caught you later, thanks for all your kind and thoughtful words...stay blessed.
Inspite of all my negative depression comment, I am fine now(: ... and though my past does at times prick me, I already moved on. But at times I feel guilty that even after the best education, good background and so many priveledged things I could not come up.
I only hope I can pay for all that with success creating impact to do what I am destined to do according to the real and bestest version of myself. Else, let it pass... we will be happy evertheless doing the things we like and can do at the movement.
Hey! You've posted 3 times the same comment.
"I am a great believer in power of travel experiences, adventures, meeting people, doing volunteering, going and spending time with Nature etc, that will give you more than what knowledge school gives. And I have heard a bit about homeschooling that involves all these experiences I think and I would any day opt for it, but ofcourse that's after meeting other people who have experienced and done home schooling."
The economic, political and social situation of our country (Venezuela) is becoming more and more chaotic. And this also affects teachers and consequently schools and students. Unfortunately, the level of education in schools has decreased. Many teachers have left the country and others do not have the time to devote to teaching. Homeschooling is an alternative that cannot be ruled out today. Perhaps it is the last resort.
Don't be a stranger! Keep in touch 😄
Yup... It's very true I have to be grateful for what I have and that's in plenty. I had a lot of issues I guess which was unresolved, mostly very passive and timid personality which made me really uncomfortable at school. So, that was the issue and it might have percolated to other aspects - friends, studies, general smartness and so on. I guess not all kids are having such issues so its a small percentage of kids who might have suffered like me.
Coping skills are required also and I could not cope with others and was slow and low performer, generally quite low thought of, avoided, made fun off etc. There was a time when people hated to sit next to me.
I am glad you take a positive outlook. But there are a lot of people as you said who did not go to school and are doing well , it depends on weather they find their passion and invest and grow with it.
But in the end, its only happiness and your actualy development of skills aligned with your natural talend that matter.
I am a great believer in power of travel experiences, adventures, meeting people, doing volunteering, going and spending time with Nature etc, that will give you more than what knowledge school gives. And I have heard a bit about homeschooling that involves all these experiences I think and I would any day opt for it, but ofcourse that's after meeting other people who have experienced and done home schooling.
Caught you later, thanks for all your kind and thoughtful words...stay blessed.
Inspite of all my negative depression comment, I am fine now(: ... and though my past does at times prick me, I already moved on. But at times I feel guilty that even after the best education, good background and so many priveledged things I could not come up.
I only hope I can pay for all that with success creating impact to do what I am destined to do according to the real and bestest version of myself. Else, let it pass... we will be happy evertheless doing the things we like and can do at the movement.
Yup... It's very true I have to be grateful for what I have and that's in plenty. I had a lot of issues I guess which was unresolved, mostly very passive and timid personality which made me really uncomfortable at school. So, that was the issue and it might have percolated to other aspects - friends, studies, general smartness and so on. I guess not all kids are having such issues so its a small percentage of kids who might have suffered like me.
Coping skills are required also and I could not cope with others and was slow and low performer, generally quite low thought of, avoided, made fun off etc. There was a time when people hated to sit next to me.
I am glad you take a positive outlook. But there are a lot of people as you said who did not go to school and are doing well , it depends on weather they find their passion and invest and grow with it.
Inspite of all my negative comment, I am fine now(: ... and though my past does at times prick me, I already moved on. But at times I feel guilty that even after the best education, good background and so many priveledged things I could not come up,especially when you meet someone and they say,"If I got oppurtunities like you did, I would be somewhere"
I only hope I can pay for all that with success creating impact to do what I am destined to do according to the real and bestest version of myself. Else, let it pass... we will be happy nevertheless doing the things we like and can do at the movement.
But in the end, its only happiness and your actualy development of skills aligned with your natural talend that matter.
I am a great believer in power of travel experiences, adventures, meeting people, doing volunteering, going and spending time with Nature etc, that will give you more than what knowledge school gives. And I have heard a bit about homeschooling that involves all these experiences I think and I would any day opt for it, but ofcourse that's after meeting other people who have experienced and done home schooling.
Catch you later, thanks for all your kind and thoughtful words...stay blessed.
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What a tragic end to the teachers in the school! Thanks for entering the contest, brave storyteller!
The most dangerous are always the weakest
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