The Unknown Class

The shadow continued to grow in length. The three seemed to be in a grave danger. They gathered their leftover courage and slowly turned back. The face that they just saw made them filled with more horror and the little bit of courage they had also vanished. The face was filled with anger and it was that of Miss Malina, who was required to be their current academic class teacher. She said with a grave voice with an angry tone, "Where have you three been till now?!" Hearing her scary words, all of them were shocked, but none of them answered, rather they kept quiet and looked down at the floor. She said again, with the same tone and voice, "Answer me! What did you three do all this time? "but with a little more loudness.

Rohan lifted his courage just a little and tried to answer her, but, "Mam, we..." suddenly she interrupted him and said, "Shut up! What is the time now? Haven't you heard the school bell? Haven't you? " There was pin-drop silence in the classroom as she continued to scold them, but now with even more loudness, "Have you all three no fear about what the teacher will say? How can anyone be late on the very first day of the academic term? See! All the students have reached here on time, except you three. Do you have no fear? " However, none of them answered this time and continued to graze the floor. "If this happens again, I will surely take measures against you three. Understand?! Tell me! UNDERSTAND? "

"Yes... mam..." the three voices said with a fading tone while they continued to look down.

"Now go and take your places! Go! " and three of them dispersed and went on to their respective seats. Sumana and Sumina appeared to be greatly disappointed with the scolding as they had never got one before. But in the case of Rohan, it seemed that he was not that much disappointed, as even on the first day of his primary school, he was late and the teacher scolded him in the same way, though he couldn't change his habit. He was really a lazy boy, or better to say, the laziest.

The three of them went on and got to their respective places. Sumana got the first seat in the third column along with her friend, Sumina, who got the first seat in the second column. Luckily, both best friends got seats next to each other. Nonetheless, in the case of Rohan, the only seat that he could occupy was that of the last one in the corner of the room, just on the window side where the whole playground could be looked at clearly at just a glance. The seats in the school are reserved. Once one gets his/her seat, it can't be altered except with the permission of the class teacher. Nevertheless, one could consider it as the rule of the school. Suddenly, Wimon spoke up, "It seems to be the usual dialogue for you, isn't it?

Rohan replied while walking towards his seat, "Ahh... just shut up, Wimon." with closed eyes.

Just when he reached his seat and began to sit down, suddenly someone spoke up from his behind, "You can't change your habit, can you?". These words seemed to be very familiar to him, so he opened his eyes, turned his face towards the direction of it and saw something really peculiar.

"What!? Simon and Robin?! "he said with a surprised tone in his words. At the same time, a voice came from behind, "Mr. Rohan! Stop talking and just take your place. " Rohan turned towards her and replied, "Sorry, sorry, mam..." and sat down in his place. But this time, Rohan seemed to be lucky as he had got his best buddies too. They were sitting next to each other---beside Rohan was Simon; beside Simon, Robin.

"Now I will be taking your attendance. Just respond when I call. Sumana, "the teacher said.

"Present mam."

"Sumina."

"Present mam."

"Arijit."

"Yes mam."

"Rohima."

'Present mam. "

While she was taking attendance, Rohan saw it was a good time and asked Simon, "Why are you two here? I thought that you two were in the 'A' class. "

"Ah... actually we thought it as well. When we saw that we were enlisted in this section, we were surprised as well. Nevertheless, we landed here. However, above all, we were greatly surprised by the fact that Susan was enlisted in this class too. "

"Hmmm... I know it. He wanted a retest or a recheck of the test results, but none was granted to him. " said Rohan with despair in his voice.

"Yeah, we had even heard that he had even talked to the principal about the test results, but it was just the same. Even the principal didn't permit him. I think it has greatly disturbed his personality. See there "while pointing towards a seat next to the entrance door." He had been sitting there quietly all this time, keeping his head down and didn't even talk to anyone."

"Hmm... I see...But I couldn't even think that you two would be here... in class D. "

"Ah... just leave the fact. At least we three are here altogether. We will have a great time together. " Robin said by giving a big smile with his shiny teeth.

"Yeah, thanks you two," Rohan said and turned his face and closed his eyes and gave a small smile.

The voice spoke up again, "It seems that you have good friends as well, haven't you?"

"Yeah, that's true," he thought.

In the meantime, the class teacher called his name twice, thrice, but he didn't respond. "ROHAN!" with a loud cry, which brought him back to reality. He swiftly opened his eyes and responded after standing up quickly, "Yes mam." His body was straight as steel and didn't even move.

"Where are you? Can't you hear that I am calling your name? "

"Sorry, sorry, mam. I will not do it again... "he bent down.

"Ok, sit down. Next Yoda.". As soon as she gave him permission, she slowly made it back to his seat.

"Yes, mam."

"I think that you are having a tough day today," Simon said.

Rohan heard him and gave a deep sigh by again closing his eyes.

After some time, the attendance was completed and she said, "So, welcome you all again for the current academic term. For this term, I am going to be your class teacher. And I hope that all of you will have a great session ahead. As if for now, I am going to share the class routine. Just copy it so that you can know about the class schedule. " Then she moved her hand just over the deck and a keyboard appeared out of the blue. She typed some keys on it quickly and suddenly the blackboard turned white and a sheet of class routine appeared in front of the whole class on the board. To copy it, everyone took out a notebook from their respective bags and began to replicate it.

Though it was 2495, each student was carrying a bag just like in the old days, but it was not a multi-D. The classroom was made up of bricks and floors, white stone. The windowpane was made of glass and the door was made of wood. However, though it seemed to be an old-age classroom, there was something in it. Today's classrooms resemble the old ones, but they are enchanted with some magic and the materials were brought from outer space. These materials were expensive and added extraordinary strength to the product. As the school was for magicians, these things were the top priority for the engineer.

The students' dresses are of two types---one for males and one for females. At that time, the mixed-gender problem was solved, so there was no dress type for it.

The male's dress consisted of a red-shirt which reached to the wrist of his hands, a violet tie, black pants, a pair of white socks and black shoes. They aren't allowed to wear any type of ornaments or to bring any expensive items. The female dress was comprised of a red female shirt, a violet tie, a white skirt with a red line on either side of it which covers the thighs and ends just above the knee, knee-long white socks and black shoes. Even females are not allowed to wear any type of ornament or any expensive items. If anyone brought them, the school authorities had the right to capture them and asked the owner's parents to meet the principal.

After all of them finished copying the routine from the board, the teacher said, "I think all of you have completed copying it."

All of them responded, "Yes mam!"

"Well, let's come to the point. Besides that, there is one more evaluation system, i.e. the class system, which will decide your future rank in the magical community. "

Suddenly, everyone began to talk in a low voice among themselves about the new system and its sudden reveal in front of them.

"Everyone stop! Be attentive! " and suddenly, a chart containing four different classes appeared on the board.

"Everybody just looks at the chart. As you can see, the four classes are written horizontally in order---A, B, C, and D, but none of them are filled up. However, this will be filled up soon in just a few minutes. So, I want to make you all clear that this is not a joke. This chart contains the name of the class representative of the current academic year and the points scored by the class till they leave school. This system is a point system based on which you will be ranked as magicians in the Magicial community. When you leave this school, the class which will be in A rank will contain A-graded magicians and the class in D rank will contain D-graded magicians. This is a grading system on which you will all be graded for your future. Once you leave school, you can't change your grade anymore. However, the areas in which you will be graded are totally internal and can't be disclosed. Now your actions, not only within the school premises but also outside, will be marked. Your every action, every task will count and any error will lead to a deduction in the class points. Your exam results also matter in this point system. The number of students who will score less than the safety marks will be multiplied by 10 and your class score will be diminished by that very number. However, any achievement will be awarded points as given by the teacher. Initially, all the classes will be assigned certain points, which will be their start-up points. Moreover, the class which you are all in is not an absolute one. The section number will change automatically according to the alteration of the rank as well as your id. As every year, we have arranged all the students into four different classes in apple-pie order, but you can change your rank using this ranking system. So for now, all that I can advise you is to BE AWARE! One more thing, for a start-up, all classes will be assigned some points according to the level of magician they contain. But to be relieved, till now no classes have been assigned with less than 100 points as a start-up. "

Ting Tong! Suddenly, the classes are assigned with the points along with the class representative, but suddenly an unexpected thing happens which none had ever thought of. Even Miss Malina had never imagined it and couldn't even do so.

Class Rank Leader of this term Points

A Nakamura 400

B Hodan 200

C Mohan 100

D Rohan 0

Everyone was surprised to see the class points that they had got and especially the class representative---Rohan, the guy who had killed the dog and destroyed the ancient old test crystal.

Susan stood up at once from the crowd and cried, "What is the basis of the pointing system? How could we get this number of points and how could this jerk be our class representative? "pointing towards Rohan. Suddenly, Miss Malina interrupted and said, "Shut up, Susan! Just sit down! "with an angry voice, yet her face was facing the board. Hearing her rough voice, Susan didn't say any more words and sat down. Rohan was himself very much confused. Even he himself had never imagined being a class representative as it requires a lot of work. He was in deep water. Miss Malina slowly turned back and said, "This is the final chart and your evaluation starts now. Everyone, best of luck! For a piece of advice, at least try to prevent yourself from getting insulted by earning some points." and she began to walk out of the classroom as everyone gazed at her. Suddenly, she stopped, turned and said something that was rather more frightening and sorrowful, after which she left.

"As you all have secured the lowest possible rank with the lowest possible marks, there is a phrase for this type of class which has not been used till now in this whole country's schools, even till today. The word which has never been thought of being used ever,------'The Unknown Class' " She said the last word with a little emphasis, which made everyone afraid about their future.

As she left, suddenly the atmosphere inside the classroom seemed to change drastically. Some of the pupils seemed to be talking among themselves, while some seemed to be looking at Rohan. However, Susan seemed to be rather quiet after Miss Malina's scolding. He was neither looking at Rohan nor talking to anyone else. He seemed to be rather alone.

"Have you ever expected anything like this before?" the voice said with a tone of confusion.

Rohan thought with his eyes on his desk, "No never. I have never imagined myself to be a class representative, not even in my dreams. I don't know-how but how could it happen? And why is there such a title like the---Unknown class? "

"I think the system is really tough and even the marking scheme is not even disclosed. I think you need to be a little bit careful. One more thing as a piece of advice. I want to make you aware that this class is not an ordinary class. There must have been some reason for the creation of it. I advise you to be cautious! And be kind to everyone. "