Orin Potion

The night sky is illuminated with the bright light of the stars. The light from the unpolluted sky lit up the campus of Laftis University, a giant castle on the side of a cliff with giant chains from the corners of the school to the bottom of the ocean beneath the cliff. There are giant pillars that stretch all the way down and massive and tall towers that seemingly stretch up into the sky, poking the stars.

Nana is sitting by the window, holding a book with weird drawings of cauldrons, eyes and herbs scribbled onto the yellowed and aged pages. At the top of the page it reads 'Orin Potion' She reads the page, it details the use of the Orin Potion. It's used to stimulate one's body to create more magic and allows the user to easily create magic. 

Nana looked up at her desk and on it are makeshift alchemical tools and equipment. Nana closed the book and set it down on her chair as she stood up. The book was titled 'A Rookie's Guide to Alchemy'. On Nana's desk was a massive steel cauldron, held up by 4 metal prongs that dug into the wooden table. A glass flask filled with a weird orange liquid, a hammer and a knife. She took a deep breath and picked up the glass flask, pouring the orange liquid into the bubbling cauldron full of a green liquid.

As the orange liquid touched the contents of the cauldron, a large explosion of smoke erupted, causing Nana to back away. The smoke disappeared instantaneously and Nana peaked her head through, looking at the cauldron. Inside the cauldron was a big lump of black coal, her experiment was a fail.

"Ugh, I just can't seem to do anything right," Nana said with her head pointed down. "I should probably get rid of this" 

"Whatcha doin'? I smel' s'meone cookin' sumthin'." A voice approached Nana from behind

"Oh, hello Mr Agrueth, nothing, I'm just practising my cooking skills," Nana said as she wiped the table with a rag. "Obviously I need practise."

"C'mon missy, Ev'ryone has to start s'mewhere, y'know when I firs' started alchemy, I was real bad. I couldn't ev'n make a s'mple m'na potion." Mr Agrueth tried to comfort Nana as he tapped her shoulder. "If ya wan', I could teach ya some tr'cks"

"That's fine, besides my exams aren't for 2 months." Nana felt something wrong as she muttered those words out of her mouth. "...or not, anyway, it's past midnight, what're you doing out here so late for?"

"Oh n'thing, the school says some dogs be'n running rampant 'round thes ends, be sur' to look out for 3-headed dogs." Mr Agrueth said as he started jingling the master key that could unlock any door in the school. "Anywa', good nite luv', get a goods night rest." He walked out

"Gosh, talk about intrusion of privacy, I swear, ever since I came to this school it's just do this, do that. So annoying." Nana said rolling her eyes.

"I can hear ya'? missy" Mr Agrueth shouted down the halls.

"My point exactly," Nana told herself. "Anyway, I better start cleaning this stuff up before I get into deeper trouble." Nana looked into the cauldron and realised something, the once big lump of coal was moving slightly. Chunks of black sand was coming off it and there was a layer of bright orange beneath the ash. Nana quickly picked up the cauldron and hid it in a box, hiding it beneath her desk.

xxxxx

Ring! Ring!

"Oh my god! Can you be any louder? I hear you, it's 7 am alright!" Nana said with one eye closed still asleep in her bed. She reached and smacked the alarm clock, smashing the glass.

"Good morning, you're making breakfast today right?" Lin yawned. "I'm starving." Lin rubbed his eyes.

"FIne, what'd you want? Star thorn Fries or Crispy Beats?" Nana looked up at Lin's bunk bed above hers.

"I could go for some Star Thorn Fries, try not to burn them like you did last time. Star Thorn is hard to source." Lin climbed down from his bunk bed to the floor. "We should really organise our room."

The room they shared was split into 2, one for Lin, and one for Nana. Nana had posters of famous boy bands like 'One Way' and 'Small Bang' while Lin had a signed poster of the great and mighty 'Merlin', a childhood favorite hero for any boy in Laftis.

"Hey, I'm going out for a bit, apparently they want to find some lost dog and they need me. Me, of all people, the great one and only Lin, to catch dogs? they should really treat their best students better." Lin said angrily as he took his coat and stormed out the room, stomping his foot on the wooden floor.

"Great, he's gone," Nana said to herself. She opened the cupboard beneath the sink and there was a large wooden box in it. When she opened it a large ray of light burst into the room. "I DID IT! IT'S COMPLETED! THE ORIN POTION! I stayed up all night just to create a stupid potion that'll supposedly boost one's magical potential, god I hope it is or else I'd have spent hours for some smelly green sewage-looking water." The cauldron was filled with an orange liquid and all of the black ash had disappeared.

"Worf!" The sound came from outside the window. Nana stumbled backwards, caught off-guard by the barking noises that were coming out of the window.

Nana approached the window, "Huh?!" Nana screamed. A giant 3-headed Cerberus peered into her window, its tongue hanging out, with saliva dripping down his chin. The eyes staring deep into Nana's soul.