"Hello, I'll be your substitute teacher for a little while," Bree informed them, she could already feel trouble brewing once she said the word substitute but chose to ignore it "I am Bree," After a few moment Bree confirmed no one was interested in greeting her "Now then, your teacher failed to tell me what it was your class was doing up until today, could someone please tell me?"
Bree stood in silence as several students snickers and others completely ignored her and began talking to one another. After a moment three boys in particular caught her eye, the same three she had watched attempt to shake down a store, the one who had been scared of her seemed to be the only one that remembered her.
"Hey," He whispered, Bree easily hearing his words with her advanced hearing "That's the lady who caught us at that run down shop yesterday,"
"So what?" The one who had been the leader replied with a yawn "we're untouchable, just relax for once and leave this to your older brother,"
"Ah, so you three are brothers," Bree said, getting the class's attention as she read the names and found the three with matching last names, "Leroy, Lester, and Lenny Snicket," She said with a snicker.
"Yeah," The Older brother said with a smug smile "Snicket, I'm Leroy Snicket eldest son of King Snicket, Ruler of the Desert Nation of Oasis," The Older brother smiled, "So bow before me peasant," Leroy stood up suddenly pointing at the floor as he stared at Bree "I'm serious, Bow,"
"Sit down," Bree said without hesitation, long since done with all the people who demanded she bow to them "The Number one rule of this school is that every student's worth is determined by their grades,"
Leroy stood his ground with an annoyed look and Bree saw his self-obsessed speech coming a mile away, "You think I'm someone to trifle with? I am a prince, you're just some lowly Botanist! I am of royal decent and you will…" Leroy was stopped in his rant when Bree pulled out Argit's Fan Ax.
"Do you know what this is?" Bree questioned as she held it up, her voice and face never shifting from her default expression of being relaxed.
"What, you think some fancy golden stick…" Leroy was cut off again, this time when his younger brother who had been scared of Bree smacked him upside the head.
"Lenny," The third brother said, revealing himself to be Lester
"That's the enchanted weapon Demon Lord Argit used to kill the Dragon King!" Lenny whimpered "Don't any of you read the morning paper!?" Everyone looked at him dully.
"So she's a thief?" One of the girls questioned with interest, She looked like the fusion of a Hobgoblin and a Human.
"No," Lenny cried out "Yesterday when Argit visited the capital he declared that he lost a fight with the leader of a new nation," It took Leroy longer than it should have to realize what that meant.
"That Bug-eyed thing is a Queen?" He demanded in confusion before biting his lip, "As…as the future king of Oasis you best show me respect, otherwise I'll personally destroy your puny nation with the might of Oasis's army,"
"Funny, King Odren made the same threat," Bree laughed "So when his army of three hundred arrived, I killed them all, then tormented Arlow Razzor before punting him across a lake, then I made Odren grovel at my feet, and told him if he ever bothered me again I'd topel his entire nation,"
"Woot," one of the boys laughed, He was the Tallest one in the room, He almost passed for a Human, but the faint blue hue of his skin, the markings on his neck, his clawed hands, and their webbing gave away he was some kind of Fish Man, "I think this is the first time I've felt the need to respect a teacher,"
"Also," Bree added as she turned to Leroy, "Did you just casually forget the 'I defeated Argit in a fight' thing?" Leroy took a step back, "I already told you to sit down did I not?" Leroy and Lenny quickly took their seats and Bree began calling roll call.
There were three boys huddled up in the back, one was a tall Lizard monster with two front-facing horns that reminded her of the blades on a war axe, He had long black hair, and large eyes and was simply named B, no last name given or extra letters, just B.
Sitting next to him was a boy with spiky long purple hair, wearing rectangular spectacles whose name was Bellamy, the shirt to his school uniform was noticeably too large for him, and his hands were hidden in the sleeves.
The third member of their group was an average-looking kid with short curly brown hair named Chauncy.
The last remaining boy in class was the Fish man, he was very large in size, and muscular, His name was Jasper. A set of Identical twin girls with shoulder-length jet-black hair sat in the back staring blankly at her, their names were April and May, the Half Hobgoblin girl with short neatly kept brown hair was named Hanna, and next to her was a short girl with long white hair named Kipo.
"Alright then," Bree called out once she had everyone's name, "who here can tell me what was the last thing you did in this class?"
"Worksheet," one of the Twins replied casually as she stared intently at Bree, interested in the change of routine.
"What about?" Bree added.
"I dunno," she replied before turning to her sister.
"I dunno," her sister repeated, their voices sounding exactly the same.
"Alright well I'm just going to assume you were doing nothing important and make my own lesson plan," Bree walked over to the side of the class, a long line of empty planter boxes lined the wall opposite the door, inside were random bits of trash and a few dead flowers.