Thursday stepped in front of the female students and looked over them.
“Mamoru Mizuki isn’t here today,” he said.
Yuko replied without emotion, “You don’t know what happened?”
“Why? What happened?”
“Oh, come on!” one of the girls glared. “She brought a creepy guy in the school to kill Yuko! The police are still looking for her!”
Thursday stifled a laugh, “Oh…hahaha…well, I’m sure the police will get her sooner or later. There’s no need to worry about that.”
“How are you even a teacher here?” another student wondered.
“Because I’m more than qualified,” he smiled. “Now, onto our newest exercise! We are going to do track. No organization or anything, just spending this period running. I don’t even care where you run, buuuuuuut I have a special prize for whoever can make it past my obstacle course.”
“I’m confused, is this a PE class, a sports club, or something else?” a girl asked.
Yuko answered, “I think it was a PE class, but I’m not sure what it is anymore.”
Thursday pointed at the track course, which had pits, walls, tripwires, and various other traps placed all throughout it.
“So, does anyone dare face it?” he looked between them.
“I have a question,” Yuko raised her hand.
“What is it?”
She said with her stoic voice, “Who’s going to clean this up? The track club’s meeting here after school.”
“You ask too many questions,” Thursday stated. “You’re going on the obstacle course.”
Yuko stepped to the course’s entrance without hesitation. All the class’ eyes were on her. Their cheers carried into her ears.
“Do it, Yuko-san!”
“You’re the best!”
“Beat this obstacle course! Don’t break a sweat!”
The pressure of expectations mounted on Yuko.
“I understand what Hideyoshi felt, and I can’t blame him for not wanting that,” her lips moved up in a slight smile. “But unlike him, I love this feeling.”
She ran forward, heading towards the first trip wires. Yuko jumped over them. The girl’s and Thursday’s eyes widened in amazement. When she landed, she kept moving. There was a pit trap next, but that was no obstacle either.
Yuko made it to a wall. She prepared to climb to the top, but a boxing glove on a spring popped out of it and slammed into her face. The girl fell backwards to the ground.
A student said, “Sanda-san! Are you okay?”
“Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow,” somehow, her voice still had no emotion as she expressed pain.
“Can you keep going?” Thursday asked.
Another student glared, “You’ve got to be kidding me! There’s no way Sanda-san should be put through this!”
“It’s fine. This is nothing,” Yuko stood up.
While her face and voice didn’t express it, a fire lit inside of Yuko. A desire flowed through her.
She thought, “Thursday, I’m going to crush you and this obstacle course.”
The daughter of Zeus jumped on the boxing glove, intending to use it as a platform to jump over the wall on. Instead, the glove flexed and Yuko fell on her back.
“Ow.”
Recovering from it fast, Yuko took a running start and jumped over the wall. She fell right in the pit on the other side. Thursday burst out in laughter.
“Dumbass!” he said. “There’s no way any of you can make it through that obstacle course! You should have just kept your mouth shut.”
Yuko’s head popped out of the ground at the finish line.
“I’ve finished the course,” she stated.
Shock flowed through Thursday, “How?”
The girl told him, “I dug through it.”
“Impossible!” Thursday gritted his teeth. “You did that way too fast.”
“I didn’t. You’ve been laughing for the past hour.”
He looked at the clock and saw that she was right.
“Shit. I actually have to give you a prize now,” the teacher’s thoughts turned inward. “Dammit! I don’t actually have a prize! I thought no one would make it through.”
Thursday said, “It’s at my house. I’ll bring it in to school tomorrow.”
With that, he took off running.
As he went through the streets, Thursday’s mind raced.
“What do teenage girls like? It’s been years since my daughter was that young. They had different toys back then, and she…”
The sound of wheels hit his ears and he stopped in his tracks. Up ahead, Thor rolled towards him on his goat cart. He stopped the cart and looked at Thursday.
“Loki, why are you disguising yourself as me?” he asked.
Thursday disappeared and a much less muscular, handsome man with a crooked smile appeared. He tried to make a cool pose, but his clothes being several times too big for him didn’t help that.
“Why, Thor, I didn’t expect you to be here,” Loki said.
“Answer the question.”
“Okay, fine,” he sighed. “I didn’t have anything better to do, so I decided to mess with some high school students. You have a muscular body, and that was perfect for my needs.”
Thor questioned, “Do you ever have anything better to do?”
Loki replied, “No. I don’t do much.”
“How did you get a teaching position anyway?”
“It’s simple, really,” the trickster god stated. “I told the principle that I’d make him immortal.”
He found himself looking up at the ground.
“That’s weird,” Loki spoke.
Pain blasted through him as Thor pile drove Loki into the pavement, creating a small crater. The thunderer stepped outside and glared down. His fellow god crawled out of the pit.
He said, “What the hell was that for, Thor?”
“You offered to make a human immortal if he helped you with a prank! You can’t go around making humans immortal for petty reasons like that.”
Loki laughed, “And just who is going to stop me? I could shapeshift my way out of here and you’d never be able to catch me.”
“I’m telling dad,” Thor turned around.
“No! Wait!” he grabbed onto his legs. “Don’t tell Odin! He’ll really kick my ass for this!”
“Will he now?” the thunderer smirked. “So, tell me, Loki: how much do you know about the students here?”
“I know a few things,” Loki said.
Thor rubbed his beard, “Well, I suppose that dad doesn’t have to learn about this…if you’re willing to do something for me.”
“Should I start stripping now or take you home first?”
His head smashed into the ground as Thor hit him.
Loki waved his arms, “I’m joking! I’m joking! What do you want?”
“There’s a girl here I have to save,” Thor explained. “She’s a daughter of Zeus and Hera’s going after her.”
“Oh, that sounds interesting,” a smile formed on the trickster’s face. “It’s been a while since I’ve been on a rescue mission.”
“And the first rescue mission where you aren’t the one responsible for the danger.”
“Hey! I went on rescue missions that weren’t my fault before!” Loki shot back.
Thor said, “Like what?”
“There was that time where we rescued your hammer and you had to dress up as a woma…”
“Okay, you’ve made your point!” the thunderer covered Loki’s mouth. “Please don’t bring that up again. Besides, this’ll only be a rescue mission if things go really bad. It’s a protection mission right now.”
Thor released his hold on the other god.
Loki nodded, “Alright, I won’t bring that up. But we’ll need to find an excuse to bring you into the school. I doubt we can get you in as a teacher without altering Odin.”
“That means we need another plan,” Thor stated.
“Ohhh, I’m getting an idea,” he smiled. “Just how much do you want to save this girl, Thor?”
“How much is irrelevant. I’m going to save her.”
“Alright, I have a plan,” Loki smiled. “My daughter, Thora.”
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