The Elementary Academy is structured like a boarding school. The rooms are extremally long and dark. Most of the entire school has normal school like rooms. There is also a school gym with a massive sink hole in the middle. The classrooms are structured as a labor room with children being strapped to chains and forced to do hard labor. The lunch room and kitchen are extremally messy with decaying food and garbage littered everywhere. The atmosphere is filled with a sense of dread and despair as the children uncover the dark secrets lurking within the academy's walls and strive to free the trapped children from their torment.
The chapter begins as Kane, Stellar, Bone, and Blower approaches the imposing gates of the elementary academy. The gates creak open ominously, revealing a grand entrance hall adorned with faded portraits and dusty trophies. As Kane, Stellar, Bone, and Blower steps inside, they are greeted by the hushed whispers of unseen voices and the oppressive weight of the academy's sinister aura.
- Kane: My head...it's killing me...
- Stellar: Kane, this has been going on since The Gravesite. Why's this new power of you hurt so bad?
- Kane: I don't know...I really don't understand. I didn't even know I had lightning...er electricity...thunder powers?
From this point onwards, Kane once again feels an unsettling presence, almost like a black shadow he's felt before was lurking nearby. Kane can faintly see a twisted and deformed shadow of a child, before it grows into an unsettling monster appearance. Kane's vision briefly cuts to black as the unknown force disappears, but Kane feels like its still there.
- Kane: LEAVE!!!
- Stellar: Kane?! What's wrong?!
- Kane: I'm...I'm...sorry, Stellar. Where's Bone and Blower?
Stellar snaps Kane back into reality as Bone and Blower explore the twisted halls beyond them.
While exploring, Blower and Bone discovers a hidden chamber within the academy where the Predominant keeps the captured children imprisoned. The room is filled with rows of cages, each containing a terrified child forced to toil away at menial tasks under the watchful eye of the Predominant's security system, which are security cameras with highly advanced lasers. If one is caught, they'll be disintegrated instantly by a molten hot laser. This is demonstrated when a little girl attempted to flea out of the chambers.
- Bone: Holy Goddamn...What do we do?
- Stellar: We gotta stay hidden. As much as possible.
- Blower: We can use this junk I found. [Brings in cans of garbage lids and boxes]
While sneaking past, Stellar gets spotted and the laser nearly hits her until Kane catches it in his arms. Somehow, he manipulates the laser's energy and fires it back at the camera, thus exploding the systems. Various cages and children were damaged but freed from the impact. Kane is also noticeably hurt and is coursing with purple electricity.
- Stellar: Kane!
- Kane: Damn it...it happened again...
- Bone: Watch him, I'll deal with any monsters. [Pulls out her bone spear] Come on, Blower.
Kane sits down for a while due to his painful injury. Stellar stays behind with Kane to help with his injury. They hide underneath a table to not be spotted. They then meet The Chained Children who were trapped in cages. The Chained Children are children who are captured and are kept in labor. They wear prison type clothes and all their hair is extremally messy. They seem to be deprived on hunger that their bones are starting to be visible. Their clothes are torn and dirty. They have painful shock collars on their throats and have ankle bracelets on their ankles.
- Kane: Who...are you guys?
- Chained Blue Boy: We're slaves here by The Predominant
- Chained Green Girl: The Predominant captures any child and forces them into slavery here, along with abusing us. [Shows Kane and Stellar the shock collars and she gets painfully shocked by it] Ah! Ow! You...ow...must be new here.
- Stellar: We're trying to escape. But my friend here is injured and needs time to recover.
- Chained Red Boy: We'll guard you...in case...hopefully, The Predominant doesn't find us. He has a horrid way of punishing his students if they misbehave.
- Kane: How "horrid"?
- Chained Yellow Boy: W-well...um...
Blower and Bone enters a shadowy classroom where the Predominant conducts its twisted lessons, using dark magic to bend the minds of the children to its will. The walls are adorned with eerie symbols and arcane sigils, and the air is thick with the scent of decay. The Predominant appears to be a giant humanoid, like most other monsters in the series. He has extremely pale skin, no hair, and has three black extensions coming out of his eyes and forehead with sharp needles on the end. He is wearing a blackish-tan business suit with a pair of pants to match, an undershirt, and a purple tie. Whenever his students aren't doing their work or sneaking off, he stabs his needle extensions into their head and releases toxic gas into them to drain their body fluids, leaving them empty sacks of flesh.
- Bone: Oh, my God.
- Blower: [Covers his eyes out of fear] I'm...too scared...to look...
After sneaking through the dreadful classroom, Blower and Bone discovers a vast library within the academy's depths, filled with shelves upon shelves of dusty tomes and forbidden knowledge. Among the stacks, Blower and Bone encounters the ghosts of past students who fell victim to the Predominant's machinations, their spectral forms haunting the halls in search of redemption. The spirits tell Blower and Bone there is a way to kill the Predominant for good, but sadly died while trying. There is a science lab beyond this point with deadly chemicals they can use against him. Blower and Bone must jump across and balance against tall stacks of books. While balancing about, The Predominant hears the sounds of books falling and investigates.
- Bone: Blower! Watch out!
The Predominant nearly stabs Blower and Bone with his sharp needles. After missing numerous times, The Predominant gives chase. He knocks several book shelfs over and attempts to stab Blower, but he whips the Predominant in the face with his black whip, and yanks his extensions, causing intense pain. Blower rips one of the extensions loose. Blower and Bone make it into the science lab after The Predominant falls back in pain.
Once in the science lab, Blower and Bone climb up a long latter and reach the top shelf, The shelve has jars with chemicals and children's body parts disintegrating within the acid. The Predominant forces down the door with brute strength. The Predominant roams the area until he catches Blower and Bone.
- Bone: Eat this, you basterd!
Bone quickly uses her sharp bone and manages to cut off one of The Predominant's extensions. Blower then dumps jars of acid onto the monster, which causes his face to painfully melt. The Predominant collapses to the floor and flares around in panic to stop the acid from melting. The Predominant crashes into several obstacles like tables and other jars with molten and dangerous chemicals. When the burning stops, most of his skin and clothing has been burnt off completely, exposing his rotten flesh and internal organs. Kane, who has recovered, walks inside with Stellar looking for Bone and Blower. The Predominant sees them and attempts to reach them, only for Kane to electrocute him using his powers. More parts of Kane's arm turn black with purple veins. Kane's heart rate slightly speeds up, but Stellar helps him recover in time. The Predominant is somehow still standing after the beating he suffered.
- Bone: It didn't work?!?
- Kane: He's starring at us...Oh, shit...
The Predominant gives one final chase against The Chained Children, Kane, and Stellar. Kane explains that something took him away, but Stellar, Bone, and Blower didn't see the shadow and only saw him sink or phase into the floor, leaving Kane confused. The group of children ran to basement. The Predominant kept chasing them and fell down the long fleet of stairs. Needing to be fast, The Chined Children pick up Kane and Stellar, dashes through the basement, throws them into a boiler room, then closes the door for them to hide. Stellar stood by Kane, as he's injured from using his power. Kane's eyes wide as they both heard screaming noises. A few moment of silence and The Chained Children open the door cover in blood from the Predominant. Stellar was shaking in fear and hold Kane close to her, but Children hug them tightly and clean off the blood off their clothes and face. Blower and Bone walk in on what's going on and are disturbed by The Predominant's torn body.
- Bone: Yikes! What happened?!
- Stellar: The Chained Children. They saved us.
- Blower: Really? Thank you!
- Chained Brown Girl: No...[coughs] problem. Follow us, we know of an exit.
The Chained Children wipes more of the blood off. They lead the four children to the exit. Kane turns around to catch a glimpse of The Predominant's body sinking through the floor via black goop. Kane briefly gets another headache by looking at it. Kane, Stellar, Bone, and Blower finally escape The Academy. Once again, they wander the streets of The Empty Vile.
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