We were all standing in Ms Lily's office, waiting for her to tell us what our punishment was.

We had been waiting there for the past three hours! It was a punishment in itself because Ms Lily's musical taste was inane garbage. And she left her speaker at full volume and had warned us not to touch anything in her room. So we couldn't turn it off. I think she did it on purpose. She absolutely loves annoying us.

"Maybe we can create an emp; that'll turn this torture off," I suggested, frustrated out of my mind.

"Yeah, and that'll also send us back to the dark ages for quite a while," Argenta retorted.

I found out that she becomes really sarcastic and sassy when she's annoyed and sleepy.

"I don't understand why y'all are acting like you're not enjoying this," Cleo said as he waltzed around, "This music is soooooooooo good,"

"Yeah, and Lory's pregnant," Argenta scoffed.

"Why am I the target of all your snide remarks?!" I whined, and she shrugged.

"That's it? That's all I get? A shrug?"

"What do you want? A good night's kiss?"

Girl, you have no idea!

"Ready for your punishment?" Ms Lily hollered as she threw open the gates of her office and walked in.

"Deafening us wasn't enough?!" Argenta remarked mindlessly.

I smirked in amusement, waiting for her to realise what she'd said out loud while Ms Lily just stared at her in disbelief. She was the goody-two-shoes of our squad and disrespecting mentors? That was a no-no for her. So this was going to be EEEEEPPPPIIIIIICCCC.

"Oh, shit!" Argenta exclaimed as her eyes widened and her mouth fell open, "I'm sooo sorry, Ms Lily. I don't know why I said that,"

My smirk grew even wider as I nudged her and dramatically yelled, "That is no way to talk to your teacher, young lady. That was so disrespectful! You should be ashamed of yourself!"

She glared at me but continued on with her crappy apology full of cuss words. It was kinda cute, watching her get flustered because of the cussing and cussing even more when she realised she did.

"I'm really sorry, ma'am. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with me. Crap! I fucking suck at this! I'm so fucking sor-" She rambled on.

"Ookay, I think you should stop now. Ms Lily gets it. You're very sorry," Reyna said as she placed a hand on her mouth to stop her from speaking anymore.

Argenta struggled in her hold for a few seconds but then eased and shut her eyes from embarrassment.

"She swears!" I exclaimed, and almost everyone in the room chuckled. Well, excluding Ms Lily and Argenta. Obviously.

I looked over at miss Lily to see that she was shocked and gaping at Argenta like she had grown 30 heads.

"Anyway," She said, shuddering herself out of the shock, "let's get to your punishment,"

"What you have done is tremendously indictable! And we decided that any punishment we gave you would not be enough. So,"

Why does she sound so excited?

One thing you should know about miss Lily is that she is a sadist! She really finds pleasure in torturing us, as she did with the music. Of course, she did it playfully; she's a kid like that and loves us, but still enjoyed it when we were annoyed.

So that excitement in her voice made me really anxious because the more excited she got, the worse the punishment would be.

"we asked all the squads at Gladys to each give you a punishment they think you deserved,"

"Oh no," Jackson said.

"There are 49 other squads at Gladys..." Willia trailed off.

"Which means there will be 49 different punishments..." Brittney spoke out.

"All of them equally bad..." Nick joined them.

"Oh, not just bad, they are evil," Ms Lily smirked, "And just to make the number of punishments an even number, we added one punishment of our own,"

"Wouldn't it have been easier to just kill us?" Adam asked.

"Where's the fun in that?" She snickered.

"Ugh, just give us the damn list!" Yara exhaled.

Ms Lily handed the list to Argenta, and she started to recite it.

"Hand wash our dirty laundry for 5 weeks - Hurricane,

Do all our homework for 6 months - Scorpion,

Clean our mess whenever we ask you to - Nepenthe,"

"They're the medical unit!" Cleo whined.

"And the wildest party throwers!" Yara complained.

"This is horrible!" Reyna cried.

"I warned you, Jax! I fu- uuuuu, I warned you!" Adam yelled.

"Hold your breath, people; it gets better," Argenta stated sarcastically. All this while Ms Lily sat on her desk enjoying every second of this.

"Clean our washrooms using only toothbrushes for a week - Dragonfire,"

A series of "ewww"s and "bleugh"s and fake gags erupted.

"Ha! They really got creative with the punishments," Ms Lily cackled.

"Petsit 'Raja' with your hands cuffed for a week - Stampede,"

"Raja, the Gladys Griffin?" Brittney asked.

"Yup, that's the one," Ms Lily smiled.

"No sitting in class for 2 weeks, that is, attend lectures while doing handstands or headstands - Thunderwolf,"

"I can't do a headstand!" Willia exclaimed.

"Neither can I!" Cleo complained.

"Relax! I'll teach you guys," Adam volunteered.

"Scrape off the stuck chewing gums from under the desks of all the classrooms - Titan,"

Another series of "ewwww"s erupted.

These people really went all out!

"Eat salads only for a month - Silversword,"

"NOOOOOOOOO!" Nicholas and I yelled.

We love food. And making us eat just salads for a month is like feeding us diesel for a year.

No, I'm not exaggerating.

"You'll get food only after 50 pushups (for 2 weeks) - Warhawk,

Assist Mr Wallowhits in his lab for a week - Octane. Hey, this one's not that bad!"

"Mr Wallowhits is a luna-" Adam stopped himself when he caught the death glare Ms Lily was sending him, "lover. He's such a luna lover!"

Argenta formed an o with her mouth and continued to recite the table of terrors.

It was terribly disturbing to even listen to what we had to do. The squads showed no mercy at all!

I get that we had done something a little bit... naughty, but we did not deserve this amount of torture!

This was cruelty at its best! Or maybe worst. See what I did there?

"And finally, the punishment our lovely mentors gave us," Argenta announced with a sickly sweet smile as she threw a pointed look in Ms Lily's direction.

"We have to gather intel about the memorisutīrā that we saw. We have to go on a mission. The only info that they have is that someone in the 'Ravadyn market' knows about it,"

"You will, of course, go only after the crystal ceremony," Ms Lily said.

"Crystal ceremony?" Nick asked.

"The event when you will all get crystals like the ones Adam and Jackson have,"

"Cool, so how many total crystals are there?" Yara asked.

"No one has ever counted them, but lots,"

"And we can choose any one of them?" Willia asked.

"Oh, you don't choose a crystal; the crystal chooses you,"

"What, it magically peeks into our hearts and sees if we are diamonds in the rough?!" Cleo guffawed.

"No," Ms Lily said sternly, "It scientifically judges your thought processes and calibrates what powers would suit you best,"

"How?" I asked.

"Remember the simulations you all did? It was not just to give you practice,"

Ohh

Cooool

"Any other questions?" Ms Lily asked.

"Yes," I said, and she nodded, indicating me to go ahead, "Who the hell named it crystal ceremony and not crystallisation?"

My question seemed to make everyone laugh, and I hoped it helped them get their mind off the frightening punishments, even if for a few seconds.

"So, when is the ceremony?" Jax asked.

"Next week," Ms Lily answered.

Well looks like imma be crystallised next week!

It's going to be amaaaziiiinnng, I hope!

You can never be sure with Gladys.

Author's note:

So, that was chapter 11. I really hoped you all liked it!

I want to thank @harshita_dhawan and @Ritishaaaa for helping me come up with the (awe+grue)some punishments for Armada. Thank you s♾ much, you two!<3

Anyway, the next few chaps are going to be fantabulous! The adventure finally begins!

Don't forget to vote, comment and fan!