Jia Precinct - 25/02 10:04 am 51EE

A soft white noise hit the windows, droplets raced down to the bottom of the window as rumbling thunder rippled through the town. An endless stream of water fell from the darkened sky, and people holding umbrellas as they walked past. Kids in raincoats and gumboots jump through puddles with snails sliding down roads. Century sat on the couch beside Rina, yawning and stretching her arms out. Eliowen sat on the floor, leaning against the couch as Werren and Yuro stood up in front.

Werren cleared his throat, wearing a lab coat once more.

"Well, Doctor it seems the sudden downpour has delayed our usual daily lessons."

Yuro stroked his chin, once more he was also wearing his oversized lab coat.

"Indeed Professor Werren. It is such a shame to be inside but we must not waste any time."

Werren thoughtfully nodded his head.

"Right, you are. Since we can't fight we will instead be using today to explain the periodic table!"

Century groaned.

"I don't care!"

Werren tapped Century on the head with a long ruler.

"Hey, now Century! You're the one that actually needs to listen to this!"

Century slouched downwards and rolled her eyes.

"Just hurry up."

Yuro smirked.

"Well, I wouldn't get too hasty if I were you Century. At the end of this lesson, there will be a quiz!"

Eliowen looked excited.

"Really?"

Werren chuckled.

"Of course. We want to make sure this information sticks in your brains. So listen up! The person with the highest marks at the end gets no chores for THREE days."

Century shot up, Rina leaned forward and Eliowen just looked excited to do the quiz.

Yuro cleared his throat.

"Thank you Werren, the quiz was made by yours truly so I'll be sure not to leave any details out this lesson! Shall we begin?"

Yuro looked to Werren and they both nodded.

"Let's start with the history of the Periodic table! Now elements have existed since the creation of everything because they are everything, this was common knowledge many Eras ago but the main difference between now and then is what the elements were."

Werren cut in, turning the television on and pointing his ruler to an image of water.

"See around 48 Eras ago, water was considered to be the element of all life. It was thought that everything was made from water in some way, this belief only lasted a couple of Eras before the belief expanded and incorporated air, earth, and fire alongside water."

The image changed to all four elements.

"These four elements were divided into hot or cold and wet or dry. Water was wet and cold, air was hot and dry, earth was cold and dry, and fire was hot and dry!"

Yuro took back over.

"Although this was far from correct, this was the first spark that would become the periodic table."

Yuro changed the image on the television to one of a portrait of a man with a powdered wig and old regal clothing.

"It wasn't until 7 Eras ago that a man by the name of Antoine Lavoisier decided to challenge the four elements belief by instating an important rule! That rule was if a substance could be broken down into simpler substances then it could not be considered an element."

Werren cut back in.

"With this new rule, he challenged water being an element. He was able to break water down into its two elements. Oxygen and Hydrogen, when he tried to further break apart these elements he was unsuccessful thus solidifying that water was not an element. This continued with his tests on air which produced Oxygen and Nitrogen. This process continued with the creation of around 30 elements before he then passed later that Era."

Yuro cut back in.

"Of course, these elements need to be organized so an Era or two later a man by the name of Dmitri Mendeleev came forward with his observation on the way the elements were laid out. He noticed a pattern when looking at the elements when arranged in atomic mass, that pattern was the properties of certain elements would repeat themselves. For example, Lithium and Sodium, Boron and Aluminum, and many more. With this observation, he decided to line the elements most similar to each other in columns creating the start of our modern periodic table!"

Werren smiled at Yuro's excitement.

"Exactly, this continued as scientists added onto his periodic table eventually creating our modern periodic table."

The image then changed to a picture of a modern periodic table.

"Now that we have the history down, let's quickly discuss the different areas on the periodic table. First are the rows that are called periods, they are organized based on an element's number of electron shells. Elements that share the same amount of electron shells will be put in the same row. They are also arranged based on their similar chemical properties and physical properties. The columns are known as groups or families. They're ordered based on similar chemical properties but more importantly, they share the same number of valence electrons.

Yuro cuts in.

"Now, valence electrons are the electrons in the outer shell of an atom and the furthest away from the nucleus of an atom, aka the center."

Werren nods in agreement.

"Thank you. Now for the broad categories of the periodic table."

Werren clears his throat.

"Metals, nonmetals, and metalloids are the three categories often looked at in the table. Most elements reside in the metals category which takes up the left and center portion of the table. Nonmetals are the opposite of metals where they lack metallic properties. They are brittle and are poor conductors. Metalloids are a mix of both, having properties of metals and nonmetals looking metallic but extremely fragile."

Yuro nods thoughtfully.

"Couldn't have put it better myself Professor! Well, that's about all the information we will give you to not overload you with things. All of this will be on the quiz which we will have tomorrow! So study up and remember only what's needed."

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Century gets up and walks away.

"Damnit... I FORGOT EVERYTHING!"

3:49 pm

Century was sitting at the dining table with a box of markers. Her attention was focused on her activities. Eliowen walked in and sat across from her.

"How do you think you're gonna do on the quiz tomorrow?"

Eliowen smiled and looked at what she was doing.

"Better than you."

Century didn't look up at him.

"Wow, that's bold."

Eliowen listens closer.

"Are those markers? What are you doing?"

"Studying. Duh."

Century began to get annoyed.

"Are you... coloring something in?"

"Yeah. There a problem?"

"No no. It's just... not something I would do for studying. I would much rather read a book or listen to a video."

Century looks up.

"You can read?"

Eliowen blushes.

"Of course. I mostly just use braille or have someone read it out to me."

"Sounds boring."

Century goes back to what she was doing.

Eliowen's face cringes.

"Well, I don't see how coloring in is supposed to help you."

"How about you mind your own business."

Eliowen began to get more mad.

"You would benefit from reading a lot more... or... perhaps maybe you can't read."

Century threw a marker at his head.

"Can you shut up!? God I wish instead of being blind you're mouth would stitch shut."

"It's not my fault you're gonna fail the quiz because of your strange studying techniques!"

"Strange!? You don't even know what I'm drawing! Why are you so insistent on this?"

"Because it's the WRONG way! You shouldn't be studying like that, you'll learn nothing!"

"Oh really? Then if I get higher marks than you on this quiz you have to eat one of the markers."

"Are you barbaric!? What sort of deal is that?"

"So I'll take it you aren't man enough to take it. I thought you were better, son of an Archbishop."

Century grinned manically.

Eliowen looked distraught.

"No, I... uh..."

Eliowen thought long and hard about this deal.

"Fine. But if I get higher marks you have to read any book I want out loud to me for a week."

Century grits her teeth.

"Deal."

Eliowen and Century both smirked as they got to studying even more intently.

26/02 9:28 am

When Century, Rina, and Eliowen walked into the living room they saw three desks, each with the quiz face down on it and pencils beside it.

Werren and Yuro stood at the front. Werren smiled.

"Glad you are all on time. Please take a seat anywhere you like."

Eliowen and Century sat on opposite ends with Rina in the middle. They both scowled at each other as Rina sat there awkwardly.

Yuro spoke up.

"Now that you are all seated, this quiz will be held under test conditions that mean no outside devices, no talking or moving, and no cheating. If you do any of that then your score will immediately be a zero!"

Everyone got ready to begin as Yuro watched the time tick down.

"You may begin... now!"

All three of them flipped over the test. Century looked at the questions and held her pencil tightly. She wrote her name and then looked at the first question.

Q1. What were the four initially believed elements and their properties?

Century smirked and wrote down water, fire, air, and earth but when she wrote their corresponding elements she had forgotten if the air was cold and dry or hot and dry. She left it to a fifty-fifty and wrote cold and dry.

Meanwhile, Eliowen sat there unable to write a single thing because he couldn't read his quiz.

"Um... My quiz-"

Werren snapped his head toward Eliowen.

"No speaking. A final warning to all of you."

Eliowen looked concerned as there was no way he could answer a single question. However, as the living room went silent he heard the quick strokes of Rina and Century's pencils. He listened closely and using his expert mapping skills, he was able to figure out what they were writing. With their answers now recreated in his head, he quickly deduced what the first question was and wrote his answer. He smirked, commending his own skill.

Q2. What was the first rule when deciding an element and who was the one who created the rule?

Century was done for, she was able to write the rule but hadn't bothered to learn the names of the people involved in the creation of the periodic table. She thought back to the powdered wig and fancy clothes of a man and decided to make up a name for him. Jack Beethoven. Perfect.

Eliowen didn't struggle at all in answering that question.

Q3. What was used to order the elements initially?

Century struggled with this answer again and decided to just write down Mass.

Eliowen kept flying through the questions easily.

Question after question, all of them kept answering as the clock ticked down. It got to a point where Century was sweating profusely and Eliowen had ground the end of his pencil down flat as it scrapped against the paper.

Yuro looked at the clock.

"5... 4... 3... 2... 1... and... STOP!"

All of them slammed their pencils down.

Werren collected their papers as he and Yuro looked at them.

"Thank you all for trying your hardest. We will get the results soon."

Century leaned back in her chair with a smug grin.

"Here that Eliowen? Only a couple more minutes before you eat one of the markers."

Eliowen yawned.

"Is that right? I believe it's only a couple more minutes before you have to read any book I want. I'm thinking we start with... hm... THE DICTIONARY."

They both were aching to see the results so when Yuro and Werren looked up they leaned forward.

"SO WHO WON?"

They yelled in unison.

Werren chuckled.

"Well, it was certainly interesting, to say the least. Century's answers opted for a more creative approach."

Werren held up Century's quiz to show she had poorly drawn all her answers.

"There were two words on Century's quiz and it was Jack Beethoven."

Werren tried not to laugh.

Eliowen shot up.

"HA! I WIN!"

Yuro stood up.

"Not so fast Eliowen... to be fair this was our mistake but... all of your responses were just scribbles of incomprehensible words."

Eliowen sat down forgetting that he couldn't see what he wrote.

"The only word we could make out was your name which was written in a very pretty cursive font."

Century and Eliowen looked defeated.

Werren then held up Rina's quiz.

"And Rina... well... she ate half of it so..."

Rina's quiz had giant bite marks taken out of it.

"None of you pass."

Rina giggled while Century and Eliowen stood up and began to walk away with their heads low.

"Now hold on a second."

Yuro held up their quizzes.

"There was actually one secret mark. That was your name. Eliowen and Century put their names but Rina didn't meaning both Century and Eliowen got the highest scores."

Century jumped up and pumped her fist.

"I'm the shit! Let's go."

Eliowen sighed.

"So... what about the deal? If we tied what do we do?"

Werren came up behind them and put his hands on their shoulders.

"I have an idea..."

Eliowen, Century, and Rina were in the kitchen all cooking food for Werren and Yuro.

Yuro burped.

"Wow... Being a teacher is great."

Werren polished off the last of his food.

"It really is..."

Eliowen sat down for a second, tired from cooking all day.

"Eliowen! No rest until dessert is done! Me and Yuro still have plenty of room for dessert!"

Century clutched a knife tightly in her hand.

"Screw it... I'm gonna kill him."

Century lunged at Werren with a knife as he stumbled out of his chair.

"Century!? Calm down!"

Werren and Century ran around the kitchen causing a massive mess.

Rina sighed but smiled.