<div class="floatleft">(http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff123/Scrapper349/th_Russell.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Russell Davis<br/>Dining Hall<br/>Tagged: Sashira and Yuri </strong><br/><br/>Russell Davis' arrival at Madame Arachne's school had been just a curtain-raiser for the series of shocks that he had experienced this day. First had been the realisation that the school was mostly for girls. The second and greatest shock was that most of the students and teachers were not human, and that many of the monsters of legend were in fact real - his roommate was a demon-werewolf hybrid, and one of his teachers was an honest-to-God dragon. The third shock was the reason he and a number of human boys had been brought to the school - the monstrous girls had certain needs that needed males to satisfy.<br/><br/>And now another shock had just landed on him. The school PA had just announced that the orientation lecture would begin in fifteen minutes (finally!), but had also announced that a female student had been caught breaking some school rule or other. What had really surprised Russell was that the male students had been specifically invited to join in the punishment decided by the Academy's headmistress. "So anyone who wants to can line up and beat the shit out of this girl?" he asked in disbelief. "That's pretty harsh. What's she supposed to have done?"<br/><br/>What bothered Russell more than what was to be done to the girl was who was to do it. He hadn't heard of a single school where students were called upon to deliver punishment.<em>Sounds more like something done by a cult leader rather than a school principal,</em>he thought moodily.<em>The guys who participate in the beating get the thrill of being part of a favoured group, plus the blood on their hands keeps them from ratting each other out. Those who don't are seen as outsiders and looked down on by those who did - and if the headmistress approved this punishment, those who don't join the beatdown are gonna be watched pretty closely.<br/><br/>I wonder if the girl actually did anything,</em>the dark-haired teenager mused.<em>Or if she's just a patsy for Madame Arachne to tighten her grip on us...</em><br/><br/>