fandomhigh | Folklore and Fact: Mystical Artifacts (Week 1: Thurs/1st Period)

Because it was a familiar and convenient setting, Sakura had set up her classroom as a replica of the the command room at SGS Japan headquarters. Several padded benches lined the walls of the main part of the room, and up in the loft, where a lounge chair stood in actual headquarters, several more benches were lined up. A large yellow table, vaguely trefoil-shaped, occupied the center of the room.

Up front with clipboard in hand to check off students' names as they arrived, Sakura stood in front of an array of three tall display screens.

"Good morning," she said once everyone was seated. "My name is Sakura Nishihori, and I will be your instructor for this course. Before we begin, I would like to stress one very important fact: the objective of this class is not to teach you how to find treasure for profit, or for the sake of your own glory. While you are here, you will be learning to identify artifacts that are potentially quite powerful -- in order to appreciate how dangerous such things can be."

She paused, reaching up to the pocket on the left sleeve of her jacket to touch what appeared to be a red, silver, and black cellular phone. "In case you were wondering what qualifies me to teach this class," Sakura continued, just to get that question out of the way before it came up, "let me explain briefly. I am, by profession, a treasure hunter. Most people think of treasure hunters as selfish, grasping and arrogant. Most treasure hunters, unfortunately, do little to prove them wrong. My job is to find artifacts -- not for profit, but to protect them from those who would use them for profit."

Sakura took a stack of papers off the table and handed them to the nearest student to pass around. "If you look through the syllabus, you'll see what kinds of artifacts we'll be studying. However, for the first three weeks we'll start on the basics. Everything listed on the syllabus might be considered what we in SGS call a 'Precious' artifact." Actually, everything on the syllabus did fall under that classification, but no need to tell them that. "I want you, first of all, to go over the list and see if you can determine what traits they have in common." That said, Sakura waited to see what the students had to say.

"So then," she continued once the discussion had subsided. "Why do we acquire such artifacts? The reasoning is very simple: they need to be safeguarded, as I mentioned earlier. Whether through accident or deliberate intention, the consequences of misuse could be catastrophic."

Sakura let everyone think about that for a moment. "For next week, be prepared to tell me a little bit about something from your world or culture that you think falls into this category. That will be all for today; you're dismissed. Except for Wyatt Halliwell and Dawn Summers. Could you two please see me after class?"

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"Yeah, I wanted to look up ghosts," Wyatt said. He idly doodled on his notes, then said, "So what were you talking to Jo about?"

"Classes mostly," Chris said. "Though she was a little freaked out when I set off her EMF reader."

No need to mention that he had been pretty freaked out by that, too.

"She think you were a demon or something?" Wyatt snickered.

Chris shrugged. "She didn't try to vanquish me or anything. We have most of the same classes, so I think we're going to study together."

"Oh, really?" Wyatt said, eyes narrowing a bit even as he tried to make his voice sound neutral.

"Yep," Chris said, ignoring the look on Wyatt's face. "She's excited about having people her own age to talk to about this stuff and I think we can learn a lot from each other."

"I'll bet," Wyatt muttered under his breath. "Yeah, I've talked to her, too," he said more clearly. "She seems pretty cool."

Chris nodded. "Yeah, she's definitely c... cool."

He totally did not glance in Jo's direction. Nope. Not at all.

And Wyatt totally didn't notice this. Not at all.

He made a mental note to dig up every embarrassing story about Chris he could and make sure Jo heard them. No reason.

"It's good to be able to talk to people about demons and stuff," he said. "I know we're supposed to keep what we are a secret, but at least here we have place to talk."

"I think it's safe to talk here," Chris said. "A lot of people seem to know about mom and Aunt Phoebe. And it seems like other people have destinies, too."

"I was going to try to catch Mr. Winchester in his office today," Wyatt said. "Did you want to come, too?"

"Sure, I don't have anything else planned," Chris said. "I think he's going to be our best source of information. Aside from Aunt Phoebe, that is."

Wyatt nodded. "I told him there was stuff I didn't want to say in class about us, and he seemed interested to hear about it. He's lost family to demons, too, so he'll know where we're coming from."

"Oh, yeah, definitely," Chris agreed. "Have you met either of his sons?"

Wyatt shook his head. "Not yet, you?"

Chris nodded. "Dean, the older one," he said. "I think the younger one's name is Sammy."

"They hunt with their dad?" Wyatt said. "He said demon hunting was the Winchester family business."

"That's the impression I got," Chris said. "So they'll probably be good sources of information, too."

"If we think we can trust them, maybe we can show them the Book someday, too," Wyatt said.

Chris nodded. "I bet it would help them as much as it helps us," he said. "Even if their hunting isn't magical, sharing information can't hurt."

"I know I'm willing to learn new ways to kill demons," Wyatt said, nodding. "Especially since we don't know how our powers really work yet."

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