Excousion Into The Badlands novel Chapter 3

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(The Excursion day)

By the time I got to school, some of my classmates are there already.

After few minutes, we are already to go, only three teachers are coming with us, mr audu our

Chemistry teacher, mr Philip our biology teacher, mrs Adigun our Agric science teacher. By 8:30a.m sharp the bus start and we left.

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(on the bus)

While still on the road mr Audu came to inform us that....

Mr Audu: alright listen up,,....I believe you've all make research of what I told you.

Yes Sir......(we chorused)

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Mr Audu: there as on Mr Philip and Mrs Adigun are here with us is because what we are going to

Do intercept with their subject and they know better.

So you will all be divided into 3 group, each teacher with a group.

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You will all be given a small polythene bag and a glove, the polythene bag is for you to put each

Sample of the leaf and make sure you write down their characteristics and what you observed.

And the glove is for your protection because some of those leaves are poisonous, under no

Circumstances must you remove your gloves.

So listen to your name to know which group you are..........

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After calling our names........Josh and I are in Mr Phillip's group, lola and another 6 student are

In Mrs Adigun's group,

While Joy and 5 other students are in Mr Audu's group.

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(after 3 and half hour)

I was sleeping when I heard Mr Audu shouting that we are here,

I open my eyes to look around.....I must say the place was beautiful because it was well

decorated.

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The place was decorated like a Garden.

We all got down after the bus was parked............

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Mr Audu: listen up, this place you see here is a Forest so don't go beyond where your teacher is

.Now come and collect your hand glove and polythene bag.

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After collecting it, we divided into each group.

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(after few minutes)

I was still observing the place when a girl named Sandra came to me and asked.........

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Sandra: mike can you please explain this leaf to me, I recognized it but I don't know how to

Explain it down.

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Me: Ok.....Hmmmm this is called Deadly Night shade which botanical name is' Atropa

belladonna'.

It is a very dangerous and let hal leaf, if it touches your tongue without the antidote after1hour

You die.

IF you swallowed it after 5minute without antidote you die.

If it touches your blood in less than1minute you die.

Where is this place?....A boy from our group called james said.

Mr Philip: I don't know....We've never been to this place before.......It's like this place just got here.

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Joy's POV

We were still observing the place and I've written down a lot and also gotten many samples.......I

Have to make sure that stupid Michael don't get more mark than me.

Then suddenly out of no where an arrow hit Mr Audu on the head and he died immediately.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh..........(we all scream and started running away).

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Michael's POV

We are still observing this new found place when we heard screams from different angles and

We were wondering what happen until lola and the rest came to us and said that we are not

Alone that an unknown person shoot Mrs Adigun an arrow on the neck and she died

immediately.

Ahhhhhhh.......We all exclaimed.

Then we see Joy and the rest also running to our side crying and said also said someone shoot

Mr Audu an arrow on the head and he died.

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Whaaaaaaaaatt.......We exclaimed.

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Then suddenly we saw Mr Philip fell down and see that he was also hit with an arrow on the

head.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............We all shouted and running with out knowing where we are going.

TBC........

INTO THE BADLAND