My heart was racing as I ran towards the portal door with my best friend Amy.
"Today's the day!" she squeaked, as excited as I was.
Today was the day that we finally entered the Ravenwood School of Magical Arts, a renowned school of magic for young wizards and witches throughout the spiral. We had been dreaming about this day since we were six years old.
Perhaps I should explain myself. My name is Katie Shadowhaven. I have long blonde hair and blue eyes, and I am 13 years old. My parents were killed when I was five years old by an evil wizard...
They died trying to protect me. Ever since then, I have lived in a Boarding house along with other orphans, and I made new friends. One of them was named Amy Ash. She didn't live at the boarding house, so I didn't see her as much but she became my best friend anyways. We ate together, talked together. had fun together, even shared the ambition of becoming a Grandmaster Witch someday.
The entering age at Ravenwood was thirteen, and we had both turned 13 during the summmer.
Now, as she was pulling my arm getting closer to the spiral door, I felt large amounts of excitement. As she pulled me through, the blue light of the portal swirled and crackled, and our surroundings faded and went black...
The next thing I knew, we were standing inside of what looked like a Giant tree, but it was hollowed.
I took a look around, and saw the other students, some wearing pointy hats and some not having the uniform yet, just like us...
"Come on katie, lets go," said Amy, "We need to meet up with Will and Natalie."
Will and Natalie were our friends too, and the four of us had many fun times together.
So Amy was dragging me again, pulling me through the crowd. I saw a head of black hair and ocean-blue eyes, along with a girl who had red hair and brown eyes.
"Amy I see them," I said, and pointed to where the were.
Breaking free of Amy's vise-like grip, I walked over to Will and Natalie, who were leaning on the edge of the tree, with a grin on their faces.
"Geese, what took you guys so long?" asked will, his face with a mischevious grin.
"We've been waiting for like...ten minutes," said natalie.
"Sorry," I replied. "I lost my spellbook and-"
"Well well well, look who's here," said an annoying voice from a few steps away from them.
"I believe its blondie the know-it-all and Amy the pig," said the same voice.
Katie and Amy whirled around to see their enemies, Katie Darkleaf and Marina Shadowblood.
"What the heck do you jerks want?" snapped amy, her temper flaring.
"Why are you losers even here? This magic school is for people with magical talent, not orphans and pigs," said katie.
I lost my temper and slapped her in the face, then grabbed amy's arm and pulled her out of the tree area. Natalie and Will followed us.
"Geese, you girls are vicious," said Will. Amy, Natalie, and I said nothing, but we sent him glares that could freeze the most fiery pit of Dragonspyre.
Will's grin vanished from his face, and we continued to walk until we reached the Headmaster's office.
I knocked on the door, and a moment later it opened to reveal a man with a long grey beard, glasses, and a pointy hat.
"Oh, hello," he said. He looked at their clothes and said, "Judging from your clothing I presume you are here to enter the Academy, correct?"
We all nodded, and he smiled. "Alright. My name is Merle Ambrose. I am the headmaster of Ravenwood, and I expect you to call me Headmaster Ambrose," he told us.
We all ndded again, and he went into his desk to pull out his papers.
"Alright, whats your name?" he asked, pointing to Amy.
"Amy Ash," she replied.
Then he pointed at me and asked the same question.
"Katie Shadowhaven," I said.
Then he asked will and natalie, and will replied, "Willam Silverhunter."
Natalie replied, "My name is Natalie Spiritblossom."
"Alright, now that I know all of your names, you can proceed to your dormitories But first I must give you your schedule," he said. He went and got four papers from his desk, and handed one to each of them.
"I shall have my second-year student, Benjamen Titanmancer escort you to your dormitories.
Headmaster Ambrose went into one of the different rooms.
A moment later, he emerged with a light-brown haired boy with grey eyes.
I looked at him, and blushed a little. He was very cute.
Ben walked towards them and said, "Alright, Headmaster Ambrose has already told me your names, I'll show you where your dorms are now."
He motioned for them to follow, and they headed out the door.
As they were walking back, they passed the tree where the portal had been and I gasped. The tree had a face, which I failed to notice before!
Will, Amy, and Natalie looked shocked as well.
Ben saw the surprise on our faces, and grinned.
"Thats Bartleby, the source of all magic. Dont worry, he's not going to hurt you," he said.
We looked relieved and continued walking towards the dorms.
A minute later, we were standing before a door that was carved inside another tree, but not as big as Bartleby.
"This is the boy's dorm," said ben. He motioned for Will to go inside and added, "Your room is number seventeen. Thats on the second floor, third door to the left. You'll meet your roomtate soon if he's not already there.
Will nodded and went into the strange-looking building, while Ben motioned for the rest of us to follow him.
We walked a little bit further and saw another door carved into a different tree.
Hmm, their a fan of tree-houses, I thought to myself.
"This one is the Girl's dorm," said Ben.
"Alright, Amy and Katie, you two are room-mates. Your dorm is number 32. Its on the third floor, 7th door to the left." Me and amy nodded, and he told us to go to our room.
So we left and headed to our new room, leaving Natalie and Ben outside while he told her her room number.
When we got inside, the first thing I noticed was the two huge four-poster beds.
"Wow!" I exlaimed, jumping on one of them. Amy grinned.
There where two huge windows in the room, with red velvet curtains. The beds were placed to the side of the windows. I took the one to the right, and settled down.
"This is going to be a fun year," I said.
We had no idea.
