Olivia: Woah! Awesome story IDC.
IDC: Thanks.
Manfred: No it's not. It doesn't make sense... wait... Olivia is endowed?
Olivia: IDC! It's supposed to be a secret!
IDC: Oops...
Manfred: Plus, you don't own Charlie Bone!
IDC: OK but niether do you, Jenny Nimmo owns Charllie Bone and you two! Sorry if it isn't good, it's my first story on FanFiction.
Manfred: :-(
Olivia: IDC does own this story though.
IDC: Thank you Olivia, please enjoy and please leave a comment.
For the first time in his life, Charlie Bone was actually excited about going to Bloors' Academy. Today was the first day of Switch Week which meant each of the students would be switching places with another student for a whole week. So they would pretend to be another person and have all their hoped he would be swapping with one of his friends so it would be easier but he also thought it would be funny to see Manfred Bloor being one of the twins.
"Charlie!", Olivia rushed up to Charlie, giving him quite a shock.
"Hey Olivia! I'm guessing you're excited... hey, why do you look normal I-I mean why is your hair brown and why are you wearing no make-up?"
Olivia lifted up a big, black bag with pink swirls and flowers on.
"I thought whoever I'm switching with I would make myself look like them! So I brought all my make-up with me. I'll dye my hair tomorrow, I coulnd't be bothered to dye it two days in a row", explained Olivia.
"I hardly recognised you Oliv...", Fidelio ran up to Charlie and Olivia but was cut off his sentence when they walked into the dull, grey doors of Bloors' Academy. No talking was allowed in the corridors.
"My name is not Olive!", Olivia whispered.
Instead of going to their first lessons, the endowed children went to the King's Room for their switching partners to be chosen. (The endowed children were picked out seperately from the rest of their year group). Charlie and Olivia met their friends in the room. Manfred was later than usual so they could talk for a bit.
"I'm so nervous!", said Emma Tolly as they took their seats.
"I really hope I don't have to switch with Manfred!", moaned Tancred, folding his arms.
"There's not much chance of that. I just hope I don't get one of the Branko twins. I don't think I could stand not talking, at least not much, for a whole week of school!", laughed Lysander.
"Mm, same", said Gabriel.
Manfred Bloor walked into the room about a minute later, holding hands with Zelda Dobinski. All the children stopped themselves from giggling. Except Billy Raven, this was because Manfred had denied Zelda being his girlfriend after Billy said she was.
"Okay, write down your names on the paper", said Manfred in a bored voice, while Asa, A.K.A. Manfred's faithful side-kick, gave out strips of paper.
Each of the Children of the Red King wrote down their names then handed them in to Manfred who folded them up and put them in a plastic wallet. He put his hand in the wallet and took out the first name.
"Okay, the first person is... Dorcas Loom. Dorcas' switching partner is... Tancred Torsson", Manfred would have enjoyed picking out the names if his own name wasn't in there.
Tancred sighed with relief. Dorcas definately wasn't his friend but at least she wasn't Manfred.
"The next pair is... oh... it's me", Manfred gulped, the weren't many people he wanted to swap with, "And my partner is... Lysander Sage"
Lysander put his head in his hands. He knew it would be good to be in charge for a week, he could get his friends out of trouble. But what would Manfred do to pretend to be him?
"And the third pair is... Idith and... Joshua"
Niether of them showed any expression on their faces. Joshua hardly ever talked anyway so it wouldn't be a problem for him.
"The fourth pair is...", Manfred was getting tired of this now, "Emma and... Billy"
They both looked at each other and shrugged. Emma could turn into birds so it would be quite easy for her to hang around with the animals and as the switch finished on Friday she wouldn't have to stay at school all weekend.
"The fifth pair... Gabriel and... Zelda"
Zelda groaned.
"Now... Olivia and... Asa"
Asa pulled that weird face that he does when, well whenever really. Olivia was quite happy. Asa would be fun to dress-up as.
That's when Charlie realised. He would have to pair up with Inez which meant he wouldn't be able to talk! What makes it worse is that he would have to go around with Joshua Tilpin and Idith all week as well!
"So that leaves Charlie and Inez", Manfred smiled his crooked smile, "Good luck", he said sarcasticly, his smile growing wider.
They all left the room, most of them feeling uphappy about their partner.
"I can't believe it! Manfred!", exclaimed Lysander to Charlie.
Charlie looked at him with no emotion.
"Oh yeah, I forgot. Unlucky Charlie. I'd keep your eye on Inez, I mean, the new Charlie Bone if I were you!"
Tancred went to his first lesson, or rather, Dorcas' first lesson. Being Dorcas wouldn't be so bad. She doesn't really talk much. Olivia sat next to him as she was being Asa, who was a prefect so could pretty much go wherever he wanted.
"Hey T... Dorcas! I've just had the best idea ever!", Olivia jumped up and down in her seat.
"What is it?", Tancred was eager to find out.
"I'm not gonna tell you. You'll have to find out! Does my hair look alright?"
"Seriously! I thought you were good at acting! I really don't think Asa would ask Dorcas if his hair looked alright"
"Ya never know! Seriously, though, does it look good?"
"I don't know do I! I'm a boy! I don't know anything about hair"
"Sure you do! Your hair goes all crackly and weird when you get angry"
Tancred didn't like this comment. His bright yellow-gold hair sparkled like shooting stars flying above his head.
"See!", Olivia giggled, "I'm gonna dye it orange tomorrow and put yellow eye-contacts in. Will it look good?"
Tancred was starting to get very angry now. He hated girly talk. A bolt of lightning shot across the room and nearly hit their teacher, who had just walked into the room, in the head!
"Alright, alright calm down!", cried Olivia, "We really need to get into character now!"
Meanwhile, Lysander was sitting in the old head boy's (Manfred) office. The African boy found it very strange. The room was lit by just a few candles that flickered everytime he moved. He almost felt sorry for Manfred, he must find it so boring just sitting there all day with nothing to do. Then Lysander had an idea. Maybe Manfred wrote down some of his plans on how to get us back! I could look through the piles of paper on his desk! So that's what he did.
He searched for a few minutes but found nothing. Just a few stickmen drawings of Charlie being eaten by tigers, attcked by an army of Manfreds and Ezekiel Bloor pourig strange liquids on his he found something very interesting. It was a script that Manfred wrote and Lysander could tell it was pretty good just by glancing at it. Lysander started to read it and noticed that it seemed very familiar.
Smoke covers stage. 3 cats run off stage.
Matthew: Those stupid Fires! Someone's going to pay for this!
The next day.
Lady: It could have been an accident.
Matthew: No, someone did this on purpose.
Mr. Butler: SILENCE!
Lysander flicked through the pages until he came to the last scene called 'THE FINAL BATTLE'.
Beast catches up to Callum. Callum runs around the corner but the beast is everywhere he goes. Statues collapse. The beast is about to catch Callum when a mystical sword cuts in front of him.
Callum: Luke!
Matthew and Zoey are kneeling down while Thomas creates a storm.
Of course! It was everything that happened when Charlie first came to Bloors' Academy! Matthew was Manfred, Callum was Charlie, Luke was Lysander, Zoey was Zelda and Thomas was Tancred! Lysander still felt sorry for Manfred. Although he could write scripts when he had nothing to do, all he can remember is Charlie Bone beating him. That must be why Manfred hates Charlie so much. Then there was a knock at the door. Gabriel came in and shut the door behind him.
"Hello Manfred", he said in a high, girly voice.
Lysander laughed.
"Nice to see you Zelda"
"I love you Manfred!"
"I love you..."
Manfred walked into his room. His mouth dropped open but he didn't speak.
"Uuh...", Lysander gulped.
"We were just... joking?", Gabriel said nervously.
"Hm", Manfred said, pushing passed them and sitting at his desk.
The boys expected Manfred to yell at them at tell them to go away but he just sat there staring into space.
"Uh Manfred? Are you okay?", asked Lysander.
"Woah, woah woah. Are you okay Lysander Sage? You just asked Manfred Bloor, repeat, Manfred Bloor if he was okay?", gasped Gabriel.
Lysander shrugged, "So? Anyway, are you okay?"
"Does it look like I'm okay?", Manfred almost yelled.
"We were just leaving...", Gabriel tugged at the sleeve of Lysander's cape.
"Wait Gabe. What's up?", asked Lysander.
"What has it go to do with you?", Manfred chewed the end of his pen.
"Nothing. I just... thought you looked... upset", suggested Lysander.
"C'mon Sander!", Gabriel insisted.
"Fine, Gabe, you go. Maybe it's best if I just stay with him", said Lysander.
"Or maybe it's best if you come with me!"
Lysander ignored him. Manfred was not his friend, in fact he was his worst enemy, but Lysander was too nice a person just to leave him. Gabriel left.
"Do you wanna talk about it?", Lysander whispered.
Manfred didn't reply.
"Okay, I'll just go then", Lysander walked towards the door.
"It's Zelda, okay?"
Manfred: Grr, I hate this story!
IDC: :-( Hey!
Manfred: I don't want help from Lysander!
Olivia: Well, you did!
Zelda: I need to be mentioned more! Wait, how come I'm in this story?
IDC: Where are you then?
Olivia: Yeah, she isn't in The Hidden King.
IDC: Where is she then?
Zelda: ...it's a secret...
IDC: Seriously, I actually don't know where Zelda went... can someone please tell me in their review?
Olivia: So anyway... I'm reading the next chapter first!
Zelda: No I am!
Manfred: *hypnotises Olivia and Zelda* Ha ha!