Chapter One: Goodbye Miss Madeleine
Dear Journal: I think Miss Madeleine is being late to class on purpose. First of all, I haven't seen her since class started and Pico is steaming about it. I hope she gets here soon.
I looked at my journal again and read through it. I didn't want to forget anything about this moment, even though the teacher had missed class several times this month.
"Hiro, Hikari! Are the both of you alive?" I heard Pico say and I jumped slightly, startled by him.
Hiro and I both looked at Pico as I brushed my blond hair out of my eyes in exasperation. Sometimes the red headed Fire magician was too much for me.
"What did you say?" Hiro asked sheepishly.
"I said Miss Madeleine was supposed to be here by now! What do you think happened to her?" Pico asked with a huff.
He needs to calm down. It's starting to get annoying. I thought as Sorbet- a Water magician with wavy brown hair -turned to look at Pico and us with a crinkled nose, as if she found all of us aggravating.
"Chill out Pico! She's just late, it happens all the time. Besides, she's just probably doing her lesson plan for the day." Sorbet said to him. Then Chai- a Wood magician that was a salamander -turned to us with a slight whine.
"But this is like the thirtieth time this year! When will someone give her a tardy slip besides one of us?!" Chai asked with that whine evident in his voice.
I smirked a little while trying to hold in my laughter. Then Lassi- a bunny Wind magician that had a sort of blond tan colored hair in a high ponytail -started to jump up and down. Everyone in the classroom turned to her as those long ears made a flapping noise like she was about to fly away.
"Miss Madeleine is coming! Quick, everyone, get to your seats!" Lassi said and everyone then began rushing to their seats. There was no reason for us to get in trouble at the moment.
"Ready for the day?" Hiro- a really cute Light magician with dull orange colored hair -asked me and I nodded.
Then, Miss Madeleine burst through the door and she walked over to her seat in front of everyone and the chalkboard.
"Good morning. I'm sure you were studying from your spell books while waiting for me?" Miss Madeleine asked us, though I caught the hint of sarcasm in her tone. She knew that we weren't doing what we were going to make her believe we did.
We all began to nod and a few kids said yes. But then Mokka- a robotic Earth magician -shook his head sadly and Miss Madeleine looked at him in confusion.
"Miss Madeleine, you must be aware that you are late again to class." Mokka said and Pico began to agree with him.
"Yeah, what's up with that? You're late and you don't get detention while I have to when I forget my homework. If I get held back again this year I'll hold you responsible." Pico said and Hiro smirked just as I grinned with a yawn.
"Oh! I'm sorry, I shall be sure not to be late again." Miss Madeleine said and she began laughing.
Most of us did the same as her since she was one of our favorite teachers. I just smiled at Hiro and Pico since both sat on each side of me.
"Okay class okay; let's get to the lesson today." Miss Madeleine said and everyone began to stop.
Class went by boringly and I nearly fell asleep, if Hiro hadn't pulled my hair softly to keep me awake.
Just listening to this stuff is so hard today! I'm usually a pro at these kinds of things! I mean, come on! If you attack with Wood Magic what is the best magic user to use in retaliation? It's supposed to be Wind Magic users and the defensive magic user is Earth Magic. I thought to myself and I snapped back into reality when Miss Madeleine called me.
"Hikari, if you don't mind, will you come up to the front of the class and show everyone how to take an enemies strength?" Miss Madeleine asked me and I nodded.
When I got up in front of the class I looked at everyone and waited for Miss Madeleine to give me someone to cast on. She never did; she just stared at me.
She wants me to choose someone, I guess. I thought as I looked at Hiro and he knew what I was asking him.
"Miss Madeleine, would you like me to help Hikari?" Hiro asked and Miss Madeleine nodded. Hiro stood up and walked over to me and he was in front of me.
Here we go Hikari, you can do this. I thought as I closed my eyes and began to silently chant some words of Darkness.
Darkness come forth.
Bind my foes with your power.
You are what the light fears, come forth and help me.
Bring me the strength my foes have and give it to me.
I silently said the words and there was a grunt and a gasp from a few kids and I began to feel stronger with more energy.
I opened my eyes and stopped chanting and saw that Hiro was bleeding just a little, but he was already healing the wound. Bits of my magic still clung to his arm but when the light got closer, they vanished almost instantly.
"Now you see, everyone, how Darkness and Light affect each other. They both have a strong damage effect to each other." Miss Madeleine said and both Hiro and I sat down in our seats.
As we did, the bell rang and Miss Madeleine went out of the classroom along with us and she went to the principal's office. Lassi and Mokka walked out of the classroom right after Miss Madeleine while the rest of us were packing our things.
"Hikari, that was some good magic you used on Hiro, how'd you do it?" Sorbet asked me and I shrugged.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Any magician can use the element to its fullest that they decided to choose if they know how to call for it. I thought to myself as I grabbed my bag and we walked off to where Lassi and Mokka went.
I looked around for them and when I found them I jerked my head to where they were and Hiro saw me.
"They're over here, come on." Hiro said and we all walked over to Lassi and Mokka and they didn't say anything to us as we walked over to them.
"What are you doing?" Sorbet asked.
"We're trying to figure out what Miss Madeleine and Principle Biscotti are talking about." Lassi said to us.
So we all stayed silent and listened. I didn't hear anything but Lassi and Mokka seemed to hear them.
"Oh no! Miss Madeleine is going to Puffoon, the wind planet!" Lassi said and she burst through the door and we followed her, though I did so slower than the rest.
"Miss Madeleine, you can't leave us and go to Puffoon!" Lassi said as I walked in.
"We were listening in by the door and we heard that you had to go to Puffoon to fight pirates and evil wizards." Mokka said to Miss Madeleine.
"This conversation was not meant for your ears!" Miss Madeleine said.
Late for that. I thought as Sorbet said something I hadn't caught.
"Don't worry Sorbet, I will be fine. You all must worry more about your tome reports, they're due next week!" Miss Madeleine said and I looked at everyone and I slowly walked away.
No one took notice of my leave and I walked out to the Meditation Room and began working on my Dark Magic. The bell rang for the next class not even ten minutes later and as I was about to walk out of the room, everyone else appeared.
Eh? I thought we were going to be in the class room, not here. I thought in surprise as everyone walked in, just as surprised to see me.
"When did you get here?" Pico asked me.
"Pico! She's probably been here the entire time." Sorbet said and I nodded.
"But why are we here and not everyone else?" Chai asked.
"I don't know but I bet it's something Pico did!" Lassi said and we all turned to look at Pico.
"Hey, I didn't do anything and even if I did they can't prove anything!" Pico said to us.
"Hiro, Hikari, why don't you go ask Miss Madeleine what she wants?" Mokka asked and I nodded.
"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea." Hiro said and we both walked over to Miss Madeleine. She turned to us and was a little surprised.
"You're here." She said as the others walked over to us.
"What is going on, Miss Madeleine?" Chai asked her and she looked at him and then all of us.
"I think it is time to teach you how to defend yourselves for the universe. But I warn you, this lesson isn't the same spell-flinging so be sure to listen well. The skills I will now teach you are made for extreme circumstances." Miss Madeleine said to us.
"That sounds dangerous and awesome!" Pico said.
"Does that mean you're taking us to Puffoon?!" Lassi asked.
"No, I'm going to the Wind Planet alone. I don't have time to explain why so you all must understand." Miss Madeleine said and then she turned to look at Hiro and me.
"Hiro, Hikari please step forward." Miss Madeleine said and we looked at each other and then we stepped forward.
A monster appeared in front of us instantly and Miss Madeleine stepped back to instruct us how to fight. I already knew most of this stuff, my parents taught me this stuff years ago.
"Hiro and Hikari, you both need to remember this. Hikari, you use Dark Magic all the time so when it's night out, you are at your strongest. The opposite is for you Hiro. When the sun is out, you are at your strongest." She said and we both nodded.
"Now that you know these things you better be ready for the day you go out to the galaxy." Miss Madeleine said to us.
"Does that mean we will be going out to space now? Cool!" Chai said and Miss Madeleine laughed.
"No, no, I'll still be going alone. But I have a feeling that if something happens to me, I want you to be ready." Miss Madeleine said to us.
"But you know, like, everything." Mokka said to her.
"It's just a weird feeling, nothing more nothing less. The important thing is to remember that you have great power and believe in it." Miss Madeleine said and then we all went to our rooms for the night when the bell rang.
Dear Journal: Today the principle is being our teacher and he won't say anything about what happened to Miss Madeleine. All he'll ever say is "It should have been me." Boy, I really hope he'll be fine when she comes back. If she ever does…
I wrote in my journal and class began. As it went on, I looked at Hiro to see he wasn't paying attention to what Principle Biscotti was talking about either. I could tell that he was worried for Miss Madeleine and I looked at my other friends. They too were equally worried; I saw it from the look on their faces. I silently sighed and looked back at Hiro to see his head was down and covered by his arms.
Oh dear, this is so sad. What are we going to do if she doesn't come back? I questioned myself as I turned my attention to the stuttering principle to see he was trying to show us some more magic flinging. I sighed and stood to show the class how to fling Dark Magic once more.