Authors Note – I've been working on this for ages but it's taken me a while to get round to posting it, I had a whole world to create. Hope you all enjoy it.
Disclaimer – I do not own Stargate SG1, Atlantis or any of the characters.
Pegasus Magic School.
Chapter 1
Elizabeth Weir stepped down from the carriage running a hand over her black trousers and red shirt to smooth out the creases that had made themselves at home over the course of her long journey. Her hair was pinned back allowing the wavy dark brown locks to hang loosely around her shoulders. She turned around and accepted her suitcase from the driver. She placed the strap over her shoulder and thanked him before walking down the path and through the large gates into her new life. Pegasus Magic School was one of the best schools in all of Atlantis accepting both VIP students and regular students. Technically Elizabeth should have fallen into the former category but due to circumstances not entirely beyond her control she was in the latter.
The path led to the Admin building up ahead of her but that was not her destination. The grass on either side of the path was full of people, the teachers trying to organise all of the new students that were walking around with somewhat bewildered expressions. Some of the older students were trying to help out whilst others opted to get out of the way and headed deeper into school grounds.
Elizabeth located the table where they were dealing with students whose surnames began with U-Z and joined the queue that had formed there. It took ten minutes for her to reach the front where she gave the young woman her name. The woman then searched through the files behind her and handed her one with her name on it. She took the file and quickly got out of the way to allow the next student forward. Once she was at a sufficient distance she looked at the piece of paper that was clipped to the front of the file.
Elizabeth WeirRaildon Halls, Room 327
Now all she needed to do was figure out where Raildon Halls was, opening her file she was relieved to find the first piece of paper was in fact a map of the school. Taking the paper out she closed the file and placed the map on top of it. Raildon Halls was located at the top left of the map meaning it was at the back of school grounds. She followed the path in the directions the map told her to go reassured she was going the right way by the other new junior students that were heading in the same direction.
She finally stopped outside a large building a small sign informing her that it was indeed Raildon Halls. She went inside and immediately headed up the stairs, the three in her room number telling her that her room was on the third floor. Finally finding the correct room she opened the door and stepped inside. The room was nothing special but it was fairly large and more than adequate for it's purpose. There were two beds, two wardrobes and draws, two bedside tables, one set for her and one set for the room mate she had yet to meet. She just hoped she ended up with someone nice.
She dropped her bag onto the bed nearest the door and placed the file down next to it before walking over to the window. She had a room at the front of the building so all she could see was the rest of the school grounds. The main building blocked part of the view and she could see a few other buildings as well. She walked back over to her bed and sat down picking up the file and opening it. The next piece of paper was a notice to all new students, telling them that their first day was simply a chance to get settled in and learn their way around campus. Classes would begin tomorrow and whereas they would be granted some leniency for the first few days they were expected to be on time for lessons. There would be an assembly that afternoon for all new students in the great hall located in the main building.
The sound of the door opening caught Elizabeth's attention and she turned round to see a young woman walking into the room. She had brown eyes and light brown hair that was currently tied back in a loose pony tail allowing several strands to fall to either side of her face. She was wearing black trousers with a blue shirt and the a suitcase similar to Elizabeth's was currently at her side. She smiled warmly at Elizabeth as she closed the door behind her and walked further into the room.
She immediately dropped her bag on the remaining bed balancing her file on top of it before turning back to Elizabeth. "You must be my room mate, I'm Teyla Emmagan," the woman greeted holding out her hand which Elizabeth happily accepted.
"Elizabeth Weir," she replied trying to figure out why her name sounded familiar before it finally hit her. "Emmagan, as in the Governor of Athos?" she questioned curiously.
"My father," Teyla told her and Elizabeth cocked her head to the side.
"If you're a Governor's daughter shouldn't you have been roomed in Entrix Towers?" she asked. All students that were considered important or of a higher class, including Governors children were roomed in Entrix Towers for the girls and Beltry Towers for the boys. There they could have their own room and those that were fortunate enough to get rooms higher up the tower also got much better views from their windows.
"I should have but I chose to be roomed here instead, the majority of the people in those towers are stereotypical spoilt rich kids. I prefer to be down here with the more normal people than up there with them," Teyla explained honestly and looked at Elizabeth with slight amusement. "I am not the only one that should be up there, surely the daughter of the Governor of Tralos would be given a VIP room."
"That's a long and complicated story but the short version is, I wasn't," Elizabeth replied simply and Teyla obviously her sensed her desire to change the subject because she turned around and opened her suit case.
"Do you know anybody here?" she asked as she began unpacking her clothes and taking them over to the draws.
"No, not really," Elizabeth responded as she too began to unpack her things "Do you?"
"No, before today I haven't really left Athos, I went on sever trips with my father, many of them to Alteran City," Teyla informed her and Elizabeth nodded her head silently as they continued to unpack. The bathroom was located on her side of the room so she took her toiletries, tooth brush and such through the door. Placing everything in the cabinet above the sink before she headed back into the bedroom.
Teyla smiled as she passed by her taking her own toiletries into the bathroom and Elizabeth picked up her now empty suit case placing it in the bottom of her wardrobe and closing the door. Teyla came back into the room as Elizabeth sat down on her bed and once again opened her file to look through the remaining documents. There was a list of rules, the most important of which was that Junior students were not to use magic outside of the class room.
She found her class schedule as well as various other documents such as instructions in the event of emergencies. She skimmed through most of it placing the file in the draw beside her bed keeping only the map and her schedule with her.
"Want to take a look around the school, try and figure out where all our classes are?" Teyla asked having finished unpacking and reading through her own file. Elizabeth nodded after a moment picking up the two remaining documents as she followed Teyla out of the room. There were several young girls in the hall way all attempting to locate their rooms and Teyla and Elizabeth had to dodge and weave their way out of the building.
She took in her surroundings, the large building next to the one she had just exited was Maivra Halls, the senior girls dormitories. Students were divided into two groups, juniors which were students in years 1-3 and Seniors which were students in years 4 and 5. Whilst Seniors had more freedoms and privileges than juniors they also had a lot more work.
The two girls followed the path past the Exam Building and Entrix Towers to find the Gym Building and the Games field. Beyond that was a line of trees which the map told them was all part of school ground right up to the river at the other side. Continuing along the path they passed the main building where all of the class rooms were, the cafeteria and Ardon Halls where the teachers stayed. On their left was Demiro Halls the Junior boys dorms and Temnos Halls, the senior boys dorms. The path led them inbetween Ardon Halls and the Admin Building, past Beltry Towers, the library and finally Senior Halls which was pretty much a common area for Seniors.
Seeing their own dorm building up ahead once again they turned left and headed through one of the many entrances to the main building. Taking their schedules out of their pockets they both began locating their various class rooms discovering that many of their lessons were together.
"I supposed they wanted to keep the two Governor's daughters that weren't staying in the towers together," Teyla stated and although the woman was joking Elizabeth thought it was probably true. From what little she knew it was very unusual for anyone who should fall into the VIP student category to not be roomed in the towers.
With the majority of their class rooms located and both of them fairly sure they could easily find those that remained the two of them decided to head to the cafeteria for lunch, it had taken them the better part of the morning to tour the campus and locate all their class rooms and Elizabeth was fairly sure she was going to get lost several times over the next few days. At eighteen years of age it seemed a somewhat overwhelming change but she was glad to finally be away from home. She had been waiting for this day since her magical ability had begun to manifest itself at the early age of thirteen. Generally magical ability began to manifest in the late teenage years which was why Magic School didn't start until the age of eighteen.
The cafeteria was fairly empty when they arrived with it still being a little early for lunch. They joined the short queue at the counter and got their food before sitting down at an empty table.
"Do you know what you want to do after you leave Pegasus?" Teyla asked as they ate their lunches.
"More or less, I want to go to Alteran City and join the Political Society so that I can make a few waves but I might have to return to Tralos to take over as Governess when my father dies," she informed her and Teyla nodded.
"Don't agree with the Atlantis Courts current political stance, I don't blame you neither do I. My fathers been lobbying against it for years but there's only so much difference one man in the Court can make though I do know there are others who share his opinion," Teyla told her with a shrug.
"What about you, do you have plans after Pegasus?" Elizabeth questioned.
"I want to join the Protectorates Guild but like you I will probably have to take over as Governess of Athos," she replied and Elizabeth nodded her head slowly. The Protectorates Guild were an Elite group of people whose job it was to investigate and prevent the use of Dark Magic. They were well respected because of the types of risks they took in order to protect Atlantis.
Elizabeth had barely noticed but the cafeteria had been quickly filling up whilst they'd been eating. There were now very few tables left completely empty as both old and new students began to arrive for lunch. Fortunately both she and Teyla were finished and they quickly cleared the table throwing their rubbish in the nearby bin before leaving through the closest door.
"Heads up," they heard a male voice shout and Teyla quickly pulled Elizabeth to the side just in time to avoid being hit by in the incoming football. The young brown haired, brown eyed man that was approaching had obviously been the culprit and he looked at her apologetically as Teyla picked up the football and handed it to him. "Sorry about that," he told them directing the statement more at Elizabeth than Teyla.
"It's fine," she replied and before she could carry on walking Teyla decided to start up a conversation.
"You should be more careful where you throw things," she informed him with a smile as she reached her hand out. "I'm Teyla Emmagan, this is Elizabeth Weir."
"Jack O'Neill and you're right I should be more careful where I throw things but just for the record, it wasn't me that threw the ball," Jack stated turning around to the other young man that was approaching. "John, why don't you apologise to the nice ladies that you almost impaled."
The comment made both Elizabeth and Teyla smile and John shrugged apologetically "Sorry."
"There, now we can all be friends," Jack announced "This idiot here is John Sheppard," Jack introduced and Teyla shook his hand.
"Teyla Emmagan and Elizabeth Weir," Teyla informed him and John smiled as he reached for Elizabeth's hand.
"Nice to meet you Elizabeth," he greeted and she reached for his outstretched hand.
"Nice to meet you too," she replied.
"Well, we have to go find other poor innocent women to try and knock out with footballs, but we'll see you around," Jack stated before he and John left. Teyla shook her head and laughed softly.
"Do you wanna go and check out the river?" she questioned hopefully and Elizabeth nodded her head. It took only ten minutes to make it through the tree line that separated the river from the rest of campus. The crystal clear blue water shimmered in the summer sunlight that was currently shinning down on it. The river banks were covered in lush green grass and Elizabeth imagined she'd spend a lot of time here studying.
The two women walked along the side of the river until they reached the chest high wall that surrounded the school grounds. "We should go to the Great Hall, the assembly starts soon," Elizabeth announced as she glanced at her watch. They made their way to the main building and between the two of them remembered the way to the Great Hall.
There were already a lot of students there and many of the seats were already taken. They located two empty ones fairly near the front and sat down quickly before they could be taken. The noise level in the hall grew as more and more students filed in and took it upon themselves to start making friends. After twenty minutes a plump middle aged women entered the room, her brown hair was showing the first sign of grey and the few wrinkles on her face threatened to give away her age to anyone who bothered to look. Her glasses hung loosely around her neck on a short black strap and the black suit she wore gave her an all business look.
She walked up to the podium at the front of the hall and the room quickly fell silent as the students settled down to listen. "Welcome to Pegasus Magic School, I am Principle Morlin. I know for many of you your move to Pegasus will be a big change for you. The first thing I want to do is get some basic rules out of the way, the most important of which is that Junior students must not use magic outside the classrooms. The punishment if you are caught doing so can range from detention to expulsion. Secondly, all students must be in their dorm rooms by curfew, during the summer that is 10.30 pm, during the winter it is 10.00 pm and you are not to leave again until 6am, this is for your safety so please stick to your curfew. Third and this should go without saying but magic is not to be used on another person. There are exceptions made for certain Specialist courses but as you do not select those until your senior years these exceptions do not apply to you."
Elizabeth listened carefully as Principle Morlin continued to list the rules many of which she had read from her file but she figured most students wouldn't have bothered reading it. She heard several students behind her feign disappointment when they were informed Gaining Magic was strictly forbidden, including academic gain. Morlin then went onto talk about the school in general and what was expected of them as students. Half the room looked like they were falling asleep by the time she'd finished and she finally dismissed them with a 'good luck and I hope you enjoy your stay here at Pegasus'.
Teyla eagerly jumped up from her chair all but dragging Elizabeth along with her. They joined the crowd filling out of the door in a surprisingly orderly way considering it was a bunch of eighteen year olds that had just had to endure an hour of an incredibly boring talk. It was a relief when they made it back to their dorm and both girls set to work on writing letter home to let their families know they had arrived safely.
Elizabeth addressed the letter to her father, it was nothing special and there was none of the usual pleasantries and warmth you'd expect in a letter from daughter to father. She let him know she had arrived that her room mate was nice and the school was so big she was probably going to get lost several times. When she'd finished she read it through and was almost sad at the cold emotionless feel it had but letters between her and her father could be no other way.
She folded the paper and put it in the envelope placing it on her nightstand ready to be posted later. Looking at the time she realised it was already getting late and she couldn't believe how fast her first day at Pegasus had gone. Her stomach made a noise to remind her she hadn't eaten since lunch and Teyla looked over at her and smiled.
"Perhaps we should go to the cafeteria before my stomach joins yours," Teyla announced and Elizabeth returned her smile as she stood up to follow her room mate. Pegasus was definitely going to prove to be an interesting chapter in her life.
TBC