"Are we blind?" Simon put out a hand tentatively, blinking rapidly.

"No you're not you idiot! Scrawk!" Something screeched. As he slowly regained his sight, Simon felt something digging into his shoulder. He put his hand there and could feel...feathers? The thing bit his finger.

"Ow!" Simon's head swivelled round to his shoulder and he glared at what had bit him. He found himself staring into the eyes of a parrot. It's eyes twinkled with mischeif and he swore it was smiling. Now there's nothing unusual about it except that there was a parrot on his shoulder whereas a minute ago there had been none there at all. And then Simon looked up, to realise he wasn't the only one who'd been affected. Sam.A had a mini king cobra leaning over him, and was looking bewildered, Charlie had a mini Polar bear, Sam.W a mini shark and Oliver a crow which was squaking annoyingly. What the heck is going on? he wondered.


Nnaemeka dashed into the playground. For some strange reason he felt there was going to be somthing happening there. After overcoming his initial shock of finding that a monkey was grinning at him from the top of his head, he realised that everyone else had an animal of some kind. At first everyone had found the animals a surprise, then had gotten over it and started playing with them. He sighed. It was going to be a long day. Now everyone was heading to the playground he went along as well hoping to see other animals as well. Turning the corner, he saw a massive train of coaches.

"What's that doing here?" he asked no one in particular.

"What? You mean you don't remember?" Someone replied. Nnaemeka shook his head.

"Well you know how the school had built that new block? Well it's there for..." The boy trailed off as the doors to the coaches opened. That was when Nnaemeka remebered. The LOS' sister school was merging with this one. Girls were joining the school.