Blanca woke up that day in her messy dorm to the banging on her door, and the yelling of one of her friends who lived in the room right next to her.
"Blanca! Wake up! It's your turn for wake up call!" Blanca mumbled an incantation that was supposed to be a spell that made the door more soundproof, but actually it made the heavy door unhinge, and crash down on the unfortunate person outside. She winced as she changed into her usual clothes, and came out of her now door-less room. The someone who had been yelling at her door was Chai, a salamander, who couldn't move because almost all of his long, green tail was under the door. He was almost always the early bird...er, salamander, since the mint in his green-house like room helped wake him up. And today, this was where he ended up; his tail under a fallen door, and not being able to get up.
"You didn't have to sic the door on me!" Chai said, fighting back tears from the pain from his tail.
"Sorry, wrong spell. Anyway, can't you just bend the door to your will? It's wood."
"No, I can't control dead wood. By the way, you don't know how much pain a tail can take. It's been stepped on, pulled on, scorched, frozen, pins stuck onto it because someone thought they were good at acupuncture(Blanca winced), tied around a pole..."
"Your tail got tied around a pole?!" Blanca interrupted, laughing.
"Now that would have been fun to see!"
"It was winter! Pico had to keep a fire under my tail until it unstuck!" Chai shot back(A/C: Salamanders are usually amphibians, so I guessed Chai's tail would stick to a freezing cold pole, like a human tongue does).
"Anyway, any bright ideas to get this door off my tail?"
"I'll go wake Mokka up. He should be able to budge this." Blanca said, heading towards the room next to her. It had an Earth sign on the door, so this was definitely Mokka's room. She started banging on the door.
"Mokka! Get your lazy, old, bulky, metal body out here NOW!! Chai's tail is stuck under my door!" There were a lot of rusty creaking until a old bulky robot, Mokka, opened the door.
"Those were a lot of adjectives you yelled at my door, but "lazy" undoubtedly does not fit me." Mokka said as he came out of his room, which was a mess of screws, metal plates, and tools that he needed to repair himself.
"Says you! You usually take a lot of time to wake up, in case you didn't notice! I could take a record of a sonic boom, put it in your room, and you still wouldn't wake up! Come on, you have an immobilized salamander to rescue. By the way, you should oil yourself, you creak more than usual this morning." The earth and light mage soon reached Chai, and Mokka easily lifted the door so that Chai could get his injured tail out. Blanca, in one of her "mostly kind" moments, got her first aid kit and Chai(Who walked a bit awkwardly, since his tail that helped him balance was now injured) dragged himself into his room to get some of his healing herbs, and they patched up the salamander's tail.
Blanca woke up the rest of her friends without too much destroying. Lassi, the wind mage bunny girl, had thrown open the door with an unintentional wind spell, sending Blanca, Chai, Sorbet(whom they woke up before Lassi), and even Mokka crashing into the opposing wall. Pico was worse, since he burned down the door, and it took all of Sorbet's strength of magic to put it out.
"You could at least choose between not waking up or burning your door. According to Mokka, this lower part of the dorm wing is made to be the strongest, but it's violently flammable! You were lucky to be on the same floor as us!" Blanca said peevishly as she woke Pico up by directing a light to shine on his face.
"Jeez, sometimes I wonder if you really wanted to study light magic." Pico said as the six friends headed out to the cafeteria.
"You know, for once, Pico's right," Sorbet said, "I mean, you have your nice moments...but, you're definitely not gentle,"
"Modest." piped up Lassi.
"Selfless." Chai added.
"Angelic."Mokka added too.(He got a lot of weird looks from that)
"And not to mention your temper; it's as worse as Pico's! What?" Lassi added, as she felt Blanca and Pico glaring daggers at her.
"The only reason I didn't study dark magic was because Miss Madeline 'saw some promise in me.'" Blanca explained. "Principal Biscotti said I came from a family of light mages, and he thinks that it's in the gene pool. Also, my name shows some proof. It means 'white' in Spanish." By the time the six came to the cafeteria, and they just had enough time to eat their breakfast before they had to head to class.
--Intermission--
It ended up that the six students didn't have to hurry. Miss Madeline was late, again. By the time she came in, the class had waited for one hour.
"Goooood morning, apprentices!" Miss Madeline said cheerfully.
"Miss Madeline, if you're going to be late everyday, why can't class just start later? That way we'll have more time to sleep and finish any unfinished homework." Blanca suggested, to the cheers of the academy students.
"Oh hohoho, don't worry, Blanca, I won't be late again!" Miss Madeline laughed, as she opened her lesson plan notebook.
After class, the six students came to the meditation room, as their teacher had instructed. She had brought them here to teach them some things that weren't their "standard spell-flinging", but for "extreme circumstances". Blanca was exhausted after the lesson, for she was always battling the Magic Dummies. She fell asleep as soon as she reached her bed in her dorm room. The next day, her teacher had left for Puffoon, and Biscotti just hung his head and said, "It should have been me."