*** 9 YEARS LATER***

I stared at myself in the mirror with a grimace. Ever since me and my Foster uncle moved back to Norrisville, the summer had been a total wonk.

It wasn't exactly my cup of tea.
I would have much rather stayed in Flackville, but uncle Ned felt that Norrisville had a much more "home" feeling to it.

I would never understand that. This place held way too many bad memories.

Even in some nights I could still see the looks of my parents faces after they lie dead. After they were only protecting me and wrongfully taken from me by the ninja.

Of course I was moved to distant relatives, only having to deal with me from my mental antics and problems at school a lot of the times i found myself moving around a lot.

I was lucky enough to stay with my uncle for this long.
We seemed to maintain a decent relationship for three solid years.

Of course he never knew about my cooperation with the sorcerer, for he too sought revenge on the ninja.

I was sure Ned had no idea that the sorcerer even existed, but he was well aware of my ability.

I pressed my lips together as I ran a brush through my hair.

I didn't fancy the idea of starting school while it was already 4 months into session.

I knew I was going to make a total shoob out of myself. I was never the one to ask for directions, but on my own I thought my sense of them could be pretty good alone.

I wore my plain white v neck T shirt, and my dark blue skinny jeans and black flats.

Something too casual. All I wanted to do was made sure I didn't stand out. Not after all the things I've heard about Norrisville high school. There was only one reason why I agreed to ditch home school.

I could see a green tint from the corner of my eye.
I turned my head to my book-bag that was sprawled across the floor.

I sighed and bent over, picking it up. I pulled out my music box and carefully opened it. A small green beam opened, the sorcerers face appeared in front of me.

"I don't start class until another two hours." I said softly. "And even then, I can't guarantee an appearance from the ninja." I stated firmly.

The sorcerer smirked as if to ignore my remarks.

"Do not worry." He snickered, showing his unpleasant teeth.

I rolled my eyes.

"I can guarantee an appearance if you go through with the plan we discussed some time ago... do you remember?" He asked.

I sighed and nodded.

"Yep, shove someone down the dump, get em stanked, ninja shows up. Got it." I replied.

The sorcerer began to cackle as a light of I'm not sure what came into the corner of his eye.

"Excellent." He said softly. "I trust you will not fail me, like McFist?" He mused, his voice starting to catch a tint of anger at his name.

I pursed my lips and shrugged my shoulders.

"We'll see how it goes." I sighed. Before he could say anything, I shut the music box.
I threw it back in my bag and zipped it.

He was really giving me a headache.
Ever since he found out that Norrisville was going to be a permanent home for now, it was nonstop summoning.

Both he and McFist were driving me insane. From all honesty I knew McFist didn't fancy me.

I gave him a run for his money, he knew that I was more likely to succeed and wasn't playing around.

He also knew that if it weren't for me, he probably wouldn't even be around. I saved his butt too many times to count.

I slung my backpack over my shoulder began to make my way downstairs.

Ned stood by his kitchen table and took a sip of his coffee and pressed the newspaper closer to his nose.

"Morning." I said softly as I opened the freezer and pulled out a couple of frozen waffles and popped them into the toaster.

Ned looked up from the newspaper and nodded.

"I can't drop you off at school today, counsel meeting starts early this morning." He replied as he neatly folded the newspaper and took another gulp of his coffee.

I leaned against the counter and folded my arms.

"No biggie. I can leave early and catch the school bus." I replied nonchalantly.

He chuckled lightly and placed the mug onto the table.
He reached over the back of the chair and slid on his jacket.

He gently grabbed the keys from the counter top.

"You think you can do it?" He asked, raising a brow.

I sighed and rolled my eyes as the toasted popped the waffles.
I turned around, and pulled them from the toaster and onto a plate.

"Come on Ned, its tenth grade... how hard could it be?" I snorted and began to butter them.

He sighed and shoved his keys into his pocket.

"I'll be home a little late. I left money in the wall unit jar for take out." He said softly and began to walk out of the kitchen.

I didn't turn around to watch him leave, I nibbled on my waffles until my stomach didn't feel too well.

I had gotten halfway through them, and I threw them out. I grabbed a kitchen towel and wiped my face before grabbing my sweater and trudged out the door.

I walked down the block, and looked around. I turned the corner and hid into an alley way. I closed my eyes and centered my energy, a blue cloud appeared below me and began to levitate me.

A smirked a bit. After years and years of practice I was able to master it. The cloud slowly dissipated and I soon found myself flipping through the sky, being sure to mask myself in the clouds so that no one below me could see.

I laughed as I landed onto the tree a block away from the school.
Doing one last flip, I landed onto the ground, and sighed.

Maybe skipping off building in the sky wasn't such a good idea.
My air collected a lot of moisture and was definitely a little wonked up.
I grumbled in frustrated and finger combed my hair, to get it to stay flat on my head.

I could see a few students walk pass me as if on cue.

I slowly pulled myself a little further inside myself as I withdrew myself from the crowd around me.

The grimace on my face only grew more as I approached the enormous crowd of awaiting students for the first bell.

The mission was probably going to be a lot more harder than I initially thought.

"Oh well... its only tenth grade... how hard could it be?" I muttered to myself.