Chapter 3: The Start of Hell… I Mean School
Author's Note: This story will be updated every Tuesday and Thursday for now on! It will be like that for all of my stories so I can finish them faster.
Joan wakes up the day after she and Cate arrive with a yawn. Joan gets out of bed and stretches her arms making her baby blue tank top lift exposing her midriff. She scratches her leg below the end of her black pajama shorts as she walks over to Cate's bed by the window. "Dea-maidin, medicine beag," (Good morning, little witch) Joan whispers to Cate gently shaking the teen's shoulder. Cate groans as she slowly wakes up her bright green eyes meeting Joan's kind, blue eyes. "Get dressed so we can get some breakfast. Maybe there will be some fruit," Joan smiles going to her dresser and going through her clothes trying to find an outfit for the day. Cate gets out of her bed showing her long sleeve black pajama shirt and black and green plaid pajama pants. She heads over to her dresser and grabs some of her clothes before heading into the bathroom. Joan finally grabs some of her clothes and waits for Cate to leave the bathroom. Minutes later, Cate comes out wearing a short black button down shirt unbuttoned with the end tied around her waist over a lime green tank top. Her black, ripped skinny jeans tucked into her dark green converse high tops.
Joan messes up Cate's hair making the younger girl pout, "I'll fix your hair and makeup once I get dressed," Joan laughs before walking into the bathroom. She comes out a little while later in a grey long sleeve shirt with her black leather jacket over it. She had her red hair tucked into a blue beanie as her black jeans tucked into a pair of blue converse. She sits down on her bed and pats the spot next to her giving Cate the universal symbol of come here. The younger girl sits down so Joan can tame the girl's brown locks into a braid twisting down the right side of her head and ending in the middle and another being placed going down on the left side starting halfway, the rest of the locks being left to fall down Cate's back to end at her mid-back.
Cate smiles and gets up pulling Joan with her "Forget the makeup, I'm hungry," she smiles running out the door. Joan laughs and runs after Cate narrowly missing running into Evie, who was just now leaving her and Mal's dorm. Evie laughs watching the two girls race each other towards the cafeteria as Mal walks out of the dorm room. "Looks like Joan and Cate are either hungry or Cate stole something from Joan," Mal laughs watching the two girls race out of sight. Mal and Evie chuckle as they head to the cafeteria to meet up with Ben, Doug, Jane, Lonnie, Jay, and Carlos.
Cate was sitting in her Chemistry class bored out of her mind. She was only placed in the higher level classes thanks to her high IQ, but in her classes at Macintosh Clan's Academy, she was placed in the same classes as her age group due to her tendency towards mischief. As she boredly pays attention to the teacher, drawing a lyre on the paper she is supposed to be taking notes on. As the teacher looks towards Evie to ask his top student a question, Cate uses the fact that she is in the back corner to her advantage as she casts a small spell on the teacher's lab equipment left on the shelf behind her. A green mist surrounds the equipment and sinks into it making the equipment look ordinary, when it is anything but ordinary.
The teacher walks to the back of the room and grabs his equipment, not noticing how Cate was previously looking at it. He carries it to the front of the room for a demonstration of how to see what color different metals turn the fire of the flame of a Bunsen burner. As he turns on the burner and uses tongs to hold a strip of mercury over the flame, as the flame turns green the teacher's eyes widen in surprise. The flame should be turning blue, not green. Copper burns green, not mercury. The flame begins to spark from the burner turning the tongs burning hot. The teacher drops the tongs with a scream as the flame threatens to burn him, but for some reason never harms him. "Magic…" Evie whispers recognizing the kind of spell, it was one that she had seen in Mal's spell book before and one that her mother told her about. Flames that only cause fear and panic, but never harm. She glances to the back to see Cate's eyes full of mischief. Cate catches Evie's eyes and gives a small wave smirking to prove that she is the culprit. With a wave of Cate's hand, the flame turns blue before winking out of existence.
On the way to Goodness 101, Joan and Cate were talking on their way inside from the woods. They had cut their last class to spar, magic against sword. As they round the corner into the hallway where the classroom is, Evie walks over and takes Cate's arm pulling her into an empty classroom. Cate sits on the top of one of the tables as Evie closes the door and turns towards the mischievous minor goddess who was playing with a pencil she found on the table. "Why did you cast a spell on the Bunsen burner and the tongs? I recognized that spell," Evie says walking over to the young green eyed girl. "How did you recognize the spell? Mal show it to you?" Cate asks leaning towards Evie to flick a lock of Evie's blue hair into her face. "It's in Mal's spell book. And my mother once told me of a spell a lot like that. Fire that causes fear yet no pain…" Evie answers grabbing Cate's hand so the younger teen can't mess with her hair. "No more spells, Cate. You'll get sent to the Isle if you keep doing pranks like that," Evie warns pulling to her feet. "No more magic. I promise," Cate responds with her fingers crossed behind her back. Evie smiles and leads Cate to class to make sure that she actually goes to the class the girl definitely needs the most.
"Good to know you two decided to show up, it would be a shame if you two missed my class," Fairy Godmother says with her arms crossed at the front of the classroom in front of the blackboard. Evie takes her seat next to Mal after apologizing to Fairy Godmother about the tardy since class started ten minutes earlier. Cate goes to sit at the empty table in the back with Joan until Fairy Godmother leads her up to the desk at the very front. "Now let's get to work. When it comes to magic, should we use it? And if we do, to help or to hurt? Or simply for amusement purposes only. Write me an essay on that, it's due at the end of the class," Fairy Godmother says confiscating Cate's spellbook. The VKs, and Joan, take out their paper and pencils before starting to write. They write almost nonstop until a few minutes until the bell giving them time to turn in the essays. "After school, Cate and Joan, report to the tourney field. Ben found out that you two are good athletes and so from this point on, the two of you are part of our soccer team and track team," Fairy Godmother announces at the end of the class right before her students had the chance to leave.