Chapter Thirteen
The World Has Changed
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Students inside the library jumped at the
sound, Tom's quill was even sent flying across the room. Many students dropped
their books and left thinking it was a fire alarm, others gathered their bags
and headed out the door.
My group of friends, however, was unaffected.
Katie and Morgana screamed, grabbed their
stuff and bolted out the door. Andy and Tom jumped in their seat.
Ok I lied, so sue me.
"Why is the alarm going off?" Andy asked,
getting up.
"Uh...I don't know," Fred answered
sarcastically, grabbing his books. "Maybe there's a fire."
"Don't be such a moron Fred. If there was a
fire, a teacher or older student would just put it out."
"Well I didn't hear you come up with a good
idea."
"ALL STUDENTS REPORT TO THE DINING HALL!" A
voice blared through the P.A. "THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!"
"What is that?" Tom asked, looking around him
like an idiot.
"A P.A. system." Andy said, getting his books
as well. "Dad convinced the school to install one. We had them at our
elementary."
"Ah..." I could tell Tom still didn't
understand. We headed out of the library where Morgana and Katie were waiting
for us.
I was talking to Andy about our homework for
DADA. Fred was just ahead of us laughing about some joke he had just told Tom
when he stopped, and looked at the doorway to the school's basement.
"Hey guys, check it out," Fred pointed to the
doorway where a dark figure once stood. "Something's going on over there. Want
to go check it out?" A sly grin crossed Fred's face. I nodded and followed him
about two feet before stopping to listen to Morgana.
"Are you guys crazy?" Morgana asked when she
saw us heading that way. "We'll get in major trouble."
"Who's going to catch us? All the teacher's
are in the Dinning Hall."
"I'll do it," I smiled. Fred and Andy looked
at me and started laughing. "What? A girl can't have a little fun?"
"Sure babe, anything you say." Fred laughed,
shaking his head.
"Oh you!" I smacked his arm. "You two make me
sick."
"I'm not going, it looks creepy" Andy said,
standing off to the side. "How about you guys?"
"Nah, this is definitely not the time to go
exploring the basement," Tom joined him.
"We'll catch you later." Katie and Morgana
hurried down the hall toward the Dining Hall followed closely by the two boys.
Wimps. That's what they were. Oh well, without
them, we could get out of there faster if we had to. "So I guess it's just you
and me. Shall we get going?" We made our way down the hall.
It was cool, but deep down I wished I had
something to make me invisible like a cloak or something. An invisibility cloak
would be cool. Fred probably had one, he had things like that.
I poked my head into the doorway to get a
better look at what I was getting myself into. The stairs were creepy and much
too dark for my liking. Torches hung on the walls, casting dark shadows on the
wall. I stood back, allowing Fred to go first.
"You're a whimp Alex," He muttered and began
decending the stairs.
"Am not!" I whispered, but quickly shut up
because my voice was echoing. I hadn't noticed when we came to the bottom of
the staircase, I was more worried about bugs that might crawl on my face.
"Ewe, gross," A spider scuttled across the
wall nearest me. "Don't they ever clean down here?"
"Alex, if you're gunna complain why don't
you..." Fred stopped suddenly in front of me, causing me to bump into him.
"What?" I asked looking around his shoulders
to what he was looking at. "Oh my god..."
A man stood in front of me, wand thrust in my
face. Oh I wished I had my wand out. Instead of taking it out though, I clung
to Fred's arm, to terrified to move.
"Fred..." I whispered in terror.
Before I knew it a spell was shouted, Fred
screamed my name, and the world went black.
~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~
It was dark when I came to. Of course that
could be because there were no windows in the room and no torches lit. I
checked my watch, but soon discovered I had left it in my room. The room had a
different feeling to it. It was no longer creepy. "Lumos!" I whispered, pulling
my wand out of my pocket. The light allowed me to see that the room felt
different because it was different. We were no longer in the cold, damp
basement of Midwest, but it a fairly large, empty classroom with desks pilled
along the wall.
But where was Fred? Wasn't he with me? I
looked around the ground and discovered a green-cloaked figure lying next to
me. He wasn't dead; I could hear his slow, steady breathing. Slowly I turned
the figure over.
"Fred!" I almost screamed. His face was
covered in dried blood from the cut in the side of his face. It looked pretty
bad from what I could see in the dim light. It was small, but jagged looking,
somewhat like the one my dad's, but it was to the left of his left eye.
"Fred, wake up!" I shook him by his shoulders.
Only then did I notice a sharp pain in my own face. "Come on Fred!"
He opened his eyes with a snap, and then sat
up so suddenly that I nearly fell over.
"Holy..." He ran his fingers through his spiky
blonde hair. "Where are we?"
"I dunno Fred, a classroom of some kind but
I've never seen it before." I looked around again.
"Yeah...This place is different," He scanned
the room then looked at me. "Alex your face!" He pointed to my left eye, the
same place his cut was on his face. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine Fred," I said, then preformed a clean
up charm to get rid of all the blood and clean up our face and robes. "Come on,
let's get out of here."
So together we opened the door of the empty
classroom, which led us into a fairly large hallway. It was a school, we'd
already figured that one out, but what we saw still surprised us. The students,
who were walking the halls, going to classes and stuff like that, is what
surprised me.
"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas
anymore..." Fred looked at a group of students passing by us. No one taking any
notice of us at all. I found this odd as we had different colored robes on then
what other students were wearing.
"When did you come up with that one Dorothy?"
I replied, looking at one particular boy dressed in the school's uniform of
black robes. He was oddly familiar, but his eyes were all wrong. They were
blue, not brown like they were supposed to be. "Isn't that..?"
Fred walked up to the boy with red hair. "Tom!
What are you doing here?"
Of course, he wasn't noticed. What was with
this school? Couldn't they notice two out of place students? Obviously not.
Fred starred at him for a moment; he seemed to
figure out that this boy didn't have brown eyes. "Is your name Tom?"
Again, no answer. Not a blink of an eye.
Thinking that these people were rude, I went up to lend him a needed hand. "Hello,
is your name Tom?" I asked the red-head.
The boy looked at me for a moment, as did his
companion, a black haired boy with green eyes. Those green eyes looked
familiar. The redhead didn't answer for a moment because he was looking at my
uniform. "No," The boy finally said. "It's Ron."
My eyes darted around at the group of three,
Ron and two others. The other boy with black hair and green eyes, the girl with
brown hair and brown eyes. They were them...
Yup, Fred was right, we weren't in Kansas
anymore.
Heck, we weren't even in our own time anymore.
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