Chapter 2
~*~* Dream~*~* "warren" I called out but no answer came "some one please help me!" I yelled but no answer ver came. "Gypsies and elves didn't mix well." Some one said next to me. "What?" I said; "you're one of them!" it said back. "Who are you and where are you and I'm not a gypsy!" I yelled. "Yes you must be or else you wouldn't be able to free him." "Free who?" "The evil one who destroys all the first one of us." "First one of what?" I called out as the world grew hazily. "The first demare." I heard it say before I woke up. ~*~*End*~*~
"Hello? Earth to elf girl?" I smiled up at mystic, one of my best friends. "She's daydreaming again." I heard mark groan. I stuck out my tongue."So did anyone do Professor Butler's astrometry essay?" mark asked as every groaned at the mention of dohanafe's most hated teacher. It was common knowledge that professor butler hated every one except for his prized students that actually did good in what we refer to as "guess work". None of us of course were his teacher's pet. "of course I did, he sent out letters to all the parents about the dumb thing!" I wailed. "Yeah I know but that doesn't mean that your parents had to find out." Marked grinned as mystic, sky, and I all rolled our eyes. Mark was of course the prankster of the group. Always tripping people in archery class or exploding bubble bursting bungs on the 1st year girls' room. "So have ya gotten your class schedules yet?" I asked as very one shook there head "no". we were all currently on the dohanafe airways, our schools jumbo jet that would take us to school every year from platform 7 and ½ at King's Cross station. Just then the door opened to our compartment and a little red head ran in. "hide me, please!" she wailed as two large boys followed in after her arrive. "Where is the runt?" one asked as the little girl hide behind an amused mark. "Well hello, Bruce, so nice to see you too." Mystic said as she walked up to the bully. "Move it little elf." The other boy threatens as Bruce smirked. "And I would do that because.?" mystic said as sky and I jumped out of our seats to stand by her. "Because I'll beat the crap out of you if you don't!" he yelled. "I'd like to see you try." She challenged as a loud explosion hit the room. "What the crap?" I said as I waved the smoke away from my face. "Mark!" I heard sky groan. "What he had it coming!" I heard him whine. "Where are you guy's?" mystic yelled through the smoke. "Over here come look what he did to them." Sky yelled. "Oh no." I groaned as I walked over to the voices and met up with mystic. Sky and mark were kneeling on the floor in front of two giant slugs as the little red hair stared at them behind marks back. "Mark! How in the world did you manage this?" "No big deal I found a smelly stone at zonkes and had to try it out with a bit of slug juice." "Is that all you used?" sky asked. "Well no, I had to have a little bit of irowno." He muttered. "Mark!" I yelled "that's illegal!" "Well I found it!" he yelled back. "Where the black market?" sky demanded. "maybe." He shot back. Then the door opened again and a very large object in a cloak appeared. "What have ya been doing??" a low voice demanded. "Uh nothing sir." The little red haired girl squeaked. Ummm I know that voice I thought. As I distantly heard the person laugh under his breath. "Well you see." I said strolling forward. "These two guys were being idiots so we turned them into the slugs using illegal powders and stones." Sky dropped her mouth, mystic's eyes popped out of her head it seemed, mark grow really red, and the red head squeaked and ran back behind mark. "Ahh well then I'll just have to punish you right?" he sighed and threw his cloak over my head and muttered "elusifekira" and with a rush of wind we disappeared with a *pop*. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "Hello Charlie." I said as he threw the cloak off me. "How did you know?" he asked amazed. "Please I'd recognize your voice anywhere." I said then covered my mouth like I had just told a secret. Stupid I though as he grinned. "So where are we?" I asked looking around at the small room. "In a small cabin I put dislocating spell on so no one knows it exist except for teachers; I'm not powerful enough to keep them out." "Well aren't we up-to- date on our magic?" I smirked. "Yep I've practicing that vanishing spell since we got back from the cave." "Ohh, just in case right?" "yeah." Then the room got silent. "So anything you wanted to talk about?" I offered. "Yeah umm I wanted to know something about...us." he finished. "Me too." I said. "I umm do like you." Charlie said and my heart almost fluttered. "But you're my sister's best friend and it feels so weird." And then my heart dropped about 50 feet and crashed. "I mean not in a bad way weird." My heart was lifted slightly. "But I don't think it would work." Then my heart fell again to be run over with a steam roller. "Ok so were just friends, right?" he asked. I nodded I couldn't speak. "Well um ok!" he said in an attempt to be perky, but he failed miserably. "Um how do I get out?" I asked as my eyes grew foggy. "Over there." He pointed. I walked over which did not take long considering the size of the room and touched the wall as he reached and grabbed my shirt. I stopped as the door opened. Slowly he turned me around and I dropped my head. He put his hand under my chin and lifted my face upwards, and I tried so very hard to avoid his piercing blue eyes, but I failed. "Constance...," he muttered before he put his mouth over mine. Sudden the song "heaven" by dj Sammy and yanou played inside my head. No it's not right I screamed inside as I suddenly pushed him back and ran out of the room tears streaming down my face blurring my vision so I did not see the person standing next to the door staring in at us the whole time. ~*~*~*~*~
"Home sweet home." Mark called as we boarded off the plane. "Where did Connie go?" mystic asked as I popped up behind the group. "Right here!" "Oh, what happened and was it really Charlie underneath the cloak?" mystic asked. "Yeah it was I know because he's been practicing that spell all summer long." Sky said as she rolled her eyes. "Yeah it was and man did ya look so scared when I told him about the illegal stones and stuff!" I laughed. "Well I mean it's not exactly something you would tell complete strangers!" sky whined. "What about that little red head do you think she'll tell?" I asked as sky and mystic laughed as mark turned bright red. "No I don't think so, Rosalina, has a little crush on markie." Mystic taunted. I laughed. "Well all that happened was he went back to his cabin and I went to the snack bar." "Cool, did you get any M&M"s?" mark asked glad of the segway. "Nope not a chance." I said as we headed over to the border line of trees. "1st years over here!" a voice yelled as kinoko, the schools keeper of keys gathered all the 1st years around him. "Hey kinoko!" we waved as he waved back and the little red head from our cabin waved too making mark blush. "So what did ya do with Bruce and Chris?" I asked as sky snickered. "We threw them over board." Mark said causally as mystic grinned. "No really what did you do?" I asked as sky started laughing. "Tell you when we get inside." Mystic whispered as she pointed to the horse draw sleighs. As the four of us climbed inside the dark green sleighs drawn up by two white horses, mark whispered." I changed them back of course, and knocked them unconscious" "So where did you put the body or better yet what did you do to the body?" I asked as we headed through the forest. "We ummm put it inside the mob squad's room with out their pants on and no shirt." Sky whispered as I burst out laughing. "how?" "Well mark here put up a sign that said lost lipstick in the girls bathroom, and of course they went to go check, so we ...." she continued. "Oh my god what happened when they found them?" "No idea we ran like hell." mystic said. "Oh man I can't believe I missed that!" I said. "Yeah well don't worry I got a billion other tricks a coming." Mark smiled. "Oh no." sky, mystic and I chorused. ~*~*~*~*~*~ "Welcome all to Dohanafe School of elfish magic and crafts, I am your headmaster Christy locklear." Our beloved leader said as we all sat at a table in the dining hall. The dining hall was very large and had tons of round tables that seated 6 or 8. In the front of the room a long table stood where all our teachers and our headmaster sat. On our tables wooden plates rested, empty. At our table sat two 4th years, named angelica and Marie and sky, mystic, mark, and of course me. "Now schedules were handed out on the plane if you did not receive yours please come seek your house leader after diner. There are two houses, nohasasi, for our strong boys and ikluramasi for are brave girls. Professor iris heads the girls and Professor Orji heads the boys. Please note hogsmead visits are for 3rd years and up, and no one is allowed out of school boundaries without permission from me. Please use extreme caution when walking between rooms the bridges are very strong and the earth very soft, however I wish you all to be wary never the less. Now before I put you to sleep let us fill you stomachs with food!" cheers went through the room as menu's appeared in front of us. Opening mine up I looked up and down the menu and found the balrog soup (hehe I know what your thinking all you lord of the rings fan's, and yes I know how gross it sounds) "balrog soup," I said into my plate and *pop* my soup appeared. Catching onto the idea the 1st years all ordered as sky ordered "the pig sandwich" (sorry to all vegetarians) and mark and mystic "the elfin turkey delight." "Delicious," I announced after trying my soup. "boo." I friendly voice yelled from the middle of the table as Hogwarts ghost appeared around the room. "Hello Sir Nicholas." We said to the ghost inside our table. The Hogwarts ghost often paid us a visit but we had no ghost living here in dohanafe. "Hello, hello our hoggwarts students aren't due till tomorrow, Dumbledore got the magic flue and ordered all students away so I though I might pay a visit." "Magic flue" I asked. "Yes it causes the victim to turn bright green and to sing at the top of their lungs "row row row your boat" until the flue goes away." He chuckled. "It's a 24 hour thing so panic not my friends" he said as he swept off to the head table scaring a few 1st years. "Poor Dumbledore." I said as every one nodded. After every one had finished their meal professor locklear stood up once again and every one fell silent. "Now off to bed young elves and those who do not have their schedules please seek your leaders now." And so every one filed out one door or another that lead to our school's many bridges outside that lead you through the tree's into all the different parts of dohanafe. (Now I should explain that the school is up In 18 or 20 very large trees and is mimicked to be large in side the tree for classrooms and the many tree houses for bedrooms. bridges of course connect the trees) "Hey did ya get your schedules?" I asked as every nodded their head. "I didn't." I wailed. "Well go get it, professor iris is up there." Mark said pointing to the tall teacher standing by the head table. "later." I muttered as the group left the room and head over through the 5 trees towards the girls house and mark headed though a different door towards the boy's house. Not a lot of boys' knew where the girl's tree houses were or vice versa but mark knew where every one stayed at and of course being the prankster he was all the secret passageway's too. In return Sky, mystic, and I knew where everything was as well. "Professor?" I called as the tall professor turned around. "Hello Constance, have a nice holiday?" she asked. "Wonderful as always, I was wondering if you had my schedule." "Oh you lost yours too?" she asked gesturing to the small line of 1st years begging for there lost schedules. "Yes, sorry planes always make me feel ill must have dropped it on the way to the toilet." "I'll bet, I'm positive it didn't get lost inside a dung bomb, or a bubble bust bung, right?" she grinned. "Of course not!" I said as she handed me the parchment with my doom for the next few months. Smiling she returned to the doomed1st years as I walked over to the door that would lead me to my tree house. ~*~*~*~*~*~
The bright September sun crept through the thin curtains as it made its way through the tangle of branches and leaves that covered our snug home. Simultaneously eight girls turned around in their comfortable hammocks. "Bright light!" Ashley shrieked as she and many others pulled their dark green covers over their head. "Can't they put up thicker curtains?" Laura grumbled as everyone else grunted in agreement. "Rise and shine elves it's time to start the day!" a cheerful voice called through the room. "No!" I moaned as others joined in. "it's too early!" some one, maybe sky, yelled. "Go away!" mystic hollered as Melissa walked into our room. "Up now, breakfast is already being served and classes start in like 30 minutes!" she yelled there were three prefects for the iklurama and three for the nohasasi because the tree houses were two story, ours containing 1st years on the bottom and 2nd years on the top. Melissa was the perfect for our tree house and it was her job as well as the other two to wake everyone up and to make sure we didn't burn the school down. She was a 6th year in her last year here at dohanafe and very perky, almost too perky. "Now up breakfast!" she repeated still smiling. Breakfast? I thought as I opened my eyes. The room had not changed a bit, there were strong walls made of bamboo and large windows covered in thin bright green curtains. Our hammocks were placed four on one side four on the other side with Chester drawers in between each bed. Home at last I thought. Home and safe finally. ~*~*~*~*~*~
"Did you have another dream last night?" a voice whispered in my ear. "Charlie!" I hissed as I turned around. "You scared the crap out of me!" "sorry." He muttered keeping his voice down low so others could not hear. "No I didn't have a dream last night about," I lowered my voice, "warren." "good." He smiled and walked over to his gang of 2nd year boys. Ok I though as I turned around and headed over to the buffet line. "Morning!" sky called as she joined me in line. "poharan." I said back using the elfish term for good morning. "So ready for our first day of school as 2nd years?" Laura, one of our fellow 2nd years and room mate asked. "Are we ever ready?" I asked as Laura laughed. "No I guess not. So what is our first class to began the year?" I asked sky who out her schedule. "Crystals and Stones." "joy." I said as I loaded my plate with eggs. "Omg did ya see the new 2nd year?" Claire, another 2nd year and room mate, asked running up to us. "No way where?" noel asked jumping in front of Claire out of now where. "No idea just heard about it." Claire said as she shrugged her shoulders. Claire had a rare gift of impeccable hearing and was always gossiping using her beloved gift where as noel was always putting on make up and dressing in short skirts and dumping one her 18 boyfriends everyday as well as gaining one everyday. (By now if you counted you have meet 7 out of 8 of my room mates, the other, Amanda as very rarely seen outside of the library.) "So what class do we have next again?" Laura asked as we left the buffet line. "Crystals and Stones." Sky repeated. "Right, well later." She called as she and Claire walked over to a vacant table and we walked over to our table by mark. "So spill, I want to hear all the pranks you were telling us about last night in detail, now." I commanded as we sat down. "Well as you know I went to Egypt this summer and didn't really have time for prank thinking but," "was it hot there?" mystic interrupted. "yeah it was but inside the pyramids it was cool. We saw all kinds of dead stuff rotting." "How sanitary," sky remarked as we all dropped our forks and ceased chewing. Swallowing my mouthful of eggs I waded up my napkin and threw it at him. "Great now I've lost my appetite!" "sorry." He mumbled as he continued to eat. ~*~*~*~*~
"I heard we got a new professor!" Claire said as we walked across the bridge towards the crystals and stones classroom. "Really?" I asked as we drew near the wooden door. "Yeah and they say it's a." she stopped as we opened the door. "Ghost?" I finished as a blur of white smiled down at us. "Hello!" the ghost called out. "poharan." We chorused back as everyone took there seats. "I'm your new stones and crystals teacher Professor Yaron. "Now if you would all please take out your crystals and stones level 2 book.." and so started the first lesson of the day. Wow who knew that dead teachers could be just as boring as live teachers? I wrote to sky on my new textbook, not me, it's amazing though how they can take a cool subject and make it extremely boring. She wrote back, I laughed and the professor turned to look at us. "Miss sky!" he called out suddenly making sky jump. "Yes sir?" "What are the three basic stones of life?" "rafee, safemahawa, and nomakise." "Correct, and what do each of these stones stand for?" "the 3 colors of arine." "good and tell me what are in plain English the three colors?" "Red, yellow, and black." "Very good, and now the final question." Sky smirked she knew what the last one would be, who is arine? "What would I get if I mixed blue and orange together?" "Arine was.. Wait, what was the question?" he repeated it and sky turned re4d. "Umm black?" she guessed. "Incorrect, and you were doing so well in answering all the questions my 1st years were telling me about." She slumped in her chair and turned redder. That little. I thought but stopped as he turned to me. "Miss Constance." He smiled. On no here we go I thought as I sat up straight and smiled. ~*~*~*~*~
"Well that went well." I said as we walked out of the schools now most hated classroom. "He's as worst as butler!" mystic growled. "Maybe they're related?" I suggested. "Maybe." Sky agreed, she was still red. "So where is mark? Didn't he have herbology first?" "Yeah I think so, lets go check professor genisaw classroom is over there." I pointed. And so we made our way through the twisting bridges to the professor's classroom when a loud explosive erupted from inside the tree. "Oh no." we all groaned as people began running out of the room, some covered in green slime. "Where's mark?" I yelled over the noise. "I don't know!" mystic yelled. Then unharmed, of course mark came walking out of the room. "Gobling goblin's gooze, had to try it." We smiled before we hit him upside the head. "What was that for?" he whined. "For pulling a prank without us!" mystic yelled as we all laughed. "So where to next?" mark asked. "Care of magical creatures." Sky said as he grinned. "Fun." He said as we walked down the stair that wrapped around the trunk of the tree to the ground floor. "What do you think it is?" "No clue, must be big though." Sky said as the cage rattled. "I think it's alive." "Well no duh it's moving isn't it?" "No that's not what I meant! They're talking." "They? There's more than one?" Charlie asked walking over to us. "I think so I can hear them talking." Claire said. "No duh you can." Mark said as Claire turned red. "No I think Claire's right I can hear something." I said leaning forward. "You can and there are six to be exact." Professor iris said popping up from behind the cage. "What are they?" some one asked. "Brownies." Professor iris said as mystic and a few others tries to muffle their laughs. Professor iris smiled. "Now if you would all take your seats class may began." We all ran over to the long benches that were circling the cage. "Now who can tell me what brownies are?" several hands shoot up. "Little evil buggers that's what." Some one mumbled and every one laughed. The professor smiled. "Well yes they can be vicious but they are very pleasant people." "Their people?" I whispered to sky who laughed. "There are saferavfende." Mystic quoted. "Correct which means in plain English, servant of the faeries." "Now before I open the cage, please note that yes the are small but armed. Although their arrows can't not kill you they can sting you pretty bad." Then she walked over to the rattling cage and opened the door. "No one moved and the cage stopped rattling. "Brownies." The professor called out in elfish. One by one like little soldiers the tiny men walked out. Now when I say tiny I mean literary they were about 3 inches tall and looked exactly like a person would. "Now as you can see they look exactly as we do, and these brownies are all men, the women are quicker and not as easily caught. These 6 right here were found by kinoko." I smiled. Kinoko loved all creatures and always has some illegal pet hidden in his cottage. "Now as you can see they each have tiny little bows and arrows. And so the lesson droned on. We all learned about there many uses and how they spoke faerie and some elfish, only the faerie queen could give them commands, if you wanted them to do something for you had to ask very politely, and so on. "Now for home work I want each of you to write a 3 feet essay on the brownies due tomorrow class dismiss." She said as we all groaned. "Well there goes this after noon." Sky moaned as mystic nodded. ~*~*~*~*~
Physical education or just p.e wasn't really all that horrible it was the coaches that made it awful. Coach Jake and coach Shawon were married and although coach shawon was actually nice her husband wasn't exactly best friend material. For our p.e. We had to change clothes and wear these black stretch pants with knee high boots. A loose long green shirt laced up with black leather and a long black cloak for warmth. Our p.e. Gym consisted of ropes, balancing beams, a track, and a wall you had to climb. Today the coaches were staring us out with rope climbing. I grabbed my long thick rope and put my right foot over my left and twisted it around the tree and stared climbing biting my lower lip, as I normally do when I get nervous. I hate this class I thought as a loud scream pierced through the air and Amanda fell from the top of the rope to the ground, her rope on fire.
~*~*~*~*~*~ Ok I realize this chapter was a little long but I wanted to go into detail about the school. Ok next chapter is some startling news and some Charlie and Connie sneaking out of dorms! Also we will get to see dumbledore, chrissy locklear's cousin as well as we will found out about the magical stones of arina and mono!! Oh yeah and who was it that saw Charlie and Connie kissing? Please review and I Luvs u bunches lily, mystic, and sky!
~*~* Dream~*~* "warren" I called out but no answer came "some one please help me!" I yelled but no answer ver came. "Gypsies and elves didn't mix well." Some one said next to me. "What?" I said; "you're one of them!" it said back. "Who are you and where are you and I'm not a gypsy!" I yelled. "Yes you must be or else you wouldn't be able to free him." "Free who?" "The evil one who destroys all the first one of us." "First one of what?" I called out as the world grew hazily. "The first demare." I heard it say before I woke up. ~*~*End*~*~
"Hello? Earth to elf girl?" I smiled up at mystic, one of my best friends. "She's daydreaming again." I heard mark groan. I stuck out my tongue."So did anyone do Professor Butler's astrometry essay?" mark asked as every groaned at the mention of dohanafe's most hated teacher. It was common knowledge that professor butler hated every one except for his prized students that actually did good in what we refer to as "guess work". None of us of course were his teacher's pet. "of course I did, he sent out letters to all the parents about the dumb thing!" I wailed. "Yeah I know but that doesn't mean that your parents had to find out." Marked grinned as mystic, sky, and I all rolled our eyes. Mark was of course the prankster of the group. Always tripping people in archery class or exploding bubble bursting bungs on the 1st year girls' room. "So have ya gotten your class schedules yet?" I asked as very one shook there head "no". we were all currently on the dohanafe airways, our schools jumbo jet that would take us to school every year from platform 7 and ½ at King's Cross station. Just then the door opened to our compartment and a little red head ran in. "hide me, please!" she wailed as two large boys followed in after her arrive. "Where is the runt?" one asked as the little girl hide behind an amused mark. "Well hello, Bruce, so nice to see you too." Mystic said as she walked up to the bully. "Move it little elf." The other boy threatens as Bruce smirked. "And I would do that because.?" mystic said as sky and I jumped out of our seats to stand by her. "Because I'll beat the crap out of you if you don't!" he yelled. "I'd like to see you try." She challenged as a loud explosion hit the room. "What the crap?" I said as I waved the smoke away from my face. "Mark!" I heard sky groan. "What he had it coming!" I heard him whine. "Where are you guy's?" mystic yelled through the smoke. "Over here come look what he did to them." Sky yelled. "Oh no." I groaned as I walked over to the voices and met up with mystic. Sky and mark were kneeling on the floor in front of two giant slugs as the little red hair stared at them behind marks back. "Mark! How in the world did you manage this?" "No big deal I found a smelly stone at zonkes and had to try it out with a bit of slug juice." "Is that all you used?" sky asked. "Well no, I had to have a little bit of irowno." He muttered. "Mark!" I yelled "that's illegal!" "Well I found it!" he yelled back. "Where the black market?" sky demanded. "maybe." He shot back. Then the door opened again and a very large object in a cloak appeared. "What have ya been doing??" a low voice demanded. "Uh nothing sir." The little red haired girl squeaked. Ummm I know that voice I thought. As I distantly heard the person laugh under his breath. "Well you see." I said strolling forward. "These two guys were being idiots so we turned them into the slugs using illegal powders and stones." Sky dropped her mouth, mystic's eyes popped out of her head it seemed, mark grow really red, and the red head squeaked and ran back behind mark. "Ahh well then I'll just have to punish you right?" he sighed and threw his cloak over my head and muttered "elusifekira" and with a rush of wind we disappeared with a *pop*. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "Hello Charlie." I said as he threw the cloak off me. "How did you know?" he asked amazed. "Please I'd recognize your voice anywhere." I said then covered my mouth like I had just told a secret. Stupid I though as he grinned. "So where are we?" I asked looking around at the small room. "In a small cabin I put dislocating spell on so no one knows it exist except for teachers; I'm not powerful enough to keep them out." "Well aren't we up-to- date on our magic?" I smirked. "Yep I've practicing that vanishing spell since we got back from the cave." "Ohh, just in case right?" "yeah." Then the room got silent. "So anything you wanted to talk about?" I offered. "Yeah umm I wanted to know something about...us." he finished. "Me too." I said. "I umm do like you." Charlie said and my heart almost fluttered. "But you're my sister's best friend and it feels so weird." And then my heart dropped about 50 feet and crashed. "I mean not in a bad way weird." My heart was lifted slightly. "But I don't think it would work." Then my heart fell again to be run over with a steam roller. "Ok so were just friends, right?" he asked. I nodded I couldn't speak. "Well um ok!" he said in an attempt to be perky, but he failed miserably. "Um how do I get out?" I asked as my eyes grew foggy. "Over there." He pointed. I walked over which did not take long considering the size of the room and touched the wall as he reached and grabbed my shirt. I stopped as the door opened. Slowly he turned me around and I dropped my head. He put his hand under my chin and lifted my face upwards, and I tried so very hard to avoid his piercing blue eyes, but I failed. "Constance...," he muttered before he put his mouth over mine. Sudden the song "heaven" by dj Sammy and yanou played inside my head. No it's not right I screamed inside as I suddenly pushed him back and ran out of the room tears streaming down my face blurring my vision so I did not see the person standing next to the door staring in at us the whole time. ~*~*~*~*~
"Home sweet home." Mark called as we boarded off the plane. "Where did Connie go?" mystic asked as I popped up behind the group. "Right here!" "Oh, what happened and was it really Charlie underneath the cloak?" mystic asked. "Yeah it was I know because he's been practicing that spell all summer long." Sky said as she rolled her eyes. "Yeah it was and man did ya look so scared when I told him about the illegal stones and stuff!" I laughed. "Well I mean it's not exactly something you would tell complete strangers!" sky whined. "What about that little red head do you think she'll tell?" I asked as sky and mystic laughed as mark turned bright red. "No I don't think so, Rosalina, has a little crush on markie." Mystic taunted. I laughed. "Well all that happened was he went back to his cabin and I went to the snack bar." "Cool, did you get any M&M"s?" mark asked glad of the segway. "Nope not a chance." I said as we headed over to the border line of trees. "1st years over here!" a voice yelled as kinoko, the schools keeper of keys gathered all the 1st years around him. "Hey kinoko!" we waved as he waved back and the little red head from our cabin waved too making mark blush. "So what did ya do with Bruce and Chris?" I asked as sky snickered. "We threw them over board." Mark said causally as mystic grinned. "No really what did you do?" I asked as sky started laughing. "Tell you when we get inside." Mystic whispered as she pointed to the horse draw sleighs. As the four of us climbed inside the dark green sleighs drawn up by two white horses, mark whispered." I changed them back of course, and knocked them unconscious" "So where did you put the body or better yet what did you do to the body?" I asked as we headed through the forest. "We ummm put it inside the mob squad's room with out their pants on and no shirt." Sky whispered as I burst out laughing. "how?" "Well mark here put up a sign that said lost lipstick in the girls bathroom, and of course they went to go check, so we ...." she continued. "Oh my god what happened when they found them?" "No idea we ran like hell." mystic said. "Oh man I can't believe I missed that!" I said. "Yeah well don't worry I got a billion other tricks a coming." Mark smiled. "Oh no." sky, mystic and I chorused. ~*~*~*~*~*~ "Welcome all to Dohanafe School of elfish magic and crafts, I am your headmaster Christy locklear." Our beloved leader said as we all sat at a table in the dining hall. The dining hall was very large and had tons of round tables that seated 6 or 8. In the front of the room a long table stood where all our teachers and our headmaster sat. On our tables wooden plates rested, empty. At our table sat two 4th years, named angelica and Marie and sky, mystic, mark, and of course me. "Now schedules were handed out on the plane if you did not receive yours please come seek your house leader after diner. There are two houses, nohasasi, for our strong boys and ikluramasi for are brave girls. Professor iris heads the girls and Professor Orji heads the boys. Please note hogsmead visits are for 3rd years and up, and no one is allowed out of school boundaries without permission from me. Please use extreme caution when walking between rooms the bridges are very strong and the earth very soft, however I wish you all to be wary never the less. Now before I put you to sleep let us fill you stomachs with food!" cheers went through the room as menu's appeared in front of us. Opening mine up I looked up and down the menu and found the balrog soup (hehe I know what your thinking all you lord of the rings fan's, and yes I know how gross it sounds) "balrog soup," I said into my plate and *pop* my soup appeared. Catching onto the idea the 1st years all ordered as sky ordered "the pig sandwich" (sorry to all vegetarians) and mark and mystic "the elfin turkey delight." "Delicious," I announced after trying my soup. "boo." I friendly voice yelled from the middle of the table as Hogwarts ghost appeared around the room. "Hello Sir Nicholas." We said to the ghost inside our table. The Hogwarts ghost often paid us a visit but we had no ghost living here in dohanafe. "Hello, hello our hoggwarts students aren't due till tomorrow, Dumbledore got the magic flue and ordered all students away so I though I might pay a visit." "Magic flue" I asked. "Yes it causes the victim to turn bright green and to sing at the top of their lungs "row row row your boat" until the flue goes away." He chuckled. "It's a 24 hour thing so panic not my friends" he said as he swept off to the head table scaring a few 1st years. "Poor Dumbledore." I said as every one nodded. After every one had finished their meal professor locklear stood up once again and every one fell silent. "Now off to bed young elves and those who do not have their schedules please seek your leaders now." And so every one filed out one door or another that lead to our school's many bridges outside that lead you through the tree's into all the different parts of dohanafe. (Now I should explain that the school is up In 18 or 20 very large trees and is mimicked to be large in side the tree for classrooms and the many tree houses for bedrooms. bridges of course connect the trees) "Hey did ya get your schedules?" I asked as every nodded their head. "I didn't." I wailed. "Well go get it, professor iris is up there." Mark said pointing to the tall teacher standing by the head table. "later." I muttered as the group left the room and head over through the 5 trees towards the girls house and mark headed though a different door towards the boy's house. Not a lot of boys' knew where the girl's tree houses were or vice versa but mark knew where every one stayed at and of course being the prankster he was all the secret passageway's too. In return Sky, mystic, and I knew where everything was as well. "Professor?" I called as the tall professor turned around. "Hello Constance, have a nice holiday?" she asked. "Wonderful as always, I was wondering if you had my schedule." "Oh you lost yours too?" she asked gesturing to the small line of 1st years begging for there lost schedules. "Yes, sorry planes always make me feel ill must have dropped it on the way to the toilet." "I'll bet, I'm positive it didn't get lost inside a dung bomb, or a bubble bust bung, right?" she grinned. "Of course not!" I said as she handed me the parchment with my doom for the next few months. Smiling she returned to the doomed1st years as I walked over to the door that would lead me to my tree house. ~*~*~*~*~*~
The bright September sun crept through the thin curtains as it made its way through the tangle of branches and leaves that covered our snug home. Simultaneously eight girls turned around in their comfortable hammocks. "Bright light!" Ashley shrieked as she and many others pulled their dark green covers over their head. "Can't they put up thicker curtains?" Laura grumbled as everyone else grunted in agreement. "Rise and shine elves it's time to start the day!" a cheerful voice called through the room. "No!" I moaned as others joined in. "it's too early!" some one, maybe sky, yelled. "Go away!" mystic hollered as Melissa walked into our room. "Up now, breakfast is already being served and classes start in like 30 minutes!" she yelled there were three prefects for the iklurama and three for the nohasasi because the tree houses were two story, ours containing 1st years on the bottom and 2nd years on the top. Melissa was the perfect for our tree house and it was her job as well as the other two to wake everyone up and to make sure we didn't burn the school down. She was a 6th year in her last year here at dohanafe and very perky, almost too perky. "Now up breakfast!" she repeated still smiling. Breakfast? I thought as I opened my eyes. The room had not changed a bit, there were strong walls made of bamboo and large windows covered in thin bright green curtains. Our hammocks were placed four on one side four on the other side with Chester drawers in between each bed. Home at last I thought. Home and safe finally. ~*~*~*~*~*~
"Did you have another dream last night?" a voice whispered in my ear. "Charlie!" I hissed as I turned around. "You scared the crap out of me!" "sorry." He muttered keeping his voice down low so others could not hear. "No I didn't have a dream last night about," I lowered my voice, "warren." "good." He smiled and walked over to his gang of 2nd year boys. Ok I though as I turned around and headed over to the buffet line. "Morning!" sky called as she joined me in line. "poharan." I said back using the elfish term for good morning. "So ready for our first day of school as 2nd years?" Laura, one of our fellow 2nd years and room mate asked. "Are we ever ready?" I asked as Laura laughed. "No I guess not. So what is our first class to began the year?" I asked sky who out her schedule. "Crystals and Stones." "joy." I said as I loaded my plate with eggs. "Omg did ya see the new 2nd year?" Claire, another 2nd year and room mate, asked running up to us. "No way where?" noel asked jumping in front of Claire out of now where. "No idea just heard about it." Claire said as she shrugged her shoulders. Claire had a rare gift of impeccable hearing and was always gossiping using her beloved gift where as noel was always putting on make up and dressing in short skirts and dumping one her 18 boyfriends everyday as well as gaining one everyday. (By now if you counted you have meet 7 out of 8 of my room mates, the other, Amanda as very rarely seen outside of the library.) "So what class do we have next again?" Laura asked as we left the buffet line. "Crystals and Stones." Sky repeated. "Right, well later." She called as she and Claire walked over to a vacant table and we walked over to our table by mark. "So spill, I want to hear all the pranks you were telling us about last night in detail, now." I commanded as we sat down. "Well as you know I went to Egypt this summer and didn't really have time for prank thinking but," "was it hot there?" mystic interrupted. "yeah it was but inside the pyramids it was cool. We saw all kinds of dead stuff rotting." "How sanitary," sky remarked as we all dropped our forks and ceased chewing. Swallowing my mouthful of eggs I waded up my napkin and threw it at him. "Great now I've lost my appetite!" "sorry." He mumbled as he continued to eat. ~*~*~*~*~
"I heard we got a new professor!" Claire said as we walked across the bridge towards the crystals and stones classroom. "Really?" I asked as we drew near the wooden door. "Yeah and they say it's a." she stopped as we opened the door. "Ghost?" I finished as a blur of white smiled down at us. "Hello!" the ghost called out. "poharan." We chorused back as everyone took there seats. "I'm your new stones and crystals teacher Professor Yaron. "Now if you would all please take out your crystals and stones level 2 book.." and so started the first lesson of the day. Wow who knew that dead teachers could be just as boring as live teachers? I wrote to sky on my new textbook, not me, it's amazing though how they can take a cool subject and make it extremely boring. She wrote back, I laughed and the professor turned to look at us. "Miss sky!" he called out suddenly making sky jump. "Yes sir?" "What are the three basic stones of life?" "rafee, safemahawa, and nomakise." "Correct, and what do each of these stones stand for?" "the 3 colors of arine." "good and tell me what are in plain English the three colors?" "Red, yellow, and black." "Very good, and now the final question." Sky smirked she knew what the last one would be, who is arine? "What would I get if I mixed blue and orange together?" "Arine was.. Wait, what was the question?" he repeated it and sky turned re4d. "Umm black?" she guessed. "Incorrect, and you were doing so well in answering all the questions my 1st years were telling me about." She slumped in her chair and turned redder. That little. I thought but stopped as he turned to me. "Miss Constance." He smiled. On no here we go I thought as I sat up straight and smiled. ~*~*~*~*~
"Well that went well." I said as we walked out of the schools now most hated classroom. "He's as worst as butler!" mystic growled. "Maybe they're related?" I suggested. "Maybe." Sky agreed, she was still red. "So where is mark? Didn't he have herbology first?" "Yeah I think so, lets go check professor genisaw classroom is over there." I pointed. And so we made our way through the twisting bridges to the professor's classroom when a loud explosive erupted from inside the tree. "Oh no." we all groaned as people began running out of the room, some covered in green slime. "Where's mark?" I yelled over the noise. "I don't know!" mystic yelled. Then unharmed, of course mark came walking out of the room. "Gobling goblin's gooze, had to try it." We smiled before we hit him upside the head. "What was that for?" he whined. "For pulling a prank without us!" mystic yelled as we all laughed. "So where to next?" mark asked. "Care of magical creatures." Sky said as he grinned. "Fun." He said as we walked down the stair that wrapped around the trunk of the tree to the ground floor. "What do you think it is?" "No clue, must be big though." Sky said as the cage rattled. "I think it's alive." "Well no duh it's moving isn't it?" "No that's not what I meant! They're talking." "They? There's more than one?" Charlie asked walking over to us. "I think so I can hear them talking." Claire said. "No duh you can." Mark said as Claire turned red. "No I think Claire's right I can hear something." I said leaning forward. "You can and there are six to be exact." Professor iris said popping up from behind the cage. "What are they?" some one asked. "Brownies." Professor iris said as mystic and a few others tries to muffle their laughs. Professor iris smiled. "Now if you would all take your seats class may began." We all ran over to the long benches that were circling the cage. "Now who can tell me what brownies are?" several hands shoot up. "Little evil buggers that's what." Some one mumbled and every one laughed. The professor smiled. "Well yes they can be vicious but they are very pleasant people." "Their people?" I whispered to sky who laughed. "There are saferavfende." Mystic quoted. "Correct which means in plain English, servant of the faeries." "Now before I open the cage, please note that yes the are small but armed. Although their arrows can't not kill you they can sting you pretty bad." Then she walked over to the rattling cage and opened the door. "No one moved and the cage stopped rattling. "Brownies." The professor called out in elfish. One by one like little soldiers the tiny men walked out. Now when I say tiny I mean literary they were about 3 inches tall and looked exactly like a person would. "Now as you can see they look exactly as we do, and these brownies are all men, the women are quicker and not as easily caught. These 6 right here were found by kinoko." I smiled. Kinoko loved all creatures and always has some illegal pet hidden in his cottage. "Now as you can see they each have tiny little bows and arrows. And so the lesson droned on. We all learned about there many uses and how they spoke faerie and some elfish, only the faerie queen could give them commands, if you wanted them to do something for you had to ask very politely, and so on. "Now for home work I want each of you to write a 3 feet essay on the brownies due tomorrow class dismiss." She said as we all groaned. "Well there goes this after noon." Sky moaned as mystic nodded. ~*~*~*~*~
Physical education or just p.e wasn't really all that horrible it was the coaches that made it awful. Coach Jake and coach Shawon were married and although coach shawon was actually nice her husband wasn't exactly best friend material. For our p.e. We had to change clothes and wear these black stretch pants with knee high boots. A loose long green shirt laced up with black leather and a long black cloak for warmth. Our p.e. Gym consisted of ropes, balancing beams, a track, and a wall you had to climb. Today the coaches were staring us out with rope climbing. I grabbed my long thick rope and put my right foot over my left and twisted it around the tree and stared climbing biting my lower lip, as I normally do when I get nervous. I hate this class I thought as a loud scream pierced through the air and Amanda fell from the top of the rope to the ground, her rope on fire.
~*~*~*~*~*~ Ok I realize this chapter was a little long but I wanted to go into detail about the school. Ok next chapter is some startling news and some Charlie and Connie sneaking out of dorms! Also we will get to see dumbledore, chrissy locklear's cousin as well as we will found out about the magical stones of arina and mono!! Oh yeah and who was it that saw Charlie and Connie kissing? Please review and I Luvs u bunches lily, mystic, and sky!