A/N: You gotta love this… okay, as if it hasn't been said before, I'm saying it again. Read the three Charlie Bone books (Midnight for Charlie Bone, Charlie Bone and the Time Twister, and Charlie bone and the Invisible Boy) to understand virtually EVERYTHING in this. I think there needs to be a category for Charlie Bone on too. It'd sure as hell make things easier to place. .
Also, as if this needs to be said, I own nothing but the three new characters and their families, other than that, the rest belongs to Jenny Nimmo. Enjoy your stay whilst I put on the soundtrack to PoA for your convenience.
Chapter Two
During the night, Morgan woke to find odd visitors coming out of Charlie's house. All three were women and all wore black. She watched as the three went to the car and had to force something back into the car before getting in and driving off.
Morgan rubbed her eyes and thought about what the morning would be like and decided sleep was a far better adventure than trying to keep her eyes open during class. She had seen what the Bloors looked like and they weren't a pleasant lot; especially Manfred Bloor, who seemed to make her head hurt if she didn't think really hard about something other than his eyes.
The morning came and Charlie woke to his mother shaking him. "Charlie, wake up! You have to get dressed and get downstairs or you'll miss the bus."
Charlie grumbled and got dressed, then headed downstairs with his trunk ready. After a short breakfast that left him still hungry, he grabbed his cloak, which he still wouldn't dare put on, and walked outside toward the bus stop.
He found Morgan there with her blue cloak on and black tights coming out from under the cloak into a pair of black shoes that had a strap over the foot. Charlie unconsciously straightened his white button up shirt and looked around for his tie as he trundled up to Morgan.
"I rather like the uniforms. They aren't ugly and I think the cloaks are positively wicked! I feel so much like some sort of witch at the moment," said Morgan with that same slight Scottish accent that seemed cheerful as she twirled in the chilly air.
Charlie grunted his response, not altogether thrilled with going to school at all. He'd, yet again, forgotten to go check on Runner Bean, his best friend Benjamin Brown's dog. While Benjamin was with his parents in Hong Kong, Charlie had to look after Runner Bean, but he couldn't keep him at his house due to his horrible Grandma Bone. She even tried to call an exterminator on the poor dog!
"It's at least not as hot as it was yesterday," Morgan said idly. Charlie nodded automatically as he spied the bus coming toward them. Once on, he immediately went to sit with his friend Fidelio Gunn, whose freckled face and spiked brown hair was easily seen amongst the other music students.
"I see you aren't alone at your stop anymore, Charlie," said Fidelo. He was glad for the trip to Sparkling Castle during the break. He'd felt so sorry for not being able to join Charlie on the little tasks he ended up getting into.
Charlie shrugged. "She just moved in across the street, next to Benjamin's house." Charlie started putting on the cloak, which took a bit of an effort due to the lack of mobility he currently had. Once on, he saw the school gates looming ahead and was automatically getting ready to face Manfred Bloor or Asa Pike.
They stopped and the children were let out alongside the drama and art buses. The drama students all wore their purple cloaks with bits of sequined shirts and odd looking make up on their faces. Olivia Vertigo came tromping over in a pair of purple stiletto heels like she had worn the first day Charlie had met her. Her hair, however, was bright, fire engine red.
"Charlie! Fido!" She tripped and caught herself on the unsteady shoes with a big grin on her face. "I'm so glad I saw you!"
Suddenly, a girl ran into Olivia, knocking her into Fidelio. All Charlie caught was the long brown hair a pair of dark eyes that seemed vacant as she walked past without so much as an apology. She apparently was one of the Drama students, but he didn't recognize her.
Olivia grunted indignantly and straightened herself. They watched as the girl walked over to Manfred and Zelda and disappeared into the Drama assembly. "VERTIGO! Get to the coatroom and be quiet!" Manfred barked from under the arch with the happy and sad faces.
Olivia made a face and rolled her eyes before waving good-bye to Charlie and Fidelio and running, more like tripping, over to the Drama coatroom.
Morgan came over and smiled faintly. "Er… I know I'm supposed to go to the music coatroom, but where is it?"
Fidelio looked to Morgan's case and smiled. "Violinist, eh?" Morgan blushed slightly and nodded. Fidelio pulled his own violin case up and grinned broadly. "I can play, too."
"Come on," Charlie said as he pulled Fidelio and Morgan to the blue coatroom under the arch with a sign that had a trumpet and a flute crossed. They hung up their cloaks and went outside to join everyone else in the morning run. Fidelio explained that they all had to run a bit through the forest before going to assembly and classes. Morgan gave a general grumbling reply before heading off with them.
Charlie spotted Emma Tolly and noticed she was talking to another new girl, who looked rather Indian in origin with darkly tanned skin and long black hair. The girl didn't look very lively, like the other new girl with the long brown hair. Emma walked over while the black haired girl started walking rather listlessly behind everyone as they went off to run.
"Hey, Emma," said Charlie with a smile.
"Charlie, have you seen the new girl that came in? She's awfully strange; would barely talk to me." Emma rubbed her fingers with a wince as she looked over her shoulder. Dorcas Loom grinned horribly at them and took the girl by the arm to walk with her.
"How are your fingers?" asked Charlie.
"They still hurt. I think Dorcas did something with that rope. I can't change and my hands still hurt," she groaned.
"Get running, or something will come after you," snickered Asa from behind them, which made Emma and Morgan jump.
Asa grinned horribly at Emma and then snapped his jaws at Morgan before trotting off after the rest of the crowd. Fidelio sighed and nudged Charlie and Emma along.
During the run, Morgan accidentally broke off from the rest of the group, finding herself in a very strange place indeed. She had found herself in some castle ruins that seemed to wind around in a large maze.
She nearly slipped twice as she traveled down in the hope of finding some way out that led to the others. The stairs had mold on them and were wet, maybe from a previous rain. She found herself in a courtyard where she could see the sun overhead trying to poke through the clouds.
She walked into the middle to a fountain and looked into the dirty water and the stone fish still glittering. Suddenly, she heard something that sounded like someone was walking down into the passage. She looked around frantically for someplace to hide, but turned in time to see a tall, gangly boy with wolfish yellow eyes and red hair.
He sneered at her. "You aren't supposed to be out in here. There are things here that would… eat up a little girl like you."
"Sorry, I just… got lost," Morgan said faintly as she stared at the boy fearfully.
The boy walked toward Morgan and grinned, wolfish eyes glinting in the light. First thing that registered in Morgan's brain were those eyes. They weren't normal. Normal humans don't get yellow eyes.
"Are you coming? It's time to go inside," the boy said, offering his hand to her.
She stepped back from him and he grinned even more. "I won't bite."
She hesitantly stepped forward and walked around the boy. "Just… show me out, please?" she asked as politely as possible.
The boy walked ahead of her and she followed him until they were out of the old castle ruins. She looked to him and offered her hand to him in a polite gesture. "Sorry for all the trouble. Thank you for showing me out. The name is Morgan MacGregor."
The boy took her hand and barely shook it, only staring at her with those creepy eyes of his. "Asa Pike. Be careful next time or you might never find your way out again. Now get your cloak and go to class." Then, he pulled his purple cloak around him and walked off toward the garden gate.
Morgan ran after him until she found her way to the blue cloak room and pulled her cloak off its hook. Then, she ran to class.
Dinner was the best on the Monday back to school. They had chicken and fresh vegetables. Fidelio ate the vegetables, of course, being a vegetarian. Cook seemed to have gone all out with the dessert, however. It was bread pudding, which was highly unusual for Bloors to have.
Even Manfred seemed to be in a fair mood, which meant he wasn't yelling at anyone and telling people off for talking.
Morgan sat across from Fidelio, finding it more comfortable to be around people she knew already. Gabriel Silk was sitting next to her explaining that the food was only really good on the Monday back, the rest of the time, they were practically starved.
"That's awful," she said in a hushed tone, "How on Earth do they expect to keep getting students with that sort of treatment!"
"Miss MacGregor, please refrain from talking!" Dr. Bloor finally spoke up and his booming voice hushed everyone in the room.
After dinner, Charlie walked to the King's Room, where all the endowed had to do their homework together. Zelda was making a pencil box move around on the table in one of her usual games while she sat next to Manfred. Asa was waiting outside the door. He gave Charlie a nasty smirk before he went into the room and sat down on the other side of Manfred.
The brown haired girl was sitting next to Asa with her purple cloak wrapped around her. She wasn't really working. She was mostly staring at the page as though she expected it to move somewhere. The Indian looking girl came in and sat down next to the brown haired girl, her green cloak pulled back some on her shoulders.
Gabriel came in and sat down with Tancred and Lysander. Billy Raven was sitting near Charlie with a meek smile on his face. Ever since Billy had come to Charlie's house before they pulled off Ollie Sparks' great escape, Billy had been forced to stay put in Bloors. He was an orphan, but he now didn't even have the option of coming home with Charlie anymore. However, Billy was able to go into the kitchens to visit his friend Rembrandt the rat.
Then, Morgan came in and sat down next to the Indian looking girl. Charlie wondered what all three girls were endowed with when Manfred spoke. "We have three new students with us; Morgan MacGregor, Corazon De La Cruz, and Ada Isidore."
Morgan waved at everyone cheerfully while both Corazon and Ada sort of stared at everyone. Manfred glared at everyone before going into his homework. Charlie sighed and looked up at the picture of the Red King in front of him. Every time he tried to 'visit' the portrait, all he could get was the sound of a cape rustling and some purring before a black shadow covered his senses. He could already faintly hear the sounds right at that moment and he tried to concentrate harder when Manfred's voice caught his attention. "Homework, NOW, Bone!"
Charlie went right into his homework, not daring to look back at the portrait again. He wondered what powers Morgan and the other two were endowed with as he finished writing an answer done on the page in front of him.
Morgan, however, was watching everyone instead of doing her homework. She wanted to move around, not stay in one spot and do all this work. Already, she could feel her legs and arms cramping up as she sat there. She looked over to Asa, looking at his cloak and then his red hair, which looked a bit like it needed a good wash. He was good looking, if he would wash more often, she assumed. She suddenly felt something like hair on her finger tips.
Charlie looked up in time to see Morgan jumped away from her chair as Asa Pike jumped slightly, looking around with a slightly bewildered expression. Manfred glared at Morgan with malice. "Get in your seat and finish your work, MacGregor."
Morgan nodded hastily and crept into her seat, her ears a distinct red color as her cheeks went pink. Charlie had only enough time to give her a questioning look before she shook her head and buried herself into a book.
Also, as if this needs to be said, I own nothing but the three new characters and their families, other than that, the rest belongs to Jenny Nimmo. Enjoy your stay whilst I put on the soundtrack to PoA for your convenience.
Chapter Two
During the night, Morgan woke to find odd visitors coming out of Charlie's house. All three were women and all wore black. She watched as the three went to the car and had to force something back into the car before getting in and driving off.
Morgan rubbed her eyes and thought about what the morning would be like and decided sleep was a far better adventure than trying to keep her eyes open during class. She had seen what the Bloors looked like and they weren't a pleasant lot; especially Manfred Bloor, who seemed to make her head hurt if she didn't think really hard about something other than his eyes.
The morning came and Charlie woke to his mother shaking him. "Charlie, wake up! You have to get dressed and get downstairs or you'll miss the bus."
Charlie grumbled and got dressed, then headed downstairs with his trunk ready. After a short breakfast that left him still hungry, he grabbed his cloak, which he still wouldn't dare put on, and walked outside toward the bus stop.
He found Morgan there with her blue cloak on and black tights coming out from under the cloak into a pair of black shoes that had a strap over the foot. Charlie unconsciously straightened his white button up shirt and looked around for his tie as he trundled up to Morgan.
"I rather like the uniforms. They aren't ugly and I think the cloaks are positively wicked! I feel so much like some sort of witch at the moment," said Morgan with that same slight Scottish accent that seemed cheerful as she twirled in the chilly air.
Charlie grunted his response, not altogether thrilled with going to school at all. He'd, yet again, forgotten to go check on Runner Bean, his best friend Benjamin Brown's dog. While Benjamin was with his parents in Hong Kong, Charlie had to look after Runner Bean, but he couldn't keep him at his house due to his horrible Grandma Bone. She even tried to call an exterminator on the poor dog!
"It's at least not as hot as it was yesterday," Morgan said idly. Charlie nodded automatically as he spied the bus coming toward them. Once on, he immediately went to sit with his friend Fidelio Gunn, whose freckled face and spiked brown hair was easily seen amongst the other music students.
"I see you aren't alone at your stop anymore, Charlie," said Fidelo. He was glad for the trip to Sparkling Castle during the break. He'd felt so sorry for not being able to join Charlie on the little tasks he ended up getting into.
Charlie shrugged. "She just moved in across the street, next to Benjamin's house." Charlie started putting on the cloak, which took a bit of an effort due to the lack of mobility he currently had. Once on, he saw the school gates looming ahead and was automatically getting ready to face Manfred Bloor or Asa Pike.
They stopped and the children were let out alongside the drama and art buses. The drama students all wore their purple cloaks with bits of sequined shirts and odd looking make up on their faces. Olivia Vertigo came tromping over in a pair of purple stiletto heels like she had worn the first day Charlie had met her. Her hair, however, was bright, fire engine red.
"Charlie! Fido!" She tripped and caught herself on the unsteady shoes with a big grin on her face. "I'm so glad I saw you!"
Suddenly, a girl ran into Olivia, knocking her into Fidelio. All Charlie caught was the long brown hair a pair of dark eyes that seemed vacant as she walked past without so much as an apology. She apparently was one of the Drama students, but he didn't recognize her.
Olivia grunted indignantly and straightened herself. They watched as the girl walked over to Manfred and Zelda and disappeared into the Drama assembly. "VERTIGO! Get to the coatroom and be quiet!" Manfred barked from under the arch with the happy and sad faces.
Olivia made a face and rolled her eyes before waving good-bye to Charlie and Fidelio and running, more like tripping, over to the Drama coatroom.
Morgan came over and smiled faintly. "Er… I know I'm supposed to go to the music coatroom, but where is it?"
Fidelio looked to Morgan's case and smiled. "Violinist, eh?" Morgan blushed slightly and nodded. Fidelio pulled his own violin case up and grinned broadly. "I can play, too."
"Come on," Charlie said as he pulled Fidelio and Morgan to the blue coatroom under the arch with a sign that had a trumpet and a flute crossed. They hung up their cloaks and went outside to join everyone else in the morning run. Fidelio explained that they all had to run a bit through the forest before going to assembly and classes. Morgan gave a general grumbling reply before heading off with them.
Charlie spotted Emma Tolly and noticed she was talking to another new girl, who looked rather Indian in origin with darkly tanned skin and long black hair. The girl didn't look very lively, like the other new girl with the long brown hair. Emma walked over while the black haired girl started walking rather listlessly behind everyone as they went off to run.
"Hey, Emma," said Charlie with a smile.
"Charlie, have you seen the new girl that came in? She's awfully strange; would barely talk to me." Emma rubbed her fingers with a wince as she looked over her shoulder. Dorcas Loom grinned horribly at them and took the girl by the arm to walk with her.
"How are your fingers?" asked Charlie.
"They still hurt. I think Dorcas did something with that rope. I can't change and my hands still hurt," she groaned.
"Get running, or something will come after you," snickered Asa from behind them, which made Emma and Morgan jump.
Asa grinned horribly at Emma and then snapped his jaws at Morgan before trotting off after the rest of the crowd. Fidelio sighed and nudged Charlie and Emma along.
During the run, Morgan accidentally broke off from the rest of the group, finding herself in a very strange place indeed. She had found herself in some castle ruins that seemed to wind around in a large maze.
She nearly slipped twice as she traveled down in the hope of finding some way out that led to the others. The stairs had mold on them and were wet, maybe from a previous rain. She found herself in a courtyard where she could see the sun overhead trying to poke through the clouds.
She walked into the middle to a fountain and looked into the dirty water and the stone fish still glittering. Suddenly, she heard something that sounded like someone was walking down into the passage. She looked around frantically for someplace to hide, but turned in time to see a tall, gangly boy with wolfish yellow eyes and red hair.
He sneered at her. "You aren't supposed to be out in here. There are things here that would… eat up a little girl like you."
"Sorry, I just… got lost," Morgan said faintly as she stared at the boy fearfully.
The boy walked toward Morgan and grinned, wolfish eyes glinting in the light. First thing that registered in Morgan's brain were those eyes. They weren't normal. Normal humans don't get yellow eyes.
"Are you coming? It's time to go inside," the boy said, offering his hand to her.
She stepped back from him and he grinned even more. "I won't bite."
She hesitantly stepped forward and walked around the boy. "Just… show me out, please?" she asked as politely as possible.
The boy walked ahead of her and she followed him until they were out of the old castle ruins. She looked to him and offered her hand to him in a polite gesture. "Sorry for all the trouble. Thank you for showing me out. The name is Morgan MacGregor."
The boy took her hand and barely shook it, only staring at her with those creepy eyes of his. "Asa Pike. Be careful next time or you might never find your way out again. Now get your cloak and go to class." Then, he pulled his purple cloak around him and walked off toward the garden gate.
Morgan ran after him until she found her way to the blue cloak room and pulled her cloak off its hook. Then, she ran to class.
Dinner was the best on the Monday back to school. They had chicken and fresh vegetables. Fidelio ate the vegetables, of course, being a vegetarian. Cook seemed to have gone all out with the dessert, however. It was bread pudding, which was highly unusual for Bloors to have.
Even Manfred seemed to be in a fair mood, which meant he wasn't yelling at anyone and telling people off for talking.
Morgan sat across from Fidelio, finding it more comfortable to be around people she knew already. Gabriel Silk was sitting next to her explaining that the food was only really good on the Monday back, the rest of the time, they were practically starved.
"That's awful," she said in a hushed tone, "How on Earth do they expect to keep getting students with that sort of treatment!"
"Miss MacGregor, please refrain from talking!" Dr. Bloor finally spoke up and his booming voice hushed everyone in the room.
After dinner, Charlie walked to the King's Room, where all the endowed had to do their homework together. Zelda was making a pencil box move around on the table in one of her usual games while she sat next to Manfred. Asa was waiting outside the door. He gave Charlie a nasty smirk before he went into the room and sat down on the other side of Manfred.
The brown haired girl was sitting next to Asa with her purple cloak wrapped around her. She wasn't really working. She was mostly staring at the page as though she expected it to move somewhere. The Indian looking girl came in and sat down next to the brown haired girl, her green cloak pulled back some on her shoulders.
Gabriel came in and sat down with Tancred and Lysander. Billy Raven was sitting near Charlie with a meek smile on his face. Ever since Billy had come to Charlie's house before they pulled off Ollie Sparks' great escape, Billy had been forced to stay put in Bloors. He was an orphan, but he now didn't even have the option of coming home with Charlie anymore. However, Billy was able to go into the kitchens to visit his friend Rembrandt the rat.
Then, Morgan came in and sat down next to the Indian looking girl. Charlie wondered what all three girls were endowed with when Manfred spoke. "We have three new students with us; Morgan MacGregor, Corazon De La Cruz, and Ada Isidore."
Morgan waved at everyone cheerfully while both Corazon and Ada sort of stared at everyone. Manfred glared at everyone before going into his homework. Charlie sighed and looked up at the picture of the Red King in front of him. Every time he tried to 'visit' the portrait, all he could get was the sound of a cape rustling and some purring before a black shadow covered his senses. He could already faintly hear the sounds right at that moment and he tried to concentrate harder when Manfred's voice caught his attention. "Homework, NOW, Bone!"
Charlie went right into his homework, not daring to look back at the portrait again. He wondered what powers Morgan and the other two were endowed with as he finished writing an answer done on the page in front of him.
Morgan, however, was watching everyone instead of doing her homework. She wanted to move around, not stay in one spot and do all this work. Already, she could feel her legs and arms cramping up as she sat there. She looked over to Asa, looking at his cloak and then his red hair, which looked a bit like it needed a good wash. He was good looking, if he would wash more often, she assumed. She suddenly felt something like hair on her finger tips.
Charlie looked up in time to see Morgan jumped away from her chair as Asa Pike jumped slightly, looking around with a slightly bewildered expression. Manfred glared at Morgan with malice. "Get in your seat and finish your work, MacGregor."
Morgan nodded hastily and crept into her seat, her ears a distinct red color as her cheeks went pink. Charlie had only enough time to give her a questioning look before she shook her head and buried herself into a book.