A/N: aaah another chapter and I'm happy as a clam. XD Thank you to the two ladies who reviewed this thing! XD
A word to the wise, please note that I am trying very hard to stay true to the stories, but if I deviate, it half because I am missing a couple of my books and have to rely on memory. This is what I get for lending my books out. . As for Asa…the guy is so very strange that he's capable of doing just about anything he damn well please. (Let's not EVEN get into his sniffing around Yalonda. . that was uber creepy!)
Oh! And I don't have a Welsh dictionary with me, so any Welsh stuff that happens, don't expect much from me. .;
And I've had these past chapters in my possession for a while, only last night did I put them up because I couldn't find a decent place to put them. So I hoped for the best on in the misc. section of things. SHOULD HAVE A CHARLIE BONE SECTION ALL ITS OWN! Of course, I may be the only one writing one, so maybe that's futile in its own right.
And yes, I think Fido/Olivia is imminent as is Charlie/Emma. .; Well, they are only kids still.
Chapter Three
Watching Emma try to work with her hands was painful for even Charlie to do. They still looked red and she winced horribly every time she moved them. "It's getting worse, I can barely move my pencil now," she said to him one afternoon.
"Maybe there's something we can do," said Olivia, looking worriedly at Emma.
Dorcas came around to the small group and smiled pleasantly to Emma. "I hear you are having trouble in sewing, Emma. Would you like me to help you?"
Olivia was the one that glared at Dorcas the worst. "Go away, Dorcas," she said.
Fidelio gave Dorcas a faint smile and Charlie wondered what the latest of the 'Bloor lackeys' was planning. Dorcas huffed slightly and put her hands on her hips before walking off.
Charlie looked up at the half hidden sun. "Excuse me," said a distinctly girlish voice. It was the Hispanic girl with the long black hair. Charlie blinked at her. She looked slightly different than when he'd last seen her. She looked alive.
Corazon smiled faintly to them before walking past with her nose in a book. "That is a very strange girl," said Morgan as she walked up to them.
"How so?" asked Emma.
"One minute she's staring off into space, the next she's bright and cheerful like the sun," Morgan said as she watched Corazon intently. Charlie followed her gaze and saw Manfred walking next to the girl with Zelda Dobinski trailing behind.
"Planning on standing around in one area forever?" said a voice from behind. Asa Pike grinned horribly at them and pushed through roughly.
"You don't have to be so rude!" growled Morgan. Everyone looked to her with raised eyebrows.
Asa turned around and glared at her. Charlie wondered if he should pull Morgan back from that look, however, at least it wasn't Manfred. Asa was only dangerous at night.
"You lot shouldn't be standing around in such a conspiratorial fashion," Asa snorted.
Morgan furrowed her eyebrows as though trying to come up with something good to retort with, but Asa snorted again and walked off. Fidelio patted her on the shoulder and shrugged.
There was a faint shout from someone up ahead and one of the girls that was being corralled by Zelda and Manfred was running off. The sun came blazing out, causing Charlie momentary blindness.
Charlie was trying to get his gaze back to normal again when he felt a small tap on his shoulder. He looked around and found Ada Isidore watching him with her eyes seeming darker than before, empty practically, like polished stones.
"The five are strong and will break through. Beware," her tone was far away as though she wasn't even there.
"Er…Isidore, are you all right?" Charlie asked.
"One will lead the others," she continued, "and bring peace to the family of Red."
Everyone looked at her oddly. "Ada, are you all right? Answer us, please?" said Emma with a slight frown.
"HE is watching," Ada said in that same far away voice.
"ISIDORE!"
Everyone jumped and turned to see Manfred running over and grabbing Ada by the shoulders, pulling her away from them. She gasped and gave a yelp. "Ah! What's wrong?! What'd I do!" she demanded.
Manfred pulled her away, glaring at Charlie as they disappeared into the castle. Olivia grabbed Charlie's shoulder. "What do you think she meant?! Do you think it was something important?"
Charlie watched the castle doors for a while until he shrugged. "I don't know. That was…very odd."
Morgan pursed her lips in thought as she looked to the castle. "I have a feeling," she said in a soft singing sort of voice.
That night, in the King's room, Charlie wondered where Corazon had gotten off to. She wasn't in the King's room and she hadn't been seen for the day since during break.
Ada was out of it once again, but not like before when she started talking oddly. She stared at her paper and wrote, but didn't look as though she was doing anything for real.
Morgan was staring off into space once again, looking at various objects. She looked over to Asa and then stretched her fingers. Charlie looked over in time to see Asa jump out of his seat and Morgan looking at her hand hurriedly.
"Do that again, MacGregor and I'll personally tell the headmaster you're abusing your gifts!" he snarled. He was pale, more than usual, and looked shaken.
She was decidedly pink and didn't look up as she picked up her pen and wrote hurriedly on her paper. Lysander looked to Charlie and motioned to the three with a questioning look. Charlie shrugged and went back to his work.
A sound woke Morgan up. That was odd, since she tended to sleep like she was dead. She looked around the darkened dorm, the other girls asleep and a few were snoring.
She got up as she heard the noise again. It sounded a bit like an animal. She looked around until she caught sight of something walking outside. It was odd. The creature she was watching was neither a wolf, cat, or hyenna, but something of a combination of all three. It was grey and padded around as though sniffing for something.
She suddenly remembered Corazon and pulled on her cloak to keep warm as she tiptoed out the door. Emma saw her leave and walked to the door to see where she was going. She had to duck back as the Matron came toward the girls' door.
Morgan walked as silently as she could into the garden and toward the forest. Maybe Corazon had found herself in the ruins and that was where she was staying?
She heard a howl and ran into the forest quickly, holding her flashlight ready to hit something if she had to. Her heart thudded in her ears as she went into the ruins and called softly into the dark. "Corazon! Corazon De La Cruz! Are you here?"
The further she went the more frightened she was becoming. It took all the courage she had to keep looking. She didn't like the dark at all. It brought out the shadows which always looked like things that could come out and get her. Then, there was the silence. She hated that most of all! She always imagined she could hear something behind her and then nothing was there.
"Corazon!" she hissed into the darkness. She came into the room with the stone fish set in the fountain. In the moonlight she could see it glisten. There, she saw something move. "Corazon! Don't worry, I'm getting you out of here!"
There was a growl from behind her. She gasped and whipped around with the flashlight, hitting the creature on the snout with it as hard as she could. Corazon gasped and leapt out of her hiding spot, running away from Morgan. "CORAZON!"
Morgan looked to the beast in front of her as she backed away toward where Corazon had gone. She gulped and held that flashlight like a sword, glaring at the beast.
Suddenly, three cats came out of no where and circled the beast. They were bright as the sun, flaming even. One was a deep copper red, the second bright orange and the last a brilliant yellow. They hissed at the beast and backed it out of the corridor.
Morgan darted into the next room and found Corazon hiding behind a pillar. "Come on! We have to get out of here!"
She grabbed Corazon's hand and pulled her out and darted past the three cats. She heard a lonesome howl and pounded faster up the pathway out into the forest.
Getting into the girls' dorm was difficult, but they made it past The Matron and inside. Corazon was badly shaken as Emma came over. "What happened?" she hissed.
"Corazon was the one missing. I figured since she was gone that she was the one that had run off without so much as a word. I found her in the ruins when this beast came up behind me and nearly attacked us," Morgan said as she lead Corazon to her bed.
Emma looked to the door and pulled Morgan away. She could hear the Matron coming up now. "In bed! Now!" she hissed frantically and shoved Morgan into bed. Then, she ran to her bed and practically leapt under the covers just as the door opened and a light filtered inside from a flashlight. She heard the disgruntled grunt and then the door closed.
Emma breathed a sigh of relief and snuggled into her pillow, her hands forgotten for now.
Charlie went to see Cook, having "accidentally" knocked his glass of milk onto the floor and was "retrieving a mop" to clean it up. She knocked on the special panel of wood that let him know that he was going into the right closet. Then, he peered in, closing the closet door behind him. "Cook?" he asked.
Cook wasn't inside, unfortunately and he grunted as he pulled out and walked out of the closet with a mop. He needed to ask what she knew of the three newcomers. Morgan didn't seem very dangerous, but her powers were unknown to him as were the powers of the other two.
He looked to the portraits of some of the topmost families of Bloor's Academy. Raven, Silk, Yewbeam, Pike and Bloor were the people along the hall to the blue cafeteria. The ones they had didn't look very pleasant, but then, what was in Bloor's Academy?
"What's wrong, Charlie?" asked Gabriel from behind him.
Charlie looked to Gabriel and shook his head. "Nothing, was thinking about….nothing." He walked to the mess he'd created and started cleaning it up with the mop.
"Oi! Charlie! Did you hear!?" Lysander called to him. Fidelio stood up and looked to Lysander.
"Last night… that girl, Corazon, was rescued from that great beast Asa by MacGregor!" he said with a grin. "It seems Charlie isn't the only upset here!" he chuckled.
Fidelio smirked. "Charlie's the only one here who's the professional at being an upset to the Bloors." Charlie went pink in the ears and took the mop back. When he came back, Tancred and Lysander were together waiting for him at the table. Fidelio was surprised that Olivia or Emma hadn't even mentioned it yet to him. The "terrible two" told them what they had heard from Morgan herself, though she was on the other side of the room.
When it was all said, Charlie looked to Morgan again, with a slightly different attitude. "So, as we said, you aren't the only upset around here now," said Lysander with a grin.
Tancred looked to Morgan as well. "Not the only one, he was never the only one."
"It might take the load off of Charlie, though, from him being Charlie," said Gabriel with a faint smile to Charlie. "They'll be concentrating on Charlie AND Morgan by the next week, just you wait."
Charlie looked to Morgan and gave a sighed, rubbing his head. That's the last thing he wanted put on anyone. However, it would leave the Bloors occupied with someone else for a change.
During break, Charlie wound his way over to Olivia and Emma. Olivia was bouncing on her heels as she gave the same story as Lysander and Tancred, which Emma interjected with some comments on how stupid it had really been for Morgan to have gone out at all. In the end, everything had come out, but Charlie had to agree to a certain extent that going out all alone like that was not such a bright idea.
Fidelio gave a small shrug. "Charlie does the same things."
Charlie blushed slightly. He opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by the sight of Ada in front of him again. Her eyes were like polished stones once more.
"ISIDORE!"
They turned in time to see Manfred stalk over grab Ada by the arm forcefully and drag her away. Charlie caught a part of what he was saying before he was too far away. "Damnable girls! I can't believe I have to keep an eye on BOTH of them. Bloody menaces is what they are!"
A word to the wise, please note that I am trying very hard to stay true to the stories, but if I deviate, it half because I am missing a couple of my books and have to rely on memory. This is what I get for lending my books out. . As for Asa…the guy is so very strange that he's capable of doing just about anything he damn well please. (Let's not EVEN get into his sniffing around Yalonda. . that was uber creepy!)
Oh! And I don't have a Welsh dictionary with me, so any Welsh stuff that happens, don't expect much from me. .;
And I've had these past chapters in my possession for a while, only last night did I put them up because I couldn't find a decent place to put them. So I hoped for the best on in the misc. section of things. SHOULD HAVE A CHARLIE BONE SECTION ALL ITS OWN! Of course, I may be the only one writing one, so maybe that's futile in its own right.
And yes, I think Fido/Olivia is imminent as is Charlie/Emma. .; Well, they are only kids still.
Chapter Three
Watching Emma try to work with her hands was painful for even Charlie to do. They still looked red and she winced horribly every time she moved them. "It's getting worse, I can barely move my pencil now," she said to him one afternoon.
"Maybe there's something we can do," said Olivia, looking worriedly at Emma.
Dorcas came around to the small group and smiled pleasantly to Emma. "I hear you are having trouble in sewing, Emma. Would you like me to help you?"
Olivia was the one that glared at Dorcas the worst. "Go away, Dorcas," she said.
Fidelio gave Dorcas a faint smile and Charlie wondered what the latest of the 'Bloor lackeys' was planning. Dorcas huffed slightly and put her hands on her hips before walking off.
Charlie looked up at the half hidden sun. "Excuse me," said a distinctly girlish voice. It was the Hispanic girl with the long black hair. Charlie blinked at her. She looked slightly different than when he'd last seen her. She looked alive.
Corazon smiled faintly to them before walking past with her nose in a book. "That is a very strange girl," said Morgan as she walked up to them.
"How so?" asked Emma.
"One minute she's staring off into space, the next she's bright and cheerful like the sun," Morgan said as she watched Corazon intently. Charlie followed her gaze and saw Manfred walking next to the girl with Zelda Dobinski trailing behind.
"Planning on standing around in one area forever?" said a voice from behind. Asa Pike grinned horribly at them and pushed through roughly.
"You don't have to be so rude!" growled Morgan. Everyone looked to her with raised eyebrows.
Asa turned around and glared at her. Charlie wondered if he should pull Morgan back from that look, however, at least it wasn't Manfred. Asa was only dangerous at night.
"You lot shouldn't be standing around in such a conspiratorial fashion," Asa snorted.
Morgan furrowed her eyebrows as though trying to come up with something good to retort with, but Asa snorted again and walked off. Fidelio patted her on the shoulder and shrugged.
There was a faint shout from someone up ahead and one of the girls that was being corralled by Zelda and Manfred was running off. The sun came blazing out, causing Charlie momentary blindness.
Charlie was trying to get his gaze back to normal again when he felt a small tap on his shoulder. He looked around and found Ada Isidore watching him with her eyes seeming darker than before, empty practically, like polished stones.
"The five are strong and will break through. Beware," her tone was far away as though she wasn't even there.
"Er…Isidore, are you all right?" Charlie asked.
"One will lead the others," she continued, "and bring peace to the family of Red."
Everyone looked at her oddly. "Ada, are you all right? Answer us, please?" said Emma with a slight frown.
"HE is watching," Ada said in that same far away voice.
"ISIDORE!"
Everyone jumped and turned to see Manfred running over and grabbing Ada by the shoulders, pulling her away from them. She gasped and gave a yelp. "Ah! What's wrong?! What'd I do!" she demanded.
Manfred pulled her away, glaring at Charlie as they disappeared into the castle. Olivia grabbed Charlie's shoulder. "What do you think she meant?! Do you think it was something important?"
Charlie watched the castle doors for a while until he shrugged. "I don't know. That was…very odd."
Morgan pursed her lips in thought as she looked to the castle. "I have a feeling," she said in a soft singing sort of voice.
That night, in the King's room, Charlie wondered where Corazon had gotten off to. She wasn't in the King's room and she hadn't been seen for the day since during break.
Ada was out of it once again, but not like before when she started talking oddly. She stared at her paper and wrote, but didn't look as though she was doing anything for real.
Morgan was staring off into space once again, looking at various objects. She looked over to Asa and then stretched her fingers. Charlie looked over in time to see Asa jump out of his seat and Morgan looking at her hand hurriedly.
"Do that again, MacGregor and I'll personally tell the headmaster you're abusing your gifts!" he snarled. He was pale, more than usual, and looked shaken.
She was decidedly pink and didn't look up as she picked up her pen and wrote hurriedly on her paper. Lysander looked to Charlie and motioned to the three with a questioning look. Charlie shrugged and went back to his work.
A sound woke Morgan up. That was odd, since she tended to sleep like she was dead. She looked around the darkened dorm, the other girls asleep and a few were snoring.
She got up as she heard the noise again. It sounded a bit like an animal. She looked around until she caught sight of something walking outside. It was odd. The creature she was watching was neither a wolf, cat, or hyenna, but something of a combination of all three. It was grey and padded around as though sniffing for something.
She suddenly remembered Corazon and pulled on her cloak to keep warm as she tiptoed out the door. Emma saw her leave and walked to the door to see where she was going. She had to duck back as the Matron came toward the girls' door.
Morgan walked as silently as she could into the garden and toward the forest. Maybe Corazon had found herself in the ruins and that was where she was staying?
She heard a howl and ran into the forest quickly, holding her flashlight ready to hit something if she had to. Her heart thudded in her ears as she went into the ruins and called softly into the dark. "Corazon! Corazon De La Cruz! Are you here?"
The further she went the more frightened she was becoming. It took all the courage she had to keep looking. She didn't like the dark at all. It brought out the shadows which always looked like things that could come out and get her. Then, there was the silence. She hated that most of all! She always imagined she could hear something behind her and then nothing was there.
"Corazon!" she hissed into the darkness. She came into the room with the stone fish set in the fountain. In the moonlight she could see it glisten. There, she saw something move. "Corazon! Don't worry, I'm getting you out of here!"
There was a growl from behind her. She gasped and whipped around with the flashlight, hitting the creature on the snout with it as hard as she could. Corazon gasped and leapt out of her hiding spot, running away from Morgan. "CORAZON!"
Morgan looked to the beast in front of her as she backed away toward where Corazon had gone. She gulped and held that flashlight like a sword, glaring at the beast.
Suddenly, three cats came out of no where and circled the beast. They were bright as the sun, flaming even. One was a deep copper red, the second bright orange and the last a brilliant yellow. They hissed at the beast and backed it out of the corridor.
Morgan darted into the next room and found Corazon hiding behind a pillar. "Come on! We have to get out of here!"
She grabbed Corazon's hand and pulled her out and darted past the three cats. She heard a lonesome howl and pounded faster up the pathway out into the forest.
Getting into the girls' dorm was difficult, but they made it past The Matron and inside. Corazon was badly shaken as Emma came over. "What happened?" she hissed.
"Corazon was the one missing. I figured since she was gone that she was the one that had run off without so much as a word. I found her in the ruins when this beast came up behind me and nearly attacked us," Morgan said as she lead Corazon to her bed.
Emma looked to the door and pulled Morgan away. She could hear the Matron coming up now. "In bed! Now!" she hissed frantically and shoved Morgan into bed. Then, she ran to her bed and practically leapt under the covers just as the door opened and a light filtered inside from a flashlight. She heard the disgruntled grunt and then the door closed.
Emma breathed a sigh of relief and snuggled into her pillow, her hands forgotten for now.
Charlie went to see Cook, having "accidentally" knocked his glass of milk onto the floor and was "retrieving a mop" to clean it up. She knocked on the special panel of wood that let him know that he was going into the right closet. Then, he peered in, closing the closet door behind him. "Cook?" he asked.
Cook wasn't inside, unfortunately and he grunted as he pulled out and walked out of the closet with a mop. He needed to ask what she knew of the three newcomers. Morgan didn't seem very dangerous, but her powers were unknown to him as were the powers of the other two.
He looked to the portraits of some of the topmost families of Bloor's Academy. Raven, Silk, Yewbeam, Pike and Bloor were the people along the hall to the blue cafeteria. The ones they had didn't look very pleasant, but then, what was in Bloor's Academy?
"What's wrong, Charlie?" asked Gabriel from behind him.
Charlie looked to Gabriel and shook his head. "Nothing, was thinking about….nothing." He walked to the mess he'd created and started cleaning it up with the mop.
"Oi! Charlie! Did you hear!?" Lysander called to him. Fidelio stood up and looked to Lysander.
"Last night… that girl, Corazon, was rescued from that great beast Asa by MacGregor!" he said with a grin. "It seems Charlie isn't the only upset here!" he chuckled.
Fidelio smirked. "Charlie's the only one here who's the professional at being an upset to the Bloors." Charlie went pink in the ears and took the mop back. When he came back, Tancred and Lysander were together waiting for him at the table. Fidelio was surprised that Olivia or Emma hadn't even mentioned it yet to him. The "terrible two" told them what they had heard from Morgan herself, though she was on the other side of the room.
When it was all said, Charlie looked to Morgan again, with a slightly different attitude. "So, as we said, you aren't the only upset around here now," said Lysander with a grin.
Tancred looked to Morgan as well. "Not the only one, he was never the only one."
"It might take the load off of Charlie, though, from him being Charlie," said Gabriel with a faint smile to Charlie. "They'll be concentrating on Charlie AND Morgan by the next week, just you wait."
Charlie looked to Morgan and gave a sighed, rubbing his head. That's the last thing he wanted put on anyone. However, it would leave the Bloors occupied with someone else for a change.
During break, Charlie wound his way over to Olivia and Emma. Olivia was bouncing on her heels as she gave the same story as Lysander and Tancred, which Emma interjected with some comments on how stupid it had really been for Morgan to have gone out at all. In the end, everything had come out, but Charlie had to agree to a certain extent that going out all alone like that was not such a bright idea.
Fidelio gave a small shrug. "Charlie does the same things."
Charlie blushed slightly. He opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by the sight of Ada in front of him again. Her eyes were like polished stones once more.
"ISIDORE!"
They turned in time to see Manfred stalk over grab Ada by the arm forcefully and drag her away. Charlie caught a part of what he was saying before he was too far away. "Damnable girls! I can't believe I have to keep an eye on BOTH of them. Bloody menaces is what they are!"