Charlie Bone and the Hidden King
By: Sinnuo
Chapter One: A Visit to Ezekiel
Rating: PG
Charlie Bone and the Hidden King
By: Sinnuo
Chapter Two: Back to Bloors
Rating: PG
Summary: Charlie Bone is back at Bloors Academy. The tension between the Children of the Red King is terrible. New faces, old faces, and more magic and adventure than Charlie could have imagined…Witches, books, fights and the battle of the Children of the Red King is what awaits Charlie…
On Monday morning, Charlie slipped out of bed reluctantly. He pulled on his school uniform, and tucked his sapphire blue cloak under his arm. It was still raining outside, but the heavy wind had stopped.
He rushed downstairs where he was met by Grandma Bone rinsing out a bowl of cereal. She grunted impatiently when she saw Charlie, and snapped, "Hurry up, the school bus will be here any moment. If you're late, I'll make sure you get a detention. As you already know, or, at least you should, Dr Bloor will not tolerate lateness. And get your clock on."
Charlie pulled a face behind her back, which caused his other Grandmother, Maisie, giggled from the corner of the kitchen, where she was cooking some bacon.
"You bad boy!" she whispered, and carried on frying the bacon. Maisie was more kind hearted than Grandma Bone, and didn't mind being called by her first name. Grandma Bone, however, would go ballistic if she ever heard Charlie using her first name, which was Grizelda.
Charlie called goodbye to his grandmothers, and stepped out of the front door. The downpour started drenching him, so he ran to the blue bus parked on the end of Filbert street. He tripped over, and fell at the feet of a person. He stood up to apologize, and came face to face with a middle-aged woman, with long blonde hair, which was loose down her back. She had emerald green eyes, which bored into Charlie.
Charlie couldn't help him-self, and stared into the cold green eyes.
The woman stared back at him, smirking. "Watch your step little boy, you wouldn't want anything...bad, coming your way would you?"
Charlie shook his head, transfixed by the woman's eyes. The green shone out at him, inviting him in. Charlie felt himself getting light headed.
Who was this woman? What did she want?
The woman, with a flick of her long blonde hair, turned around, and walked out into the drizzling rain.. Charlie stared at her retreating back, and slowly made his way to the bus, where the driver was impatiently waiting for him.
"Took you time, didn't you?" remarked the driver.
"Sorry, I, err…fell over." replied Charlie, and made his way to the back of the bus. He spotted his friends, Fidelio Gunn, who was buried in a bunch of scribbled music notes, and was humming under his breath.
"Hi." said Charlie.
Fidelio jumped, and pushed his music into his bag, where it fell into an untidy heap. "Hullo Charlie," he said in his cheerful voice. No one could feel worried for to long when Fidelio was around.
Charlie explained what had just happened, and by the time he had finished, the bus had stopped and let out the children. Charlie and Fidelio where the last to get off, and made there way through the crowd, and through the great oak doors. They where silent as they made their way through the hall, and began chatting immediately as they passed through the sign of two trumpets.
There was only one other person in the cloak room, and it was a girl. New, presumably, because Charlie didn't recognize her.
"Hello," he said. The girl looked up. She had long black hair, which was tied into a braid. Her skin was very pale, like white china. She had large brown eyes, which sparkled.
"Anna McCain. I'm new here. Are you in music as well?"
"Yep," said Fidelio. "We are. Are you one of the Endowed?"
The girl coughed uneasily.
"Yes. But I don't really like saying how. But I like laying the flute. I'm quite good at it actually-" she paused and looked at her watch.
"Aren't we supposed to be in assembly?" she questioned.
"Damn!" cried Charlie, and he, Fidelio and Anna made there way to the Assembly hall. They snuck in at the back, so no one would see them. Only Miss Chrystal had noticed they had come in, and shook her head.
They all sat down at the back, and began to sing the songs. Anna had quite a good voice, her tone high and quiet. She went red when she noticed Charlie staring at her.
After assembly, Charlie made his way to his first lesson, History. He had to endure an hour of listening to Mr Pope bang on about some famous Aztecs, and Charlie felt himself beginning to tire. The information Mr Pope was shouting to the class when in straight one ear and out the other.
Suddenly there was a loud bang right in front of Charlie. He saw Mr Popes hand briefly lift up from the table, which he had slammed his hand down.
"CHARLIE BONE! ARE YOU EVEN LISTING TO WHAT I AM SAYING?" he shouted. Charlie went red and nodded.
"OH REALLY. WHO WAS-" bellowed Mr Pope, and pronounced a name that he couldn't quite make out.
"I-I don't know sir." he said quietly, bowing his head.
"If you continue to ignore this lesson once more, you will have a detention for Saturday!"
Charlie nodded, and the rest of the lesson seemed to drag. Mr Pope kept on shooting nasty questions to Charlie, who had just managed to get then all correct.
After the first lesson, all students had to go for a run in the gardens. The ground was sodden from all the rain, and Charlie felt himself frequently stumbling. He was forced to endure another terrible sprint around the garden, and when he had done god-knows how many laps, he was exhausted. He spotted Olivia Vertigo and Emma Tolly up ahead, jogging next to Anna McCain.
Charlie ran towards them, and stopped next to Olivia. Today she had shockingly blue hair, and knee high blue boots. Emma Tolly, had her long blonde hair styled in two plaits, which hung down her back.
"Hi," grunted Charlie.
"Hi. We where just talking to Anna hear," said Emma, indicating to Anna. "She's new."
"I know. She's in music." replied Charlie.
He had stopped to talk to them, and they started walking, instead of running. They began chatting, Emma about her weekend, and Olivia about hers.
"Run!" shouted a voice behind them. All four of them stopped and twirled to look behind them. Manfred Bloor was walking up to them, shaking his head.
"Manfred Bloor," muttered Olivia into Anna's ear. "He's evil." Anna giggled.
"What was that Vertigo?" shouted Manfred, "Right, that's a detention for you on Saturday."
"But she never did anything, she was just telling Anna who you where." said Charlie indignantly.
"And you Bone," he smirked. "You two, follow me,"
Charlie and Olivia followed behind Manfred, grumbling and stamping into puddles.
"At least I won't be on my own," whispered Olivia.
"There's always Billy Raven," Charlie whispered back.
Charlie was talking about the youngest boy in Bloors Academy, an albino who lived in the school because he was and orphan.
Charlie was walking when he felt the first stab of pain. It was in his stomach. He groaned. Olivia looked at him and mouthed: "Are you alright?"
Charlie shook his head, and a blinding flash of pain struck through his head. He fell to the floor, and the last thing he saw was Olivia screaming and runnig for help. He saw his world turn black, and slowly faded into unconsiousnes, the pain making him jerk about.