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Wishing to Different
The Average Girl Meets Her First S
éesócan
When I woke up that morning, I opened my eyes and the light blinded me. It took me a few moments before they adjusted to the unusually-bright room. I sat up and rubbed them to try and see what was around me.
"Looks like you're finally awake," said a female voice beside me.
I looked over and saw a girl on the other bed, putting on her boots. She turned to me and smiled, her white teeth contrasting against her brown skin. I must have still been blinded by the light, since her hair looked green to me.
"You must be a new student," she looked me over, curiosity etched on her face. "It's pretty rare for someone to be enrolled this late in the year. I wonder how they missed you."
The girl then pushed herself off her bed and grabbed the boots that were near my bed and placed them on my lap.
"You better put these on and use the bathroom. You can use my hairbrush," she said as she skipped to her dresser and picked on her hat.
She was wearing the same uniform that I was wearing. But unlike mine, which were blue with a purple trim, her's were orange with a green trim. I walked into the bathroom. As I was about to close the door, she called out to me.
"Oh, by the way, my name is Molly. Molly Goldenmelder."
"Jacquline. I guess who can call me Jackie," I replied in a quiet voice, feeling slightly better.
I closed the door behind me as I got ready for the day.
{:}
We got out of the room and walked down the stairs and into the hallway and Molly showed me where the cafeteria, front desk, and game room were.
When we stepped outside, the sun was even brighter, making it dificult for me to see anything.
"Is the sun always this bright?" I asked, cramming my hand into my eyes to try and stop the pain.
"What do you mean?" asked Molly, obviously oblivious to how bright the sun was.
I told her it was nothing since it apparently was only me who was bothered by the sunlight. Everyone around us was minding their own business and were not even bothered by it. Molly led me into a white, two story building that had an opened gate on the outside. When we entered, I saw the Headmaster sitting in his big red chair, perfectly fine.
"Ah, our newest wizard, and Miss Goldenmelder. Come in! Grab a chair!" he said as he waved his hand, causing two chairs to float across the room and softly land in front of his desk.
We both sat in the chairs and I looked over at Molly. She seemed very different that she did this morning. Her bubbly, happy attitude was replaced by a shy, timid little girl. She twiddled her thumbs and had her head hung low. The headmaster didn't seem to notice the sudden change in the girl and he turned to me.
"Miss Frogstalker, I want you to meet your future teachers today. You are lucky it is a Tuesday and everyone has the day off, so there will be no classes going on."
I tried to interrupt him at this point but he kept going.
"Also today at dinner, we will find out what kind of wizard you are. Everyone always likes to see the 'Ceremony.' You will also get your dorm room so you will not have to share with Miss Goldenmender anymore. Of course it depends which wizard you are if you get your own room or not. Some classes of wizards are bigger than others and we may not have space for everyone to get their own room. Tomorrow we decide your clas-"
"Sir, I really appreciate the help," I interrupted, "but I just want to go home and see my family. You must have a mix up. I'm no wizard, I'm just a girl."
The Headmaster looked saddened by what I said and shook his head.
"But you are, Miss Frogstalker. You are a Wizard. I saw it with my own eyes the power that you hold. You will see your family soon enough, but right now please try out the school. I am sure you will like it."
"What about my parents? Won't they get worried since I'm gone," I asked realizing that I have been gone for four days in this strange world.
"That has been already taken care of. There is no need to worry," the headmaster said, returning to his mountain of papers.
"I am sure Miss Goldenmelder can show you around. Good luck, young wizard."
{:}
"Are you insane?!" she asked me once we stepped out of the Headmaster office.
"Huh?"
"You interrupt the Headmaster! You could of--! Could of... Could of-um, DIED or something!" she continued to ramble on.
"I understand that it was kind of rude, but die? That's a little over the top, don't you think?"
"I guess but still," she said, calming down a little bit.
{:}
Molly and I walked through a dark tunnel for a minute, until we entered into an even stranger world. The light here wasn't as bright because of the humongous trees.
Well, tree. That was the first thing I laid my eyes upon. Not because of the fact that it was huge, but that it had a face with one blue eye. I swallowed back a scream when it laid that eye upon me and kept it there. I looked over at Molly to see if she had noticed, but it seemed that she had not.
"Hmm which teacher should you meet first?" she asked, mostly to herself. "I guess you can meet my future teacher."
I looked over at her, "Future teacher?"
"Yeah I just turned fourteen two days ago on the tenth, but you have to be fourteen, at the beginning of the school year, to enroll in Ravenwood. Though I already know that I'm going to be a Life wizard, even though I haven't gone through the Ceremony yet," she explained as we walked past a cherry blossom tree.
Looked over at the tree, I was surprised to discover that it too had a face, one with a sort of grandmotherly countenance. It smiled gently at me. I turned away, embarrassed to be caught staring. I turned back to Molly.
"So why are you here in the first place then?"
Molly seemed to be deep in thought and simply replied, "Because my brother insisted."
Not wanting to pry on private manners, I kept my mouth shut. Before I knew it, we stood in front of a medium-sized building, which a huge leaf logo displayed in front of it.
Molly turned to me and smiled.
"This is the Life school. I'm sure you're going to love Madame Wu."
I stepped inside the building, but when I saw the person inside, I didn't move any further. Molly continued to walk forward and greeted the teacher. The "teacher" was standing on her two black and white hind legs, her stomach budged forward and her udders hung out. She smiled, with surprising white teeth, at Molly. Then, looking past her, she focused her attention to me with her big, brown eyes.
"Welcome, me de-" the cow-lady stopped when she got a full look at me, her eyes widening in fear.
"H-h-h-hu-h-h-hu-human!"
She then franticly ran out of the classroom and went into a room behind the chalk board.
I just stared shocked at the place where the cow-lady disappeared. Not only could it run on its hind legs, get dressed, or even smile, but it could talk too.
"Well, that was weird," Molly blurted to break the silence.
After a few seconds, I finally broke away from my trance. About a second later, I was able to move to stand next to Molly. When the cow-lady didn't come out after a while, she went to go and fetch her.
When Molly finally came out, the cow-lady walked in front of her, brushing of her clothing.
"Sorry about that. I'm just not used to humans," said the cow-lady.
She then murmured something that I believed had something to do with meat-eaters. I never wanted to eat steak or any kind of meat after that.
"My name is Moolinda Wu, but you may call me Madame Wu. I am the professor of the Life School. I am also your non-magic training teacher."
"Non-magic training?" I asked.
"Well, in human terms, it might be called… Oh, what was the word…? Ah yes, Physical Education," she exclaimed, chuckling when she saw me grimace. "Wait here while I'll go get your P.E clothes."
Just like that, Madame Wu left again. There was a minute of silence between Molly and I until she broke it.
"So, you're a human?" she asked, hesitantly but I could hear the curiosity in her voice.
"Well aren't you?" I asked back, she did look like a human.
She shook her head, "My ancestors were human but I'm a native Séesócan. Like most of the people who attend here."
I looked at her, "Séesócan?"
Now it was Molly's turn to look at me oddly, "Yeah from the planet Séesó. It's not too far away from here. Our ancestors were human like you but that was centuries ago. Now only a few humans come to Ravenwood, since their planet has lost most of its magic."
Before I was able to ask her more questions, Madame Wu came in to the room and handed me a pile of clothes.
"Don't worry about the fitting. They will automatically fit you when you put them on," she said as we started walking out the door.
"Ta-Ta! If you want to know more about Life magic come back to me."
{:}
"What happened to the humans who came to Ravenwood before?" I asked Molly when we left the Life building.
"They became great heroes," she told me, gazing up at the sky with a smile on her face.
"Really?" I asked, surprised that maybe, just maybe, I could become one of those special humans.
"Oh yeah! People say that humans that are wizards have enormous power!" she stated as she exaggerated it by stretching her arms out as far as they could go.
I found myself smiling for the first time that day.
Maybe I am special.
{:}
After passing a tree that had only one large eye in the middle of its face, we entered a yellow building. Inside, there was a man sitting behind a yellow desk, scribbling on a piece of paper with a feather. He had a bald white head, he wore a frown that seemed to stay of his face, and his bright, yellow robes only seemed to make him appear more pale and old. He glanced up from his desk when we entered the classroom and sighed.
"Another worthless student," the teacher exasperated as he got up from his desk.
I looked over to Molly, who had strangely ended up behind me. She was staring at her feet and twittling her thumbs like she did with the Headmaster. When she met my gaze, she smiled weakly and gave a little shrug.
The man then went to the side of the room and picked up three huge textbooks.
"I will be your Myth and history professor. My name is Cyrus Drake. You will call me Professor Drake and that is only what you call me," he stated sternly, dropping the textbooks into my arms.
"Those will be your history text books; I want you to read up to chapter 12 in each of them."
"O-okay," I said as I tried to shuffled the books into a more comfortable position in my arms.
He then whipped around and glared at me
"You can only answer me with a 'Sir' or as 'Professor Drake.' Do not think just because you are a human you do not have to follow the common rules of manners! Now leave. I am very busy."
I nodded my head and squeaked a "Yes Sir."
Then I turned around and practically sprinted out of the classroom, Molly right behind me.
{:}
"What's his problem?" I asked Molly once we were out of the Myth school.
"I do not know. That is just how he is."
"I've had rough teachers but I've never had a teacher that made me want to pee my pants."
Molly started to laugh, and I relaxed a bit and laugh along with her. We both stopped when saw the road ahead of us.
Well, what was left of the road, that is. There was a giant gap in the middle of it. There was also a fence around it, but you could still see darkness at the bottom of the giant crater.
"What happened here?" I asked Molly.
"Are you looking for the Death School?" asked a deep, humorous voice behind us.
We turned around and were met by a boy. He seemed to be a few years older than me and was wearing black and white robes. His hat reminded me of a medieval joker with each pieces of the hat hanging off in different directions.
I glanced back at Molly, who was standing behind me again, looking down at her feet. So I decided I would answer, since she seemed unable to.
"I guess."
"Well you are a little late," he said looking back at the crater. "The old Death professor, Malistaire Drake, left and took the place with him."
"How?!" I asked, surprised that a single man could rip out a building and the Earth with it.
The boy then seemed to become lost in his thoughts and simply said, "He was a magnificent wizard."
After a moment of awkward silence, the boy seemed to awaken from his thoughts and smiled back at me.
"I'm Malorn Ashthorn, the new Death Professor. It's my job to teach the new Death Wizards before Malistaire can get to them."
I nodded, though I didn't quite understand what he meant.
"Well you don't have any classes with me unless you are a Death Wizard or you choose to take this as a second element class. Which I don't advise you do."
"Why not?" I asked.
He suddenly became dark and serious as he looked at me.
"Just don't."
"Well, okay. Thanks for the advice," I then started walking away. "See ya...."
{:}
This school was getting weirder and weirder; talking cows, mean bald men, and now a single man taking a building and the earth underneath it. I began thinking: When would I be able to go home and see my family? The Headmaster said "Soon enough," but what does "Soon enough" mean?
I shook my head and sighed, frustrated with it all of it.
"So how come no one is out?" I asked Molly, getting tired of the silence "Doesn't anyone have classes?"
"No, not today," she said, "On Mondays and Tuesdays the whole school has the days off while you have school for the rest of the week."
"How will I know when I have my classes?"
"You will get your schedule probably tomorrow morning, when they know what kind of Wizard you are."
I suddenly felt an extreme heat coming from the building in front us. Right next to the building was a tree that was on fire! I saw the face on the flaming tree and it didn't seem distressed that it branches were on fire. I looked over at Molly and she didn't act like anything was out of order, so I assumed that that was normal.
We entered the building. Surprisingly--or maybe not surprising at all--the room inside was as warm as it was outside. I was starting to sweat under my long-sleeved robes. The woman, who had her back to us, was standing on a chair trying to get something from on top of a book shelf. She wore a bright red dress and her hair was a red as her dress and seemed to defy gravity as it stood straight up like a flame.
"Madame Falmea!" greeted Molly.
This unfortunately startled the poor woman and she fell of her chair, head first, with a few books with her.
"Oh, I am so sorry," cried Molly as she ran to Madame Falmea.
"That is completelay alright," said Madame Falmea in a very strong accent.
She then picked up a book from the pile that was on the floor.
"I gots what had I wanted," she said as she got up and fixed her hair up again.
She walked over to me and gave me a kind smile, handing me the book.
"Dalia Flamea, mine's name, and I will be you potions and Fire teacher. Do not worrya on catching the class. A golem can get this stuff," when I looked at her confused she smiled, "Don't worry darlen, ya do fine. See yall tomorrow. Oh, and Molly, give Cassandra a holler for me."
"Will do."
{:}
"Who's Cassandra?" I asked.
"Oh, she's one of my friends. She's like me. She has to wait a year before she can join Ravenwood, though. But everyone already knows that she's going to be a Fire Wizard."
"How do you guys already know?" I asked, realizing that I had no clue what I was going to be.
"Well, like the fact that Wizards usually heal faster than anyone else. Fire wizards tend to be hotter and love the sun. Myth wizards are drawn to books and have a wonderful imagination. Ice wizards tend to be cold and love the snow. Storm wizards are a bit energetic and love the rain. Balance wizards…um… Well, I don't know much about Balance wizards since they are a bit rare."
"What about Death?" I asked.
Her expression saddened when I asked her.
"I don't know much about them either."
It seemed like the Death School was a forbidden subject. I knew that I wouldn't get anymore information from Molly about it, so I didn't press further.
We finally exited the extreme heat and ended up in extreme cold territory. I found myself wishing that we were back at Madame Flamea's classroom again. I hugged myself to keep all the warmth in.
We pasted a pine tree that smiled warmly at me. Seeing that made me unable to hold back a smile of my own. The tree looked so happy and jolly.
We entered the building, which was as cold inside as outside, and no one was inside.
"Madame Greyrose!" Molly called out.
"I'll be with you a moment," called a sing-song voice from the room behind the chalkboard.
Out through the door came out a tiny woman. The woman was probably no bigger than a person's head, yet she was at eye level with me. She wore a little blue dress that had two holes in the back so that her tiny wings could fit. Her gray hair was pulled into a bun and it showed her elderly face. She flew through the room franticly, mumbling where she put something.
"Now where did I put those books," the woman muttered, looking under papers and other various objects.
"Here it is!" she exclaimed, after lifting many paper that were over two books.
"Deary, can you grab these?" the woman asked me.
I put down all the books in my hand and placed them onto the desk right next to me. I walked over to the two other books and picked them up.
"I am Lydia Greyrose, your new Math and Ice teacher. I do hope that your previously math teacher has you caught up for this class," said Madame Greyroseh flying by my head.
"I look forward to having you in my class," she said and gave me a warm smile. Smiling back, I went back to my other books to add the new ones. Just like that, Molly and I left.
{:}
"So what is this 'Ceremony' thing?" I asked Molly as I shifted all the things in my arms to a more comfortable position. Luckily for me, Molly was nice enough to help carry the 'Physical Training' clothes and my math books.
"Well, usually in the beginning of the year. During dinner, the first years go up to the 'Great Book of Secrets' and it reveals their main school," Molly explained, a wide grin spreading on her face. "The fun part is how the books shows it."
"How does it show it?"
She shook her head.
"You will find that out later."
We then entered the last building in the school. But at the moment when I saw the teacher, I ran out and slammed the door behind me. A moment later, Molly came out from the building and looked at me, perplexed.
"What is wrong?"
"F-f-f-frog! He's a-a-a frog!" I shuddered.
"And?" Molly asked, clearly not getting my point.
"I h-hate frogs!" I shouted at her.
Just because my last name is Frogstalker didn't practically mean I loved frogs. When I was younger, one the boys in my class thought it would be funny to put a frog down my dress. The same boy later told me that I would turn into a frog since I touched it. Even though I knew that I wouldn't turn into a frog, those slimly little creature still freaked me out.
"Could you please get my books, Molly?" I asked her out of peer desperation.
Molly immediately said, "You're going to have to meet Professor Balestrom sometime, though."
"I know," I whined, "but maybe when I'm little more mentally prepared."
"Please," I pleaded again.
Molly sighed, but she went in. A few minutes later she came back with two more books.
"These are your science books. He wants you to read until page 249 in this book," she put the book into my arms, "He also wants you to read to page 30 in this book." She puts down the thinner book on top of the pile in my arms.
"He will also be your storm professor. So I guess in your case, just wish that you do not get that as your main school."
Molly then pulled up her sleeve and look at her watch. Her eyes widened and she gave a soft gasp.
"What?" I asked.
"It is already 13:30! I am so late!" she exclaimed as she shoved my stuff into my arms. Now the books came up to my nose and I was having trouble balancing them.
"For what?"
"I had to meet my brother and Cassandra for lunch 30 minutes ago! He is going to kill me!" she shouted starting to pace in circles, panicking.
"Well, go then."
"I can't just leave you here!" she said, and I felt glad that she actually cared enough to worry about me. "Maybe you can come to lunch with us. I am sure they will not mind."
I considered going to lunch with her. But suddenly and unfortunately for me, my headache came back, and all I wanted to do was sleep.
"I would love to, Molly, but I have this massive headache. I just want to go to the dorm and sleep and maybe catch up on this work."
She looked sad from what I said, but she nodded anyway.
What a sweet girl, I thought.
"Well, you can sit next to me at dinner. Dinner will be at 20 hours, just go to the cafeteria. See ya!"
Just like that, she ran off in the opposite direction. I tried to calm myself down as I walked through the unfamiliar street of Ravenwood. I knew I couldn't get lost and once I past the random raining tree, I saw the dorm towers. I would just have to walk to the right on-
OOF!
I crashed into something--well, more like someone--and I fell right on my bum, all my books scattered around me, one of them crushing my leg. I looked up and saw a guy that I just walked into.
"Be more careful on where you walk," he snapped at me and stormed off. The only real thing I saw was his red and tan robes walking away from me.
I slowly got and I knew that I was going to have a giant bruise on my leg the next day. I started to collect my things when one of my books was handed to me.
"Thank yo-" I began to day, but stopped as I glanced up and realized that what I saw wasn't a man nor human. He looked like a dog, but had the body of a human. A very fury body.
"You must be the new student. I hope you're not having too bad of a day," he said as he got the rest of my things.
I thanked him for getting my things and I stood back up.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Arthur Wethersfield. I am the Balance professor at Ravenwood. Like yourself I am not from this world. I am from Marleybone, though I came here to study magic."
I nodded. He seemed normal and sane enough to me. Besides the fact that he was a dog-human thing.
"I do hope you will be in my class. Ravenwood could use more Balance students."
I smiled back at him as I walked away. I silently hoped that maybe I could be in his class.
{:}
When I got to the dorm room I threw the books down on the floor, kicked off my boots, and collapsed into the soft bed. For a moment I thought of what Molly meant by 20 hours and I decided that meant 8 PM, I hope.
I awoke from my nap, extremely drowsy and grouchy. My headache still wasn't better and this nagging in the back of my head kept me from falling back asleep. I sat up and looked over at the clock on Molly's night stand. It read 20:10. I bolted out of bed, shoved my boots on and went out the door in less than a minute.
I ran down the stairs and the long hallway. The giant door to the cafeteria was wide open and seven tables were set up. The room was large, with tall ceilings and pillars. There were about twenty people sitting at each table, except two. One had at least ten people while the other had three. I finally spotted Molly with her green hair in the middle of one the larger tables. She waved to me and I walked over and sat next to her.
"Slept in?" she asked me.
"Yeah," I responded weakly.
I saw that the people around me were eating on their plates but there was no platters of food on the table.
"How do you get your food?" I whisper over to Molly.
"Well you simply think of the thing you want to eat and it will appear in front of you," she said and she closed her eyes and food appeared on her plate. Just like magic.
Though the food she chose, frighten me. It was like a bowl of worms with purple round thing next to the bowl. I thought that I could give it a shot and thought of my favorite dish. Poof! Lasagna appeared on my plate, just the way I liked it cooked. I looked over at my cup and thought of root bear and it filled to the brim. A huge grin spread across my face and I took a bite of the lasagna, it tasted as great as it looked. Molly looked at my plate and then at me.
"You humans eat weird stuff," she stated as she put a spoonfull of "worms" into her mouth.
{:}
After I was finished with my meal, Molly and I just talked about certain useless things, like how many siblings we had, or what was our favorite subject. When the headmaster stood up, everyone went quiet and directed their attention to him.
"As some of you may have noticed, we have a new wizard among us," his strong voice boomed thoughout the room. "Though something is partially special about this student, something that has not happened for many years now. A human has been enrolled into Ravenwood."
The whole room was immediately filled with small whispers. I could feel a warm blush appear on my cheeks, and I wanted to hide because I could feel a few stares from behind me.
The Headmaster started again and the room when quiet.
"I would like the young lady to come here," he said, looking straight at me.
It took Molly pushing me out of my seat for me to even stand. Slowly, I walked over to the Headmaster, trying to control my breathing and make sure that my legs wouldn't turn into jelly underneath me. The Headmaster then grabbed my arm and guided me over to a small table in front of everyone. There was a large book on it and I instantly recognized it as the book that I answered questions out of. He faced me so I was facing everyone, all pairs of eyes on me.
"Now open the book, Jacqueline, " he instructed me.
I hesitantly put my hand on the book and opened it slowly. I leaned into the book to see what it said.
"You hold a power that shall only bring pain and sorrow. You will either use thy power to save many but lose some you hold dear or you will go alone and lose yourself."
A bright light appeared from the book and a ghost appeared from it. Many people gasped. I even heard screams, but I was frozen in fear as the ghost circled around me. It put its face in my mind and its red, glowing eyes bore into me. It went straight into me and I felt an extreme coldness before it was all over. The Headmaster put his hand on my shoulder and led me to the stairs.
"Everyone is dismissed, "he ordered the room and everyone got up and walked out, softly whispering to each other.
"Mr. Ashthorn," the Headmaster called out into the crowd and the boy came.
"Yes, Sir?"
"I want you do take Miss Frogstalker to her new room," the Headmaster commanded, though it came out almost as a whisper.
The Headmaster then handed me a stick that had a twisting pattern to it and a book that carried a big, black jewel right in the middle of its cover.
"Make sure you never lose those two things Miss Frogstalker," the Headmaster said. "Those may determine on whether who will live or not."
{:}
Professor Ashthron led me to the very top of the dorm building and he opened the first door on the floor. The room was the same size as Molly's except it had a large bed in the middle of it. He gave me the key.
"Well, currently you are the only female Death Wizard so you have the whole floor to yourself. Your things will move up here tomorrow. Um, you will also get your schedule tomorrow from the Headmaster's office, so make sure you wake up early enough to get it before classes start. Breakfast is at 8 hours and classes start at 9:30, so just make sure you have it before then."
He rubbed the back of his neck, clearly awkward.
"Good luck, I guess," he said giving me a weak smile before he left.
As soon as he was gone, I kicked off my boot, ripped my hat from my head, and threw them on the ground. I curled up into the bed and cried myself to sleep.
Author Note: Sorry I haven't uploaded in a long time. First my computer broke down, I also had play rehearsal and karate, and I'm also a lazy person so it's pretty much my own fault. I hope to be uploading a little faster since the play is over with so keep your fingers crossed. Also the sorry will start to go faster by the time I get all the introducing stuff finished with. Oh course this story would be that great of a story without my beta reader, Naomi Hansen. THANK YOU!! Well until next time, adieu.