Me: I'm so sorry it took so long! I was planning to put most of this stuff in later chapters but I wanted to make the chapters longer too. There are only so many details I can break something into! So the story is going to have less chapters than I intended.

Lassi: Etna-of-Darkness does not own Magical Starsign or iPod in any way shape or form.

After class was over we went back to our dorm. I went straight to my room and locked the door.

I promptly sat on the floor after getting my iPod and paints.

I set up my things and played a random song. That's how I do my art. I listen to a random song.

I never know what I've painted until I finish. Whatever song I play effects what I draw, and each picture is different.

When the song ended I saw that it had been "A Place in This World" by Taylor Swift.

I looked at the picture I'd drawn and dropped my paint brush.

The meaning of this picture was one I knew all too well. No two pictures had ever looked the same, but recently every picture I made had this one meaning.

It was a meaning I didn't want.

I threw the picture with the others like it and walked out of my room.

I walked into the hall just in time to run into Lassi.

"Oh, I ws just coming to get you," she said. "Ms. Madeline wants to see us. She's in the meditation room."

I was just about to follow Lassi to the meditation room when I heard a song start to play.

It was "One Step At A Time" by Jordin Sparks.

O.O

When Lassi and I got to the meditation room Sorbet, Mokka, Chai, and Pico were already standing there.

"Lauren," I knew that tone of voice. It meant Chai wanted something. "why don't you go see what's wrong with Ms. Madeline?"

"Yeah, Lauren."

"You should."

I glared at them all. "What is this? Gang up on Lauren day? Fine I'll go ask! If it'll make you guys shut up!" I glared at them all as I walked away.

I walked within two feet of where Ms. Madeline was meditating and she turned around to look at me.

"Oh, Lauren, how long have you been there?" she asked.

"I motioned behind my back for the others to come up. They were a little hesitant at first but they came up anyway.

"Oh, and I see you're all here. Good. Lets begin." Ms. Madeline jumped right into the subject. "Now, what I'm about to show you isn't standard spell flinging. These are actual combat skills."

"Why are you teaching us how to fight? Why would we need to know? We're just apprentices!"Chai said.

"Well, children, I'll be... taking a trip tomorrow. I'll be going to Puffoon."

"The wind planet?" Pico asked.

"I have a feeling that if anything should happen to me I want you to be prepared."

There was no more conversation on the subject. We just let Ms. Madrline avoid the subject like she usually did.

And she did leave the next day. We never told anyone else where she went or what she taught us. Nobody even knew that we knew where she went. We all felt like she knew something was going to happen to her. Principle Biscotti became more withdrawn than usual. When I asked him what was wrong he only hung his head and said "It should have been me."