We were all sitting in the auditorium in Palladium's class. He looked more happy than usual and it was pretty scary. He said something about his Magic Reality Chamber working again. I can hear everyone talk about how nervous they all are and they don't know how they're going to pass. "Stella, you're the first to take the test today." He said.
I thought we were going in alphabetical order. He skipped Amaryl, who i guess dropped the class, and now he's starting with Stella. What a strange way to do things. I think he just wants to see her fail.
"Stella isn't feeling well so she went to the nurse instead." Bloom ended up saying after everyone looked around the room for a non-existent Stella.
"Then Flora is up next." He said.
Flora walked into the chamber and he told her that the chamber would select a dead planet for her. "I don't believe there is such a thing as a dead planet, they are just planets in need." She replied.
"Save it for philosophy class, Flora. Begin." He said.
Bloom walked out of the class and we all watched Flora continue her exam.
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I was sitting in my room, being bored, texting absolutely no one special. I really wanted to go see someone. I was sitting around girls non stop for over two weeks, studying and shopping and going to class. This was not okay. I always hung out with guys, girls were drama and not my scene. I wanted to go and see my maroon haired cutie but everyone thinks he's under Darcy's spell and I don't know how I'd be able to see him anyways if he wasn't.
It saddened me. In my boredom, I read some more on my realm. I didn't think I knew everything about it but what harm could it do to learn more? None except make me think my love life is a disaster waiting to happen. Apparently, you can read more than one person's mind if you have the gift of Jupiter. I can read Riven's mind because he's one of five people.
1. My soul mate.
2. My best friend.
3. My family.
4. Magic royalty.
5. My knight.
I knew he wasn't magical so he was definitely not magical royalty but he could be my soul mate, best friend, or my knight. How I was to decipher who was who, was up to the tests.
There were tests I had to put them all through except I had to have 5 people I could read the minds of before I could do anything. So far, I had Riven and my sister.
Finding the other three may be hell.
The books also said that if you have more than one friend, my mind reading ability wouldn't pick one until I figured out which one was my real best friend, so I had to put them through a test to see which was my best friend.
I closed the book, tired of all the reading and set out to Faragonda's office before going to Red Fountain.
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I knocked on her door. Griselda opened the door and walked out, pushing me to go inside.
"Mrs. F?" I asked.
"How can I help you, Lita?"
"I was wondering if you could help me with something."
"Go on and I may be able to find a solution." She smiled at me and I couldn't help but smile back.
"Well, I'm supposed to be the ruler of my Realm when my father decides I'm ready, but I've done some reading and I can't rule if I don't find my five people and I have ways to find them, but I would need permission." I asked, rather too quickly for my taste.
"If you need to go to Red Fountain, be my guest, but you have to talk to the headmaster there for permission to conduct your tests on his students." She replied. "You may head there now and I will call them to make sure you have a safe trip and you make it back first thing in the morning."
"Morning?"
"Well, I'd assume these tests wouldn't take five minutes." She said.
"No, they won't."
"So, first thing in the morning." She said and shooed me off.
"Thank you Mrs. Faragonda." I smiled. "You helped me a lot just now." I nodded at her and walked out of the room.
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I walked to my dorm and the girls were gone, but they left a note that i didn't feel like reading so i took it from the door to the table and left it there. If it's important, I'm sure I'll hear of their adventure later.
I packed a small bag and shrunk it down to a pocket-size and teleported to the outer wall of Red Fountain. I was greeted by the headmaster, smiling warmly at me.
"Good to see you again, Lita." He said.
"Pleasure is mine, Headmaster." I replied, nodding my head at him.
"I've come to the understanding you need to see five of my wonderful students." He said.
"That's correct."
"They're all yours for the night. Follow me." He turned to walk through the maze and i followed him.
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He left us all alone. I was standing in front of Sky, Brandon, Riven, Timmy and Treyce. I looked each of them up and down and i could hear a mixture of thoughts, one standing out in particular.
She definitely looks stunning in the night-light.
I noticeably blushed but I hoped no one saw it. I turned to Sky. "You're first Blondie."
"What do I do?" That was all he had to do before the rain surrounded us.
"Attack."
"Attack who?"
"Attack me." I replied.
"No."
"Yes. It's the only way Sky. It's you or me." I said as lighting flashed and stuck the ground beside him.
"What the hell?"
"Do it." I said. I could hear the thoughts screaming from his head. Something is seriously wrong with her, I have to do something.
"Nothing is wrong with me, just attack." He looked at me dumbfounded before launching at me and I side-stepped, making him fall to the ground.
The rain faltered, and I picked Sky off of the ground. "Go back to your spot, you did good." He said before he nodded and walked back to where he was before.
"You ready for this butter cup?" I asked Brandon and he nodded. These tests went on for about two hours, could have been three I think, I wasn't paying that much attention to it. All I know is that I could keep them as long as I wanted because they got the day off because of me and they'd do anything to show their gratefulness.
It was almost noon when I finally got back to my bed. I was soaked from the shower I took, but that was easily fixable. I dried off and lay down on my bed, thinking of him.
"Are you ready Riven?" I asked. His response was a slight nod and a cute smirk. I launched at him and he jumped and flipped over me, attacking me from behind. I spun around and rolled underneath his extended leg to keep him from kicking me and I grabbed the leg that was firmly on the ground and pulled it out from underneath of him.
"Not bad, pretty boy. Better than the first fight we had, that's for sure." I giggled at him and I swear he smiled a genuine smile. "Maybe next time." I said. He was the last one i had to test. After that was all over, I walked inside to the place I was sleeping, and I fell asleep to the sound of his light breaths. I woke up before he did and I left before anyone else noticed I had left.
Now I'm here, bored out of my mind and not ready to stay in my room all day. I got dressed and went to class, completely forgetting about the tests and trying to figure out everything that was going on in my life. It was all too much for someone to handle at once, no matter how tough they were. I needed a break. I nice break from my thoughts and a vacation in the land of school and day dreaming. I walked out of my room, smiling.
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I saw all the girls later that day and they told me about Miss Magix and what happened with Lucy and the Trix. I'm glad I wasn't there. I would have killed someone probably.
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We were in Wizgiz's class, talking about the pop test we have tomorrow. Everyone is always complaining about tests and quizzes like it's the end of the world and I am certainly annoyed with the prissy people. Wizgiz said something about being kicked out of Alfea if they failed the test. I wish half of the girls in here would fail if that's the case. I'm tired of them all.
"The quiz covers everything we've had all year."
"So if we fail, you should get kicked out for not teaching us well enough." Stella said. I never really liked when Stella talked, but that question was going on my list of good questions.
"You should have told us about the quiz earlier than a day in advance." Musa complained. It wouldn't matter if you would all study.
"I only just found out about it this morning. I have orders and I'm being forced to give this quiz." He said, generally sorry.
"Well, maybe we'd all pass if someone didn't sleep all the time." One of the other students said and I laughed, looking at Bloom in front of me.
"Oh, gooey gumdrops. Not again." Flora said. I guess gooey gumdrops is Flora's way of saying "damn." Apparently even "darn" is too strong for Flora.
Bloom wakes up, with ink on her face, from the notes she had taken. We all laugh at Bloom, and she asks what's funny. One of the girls pulls a compact to Bloom's face, so she can see the notes on her own face.
From a railing above the class, Miss Griselda yells at us for not moving on to their next class yet, since the bell had already rung. Funny that we didn't hear this supposed bell. Crazy woman.
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I was sitting in my room, listening to Musa, Flora and Tecna fight it out over Mirta, who is now a pumpkin and sitting in our living space. How she got like that, I don't remember. I was tired of hearing them fight over it, but if I gave Flora the spell to reverse it, they'd be even more up her ass about it.
I tuned them out and continued on with my test results.
Brandon, Sky and Riven were one of three people. My soul mate, best friend, or knight. I should ask Tecna for help when I'm done so she can go over it and my biased feelings don't ruin everything.
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After an hour of contemplating and deciding, I decided Brandon was my knight. That was all I decided. Brandon and Sky had the quality of my best friend, Brandon had the quality of my knight, and Riven had the quality of my best friend and soul mate. Usually, like in a game of Sudoku, once you have one in a line, you can't have more than one.
So if I got rid of Brandon and knight, I'd be left with Sky, Riven, best friend and soul mate. So then Sky would only have the quality of a best friend, making him just that and getting rid of Sky and best friend, leaving me with Riven and soul mate. But I can't treat this like a game of Sudoku no matter how bad I wanted to.
I stopped what I was doing and listened to the girls. "OK! I've got it! What we'll do is only read the questions! That way, it's not cheating!" Stella yelled. What the hell? I thought as I ran out into the living space.
"That's obviously debatable, but Stella has a point... kind of . If we only read the questions, but gather the answers on our own, then we've truly learned the material, right? And the entire point of taking tests is to learn the material... right? It's not as "wrong" as getting the answers, at least." Tecna said logically.
"What is going on?" I asked
"Bloom found the answers to Wizgiz's test tomorrow." Musa said, bitterly. "I'm going to study." She walked off.
Bloom was already sleeping and Flora was on the other couch. Stella was already headed off to her room.
"That was festive." I turned to Tecna. "Are you busy now?"
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Tecna came to the same conclusion I did. Now I don't know where Riven and Sky stand with me.
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We all headed for the kitchen. Stella studies a sign on the door that is a chef's hat with a criss-cross spatula and fork beneath. Stella thinks it's a danger sign, and gets scared. Musa mentions it's just the kitchen.
I suppose it was obvious, but in Stella's defense, I have never seen such a sign indicate a kitchen myself.
"We're going to hide the envelope in the kitchen." Bloom said.
"Why?" I asked.
"So we don't cheat." She said. "If they can't pass a "simple" test, then we weren't meant to be fairies."
Stella clearly does not care for this idea. And since when was this supposed to be a "simple" test? Professor Wizgiz made this sound like a life-or-death situation here-not just a "simple" test.
I agreed to hide the envelope with them.
"Wait," Musa started. "If we all hide the envelope, then we all know where it is."
"Then only one person should hide it." Bloom said. "Then, the others will wait outside."
"That still leaves one person to know where it is." Tecna said.
"Bloom should hide it." Musa said. I don't agree with that. I have to be curious why Musa choose Bloom over Tecna or Flora, who one would also expect to be trustworthy. Maybe she's still mad at Flora from earlier. Then again, she got mad at Bloom too. Either way, Bloom shouldn't hide it.
"Well, why does Bloom get to hide it?" Flora asked, slightly irritated.
"Because I've decided that no matter what happens, I won't look. I pinky swear promise you guys." She said.
"What if you can't help yourself? Why isn't anyone else questioning Bloom on this?" Flora asked, looking around at us all.
"Oh, Flora's just upset because she wants to be our resident goody-goody, right Flora?" Stella said.
"Back off Stella." I warned her. "She's done more work in the entire dorm than any of us combined but none of you have even thanked her, let alone noticed. Who the hell cares if she wants to be thanked for doing something good when none of us, myself included, have either been too wrapped up in what we were doing or too snobby to even fucking notice everything she's doing for us and Mirta." I never cursed -a lot at least-, but this was definitely the time to do so if anything.
"Give me the envelope." I held my hand out to Bloom who looked at me, stunned. "Give me the envelope." I said, my voice booming in the room, shaking the pots. "My guess, is that the noise just alerted someone of our presence here, so give me the envelope and leave." She handed it to me and everyone left except for Flora. I turned and looked at her. "For you." I said, smiling. She smiled back and hugged me.
"Thank you, but you hide it. I know you won't cheat." She said and walked off. I used a small spell to hide it, not even I knowing where it was at.
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I was still awake, sitting in the living space, lights off and everything. I heard rustling in all the rooms so I ducked down and watched. Once Stella left, I had to go to the kitchen to make sure everyone was going to not get caught.
Flora gets out of bed too, looks to see Bloom still asleep. Tecna sneaks out of her room too, and all three of the girls sneak into the kitchen. Soon enough, Musa shows up, also sneaking around the kitchen in search of the envelope. Soon, Bloom enters the kitchen and turns the light on, catching the other four girls in the act and noticing me sitting against the wall, watching in amusement. Bloom looks upset at first, then just starts laughing, and the other girls start laughing with her.
"It's not that I want to cheat I just don't want to repeat this year again." Stella said.
"Ah, who knows, maybe third time will be the charm." Musa said. No one really liked that remark but I didn't care enough to stick around.
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We were standing outside of Wizgiz's class. Everyone was worrying for nothing. We all walk into class and notice the other girls all covered in mud.
I assume this mud does not wash off easily, since I can't imagine real teenage girls not trying their damnedest to clean themselves off. Or to let Wizgiz know they had opened the envelope. I'm kind of surprised the didn't call in sick, though I suppose Wizgiz might have known what happened if most of his class were absent.
Wizgiz is entirely fascinated to see all the girls.
Flora gives the envelope to Professor Wizgiz, who decides to check what's inside the envelope. The other students, not including us, all get scared when Wizgiz goes to open the envelope, though all that's in the envelope is sparkly dust. Wizgiz says that since they've finished the quiz they can continue on with the day's lesson. Someone asks what quiz, and Wizgiz says that whether or not to open the envelope was the quiz, or the lesson.
So I guess the other girls are not getting kicked out of Alfea. Not that it matters much since they're mostly nobodies, or no one important, but I suppose a school with only five girls wouldn't sit well with me.
Wizgiz explains about inner transformations, like being the kind of person who wouldn't cheat on a test, but then accidentally comes across the test answers and can't resist looking, thus transforming into a cheater.
Isn't this test of Wizgiz's also called "entrapment"? It would have been cool to see someone throw that accusation at him. Seems like something one of these girls would do.
Wizgiz congratulates us, and Stella tosses him into the air with glee, but does not catch him on the way down and I have to laugh.