Cait Hair:
Milo and Lexie had been caught trying to run away, and they had been caught by none other than Mr. Danbury.
"No so fast," said Mr. Danbury. "Do you have any idea what time it is?"
"I was looking for the toilet and I couldn't find it, then I ran into Milo and then," said Lexie.
"Shut it," said Mr. Danbury.
"Okay," said Lexie.
"I was looking for Lexie and the I ran into the toilet and…," said Milo.
Milo looked at Mr. Danbury, who was not interested in Milo's story.
"I'll shut up now," said Milo.
"Your excuses and lies stop now, first thing tomorrow you will report to my office and I'll think of something nice for you," said Mr. Danbury.
"But you can't punish us, we're outside of school," said Milo.
"What did you say Mr. Fletcher?" Asked Mr. Danbury.
"Nothing," said Milo.
"Now, go to bed," said Mr. Danbury.
Mr. Danbury released Milo and Lexie and they fell to the ground. Mr. Danbury let go back to the study and went inside. Milo and Lexie stood up and Milo was not happy and kind of scared.
"We're doomed, Lexie, doomed, life as we know it is over," said Milo.
"You're exaggerating, I've had detention many time before and," said Lexie.
"No, no, this is different, did you see the coat he was wearing? Asked Milo. "I believe they have a witch meeting in there, we'll all become toads!"
Milo and Lexie walked back upstairs. Skyla and Percy came out of the kitchen and walked to the door, Percy got down on his knees and tried to get the door open with his tools.
In the study, Kent was waiting for Mr. Danbury to tell him what had happened in the hallway.
"Didn't I tell you to make sure they all stay upstairs," said Kent.
"Well, I believe it won't happen again after they report to my office tomorrow," said Mr. Danbury.
"I'll take a look soon, they won't bother us again," said Arlene.
Kent nodded his head and he and the rest continued brewing the druid's potion.
In the meantime, Milo had returned to his room and was looking for Percy. Milo walked over to Percy's bed and removed the blanket and even searched under the bed.
"Percy? Percy? Percy?" Asked Milo.
Because of all the noise Milo was making, Raphael had woken up.
"What are you doing?" Asked Raphael.
"What I'm doing? What I'm doing? Percy has disappeared and you're sleeping," said Milo.
"So what? You two disappear every night," said Raphael.
"No, this is different, they want to turn a toad in Percy," said Milo.
Raphael looked at Milo strangely, and Milo also realized that his sentence was not right at all.
"Percy into a toad, said Milo.
"Yeah, said Raphael.
"We've to think of something," said Milo. "I know it, we sneak downstairs, I'll knock on the door and when someone checks it out, you run inside and save Percy, Amazing plan. Come on"
Milo walked toward the door, but did not hear Raphael, he turned to Raphael's bed and saw that Raphael had his eyes closed again.
"Ra, Raphael? Raph?" Asked Milo.
Milo realized that Raphael had fallen asleep again. Milo walked over to his bed and climbed back in.
"Skyla," said Raphael in his sleep.
"Don't say her name! She will come for us!" Said Milo.
In the meantime, Skyla and Percy were still downstairs and were at the secret door, Skyla times if no one was coming, while Percy tried to break the door open. Percy had managed to get the door unlocked, he carefully opened the door a little and he and Skyla saw all red smoke in the room.
"We need seven hairs of a cat for the ritual, rose pedals," said Kent.
"Can we go now?" Asked Skyla.
"Yes," said Percy.
"Yes," said Skyla.
Percy closed the door and Skyla was already starting to run. Percy was about to leave when he saw something lying on the floor.
"Wait, wait," said Percy.
Skyla walked back to Percy, he was kneeling and grabbed his magnifying glass and looked at what was on the floor, it looked like hair, but the it wasn't human hair.
"Cait hair," said Percy.
Percy took off his back bag and took out an evidence bag, he put of the cat hair in the bag and then he and Skyla both walked back upstairs and both went to their own rooms. Percy entered his room, put his backpack under his bed and got into bed. Percy grabbed the bag of cat hair and turned on his recorder.
"Location: Boys' room, I've…," said Percy.
Percy stopped talking when he heard footsteps toward his room to room, he turned off his recorder and squeezed his eyes tightly shut. The door opened and Arlene looked around the room and then looked toward Percy's bed.
"Percy? Are you awake, Percy?" Asked Arlene.
Percy remained still and kept his eyes closed. Arlene left the room again and walked away, when Percy heard the footsteps moving farther and farther away from his room, she opened his eyes again and grabbed the bag of cat hair and his recorder again.
"I've found cat hair, just like the Rowan berries, these are probably ingredient of the druid's potion, but I don't have any proof yet," said Percy. "Mr. Danbury was here again, his part in this all is still unknown, we also heard an unknown voice, this needs further investigation."
The next day, Lexie was already awake and standing by Anastacia's bed.
"Anastacia? For how long will you stay in bed? Asked Lexie.
"15 more minutes," said Anastacia.
"Oh," said Lexie. "Do you mind if I look around?"
"Not as long as you're quiet and stick to my rules, and only the special light," said Anastacia.
"I will," said Lexie.
Lexie looked around the room and looked at the items that were on Anastacia's makeup table and found under the brush the letter the Raphael had written to Skyla, she grabbed the note from the table and began to read it.
"Hi, Skyla, will you come to the drama..," said Lexie as she read the note.
Anastacia got nervous when Lexie began to read the letter aloud, she took off her sleeping mask and put on her sunglasses.
"Didn't I just tell you to be quiet?" Asked Anastacia.
"Why do you have a note that is meant for Skyla?" Asked Lexie.
"If you are going to touch other people's stuff, you can no longer stay here," said Anastacia.
"I won't ask any more questions," said Lexie.
"And you won't touch anything," said Anastacia.
"I can't promise you that," said Lexie.
"Sorry?" Asked Anastacia.
"I've a very important task to keep an eye on Skyla," said Lexie, as she said down on Anastacia's bed.
"I don't know what you're talking about," said Anastacia.
"I'll explain, Skyla is a witch and Milo wants..," said Lexie, but Anastacia cut her off.
"Yeah, sure, just don't touch my stuff," said Anastacia as she took the note from Lexie. "Got it?"
In the meantime, the rest of the residents also slowly began to wake up and get ready for school. Skyla was in the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror.
"I've seen a girl, Percy, and her name is Emma," said Skyla. "No, no."
Skyla looked at herself in the mirror, she took another deep breath.
"Hi, Percy, everything alright?" Asked Skyla. "Why am I acting weird?"
"Skyla?" Asked Percy.
"Percy, uh, hi," said Skyla.
Percy went into the bathroom, closed and locked the door and walked over to Skyla.
"We've to immediately investigate the headmaster's office," said Percy.
"Again? Why?" Asked Skyla.
"Those Rowan berries, the cat hair, ingredients for a dark druid's potion, they aren't here for no reason," said Percy.
"Druids? What do you mean?" Asked Skyla.
"Something is going on with this house, and I believe dark druids are involved, dark druids who are working on a dangerous ritual," said Percy.
"What kind of ritual?" Asked Skyla.
"That I don't know, I only know that Mr. Gibson is involved, and that Mr. Danbury plays an important part in it," said Percy.
"He could be the leader," said Skyla.
"Yes, that's why we've to investigate his office immediately, we've to know more," said Percy.
"Yes," said Skyla.
"Oh, Skyla, you're not weird," said Percy.
"Oh yeah," said Skyla.
Skyla and Percy heard Milo outside the bathroom and he was making all kinds of strange noises.
"There are people who are really weird," said Percy.
A few moments later Anastacia and Lexie were sitting at the table for breakfast, Lexie was making a sandwich for herself and was stared at by Anastacia.
"Is something the matter?" Asked Lexie.
"I don't want you to audition," said Anastacia.
"You're joking, right?" Asked Lexie.
"No, I don't joke around, tell them you've stage fright, or something else, but you're not going to participate in the auditions," said Anastacia.
"But I want to audition, I love it and I love singing and Ms. Mills said I might get the lead," said Lexie.
Anastacia set her glass down hard on the table, so hard in fact that the drink in her glass fell over her arm and Lexie was quite startled by this.
"Maybe you didn't understood me, if you want to stay her, you'll drop out, there is only one lead and it will go to Anastacia Emmerson-Walsh," said Anastacia. "Or would you rather have for someone to find out about the mall fire?"
"No," said Lexie.
"Well, then we agree," said Anastacia.
Lexie nodded her head nervously, Milo walked into the living room.
"Percy? Percy? Where is Percy? Asked Milo. "Anastacia, do you know where Percy is?"
"Who?" Asked Anastacia.
Milo grabbed Lexie by her wrist and pulled her along, Anastacia quietly continued eating breakfast and didn't much care what happened.
A few minutes later in the woods. Milo and Lexie walked hurriedly toward the school.
"Where are we going? Asked Lexie.
"I've to see to with my own two eyes, or I won't believe it," said Milo.
At the same time at school, Mr. Danbury was in his office and had one of his toads in his hands.
"Yes, pretty, right? Well, you're going back in, here you go," said Mr. Danbury.
Mr. Danbury put the toad back in the terrarium, ran his hands through his hair and left his office.
In the meantime, Skyla and Percy were also in the woods and were also working to get to school as quickly as possible, while Percy kept looking at his watch.
"Class will start in 43 minutes and 17 seconds, we've to hurry," said Percy.
Back at the school, Milo and Lexie walked into the headmaster's office and walked toward the bin with toads in it.
"Toads!" Said Lexie.
"Not normal toads, bewitched students! And that one is new! Percy!" Said Milo, as he pointed to the toad.
"Do you think so?" Asked Lexie.
"I don't think so, I know so. A true friend notice," said Milo. "Oh, Percy, I'm too late."
In the meantime, Skyla and Percy had arrived at school, they saw Mr. Danbury standing by the lockers as he was searching them.
"Do you think you can distract him long enough?" Asked Percy.
"I'm a bad liar, he will see right through to me," said Skyla.
Milo and Lexie were still in Mr. Danbury's office. Milo put his hand down on the glass of the bin and looked at the toad he thought was Percy.
"Now what?" Asked Lexie.
"Now, we're going to save Percy," said Milo.
"Yes," said Lexie.
"Hold on, Percy," said Milo.
And as Milo and Lexie left Mr. Danbury's office, Skyla and Percy were busy trying to figure out a way by which they could distract the headmaster.
"We've to know what Mr. Danbury is up to, it's important," said Percy.
"Okay," said Skyla.
Skyla and Percy walked toward the lockers, Skyla took a deep breath and walked toward Mr. Danbury and Percy walked toward his office.
"Sir? Could you explain… quantum physics to me?" Asked Skyla, as that was the best thing she could come up with in the moment.
And while Skyla was busy distracting Mr. Danbury, Percy entered the office. Percy took his recorder out of his pocket and turned it on.
"Investigation headmaster, part 2 has begun," said Percy.
Percy put his recorder back in his pocket and started searching the office, he started again at the secret drawer and found a drawing of a stone circle in it. Percy took off his bag and took out a drawing he had made of the stone circle he had seen in Mr. Gibson's book, he held the drawings side by side and saw that they were the same, he took his recorder out of his pocket again and turned it on.
"I've found proof, a drawing of a Celtic Stone Circle, the same one as in the druid book of Mr. Gibson, that's all," said Percy.
The office door opened and Percy looked at the door opening startled.
Who was entering the office? Was it Mr. Danbury? Had Skyla failed to distract him?