"There it is," Acxa said as she pointed down a hole in the floor with a railing around it. Below them was the wand, floating in a blue light.
"Wow!" Rolo exclaimed as he ran to a gate to their right and opened it, the stairs leading down to where the wand was. Keith, Matt, and Acxa followed after him, smiles on their faces.
There it was. Just out of reach, ready to be grabbed. However, Keith could sense that there was magic around it.
"Wait!" Keith exclaimed as Rolo ducked under the railing to go and grab the wand. "Rolo wait!" as Rolo went to grab the wand, a force knocked him back over the railing and an alarm started to go off. Keith, Matt, and Acxa cried out and covered their ears as the loud alarm sounded off.
Unknown to the four teens, the security guard had been woken up from Keith's spell by the alarm going off.
"A force field?" Matt called out as he helped Rolo off the ground.
"And a siren to match," Rolo said with a wince as Matt helped him stand up. "That's a little much."
"Let's go!" Keith called out as he ran out of the room, the others following after.
It was that this moment that the security guard was also running around the building, flashlight in hand, trying to find who or what had set off the alarm.
"Hurry," Acxa said as they rushed down the stairs to the first floor. As they ran past Haggar's spinning wheel, the phone at the desk started to ring. Keith's eyes widened as he realized the security guard would be coming to answer the phone.
"Come one you guys," Keith called out as they ran out the door they entered through. Matt however, stopped and answered the phone.
"Hello?" Matt asked as he answered the phone. "Uh, sorry just me one second here," Matt said in a deeper voice this time as he started pressing buttons on the pad beside the phone. With that, the alarm stopped going off. "Yeah, sorry about that, we had a small malfunction," Matt said with a chuckle. "Everything's good, have a great night now."
"Matt!" Keith called out as Matt hung up the phone and ran to the door.
"You're welcome," Matt said as he ran out and closed the door behind him. Just as the security guard ran in. With their mission a failure, the teens ran back to the dorm area of the school.
"Good job Rolo," Keith said with a glare to his friend.
The next morning, the teens were in their first class of Remedial Goodness 101 with Shay. Today, Shay was wearing a black pencil skirt with a black leather belt, a white halter top blouse, and black heels. The only same things she was wearing were her necklace, bracelet, and earrings.
Keith was wearing black jeans with holes in the knees, a red t-shirt, a black leather jacket, black leather boots that stopped below the knee, and a black belt. Along with his black fingerless gloves of course.
Acxa was wearing a black halter tank top, washed black boot cut jeans with a ripped knee, black ankle heeled boots, a black leather jacket, and a black belt.
Rolo was wearing a black tank top ripped a little bit on the edge, red camouflage jeans with two zippered pockets, grey boots that stopped halfway up his calf. He also wore his signature black vest, silver chain belt, black fingerless gloves, and brown hat with goggles on top.
Matt was wearing blue jeans with ripped knees, a black and grey quarter sleeve shirt, black boots, a black studded belt, black fingerless gloves, and his signature black coat and hat.
"Now, when someone hands you a baby, should you:
Curse it?
Lock it in a tower?
Give it a bottle? Or
Carve out its heart?" Matt, Rolo, and Acxa had never been so bored with a class in their life. Keith however, was distracted by drawing the wand in his notebook. "Acxa," Shay said with a smile as Acxa raised her hand.
"What was the second option again?" Acxa said to which Shay smiled and silently sighed to herself.
"Okay, anyone else have a guess?" as no one put up their hand, Shay turned to Keith who had been getting all the right answered today. "Keith?"
"C. give it a bottle," Keith said as he glanced up from his drawing.
"Correct, gain," Shay said with a smile. "Good job."
"You are on fire, bro!" Matt said with a smile as he and Rolo turned to Keith.
"It's easy, just pick the one that doesn't sound like any fun," Keith said with a roll of his eyes.
"Oh," Matt said as he nodded his head.
"That makes it easier," Acxa said with a nod of her head.
The teen's attention was brought up when a girl squeaked and ran past them. She was lightly tanned with short blonde hair cropped into a shoulder-length bob. She was dressed in a light pink dress with a silver belt around her waist and white heels. She also wore a silver jeweled headband, gold hoop earrings, and a silver necklace with a heart pendant.
"Oh, hello Romelle," Shay said with a kind smile as the girl walked up with a clipboard in hand, her purple eyes staring in fear at the teens sitting in the desks staring at her.
"Hi Mom, you need to sign off on the form for early dismissal for the Coronation," the girl said as she handed the clipboard over to Shay.
"Right, oh," Shay said with a smile as she passed the signed clipboard back to her daughter. "Everyone, this is my daughter Romelle."
"Mom, no!" Romelle said with a soft glare to her mother.
"Oh hush," Shay said as she turned her daughter around to face the teens. "Romelle, this is Keith, Axca, Matthew, and Rolo."
"Uh, hi, don't mind me," Romelle said as she made haste out of the room.
"Right then," Shay said with a smile. "Now, you find a vial of poison. Do you:
Put it in the king's wine?
Paint it on an apple? Or
Turn it over to the proper authorities?" Shay was surprised when everyone (minus Keith) put up their hands. Rolo pulled Matt's hand down and held it down with a smirk on his face.
"Get off! I have this one!," Matt said as he tried to free his hand, but was stopped when Shay called out Rolo's name."
"Rolo."
"C. You turn it over to the proper authorities," Rolo said with a smirk directed towards Matt.
"I was gonna say that," Matt grumbled with a glare towards the other boy.
"But I said it first. Come here!" Rolo said as he pulled Matt into a headlock and pinned him down to the desk, all the while giving him a noogie.
"Come on, who said it first? Huh? Rolo asked as Keith and Acxa rolled their eyes at the pair.
"Ow! Stop!"
"Boys!" Shay called out as she hit her stick against the table beside her, which quickly gathered the boy's attention. "If you have this much energy, I encourage you to use it on the tourney field with Coach Kolivan."
"Uh, what is tourney?," Matt said with a smile on his face as Rolo got off him and sat back down in his chair.
"Rolo, Lance you're playing offense today," Coach Kolivan called out as he blew his whistle. Kolivan was dressed in a pair of black pants, a grey t-shirt, a black jacket, and black running shoes. Around his neck, he wore a silver whistle, and on his head was a black baseball cap. "Lotor you're defense, and Taylor you're the shooter today."
"Right, coach!"
"Hey!" Kolivan called out to Matt who had not yet put on his helmet and was a little confused on what to do. "Put your helmet on and get out of the kill zone!"
"Kill zone?" Matt asked himself as he put his helmet on and stepped out of the red area of the field.
Coach Kolivan blew the whistle and the game started. As the boys played, the cheerleaders on the side who practicing their routines cheered for them.
Seeing as Rolo was on the side with blue coloured pinnies(I literally had to google to remember what those were called from gym class), he pushed down any yellow coloured player who had the ball. Coach Kolivan and the assistant coach turned to each other with surprise on their faces.
Rolo ran into the "kill zone" and Taylor, started shooting at him with the disk shooter. Rolo, however, jumped and dodged every single one that came towards him. Rolo caught the ball thrown at him with his stick, he knocked down another yellow player and caught the ball once more.
"Rolo, it's me!" Matt called as he saw his friend coming towards him. "It's Matt!" Matt glanced down and for some reason forgot he was wearing a yellow pinnie. "Wait, Rolo! Stop!" Matt cried out as he tossed his stick towards his friend to try and stop him. Ony, Rolo jumped over it, and he still had the ball in his stick.
"No!" Matt yelled as he pulled up his shield as Rolo threw the ball at him. Matt fell down and Rolo bounced off his shield and captured the ball once more. However, in the process, he had knocked down Lance (who was on his team) as well who had been going to the ball at the same time.
Rolo picked up the ball and scored into the net. The cheerleaders erupting into cheers, except Nyma. Nyma was worried about how Lance had fallen and was hit by his own teammate.
"Ahh! Oh, yeah!" Rolo cried out as he pulled off his helmet, gloves, and broke his stick with his knee.
"What just happened? Who is this guy?" one of the players asked as Coach Kolivan blew the whistle.
"You! Get over here!" Kolivan called out as the assistant coach called for a short break. As Rolo ran over to the coaches, Lance helped a shaky Matt off the ground. "You, have a talent," Kolivan said as he patted Rolo's shoulder. "Welcome to the team," Kolivan said patting Rolo on the shoulder.
"Have you ever thought about band?"Kolivan asked as he turned to Matt which drew laughs from the team. "I'm sure Narti can you set you up with the band director."
"I'll work with him, Coach Kolivan," Lance said as he placed a hand on Matt's shoulder.
"All right," Kolivan said with a sigh. "Let's run that again."
I'm rotten to the core
An hour later, Lance, Nyma, and Lotor laughed as they walked out of their last class of the day. Lotor was a player on the tourney team along with Lance. Lotor had pale skin, white hair, and indigo purple eyes.
Nyma had changed into a light blue dress, a pink cardigan, and white heels. She also had with her a pink purse and pink sunglasses. Lotor changed into a pair of beige slacks, a white shirt, and a white blazer. Lance had changed into a pair of blue pants, a white shirt, and a blue blazer.
"They're nothing but trouble," Lotor said as he nodded his head towards where Keith and Acxa were at their lockers. Acxa bid Keith goodbye and headed off while Keith stayed at his locker.
"They're not, just misunderstood," Lance said with a roll of his eyes. "Just give them a chance," Nyma scoffed and pulled off her sunglasses.
"No offense, Lancey Bear, but you're just a little too trusting," Nyma said with a sigh. "Look, I know your dad fell in love with an evil side of your father who turned out to be a prince and gave him a second chance," Nyma said referring to the fairytale of Lance's parents. "But with my mother's fairytale, the evil fairy who cursed her was just plain evil," Nyma said as she held Lance's hands in her own and softly glared at Keith who was reading over his notebook.
"You're wrong, they just need a chance," Lance said as he pulled away from Nyma and walked towards Keith. "I'll see you guys later," Nyma huffed, put her sunglasses back on, and walked away with Lotor beside her.
Keith sighed as he grabbed his book and closed his locker, jumping when he saw Lance suddenly beside him.
"Hey," Lance said with a smile.
"Hey," Keith said back as he unconsciously fixed his bangs.
"How was your first day?" Lance asked as he remembered that Keith's schedule didn't have a class this block.
"Super," Keith said with a huff.
"You know, you have a talent for art," Lance said as he studied the "Long Live Evil" spray paint on Keith's locker. "We have an art club here at school, I could sign you up if you'd like?"
"That just takes the fun out of it," Keith said as he noticed Romelle hurriedly walking away from him and into a quiet hallway. He sent Lance a teasing smile and walked in the same direction as her.
"Hey, Romelle right?" Keith asked with a smile as he caught Romelle fixing her hair in the mirror. "That's such a unique name."
"Uh, thanks," Romelle said with a nervous smile and went to walk away.
"Don't go!" Keith called out which made Romelle freeze in place. "I just thought we could get to know each other, become friends," Keith said with a soft smile. "But I guess you already have all the friends you need right?"
"Hardly," Romelle replied with a frown.
"Really? With your mom being the Fairy Godmother, I would have thought that you would have been more popular," Romelle sighed and shook her head. "Not to mention you have a wonderful personality," Keith said with a chuckle.
"I would if I was pretty," Romelle said as she studied Keith's hair which was pulled into a ponytail. "You have great hair, if mine was better looking I probably would have more friends."
"My hair? Oh, I might have something," Keith said as he pulled out the spellbook from his backpack. "I knew it, here," Keith said as he flipped through and found the spell he needed. "Beware, forswear, replace the old with brand new hair," Romelle cried out as she felt the spell working and slowly turned to the mirror behind her.
"Oh my god," Romelle said with wide eyes and a smile on her face. Her hair had grown longer and was now styled in town with long pigtails behind her head.
"Wow! You almost look like an entirely new person," Keith said with a smile as he placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Do you think you could do my nose?" Romelle asked as she pointed to the spellbook and then her nose.
"I'm not that advanced, unfortunately," Keith said with a frown. "But your Mom probably could, I mean, one swoosh from her wand and you could probably have whatever features you wanted," Keith said which made Romelle frown and shake her head.
"She doesn't use the wand anymore," Romelle said with a sigh. "She hasn't since we retired magic, you know after the villains were sent off."
"What a rip," Keith said with a harsh chuckle.
"Yeah," Romelle said with a nod of her head.
"Yet she's used her magic on other people, people who aren't even her own daughter," Keith said placing a hand on Romelle's shoulder. "Doesn't she love you enough to make you happy?"
"Of course she loves me, she just thinks that I should work on what's on the inside," Romelle said to which Keith nodded.
"Wait!" Keith said as Romelle frowned and her eyes glazed over a little bit. "That's the face!" Romelle flinched back at Keith's sudden outburst. "Just make it look like your heart is about the shatter into a million pieces."
"What?" Romelle asked in confusion. Keith smiled and held up a finger then demonstrated for the girl.
"Oh, mother, I just don't understand why you can't use magic on me to."
"Would that really work?" Romelle asked in curiosity.
"If it works with Axca and her mom, I'm sure it would work on Shay," Keith said which drew a laugh from Romelle. "And, if by chance she does break out the wand, be sure to give me a call, I've never seen good magic before."
"If it works, I'll be sure to drag you right over," Romelle said with a smile on her face.
"Yay," Keith said as he softly clapped his hands.
"Bye," Romelle said as she grabbed her purse and headed off.
"Bye," Keith said as he waved the girl off. A smile on his face as he headed back to his and Acxa's room.
"Any chance he's in line for a throne?" Acxa asked as she stared at Lotor. Narti glanced up from where she was taking notes and followed her gaze to Lotor. "Like, at all?"
"That is Lotor, adopted by King Alfor and Queen Melenor after his parents died," Narti said with a sigh. "He's in line to take over the throne after them, he has his father's charm but not a lot of there there, know what I mean?" Narti asked as Lotor just stared at the ceiling.
"Looks like there there to me," Acxa said with a smile as she continued to stare at Lotor.
"Acxa," Mr. Iverson called out which drew her attention to the board. "Since you have time to chat, this must just be a review for you. So tell me, what is the average atomic weight of silver?"
"Atomic weight?" Acxa asked to which Mr. Iverson nodded with a sigh. "Well, it's small and it's an atom, right? So probably not very much," Acxa said with a laugh which also drew a laugh from Lotor. Mr. Iverson rolled his eyes and asked her to write the equation on the board.
As she walked up, Acxa pulled the magic mirror out of her backpack.
"Let's see, "Acxa said as she picked up a piece of chalk from the board. "How do I find the average atomic weight of silver?" Acxa asked and she glanced down to the mirror and made it seem like she was thinking. "That would be 106.905 times .5200, plus 108.905 times .4800, which, Mr. Iverson, would give us 107.9 am."
"Isn't it 'amu'?" Narti asked in confusion before a smile was brought to her lips as Acxa's mispronunciation.
"Yes, well," Mr. Iverson said clearing his throat. "Remind me to never underestimate a-"
"-A villain? Yes, well, let's not repeat the same mistake," Acxa said as she put the chalk down and headed back to her seat. As she did, Lotor handed her a piece of paper and watched her sit down. Acxa opened it to find a note from Lotor.
Meet me under the bleacher at 3?
Acca looked back to Lotor and nodded. The pair then spent the rest of the class staring at each other. Narti sighed and continued to write down the notes for the class, making a copy in the time she had left because she knew that Acxa wouldn't be copying them down if she was staring at Lotor the entire time.
Later that same day, Lance had been working
g with Matt on the tourney field. Luckily, neither had a class right now so they were able to work as long as they needed to.
"Okay, we're gonna start with some sprints today," Lance announced. "Ready?" Lance asked from the other side of the field. Matt nodded from he was on the other side and Lance blew the whistle and started the stopwatch.
"Ah! No, wait!" Lance looked up from his watch and was surprised to find Matt already at his end of the field. However, he didn't notice the little dog behind the running and screaming boy.
"Great job!" Lance called out as Matt crossed the painted white line. "Now we're gonna-"
"No! Ah!" Matt yelled as he continued to run away from the dog, even after he passed the line.
"Matt?" Lance asked as he turned to the other boy in confusion. It was only when he saw Matt being chased by the dog that Lance chased after him. "Matt!"
The dog ended up chasing Matt right into the forest trails. Matt saw a tree with a rounded stump where a street used to be and quickly climbed onto it, hoping the dog would run past when it didn't see him. However, that was not the case because the dog saw him right away just sat and stared at him.
"Matt!" Lance called out as he ran towards the pair.
"Lance!" Matt called out as he watched the dog with fearful brown eyes.
"Whoa!" Lance said as he bent down to pick up the dog. "Easy there Bae-Bae."
"Help That thing is gonna claw my throat at!" Matt exclaimed as he pointed to the dog who just whimpered in Lance's arms. "He's a killer!"
"Killer? Who told you that dogs were killers?" Lance asked as he ran his fingers through the dog's white fur.
"My father," Matt said with a shudder.
"Sendak did?" Lance asked with wide eyes. Matt nodded and watched with wide eyes as Lance continued to hold and pet the dog in his arms.
"Don't pet him!" Matt yelled as he continued to cling onto the tree. "He'll bit your hand off!"
"You've never met a dog, have you?" Lance asked with a soft chuckle.
"Of course not," Matt answered with a shake of his head. "I've never gone near them."
"Well, Matt this is Bae-Bae, Bae-Bae this is Matt," Lance said with a smile on his face. "He's the campus dog."
"Well, he doesn't look a killer I guess," Matt said as he slowly climbed off the tree. "Yeah, you're a good boy aren't you?" Matt asked as he cautiously pet Bae Bae and Lance gently placed Bae-Bae into Matt's arms.
"I guess you guys have it pretty rough on the island," Lance said with a frown on his face. "If you were afraid of dogs because of what your father told you."
"Yeah, we don't get a lot of loving belly rubs," Matt replied with a sad laugh.
"In any case, you're a good runner," Lance said as he placed a hand on Matt's shoulder. "I think you might be the fastest on the team."
"Thanks," Matt said with a smile on his face as he continued to pet BaeBae.
"Yeah, well I'll give you two a bit to get to know each other okay?" Lance said as he slowly backed away from the pair. "Come find me later?
"Okay," Matt said with a nod.
"I'll see you later."
"See you later."
At 3, Lotor and Acxa met under the bleachers.
"Is everyone on the Isle as pretty as you are?" Lotor asked with a smile.
"Not really, my mother likes to call me the 'fairest of them all'," Axca said with a shake of her head. "Random question but how many rooms does your palace have?" Acxa asked with a smile on her face.
"Way too many than we need," Lotor said with a chuckle which drew a laugh from Acxa. "Great job on that chemistry question today," Lotor said with a laugh. "You're gonna have all those nerds crushing on you now."
"Oh, I'm not that smart," Acxa said with a nervous laugh.
"You sure? That was a tough question."
"I'm serious," Acxa said with a shake of her head. "I'm better at domestic things like sewing, cooking, and even cleaning," Acxa said with a smile.
"Wow, most of us have maids and servants who do that," Lotor said to which Axca laughed.
"See this?" Acxa asked as she pulled the magic mirror out of her backpack. "If I ask it anything, it will answer my question."
"Really?" Lotor asked in surprise.
"Yeah," Acxa said with a nod of her head. "It was my mother's," Lotor grabbed it from her and held it close to him.
"Where's my cell phone?" Lotor asked and then held the mirror up to his ear, expecting a response.
"Unfortunately it won't work for you," Acxa said with a laugh. "It only works on family."
"No biggie," Lotor said as he handed the mirror back. "I'll just have my dad buy me a new one, mine was outdated anyways."
"King Alfor right?"
"Yeah, he adopted me after my parents died."
"And Fairy Godmother Shay helped your parents find each other," Acxa said with a smile.
"Yeah."
"I heard her wand is in the museum?" Acxa asked as the two drew closer together. "Is it always kept there?"
"I'd really like to talk, but... I'm just swamped. Unless…"
"Unless?"
"If you could knock all my homework out along with yours, then maybe we could get together sometime... Hang," Lotor said as he handed his backpack over to Acxa.
"Okay," Acxa said with a nod.
"Thanks, babe," Lotor said as he walked off.
"Yeah. Bye."
"I couldn't help but overhear…" Narti said as she peeked between the bleachers.
"Are you stalking me?" Acxa asked with a soft glare.
"Technically... yes," Narti said as she slipped through the bleachers and beside Acxa. "But I also have a fascination with Fairy Godmother Shay's wand." Today Narti was wearing black jeans, a dark blue tank top, brown knee-length boots, and a red leather jacket. "Which is why I can't wait for the Coronation, maybe we could sit together?"
"Coronation?" Acxa asked with a smile. "
"Yeah, Fairy Godmother Shay uses it to-"
"I would love to keep chatting but I have to go," Axca said with a chuckle before she walked away, heading off to find Keith and tell him what she found out.