Emerald Prep (Young Magic Book 1)

Chapter Eleven

I swear that I am not dead! Just very unlucky!!! I finally have some free time to write my stories but my tablet screen cracked! Now I have only when I have internet to write my stories. i am so sorry!

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The next day was the official start of school for everyone. Which made me very nervous because I am still surprised at the idea of school. Magic class did not feel hard but I have no clue how good I would be at the other classes.
"Ash! You do not have to bring all of your textbooks right now! Hurry up!" Bram was yelling at me, as we were getting ready. "We only need our history book! You can get the rest after Lunch!"
"But, what if I don't have any time to get them before the next class?" I asked as I tried to stack all my textbooks together to carry them.
Darkie started to make strange noises as I almost finished the stack. It was sitting on the edge of the dresser and it was moving in way that looked like it was staring at my textbooks and schedule.
"You're right! We do not even have half of those classes today! I think we would only need four textbooks today."
I stopped in mid-motion and turned to look at him. I gave him a glare that made him try to sink into the ground.
"You mean to tell me that I was stressing out on what book to bring when you knew how many we needed?!"
"Oops."
I had to chase him around the room until he fell down laughing.
"Quit goof-balling around! We need to get to class!"
"You need to relax."
I felt something crawl up my back and it started to massage my shoulders. I looked from the corner of my eyes and saw that it was my own shadow.
"This is so strange, but I'm starting to get used to your strangeness." I told him as I started to lean forward from the massage.
Bram was laughing until someone started to bang on the door. The shadow returned to the ground and I missed the massage.
"Hey! You two had better get out here before we are late! I heard from Florence that he is a pretty cool teacher!"
We quickly ran out before she could threaten us with magic.
"So, who do we have first?" Bram asked as we started walking.
"Its Professor Manx; Flo told me that his lectures are amazing!"
We walked passed the music halls and heard beautiful singing coming from one of the rooms. I looked into the passing room and saw Nova singing an old hymn. It is amazing how he can sing so beautifully with almost any song. We continued until we saw Bruce standing by our classroom door.
"Hey Bruce!"
He jumped before turning towards us.
"Excited for class?" he asked as I saw him trying to secretly knock on the door. "This teacher may look lazy but he actually cares for everyone's education. I hope that you three are not allergic to cats."
"So Bruce, what are you doing here?" Joy was blunt with her question.
"Um um," he started to stutter as Flo walked out of the classroom.
"He is over here because I needed to ask Mr. Manx about some notes for this years classes. He came with me so we can go to class together," she said as she started to walk away, "see you later little brother."
We went into the classroom as people started to walk into the hallway. Professor Manx was sleeping with his head on his desk and cats all around him. We picked three seats in the middle to sit. He got up and yawned after everyone sat down.
"Welcome to History and Mythology class! Please do not talk while I am talking and please raise your hand if you have any questions or answers. One does not truly learn without asking questions." He walked over to the board and started to write Werebeast lore on it. "Studies have shown that all werebeasts have one core gene that have been diluted in the years. No one knows the true reasons but there are many legends behind it."
I wrote down notes even though I knew the one answer. I originally only knew part of it until yesterday.
"Can anyone tell me what the core gene is?"
I raised my hand and gave my name.
"The core gene is Werewolf, which is why only werewolves have no animal features but they can all change."
"Good job, Mr. Snowpelt. Werewolves have been around the longest with the purest genes. A long time ago, it is said that werewolves could turn other beings into them with a single bite but many historians are unsure. One legend is that a werewolf bit a cat, fox, bear, bird, and bat, and they bit humans, which created the start of the werebeast race. Some historians used the legend to explain the gene in non-wolf werebeasts but we are not exactly sure. One of the other myths was that werewolves could only change during the full moon in the beginning. We have found that to be false but some werebeasts do feel a love for the moon that seem to make them want to change under its light."
After he gave us enough time to write down notes, he erased the board. I knew about the werewolf gene but I never knew that we used to have the ability to change a human.
"To start of the history part, I will explain the confusing beginning of the Great War." Many students gasped at his words. Some of your parents tried to hide most of the facts from you but this is school, you come here to learn. He wrote on the board Vampire & Were-mage beginnings. "There are two beginnings to the war; the first start was a human lord shooting a young werefox mage during a hunting trip. The werefox child still lives to this day. The later start was caused by a group of soldiers shooting a whole village of Vampires for hiding a just few werebears and mages in the town. If the leaders of the three Kingdoms allowed the human lord to pay for the crimes instead of saying that werebeasts have no rights, all of the years of violence could have been avoided. Next class, I will talk about the main rebel group, The Wolves of Freedom, and their three leaders that were never caught until they were pardon of all war crimes at the end of the war."
We got up as everyone else did and started to walk out of the room.
"The homework for this class is that I want everyone to write down their favorite legend from the textbook and write the historical ties to them."
"I like school! How come you guys never told me that it was so fun!" I told them as we walked to the main hall.
"Because other schools tried to brainwash us into wanting to kill all that do not match their version of normal. Anyone who wanted change got shamed for supporting the enemy." Joy said to me while doing air-quotations at certain words.
"After the war was over, other children would use their pencils to try and stake me while the teacher was writing math problems on the board. But, I think this school is amazing! They care for the students and they made education their main job here."
I opened my mouth to ask a question when my stomach growled. So, I switched my question.
"I wonder when lunch is going to be."
They both looked at me funny.
"Ash, dont you ever read your class schedule? We are going to eat lunch before English class." Joy told me as Bram reached into my back pocket.
I jumped up as he pulled out my schedule. I looked at it as he handed it back to me.