Star Academy of Magic and Acedemics: book one.

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JASONS POV

BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.

groggily I woke wondering why the heck I was being forced out of bed at 4am. I turned my torch on and grabbed my glasses, walking over to the calendar I had drawn up at the beginning of the year. I grabbed the red pen to cross off todays date when I realized... its August 30th.

Now I knew the reason for my early rise I grabbed my black suede backpack, and ran to my closet to grab my clothes. My favorite hoodies, shirts, flannels and jeans all in the bag. I tucked my playing cards, my Gameboy and my games, and finally my sketching book and pencils into the front pocket of my bag. Finally I went into my hidden shoebox under my bed and fished out my photos, and an old polaroid camera that I found stashed in my closet, that my Grandparents probably wouldn't want me to use but that wouldn't stop me. I hid them in my underwear so that if they did check my bag they probably wouldn't see them.

5am, I rush into the bathroom and I'm met by Dawson, running a hand through his silk white hair, staring into his blood red eyes, using his other hand to brush his teeth. I grabbed my toothbrush and brushed my teeth doing the same as Dawson, using my other hand to comb out my curly black hair, while staring into my piercing green eyes. I put my contact lenses in and put my glasses, contact solution, and toothbrush hastily in my bag.

"Todays the day!"

"I cant believe it! I didn't think magic existed. This is a lot to wrap my head around, even though its all I've thought about for the past two weeks."
"Grandad told me that we get wands but eventually don't even need them to do magic! We can learn to fly, ride dragons and play magical sports and... ugh I'm just so excited!"

We ran downstairs with our backpacks, me sporting my dad's old one, Dawson sporting a new one.

Grandma and Grandad were already in the car waiting, as we had to be at the magical tram station by 6am. We hopped in the back and grandad gave us $250 each. They've never given me money before, let alone this big of a sum.

They started driving through a wood, that I had never noticed in all my time walking through the streets of Toronto, the trees twisted and moved, leaves shifting color as we continued to drive through this wood. Then they drove straight into the lake. It felt weird, not like I was falling, but like I was rising up drop tower or something of the like. Then we were suddenly in a town, trees made of braided silvery or brown wood, moss, cobbled roads, shops with all sorts of magical things. I don't really know what all of these things are... we pulled up at a train station. The sign read STAR ACADEMY- 25 ½ HR JOURNEY grandma and granddad hugged Dawson and just waved me off. I saw Audrey and Krista talking with a boy with almost shoulder length black hair, large glasses and yellowy eyes. We approached them and waited for the train to arrive.

When the train arrived we gawked at the complexity. It was a few train cars with 6 wings and a dragons head, that was moving fluidly, not like that of a robot.

We entered the train choosing to sit in a compartment with the new black haired boy, whose name was Benjamin, or Ben. I sat next to Audrey and the window, and she leaned against me, using my shoulder as a pillow. I don't blame her, it was early in the morning. Dawson was sharing his sweets with Krista, and Ben and I were discussing paintbrushes and art. Ive never had this many people be nice to me...

Flashback

I sat on the swing alone, as usual at recess. Dawson had went to the toilets leaving me alone. Then they approached me. Aidan and Logan. Big kids who loved nothing more than beating me to a pulp daily.

"Look who it is! Its Jason the freak!"

"I'm not a freak..."

"yes you are? Whos going to protect you freak? Going to cry to your mummy and daddy? Oh I forgot, theyre dead"

the boys laughed as I stared at the floor, not caring about what they told me.

"Going to talk? Are you to sad to talk, you big baby?"

"leave me alone."

"did you just threaten me? I'll have to take care of you then."

They grabbed me from the swing and threw me to the floor. Aidan stepped on my chest to hold me down, while Logan kicked my nose in. they pushed me on my side and continued to punch and kick until I was bleeding, black and blue with bruises.

Flashback over.

Its been an hour, ive been sleeping on and off, ive got Audrey asleep on my shoulder, really close to me. it felt comforting being around positive people. I felt myself drift off to sleep, the rise and fall of my chest moving my backpack up and down ever so slightly...

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Peace will win, fear will lose.

-Bear