Walt Disney Academy

six

M O A N A

"Whit's yer first class?" Merida asked me as the two of us left the dinner hall. She pushed a few of her ginger curls behind her ear as she held her timetable in her right hand, squinting at it.

"Uh, magic control," I cheered sarcastically, checking the piece of paper I was clutching in my left hand. It was a compulsory class I had to take instead of gym, because apparently 'knowing your strengths and your limits is the most important thing of all!' It wasn't actually a bad class, there was only about seven or eight of us and our teacher, Mr Montunui – or Maui, as he says to call him – is one of the coolest teachers in school. "What about you?"

"Technology 'n' design wi' Miss Maleficent," She told me, blowing another stray curl out of her face, "A can't think o' a worse wey tae spend mah Monday mornings."

"But you love technology," I reminded her as we turned the corner to exit the Student Dorm building an into the actual Academy.

"Did someone say 'technology'?" A voice asked, racing towards the pair of us and knocking into my shoulder lightly. I turned to see Eugene grinning back at me, his eyes examining my face.

"Yeah, Mer's with Maleficent first thing," I told him as the three of us walked past Mr and Mrs Fredricksen's music classrooms.

"Sweet, me too! Looks like your face healed up pretty quick," He pointed out, bringing up a finger to lightly touch my cheekbone.

I flinched away and he quickly pulled his hand back.

"Doesn't mean it doesn't hurt," I grumbled quietly.

"Ah ano, whit's she lik'? Getting intae a rammy oan th' first nicht back, even ah wouldn't dare dae that, mah maw wid hae mah lee," Merida exclaimed, peering over the cap I was wearing to look at Eugene with big eyes.

"Yeah, well, what my mom doesn't know won't hurt her, right?" I said, looking at my left where Eugene was walking beside me and then to my right, where Merida was pushing her frizzy hair out of her eyes.

"O' coorse, darlin'. She won't hear anythin' fae us," She assured, giving my hand a quick squeeze. I grinned at her and happily swung our intertwined hands between us.

"Yeah, what she said," Eugene agreed, pulling out his phone. "Aw, shoot, we have to run if we wanna be on time for Miss Artificial-Cheekbones." He pulled a silly face and grabbed Merida's arm, unlinking my fingers from hers.

"Ah will see ye in th' common room!" Merida promised as she ran off to her Technology class with Eugene. I smiled at the pair and turned around, making my way to Mr Motunui's class.

***

I entered the Magic Control classroom behind Violet Parr, closing the door after me. I shuffled past the desks at the front and slid into the seat beside Kida Nedakh in the left corner. I plonked my bag onto the floor and gave the girl beside me a smile, which she returned.

I peered around the room and noticed that I had the same classmates as last year – Ariel and Andrina Triton, Hercules Olympus, Peter Pan, Rapunzel Corona, Violet and Kida.

"Hey kiddos, welcome back to Magic Control!" Maui exclaimed, clapping his hands together, smiling largely. His eyes skimmed around the classroom and his smile grew bigger.

"Kida, Moana, Ariel, Hercules, Peter, Violet, Andrina, Rapunzel and... oh," He stopped abruptly, searching in the second row where nobody was sitting. We all looked at him in confusion, and he quickly coughed.

"It's good to see you guys again! So, we're gonna do a quick re-cap, okay? The only form of magic you need to be aware of is your own. For Kida and Violet, it's forms of magic. In this class, we only deal with Natural types of magic, or magic you were born with. Nobody's magical outlet in this room is from Potions or a wand, it's from what's within. We look at five main types of magic; Elemental, which applies to Moana, Energy, which applies to Violet, Peter and Rapunzel, Intelligence, which applies to Violet and Kida, Superhuman, which applies to Hercules and Transportation, which applies to Ariel and Andrina."