Chapter 2 Part 3

THE NEXT DAY

 “Come on Kassie, I’ve got to show you this,” Mia said, leading Kassie down the rows of books.

“Look, if you’re just going to show me some book that you found then I don’t really care.” Kassie said, clearly bored out of her mind.

“It’s not a book. Here it is.” Mia said as she walked up to the statue. “What do you think it is.”

“Well, it looks like a statue. Wait…what’s this.”Kassie said, motioning towards the foot of the statue where the circle was. “Looks like something is supposed to go there.”

“Yeah, but what?” Mia said, looking at Kassie.

“Maybe,” Kassie said, pulling out Mia’s amulet.

“Where did you get my amulet?” Mia said snatching the amulet from Kassie’s hands. “I’ve been looking for that. I wasn’t supposed to take that off.”

“I found it on your bed and decided to do some research on it. It looks very old.” Kassie looked over at the statue again. “Try putting it in that spot right there.” Mia put the amulet in the little circle. Suddenly, the statue started to shake and it split in half. A tunnel was now where the statue should have been.

“Wow” Mia said, taking a few steps inside the tunnel.

“Wait!” Kassie yelled, grabbing a hold o Mia’s arm. “We don’t know what’s down there. Why don’t we go and tell somebody and let them handle it.”

“Well, I’m going down there. And whether or not you go with me is your choice, not mine. But I want to go and see what’s at the bottom of this tunnel.”

“Too bad you won’t be able to see it.” Mrs. Vixen said, walking towards them. “What do you think you’re doing?” Mrs. Vixen was wearing her usual outfit; a white blouse, a black knee-length skirt, and black mary janes.

“Um…we found this tunnel and we were about to go see where it leads,” Mia explained. It we’re going to get in trouble then we might as well do it truthfully.

“I think not, you should have come directly to a teacher as soon as you found this tunnel. Now how do you close this tunnel up?” Mia reached over and picked up the amulet. The tunnel immediately closed up leaving The Peacekeeper exactly the way it was left. Mrs. Vixen just gaped at where the tunnel once was. “How did you do that?”

“I just took my amulet out of the hole and the tunnel went away,” Mia held up her amulet so she could see it. Mrs. Vixen just kept staring at it as if it was God itself.

“Ms. Kassandra, you may return to your classes. Ms. Scarlett, I would like to have a word with you.” Kassie practically ran down the aisles towards the door. Once she was gone completely Mrs. Vixen turned to Mia and said, “Now can I see that amulet of yours.” Mia handed her the amulet the amulet and she observed it very closely. Sooner or later that thing is going to jump out of her hands and run away. “This is a very unique trinket you have here,” Mia heard her mumble a few words and the amulet started to float from her hands towards Mia. “Now as I’ve heard, you’ve got a pretty little birthmark just like that on your neck, am I right?” Mia nodded, “May I see it?” Mia didn’t see any harm in her seeing it, people always asked about her weird birthmark and besides she was a teacher. So Mia pulled her shirt down to reveal her neck as Mrs. Vixen walked around her to get a good view of her neck. “Amazing, there is nothing like this that I’ve ever heard of before,” Mia Pulled the neck of her shirt back up and turned to face Mrs. Vixen.

“Can I go back to class now?” Mia tried her best not to look bored out her mind but didn’t know if she was succeeding or not.

“Of course, but I think that some sort of punishment is due for skipping out on class in the first place. I have no choice but to suspend your powers for three days.”

“What?! But Kassie is going unpunished?! That is so unfair!” Mia could not believe this, all she did was cut class and they never punished her this way.

“Okay. One, I don’t have to be fair. Two, you dragged her out her classes so you could go play adventure. And three, I’m sorry but you have to be punished some way. And since every other punishment we’ve given you has failed, I see no other option. Now stand over there and don’t even think about trying to run away.” Mia moped over to where Mrs. Vixen was pointing while she heard her mumble a few words that were probably a removal magic spell. Mia turned and faced Mrs. Vixen. Suddenly the room filled with light and a dark ray shot out of Mrs. Vixen’s outstretched hands and went straight to Mia’s heart. For a moment Mia couldn’t breathe and this made her panic, but then the black ray flew out of her and was carrying a strange orb that changed colors. Mrs. Vixen pulled out a little stone box and put the orb in the box and locked it with her magic. “Now you may go Ms. Scarlett,” Mrs. Vixen said as she started walking the other way. 

Mia left the library and started heading down the hallway when she spotted Kassie and ran up to her. Kassie saw her and ran up to meet her, “OMG, what happened?”

“Mrs. Butthead took my magic for three days for doing what she says as ‘taking Ms. Kassandra out of class so I could go play adventure’. God, I can’t believe this. How am I going to get to go see what that tunnel leads to if I can’t use my magic?”

“What? I hope you don’t mean that you’re going back there do you? You already got your magic taken. Do you want to be expelled too?” Kassie gave Mia a true look of desperation.

“Oh, I am so going back there. They’re hiding something and I’m going to find out what it is whether you help me or not.” Mia turned around as Kassie grabbed her by the arm.

“Wait a minute, who said I wasn’t going to help you? I just don’t want to lose my best friend because she decided to go do something stupid after she just got in trouble.” Kassie gave Mia one of her ever so famous weak smiles.

“Great because I’m going to need all of the help I can get.” Mia in intertwined her arm with Kassie’s and together they walked down the hallway.