A lesson impatiently awaited by everyone – the lesson that taught them how to turn into something else. It was one of the most excitingly looked forward course in the school syllabus of the second semester in the first school year at Elmbridge School of Magic.
Both on the corridors of the school and on the corridors of the dormitories for younger students, one could hear talks about how diligently they wanted to attend all classes taught by Mr. Hans Von Halgen. A lesson where you could definitely learn how to turn into a multi-headed hydra, into a butterfly, into a lion, or even into a minotaur. “Even if I get sick, I'll still get to that class. I can’t skip the most beautiful lesson in the school syllabus,” said a little blond child in a determined voice, who wore glasses too big for his little nose, forced every few seconds to set them back as they slipped. Everyone around him approved him. At least everyone his age, because whenPrince Soimesti began to laugh when he heard this.“Fight is fight, no matter how easy it is ...”“Please tell me what you d-d-do to d-d-defeat him. I’m l-l-l-listening to you.”The boy slightly cleared his throat, then began to explain: “First I place a bait near him, to draw him in the trap, then I turn into a venomous viper and I wait for him to come. I stay on the chase, and when the mouse comes to eat the bait, I bite him. I then let him go, until the venom takes effect, then I come and swallow him, to win the fight. Thus, my enemy is destroyed forever.”The professor looked doubtful about the explanation.“I know that ... The biggest problem is that I don't know how to shapeshift. But that's why I came to your class. That's why we all came here ...”“Sh-sh-shapeshifting is the easiest part. F-f-for viper you say transformatum Vipera ammodytes for example. And you
Not far from the fountain of the wise, in a small park, Elizabeth sat at a marble table, with legs carved in the form of elephants holding the table with their trunks. The girl was reading, and Alexander was sitting on the fresh, lush green grass reading too.“Alexander, do you read this word ‘distillation’?” the girl asked.The boy looked in the book. Bored, he said:“Yup ...”“If you mix a feather of a swallow ...swallow tail with frog eyes and ... So if you mix a feather of swallow tail with frog eyes and ...”The girl closed the book. She looked at Alexander, smiling.“It was much easier and nicer with pictures. Too bad that spell only took effect for the magic class. But, as Mr. Knudlac said, learning requires work and rehearsal, and I will work and rehearse.”Alexander was reading, so bored that he barely nodded to let her know he agreed with her.“Thank you for helping me
Elizabeth didn’t at all. She was scared.“Yeah, you guessed right. My family was killed by those creatures we considered friends. All our family, which could now be more numerous, died in a few moments. Only my grandfather and his sister escaped ... because they were late. The rest died. Old people, men, women and many children. Like me and you. So stop laughing! Think about that! If they hadn’t been late, now I wouldn’t exist. That’s fate. I know some would be delighted without…the arrogant Alexander Soimesti. But I am still human ...”“Alexander, I'm so sorry ... I don't know what ...”The boy waved the image with that creature in front of the girl's eyes so fast that the girl gave a scream of fear at that moment.“Do you know what's worse? That they were not caught. And it is said that if one feels the taste of a man's blood, he will seek the blood of those in that family for life! Yes,
Elizabeth Edwards was reading a book, while Alexander, bored with so much reading, sat down, back against a shadowy tree. Professor Knudlac was nearby. When the man saw the girl, he got close to them. “Hi, kids. How are things?” “Alexander helped me a lot. After a long time guiding me, I read much better. I very rarely get letters mixed up now. Even more, I get the meaning of the sentences,” the girl exclaimed happily. If I could, I’d give Alexander five points ...” Mr. Knudlac shook the boy's hand with gratitude. Alexander got to his feet when he saw the professor. “Thanks, Alexander. As for the points ... you are lucky you don’t miss a few, because I heard what you did before.” The boy smiled, satisfied. He knew he'd have Mr. Knudlac's gratefulness and respect forever, as he helped Elizabeth. Probably this was the only reason he agreed to train a girl. "My pleasure, anytime. I'm glad I can help. It's not easy with a student like her, but with a lit
Elizabeth looked left and right and was astonished when she saw such an image.They were at the foot of a huge mountain, as if all the mountain ranges in the world overlapped there. Its peaks were barely visible. Many of them were as white as the fur of a great-great-grandfather of the oldest polar bear. When he saw Elizabeth's smiling face, not even Alexander could be silent."Yes, there on those peaks I heard we can see flying snow leopards but also mammoths, snow camels or white squirrels. And ... huge minotaurs with six horns.”But the girl quickly ran in another direction leaving Alexander to talk to himself.After taking less than twenty steps running, the girl stopped at a magic, transparent wall, behind which there was a bizarre creature, looking like a huge flying lizard. She could, in one gulp, swallow the two children in her womb, if it wasn't for that magic shield.All the creature's enormous nest was full of snow and ice, even if
Again at the potion making class, with Miss Harmony.Many students thought there are too many classes like this in the timetable. Why? Maybe because it was the funniest class ... if you were one of those students who liked to sit for hours next to a cauldron simmering so slowly that you sometimes felt like throwing a huge amount of firewood to set fire to everything, including the potion.However, as for the students who attended Miss Harmony's class and sat next to that cauldron, almost everyone felt like going mad."Everything must simmer. Otherwise, ingredients won’t mix properly and the potion can have many side effects. More than usual," Miss Harmony smiled.After a moment she looked at the children."It still has to boil exactly fifteen minutes. After that I’ll share a Berzelius glass of potion for each of you. You only have to add three ingredients. And so you get a potion that can change, attention: the colour of your clothes.The pr
Johnny, when he finished the potion and drank it, turned from the waist down into a skeleton, only the rest of his body was a closet. Only the right side of Elizabeth's body was right, a closet with one eye and one half mouth, the other half was ... Elizabeth. As for Alexander ... A hand and the head were not under the influence of the elixir.Of course others were even more horrible ... or terrible. A little girl remained the same, except for the tongue which was 5 times longer, and Pepplyn Hallow's five fingers had become three hooked anatomical structures, like those of a chameleon.So this shy little boy, Christoph, was often the fastest and the best at most of those practical tests. But even the second in the class, which was not in line with the tradition of the Soimestis, not even the talkative Alexander did want to enter Professor Harmony's quiz. Because even if you didn't know an answer, Miss Harmony still helped you with clues, so many that she got you close
Outside, night was as gloomy as the darkest place in the closet. As it was cloudy, no light in the sky managed to cross the thick blanket between the stars and the moon that watched the Earth and the land of Elmbridge School of Magic. There was also fog so thick that it gave the feeling that it could support almost anything ... even a person.Elizabeth slept peacefully in her room.Her hawk had a pedestal made especially for it. The bird didn’t rest, but watched over the girl.Suddenly, there was a bump in the drawer of the little nightstand near the girl's bed. The noise was strong enough to wake Miss Edwards. Scared, she sat up and looked at the protective hawk.“What was tht?” she looked at the bird, as if waiting for an answer. As she raised her head from the pillow, the candle immediately appeared to light everything around the bed.Thus, the girl saw her hawk looking at her calmly and quietly.“It can't be something ... dan