Chapter 14 - The Ogre
It was a wonderful Saturday, like any weekend day when you can do what you want. Johnny and Elizabeth enjoyed the day without classes and spent time in the girl's room. She fed her guardian, and the boy sat on a chair holding her dairy, busy studying that object.
“If you look in the diary now, can you read what happened that night?”
Elizabeth approved with a slight nod.
“Can I read what is written in the diary? Doesn’t it bother you?”
“No,” the girl smiled. “You can read my diary for now.”
The boy opened the diary, looked at it and became sad like a cat that is outside and the rain started.
“There isn’t anything written in it. I hope you didn't fool me.”
The girl got scared. She left the hawk alone and ran quickly to the boy who looked at her in a way too serious to be a joke. She took the magic dairy in her hand, looked in it, and took a deep breath.
“Can’t you see what it’s written?”
“I can’t see anything. What should I see?”
The girl looked in the diary again. She saw a few pages written in dark blue, one of the shades of the sky, where her meeting with her father and everything they discussed yesterday were presented. Every word in the diary was exactly as it happened.
“I wonder, only I can see what it is written? Maybe because ... sure because it's magic. It's my intimate diary.”
“However, maybe you can read it for me,” said the boy.
Elizabeth sat down next to Johnny.
"In a room beautifully set up and illuminated by several candle lights, came out of nowhere, a girl and a little hawk. A mahogany desk, a library full of books, and a carved table with some beautifully upholstered chairs furnished the room…
A gentleman sitting at the table when he saw the girl stood up and smiled happily. "
Elizabeth was ready to read everything that happened during her meeting with her father, but suddenly the girl stopped and Johnny jumped, scared from the chair as if he saw a ghost. A girl’s scream followed by other screams in the hallways scared them both.
They went quickly to the door and left the girl's bedroom.
In the corridor a lot of children and professors popped up right away. Among the professors there were Miss Harmony, Professor Hazard William and many others.
Miss Harmony took the girl in her arms and tried to calm her down. After the girl calmed down, the professor asked:
“What happened, Issabel?”
“Abigail Malley! I went for a walk in the Sanctuary of mystical and non-mystical creatures. And we entered the mystical part of the creatures ... odious, to look at them. At one point a winged creature took Abigail and left with her. I don't know what it was ... but, Abigail yelled at me scared to come and tell you she was taken by a hogre ... or horger.”
Miss Harmony looked around.
“I want to talk to Silarg! Silarg!”
At that moment a small stone elf, with a large beard with no hair on his head, much older than the others Elizabeth knew, appeared in a moment.
“Tell me, Miss Harmony. What happened?” asked Silarg, smiling.
“One of the children may have been caught by an ogre!”
But the stone elf's smile didn’t disappear when he heard these words.
“It’s impossible. We don't have that in the Centre of mystical and non-mystical creatures. You’re dead if you meet such a creature, needless to speak about trying to catch it and bring it here. Maybe who said she saw that, got it wrong. Who said such nonsense?”
“Abigail Malley said that ...” Miss Harmony interrupted the little stone elf.
Silarg's smile disappeared like a candle in the wind.
“Hm ... Abigail knows these creatures very well. She studied their palaeontology. And she certainly didn't joke, not even once, not to mention lying. But ... we need to talk to Knudlac urgently.”
“The professors are invited in the south wing! We need to make a quick plan!”
The elf stopped her.
“Miss Harmony, if that's really true. I told you that it’s suicide to fight it. If there really is an ogre there, it means the magic wall between the Centre of mystical and non-mystical creatures and the Ancient Forests has been broken by malicious people. Who knows what other creatures, perhaps more dangerous than an ogre, have entered the centre? And maybe the girl could already be… lost. There is no point in risking and ...”
Silarg stopped when he saw the group became not only terrified but also extremely anxious. Even some professors were scared, given what the responsible for the security in the Sanctuary of mystical and non-mystical creatures said.
“We must inform Mr. Knudlac and the Guardians. We need them.”
Miss Harmony turned to the students, that peanut gallery gathered there.
“Get back to your rooms! Nobody goes anywhere until we clarify where the problem came from! No one is allowed to leave the room. Silarg, please go to Mr. Knudlac's office to discuss the problem with him ...”
Silarg and Miss Harmony went away at the same time in a small swirl, and then all the professors disappeared one by one. They all went to the south wing.
The students began to walk slowly to their rooms, coordinated by students in higher grades, upset that all their plans for the day were interrupted.
“I wanted to dive in the Mariana Trench,” said a senior student to a colleague. “I had a potion that could help me breathe and resist that high pressure…”
“And how could you see in the dark? You could be lost there ...”
“Aha ... I didn't think about that.”
“I wanted to do rock climbing ...”
“Again?” the diving colleague asked.
“Yes, but today I wanted to climb in a snowy area. Somewhere where it snowed a lot and there was a risk of avalanche ... I was supposed to go with Deacon Pettersen.”
Others said they wanted to rest on a beach in Malibu, others wanted to dive in the area of Bermuda, others wanted to try their inventions with inventors from the Wisdom Pavilion. Each one had plans that Saturday, plans that were now completely destroyed.
Johnny and Elizabeth looked at each other walking to the girl's room. On the way, they saw Alexander talking to an older colleague.
That colleague, who didn’t seem to bring anything good, given his sly smile, gave Soimesti an object, in secret. Johnny saw that and showed the girl too, to his delight. He felt like Sherlock Holmes when he found a track that brought him even closer to solving the mysterious case.
"Surely this snake has something to do with that ogre," he told the girl.
Everyone headed for their rooms, only Alexander hid behind a curtain, waiting for the others to leave.
“See? I told you!”
The girl beckoned to Johnny to go to her room, even if the boy didn't quite agree with that. He was eager to investigate what Prince Soimesti was going to do.
When he was finally pushed into Elizabeth's room, he reacted, very upset:
“I say let’s follow Alexander to see what he intends!”
"That's what we do," Elizabeth told him, leaving the door open and looking at that curtain.
Johnny also got nearer the door and looked in the direction where the boy hid.
The other students began to part, most to their rooms, sad, grumpy, and not cheerful at all.
“Do you know what an ogre is?”
“Of course I do,” the boy burst intrigued by the fact that the girl questioned his knowledge. “He is one of the most horrible creatures. It’s said it’s the creation of a group of strong witches who once lived in the mountains of Transylvania, the Carpathians. Those witches joined their evil forces and created monsters, slaughtering dozens of animals and giving the monsters the power of all those animals. Bears, deer, wolves, foxes, ravens and many other animals. And the ogres have unbelievable power, the power picked from all forest beasts and they can turn into any of them ...”
Johnny stopped talking. When nothing could be heard in the corridors, as if it were a cemetery at midnight, the two heard how someone pulled the curtain slightly aside and began to hear footsteps.
Alexander checked to see if there was anyone else in the area, and then continued to walk somewhere. He didn't suspect he was being watched.
The two children followed him, whispering and hiding.
"I told you," Johnny smiled when he saw Alexander heading for the mystical and non-mystical creatures Sanctuary. He made it up.”
The girl didn't say anything. She saw there was no one to guard the gate of that Sanctuary of Creatures. Certainly all the professors, including Silarg and other stone elves, were in Knudlac's office, making plans on how to solve the ogre problem.
“Did you see? He planned absolutely everything. He knows nobody is out now and he can go unnoticed.”
"Calm down," the girl said whispering, while they were hiding, looking at Alexander. “When Abigail went to the Sanctuary of mystical and non-mystical creatures Silarg was definitely at the entrance. It was impossible not to see him. Anyway, Alexander can't enter the centre because he doesn't have the key. He’s not a member of the Council to be able to do it. He’s a child ...”
Elizabeth stopped whispering. Alexander took something out of his pocket, and opened a sort of portal out of nothing ... out of that nothing he kept in his pocket.
The boy disappeared into the portal.
“What did you say?” Johnny asked horrified, but also disappointed with what he saw.
It took many years of experience in the field of magic to open a portal, even if you had everything you needed.
Johnny was scared for a moment when he saw that portal, but after recovering, he said to the girl:
“Come on quickly. Surely this portal takes us to the area where this snake is going. Let's see what he's up to ...”
And taking her by the hand, he quickly ran to the portal, just as it closed and disappeared like smoke in the strong wind.
The two arrived somewhere in a huge, forested area, at the foot of a mountain whose peaks couldn’t be seen. They could see however how huge the mountain was, because somewhere in the middle of it, there was snow everywhere. That snow continued to its peaks, lost in the sky.
Johnny suddenly got scared. He started shivering.
“What’s up, Johnny?”
The boy kept shivering as if he had fallen into a frozen lake, taken out and left in terrible frost.
"We shouldn’t have entered the portal ..." he said trembling. He took his wand out of his coat, looking like a lunatic to the left and to the right.
"Johnny, you're scaring me," the girl said. “What happened?”
“Speak in a lower voice…”
The girl started to be scared too.
“Johnny?”
The boy took the girl’s hand and pulled her after him into a large bush. Then he sighed loudly and said to the girl:
“The painting in the living room ... the deep Ancient Forest...”
Hearing the words, Elizabeth also remembered the room where a huge mountain appeared ... She saw many pictures, but she never saw this image so close to the mountain.
“But I don't remember this image ...”
“Have you ever been to the deep Ancient Forest?”
“No,” the girl replied. “Not even close ... then ...”
“Neither was I ... nor Miss Harmony. I don't think Professor Knudlac was there either. But now, here we are ... far from Elmbridge School.”
“And what are we doing now?”
The frightened boy still managed to shrug. He didn't know what else he could do except sit and wait hidden in that bush, like a scared mouse hidden beneath the ground.
“We look forward to seeing Mr. Knudlac with the professors,” he whispered. “They will surely come after Abigail ... and after us. Until then, we are hiding.”
The two understood they could only stay hidden and wait to hear familiar voices.
Elizabeth took Johnny's hand. She was scared. She remembered Mr. Knudlac said the ogre was very dangerous. And Silarg said it might be too late for Abigail. She didn't want to think about it. There were many other dangers in this area, so she felt helpless and almost panicked.
The thought that neither older students nor the professors went to these places, some of the most dangerous in the world, was even more terrifying.
A scream that could freeze water in the deadly heat of the desert, echoed in the air. It could only be…
“Abigail ...?” Elizabeth could barely pronounce her name.
“Yes. I think it was her...”
Again the same scream. But Elizabeth stood up this time.
“We need to help her.”
Without saying anything, she came out from under the bush that hid them.
The boy gone crazy came out and started running after her.
“Elizabeth, stop.”
He didn't have the courage to call her, to go and face the ogre with her, but he still followed the girl.
Eventually they managed to get to a small meadow. As soon as they got there they could smell a lovely but pungent scent. There were graceful flowers of all colours, all sizes, spreading in the air perfume of apple, lavender, even grapes, mixed with chrysanthemum, lilac, lily-of-the valley and rose.
A fairy-tale place where you didn't expect to meet a hateful creature the two kids saw at that time ... a monster that, judging by appearance, couldn’t live in that piece of heaven.
“The ogre?”
“Yes.”
The children saw the ogre trying to cook Alexander. This is probably why Abigail screamed. The boy was tied to a tree trunk that was sat on two other large trunks lying on the ground.
From time to time the ogre turned Alexander around, probably to cook him all over. The fire was controlled by the ogre, blowing hard in the hot ember beneath the boy, making the fire more and more powerful.
Still, to his luck, when the ogre was busy with something else, Alexander used the magic wand he had with him to put out the fire.
Even so, it was clear the boy felt very hot there, because he kept sweating. If you saw him, you could swear sweat flowing from him put out the fire, not the spells cast with his wand.
Abigail was locked in a cage. Probably ... his next meal, the kids thought. So there was nothing left for them to do but intervene.
"Go and untie Alexander," whispered Elizabeth to Johnny.
The boy looked at her. He didn’t feel able to do it, even though he saw that Alexander needed help.
“The ogre could take away this snake from us ...”
“He's innocent. He came here to rescue Abigail,” Elizabeth completed, frowning.
There was no time for jokes, even though Johnny's fixed gaze didn’t show he hadn’t spoken seriously.
Eventually, the boy gave up and did exactly as he was told, and the girl approached the ogre.
All this time, the odious creature placed the cage where Abigail was on a rock he used as a table, doing all this with the ease of moving a glass from one place to another.
Approaching ever closer, Elizabeth managed to better understand the features of the ogre. It resembled a huge man only in terms of stature; the rest was ... monstrosity. His arms ended with huge claws that touched the ground even when the beast was standing. His shoulders were as big and strong as the bears’ that roamed in the forests of North America.
The creature looked at Abigail from time to time, saying the same words:
“You stay ... my wife. Dine with me,” the monster pointed at Alexander, striving to keep the fire away from him.
When she heard this, the beautiful Abigail, a brunette teenager, with smooth and white skin of a fairy-tale princess, sat down and started crying again. She hardly calmed down.
When Elizabeth saw Johnny approaching Alexander to help him untie himself, she approached the ogre. The ogre heard a beautiful song coming from the ether charming all the ears in that forest. He forgot about Alexander. He listened to the song to the end, and then approached the one who sang so divinely.
“Good day,” said the girl in a trembling voice.
The ogre jumped up and in a moment he was almost glued to Elizabeth, who had only now managed to see his truly hideous image. His face was full of cuts and scratches, and the long, black hair of the kite was dirty and wrapped in mud, with all sorts of resins and glues through it ... probably from the trees.
His huge beard and the hair on his face couldn’t hide his teeth as huge as the claws, chaotically grown in his mouth. Dagger-like teeth ... And all kinds of insects kept buzzing around his face, sign that he wasn’t used to washing himself. As for the smell ... imagine breaking a carton of rotten eggs mixed with the smell of a mud puddle where a dozen wild boars usually play. That result wouldn’t be close to the smell that Elizabeth had to put up with.
That ogre had huge hands. His palm was almost as large as Elizabeth. In the palm of his hand he held a mace almost as big as his body, a mace made of a metal sphere full of many sharp spikes, fastened to a tree trunk full of knots.
As a garment he had only one sort of ... apron on him. The naked body also full of scratches and cuts, sign that he used to fight with other creatures at least as dangerous, was very dirty and odorous.
“Who are you?” the creature asked, smelling the girl.
Even though he was hideous, the ogre’s gaze was kind when he looked at the girl.
“We’d like to take Abigail back ... the girl you kidnapped.”
“She's my wife. Not your business. Leave!”
The ogre’s face suddenly darkened. His nice gaze was replaced by a look full of hatred and anger, considering what happened behind him.
“The food!”
The ogre quickly looked back as he felt another smell, sign that someone was close to Alexander and Abigail. He saw Johnny as he managed to untie Alexander, which enraged him. He snapped at them even through the burning fire that could hurt him, without caring about it.
Johnny and Alexander, very scared, fell on their backs.
The ogre managed to grab Johnny with one hand, but missed Alexander. He didn’t give up and followed him, just as a cat chases the mouse running madly to save his life, holding Johnny in one hand and with the other striking with the mace.
Elizabeth took out her magic wand and:
“Fortioris!”
The ogre’s eyes started burning as if they were pierced by hot ember. Unaware of what happened to him, blinded and scared at the same time by the magic that struck him in the eyes, he let Johnny go away. The boy fell on the creature’s pillow, a pile of hay, straw and twigs.
The same Fortioris magic hit the lock that held Abigail's cage closed, but nothing happened.
When the ogre saw the girl didn’t calm down and hit the lock again, turned his attention to her.
“Wife, Zghigor has got ... little beast… we cook it like the other two.”
The ogre, whose name was Zghigor, decided that Elizabeth would become food for him, given that she was in his way. So he headed for the girl, even if the girl kept hitting his face with the magic spells from her wand. It seemed these blows or strokes had no effect on his body.
“Fortioris!” shouted Alexander too, destroying the lock and finally managing to release Abigail.
After that, he and Johnny began to hit the ogre with various magic spells, but without too many consequences.
Eventually, the ogre arrived in front of Elizabeth. He picked her and was ready to bite her when .... The giant decided to throw her down into the branches of a tree. Then he began to twirl his head frantically in all directions, smelling the air.
“More wizards ...”
And in a moment he was struck by several powerful blows in the head and torso.
The ogre dropped the mace out of pain. Suddenly, Professor Knudlac and other professors appeared. Words like Inpulsa, Conscidisti, Ardere and Iactus were heard loud and clear.
Strong blows, cuts on the ogre’s face or burns on his body, large objects thrown at the ogre from all sides, all this made the monster lose balance. He collapsed to the ground with grief. Even fallen to the ground, the ogre had enough power and turned into a huge, fierce bear, as if there were ten bears into one.
The thick coat now defended him better than the magic of the Guardians so he managed to hit with his huge paw some professors and throw them away.
“Duplici!” could be heard from Knudlac.
And then there was another ... Knudlac.
“Prope necessitudines!” shouted the two.
The wizards managed to master the beast that rose to his feet and roared at them angrily, mouth wide open, that they could see the same frightening teeth like daggers. They tied the huge bear’s front limbs and then they tied him to two very thick trees nearby.
In a few moments, the other wizards, thrown away by the bear, returned to help them.
One of the two Knudlac looked in turn at the others and when he got sign from each of them they were okay, not hurt, he smiled, pleased that they were safe and unharmed.
That was until the huge bear rooted out two trees and threw them to the headmaster of Elmbridge School and the other wizards. Those trees were about to crush someone, but fortunately it missed them all.
“Calcificatio,” shouted one of the two Knudlac. And the bear's arms were caught in two large rocks.
The bear roared even more angrily and frighteningly than the first time. It tried so hard that the stones that trapped his arms crumbled like pieces of hardened dough.
The bear's fur slowly turned into stone and the bear began to rise.
“Inpulsa!” the same Knudlac shouted as a host of magic blows from the wizards hit the ogre.
“Confuzione Summa!” shouted the other Knudlac, trying to cause confusion in the ogre’s thoughts, so that it wouldn’t change into another creature, more dangerous.
And to everyone's luck, the creature failed to turn again into who knows what destroying monster harder to defeat, for immediately after the shower of spells, Silarg cast on him a magic chain of braided twigs which tied that hideous guy to hands and feet, permanently immobilizing it.
The wizards gasped in relief and some of them congratulated Silarg, in a way that still seemed to ask "why did it take so much?"
“Silarg, I thought you’d never come ...,” one of the two Knudlac smiled slightly.
You could look at the two Knudlac very carefully and you still didn't realize who the real one was. Still, you could clearly see from their faces that it was a tiring fight for both of them.
The first Knudlac greeted the second one with a smile and a slight bow, thanking for help, then one of them entered… Professor Knudlac.
"Are you all right?" the professor asked the other wizards.
They responded affirmatively through various gestures ... they only had scratches or blows that would get bruised later. Nothing serious, though.
“Let's get back to Elmbridge then. Of course we drew attention and I don't want to spend too much time here. I also heard rhinophants roaring. There are a few nearby for sure. Let's go!” Knudlac recommended to the other wizards.
Of course, then he turned to the three students to talk to them:
“You children, you go with Miss Harmony back to the School, directly in my office. After solving with this ogre, I want to talk to you about your punishment. Of course, you are aware you violated a lot of rules coming here.”
Mr. Knudlac looked very upset at the three: Elizabeth, Johnny and Alexander.
But the smile reappeared when he saw Abigail healthy. He walked towards her, quite cheerful, and the children looked down in shame and followed Miss Harmony.
Miss Harmony made sure that these children had no serious injuries; there were only minor scratches on Elizabeth and burns on Alexander's clothes, then she turned her wand into a kind of light crack in the air, she took the three and left with them immediately.
Before counting to five, all the other professors and the ogre were gone.
...
Alexander was very anxious. He walked around Professor Knudlac's office.
“Alexander, you spotted your honour. How will you become the best now?” the boy said aloud.
Elizabeth and Johnny were with him in Professor Knudlac's office, sitting on the chair saying nothing. Johnny looked at Alexander’s squirming. Everything the latter did, his chaotic walk here and there, his words said loudly, and his professor-like reproaches for the worst mistakes, made Johnny increasingly scared.
Elizabeth was happy because Abigail was healthy. She looked at the many display cases with splendid cups won over the centuries by students of Elmbridge School of Magic. The shelves were full of cups of all sizes and all kinds. Gold pyramids, sapphire and red diamond igloo, tower-shaped, silver, larger or smaller, all stood imposing there, proudly presenting, with labels written in gold, how hard they were obtained.
Elizabeth managed to see behind Knudlac's desk a lot of objects she didn't recognize. She recognized only a mace that seemed to spread blue flames when, a comb made of glass, with sapphire-coloured handle and emerald-coloured teeth popped up. And there also was ...
The door opened. The tormenting silence and Alexander's stressful attitude ended.
Mr. Knudlac came in and sat down on his chair. Alexander did the same and sat down, still fussy, even more than before.
He cracked a smile, however, when he saw the professor smiled slightly.
“I do not know if you are aware of what you did, what dangers you were exposed to... You violated no more or less than eleven rules of conduct of the school,” the professor scolded them, in a gentle tone though.
The children said nothing.
“Alexander, you bought from Zgreb Ivanovici that orb, which a student of your age shouldn’t even know how to use, and it will cost you dearly.”
The boy's face darkened as everything darkens before someone’s eyes when they close their eyes.
“But Professor ...”
“Its use for opening that portal deserves a penalty,” said the professor very seriously.
Then he smiled again.
“By the way, how did you get the knowledge to use this?” Knudlac wondered as if he didn’t punish the boy then, but wanted to find answers to questions.
Alexander didn’t answer the professor’s question, only blushed with shame. He was greatly disturbed by penalties. So he dared see what his situation was:
“Professor ... how many points did I lose? Sure it will take me more than a month to get back to my current position. Will I lose the second place in the class, which I hardly obtined ...?”
Knudlac interrupted him, twisting the knife even harder in the wound of the remorse:
“The fact that you didn’t obey Miss Harmony and didn’t return to your room, you went to the Ancient Forest, you didn’t make sure the portal wasn’t used by others ...”
The professor spoke, turning his gaze to Johnny, who, feeling his piercing eyes aimed at him, looked down.
“All this will not cost you the 2nd place in the class.”
Alexander breathed a sigh of relief at that moment. But that breath was nothing more than a pre-sigh.
“It will cost you all the points you earned in addition to the exam marks ... so even more so.”
“It's like losing a whole year ... of school ...” the boy began weaning. “As if taking it from the beginning ...”
But in vain, because he didn’t persuade the professor. His decision was made.
Alexander looked at the other two, with such anxiety and anger, as if they were to blame for everything he did ... for all those missed points.
“I shouldn’t be responsible for others,” the boy tried to defend himself, but the professor interrupted him.
“Yes, each one will be responsible for his or her deeds, as well as for the others’ deeds, if the deeds gave opportunity to make mistakes ...”
After a short break, Knudlac continued:
“Elizabeth and Johnny, I also reproach you for risking your life. You’ll be penalized too for your actions. If you want, I can tell you how you got each penalty point ... but the idea is that you lost everything you've accumulated so far.”
Absolute silence.
Since no one wanted to know the number of mistakes, Knudlac didn’t go into details. But the children were very sad.
"The truth is, I didn't have too many, so ..." Johnny said quietly, trying to raise his morale.
Knudlac looked at the children with the same gentle gaze.
“But, thank you. I think ... in fact I'm sure if you didn't keep the ogre busy, the situation could be different with Alexander. And maybe with Abigail too. Alexander, you can thank Johnny, because without him the situation could be worse for you.”
Johnny grinned at the thought that he saved Alexander. And his grin, and the others’ smiles would be mouth-to-ear when they find out what Knudlac had to say.
“For what you did, because you helped with Abigail’s rescue and you helped each other, you have the right to participate in this decade's Magic Contest. After all this was the purpose of the points you strived so hard to gather. Be among the first, valedictorians, to be able to participate in magic Contests in which only the best students participate.”
There was a brief pause.
“This is my reward for you. You proved several times you’re a team and Elmbridge Magic School needs a team for this contest. And ... I say you should be happy.”
Only now had the children understood what happened, so they beamed with joy. This was also the purpose of becoming an eminent student ... to have the right to participate in such competitions. They were a kind of magic Olympics, where only the best had the right to become competitors. Only those who had the most points, who had the highest grades in the exams, only they had this rare chance.
"Just wait and see when everyone will hear," said Johnny, who didn't even think he would ever get where only the most diligent students do.
“But you are still punished for two weeks. Because you put your lives in danger these two weeks apart from school and lunch, you aren’t allowed to spend time in the usual recreational spaces. Instead, you three will spend a lot of time together ... at the library. You’ll relax there and work to improve your knowledge.”
Professor Knudlac took something out of his desk drawer, and then handed Elizabeth and Johnny a parchment.
"For your courage you’ll get a parchment of magic. I know it cannot fully reward your sacrifice. The fact that you didn't think of yourselves but only of Abigail and Alexander who needed to be saved. I think such actions deserve corresponding awards, but unfortunately, I can only offer you these little gifts."
The professor smiled again.
"Think carefully of the way you want to choose, because when you read this parchment, depending on your skills and wishes, the magic you gain will be appropriate to the path you choose to follow.”
Lucky Johnny looked at the girl happily. He burst with joy. Alexander, on the other hand, was very jealous because the two got the parchment he was supposed to get.
"Johnny, you know what this is about, as for you Elizabeth, I’ll explain to you these days at length what this parchment is and what its purpose is. With this parchment you’ll learn your first powerful spell. I'll explain how you can get it, but later, after you spend a good deal of time in the library.”
Professor Knudlac stood up.
"That was all so far. After you have lunch, you’ll go to the library. There you have some useful books prepared for you. He opened the door to the children. They got up and left the office happily, two of them as happy as possible. The two winners placed their parchments in the inside pockets of the capes and headed with Alexander to the dining room.