The Awakening

Another two weeks had passed since the passing of Mr. Pierre and students and teachers began to put their tissues and handkerchiefs away as school activities were finally back to normal. The offense magic classes for students and soldiers began to take more time than usual because the magic council apprehended a demon spy within the council building and they began to assume the worst of things. The offense magic lessons weren't just restricted to students and soldiers but it was taught by other offense Magic teachers who had already learned a great deal from their demon teachers to magic-wielding humans. The humans weren't very good at magic but they were very fast learners, in a short span of three months after the battle of Normandy offense magic specialists who had been learning at the hands of Sarah and her family began to leave Lyon to various parts of France and to far reaches of the world to spread the knowledge in preparation for the impending doom they were about to face at the hands of the Demon Lord Vermont and his forces.

The school began to teem with life again as students began to roam the corridors with their endless rambling and chatter. Mischievousness thrived once more as the detention rooms began to fill up with the naughtiest of students, three especially. They were always up to one form of mischief or the other every other week, it was so bad that they got tagged the mischievous three. Jules Gauthier, Marcel Durand, and Esmeralda Beauséjour were the three that made up the group and they were all year five students. On one glorious afternoon before lunch the mischievous three had made a plan to play a prank on the entire school, while the student was still in their classes just before the lunch break, they snuck through a secret passage that gave them access to the cafeteria. They looked carefully for Mrs. Brigitte and when they saw no signs of her they came out from underneath the kitchen sink. They took the food they were going to eat and stuffed it in a duffle bag they stole from the facilities room. Jules and Esme went ahead so they could find a safe place to stash the duffle bag while Marcel used a spell to conjure rats to fill the kitchen, they all went back to class as they awaited the Lunch break bell, and shortly after it rang but the scream of Mrs. Brigitte was louder.

"My kitchen ohh my kitchen, who did this to you," Mrs. Brigitte said as she wailed.

"What's the matter?" Mrs. Amelie the new Principal asked. As she walked hurriedly into the kitchen she was greeted with rats that filled the kitchen floor.

"Who did this!" Mrs. Amelie screamed walking out of the kitchen towards the crowd of students gathered just outside the cafeteria. The mischievous three were also present in the crowd but they hid as the quiet laughter on their faces would've given them away.

"Mrs. Winston, I believe you should know a spell to fish out the culprit?" Mrs. Amelie asked Melissa who was standing with Peter and Alice to either side of her.

"I don't think my methods would be appropriate for this Principal, I think you should ask Mrs. Burton," Melissa said.

"Where's Mrs. Burton?" she asked.

"What do you need me for?" Sarah replied as she walked down the corridor towards the crowd.

"I believe you know a spell to catch miscreants?" Mrs. Amelie asked.

"What miscreants?" Sarah asked but she quickly let out a giggle as she saw rats coming from the kitchen into the Cafeteria and Mrs. Brigitte who was fuming beside the door, "I do know a few spells for this kind of a mess" Sarah said as she used a spell that made the rats disappear, after that she went into the kitchen and inspected the floor, the mischievous three weren't as smart as they thought as they left behind footprints. Sarah asked everyone to be extremely silent and she proceeded to pour baking powder around the footprints and pointed her hand towards the footprint and muttered "ardeat", immediately the baking powder around the footprints caught fire, and it was Marcel who screamed first as he pulled his shoes and threw them away then Esme followed after, repeating the same actions. Jules thought he was cunning and he began running away from the crowd so when he screamed no one would hear but he wasn't quick enough and he too fell to the ground and screamed as he discarded his shoes. The whole crowd immediately gave space to Marcel and Esme as they lay on the ground writhing in pain till Sarah put the fire off.

"It just had to be you three again, always causing trouble. Now look what you've done, you've ruined lunch for everybody" Mrs. Amelie said. "Detention! for the three of you" she screamed. The crowd cleared back to their classes with empty stomachs but it didn't last long as Sarah helped Mrs. Brigitte whip up hot pies which were the fastest they could do with Sarah's "cereli coquus" it was a spell that sped up the baking process and after an hour Tarte à l'oignon which was a type of savory pie was prepared and ready for all the students.

The mischievous three were serving their detention in the office of the old elemental magic teacher which now belonged to Mr. Andre Blanchard the new elemental magic teacher. Their Detention activity was writing "I'll stop being mischievous" in a 100,000-page book, their wands were also confiscated so they couldn't cheat during their detention. They had already gotten to page 750 when Mr. Andre stepped out to get food from the cafeteria, the students heaved a sigh as they stopped writing and began to relax. Marcel stood up and began wandering the office, he walked to the teacher's table and sat on his chair, and began to make fun of him as he continued he noticed that the rug was leaning a little into the ground near the door across from where he was sitting, he got up and curiously walked up to it. Esme and Jules got up after him and followed him to the spot. When they got to where he was he asked them to pull the rug as it was surprisingly very heavy. After they pulled it they saw that the portion of the floor the rug occupied was slightly different from the other parts of the floor in the office, it was then Jules pushed against the floor and suddenly a secret door to the Labyrinths which the school didn't grow short of opened and with a mischievous look on their faces they jumped and immediately they got in the door closed after them. They were scared at first but they convinced themselves that It was better than filling a 100,000-page book. They walked through the passage and after walking for almost 30 minutes they saw a tunnel in which they crawled in and as they crawled they saw a light at the end of the tunnel, they came out and to their greatest surprise they saw an office well furnished as if it was still in use, but it was a little dusty. The one thing that seemed to interest them the most was the framed portrait, it was sitting comfortably on the wall till Marcel spotted a cockroach on the face of the man in the Portrait and blasted it with a curse.

"where'd you get your wand, Marcel?" Jules asked.

"I stole it from the table," Marcel said.

"Then why didn't you tell us so we'd take ours?" Esme asked angrily.

"I didn't think you guys needed it," Marcel said as he smiled crookedly. As they continued arguing the portrait on the wall caught their attention again as it had already been engulfed in flames, but the sight frightened them as the portrait was on fire but wasn't burning and soon after red mist filled the room and they started hearing voices and it was as if something was pulling them towards the portrait on the wall. They ran out of the office into the tunnel and crawled as fast as they could through the tunnel but when they came out they had nowhere to go as the Labyrinth had already rotated and blocked the way in which they came from, suddenly the air became cold and a portal appeared and Sarah came out and escorted them through it.

Mr. Andre got back to his office and saw how they used to escape and called for help, the school security immediately turned off the transportation blockage within the school and Peter used his location spell with the remaining two wands as the items and they were able to find them down at the Labyrinth. Peter then created a portal to the location with the relic used to bypass basic transportation rules and the students were rescued. When they came out from the portal they began to shake in fear, it was so bad that Esme collapsed and went into shock, Marcel ran under Mr. Andre's table and began to cry, only Jules was still a bit sane but he was trembling tremendously and wasn't able to speak. After a while, Jules calmed down and explained the events down at the Labyrinth to everyone in the room at the time which included Peter, Alice, Sarah, Mrs. Amelie, and Mr. Andre. Esme and Marcel weren't present as they had already been taken to the infirmary for treatment. Mrs. Amelie looked round at everyone in the room as tears rolled down her cheeks and said

"Brace yourself, everyone, he's back"

"Who's back?" Peter asked.

"The dark wizard of Prague, Lucien Beaulfoy," Mrs. Amelie said.