Charlie Gyid by Anysia Eaton (i love reading books txt) 📕

creature I wish you to answer on. Then you can have the rest of the lesson to research the Creature.”
The teacher handed out the timetables and the moment my dad had been given his he immediately shot around to face Jeff.
“Look what creature he’s given me. A Makitiska” he moaned. Jeff was right, his face was classic. It was mixed with almost fake looking panic, shock and an embarrassing bottom lip. I had to literally pinch myself to stop me from laughing.
“I bet Sarah’s end exams aren’t this hard. It should be illegal to give this for the exam.” He moaned.
“When you next seeing Sarah?” Jeff asked trying to change the topic.
“After the exams. We’re meeting at a hotel on the boarder” he replied with a large smile sketched on his face, “God, I’ve missed her. I really have. I can’t wait to see her again”
“I can tell” Jeff remarked “You haven’t stopped talking about her”
I had seen all I needed to see. The last few comments left no doubt in my mind that mom and dad where very much in love with each other, even at school.
“Macus Taronus Alos Timarta Aliscos. Origatil” I said slamming my eyes shut. And in an instant I had touched down on the floor of my room.
I lay down on my bed and thought about what I had seen. They really did seem like they were in love, especially dad. Another date and time popped into my head. My birthday. But the only thing missing was the location. I wouldn’t be able to get there as I didn’t know where there was.
There was a knock on my door.
“Come in” I shouted.
Brad opened the door and headed in. He came and lay down next to me.
“What you thinking about?” he asked curious.
“Mistress Halsente set me ‘The Time Spell’ for my spells and Enchantment exam so I was practicing I watched a few captions of time from about twenty years ago, when my parents met and when my father got set a Makitiska for his magical creatures exam just like me.” I replied.
“And what did you find out?” he asked.
“They were madly in love and when I say madly I mean so madly that you wouldn’t be able to tear them apart if they got together” I replied.
“Well. I’m madly in love with you. I can’t even seem to be able to get you out of my head” he said as he turned his body to face me and then moved up to me and kissed my cheek. I turned to face him.
“Really?” I asked him quietly.
“Yes.” He replied.
I couldn’t hold myself back. I hit his lips with my own. His hand crawled through my hair as we kissed. He moved it down the small in my back and pulled me close to him. The kiss gained in passion as he rolled on top of me. We just remain kissing until the door handle started shaking. He rolled off me and sat up on the edge of the bed.
“Someone always comes in at the wrong time” he muttered laughing.
...
Just like any exams, they came quickly, too quickly. Those three months seemed like only days. We had all the exams timetabled for different times. On each day another exam took place and you only had to step foot in the school corridor if it was your time for the test. The spells and Enchantment exam, the potion exam and the battle exam took place one person or pair – for the potions and battle – at a time so the teacher could watch everything. The magical creature exam was a class at a time answering questions on a piece of paper – in typical (human) exam conditions, complete silence. Then the history exam was spent answering on an exam paper and then Defence was a theory examination – to everybody’s shock.
My first one was Defence. It was a very boring exam consisting of questions like ‘your opponent has attacked you fighting partner with the stunning spell which spell will you use to return you partner to full health?’
History wasn’t much better. Most of the questions were asking about what happened during ‘the Malietta reign of terror’. I had studied that like it was the bible plainly because Sir Mallot had told me to, so then if any weaknesses appeared I could exploit them should I ever have to face Malietta before I open the box. So, I knew most of the answers off by heart.
Battle was slightly better than I thought. As Brad and I shot at each other with different spells, sir just plainly sat back in his chair, watched and wrote little scribbles on a piece of paper on his clipboard.
When he had finally had enough he shouted “Alright. You can go”
Nobody ever wanted to hang around near our battle teacher so as soon as we able to we shot out of the room, and burst out laughing as soon as the door had shut behind us.
The next day was the potion exam. It was more nerve raking with Jeff watching us. He may have been our teacher for the subject but in a way I still saw him as a dad, it was just like having your dad watching you do your homework. But the potion – when it was done – looked like what the book said it should look like, and Jeff looked satisfied so both me and Gabby were able to walk out the room smiling.
Magical Creatures. This exam was stranger than the rest, everybody was given the same set of questions even though we were given different creatures. I knew that one of the girls at the front was given ‘a Shapot’ as her creature, but there was no way you could answer these questions on that. Explain its look? A shapot was invisible. Explain its eating habits? A shapot didn’t eat. Thankfully for me, I was able to answer all the questions. Jeff had been kind enough to lend my dad’s old book for magical creatures that contained all of his notes.
And then the one exam I’d been dreading the most came. Spells and Enchantments. It was just me and Mistress Halsente in the room. When I entered she stood from her desk and walked to the middle of the room where I was to join her. She took my hand and said “Any date, any time, any location. It’s your choice.”
“Macus Taronus Alos Timarta Aliscos. 16th of the 5th 2011. 0910. Room 56, Swiss Covert, Switzerland” I said. Both Mistress Halsente and I went sent into the very dizzy world of the spiralling blue light. We landed in the classroom we had just left just three months earlier. The classroom was packed. Mistress Halsente was stood at the front of the classroom explaining the exam.
“Alright. Take us back” Mistress Halsente said.
“Macus Taronus Alos Timarta Aliscos. Origatil” I said slamming my eyes shut. And in an instant we had touched down on the floor of the classroom.
“Very good. Would you like to know what you got or would you like to wait till results day?” asked Mistress Halsente to me.
“Is it just me you will be asking or ...?” I started to ask when she interrupted “I thought you would like to know just in case”
“When is the results day?” I asked her.
“About a week after your birthday” she replied.
“I think I’ll risk it and wait” I said.
“Ok. I shall see you in class on Monday” she commented as she turned to walk back to her chair.
“Thank you Mistress Halsente” I thanked as I headed out of the room.
As I reached my room I could think of nothing better to then flop on to my bed and relax.
“How did it go?” Alison asked.
I hadn’t even noticed she was in the room she was being so quiet. She was on the top bunk.
“Alright. She said very good after I’d done it, so hopefully she was impressed.” I replied.
“That’s a good sign. And besides when has Charlie Ballon never got a A* in an exam?” She asked with a cheery tone in her voice.
“Technically I’m no longer Charlie Ballon but Charlie Gyid” I pointed out.
“You’re still you” replied Alison in one of her ‘I’m right and you know it’ tones.
“Ok, I get the message” I said to her.
There was a knock on the door.
“Come in” echoed both me and Alison.
Jeff poked his head around the door.
“Well..?” he asked as he walked in and shut the door.
“Alright, she said very good, so hopefully I impressed her” I replied.
“How come you didn’t want to be told how you did?” Jeff asked me.
“I don’t know. I kind of regret it now. It’s going to drive me mad not knowing but I’ll live I suppose” I replied.
“I know if you want to know” he mentioned.
“I do” said Alison.
Jeff stood up on the side of my bed so he could whisper into Alison’s ear.
“Ok. I want to know” I said.
“Good, you got full marks. Apparently you did the hardest spell possible and did every single thing to the latter. Well done” He said giving me a hug.
A leap of excitement flooded through me. I had to contain myself to stop me from jumping up and bouncing up and down.
I had gotten full marks on my exam!

CHAPTER NINE
THE POTION OF ELISHA
“Geska! In here now” She was getting impatient. Malietta sat in her grand throne, looking to the door with fury, waiting for it to bang against the wall, and a small scrawny and pathetic girl come running in.
Bang. The door hit the wall with a force so strong it made a dent in the wall.
“I’m sorry m’lady” the small scrawny girl said running to Malietta’s side and bowing to her.
“Geska, what news do you bring?” Malietta growled through clenched teeth.
“I am sorry m’lady but the Covert has activated its inter-covert protection spell, protecting the whole covert.” Replied Geska too afraid to meet Malietta’s glare.
Malietta did nothing but growl causing Gaska to flinch.
“I’m sorry M’lady, I am working as hard as I can to find another way” pleaded Geska.
Malietta stood and walked to her large black cauldron that was placed in the corner of the room. She picked up a hand full of green dusk and sprinkled it into the cauldron of boiling water. As the green dusk sank, up came the image of Charlie Gyid.
“Charlie! Charlie! Charlie! How am I to get to you I wonder.” Pondered Malietta. She turned to Geska and shouted “Leave. I will call you when I need you”
Malietta turned back to the cauldron.
She made a fist and splashed it into the water distorting Charlie’s face. She couldn’t hold it in her. She let out an unearthly scream that broke every mirror in the building. Shaking the building off its stand.
“M’lady” came the quiet voice of Geska from the door.
“What?” shouted Malietta turning to face her.
Geska pulled back a little and then said, “I think I have found another way”
Malietta’s frown turned into a smile. She walked back to her seat and sat on it. Geska came to her side and bowed to her.
“What is your idea Geska?” she asked as sweetly as she possibly could.
“The Potion of Elisha, M’lady, once completed it would allow you to enter the covert. You would be able to collect the box and have Gyid open it” she said gaining in bravery as went along.
“The Potion of Elisha?” Malietta asked.
“Yes M’Lady” replied Geska.
“Get me my