Chapter 6-The boring chapter of no name part 1

Kinya walked to school alone the next day. She needed time to think about what Emma had told her the night before. The reason she hadn’t seen Emma’s mom was that she was never there. Ever. Two months ago, Emma, her mom, her dad, Kaylie, Katie, Tom, John, Paul, Will and Thing went to the ocean for vacation. They cast the under-water-breathing spell to go swimming. It was sundown when they got out of the water. All but Emma’s mom. All nine of them waited for her, Will and Thing not understanding the situation. After an hour of staring at the moonlit sea, they gave up and went back to their hotel. The rest of their vacation was spent searching for their mom. When they finally went home, they had an idea of what had happened. Her under-water-breathing spell had worn off and she had been too far away from the surface to re-cast the spell. Kinya had been thinking about it all night, and after a while she had realized that nothing ever seems to really bother Emma. Anyways, when she got to school Kinya reviewed fudgification with her class, ate lunch, then came back for the afternoon lessons. When everyone was seated, Ms. Shooley assigned the afternoon line-leaders. “ Okay, Milly, you lead the class to M.a.i.d. Lesley, you do flying, Kevin for Aglay, then… How about Emma for underwater. Got it?” Emma and Lesley glared at each other as they answered “ Yes, Ms. Shooley.” As Milly led the class down the hall, Kinya whispered to Emma “ What does M.a.i.d. stand for?” “ M.a.i.d. stands for magical animal I.D.” Emma answered. Milly led the class through a stiff wooden door at the end of the crowded hallway. Inside there five rows of desks and exactly forty-six shelves that were completely covered with glass tanks of all different shapes and sizes. Inside the tanks were large hairy spiders, twelve fearful chipmunks, mischievous multicolored cats, a single watchful phoenix, and several tanks that appeared empty. On every bit off empty wall there were posters featuring any magical creature that couldn’t fit in one of the tanks. Everyone sat down at his or her desks to hear what their teacher, Mrs. Reen, had to say. “Today we’ll be learning about three different types of magical creatures.” And with saying that, Mrs. Reen put her hand in the tank nearest to her and scooped out a chipmunk, which lay huddled in her hand. “This is the chipmunk. It cannot fly, breath fire, talk, hypnotize other creatures, breathe underwater, cure disease, or produce a potion. It has none of the 5,362 magical abilities known to humans. I guess what I’m trying to say is that chipmunks are so not magical that they’re magical.” The end of Mrs. Reen’s speech was greeted by an unusual silence, which was short-lived. She cleared her throat before continuing “The next animal that I’m going to show you is one that… Well, doesn’t exist. At least not as you know it as.” Which, unsurprisingly, brought back most of the whispering. “This is even weirder than homeroom.” Kinya whispered. “I wonder what she’s going to show us next?” Her question was quickly answered as Mrs. Reen walked back to the front of the room carrying a spider in her hand. “ As I hope you know, the spider is supposed to be an arachnid. Now here’s something you probably don’t know: there is no such thing as a spider. But there is a bug and there is a gub. A bug has six legs and a gub has five. There is a certain kind of bug that has four legs on one side and two on the other and there is a gub that has four legs on one side and one on the other. When a bug and a gub mate the sides with one and two legs blend together and leave only the four-legged sides showing, which gives the illusion that it is an eight-legged creature that you know as a spider. Any questions?” Kinya raised her hand. “Yes Kinya?” “ Well I was just wondering why a spider isn’t an animal just because it has two parts.” “Well the bug is an animal and a gub is an animal but together as a spider they are two animals, meaning that one spider would have to be called a spiders, which doesn’t make sense because the plural is in the place of the singular, which also makes no sense because this is a school of magic not grammar. Understand?” “No. Anyways, my other question is how is a spider magical?” Mrs. Reen took a deep breath, making Kinya and the rest of the class prepare themselves for her usual long boring speech. “A gub is magical.” She said simply, letting out her breath. “Okay, no more questions, good.” Mrs. Reen said, completely ignoring Kinya’s hand. “We don’t have a lot of time left for class, so let’s take a quick look at our last animal for today.” Mrs. Reen walked over to one of the shelves in the back of the room and picked up one of the tanks that seemed to be empty. She also picked up a microscope that was sitting next to it. Mrs. Reen walked back to the front of the room and set the two objects down on her desk. “Everyone line up!” She said. A line formed in front of Mrs. Reen’s desk in barely 5 seconds. Emma, who was first in line, looked into the box through the microscope. “I can’t believe it! 2+2! When in doubt, say something random.” “Emma, you are weird.” Said the next person in line. ‘Wow! Those things are teeny-tiny.” He said. Each reaction raised Kinya’s curiosity further and further until, finally, it was her turn. She peered into the tank through the microscope. What she saw was most definitely magical. Flying around in the tank were millions of microscopic elephants. Pink elephants, by the way. With wings. “Wow.” Kinya said. The last two people took their turns, and then Lesley led them all too flying class.