Charles king lonely hope part 1

“Little demon” Barty called out, when I walked past him, I stopped and looked at him, “Oh, look at him with his angry face, going to do something are you?”

“I might do,” Tim said, standing behind Barty, the fear in Barty’s eyes was priceless, and he turned slowly, “boo!” Barty and his chubby friend ran away, Tim winked at me, “Go on, get to class-mate” Tim ruffled my hair and left.

“Faster Charles!” Simmons said.

“I’m trying,” I said, sounding annoyed, I am trying.

“I know you are, how is your training at the guild going”. I explained that I had gone on to training in the training room, I have had multiple teachers, Scarlet and Mr Bridges were the best, I have managed to hit the punching bags with my dark magic, in a spell they have named Big Chuck because it’s a big powerful punch and chuck is short for Charles.

“Big Chuck? At least your opponent won’t know what’s coming, but building up your speed will be very helpful for that let us begin” I spent the whole hour constantly breaking sticks, it’s been that way all month I don’t know If I have gotten faster while doing it. Maths was boring, and English felt like it dragged. P.E. was doing the 100M sprints, and that was fun for 10 seconds, and finally, basic magic and it’s our last day of the switches, thank God! Tomorrow is Saturday and the school Halloween event, Grace couldn’t be more excited, Charlotte has been taking every chance she has to engage Grace in conversation about it until her gang of posh terrorizers show up and she acts like she doesn’t know Grace and turns a blind eye to anything they say to her. Madison and her friend Justene have decided to go as a set of twins from a horror film, Yasmin as a dead mobster, and Kevin has decided on a character from a movie, who has claws for fingers.

Saturday morning came and I had a few things to do, mum and I had to go and visit Alvin and the dog,

“Hello Charles, hello Bella nice to see you again”. Alvin Greeted us, he had on a shiny silver suit. And a massive smile that stretches from ear to ear. He took us down to the dog and passed Sebastian the giant snake. The dog has become happy to see me now and weirder mum too he lets her stroke him. I called him Hades, Wyatt’s chunky friend called me it, I asked Mum who Hades was, and she told me he was a Greek god and king of the underworld. I fed Hades, said bye to Alvin and left. next up was Axil he had news about material that could be used to make a sword for me, he had narrowed it down to Yorkshire, he had found a small granite-like rock that absorbs dark magic, it could be used to make a sword and he explained that this is what we will need, for my sword and other materials, if I put enough dark magic into one of these rocks, none magic users can use them, like the ones in school, I have met a few over the past month, I learned that the none magic users are normally wearing rings, I had no idea until I bumped into a boy with glasses on a ring with a blue rock on it, turns out he is in form X, they can perform magic as long as they wear the ring but everything is voice activated and the ring only responds to them, they have to be created for the wearer with their blood.

Next was a shop that specialises in potions,

“What do you mean you don’t have it?” Mum asked the shop assistant.

“The shipment is late” the shop assistant said, her face slowly darkening with a red tint, she scratched the top of her head, and then fixed her ponytail awkwardly, her brown hair looked lighter the redder her face got. “We do have Mummy wraps. They are really good, covering the whole body and breathable”. Mum took a moment and looked at me, I smiled at her and then said.

“I’ll be a mummy I don’t mind”.

“We’ll take it” Mum said, and the shop assistant smiled, and her chest deflated like she let out the biggest sigh ever. Mum picked up some other bits she needed, and we headed back home, I got in and Madison and Lincoln sat in the living room in their pyjamas, watching a TV show of guild members showing off their homes. Dad was in the kitchen dancing to a song he likes on his phone; I went upstairs and took my costume to my room. In doing so I kicked over my grimoire that I kept knocking onto the floor. I picked it up, I hadn’t looked at it since my first day of school, nothing had changed with it, it was still black all over, I leant a little closer, and could have sworn I saw three bubbles travelling across the cover of the book. I open it up and in bold letters, the word,scatter.And paragraph underneath, I closed it and ran downstairs to my parents in the kitchen both of them are no dancing, they have no rhythm,

“Have you seen this?” I said when they both noticed me, I opened up my grimoire and slid it onto the island in the middle of the kitchen, they both looked down at it and then back up and simultaneously raised their eyebrows, “What?” I asked.

“It’s your grimoire,” Dad said.

“It’s only visible to you,” Mum said,

“Oh, yeah,” I said, the realization of the fact that they can’t read it hit me like a bus that’s destination is the town of duh, “I have a spell”.

“That’s good,” dad said.

“Congratulations sweetie,” Mum said both of them looked proud. I gave them a look of Come on, ask me, but they just stood there smiling at me, “We aren’t going to ask, its rude remember” Twice today I have forgotten stuff about grimoires,

“Oh, okay, it’s called scatter!”

“Scatter?” Dad said and then ran his hand on both of his cheeks down to his chin, I spun my grimoire back to me and began to read out loud.

“Scatter! Hold magic in your hand and let it build up! and when ready to release, imagine the magic scattering in every direction, WARNING! Not to be used around others, it even has pictures that are moving on it’s like a video” a closed hand opening up and black lines firing off in different directions. Mum and Dad looked at me and then at each other and then began to stare into thin air.

“Okay, that is a good spell to have,” Dad said, his words sounded good, but his tone did not match it, “but you only use it when you are alone”.

“Why?”

“What would happen if you used it now” Mum asked. I thought about it for a moment and then said.

“I might hurt you two”.

“Exactly,” Mum said, “but this” she tapped my grimoire, “is a good thing, all the training you’re doing is paying off, you’ll be doing even more incredible things soon and Charles, don’t tell no one about this, only the people in this house can know about this”.

“Okay, mum”.

“Charles, are you ready?” Mum shouted from downstairs, I was in my room, wrapping myself in the wrap I bought, I had been told to keep my shoes on, pants and Top, no idea why but okay, the wrap was only long enough to wrap around my wrist. I looked at the bag it came in and didn’t understand so I went downstairs to my mum and handed her the bag, and she looked it over.

“Stand still,” she said, she reached out and grabbed my wrapped arm, “GOPPOG” The wrap slithered up wrapping itself as it went, My arm was covered then my chest, legs and then finally my right arm, leaving only my neck, “conceal” next thing I know a cold mist has left mums hand and has hit me in the face, strange tingling feeling tickled my face for 5 minutes, “have a look” mum pointed at a mirror, I looked in it and staring back was my mum and a mummy, staring back at me.

“Wow!” I gasped and put my hands on my face and didn’t feel any wraps, I think Mum noticed that she laughed and then said.

“It’s just a spell, there are no wraps, I have spent a whole morning practising this specific spell, your dad was not a fan” she laughed even louder!

“Thank you, Mum! This is awesome”

“don’t see why he couldn’t have drunk a potion,” Dad said, leaning on the wall and looking at us.

“Because the potion, can’t be cancelled! So, he would be stuck looking like a mummy for 12 hours plus it will make him smell like a mummy, that’s gross” Dad left, and Mum and I turned back to the mirror, I am extremely happy that Mum learned this spell for me. Lincoln came down 5 minutes later in his costume, he is a demon, a bloody demon! Oh, come on. Jet black eyes and two small horns on his forehead changed his mind about what he was gonna be! Madison came down not long after and instantly laughed when she saw him,

“Hey Charles,” she said to Lincoln, “I’m joking” when she saw Mum’s face. Madison has two pigtails with red ribbons and a white dress. Mum and Dad decided not to wear a costume, well I learned that they couldn’t agree on what to wear. The guild was completely decorated, a skeletons that had been spelt to walk around, pumpkins on the steps of the guild that scream when you walk near them, inside the guild had cobwebs hung up along the ceiling, old school lanterns on the tables and some guild member were walking around with them, Mr Bridges has dressed up as a witch, well kind off he only has a big nose on and a grey wig, still in his kaftan he likes to wear, this one is black though to go with the witch vibe, Ms Joyce, graces mum had put makeup on and made herself even paler than what she normally is and she she had a full white dress on.

Marvin’s big head appeared over the crowd of guild members, he was completely green with bolts in his neck, he walked over to us, oh, he is Frankenstein, no I get it after seeing him with more bolts on and the way he walked, he said “hello Charles” but not to me! But bloody Lincoln.

“I already did that joke uncle” Madison said, she popped out from behind Lincoln, Mum and Dad had walked off to greet people, Madison had taken to calling Marvin uncle after she overheard Dad calling Marvin a brother and she asked Marvin does that make him our uncle?, Marvin said yes.

“Nice,” Marvin said and gave Madison a fist bump. “Where is Charles?” Madison and Lincoln pointed at me, Marvin turned, and his green face changed when he realised it was me, “I didn’t know that was you! Bella has done a good job with that spell”.

“How do you know Dad didn’t do it?” I asked,

“Come on now” Marvin said jokingly, his large green hand reached out and patted my head “Some spell that”.

“Where is Kevin?” I asked.

“here,” Kevin said behind me, I turned around and saw what he was dressed as, and I said.

“Hey Charles, changed your mind I see” Kevin laughed, that’s right he is dressed like a demon, then he and Lincoln made eye contact and laughed again, he had horns on his forehead and demon fingertips, long nails, and that can’t be fun going the bathroom. And he has jet-black eyes too.

Everybody and I mean everybody said hello to Charles to both Lincoln and Kevin like it was the funniest joke, but I got my own back no one knew where I was because of my costume and I could jump out and scare people, Grace came down from the flats above, she had a cape on black on the outside red on the inside, fangs and bloodstains from her eyes, her red hair straightened and she had a black dress on too, she even got the black eyes too, I’m sensing a theme. Yasmin had on make-up to look dead, a suit and a Tommy gun.

Uncle Tommy turned up with Jackson in a spider costume and we were ready to go to Kingsborn, I say we, but I didn’t expect this many people to go, it was my family, the kings, including Uncle Tommy, the churches, Grace and her mum, Justene, and her mum I don’t know her name, scarlet and a few other guild members who have decided to come along, London is nice during this time of year, nice bite in the air, not freezing but not warm either, dark enough for the street lights and floating lantern to give the streets a special glow, I passed several witches, girls dressed cats, a few dead nurses and police office, two werewolves and one guy dressed up as the king.

My excitement shot through the marble roof of the Central station, Kevin and I were leading the pack and as we rounded the corner and saw the silver wall, we picked up our pace and almost got into a run, we burst through the wall and out before the walls of Kingsborn. The wall had skeletons on it and spiders the size of dogs crawling all over it, it made my skin crawl and brought on a shiver. Mum, Madison and Justene came through the silver portal next, and Justene screamed.

“I don’t think she likes spiders” Kevin whispered and then laughed, we went to walk through the gate of the walls and a giant spider dropped down, “OH GOD!”

“I don’t think he likes spiders” Justene said when she and Madison walked past us”. I laughed at that and Kevin crouching, he pretended to pick up a rock and kick it.

“You’re a scary demon,” I said. He looked at me and shook his head and walked off to the school, Lincoln and Marvin came up behind me and jogged to catch up to Kevin, the school had been transformed, gargoyles were walking along the roof of the school, there were rumours of the school bringing friendly ghosts to roam around for the day I thought that wasn’t going to happen until a Victorian looking man eyeballed me and then passed through Kevin, and he jumps a mile in the air. Kevin began to tell me how uncomfortable that ghost walking through him was. We got to the fountain out in front of the school and decided to wait, the school had been turned into a haunted house and I didn’t fancy going through that. We sat on the edge of the fountain and looked at the costumes of the people around us, I didn’t see anyone I recognized, every costume known to man was there, and all werewolves were covered in hair, mummies completely wrapped up. vampires had fangs and bloodshot eyes.

“Is everyone here?” Mum said, she and Ms Joyce were the last two to get to the fountain, “Let’s go explore” We walked around the school, Yasmin and Lincoln asked if could they go through the haunted house, dad said yeah and Uncle Tommy and a girl guild member said they would go to, I think she is called Rebecca, she is tiny, must be like 5 foot 2, with brown hair, Madison will take care of Jackson the dog, marquees and carnival games are back! I wonder what food will be in the marquees this time, we split up into groups boys and girls because the girls think the boys are cramping their style. The girls left for a fancy tent, and the boys were gonna go play games first up pumpkin smashing, it was so much fun, I paid £2 to go into a small see-through tent and smash a pumpkin, I was given a mallet and went for it. Bad mistake I missed the pumpkin on the table, and I almost hit my shin. Marvin picked the biggest pumpkin! And missed on his first swing! Everyone laughed and shouted way!!! He smashed it on the second one, that Frankenstein power coming in handy, bits of pumpkins splattered the see-through walls.

Next up was skull throwing, plastic skulls that have a spell, that make them attempt to bite anything after being thrown, the aim of the game you have 3 skulls and throw them at prizes on the back wall if the skull bite and hold on to the prize you win! I threw mine at an elephant and they bounced off it, nobody could see to do it, Dad was losing his mind and Garry the guild member who came with us called it stupid and said he would burn it down, Garry has no hair on his head or eyebrows, he looks like 6-foot baby, but he is a nice guy. We dunked for apples, we did the ring toss, and we went through the hall of mirrors I liked the mirror that made me look like I was a part of the Day of the Dead festival, I loved my multicoloured skull face.

“A maze?” Marvin said, “This is new”. We stood in the front of giant hedges, sprawled down both sides of the field and I don’t know how far back it goes.

“Race to the middle?” Kevin suggested.

“I’m in,” Garry said. I looked at Dad and he nodded at me, I guess we are doing this.

“I’m in,” I said.

“On go, we go” Kevin “3,2,1, go!” we all ran in at once, Dad and Marvin took the lead, and Garry wasn’t far behind them, Dad ran left, Marvin took the second right, Garry took the first right, I decided to go for the second left, I ran down it and past two girls dressed as dead cheerleaders. I took a right then a left hit a dead end turned around and ran back into the two girls.

“Down that way” the one on the right pointed thank you I ran the pathway she pointed me down and took a right,

“DAD!?” I heard a voice cry out. “DAD!?” I stopped running and tried to follow the voice, I could hear crying too. DADDY!” I turned the corner a found a little boy in a werewolf costume he must be around 10.

“Are you okay?” I asked and crouched down to eye level. I see little tears trickling down his face and over the hair a spell must have made.

“I Can’t find my Daddy,” he said.

“Come on I’ll help you find the exit; we can get a teacher or guild member to find your dad”.

“Thank you,” he said, wiping his eyes and snot-covered nose and then grabbing my hand with his gross hand, don’t burk Charles don’t do it.

“let’s go” I helped him up and we tried to find the exit,

“My name is Nate,” the little boy said.

“Oh cool, I’m Charles”.

“My brother knows someone called Charles but he...” Nate stopped talking instantly, I’m not shocked, we both heard terrified screaming, but it didn’t stop, more people started screaming, felt Nate tightening his grip around my hand.

“Nate!” a man in a suit yelled out.

“Dad!” Nate yelled, thank god we have found his dad, Nate let go of my hand and at that point, the hedges around us collapsed in on us, I covered Nate with my body and we pushed our way through and to my horror, a fully grown minotaur, must be 8foot tall, half man, half bull, muscles like a massive rugby player, horns curled on its head, black eyes bearing down on me, dark blue like midnight fur, didn’t make it look friendly at all, it roared and ran at us, it’s charged me down, I pushed Nate out of the way and got slammed by a large arm, and thrown backwards into a hedge, I got to my feet, most of the hedges have been broken down, minotaur’s have trampled them all and now engaging in fights with adults, the minotaur in front me in leaning over Nate sniffing him, a second minotaur is swinging its arms at Nates dad. Nate cried and Yelled for his dad and the minotaur raised its hands in the air.

My body moved before I noticed I had built up dark magic in my hand, I jumped on the back of the minotaur holding its horns and then slammed my hand on its large eye, and then the other way, decay work,

“Nate run! To the school!” I demanded, I got smashed in the face again, Nate got up and ran as fast as he could and the minotaur tried to follow, why was it chasing down Nate? I looked around it hit me like a minotaur punch! They are chasing down kids in werewolf costumes! I ran at the minotaur again but this time my dark magic wasn’t in my hand but in my face! I need to break the spell mum put on me, I tackled the minotaur, but it didn’t do much apart from annoy it, Nate’s dad jumped over and impaled his sword into the skull of the minotaur, I clambered to my feet and focused every bit of magic I have into my face!

“Boy, what are you doing?” Nate’s dad asked in a posh demanding voice. “Get to the school now!”

“I can’t,” I said, ” I need to break this spell!”

“What spell?” A faint pop and cool misty rushed my face.

“I think they are here for me!” I said, the mist disappeared, and I caught the look of shock on Nate’s dad’s face. “HEY STUPID MINOTUARS! IM CHARLES KING COME GET ME” Every minotaur stopped fighting and charged me! I knew it, I ran into the forest at the nearest point, I sprinted as fast as I could! The pounding of at least 15 minutes behind me is terrifying me, I can’t stop!