Part 3

Sorry if it still doesn't have any action yet, it really is a lot shorter then it seems and I want to explain things first.

I was a little annoyed with our youth leader for not showing up. We walked, not back to the reception building as I had thought, but to a third just behind it. Now it was morning I could see more of the academy. It was branched out into several small buildings. Five small ones surrounded the main reception building like pedals on a flower. Carly told me that they housed the students of the other branches or magic.

"We all have an elemental power," she explained "earth, fire, water and wind. I'd love to be in water, they're the most rare and I think it's the coolest power."

We came into the 'Mess hall' as they called it. It was a building solely for the purpose of eating and it was huge. There were three different rooms inside: One for breakfast and lunch, one dinner and one, much nicer, for banquets. The breakfast room was just like a school cafeteria but more colorful. The floor was a combination of purple and teal in a mixed marble pattern. The four long tables were brown making them look nicer then the cheep plastic ones I was used to. We all sat at the table marked with a yellow card. The mess hall was filling quickly with other students, sitting at the tables marked with red, green, white and blue cards.

A bell rang and I figured everyone must be here. The green table seemed to be the most popular, almost a third of the students in the room were sitting at it. The red table was also crowded. I saw with a little surprise that the much smaller blue table was almost completely empty with only two identical, redheaded boys. Everyone grew quiet as a smiling woman in a hairnet said,

"Since it's the first day of term, of course we will let the yellow division start."

We stood and went to get our food. It was egg day as Carly explained to me. Any kind of egg you wanted with hash browns, ham, strawberries, English muffins and grape juice. When I asked about picky eaters she just laughed and said, "With our kitchen staff, you don't want to be picky."
The boys from our division had also joined us by now, I could tell that all four of them were younger then me.