Prodigy Comedies is a dramedy series originally by RJ the Artist.
Cast[]
Canon[]
Gale Skyquartz: The Academy keeper and Astral Warden. Gale is polite but can be stubborn when someone talks about Academy issues.
Florian: The Earth Warden, PE coach, and Flora's older brother. Florian is chill, jokeful, vain, and in a love-hate relationship with Flora. Florian obsesses over jewelry and fast food, mainly cheese pizza.
The Arena Challengers and Guardians.
Original[]
Feel free to add your wizard to the cast. One of the editors will try to assign them a personality.
Crystal: The Ice Warden and Archives librarian. Crystal is energetic and social, so much so that her students couldn't learn, though she tried to be calmer once she found out. Crystal loves literature, construction, shiny objects, and adventures. She has a crush on Gale, much to his displeasure. She lives in an ice fort in Shiverchill Mountains with an Arcticlaw she named Aries after the zodiac.
Cloudy Skyquartz: The Academy counselor and younger sister of Gale, who summoned her to be the Storm Warden. Similar to her brother, Cloudy is stubborn but can be empathetic. Her first day was tough, but the other Wardens guided her. Months later, she earned her title as the counselor. She lives in her futuristic Skywatch home with her Luminite, Leo.
Flare: The Fire Warden and Academy cook. Flare acts like a brash but witty teenage girl. Her choleric temperament made students and even Wardens fear her, but she soon behaved herself. She resides in a volcanic apartment in Bonfire Spire with her Tinyger, Tina.
Walter: The Water Warden, school medic, and a potion brewer. Walter is shy, gullible, and sensitive. He is apprehensive near Gale and Cloudy, as all elements are weary around the elements that overpower them (i.e. storm types electrocute water types worse than they do other types). As water nourishes earth, Walter became good friends with Florian. He lives in a domed house in the Seaweed Skyscrapers outskirts. His pet Fathom, Fred, rests nearby, as he cannot fit inside, let alone enter or exit.
Quintin: A questioning kid who can't see even the simplest statements (e.g. He walked.) for what they are. In short, Quintin is one who thinks everything has a deeper meaning.
Lolli: A younger girl obsessed with sweets. She detests anything bitter, even if it was her medication.
Henry "Cool H" Swiftleader: Just a cool guy who wishes the creators of PMG did a better job. His name used to be Matt, but he changed it for unknown reasons. Some say he's "on the run," but they aren't sure why.
Samuel "Sam" Goldenfoot-Yeehaw: The Academy's nightmare and the opposite of May Clearprism, a calm, outgoing student who looks a lot like May from Pokémon. He makes profane jokes such as lack of undergarments or even clothing, toiletry, and firesetting.
Season 1[]
1. Crash Test Riding[]
Written by RJ the Artist and FirefoxGuy26
Following the events of Prodigy Math, the Puppet Master has been dealt with for good. The Academy is much more expansive, accommodating basic school needs. It helps students learn up to 12th grade math, basic trigonometry, and precalculus, as well as more spells and moves. Floors 2-8 of each tower also have other purposes rather than being simple classrooms.
It is late morning on Tuesday, September 30, the 7th day of the Academy school year. The Academy's training grounds, a massive grassy area near the blacktop, is bustling with students.
Ziang: I can't wait to start this school year!
Finneas: Me too!
Henry and Crios: (dully) Yeah… (The bell rings. The entrance doors open. Gale, Florian, and Flare emerge with handfuls of broomsticks.)
Florian: (enthusiastically) All righty, kids! (Everyone settles down. He takes roll call as Gale and Flare hand out broomsticks. He puts his clipboard away.) Great! Today, you will learn broomstick riding! (gesticulating) Remember, these broomsticks are for training purposes to ease you in a bit. Soon, each of you may buy a broomstick from the Academy Merchant. (He notices Quintin raised his hand and points to it.) How may I help?
Quintin: Why are (He points to him.) you teaching us how to ride broomsticks? Like, I get why Flare would be here, (Upon mentioning her name, Flare looks over to him.) but you and Gale have wings. (Florian narrows his eyes and looks away.)
Florian: (grumbling) Gah…see me after class.
Gale: Remember, (He demonstrates in front of the class as he speaks.) hold the broomstick with your dominant hand in front and don't lean! (He kicks off as the students react in awe. Florian mounts his broomstick, his left hand in front.)
Flare: (surprised) What are you doing?!
Florian: I'm one of the best riders around, just watch! (He kicks off but shows minimal effort. His broomstick goes out-of-control and crashes straight into the ground. Florian falls off his crooked broom and breaks his left arm. Jess releases his broomstick and claps sarcastically as Florian struggles up. Everyone else follows shortly after.) Ugh…my arm… (The students stop applauding and go inside, disappointed.)
Flare: (calling) Hey! We are not done with this lesson! (The students ignore her. She sighs, disturbed, walks to Florian, and carries him to the Academy health office. Gale lands, collects the broomsticks, and follows.)
The time is now afternoon. Students are playing on the blacktop. Walter is prescribing Florian a sling in the Academy health office while he looks down. Flare glares at him.
Flare: "One of the best riders around," huh?
Florian: (not looking up, mumbling) Ugh, please. Shut up.
The time is 9:16 PM. Florian returns from work and greets Flora, who is reading with Danielle on the sofa. He goes to the bathroom and gets on the scale. Seconds later, he exits the bathroom, head down.
Florian: (hesitantly) Flora? (She looks up from her book.) We need a new scale.
Flora: Why? (There is silence for a second.)
Florian: The other one collapsed while I was checking my weight. (He goes to the kitchen and checks the fridge. He pulls out a slice of cheese pizza, closes the fridge, places the slice on a plate, opens the microwave, and microwaves it. Flora looks up, sighs, places her book on the coffee table, and rises.)
Flora: (bothered, going up to Florian) Florian, you're eating too much pizza.
Florian: You don't say.
Flora: (retorting) Oh, really? (She points an open hand at his sling.) I heard someone broke their arm at work today! (Florian stares glumly at his sling, then back at Flora.)
Florian: Should I switch to eating cake, then?
Flora: (lowly, with a grim look on her face) No.
Florian: Poutine?
Flora: No.
Florian: Chicken!?
Flora: No! Now look, you don't realize what you eat. And for that, I'm putting you on dietary restrictions!
Florian: Hah! (He claps his hands and points a finger gun at his sister.) Good one, Flora!
Flora: (smiling) So you consent. (Florian lowers his finger gun, confused. She gets in his face.) No fast food for a week!
Florian: Challenge accepted! (Flora goes back to the sofa and reads with Danielle. Florian scratches his head in despair.) What should I do…
It is the next morning at the Academy. The students are outside playing on the blacktop. Florian is in the Academy cafeteria alone with a full pizza box.
Florian: (sotto voce) If I'm here and Flora isn't, (He lifts a pizza slice.) I can… (As he sticks the slice into his mouth, Gale barges in.)
Gale: Florian, did you hear? (Florian turns to him.)
Florian: (confused) Heh?
Gale: (clearing his throat) On that note…uh, yeah, Flora called. She told me you have dietary restrictions for a week. (Florian sighs, gets up with the pizza box in his right hand, and gives it to him, but as Gale takes it, Florian opens the pizza box, slams the pizza in Gale's face and pins him to the ground. Florian steals the unscathed slices and flies off.) Great Scott…
That night at suppertime, Florian munches on a crouton salad, pondering his next move, while Flora drinks a fruit smoothie.
Florian: Flora, I have a big event early tomorrow. May I please wash up now?
Flora: How early?
Florian: Oh, I didn't mean super early, just like…7.
Flora: Eat your salad first.
Florian: No, I have to be there by 7!
Flora: Then don't waste my time. (Florian takes a few more forkfuls of his salad before covering it with plastic wrap placing it in the fridge, and going to the bathroom. He pulls out his phone calls Bok.)
Bok: (firmly) If about fast food, no. (Florian sneers and hangs.)
Florian: (muttering) Of course Slip told you… (He dials Skywatch. Benni picks up.)
Benni: Benni!
Florian: Benni, could I…have lunch at your place?
Benni: Sure, you can come eat at Skywatch! Just don't make a mess…
Eugene: Isn't someone on a diet, though?
Florian: (shocked) How did you find out?!
Eugene: Stop yelling, I'm an old man… (Florian hangs and dials Slurpy.)
Florian: Could you get Cebollini to cook me some mushroom pizza?
Slurpy: I can't cook you anything. You're on a diet!
Florian: (confused) How'd you know—Wait, you're a cook now?
Slurpy: I mean, I'm an amateur.
Flashback
It is a few weeks after Slurpy became the Royal Chef. Cebollini leads him to the Royal Kitchen, which is furnished with various cookware.
Cebollini: Now, Slime, today is an important day for you.
Slurpy: (excited) My birthday!?
Cebollini: (pestered) No, it's—
Slurpy: Summerfest! (Cebollini facepalms.)
Cebollini: (angrily) It's—
Slurpy: Winter—
Cebollini: (outraged) Not even close! (neutral) Today, you cook Queen's next meal. Just remember: No raisins.
Slurpy: (prepared) Alright! (Cebollini leaves.) Let's get to work! (He fetches the ingredients for the traditional stew and pours the broth into the preheated cauldron. He goes back, chops turnips, and slides them into the boiling broth.) There are those…Hmm, how much seasoning? Ah, the whole jar! (He adds a jar of black pepper and stirs the stew.) Protein base? (He grabs some skinless chicken thighs and throws them in, unknowingly dropping a raisin in. He leaves the stew to simmer.) C'est magni— (A Flikflit flies up from behind the bin and clashes with the cookware, causing them to fall to the ground. Slurpy screams in horror and tries to contain it, but it flies away. Cebollini returns.)
Cebollini: How was the cook— (He notices the state of the kitchen, and it shocks him.) Slurpy, it's been 15 minutes!
Slurpy: (optimistic, unsure) I know it looks bad, but I made an amazing dish! (Cebollini sighs, turns off the cauldron flames, and hauls the cauldron to the dining room. Queen Goo-lia licks her mouth, pleased, takes out her spoon, and begins dining.)
Queen Goo-lia: (satisfied) Delicious!
Slurpy: (delighted) Yay! (Queen Goo-lia feels a strange, foreboding texture in her mouth.)
Queen Goo-lia: (wary) Wait… (She spits out her mouthful and reveals a raisin.) are these…
Slurpy: (endangered) Uh-oh. (Queen Goo-lia turns to Cebollini, grimacing. Slurpy slowly follows.)
Queen Goo-lia: Cebollini!
Cebollini: (panicked) Your majesty, it was the Slime's fault!
Queen Goo-lia: He's too young to be punished. But since you forgot to clear him and the kitchen of raisins, you're suspended from the oven for a fortnight!
Cebollini: (disapproving, frightened) No! This isn't right!
Queen Goo-lia: (pointing at Cebollini) Guards. (The guards detain Cebollini while he tries futilely to break free. He turns to Slurpy before he is gone.)
Cebollini: (hollering) Slurpy! (His voice fades out.)
End of Flashback
But since when do you care? You just want a place to eat fast food in secret!
Florian: Wha— (Cebollini enters the call.)
Cebollini: Vous l'avez entendu. (Florian sighs and hangs. He wants to call Captain Eve but does not know of a Shipwreck Shore phone line, so he calls Gale telling him he will take a short vacation for the next week. He reaches his destination 3 days later.)
Eve: (seeing him) Not a chance.
Florian: I didn't even speak!
Eve: The merlings told me. (Florian looks over to Athena, who turns to him with a glare. He sighs and heads back to Firefly Forest, disheveled.)
Florian: I'll have to try something else! (He heads home, builds a treadmill based on a guide, and runs on it.)
It is 9:23 PM on Wednesday, October 15. Florian has recovered and is waiting for Flora. She opens the door and walks in with a new bathroom scale.
Florian: (satisfied, reluctantly) Well, it may have cost my sanity, but I finally lost weight!
Flora: (proudly) Great job, Florian! (hesitantly) But…
Florian: (worrisome) Yes?
Flora: …Pizzeria Prodigix is out of pizza for another month.
Florian: (blinking) …a month?
The next day, Florian goes to the teacher lounge during his free period and greets Walter.
Florian: So, how are things?
Walter: (excited) I got a girlfriend!
Florian: Cool! I'll admit, I'm a little jealous.
Walter: She's coming!
Florian: I wonder who it— (Flora appears in the doorway.)
Flora: Hello, Florian!
Florian: (jealous, to Walter) My sister?!
Walter: Yes, so?
Florian: (sarcastically) No, it's fine. (He goes to his office and takes his jealousy out on a cloth. Noot flies to the front door and knocks. Florian goes to open it.) Yeah?
Noot: Seems Walter asked out your sister! (Florian blinks.) If they marry, he will be your brother!
Florian: (grinning) Actually brother-in-law, but sounds great! (He goes to find Walter. He finds him bundled in the corner of the teacher lounge, head down.) Walter! I decided I'm cool with you datin— (Walter sobs.) What's wrong?
Walter: (through tears) Flora dumped me! She said I'm not good enough! (Florian goes over to him.)
Florian: (giving Walter his cloth) Cheer up, Walt! Besides, Flora didn't appreciate me either. She was quite overbearing when she found out about my job. But hey, we've still got each other!
Walter: (wiping his tears) Thanks, Florian.
Florian: No problemo! Say, wanna plastic wrap Flora's toilet?
Walter: (cheerfully) Sure!
It is 7:26 AM on the following Monday. Gale enters the cafeteria and notices the buffet ran out of pizza. He heads to the kitchen, opens the refrigerator, and, to his disappointment, finds no boxes of pizza. He checks the bins inside the cafeteria but finds no trace of pizza. He heads to the blacktop and checks the garbage bins. Nothing. He goes to Firefly Forest and knocks on the door of the Big Tree. Flora goes to the peephole.
Flora: Gale?
Gale: The Academy is somehow out of pizza even though we just restocked. Do you reckon Florian had something to do with it?
Flora: That's weird. For all I can remember, he hasn't touched a slice in 2 and a half weeks. (Gale takes a moment to think about it.)
Gale: How odd. Just keep an eye on him. And don't worry, we set up surveillance in the Academy. (He turns and leaves. He overhears Flora from inside.)
Flora: (calling) Florian! It's 7:41 already! You'll be late for work!
Florian: (from the bathroom) I know! Just let me shower already! (He places his finger on the plastic wrap on the toilet to test it.)
Flora: Don't make it 7:42! (Gale sighs and uses his Academy Amulet to teleport to the Academy. He goes back to the cafeteria. Cloudy enters and sees him taping an "Out of Order" sign on the glass above the pizza tray. She walks over.)
Cloudy: (puzzled) Why? We have plenty of pies! (This startles Gale.)
Gale: Gah! Cloudy!
Cloudy: (rubbing her neck) Oh, did I startle you? I'm sorry.
Gale: That's fine. But you know what isn't?
Cloudy: What isn't?
Gale: Even after last week's restock, we already ran out of pies. I checked earlier.
Cloudy: Egads!
Gale: Although… (He goes behind the buffet bar and pulls out a fresh Pizzeria Prodigix square pie that looks like it was covered in green soda.) This…this beauty right here… (He chuckles mildly.) it might solve our shortage. (He motions Cloudy to follow.) Follow me! (They go to the kitchen. Gale slide the box into the top shelf of the refrigerator.)
Cloudy: You know, being a leader is hard mainly because of peer pressure.
Gale: Yeah, like, it just gives you a headache when you have to deal with those people.
Cloudy: I know, right? Say, I'm having a good day, then all of a sudden, (She extends her left arm in front of her and sweeps it with her right hand.) bam! Someone's wearing it off! (Both chuckle. Noot enters the kitchen and inspects the fridge. He notices the pizza box.)
Noot: (humming) Pizza? Don't mind if I do…
Gale: Noot, don't touch that! (Noot turns.)
Noot: Gale?
Gale: That one is for Florian. He may have been stealing the other pies.
Noot: (in a lower tone) What? Stealing?!
Cloudy: Did you not notice there was only one box as opposed to, like, the five we had in there?
Noot: Why don't you just confront him?
Gale: Let's just say I want to make it more amusing.
The time is 8:03 AM, 7 minutes before the students' breakfast time. Florian approaches the cafeteria and sees a warm pizza slice covered in a green substance.
Florian: Strange. (He goes over and eats it. Gale, Cloudy, and Noot watch from behind the kitchen door. Gale glances at the others.)
Gale: (whispering) Is it working? (Florian finishes the slice and licks his fingers.)
Florian: (dully) Naw, probably just a new flavor of Gale's. (He leaves.)
Gale: Aw, man!
The time is 9:03 AM, 2 minutes before the tardy bell for first hour. Florian enters the classroom on the first floor of the Earth Tower without a sign of illness.
Florian: Class, time to— (He suddenly covers his mouth.)
Flora: (frustrated) Not again! (Florian asks Noot for the wastebasket and vomits in it as George records it for Wizard Watch. Florian holds up a hand to halt him but fails.)
Noot: (pointing thumb at the doorway) I'm leaving. (He heads to the Academy health office and calls for Walter.) Florian got food poisoning from eating some greenish pizza.
Walter: (anxious) Good Lord! Who could have done such a thing?
Noot: Gale. I should have stopped him.
Walter: So you insist Gale committed this act? (Noot nods.) I'll tell him.
Noot: No need to, Walter! I can take it from here. (He goes to Gale's office and confronts him. Gale knows but is too afraid to face Florian. He goes to Cloudy's office while Florian is rushed to the health office.)
Gale: Any advice, Cloudy?
Cloudy: Honesty is the best policy. (Gale heads to the health office to search and finds Florian asleep in a bed. He leans over, remorseful.)
Gale: (sorrowful) You okay? (Suddenly, Florian wakes up in a rage, grabs Gale's face, and pins him to the wall.)
Florian: It was you! I should have known! Oh, I'll get you back someti— (He suddenly vomits on him.)
Gale: (lowly) You stole those pizzas, make no mistake.
Florian: You made 3 in that sentence.
Gale: (confused) Wait, so if you didn't steal those pies, did Flare?
Florian: Figure it out.
Gale: So it was Flare. (Florian, gritting his teeth, slaps Gale's neck.)
Florian: Are you blind?! Was that pizza even for the buffet, hm? All 5 boxes? Or did you buy those for yourself and Cloudy so I had to come and prevent that? (Walter enters the room and backs off when he sees the two.)
Walter: Florian! You should be resting! (Florian bears a shy smile and goes back to bed. Gale notices Walter has some sauce on his mouth. His eyes grow wide, and his jaw extends to the floor.) What's the problem? (Gale bursts out laughing after a few seconds.)
Gale: Walter, did you eat a bit too much? (Walter cracks up.)
Walter: I thought you were gonna say something like, "Walt, I don't know man." (Gale stops laughing.)
Gale: (unamused) Don't reuse someone's joke just for profit. (He goes to the boys' bathroom and showers off the vomit.)
It is Friday morning. Florian has recovered from the prank. He meets with Walter to discuss revenge plans.
Florian: (lowly) Walter, we need to talk…
Walter: What's it?
Florian: People have been teasing me because of the incident on Monday. It's Gale's fault.
Walter: What do you plan to do about it?
Florian: We find something to spook Gale, spook him, record his reaction, and post it to Wizard Watch.
Walter: Alright! I will be waiting.
TBC
2. Fairy Flu[]
Written by RJ
It is near the end of November. Noot enters the Academy and searches for Gale.
Noot: Gale! Where are you? (Gale enters. His face is pale green and under his eyes is pale red. Noot shrieks in terror.) Winged alien!
Gale: (groggily) Wait, wait, wait! Noot, it's me, Gale! What did you need?
Noot: You don't look so good, Gale. Besides, it's Thanksgiving Break. You should go home.
Gale: I'm fine.
Noot: You weren't last night.
Gale: It was only some coughs. (Noot takes a good look at him.)
Noot: Yeah, not sure about that. Maybe we should call Eve. (He and Gale go to the teacher lounge and call Eve through Discordigy. She enters the call 30 seconds later covered in unnatural spots.)
Eve: Ahoy, me hearties!
Noot: Hey, Eve, we'v—Well, first, why are you covered in spots?
Eve: (holding up a flask of a peculiar green liquid to her camera) Drank this strange serum from the cargo bay. It tastes mighty good, though!
Noot: Does Athena know? (Athena, who has white bugs crawling on her head, enters from behind Eve.)
Athena: About? (Noot screams when he notices her.)
Noot: What happened to your head!?
Athena: Mizu brought home lice and spread it to Mist, who spread it to Koi, who spread it to me. (Gale sneezes. Walter enters.)
Walter: (pointing his thumb at Gale) What's with Gale?
Noot: (turning to him) He has Fairy Flu, I think.
Walter: (turning to Gale) Wh— (He sees Gale's condition, shrieks in horror, and rushes away.)
Eve: What's his deal?
Noot: Germaphobia. (Benni and Broccolina enter the call.)
Benni: What's so scary about germs?
Broccolina: They can give you any ailment.
Noot: What happened to you two?
Benni: (irritably) Nothing. Except Broc spread her germs to me yesterday.
Broccolina: That ain't my fault. (Bok enters from behind Benni and Broccolina.)
Bok: Bok very hot.
Benni: (sticking a thermometer in Bok's mouth) You ever thought you might have a fever? (Bok removes the thermometer. Flare enters the teacher lounge.)
Bok: (to Benni) Bok think red pen.
Flare: You're so (She sneezes.) stupid. (Benni places the thermometer back into Bok's mouth.)
Benni: Bok, I need your temperature. So keep the pen there until I say otherwise.
Bok: (to Flare) Fire Fairy hurt Bok. (Noot turns to Flare.)
Flare: (to Noot) Common cold. And let me guess, Walter is cowering like a scaredy-fairy of the bacteria.
Gale: (coughing) Yup. (Walter reenters. Flare turns to him.)
Flare: You aren't putting a paper bag over your head, will you?
Walter: No. (He holds up an empty plastic bag.) I'm putting this on.
Noot: (terrified) Walter, no! (Gale suddenly sniffs.)
Walter: Thank goodness. (He sighs but inhales the bag and sprints around the lounge, screaming.)
Flare: Oh my Harmony. (She catches the plastic bag and yanks it off. Walter sprints through the entrance to recover. Florian enters.)
Florian: Anyone seen my fan?
Bok: (holding said fan) Bok never see fan.
Florian: (shocked, gaping) Bok! How do you have my fan?!
Bok: (fanning himself) Bok feel very hot, need cool.
Florian: (sharply) And (He summons his fan back to him with his staff.) wise-extremely-handsome-Earth Warden needs maroon fan to look cool!
Flare: I can't cook today, so I've ordered pizza from Pizzeria Prodigix.
Florian: (nonchalantly) Cool.
Flare: I expected you to be more excited.
Florian: I'm more chill now.
Flare: I see. (She leaves.)
Florian: (celebratory, uproarious) Whoo! We're getting pizza! (He, Noot, and the others socialize until Flare comes back 3 minutes later and sets 3 pizza boxes on the table. Florian turns to the boxes.) And I'm gonna eat them!
Noot: Actually, you are going to wait before you eat them. (Flare takes the boxes to the cafeteria.)
Florian: Okay, 5 minutes and counting!
Gale: (holding a teacup of chamomile tea) This should heal me. (He takes a sip.)
Noot: Do you feel better?
Gale: No, now I feel nauseous. (He flies out. Florian follows him but only to the common room. Flare reenters.)
Athena: Treachery! Why didn't Mizu just go to the clothing store!?
Eve: Is anything with Slurpy?
Flare: He got food poisoning from eating sushi.
Noot: Sorry, but we have to go.
Eve, Athena, Benni, and Broccolina: (waving) Bye! (Noot leaves the call. Crystal enters.)
Crystal: Hello, everyone! What's going— (seeing Gale's tea) Ooh, tea! (She rushes over to the teacup.)
Noot: (frightened, hand outstretched) Crystal, that's Gale's cup! (Crystal ignores him and drinks. She turns pale green and collapses. Cloudy enters and notices Crystal.)
Cloudy: Aww, poor Crystal! I'll help her.
Noot: (relieved) That's nice!
Cloudy: (noticing tea) After some tea!
Noot: (enraged) Are you kidding me?! (Cloudy falls. Walter reenters. Noot looks at him, crazed.) You might as well have some tea, too, Walter.
Walter: Okay. (He goes to the cup of tea as Noot goes to the cafeteria, where he notices three open empty pizza boxes on the table and turns to Florian, who is on the ground clutching his stomach.)
Noot: (shocked) Florian! You ate three whole pizzas?!
Florian: (drowsy) It was an accident.
Noot: (glaring at him) You've had far too many excuses, explain.
Florian: I didn't mean it.
Noot: (explosive) I was excited to eat, too! (He throws a tiny, adorable tantrum.)
Florian: Are you going to ignore my terrible stomachache?
Noot: Serves you right! (He leaves and sighs.) Oh, this'll be a long day…
For Part 2, see this WIP by SurfMonkey87.
3. Winterfest[]
Written by RJ
It is one week before Winterfest. Gina, Flora (the wizard), and Korathius are playing four-square on the Academy blacktop. Fuchsia and Binjumun are coloring pages with Fuchsia's vivid crayons. Lillian is with her pet moose. Nick is amongst them, arms outstretched, looking at the sky in frustration.
Nick: Treachery! (Gina glances at him.) Autumn's taking forever! (Gina turns back to her game and pushes the red ball to Korathius.)
Gina: Why's Nick acting all crazy?
Flora: He loves Winterfest more than any other Prodigian. (The ball comes to her. She grabs it and turns to Nick.) Get your mind off Winterfest and come play with us!
Nick: (delighted) Okie Dokie. (The three rotate for the next round as Nick goes to square 1, and the group resumes play. On his third round, Nick sees a Winterfest pine in the distance and hurls the ball at it. To his dismay, the ball shatters the window next to the door. Flare runs downstairs to check it out.)
Flare: (demanding) Hey, who threw that?! (The four run to another square before she notices them. She opens the door, throws the ball back outside, and storms back to her office muttering. Nick runs to the ball and throws it to Korathius.) Kids near break, it's always kids near break…
Nick: (lying on the ground) Still no Winterfest! (Lillian turns to him.)
Lillian: (thoughtfully) Nick, can you look after my moose for a bit?
Nick: Sure! (Lillian leaves to go inside. As Nick walks the moose, he thinks of Winterfest and drops the leash in a daze. The moose runs around the blacktop. Lillian returns, sees the moose on the loose, sighs, and calls it back. Nick realizes he was in a daze and throws a fit.) When. Is. Winterfest! (Fuchsia looks up from her drawing.)
Fuchsia: (calling him over) Stop complaining and color with us! (Nick runs to them. He ends up coloring 3 pages of ornaments, front and back. His arm is exhausted, so he leaves.)
Nick: (exasperated) I can't take this (He almost utters a curse word.) any longer! (Crystal notices from the entrance lobby. She picks up her snowflake staff and casts a spell over the students. Nick notices it is snowing more than usual and peers up. He is exhilarated at what he sees.) Yes! The time has come! (The bell rings. The other students head inside, but Nick stays outside until he decides he will be tardy.)
The other students are in the Earth Tower. Florian is at his desk with a maroon fan. Noot is in the corner.
Gina: (cheerfully) One more week before Winterfest!
Florian: And Nick is ecstatic.
Gina: How do you know?
Florian: Heh. (He folds his fan and points it at the door. The students turn to the door. Nick enters, excited.) Oh, reminds me, be right back!
Nick: Guys, Winterfest is coming!
Noot: Let's carol, then!
Students: (in unison) Yay! (Each runs to the front and proceeds to a different carol, yet in perfect sync.)
Noot: Dear me… (Florian reenters wearing a dark green robe with ornaments, a necklace of lights, gold star earrings, and a head wreath.)
Florian: Right now, class. (The students sit back down. The bell rings. 2 minutes of class pass.)
Quintin: (merrily) Lolli, you want some hot cocoa?
Lolli: Yes, yes, yes! (Santiago Jr. glares from the row behind. Quintin slides the mug to the other side of the row.)
Florian: (flying slowly around the classroom) Now, one of the most common species— (He holds up his index fingers.) and probably your favorite of them—the Ivory— (He reaches Lolli's row but does not notice the sliding mug of hot chocolate. Lolli misses it, and the liquid splashes over Florian's robe. He and the class look at his robe, shocked, as the mug shatters on the floor. He looks back at the class, unfazed.) No worries, I can change! (He leaves.)
Fuchsia: Let's color while we wait. (She takes out her coloring pages and crayons. The students grab a few crayons and a coloring page and spread out across the room. A few minutes later, Florian returns in a wintry-blue sweater and silver boots.)
Florian: Now we ca—
Noot: (caught off guard) Oi! Who said blue was your color?
Florian: (coolly) And what's stopping me?
Noot: (progressively more bitter and faster) Twins Day, remember? I asked if you wanted to twin me, but you said blue wasn't your color, so I had to twin some nose-picker! Am I not good enough for you?!
Florian: (reluctantly) No, you're just a little…er…ugly. (The room drops dead silent. The students look to him and Noot in a mix of anger and surprise while Noot glares at Florian with the most disgusted look he can muster, causing him to shed a tear that burns a hole through the moss covering the floor of the classroom.)
Noot: (vexed, whispering) I, ugly!
Florian: (worrisome) Noot, please. (Noot flies up to him and slaps his neck.)
Noot: (roaring) No! Take it back!
Florian: (defeated) Fine. (He leaves. The students color some more. Florian returns in his first outfit and closes the door.) Now… (The door closes on his necklace of lights, trapping it between the doorframe.) Whoops! Snip, snip, it is! (He takes out his Scissor Saber, which shocks Noot.)
Noot: Florian, why are you using scissors!? Use pliers!
Florian: What's the worst that could ha— (He clips the necklace and electrocutes himself. His sweater has a slight char, and half of the lights are broken. He throws his hands up in frustration.) That was the last straw! Now what!?
Nova: No fret, there's an easy fix! (She gets up from her area, walks over, takes the broken lights, and forms a Winterfest brooch.)
Florian: Thanks, Nova!
Nova: (satisfied) Anytime. (The students head back to their seats and learn about the different types of flora and fauna that appear during Winterfest.)
It is now the night before Winterfest. Lamplight Town is full of snowballs, carols, sledding and skating, even fireworks! A fairy is dressing for the night in Firefly Forest. Up in the thundering Skywatch, Benni and Broccolina tweak the year's lights. The young Slurpy prepares the holiday feast while Cebollini watches approvingly. Athena deals final sales by the shoreline, waiting for Captain Eve. Gale is perfecting every detail in the Academy. Noot guards the cookies until Florian comes with a mischievous glint in his eyes, telling him a centerpiece was torn. Streamers soar, tying anything they touched. Ultimately, Walter berates the other Wardens. In Shiverchill Mountains, Bok calls a meeting with his fellow yetis. He needed a gift for his beloved Slip.
Bok: What should Bok give Slip?
Howard: Owls are known to be wise. You should give her a book.
Bok: Slip have every book for owl.
Aspen: But Bok, dude, get yourself a book.
Bok: (unsure) Why Bok need book?
Howard: So you can have better grammar.
Bok: (ticked off) Bok talk good!
Howard: (unimpressed) Not good enough. Let's see…how about some Magic Snowflakes?
Bok: Slip not interested.
Aspen: Give Slip a sick snowboard!
Bok: (sternly) Slip already fly. (Aspen sighs.)
Howard: How about something Slip desires?
Aspen: Yeah!
Bok: (contently) Bok like idea!
4. The Newer Students[]
Written by RJ
It is Thursday, January 29. The students are in the Ice Tower attempting to redraw their favorite Prodigy pet.
Fuchsia: (delighted) Crios! Come see what I drew! (Crios gets up from his area and walks over to her.)
Crios: Wait, let me see up close.
Fuchsia: Sure! (She hands her crayon-drawn Mystyyk to him. He shreds the drawing to pieces. Fuchsia abruptly jumps backwards, toppling her chair, accelerates 300 miles an hour backwards, puncturing a hole in the wall, grows into a gargantuan meteor-breathing dragon, and decimates half the Academy. Crystal and the other students scream in terror as they suffer extreme temperatures and hurl to the ground, liquid helium and nitrogen carbonate falling onto them. Gale sees the burning Ice Tower from the common room and a pink dragon. He realizes the dragon is Fuchsia.)
Gale: (outrageous, at a godlike volume) Fuchsia! Detention for one month once I restore the damage to the Academy you have caused! (The others crash into the frigid, white-hot ground, writhing in agony. Fuchsia turns into human form.)
Fuchsia: (facing Gale) That ain't my fault.
Nick: (feebly, lividly) You think any (Fuchsia turns to him.) of us will live to see the next speck of snow?! You could have just told on Crios or made a new drawing or pieced the old drawing together or…ugh… (He succumbs to the nearby meteor. Fuchsia turns away, puts on her Invisibility Cloak, walks away, relaxes, and watches the sunset. Meanwhile, Gale, not knowing where she went, posts a picture of the remnants of the Academy to Wizard Watch with the caption, "Bad news. Help appreciated.")
The Academy is finally repaired after 5 weeks. Fuchsia is hanging from her foot in a corner in the basement of the Ice Tower as freezing rain drips onto her and Crystal eyeballs her frigidly. Meanwhile, Crios and Cameron are in the Fire Tower Common Room waiting for the elevator to arrive.
Crios: (holding a notebook) Cam, why must you copy me? (He open his notebook and writes in it.)
Cameron: (holding a notebook) What do you mean?
Crios: You got the same outfit, the same haircut—you even write and draw the same thing I do. (Cameron looks over at his notebook, but Crios notices and brandishes it away, eyes squinted.)
Cameron: Sorry, it's a free nation! (The elevator arrives. He heads inside and closes the elevator door. Crios does not follow.)
Crios: (smugly) A free nation…Maybe I can have some fun with this. (Another elevator opens and he goes inside. He notices Nova enter the common room and, panicked, mashes the Close Door button faster than a Tetris player.)
Nova: Crios! Can I sit next to you at lun— (The elevator door closes. She sighs and presses the Up button. A minute later, an elevator arrives, and she goes up to the first floor, walks to the Fire Tower classroom, and takes her seat. Everyone else has sat down. The bell rings. Flare marks Fuchsia absent and looks up from her clipboard, a smile on her face.)
Flare: How was gym, everyone?
Some Students: It was fun!
Bannard: (brash, thunderous) Gym was fun, buh by da lockas, I saw Crios with a rash on hih butt, (Everyone in the room slowly turns to him, disturbed.) so I was like, "Yo, Crios, ya'o'a rash on yo bum!" The other boys laughed, buh he gave me a wedgie!
Crios: (hacked off) Hey!
Flare: (annoyed) Thanks for sharing, Bannard, now please shut up before I turn into some angry fire monster.
Bannard: (ignoring her) Speaking of angry fire monster, one time, Fuchsia drank so much water she peed herself, so I was like, "Yo, Fuchsia, ya peed!" so she turned into an angry fire beast on me. Like, cut back on your intake, Fuchsia!
Flare: (pouting) Bannard! Can you even be quiet for a f**king minute?!
Bannard: Speaking of Flare, I remember the field trip when s— (Flare snaps, runs to his desk, seizes him by the neck, and flings his desk, which knocks over Korathius' desk and almost causes him a concussion. The desk punctures a hole in the back wall, and the impact reverberates throughout the Tower. The other students, terrified, hide beneath their desks.)
Flare: (demonically, slamming Aurora's desk between words) Bannard, nolite turbare me et classium, aut faciem iram ignis æterni et lucis superator! (Aurora bolts up from her desk and sprints out while Flare throws Bannard head-first into the corner, causing him a major crack in his skull. The teacher assistant, an Ignios, chases a terrified Aurora and fries the back of her clothing with his back. She screams while he darts back. Flare returns to her desk, exasperated.) Ugh, now let's learn fire! (The students wordlessly slip back into their seats.)
Gina: (grimly) Next time, (She points sharply at Flare.) I'm reporting you to Gale! (The other students applaud her in amazement.)
Nova: Ay, that's the spirit, Gina!
Finneas: I couldn't have been braver myself! Splendid job! (Gina feels motivated and stretches out her arms.)
Flare: (reactivated) All three of you stay after class! (The applause instantly dies down. Gina feels gloomy.)
Crios and Cameron are on the elevator down after class.
Cameron: I preferred when Bannard disrupted class.
Crios: Are you mad!?
Cameron: Maybe…maybe not.
The students are in the Earth Tower the next day. Crios is giggling. Nova looks up from her detention slip.
Nova: What's so funny?
Crios: I told Cameron I would be coming bare! (Florian turns to him.)
Florian: Crios, I'm sure Cameron isn't that— (Cameron opens the classroom door and enters wearing only briefs.)
Cameron: Hello, y'all! (Florian and the students stare at him, dumbfounded.)
Florian: Well, I guess Cameron really is that stupid. (Cameron turns to Crios, suspicious of him.)
Cameron: Crios, I thought you were coming naked.
Crios: Sodium hypobromite, Rhenium Aluminum Lithium?
Cameron: Breaking Ba—
Florian: Cameron, I understand your point with the briefs, but I'm still traumatized. Please dress.
Cameron: Don't have enough currency or any other legwear, can you loan me some gold?
Florian: Sorry, Cameron, I need my gold for a pair of diamond-encrusted boots.
Aurora: Like from the novelty shop? (Florian glances at her.)
Florian: Yeah! (Aurora sighs.)
Aurora: Florian, those diamonds are pure plastic.
Florian: They're still lustrous, that's all that matters to me!
Cameron: Florian! Haven't you experienced nudity?
Florian: (smugly) Nope! I live a very sophisticated life.
Djinna: You have, actually. Last week, in fact!
Florian: (lowly, looking at the floor) Djinna, now is not the time…
Djinna: And the day before that—
Florian: (disrupting) Shut up! (The other students and even the TA Fissural point and gape or ooh at him. He glances around the classroom, nervous. He snaps out of it.) Anyhoo, let's learn Earth Magic!
Cameron: But I still have nothing to wear!
Crios and Florian: Yeah, then don't be such a copycat!
Florian: (imperative) Now go run a few laps around the gym! (Cameron runs out of class as Florian follows and the other students watch from inside. Cameron trips on his uniform and coat and grunts. The students, with Florian, laugh at him.)
Djinna temporarily dropped out of the Academy 2 days after the previous incident. It is a few days after that. The other students are ready to learn, but an irritable Cameron is sunken into his seat looking at the ceiling. He has his right arm resting on his desk, a detention slip in his hand. The bell rings.
Walter: Hello, students.
Students: Hello, Walter!
Walter: We're having a new student today.
Gina: (darkly, looming over Walter) You dare try to replace me?
Walter: Says who?
Gina: I've been the new kid for a whole semester! What will my new arena name be!?
Nova: Gina, we still admire you! (She and the other students each hug Gina. Gina is happy. The students go back to their seats.)
Walter: There he is. (A new student enters and goes to the front of the class. Walter motions to him.) This is Potter. His parents run the greenhouse. Say hello, Potter.
Potter: (jollily) Hello, cunning people! (Flora gasps. Potter and Jess glare at her.)
Jess: Coward. I expected you to not react. You've heard Flare swear times before!
Flora: We celebrate Winterfest, so we shouldn't curse. Also, I haven't heard such mutiny from you before.
Potter: Quiet, d**ks.
Nova: (warningly) Language, Potter. (Potter examines the seating chart to find out her name. He looks back up, hands beside his waist.)
Potter: (dominantly) Super Nova, you are [ ㅤ ] being a [ ㅤ ] [ ㅤ ]! I'll [ ㅤ ] say whatever the [ ㅤ ] I [ ㅤ ] want to!
Nova: (thunderous) Potter! Learn to use appropriate language! (Potter turns to Walter, who is backed into a corner.)
Potter: You better [ ㅤ ] speak the [ ㅤ ] [ ㅤ ] up, [ ㅤ ] [ ㅤ ]. (Walter breaks down and sobs uncontrollably.)
It is later in the day in the Ice Tower.
Crystal: Time to paint! (Everyone paints the image of their dreams while Potter splatters his canvas in streaks.)
Potter: (pridefully) I'm so [ ㅤ ] cracked at this [ ㅤ ]. (Bannard marches over to him and bangs his face on the easel, causing him to drop his paint palette and smear paint over his color-block hoodie.) [ ㅤ ] [ ㅤ ]!
Bannard: (thunderous) You are a disgrace to apprentices everywhere! (The loudness of his voice causes a slight crack in the ice bricks that make up the walls. The other students look at the others and ask who's to blame.)
It is later in the day in the Storm Tower. A few minutes have passed since the bell rang.
Cloudy: Let's talk about mental health.
Potter: Find it [ ㅤ ] creepy you hav—
Cloudy: (with narrowed eyes) You're a creep. Also, that felt—
Potter: (disrupting) [ ㅤ ] yes, it [ ㅤ ] is, [ ㅤ ].
It is Astral Class, the class before dinner that day. Potter shows no interest in learning or even listening to Gale while the other students are ready to learn. The bell rings.
Gale: Hello, students!
Other Students: Hello, Gale!
Gale: As you know, Djinna is no longer with us.
Potter: No [ ㅤ ].
Gale: Potter, out. (He waits for a few seconds. Potter does not comply. Gale casts Prism Blast on him, temporarily blinding him.) As I was saying, Djinna dropped out.
Quintin: Why?
Gale: She moved.
Quintin: Why?
Gale: So her parents could work their new jobs.
Quintin: Why?
Gale: They pay better.
Quintin: Why?
Gale: They're down bad.
Quintin: Why? (They continue this cycle until the bell, and each time, Gale is more puzzled.)
Gale: Ummm… (The bell rings.) Ah, nevermind, you can all go eat dinner. (The students head to the cafeteria, but Quintin stays.)
Quintin: Why? (Potter wakes up and looks at the door.)
Noot: (sighing) Here we go again… (The other students continue down the stairs and head to the cafeteria.)
Potter: Enjoy the next 13 hours, cunning people! (Gale speeds to him and seizes him by the neck.)
Gale: (indignant, through gritted teeth) Look at me.
Potter: What, [ ㅤ ], what?
Gale: Excess profanity will result in suspension of your enrollment at the Academy. This is your final warning.
Potter: [ ㅤ ] no, it [ ㅤ ] will not [ ㅤ ] work on the [ ㅤ ] Prodigy, you [ ㅤ ] head teacher [ ㅤ ]. (Without another word, Gale sends him out the window like a missile.)
Noot: (uneasy) Gale, that felt a bit harsh…
Gale: It's his first day, but I've heard bad about him. I allow mild swearing, but not if it's every other sentence.
After Potter's second day of attendance, Gale banished him to PoTR for excessive profanity, though he considered exiling him instead. The days seemed normal until another student enrolls in the Academy and happens to slide into the class, whose students call themselves The Mages. The bell rings.
Gale: Hello, students!
Students: Hello, Gale!
Gale: Remember Potter? We're replacing him!
Gina: (sighing) Great, there she goes again!
Nova: Oh, Gina, we'll find you a new name. (She and the other students hug Gina, but Crios keeps his distance. Gina is happy.)
Crios: You know what? We're changing your name to "Arena Nerd!" (Gina turns into a berserk skeleton. Everyone stops hugging her and runs to their seats. Gina changes back and goes to her seat. The classroom door creaks open.)
Gale: (gesturing to the door) This is our new student, Samuel Goldenfoot-Yeehaw. (Everyone else turns to the door. A head pops in.)
Sam: (dubiously) You mean it?
Gale: (beaming) Yes!
Sam: Good. (He kicks the door open, curls his index finger on his chin, and looks down to his left.) Thought you were secretly evil…
Gale: (suspicious of Sam) I'm not ev—Sam, you are violating dress code. (Sam looks back at Gale.)
Sam: I lost them.
Gale: What do you mean "lost" them?
Sam: (pointing at Henry) Henry stole them.
Henry: (calmly) Well, hate to inform you, but you are are accountable for those shorts. (He looks to the other students, who are looking back at him.) Ay, show of hands, did anyone come into contact with a pair of underwear this morning? (No one raises their hand, but Sam grabs Henry's wrist and raises it. Henry tries to fend Sam off.)
Gale: Noot, aspirin please. And give Sam something to wear. (Noot fetches Gale his aspirin and Sam some shorts.) Now, (He grabs his wand.) to cast Light Wave, we— (A string of toilet paper lands on his head and droops symmetrically. He looks around the classroom and sees Sam with rolls of toilet paper.) Sam, what are you doing?! (Gale flies over to Sam and takes the toilet paper from him.) As I was saying, w— (Sam is shooting more toilet paper, this time from a peculiar wand.) Sam!
George: Not my new toilet paper gun! (Every other student except Sam stares at him as he turns red from embarrassment.)
Gale: Nova, look after the class while I get some coffee. (He puts a math problem on the board and heads to the door as Nova heads to the front and turns back to the class as they solve the equation. She overhears Lolli crying, turns to her, and notices Sam near her with a mouthful hidden behind a big, hubristic yet innocent smile.)
Nova: (shocked) Sam! What is wrong with you!?
Sam: (with a mouthful) Eating this! (He raises the candy in his hand for Nova to see.)
Lolli: (sobbing) That was my lunch, biased simp! (Gale comes back with his coffee. He notices Lolli and glares into Sam's pupils.)
Gale: (whispering, spiteful) Sam, you will confess to Lolli or I will make you.
Sam: (with a mouthful) But I have no regrets, nugget!
Gale: (lowly) Do. It.
Sam: I ain't tellin' her nothin'. (Gale launches him into the real world, goes to his desk, and sets his coffee mug down before grabbing his wand and turning back to the class.)
Gale: Least that's taken care of! Anyway— (Suddenly, the room is coated in yellow liquid. The students cover their noses. Gale sees Sam.) Samuel Goldenfoot! Why—
Sam: (in the same tone as when Gale told him to confess) What, (He quick-draws a Glock with 2 loaded magazines, but Korathius yanks it out of his grasp and hurls it out the window.) did you just say to me? (Gale swallows a handful of aspirin as Sam sets Jess' pants on fire. Jess screams in pain and speeds out of class while the students nearby back off, fire feasting on the carpet.)
Gale: (taking aspirin) I said—
Sam: (smashing the ceramic Acromies) Can't hear you, punk champ. (Jess returns to a barren Sam.)
Jess: It's pogchamp, not punk champ. (Sam vanishes to the other side of the classroom, sprints into him, and rams him over.)
Sam: (bossy, triumphantly) What was that, punk?
Gale: (booming) I said— (Sam does not listen and keeps beating Jess amidst the flames. Gale takes more aspirin before looking at the class, tired.) You know what? The rest of you can have dinner early.
Other Students: Yay! (They run out of the burning classroom, but some trip over the mess. Sam grimaces at Gale, fists trembling at his waist.)
Sam: The [ ㅤ ] you dare torture me, Gale Skyquartz!?
Noot: (booming, dominantly) Samuel Goldenfoot, out. (He grabs an Ancient Astral Relic and an Archivist's Staff from the drawer and blinds Sam with Ray of the Ancient. He rolls Sam down the stairs, relieved.) Least that's over! (Gale suddenly clutches his stomach, makes a bubble mouth, and gets on the ground.) Gale? You okay?
Gale: All that aspirin…urgh…Noot…wastebasket. (The Astral Tower crumbles and falls on its side.)
5. Arts and Chaos[]
Written by RJ
Fuchsia's detention has ended. The students are walking to Ice Class. Nova, who is leading the line, turns to the rest, joyous.
Nova: Today, we're doing single-color drawing!
Fuchsia: I hope for pink!
George: Hmm, (He looks at the intricate style of the ice bricks that make up the wall.) how does ice taste?
Crios: George, don't— (George licks the ice bricks. His tongue freezes onto the brick. Everyone else laughs at him before they continue down.)
George: (disturbed) You guys leaving me here?! (His voice fades out.)
The students slide into the Ice Tower classroom. Once the bell rings and Crystal explains the instructions, the students line up and pick a crayon, with Fuchsia and Nova in the back.
Nova: I would like (She grabs the last pink crayon.) pink, please!
Fuchsia: (shocked, enraged) Then what do I get!?
Crystal: (unfazed) Prodigy Green!
Fuchsia: Green?! (Everyone else turns with narrowed eyes.)
Jess: Chill, the same happened with me and Flora, no big deal. (Flora waves a shaka. Nova sighs, relaxed, as she walks to a table. Suddenly, Fuchsia tugs Nova by the collar and forces an unforgettable stare down her.)
Fuchsia: (in a chilling whisper) I know where you go after school. (She waits a few seconds before dropping her to the ground and walking off to grab some paper. Nova gets up, traumatized, and goes to grab a sheet.)
Nova: (whispering to herself) It's okay, it's not like Fuchsia's serial. (She picks up a sheet.) She does go crazy when she's mad, though…but you two are good friends. Besides, you are the second best of this class…Wait, she's friends with Bannard and once turned into a fire beast on him…
Sam: I love painting!
Crios: (bored) That's great, Sam, now let me concentrate.
Sam: One time, I made a picture with only my butt cheeks! (Crios realizes Sam is part of his group despite never having invited him.)
Crios: (turning to Cameron) Cam! Why is (He points his open hand at Sam as if giving him something.) this clown sitting here?!
Cameron: Thought it'd be cool to add someone to our group.
Crios: He ca— (He turns to Sam, who is drinking paint.) Sam!
Sam: (with a mouthful of paint) What!?
Crios: (snapping at Cameron) See?!
Cameron: I dunno, I kinda like Sam!
Crios: (shifting his eyes) Am I the only person here who isn't a— (He sees Sam drinking glue.) Samuel Goldenfoot!
Sam: (hoarsely) Nobody calls me Samuel Goldenfoot in these parts, Crios Flametalon. (Crios, shaking his head in annoyance, turns to Cameron.)
Crios: Why do I still hang out with you? (He turns back to his drawing, trying to ignore the two.)
Sam: (holding a tub of glitter) Watch! (Crios puts his fingers over his forehead.)
Crios: (tired) Samuel Goldenfoot, don't— (Sam opens his mouth and digests the glitter despite hearing his plea.)
Sam: (through a mouthful) I'm a vacuum!
Cameron: (rolling on the floor laughing) You're so funny! (Sam starts feeling ill and sneezes paint, glue, and glitter over the classroom. The other students in the room, except Cameron, are disgusted.)
Crystal: Oh, dear. You can all leave early. (The students head out. Meanwhile, Florian approaches George, who is behind the doorframe tugging on his tongue. George is looking the other way and turns.)
George: (relieved) Florian!
Florian: Hello, George. You look like you're in a…sticky situation! (He chuckles.)
George: Yes. Could you help me unstick?
Florian: I will. But George, this reminds me of when you recorded me vomiting from Gale's prank. (George winces. Florian pulls out his phone, an evil grin growing on his face.)
George: No— (The other students zip out of class and push Florian to the ground. He screams. George unsticks his tongue and escapes with the herd down the elevator. In the Ice Tower Common Room, Fuchsia catches up to Nova.)
Fuchsia: (panting) Nova! (Nova whips around.)
Nova: (scared) Yes?
Fuchsia: (with a slight smile) I decided I'm okay with you using pink.
Nova: (relieved) Thank Harmony! (Suddenly, Fuchsia grabs Nova by the collar.)
Fuchsia: (creepily) But take the only pink again, I will terminate you. In front of everyone.
Nova: Oh…um…okay. (Fuchsia releases her. The students head into the bathrooms to rinse off the glue while Florian exits the elevator and heads to the kitchen, slight bruises on his face. He goes to the teacher lounge with a plate of pizza. As he takes a seat, he notices a vase of lavender.)
Florian: (pleased) Ooh! Lavender! (He smells the flowers, which make him sleepy. He yawns, falls asleep, and splatters some marinara on his face. George exits the bathroom to look for Gale.)
George: (muttering) Florian has some serious nerve humiliating me on Wizard Watch! (He comes across the teacher lounge and smirks when he sees Florian.) Hehe, boi! (He takes out his phone, snaps a picture, and posts it to Wizard Watch.)
Florian enters the Earth Tower Classroom. The students look at him and snicker.
Florian: (mildly shyly) Wow! I'm more popular now!
Noot: Yeah, about that… (He shows Florian Wizard Watch. Florian turns to George, disgusted.)
Florian: George! Now, you would have detention, but where's the fun? Instead, I'll get you when you least expect… (The other students narrow their eyes at Florian.)
George: (anxiously) Oh, Ricsteak. (The bell rings.)
The students are in the cafeteria. They fill the tables once they get their choice of buffet food.
George: (turning left and right) "When I least expect?" What's he gonna do, super glue my chair? Sneak bleach into my lunch tomorrow? Hide wasps in my backpack?
Finneas: I dunno, it's not my fault you were punished.
Lillian: Me neither.
Bannard: (thunderous) Not even me, George.
Flare: (from a distance) I warned you, Bannard!
After Earth class the next day, Florian invites George in front of his office while drinking a fruit smoothie.
Florian: (gesturing) George, over here.
George: (nervously) Yes?
Florian: (tapping George's shoulder with his hand) I just wanted to confess. This was my fault, I started it.
George: (comforted) It's okay.
Florian: Let's hug it out. (They lean in and hug. While they are hugging, Florian slyly grins, shoves George into his office, pours the rest of his cold smoothie on him, and locks the door. This terrifies George. He gets on his knees and starts pounding on the door.)
George: No! No! No! No! NO! NO!
Florian: (shrugging, smirking) Gottem. (At this, George rages up.)
George: You never meant to apologize! (Florian peers through the lock.)
Florian: (whispering) Who's stuck here for ages now? (He cackles and flies off as fast as his wings can carry him. Noot comes to unlock the door.)
Noot: You're lucky. (He rinses George off.)
George: (shivering) Thank you, Noot.
Noot: Anytime!
6. Field Trip[]
Written by RJ
Everyone but Sam is in front of the Academy where 3 buses are parked. Noot busts the Academy doors open and rushes inside to find him.
Noot: (calling) Sam, we need to leave for the school picnic! (He overhears loud munching from atop the Astral Tower and flies in.) Samuel Goldenfoot! What are you doing?! (Sam glances at him.)
Sam: Eating this block from the cooler! (Noot nags him. Sam pulls out his phone and turns on "Stayin' Alive" by Bees Gees. Noot facepalms.)
Noot: Now what!? (Sam is flossing with the other arm. Noot turns off the music.) Quit it! That's so 2018! (Sam suddenly leaks into Noot's left eye. As Noot tries to cover up, Sam starts peeing all over him with a dazed, relaxed look on his face.) Can you not? (Sam finishes leaking. Noot tugs him to the entrance door.)
Florian: Time to board, everyone! If you're on the wrong bus, call me over so I can come laugh at you. Buckle up for your safety; I'm not liable for any injuries during the ride.
Gina: Won't that lose you your driver's license?
Florian: They can't take it…
Gina: What a relief…
Florian: (continuing) …'cause I don't have one!
Gale: Yeah, I think Cloudy should drive.
Florian: Fine. (Everyone boards their respective bus except Quintin.)
Flare: (brightly) Okay, Quintin, time to get on the bus!
Quintin: Why?
Flare: We need to leave for the picnic.
Quintin: Why?
Flare: (sighing) Quintin, just get on.
Quintin: Why?
Flare: 'Cause I said!
Quintin: Why?
Flare: (half-demonically) Get on with it!
Quintin: Questioning is part of life.
Flare: Touchè. (Noot rushes out with Sam. The buses rumble to life. Quintin hops on.)
Sam: I wasn't done! (He escapes Noot's grasp and rushes back inside the Academy. Noot does not notice and boards Bus 2. The buses begin moving. A minute passes with nothing major happening.)
Noot: Is it just me, or is it a little too quiet in here?
Florian: Quiet? Everyone's talking.
Gale: Wait… (He takes roll call. When he calls for Sam, he hears no one.) Huh. Someone's absent… (The Wardens turn to the indescribably shocked students, who turn to the students on the opposite side of their row.)
Everyone Else: (hollering) Sam!
Sam is standing over the soggy runner carpet in the Academy.
Sam: (evilly) All alone! Now, to destroy their learning rights for good! Gale would never let me run around naked! (He rips off his clothes and burns them on the runner carpet. He flees to the Earth and Ice Towers and incinerates them. He also switches the water supply to hydrofluoric acid mixed with firestarter fluid. He destroys the Gems with anvils, posts Prodigy scams outside the Academy, and concentrates Shadow Magic into the Archives. The Academy Merchant tries to escape, but Sam strangles him and throws him in the Fathom-sized flames. The buses return. Sam emerges with the Undroppable Mic, unscathed. Gale takes one look at the Academy and faints while Sam sings heavy metal above the top of his lungs.)
Noot: (furied) Sam! You can't even be 1% normal for 40 minutes?!
Sam: (stammering) I-I-It was fun! Will you guys leave without me again?
Everyone Else: (godlike, in unison) Never. Ever. Out. Now.
Sam: (darkly) Shaddup, use Stom— (Ziang grabs him by the ankle and starts whacking him against the buses and the Academy walls, watching out for the others. Sam is nauseated and unconscious. No one takes pity on his near-carcass. However, Ziang rummages through Sam's inventory and finds a few items.)
Noot: (to Ziang) You got an item!
Florian: (mocking Noot) You got an item! (Ziang turns and glares at him.)
Noot: (suspicious, to Florian) Are you mocking me?
Florian: (mocking Noot) Are you mocking me?
Noot: Stop!
Florian: (mocking Noot) Stop! (At this, Gale recovers from fainting.)
Gale: Florian! Stop mocking Noot!
Florian: (mocking Gale) Florian! Stop mocking Noot! (Suddenly, he realizes Gale said it.)
Gale: Detention for you. You should know better.
The Academy has been restored. Everyone but Sam is outside gathered around the Academy's new school bus.
Gale: To celebrate the arrival of our new and improved school bus, I decided to take it for a spin with students who have returned their permission slips! (Everyone else cheers. He turns to the other Wardens and Noot.) I have good news. Sam isn't on the list!
Wardens and Noot: (triumphantly) Yes! (Sam rushes in.)
Sam: Wait! (He runs up to Gale and hands him his permission slip.)
Wardens and Noot: (disappointed) D'oh!
Walter: How will we deal with Sam on the road?
Flare: Cage him. (Noot and the rest of the Wardens nod. Gale disagrees.)
Gale: (promisingly) No one is locking anyone in a cage. I'm sure I can handle Sam. (Noot and the Wardens laugh sarcastically at him as they get on the bus. He sighs and boards students.)
Walter: (searching his surroundings) Now where did I put my medications?
Lolli: (through a mouthful) Urgh! Bitter candies! (Walter whips around to her and notices she has his medications.)
Walter: (yelling, sprinting to her) Lolli!
Lolli: I'm eating these candies I found. They're icky. (Walter takes his medications from her one by one.)
Walter: (pointing at her) Those were my meds!
Lolli: For? (Walter takes a deep breath.)
Walter: Asthma, motion sickness, headaches, nausea, stomach pain, indigestion, insomnia, and cramps.
Lolli: Wow, you're such a loser! (Walter tears up. Gale starts up the bus and begins driving.)
Crystal: Gale! Would you like a driving buddy?
Gale: No, thanks, Crystal. Besides, there isn't enough room in the driver's seat.
Crystal: I can sit on your lap!
Gale: But then I can't see in front of me. (Crystal runs to Gale and turns his head sharply to hers, looking him in the pupils.)
Crystal: (whispering) We only need to see each other. (Gale lets go of the wheel in fear, runs, and hides under one of the seats. The bus starts careening. She sighs.) One of these days…
Flare: Hey, Florian! Wanna play Cloud Crash?
Florian: The rules?
Flare: I punch you for every cloud I see!
Florian: Can I go first?
Flare: Sure. (Florian gazes outside but finds no clouds. A minute passes without a cloud in sight.) Turn's up, Dirt Fairy!
Florian: I doubt you'll find a cloud, either.
Flare: We just have to wait and— (The bus reaches a clouded area that resembles Skywatch.) Great timing. (Florian looks outside in a disturbed confusion. His eyes grow wide, and he turns to Flare, quivering.)
Florian: Please, Flare, have mercy!
Flare: Too late. (She punches Florian while he tries to resist. He flees to the back of the bus, but she chases him. The students join the scrap. Glass explodes outward, and the emergency exit busts open. Noot, Crystal, Cloudy, and Walter watch glumly from their seats. Gale, however, sits upright in a rage, flies as fast as his wings can carry him to the back of the bus, strangles the fighters, and places them back into their seats.)
Gale: (furied, rubbing his hands) Serves you all right! (He realizes the bus has been moving aimlessly and is about to crash. He panics.) Oh, no! (louder, turning to Crystal) Crystal! This is all your fault! (He flies back to the wheel. Crystal flies into a rage and glares at him.)
Crystal: Is it my fault!? (Gale turns back to her while driving.)
Gale: Yes, you insolent wench! Who are you to blackmail someone into following your order?! (The bus nearly rams into a tree. Crystal darts up to him.)
Crystal: You were the prideful one! You ran away when I offered to— (Cloudy runs up to her, covers her mouth until she is asleep, and drops the motionless Crystal.)
Gale: Thank you, Cloudy. I can always count on a family figure like you. (Sam wakes up.)
Sam: (yelling) I have to pee!
Gale: Why didn't you go while you could?
Sam: I didn't need to then!
Gale: I'll find another place to stop.
Sam: I have a better idea!
Gale: What are you gonna do?
Sam: Pee party! (He starts peeing all over the bus. Everyone else opens their umbrellas and glares to him, livid.)
Gale: (pointing at him) Pin that kid down! (He, Noot, and the Wardens pursue and subdue Sam.) That's it! We're going back to the Academy! (He goes back to the wheel drenched in urine, does a U-turn, and activates the turbo boosters. Everyone else, rather than feeling sad about the trip cancellation, gang up on Sam. The battle is more intense than the first one.)
It is about a month since the insufferable trip. The bus is in its original state.
Flare: Gale, should I drive this time? I'm sure I can handle it better.
Gale: I vibe with that. (He goes inside to round up the students. The students line up to board as usual.)
Flare: (excited) Let's hit the road! (The students cheer. She starts up the bus and turns on the music player. "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen starts playing. The bus begins moving.)
Florian: (joyous) I know this song! (He sings along in the most off-key performance known to the cast.)
Flare: (pointing at the windshield) Full speed ahead!
Cloudy: (shaking her head) Flare, my brother wouldn't like that.
Flare: He's asleep. (Cloudy overhears Gale snoring from passing out. Flare speeds the bus up, causing it to shake violently. Walter, who is sitting with Florian, gets motion sickness.)
Florian: That color looks great on you, Walter!
Walter: Tha— (A long pause. He gags.) Ugh…
Florian: (suspiciously) What are you doing?
Walter: I feel sick. (He gags some more.)
Florian: (with narrowed eyes) Don't dare.
Walter: Oh, dear… (He vomits onto Florian, who is disgusted. The students nearby cover their mouths.) Ugh…better.
Florian: (through gritted teeth) Not for me.
Cloudy: Poor thing. Walter, are you okay?
Florian: (mockingly) Is Walter okay?! (The bus' speedometer is now in the red zone as it flies aimlessly to Skywatch.)
Crystal: Flare! Brake! (Flare obeys, but the brake doesn't.)
Flare: It's out of control!
Cloudy: Students, what is the process of the water cycle that comes before condensation? Because that's me in a few. (No one hears her because everyone is screaming as the bus crashes into the front of the Skywatch factory. Gale wakes up, nearly traumatized.)
Gale: Wha…What is going on?
Noot: The bus crashed!
Gale: Wow! I wake up hoping for a pleasant ride, but all I get is a bus on the verge of explosion! Wait, Benni and Broccolina! (He calls Benni and Broccolina while everyone else evacuates, fearing for their lives. The pair soon arrive and repair the damage.) (to Benni and Broccolina) Thank you for helping fix the bus. (to the others) Now, let's go home. (The second the bus starts up, Sam starts peeing, Florian and Flare play Cloud Crash, and Walter vomits from motion sickness.) Urgh… (He drops onto the floor of the bus, unable to process the drama.)
Noot: Wait, who's driving? (The bus is heading to the same tree from the first venture. Everyone screams in terror. Some try to approach the wheel but are held back by the masses. The bus eventually rams into the tree, uproots it, and explodes like a stick of dynamite.)
7. Knightmare Fuel[]
Written by RJ and Maritime Manipulator
Mira and Crios are atop the Dark Tower socializing.
Mira: You're an amazing boyfriend, Crios!
Crios: Thanks! (Nova enters from inside the Dark Tower. She is taken aback seeing Crios and Mira together.)
Nova: (in a lower volume) Crios, what are you doing here?!
Mira: (caught off guard) Crios, who (She looks at Nova, points at her, and turns back to Crios.) is she?!
Crios: (slightly blushing, panicky) She…er…Just a friend.
Nova: (annoyed) Just a friend? I think not. (Aurora enters from behind Nova.)
Aurora: Crios, I thought I was your girlfriend! (Crios' face turns pinker in greater worry.)
Crios: Ummm… (Lillian enters as her Serrazag carries her on her tail, trying her hardest to stay afloat.)
Lillian: I thought I was! (Mila, rather than entering, simply appears.)
Mila: Me too! (Jen warps into reality.)
Jen: Me three! (Djinna phases in from behind Jen.)
Djinna: What did y'all say? (A glitchy Leena appears next to Mira, although the glitch makes her look identical to her.)
Leena: Same here! (Aurora glitches into Fuchsia. Crios is now more confounded than wavering.)
Fuchsia: I thought Crios hated Nova.
Mila: Has Crios been cheating on us?
Crios: Oh, Harmony. (He runs off the top of the Dark Tower. Lillian tries to catch him but, to his relief, fails. However, to his disappointment, the Serrazag plummets to him while the other girls also jump off the edge to catch him. Mira goes back to the ground floor using the stairs and watches Crios flee the herd. Cameron triumphantly walks up to the Dark Tower with an aimless smile. He does not notice Crios in the distance.)
Cameron: Hey, Mira!
Mira: (puzzled) Uh, who are you again?
Cameron: (darkly, lowly) Your worst nightmare.
Mira: A rainbow?
Cameron: What? No! I am the valiant champion who will scale you tower!
Mira: (reluctantly) Sorry, a guy took that title in 10 minutes. Come to think of it, you look a bit like him.
Cameron: (surprised) Me? Who is this guy?
Mira: I think his name was—
Cameron: Ah, forget it. You said this guy sped through the tower, right?
Mira: Yeah? Why, what happened?
Cameron: So if I beat him…I beat you again! (Mira struggles to find a way to politely shoo off Cameron.)
Mira:: (reluctantly) …Yeah.
Cameron: (hyped) Perfect! Where is this kid? (Mira takes a while to find the answer.)
Mira: If I'm not mistaken, he lives in a house west of Bonfire Spire.
Cameron: Oh, when he gets a taste of my magic, he'll be ash! Tallyho! (He sprints in the direction Crios was earlier despite not knowing what transpired minutes ago.)
Mira: (sotto voce) Dodged a bullet there…
8. Boiling Water[]
Written by RJ
The students are in the Storm Tower, but Sam is absent.
Cloudy: Hello, everyone!
Students: Hello, Cloudy!
Cloudy: Today, we are studying weather!
Students: (pleased) Oooooh!
Cloudy: Did you know most weather comes from clou— (The classroom door swings open. Sam enters, triumphant.)
Sam: Sam in the house!
Cloudy: Hello, S—where are your clothes?
Sam: They vanished.
Cloudy: What do you mean "vanished"?
Sam: Someone burned them to ashes. There was no closet around.
Cloudy: (warmly) That's okay, Sam, there is a closet near my office.
Sam: Thanks! (He goes to the closet.)
Cloudy: As I was saying, did you know most weather is from clouds?
Students: Wow! (Sam reenters in a gorilla suit.)
Sam: I'm King Kong, baby!
Cloudy: Sam, I'm glad you're using your imagination, but I would love it very much if you would take the costume off.
Sam: Okay!
Cloudy: Thanks. Anyway, one type of weather clouds serve is— (Sam goes to the front of the class. She notices.) Samuel Goldenfoot, stop! (Sam ignores her message and rips the gorilla suit off in front the class, revealing he also took off his shirt.) Argh! Sam, why aren't you wearing underwear?!
Sam: idk tbh
Cloudy: (annoyed) Sam, go sit! (sternly) Anyway…
Sam: (louder than Bannard) The person named Sam has to cut back on s**t!
Cloudy: (angrily) Then go!
Nova: (whispering to the others) Cloudy must be running out of patience. (Sam rushes over to Cloudy's microscopic fountain.)
Cloudy: (even more vexed) Sam, no! (She attempts to get ahold of him, but he kicks her to the ground and does his thing. The fountain bursts with fury, flooding the first floor and busting the floors above to pieces. The entire Storm Tower is brimming with urine along with the hydrofluoric acid and firestarter fluid Sam replaced the water supply with 2 months prior.)
Other Students: (in unison, underwater) SAMUEL GOLDENFOOT, LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!!
Sam: (underwater, wrathfully, pridefully) I don't [ ㅤ ] care you [ ㅤ ] [ ㅤ ] [ ㅤ ].
Other Students: (in unison, underwater) Samuel Goldenfoot-Yeehaw, out, Samuel Goldenfoot-Yeehaw, out, Samuel Goldenfoot-Yeehaw, out. (They keep chanting until everyone succumbs to the acid. Sam and Cloudy are unaffected by the acid.)
Cloudy: (lividly) SAMUEL GOLDENFOOT-YEEHAW YOU [ ㅤ ], GET THE ABSOLUTE [ ㅤ ] OUT OF MY CLASSROOM THIS ICOSOSECOND! YOU ANNIHILATED MY TOWER AND DRENCHED US ALL IN NUCLEAR URINE! IF I EVER SENSE YOUR TREACHEROUS SOUL AGAIN, I WILL MAKE SURE YOU ARE BANISHED FROM THE PRODIGY UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sam: (lividly, louder than before) Fine! (Sam sprints out but hijacks the classroom door as a last resort. The nuclear urine floods the Academy and causes the windows to shatter and furniture to wash away. The Academy collapses.)
Cloudy: (defeated, dull) I quit.
Gale: (in a volume that shatters human eardrums) Samuel Goldenfoot-Yeehaw! Expulsion! Now!
9. Glory Days[]
Written by RJ
Noot, Gale, and Cloudy are near the Academy entrance. Gale tries desperately to hang on to Noot.
Noot: Gale, let go!
Gale: (holding onto Noot's legs, begging) Please don't leave me!
Noot: I told you I just want to go out with some friends! And I'm not little anymore! (Noot escapes Gale's grip and leaves the Academy.)
Gale: Noot's…Noot's an adult?
Cloudy: Yes.
Gale: I don't see him as one.
Cloudy: What do you see?
Gale: A little cute and sweet baby fairy.
Cloudy: You shouldn't assume based on looks.
Gale: I know he's grown up, I just don't want to treat it that way.
Cloudy: Wait, did you have Noot as a baby?
Gale: Yes, I remember when I found him on the Academy's doorstep.
Cloudy: Aww! Do you have pictures of when he was a baby?
Gale: As a matter of fact, (He pulls out his scrapbook.) I do! (He opens it and shows her the pages.)
Cloudy: Awwwwwww! What was Noot like as a baby?
Gale: He was just perfect…
Flashback
Baby Noot is wailing at the top of his lungs while a younger, black-haired Gale is trying hard to calm him.
Gale: Please, quiet down. (One of his hairs turns platinum-white.)
End of Flashback
Cloudy: Was he still "perfect" during his "terrible two's"?
Gale: Terrible is the one thing he wasn't.
Flashback
A 2-year old Noot is on the ground kicking and screaming. Gale's hair has more gray streaks.
Gale: Come on, Noot, it's time for bed.
Noot: No!
Gale: Please, Noot, put you pajamas on and go to bed.
Noot: I hate bedtime! (He sobs furiously.)
Gale: (almost hyperventilating) He'll grow out of it…he'll grow out of it…
End of Flashback
Cloudy: How was he as a child?
Gale: The best.
Flashback
Gale's hair has even more white streaks. A baseball crashes through his office window.
Noot: Gale! Did you see that crash hole!? It was epic and sick!
Gale is staring at a wall with crayon markings all over it.
Noot: (happily) Do you like my picture?
Gale: (smiling) It's lovely.
End of Flashback
Cloudy: When Noot was a student here, did he ever get in trouble?
Gale: Oh, no, Noot was amazing.
Flashback
Younger Gale is looking in the mirror at his now half-white hair.
Gale: Why is my hair turning white all of a sudden? (Someone knocks on his office door.) Come in. (A younger Flare enters with a stack of papers.)
Flare: Hey, Gale, just so you know, you might need to suspend Noot.
Gale: What? Why?
Flare: He pulled the fire alarm, put laxatives in a classmate's food, purposely farted as loud as possible during my lecture, wrote some Latin incantation on the chalkboard, beat another student because they said Earth isn't flat, peed in a different student's water bottle, and much more…today. (Gale faints.)
End of Flashback
Cloudy: Did Noot get teen angst?
Gale: Even as a teen, he was still golden.
Flashback
Gale now has his memorable white hair.
Gale: Noot, for the seventh time. Please. Clean. Your room.
Noot: Ugh! My room is fine! Stop nagging me!
Teenage Noot has a black ripped version of his original outfit, a skull on his hat instead of a bell.
Gale: Noot, you are not going out like that.
Noot: Ugh! I'm not a baby! You can't tell me what to do!
Gale: You heard me, no dating until you are an adult.
Noot: Urgh! You're the worst!
End of Flashback
Gale: But I guess I should be happy he didn't move out. (Noot comes back.)
Noot: Hey, Gale, hey, Cloudy.
Gale: How was your night out?
Noot: It was fun! We had some strange drinks. They tasted good, but I felt icky after some. (Gale hugs him.)
Gale: Great to hear. Are you feeling better now?
Noot: Yes. (He hugs back.)
Cloudy: Awwwwww! (She pulls out her phone, takes a picture of the two, and posts it to Wizard Watch.)
Noot: Gale?
Gale: Yes, Noot?
Noot: …I threw up in your bed.
Gale: (gritting teeth with the same smile) That's okay.
Season 2[]
Note from Whamikaze: From Season 2 onwards, episodes will be in paragraph format rather than drama script format.
Written by Whamikaze
1. Down and Out[]
No one could have foreseen the Academy's true future. While times before, it had crumbled under a student's wrath, this time, you couldn't blame any students, for no one talked about it after years. Still, some of its older attendees stepped foot inside to confirm the rumors.
To their disbelief, such rumors spoke the truth. The Academy's once-vibrant façade had shifted to a depressed bluish-gray, and the interior looked no different. The windows revealed dilapidated hardwood planks, cobwebs enrobing most of them. The Gems looked but, and the runner carpet had noticeable tears. Worst, it felt like an eternal winter, yet even Crios could not put his finger on why. He was still about the same age as when he last visited the floating school, yet his memories of his last days there were gone.
The eternal students trudged onward. A piece of ceiling tile fell and almost drew a scar of symmetry down Nova's face. She dodged the tile as it fractured a hole on the cold, hardwood floor.
"Yikes, this place is a dump!" Crios remarked. "Why can't Gale hire people to fix it?"
Nova nodded. "Let's see, repairs cost—what, 50 thousand, 2 million gold? And most of the Academy's funding comes from school clubs which disbanded because everyone left."
A lack of water heating and the air conditioners breaking in seconds would have surprised the group had it not been clear. "Should we take this to Gale?" Fuchsia asked. Nova nodded.
The light gray fairy in the Astral Tower office flipped through memories of him and Noot, a slight frown on his sleepy-eyed face. He nodded slightly at a picture of him helping with construction of the Academy from when he was 34. He chuckled at the picture below: Noot's wall drawing.
But his happiness was short-lived. Someone—no, a group of people—he speculated about 20—entered the Common Room, followed by a sharp knock on the door. "1! 2! 3! Open sesame!" kids' voices rang from outside like a telephone.
Gale stretched his back before sluggishly trudging to the door. "What do you want?" he asked wearily.
"What do you think we can do about the…er…current state of the Academy?" George inquired.
"Forget it. We don't have enough funding from the Master Wizards due to…health problems in our area."
Nova's smile faded. "Really? I think we can raise money on our own! Something like…a bake sale?"
Fuchsia added, "I was thinking of something like a pub."
"Pretty sure that isn't what it's for," Gale replied. "Also, bake sales aren't a one-man project. Besides, baking? What do you know about—"
He stopped when he saw the light in the kids' eyes. They were dead set on their goal, so Gale gave in to his softer side. "Try finding Harvey. He's either in Lamplight Town or the Titan Grounds. Now go. I have some intense work."
The kids rushed out merrily. Gale yawned before closing the door and returning to his desk and opening his laptop. "Setting new office password…how about something like 'never bother me again?'"
Nova and Fuchsia raced to Bonfire Spire's Titan Grounds and scavenged the place like wildfire. Amidst pushing other apprentices out of the way, they crashed into Harvey's shop.
"Ow! What do you want, scoundrels!?" Harvey demanded.
Nova and Fuchsia beamed and replied, "You have any tips about holding a sale?"
"Not disturbing the peace like you just did."
Nova and Fuchsia looked at each other and beamed even harder at him.
"Fine! What do you want to sell?"
"We're holding a bake sale for the Academy!"
"Hold on, I might have some tables in back," Harvey grumbled before going to fish through his shop. "What else do you need?"
"We want to sell brownies, so a metal pan," Fuchsia improvised. "A sign, some markers, and…paper cups. A lot of paper cups."
"Deal. Most of that amounts to about 2,400 gold, so you owe me that after the bake sale. Quick tip: Don't use too many additives or preservatives, and sell everything at a reasonable price. My aunt Marcy got cancer from eating a thing of nitrate."
"We do not understand your mumbo-jumbo," Fuchsia replied.
"Thanks for the advice, we'll try to use only the purest ingredients. And your beard is ha—" Nova grunted as she tugged Fuchsia and the table of supplies to Lamplight Town. Harvey turned away.
"Finally, some peace and quiet—"
"Do you sell candy floss? My sister needs some, but I'm afraid she'll trash the place."
Sam had barged in.
"Candy floss? What? I've…I've just sold out. Someone just bought all of it," Harvey answered, startled.
Wheeler and Spinner were having a busy day. Many were walking through the Town Square. Since the day was quite boring, Spinner decided to open the Twilight Wheel early, and both agreed to let everyone spin twice for free.
"Heads up!" a voice in a high-pitched treble piped from a rooftop just south of the square. Suddenly, a loud crash and a crate of lemonade mix fell on the ground.
"Whoops," another voice said.
Five folding tables and a sign were set between Wheeler and Spinner. Each table beared delectable treats.
| Hope's Bakeria! | |
| Savoury Delights for Kids! | |
| Brownies | $5 |
| Cookies* | $2 |
| Lemonade/Limeade | $10/cup |
| Croissants* | $3 |
| Cake* | $2 (slice) $10 (whole) |
| *Comes in various flavours. See inside. | |
The town square soon filled with apprentices buying the goods. Even Eve went to check it out.
"These are amazing, I hope you know that," she said delightedly while eating a handful of scrumptious brownies.
More quests arrived, and more apprentices decided to help with sales. Even Sam, the chaotic evil wizard, came to cooperate! Quintin, as always, asked lots of questions about how the equipment worked and how to sell new items.
Crios brought some special treats to share with the guests: homemade Lava Cakes, Peach Cobblers, Swiss Rolls, and Caramel Tarts. When others questioned the names, he would only respond, "Don't ask. My aunt is a baker."
Everyone loved the Peach Cobbler.
Nova checked the stashes of gold they had amassed from the sale. A smile shone on her face.
"Alright, even after paying back Harvey, we still managed to make…over TWO MILLION GOLD!" She fist-bumped the group as they cheered. "I told you the Peach Cobbler was a good idea!"
The next day, twenty-three different voices vibrated Gale's door.
"What do you want?" Gale growled as he went and opened the door.
"We made over two million gold from the bake sale! At this rate, we'll soon have enough to repair the school! Nice, right?"
And so, a bakery run by Fuchsia, Nova, and Crios opened in Lamplight Town. The Academy soon had enough money left over to bump up the field trip and drama budgets!
2. Pass the Salt[]
The students sat in the Astral Tower, waiting for Gale. 3 minutes had passed since the bell rang.
"Why is he still not—" Noot started just as Gale barged in, beaming. The class, in terrifying unison, locked their eyes on him.
"Guess what, class?" Gale said, unfazed.
"You don't need to do that. That is creepy as—" Crios started.
"I'm rambling again. We have three very esteemed guests! They should be coming momentarily!"
Three slimes entered about 2 minutes later.
"Welcome, class! I am Queen Goo-lia, the queen of Bonfire Spire," the larger pink one announced. "With me is my former Royal Chef, Cebollini Carpaccio, and his assistant, Slurpy! Today, we will be touring Bonfire Spire and learning how to cook delicious food for—"
"When I grow up, I'll just order takeout every day!"
Sam had interrupted the Queen. The class dropped silent. Queen Goo-lia glared at him for a few seconds. Sam feared he would become takeout, but the Queen doubled down in a fit of laughter. "Oh, heavens, no! Most instant food is saturated with harmful chemicals."
Sam blushed.
"Anyway, kids, let's visit Bonfire Spire's Royal Kitchen!"
The bus ride was long.
Cebollini strummed the Prodigy Math Game Battle Theme on his violin (or at least he thought he did).
"Haha! Nailed it," Cebollini congratulated himself.
But the only other thing he heard was the whirring of the wheels and the dirt path they rode on.
"People and fairies and slimes, hear me!" he yelled. Slurpy, who was sitting with Nova and Sam, rose. "Ah, finally! Someone who appreciates—"
"You suck!"
"Wha—But…but how do I suck? I nailed every note!"
"Everything was off-key."
"Well! Imagine not enjoying perfect music!"
"Enjoy this, chef!" a different voice in the front retorted.
Gale had heard everything and pressed his foot on the gas harder. The bus accelerated so fast Cebollini rolled off his seat and down the bus aisle without his chef hat, crashing in the back. He rubbed the aching bump on his forehead as he tried to rise, kids snickering nearby.
"Guys! You have no idea how much that hurt!"
"Want to go back, mister?" Gale challenged as the kids laughed before they got off the bus. Cebollini stepped off in a huff.
Everyone shuffled past the Royal Kitchen after a long presentation. They reached a cooking area that seemed to be for visitors.
"Today, we'll be learning how to cook an egg. Be careful, for this lesson might make you eat eggs for the rest of your life!" Queen Goo-lia said, introducing the lesson. She looked over to Sam. "And maybe some instant food!"
Over the activity, Queen Goo-lia showed the class how to make various cuisines from oriental food to exotic desserts. Nova's favorite part was the Brazilian cuisine, where she tried making delicacies from feijoada to chicken hearts to moqueca. Unfortunately, while making a ratatouille, Cebollini forgot to clean the grill when he started making a batch of filet mignon, and a grease fire erupted.
Korathius, Crios, and Ziang went off to Volcano Village for a dance-off with the slimes. Ziang showed off his moves in front of the roaring crowd. One of the slimes suggested Ziang join a dance contest at a bar on the other side of the volcanic lands.
"Aight, gang, off to the bar! Hi-deedle-dee-dee, a dancer's life for me! A high silk hat and a silver cane, a roaring applause and a diamond chain…"
Ziang got a little too carried away he tripped over a stool and crashed his head on the counter, pushing off platters of drinks. He remembered little after that.
Meanwhile, Fuchsia strayed from the group to explore Bonfire Spire's mystical lavafalls and noticed some slimes relaxing in hot springs and throwing coins into the translucent magma. She used her Boots of Hotwalk to dig out a rare Hot-Hot from the magma. Last, she tried to get a picture near the edge of the falls but, like the graceful gazelle she was, fell off and crashed into the magma feet-first.
"If only Walter was here…"
3. End Times[]
It was about 3:30 PM. Florian lounged in his office, bored. He pulled out his phone, opened the Pizzeria Prodigix app, and ordered a supreme pizza with stuffed crust. Once he submitted his order, a message popped up, reading, "Waiting Time: 18 minutes."
"18 minutes? But I'm hungry now!" Florian groaned. He put his phone screen-down on the table and leaned farther back in his inflexible office chair. Suddenly, he remembered his meet with Macha the Epic Merchant a week ago.
He was spending his time around the Academy like a spectre when his phone rung. It was from an unknown number.
"Okay…?" Florian questioned, though he answered the anonymous caller. "Florian."
"Florian! I am Macha the Epic Merchant! I need to store my time warp device somewhere! None of the other Wardens want to keep it, so I'm leaving it with you and you have no other choice. Come to the Epics Subspace, the mystical lands just shy of the clouds! Use it only during emergencies!" a somewhat high-pitched voice said.
"Got it!" Florian replied before hanging up.
But did he?
"Well, he told me to use it only during emergencies…starvation counts as an emergency, right?"
With that, Florian pulled out the device and scrambled for the Advance ¼ Hour button.
"Quarter…hour—" Florian mumbled as he blindly pressed the Advance 1 Trillion Years button. "Ah. Let's do this!"
The device expanded into an orange time machine and engulfed Florian, shooting white gas around the room. With a deafening ZAP, the time machine disappeared in a cloud of fire.
It was one trillion years into the future. Countless remaining species had tried to save their planet, harnessing the power of the stars to preserve their civilization. Some had tried making smaller dimensions they could escape to. Some had tried creating an artificial sun. And yet, nothing ever seemed to work. It was simply fate: Soon, everything, stars, habitability, time, everything would run out. The universe would near its last light.
Except, did Florian know better?
"Whew! Hopefully that pizza's ready!" Florian said happily, but his smile faded as he stepped onto gray rubble.
A bright light glowed in the distance. As Florian approached it, three peculiar humanoid organisms stared at him.
"Finally…the day has come," the middle one said in a thick, low accent.
"Just as the universe would collapse…a savior in brown would arrive…just as the prophecies foretold," the right one cried out.
"A savior in brown—ohh," Florian pieced together. The wood Macha was made of was brown, and the clothes he was wearing were…
Brownish-green. Whoo. Looks like I went too far, Florian thought.
"We implore you, savior! Tell us the secret to surviving these end times!" the three cried in unison.
Yeah, I definitely went too far, Florian finished before going back to the machine. Once he was out of sight, the left organism turned to the others.
"The savior left," it said.
"I'm sure they did for a good reason," the middle one replied.
"Well, this is just great," the right one sighed.
When Florian reached the machine, he heard rumbling in the distance. He clambered inside and frenetically pressed buttons until the machine engulfed him and shot him to the present day. The muted universe collapsed upon itself, consuming everything until vantablack coated it for light years on end.
While no time had passed since, soon a delivery guy wearing a red cap came into the cafeteria where Florian lay.
"Uh, I have a delivery here for…'all the pizza? All of it?'" the delivery guy read from the receipt on the box. Florian sat up.
"Yay!" he exclaimed.
But before he could eat a slice, he got a call. It was from Macha.
"What now, Mr. Epic Merchant Guy?"
"I'm coming over for a game!"
"Sure!" Florian approved before munching on pizza. Strangely, Macha figured out Florian's scheme.
"You used that time machine, didn't you?"
4. Movie Makers[]
The students sat in the Astral Tower, waiting for Gale. 3 minutes had passed since the bell rang. Again.
"This again?" Noot started just as Gale barged in, beaming, and the other Wardens hauled a strange machine. The class, in terrifying unison, locked their eyes on him.
"Today, for drama, we're going to—" Gale started until he heard the students scowling. Annoyed, his arms dropped to the sides of his hunched-over body. "Class, that's the second time you've done that, and it freaks me out."
In turn, the class replied, "That's the second time you started it."
"Oh, shut up," he muttered at the jeering apprentices as he went to the front. "As I was saying, we are making something awesome, something we BELIEVE in! What comes to mind?"
No one answered.
"How about something you can watch?"
Fuchsia raised her hand.
"Your answer?"
"But wouldn't making an entire show take like…weeks? Months? YEARS?"
Gale stared blankly at Fuchsia before holding his finger up. "Well, yes! However, this class is only 24 hours long, so our engineers have made a simple machine!" He gestured to the machine he the Wardens has just finished hauling. "Simply upload your script, art, and sounds onto a software, download it onto one of these discs"—he held up a CD—"then add the fuel, and out comes your cartoon!"
Ziang raised his hand.
"Yeah?"
"Umm, what fuel?"
"Oh, yeah. Normally, you have a budget to fund your animation. For this project, that's the fuel."
"Oh, okay."
"Now, before we begin, we'll need to understand the roles of animation. Of course, the screenwriter writes the script, or they call it a screenplay, and the artists designs the animation's artwork. Usually, the producer hires everyone who'll work on the animation, but since we don't have time, they fundraise a budget with however much currency they have. After all, to manage a budget, you need a budget."
Fuchsia, Nova, and Crios fist-bumped one another. Sam pumped his arm.
"The editor provides sounds and special effects for the cartoon. The director…just sit in the tall chair and order people around, I guess. But best of them is…drumroll please…Craft Services! They provide the crew with snacks and beverages. I love a blueberry-mint-infused lemonade, served over ice and garnished with a sprig of fresh mint and a few whole blueberries. Walter loves a lavender honey latte with a shot of espresso, steamed milk, and a touch of lavender honey syrup. Flare is practically addicted to smoothies with matcha powder, coconut milk, banana, and spinach. Sounds boring, but remember, Craft Services are the backbone of the crew!
"Sorry if I bored you during that monologue, but good news! When you hear your name, come to me and stay there. In Group 1: Nick, Crios, Lillian, Fuchsia, and Quintin."
The six came to Gale on his order. Fuchsia looked at her group. Nova wasn't with her. Fuchsia sagged her shoulders as Gale moved to another space.
"In Group 2: Djinna, Nova, Cameron, Korathius, Ziang, and Jen. In Group 3: Jess, Flora, Finneas, Samuel, Gina, and Mi—"
"Um, excuse me? No one has called me Samuel in, like, three years."
"Will you please shut up? I put effort into the things I do! Anyway, Group 4 is Leena, Aurora, George, Henry, Bannard, and Binjumun."
The remaining 6 walked to him as he turned to the other groups.
"Side note: Teams that use any form of AI to produce their cartoon (unless the AI is an actor) will be disqualified. Your 24 hours begin! Good luck!"
"Let's go, team!" Nova said, excited. "I'll be the producer, Djinna can be the director, Cameron can handle scriptwriter, and Korathius manages art. Ziang and Jen, you handle editing. I'm sure we can handle stuff without Craft Services, right?"
"Why can't we vote on the roles?" Cameron quizzed.
"Well, I own a bakery that racked in millions. The rest I just kind of reasoned. Off we go."
And so, Group 2 got to work.
TBC
"Hello, all! Welcome to the Poem Read-On Show! PROS for shorts. I'm your host, Nova, and today's poem is 'Crossroads.'"
Trivia[]
- When Gale reformed the Academy, he decided to set the start of the school year to the week of/after the autumnal equinox (September 20-23, which is when Summerfest ends) and the end of the school year the week of June 13 (one week before Summerfest begins).
- However, the first week of school is more just to ease students back into school life. The first lessons begin the following week.
- In "The Newer Students", after help arrived and dealt with the situation, Walter revived and compensated 50,000,000 gold (500,000 CAD) to each victim while Gale hired a team of Prodigy English residents to gather resources and reconstruct the Academy. During that time, the Wardens used Discordigy to teach the students.
- For PE, the students had to do some type of exercise in front of the camera for daily credit, with breaks in between based on how long PE was that day (schedule below).
- Students wake up around 7:45-8 AM. They wash up, brush their teeth, and dress before 8:10 AM, which is when breakfast becomes available for the day. Breakfast ends at 8:40 AM. The students must go out to the blacktop and stay there until 9 AM.
- The first class of the day begins at 9:05 AM and lasts until 10:00 AM, followed by a 5-minute passing period. The next two classes also last 55 minutes. Lunch follows the third class unless the fourth class is PE. Lunch is available until 12:40 PM, and the students go to the blacktop until 1 PM.
- Next, the students go back to their dorms and relax until 4 PM.
- Classes resume at 4:05 PM. If 3 classes remain, each lasts 75 minutes; if 4 classes remain, each lasts 55. As usual, classes have 5-minute passing periods. Dinner is available from 8-8:40 PM. The cafeteria must be empty by 8:42 PM, and students must be in their dorms by 8:50 PM and asleep by 9:45 PM.
- The sleep schedule requirement is nullified during distance learning.
- For PE, the students had to do some type of exercise in front of the camera for daily credit, with breaks in between based on how long PE was that day (schedule below).
- After "Boiling Water," Samuel Goldenfoot, his siblings, and Potter were arrested by Chief Alexander Daringhunter (created by SurfMonkey87) and imprisoned in Prison of the Ruthless (more commonly PotteR, Prison of the Treacherous, Egotistical, and Ruthless, but they just wanted to shorten it).
- The Ice Warden was added under the name Ada in Prodigy. Ada does not resemble Crystal.
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