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The Two Worst Witches.
The portal.
Present day.
" Good morning class," Miss Cackle greeted the spell class.
" Good morning Miss Cackle," the class chanted back.
Miss Cackle smiled at the girls, enjoying the looks of delight on their faces and took the time to look at each and every one of them.
There was Bellodonna Bindweed, blond, self assured and arrogant. Wait till she tries today's spell. She didn't like the girl, mostly because of her granny's relationship with her evil twin sister, Agatha.
Then there was Hettie Hubble, Mildred Hubble's cousin. The girl had surpassed her cousin, Mildred had been less audacious in her day.
Then there was Mona Hallow, who'd have thought that Mildred Hubble's own cousin would become friends with a Hallow ?
She shook herself out her stupor and reminiscing mood as she taught the lesson.
" Today, class, we shall be learning about portal magic. This is one of the most complex forms of magic known to magical kind. There are 2 kinds of magical portal - space and time. Both are complicated and difficult to master, so do not be disheartened if you cannot get it right."
With a wave of her hands, she sent the incantations for both spells on the board. " We will be doing the space portal spell today and the time spell in your 4th and last year."
Bellodonna put up her hand and Amelia nodded to her. " Why can't we learn the time spell ?"
Amelia looked at her as if she was thick, in fact the rest of the class was as well, including Cynthia Horrocks, Bindweeds friend.
" Because, Miss Bindweed, the time spell is difficult magic and hard to master for an 11 year old."
Bindweed looked embarrassed.
" Before we start, I shall make a little demonstration," holding out her hands, Cackle recited the spell.
" Vortex perta space," A small blue swirling mist appeared, grew slightly bigger and became slightly glass like. It was like a mirror, showing the back of the room. The class looked behind them and the portal showed their reflection it seemed.
Amelia vanished the portal. " The spell was invented 400 years ago, it was to provide witches with ways of crossing space and time in minutes. The time portal was invented 3 years later."
Hettie put up her hand," Yes Hettie. "
"Is the spell banned ? If so, why teach us ?"
Amelia chuckled at the girl, " The spell isn't banned but it is prohibited, the teaching of it is not illegal."
Belladonna decided to take the law into her own hands. She hated being humiliated, especially in class and being embarrassed by a teacher. She decided to show the old crone the error of her ways.
" Porta vortex localem et temporum" unfortunately, she got the pronunciation wrong.
Miss Cackle looked up, and saw the portal, it was spitting light and wind, blowing the room to pieces.
" You foolish girl! Didn't I tell you not to perform the spell !"
To the rest of the class, she screamed out. " The rest of you get out."
As the class ran from the room, Amelia spent the next 5 minutes vanishing the spell. She knew what the stupid girl had done and was performing another time space spell. The trick was to perform both spells and vanish them accordingly.
Outside, Mona looked at Hettie and Cressie, " I can't believe her sometimes, just because H.B adores Belladonna doesn't mean she'd right all the time."
The two girls nodded, " Yeah, I wonder what Hardbroom'll do when she gets back."
Hardbroom was attending a potions convention and would be back in 4 days.
" Maybe she'll wake up and realise what the girl is really like." Cressie thought aloud.
" Maybe not, you know what, when Ethel, Mona's sister was here, H.B ignored everything she did."
Mona looked down, that was true. Ethel, her eldest sister had got away with a lot a things during her time at Cackles. It had been Ethel who'd told her and her other sister, Sybil, horror stories about Mildred Hubble, Hettie's cousin.
Before anyone could say anything, Miss Cackle came out of the classroom. She was tired and angry and turned to face Belladonna, " Miss Bindweed, I'll make sure that you are in detention for the rest of the year, writing lines every night for 4 hours. Come to my office after dinner tonight and do not even think of weaselling your way out of it."
To the rest of the girls, she spoke, " I hope you have all learnt a valuable lesson here today, never misuse magic for it is a danger if provoked."
In the past.
Mildred Hubble, walked through the school, her new head girl badge shinning on her chest. She still couldn't believe that she'd been appointed, and it was all thanks to Maud Moonshine, her best friend.
Mildred's parents had celebrated but Mildred had been numb all summer, studying for the term for the reason that she was through being the Worst Witch and the lowest achieving girl in her year.
No more.
She'd thrown herself at her duties, helping the students any way she could, bringing concerns to the staff. If Mildred didn't know any better, she could swear she saw a twinkle and smile in Miss Hardbroom's face and eye.
How times changed.
Mildred was just turning the corridor when she saw a flash of blue light in front of her. She only had time to scream…..
A/N - What do you think ?