Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 3 2018 | Page 129

“I am Professor Sfvider,” he continued “librarian and magimatitian in ‘ Elavadores Migtagnicus Yalore’s
Escuela Mágica ’.”
“Ela-what?” Xiao Ling asked dumfounded.
She had almost been killed, caught, found a wonderful palace that somehow belonged to a weirdo that
spoke in a different language.
Professor Sfvider chuckled.
“Now, now. We need to get you inside the——y—you” the professor stuttered. Then after comforting his
nerves and quickly regaining himself, he pulled himself back together and said “Have you ever tried
magic?”.
He eyed her watchfully. It made her nervous. He wasn’t grinning anymore.
He might be with them she thought!!!
Suddenly through the corner of her eye she saw— HIM !!!
The man that had murdered her parents and tried to capture and torture her for her powers.
She squirmed a tiny bit and the “ Professor” squawked “Welll????!!!”
After quickly calculating what she was going to do, she used him as a wall to run up on to the ceiling.
She always had a special power to heal, do parkour and gymnastic moves, karate and read minds. But now
she could run on ceilings.
After kicking the “Professor” really hard he stumbled back stunned. Then he realised what had happened
and he chanted, shouted and screamed some sort of spell that dragged the chrysoprase from the ground into
the air to try and stab her.
“ ARRGGGGGHHHHHH” screamed a voice.
She didn’t know it.
She didn’t mean it .
But with one blow she had destroyed the palace.
Shards of chrysoprase shattered, shooting everywhere. Xiao Ling’s torn up clothes were turned to rags in
seconds. She looked behind her, everything destroyed… all…her…fault. Just like Audweener. It was
bombed. Or did someone blow it up by mistake?
When she was in the middle of thinking a dagger sliced threw her shoulder throwing her against the wall in
pain. She saw the “Professor” on the ground. But the suspicious people from before were hiding—and she
was pretty sure they had thrown the dagger. She saw them pull out a weapon, it looked like a Hydrosour, it
was well built and very, very deadly. They began warming it up and Xiao Ling took it as her chance to
escape.
She dove behind a block of crystal that had fallen and saw a door at the corner of the hall. It was her
chance!! She had to take it or die. She took it.