School's Out...Forever! by Kate McMullan

Author:Kate McMullan [Mcmullan, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101577868
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2012-05-10T04:00:00+00:00

That night, Erica built a campfire in the castle yard. Many lads and lasses sat around it.

“What do you plan to do after graduation, Wiggie?” Angus asked.

“Keep on questing until I find Worm,” said Wiglaf.

“You can’t,” said Dudwin. “Once Father learns that school is closing, we’ll have to go back home and pick cabbages.”

Wiglaf sighed. “Back to my eleven brothers who punch me every chance they get.”

“They won’t punch you now that you’re a dragon slayer, Wiggie,” said Dudwin.

“Yes, they will,” said Wiglaf. “They punch me because I’m not big nor beefy nor yellow-haired like they are, Dud. They do not like me.”

“I’m big and beefy and yellow-haired, and I like you,” Dudwin insisted.

“After graduation, I shall become a wandering knight,” Erica put in. “I shall slay wicked dragons—the gigantic ones that flame villages and eat toasted villagers.”

Wiglaf shuddered at the thought of such dragons.

“I shall go to the Knights’ Noble Conservatory,” said Janice. “I heard that they have real horses for their jousting team.”

“I,” said Torblad, “shall transfer to Toenail Junior High.”

“Do you need good grades to go there?” asked Baldrick, wiping his nose on the hem of his tunic.

“I hope not,” said Torblad.

When the talking ended, Wiglaf wrapped himself in his blanket and watched the campfire burn down. He’d been at DSA for nearly two years. In that time, a ghost had haunted the school. A fake Sir Lancelot had come for the day. And Mordred had tried to marry him off to a rich princess! Yet the school went on. Now DSA was closing. And with the high price of tickets, his parents could never afford to come and see their boys graduate.

The food at DSA was ghastly. Wiglaf hadn’t learned a thing in any of his classes. But for the first time in his life, he’d had friends and adventures. He would miss that! And he would miss Worm.

Wiglaf rolled onto his back and looked up at the moon and stars. As long as he was at DSA, Worm knew where to find him. But he was leaving. After tomorrow, would he ever see his dragon again?

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