Wizardmatch by Lauren Magaziner

Author:Lauren Magaziner
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

A Very Interesting Idea

Uncle Humphrey stood up. “What did you say?”

Lennie was giggling. Great-Uncle Humphrey could be her mentor! He could teach her to stretch her own powers and make her stronger. And maybe—just maybe—she could prove to everyone once and for all that she was worthy of being considered for Prime Wizard.

“I said I want you to train me!”

“What? Me?!”

“Yes, you!”

“You who?”

“Who? YOU!” Lennie said, pointing at him.

His mouth twitched, and he looked away. “No.”

“Wait, no?!”

“No,” Humphrey confirmed.

No.

Lennie sucked in a sharp breath. This couldn’t be happening again.

“Well, why not?” she demanded.

Without a word, Uncle Humphrey stood up on the platform and began to walk down the footholds in the tree.

“Uncle Humphrey?” she called after him. “Uncle Humphrey—wait up!” But he didn’t once acknowledge that he heard her. She climbed down the steps after him.

Lennie thought he’d stop at the giant rock that led to his cave, but he kept marching—through the wooded borderlands, where it was still too dark for comfort, even in the morning.

“Where are you going?!” she asked again.

“I’m taking you back to the castle!”

Lennie stopped, firmly planting her feet in the dirt. “You can’t take me back there!”

Suddenly, a strong wind blew at her back and she was forced to stumble forward.

“And you can’t make me with your powers!”

“I don’t have time to play around,” Uncle Humphrey said, moving the earth to make his own bridge to cross over the oily moat. “I am not a babysitter.”

“I don’t need a babysitter! I need a coach!”

“No time for that, either,” he said, sending another burst of wind to push her forward. It blew her hair right into her mouth.

Lennie spit out her hair. “Can’t you even imagine what it’s like for me?”

Uncle Humphrey sniffed. “I do not have to imagine. I know perfectly well, firsthand, the pain and suffering Wizardmatch inflicts.”

Lennie folded her arms. “I wish I could just destroy Wizardmatch, so no one had to compete! Then we’d all be happy!”

Uncle Humphrey stopped walking abruptly. “Now there’s an idea,” he said, an amused smile tugging at the corners of his mouth. “But can we do it?”

“Do what?”

“Destroy Wizardmatch.”

Lennie furrowed her brow. “Wait, we’re destroying Wizardmatch?”

“Isn’t that what you just said?”

“I . . . I wasn’t being serious. It just sort of popped out of my mouth.”

“Well, why not?”

Lennie pondered. Could she destroy Wizardmatch? The more she thought about it, the more she liked the idea. By sabotaging the competition, Lennie could hurt Poppop like he’d hurt her, and prove to him and everyone else how good she was at magic.

Suddenly, there was a hunger inside her—and not just because she had barely eaten her potato chip breakfast.

“If we stop Wizardmatch,” her uncle said, continuing the walk toward the Pomporromp property, “we stop all the injustice that comes with it.” He smiled and rested a hand on her shoulder. “I want to help you. We will do it together.”

Her heart jumped. “We can?!”

“You don’t expect to take down Wizardmatch by yourself, do you? Yes, I’ll have to train you.

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