*MEET MRS. MADDLINGTON…AND HER MOLE*
Izzian sat in the classroom of Aloris J. Maddlington, waiting curiously for the good teacher to arrive. He had heard so many crazy stories about his new Universal Lit teacher; he couldn't wait to see what all the fuss was about.
Last week, his good friend Paksha had Freemailed him from earth, warning Izzian not to stare at Mrs. Maddlington's face, no matter what. Paksha had written, "Look at the floor, look at the walls, look at the clock…but do not look at her face!"
Of course the first thing Izzian Klowosky did was to take a good long look at the face of Aloris J. Maddlington. It had been a mistake, he now realized. Because once he looked, he found it difficult to look away.
To say the woman was round was an understatement. She resembled a wobbly bowl of sorts. And her hair was no picnic either, with its greasy sheen and unkempt bun; she obviously missed her monthly hair appointments at Bluff Cutz, the earth salon owned by Paksha's mother.
All of those characteristics were gruesome enough, but when the boy looked at the woman's face, he was mesmerized, and not in a good way. Maddlington sported a mole the size of a small planet just to the right of her beak-like nose.
Izzian could not look away, no matter how hard he tried. It was like the mole drew him in and hypnotized him. Although Maddlington was portraying herself in Klesian form, Izzian was certain her lineage was more exotic, because no Klesian or earthling could have a mole that large and still be able to hold up her head from the weight of it.
"Mr. Klowosky, do you have somewhere more important to be today?" Maddlington asked, strolling in the direction of his chair.
He forced himself to look away and stared back at the clock, hoping the teacher would not walk into his line of vision. He did not want detention on the first day of equidistant school.
"Izzy," Eliza whispered ferociously from behind, thumping him on the head, "answer her."
"No ma'am," Izzian said forcing his eyes to stay focused on the clock.
"Then why are you staring at the clock?" Maddlington asked, putting Izzian in a difficult position. The entire class was waiting for him to say something about the woman's mole. They sat on the edges of their seats, and collectively held their breath.
Finally, because he eventually had to look at face of the woman who would be his teacher for the rest of the school year, Izzian turned his eyes away from the clock, into the eyes of Maddlington.
"I think that thing winked at me," Izzian said, pointing to the mole, accidentally letting his thoughts slip from his mouth. The entire class erupted in roaring laughter and Izzian knew he was in trouble.
Maddlington bent down to Izzian, within inches from his face and said, "I just want you and your little friend Eliza to know that I am not impressed. You should be in jail for your part in the Al203 fiasco of last year and your little earthling friend shouldn't even be on Klesia.
"Maybe that's how your people on the Moon Prime do things, but here on the mainland; we punish criminals and brutally interrogate wayward earthlings," Maddlington spat, practically spewing hatred.
Izzian couldn't believe his ears. Maddlington thought he belonged in jail for the Al203 incident? Although he'd been involved in the accidental shifting of the lenses of the Al203 Telescope, the blame did not entirely rest on his shoulders alone.
Mr. Seebot, the half organic robot had been behaving as a true organic and had typed in the wrong formula. Seebot had ended up programming the telescopes to align after a short delay. If the good Mr. Seebot had done his job correctly, and used his input/output beam instead, like any good mechanical, the Al203 Telescope would have never shifted and aligned itself with the lens of the other Al203 telescope on the main planet.
The whole thing had been a fluke and the telescopes had since then been banned from public use, perhaps to be decommissioned at a later date.
It wasn't Izzian's fault that the two separate lenses had aligned, causing the entire population of Klesia to shrink. Izzian had been one of the celebrated heroes that ended up saving all of the Klesians in the end. He had even lived with Mrs. Able Mabel Jesset, the giant Firithian woman who risked her neck to fix the telescopes.
President Boojum Twoeyes himself had deemed Izzian and his friends The Guardians of Klesia for fixing the telescopes and un-shrinking the Klesian population. Surely Mrs. Maddlington didn’t think one of The Guardians of Klesia should be imprisoned?
No Compassionate Citizen of the Universe would dare threaten to "brutally interrogate" a wayward earthling, either, meaning Eliza. Izzian must have misunderstood the teacher's words.
"Mrs. Maddlington, do you know what we did to save the Klesians? Do you know the title we were given by President Boojum Twoeyes?" Izzian asked in disbelief. "We are The Guardians of Klesia."
Maddlington was fuming and her oversized mole appeared to be just as angry. She pulled Izzian out into the hall.
"Oh I know the whole story. I was on earth, remember? I was undercover, working for the CIC. I was directly under the orders of President Boojum Twoeyes. Thanks to you and your friends, The Guardians of Klesia," she rolled her eyes at the honorable title, "I lost my job.
"Since I wasn't on that stupid ship with that stupid group of mismatched weirdoes, I got demoted. I worked really hard to get you and Eliza in my class, so enjoy your first year of equidistant school, young Klesian. Enjoy it in detention." Maddlington stalked back into the classroom, leaving him standing there in the hall like a Glotfish.
Izzian's head was spinning. Mrs. Maddlington had done nothing in the face of danger and he had to suffer for it. He and Eliza had nothing to do with the Council for Interplanetary Consortiums, the CIC, and couldn’t help it that Maddlington had gotten herself fired for being a coward.
He was proud of himself at that moment. He was working towards becoming a Compassionate Citizen of the Universe by being a mature and rational young man. He even held his tongue when Maddlington lashed out at him and called his friends mismatched weirdoes.
I must be changing, becoming more CCU, he thought to himself.
Unfortunately for Mrs. Maddlington, Eliza was not such a CCU when it came to insulting her friends. When Maddlington returned from the classroom with Eliza and ordered them both to detention, Izzian knew something bad was about to happen. Eliza did not suffer undue criticism lightly, even if she deserved it. Maddlington and her mole were in for a treat.
Eliza didn't even give the teacher a chance to throw insults her way. "You and your mole better watch yourselves," Eliza sneered. "I know all about you, Mrs. Aloris J. Maddlington and I'll give you one warning-you had better leave Izzian and me alone and let us get on with our lives…and if you care about that thing growing on your face, you'll tell it the same thing," she added, shocking both Izzian and Maddlington at the mention of the woman's large mole.
Without another second of hesitation, Maddlington ripped off two detention slips and forced them into both Izzian and Eliza's hands. "You should have thought about the consequences of coming to Klesia, pale earthling. You probably thought you were able to escape me. Too bad I came home. You're on my turf now girlie," Maddlington declared. She briskly turned away, slamming her classroom door, leaving Izzy and Eliza standing alone in the quiet hallway.
"Well, how was your first day of school on Klesia, Eliza?" Izzian asked sarcastically as the pair strolled towards their lockers.
"I couldn't help myself. Maddlington's such a bully. Besides, it's only detention," Eliza laughed. "I've had worse."
Izzian chuckled gently at Eliza's ignorance. The girl was still thinking like an earthling, and she was no longer on earth. The word detention had a whole different meaning on an alien planet, and Izzian raced to his locker, wondering how the earth girl would hold up during a Klesian detention.
"Okay, earth girl, so you've had worse. Well, better grab some shin guards and a helmet. Oh and dibs on the Firithian broadsword. I don't want to look like a girl or anything. You'll probably do best with the Gr
otanoan throwing knives. I think they have a set with pink handles," Izzian said, enjoying the tremendous look of fear plastered on Eliza's face.
"Throwing knives? Firithian broadswords? What kind of detention is this?" Eliza said in a trembling voice filled with panic.
"Klesian Detention…You're on Klesia now Eliza," Izzian said as he threw his books into his locker and began stretching his muscles for detention.
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In the second book of the series, Izzy and Eliza attend classes on the main planet, Klesia. As a team, they unexpectedly find themselves in the middle of a dangerous plot. When Izzy and Eliza realize that countless beings may be in serious danger, they do everything imaginable to try and save them-that is how a Compassionate Citizen of the Universe rolls.
What will happen to the Izzian and his gang as they become scattered throughout the universe, living their own lives?
Join Thilillian Yangsley as she suffers through a year on the most interesting travelling and transportation asteroid in the universes, Footfall Freighter. Is the boy called Brog everything he seems to be or is he after something else from the rebellious Thil?
Watch Yarn as she struggles to spy on everyone who matters to her, Mr. Laddie/Vladimir of SnowCone Haven included. Will Paksha finally leave earth and explore the universes? Read on as Leon and the Fester Tails prepare for their upcoming rock and roll tour- nah, but Leon did suggest they get a band together. (With a name like Leon and the Fester Tails, they'd become famous for sure.)
Observe Izzy and Eliza as they try to make it out of Klesian detention alive. Will Eliza develop and hone her Preytell abilities under the watchful eye of Master Hito? Will Izzian ever receive a kiss from Eliza rather than a thump? Or will the two drift apart under the pressures of saving the world and equidistant school?
Meet oodles of colorful characters and learn about crazy, strange inhabitants of faraway planets, asteroids and constellations. Join Izzy, Eliza and the other Guardians of Klesia in BOOK TWO of the Izzy and Eliza series…an alien tale.
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