In which the Magnifiques confront Magnifico...[takes place: May 2]
|| || ||
AMITY:
Amity’s heart roared with nerves yet her chest still felt hollow like each beat was the echo of the real thing without her second heart alongside it. For a long time now, she’d gotten used to the strange emptiness. She had even enjoyed it. She was calmer and more focused. It hadn’t hurt to think about the Boiling Isles, her parents, her siblings, or her loneliness.
But she wasn’t alone. She had the Magnifiques and they had a mission. She just had to suppress her nerves a little longer, long enough to lure Magnifico into their trap. And if the spell worked…
It had to work. Or else Swynlake would cease to be Swynlake and Amity would lose the first place that had actually accepted her. The closest thing she had to a home.
“They told me to meet them in the observatory,” she told Magnifico. They walked up the winding stone staircase. “Did you want me to go in first?”
please see below the cut for links to all paras associated with this plot and summaries of all paras…
Multiple Threads Throughout the Summer/Spring Semester
Magnifico creates a summer class to decide who will be part of his special year long class to help him do research for the upcoming final installment of his beloved series, A Plot of Wishes and Words. What they don’t know is that he is not Salvador Sanchez, the author, but King Magnifico--the antagonist of the series--who was spelled out of the book and killed Salvador to assume his identity.
Amity, Ariel, Devyn, Giselle, and Kleopatra are chosen to become the students who will attend his exclusive year-long research class to help him make it “realistic” when pulling magic from the book within the book…
Throughout the first semester, the Magnifiques, as they take to calling themselves, begin to bond and do research together. They become very close and their other friends start to take notice…
The Tale of the Haunted BOOOOOOOOk [The Magnifiques][Halloween]
The Magnifiques try to find a book in the restricted section of the library, breaking in while everyone else is celebrating Halloween. When they are caught, they say that Professor Sal told them to fetch the book. He vouches for them.
Someone Praise Me for my Benevolence [Magnifico and the Magnifiques] [January]
In which Magnifico checks in with the Magnifiques about their research project. He explains he is unhappy with their progress and tells them he expects more of them. Chastised, the Magnifiques double down on their research efforts.
After being chastised, they meet for a brainstorming session where they realize that their shared dreams could be a place to pull magic out of a book from. They decide to attempt this using their most recent dream: Percy Jackson.
A Simple Solution [Magnifico + Kleopatra]
After unrest in the Boiling Isles, Kleopatra’s mother wants her to come home…she decides to ask Magnifico for help and finds out that he is a price sorcerer. She makes a deal with him…
The Maze of the Minotaur [The Magnifiques + Magnifico][February]
They attempt to pull a pen out of the Percy Jackson books, but instead, a minotaur appears and chases them. Magnifico appears at the last minute to save them…and compliment them on a job well done!
And A Prince I am Hoping Comes with This [Magnifico + Giselle][February]
Giselle, after talking to Kleopatra, about her deal, decides to make a deal of her own…
The Plot Thickens [The Magnifiques] [March]
After pulling the Minotaur out of the Percy Jackson series, they realize in order to control the magic, they must write their own story…
The Final Assignment [Magnifico + The Magnifiques][March]
After they summon the minotaur and explain their process to Magnifico, he assigns them their final assignment: to write the ending to a Plot of Wishes and Words…one where Magnifico wins and is the hero instead of the antagonist…
A Wish Your Heart Makes [Magnifico + Amity][March]
After their new assignment from Magnifico, Amity decides to make a deal…
I’m Wishing (For the Ones I Love) [Magnifico + Devyn][April]
After a fight with their family, Devyn makes the decision to make a deal…
ARIEL’S WISH [Magnifico + Ariel][April]
After everyone else has made a deal with Magnifico, Ariel decides to do so as well...
Cliffhanger… [Magnifico Self Para][May 01]
Using the Magnifiques final assignment, their inspiration, and their spell--Magnifico brings everyone in Swynlake into the world of Rosas.
Open the Book [The Magnifiques + Magnifico][May 01]
Once inside Rosas, Magnifico reveals himself to the Magnifiques, offering them a spot on his court, but it does not go as he planned…
Ah, Rosas. How he had missed it. His fine clothes, his jewels, his wife. All these pretty, familiar things were back with him and he was so glad. While there was certainly things in that other world that he appreciated (social media, hello?!) -- now that he had brought the town into the story, they could create it. Surely someone in that stupid town understood how the internet worked! Could get them cell phones. And if not, Magnifico would discover a different, more magical way of doing things.
Maybe that was the way to go anyway…
What was he talking about?
“Ah, my Magnifiques,” Magnifico purred as his students filed into the classroom. He had found their choice of nickname hilarious, considering. They hadn’t even known. But oh, they were smart. There had, probably, been some part of them that realized it.
“Please, sit. I am sure you have many questions but let me answer a few from the start: yes, Salvador was just a facade.” No point getting into the whole “murdered and stole his identity thing.” That was a messy business, Magnifico did not want to talk about it. “You can refer to me as King Magnifico, or Your Majesty. Unfortunately, we can no longer go by an affectionate nickname. It would undermine me to my subjects, you see. But don’t fret, you five still hold a special place in my heart.”
He put both his hands over his chest and smiled softly at them. “After all, you helped make all of this happen.” He spread his arms out to gesture, abstractly, at all of Rosas.
MAGNIFICO:
Things were not going as planned, which was making Magnifico impatient.
There was a reason he had come to a specifically magical town, with a specifically magical college. Yale had had brilliant scholars, but they were almost too smart. They got hung up on hypotheticals. They weren’t creative enough. They weren’t magic enough. So, Magnifico had changed tactics.
Magical problems needed magical solutions.
So, as the Magnifiques (it was very cute they were calling themselves that, they didn’t even realize! Sweet things), filed in for their first day back at school after the winter holidays, Magnifico sat in one of the chairs in their small classroom, his lips pursed. A magical fire was crackling in the hearth, the room full of a few plush chairs and a small round table. There was a window with frost clinging to the edges.
“Sit down,” Magnifico gestured, waiting for the kids to get settled before he leaned forward, elbows on his knees. “I hope you all had a good, restful holiday. We are going to need to have rested up for this semester. We are coming up on our deadline with little progress.”
