This CYOC story involves a 14 year old wizard named Toby Mobias. He has a 6 year old sister, Abby, and a male friend named Cameron. His GF's name is Lily and she isn't seen often. Toby lives with his mom and his dad and grandfather, both wizards.
Let's begin!
"Alright, class", said Mr. Grayson, the Life Science teacher, as he paced in front of the blackboard. "For this project, you will be assigned to take care of a small sapling plant for 8 weeks". Mr. Grayson went behind his desk and pulled a small fern out of the drawer, holding it up for the 9th graders to see. "If your plant is healthy and alive at the time of your inspection, you will pass with an A. If your plant is dead, you will fail the assignment. Is that clear?"
"Yes, Mr. Grayson", the teens said in unison, many of them secretly playing with cellphones or mp3 players rather than listening to their forty something year old teacher. "Choose your partners", said Grayson, going back behind his desk to get a sheet of paper to write down the pairs. Toby walked across the room to his best friend Cameron's desk. "Easy A..." said Cameron, not even looking up from his "Naruto" manga. "You said it", said Toby, putting another desk right next to Cam's. At the end of class, they received the pot, seeds, and care instructions and went off to lunch. Cam and Tobes planted it at lunch and watered it with a bottle of Dasani. After school, they walked over to Toby's place and set the plant on his windowsill. "This is going to be a piece of cake..."
7 WEEKS, 6 DAYS LATER!
"OHMYGOD, OHMYGOD, OHMYGOD!", panicked Cameron as he noticed the dead plant in the pot on the windowsill. "Alright, alright, Cam...", said Toby, attempting not to go to the worst-case-scenario. "Just don't panic, alright?", he said, trying to sound calm. Cam was still freaking. "I ALREADY AM!" he shouted, acting as if he just killed a baby or something. Toby thought for a second. He was on the bridge of collapse when suddenly, he had an idea. "Don't go anywhere!", said the blond Mobias teen as he entered his father's study. He reached into the bookcase and pulled out the Family Spellbook. He looked under "A" and found what he was looking for. "Perfect!" Toby exclaimed before running back to his room. "TOOOOO-BBYYY!" said a tiny, female voice. His sister Abby had just called him from the kitchen. Toby ran over to his sister's aid. "Yeah, Abbs?" he said, catching his breath from running at full speed, "What do you need?" The miniature Mobias girl pointed to the 2nd top shelf in the cupboard. "Can you reach the cookies for me?" Toby rolled his eyes and looked at his tiny sister. "Abby, you KNOW you aren't supposed to have cookies before dinner!" Abby stared at him in a puppy-dog look DRIPPING sweetness with a super cute "Pweeeeeeeez....?. Toby hesitated, then sighed. "Oh, alright!", he said, reaching up to the shelf, "but mom can NEVER know, capeesh?" Abby giggled and nodded, and was soon rewarded with her cookie. "Thanks, big brother!" she said, munching her chocolate-chip diet staple. "No problem, Abby!" said Toby, grabbing the book and running back to his room.
Toby found Cameron taking a Sharpie and writing something on a rock resembling a tombstone. Cam stuck it in the dirt of the pot where the plant was. Toby got up close and read aloud: "Here Lies Toby and Cameron's A February 2007 to April 2007". Toby looked at his curly haired friend, who was now bawling. "..h-he-he was s-so YOUNG!" sobbed Cam, clutching a hankie. He blew his nose and finished sobbing. His de-man-lifying crying came to an instant cease when he noticed the Mobias Family Spellbook. "Ooh, a little Magic Band-Aid on our problem? I'm in!" Toby rolled his eyes. "This is really for you", said the teen wizard. "My grade's high enough and this won't really hurt me." Cameron closed his eyes and put his arms behind his head. "Yeah, yeah, yeah..." said Cam carelessly, "whatever....I just wanna see some magic..." His eyes suddenly opened. "Why did I just say that?!" he whimpered. It was too late. Toby had turned Cam into a girl with longer hair and a pretty nice body. The now female Cam looked at Tobes angrily. "Do you even KNOW the meaning of "not literally"?!" she said, hands on her hips. Toby chuckled and shook his head. "Nope!" he exclaimed. He waved his arm and Cameron got back his Y-chromosome. Toby looked at the book and then at the plant. "Vicis porro!" he exclaimed. A blue energy ball with purple edges went out of his fingers and whizzed passed the plant. It bounced off of the window's glass and went in between the 2 teenage boys and into a CD case stand, where it bounced wildly off CDs and plastic cases. Afterward, it ricocheted out of the case stand and onto a mirror, and from there into his sister's room across the hall. The duo heard glass breaking and objects falling. He heard a small scream and then a thud. The boys eyes were wide and they looked at each other. "Oh..." said Toby. "Crap..." said Cam, running across the hall following his blond friend.