Jax of All Trades

## Summary

Jax of All Trades is the first (and hopefully not the last!) short story told from Jax’s perspective. In the story, Jax is 11 years old. It starts out with Jax in trouble at Little Royals Boarding School for Boys. He’s that “bad kid” who’s always causing trouble or making mischief (do you find that hard to believe?). Ms. Whisp is the new assistant headmistress, and she’s questioning Jax about the three-foot high stack of papers on her desk titled, “Jaxon’s Misdemeanors”. Below is a list of the things Jax has done:

• He placed a dragon’s egg in Headmaster Arthur’s bedroom knowing full well it was about to hatch. “I believe the scorch marks on his floor are still there to prove it.”

• He decided to have a Pegasi race through the castle during exams week to lift spirits. The other boys bet on the race too, and they raised several bags of coins.

• They used the coins to buy a water slide, which they used last summer during the heat wave.

• Jax had a wand duel between him and the Pied Piper of Longburg. He stole the keys to the lab, broke in there at night for the battle, and accidentally sent two troll night guards to another realm. Headmistress Frogmore was able to find a spell to get the troll night guards back two months later.

• He used a spell from his Spell It Like You Mean It textbook to charm Prince Caleb Hendricks and his bed onto the roof of the castle while he was still sleeping.

• Jax had a midnight fairy dance party in the gardens after his curfew. Jax and his friends shrunk to fairy size and it took Headmaster Arthur four hours to find them. He would look for Gilly because he reallly liked her :)

Then, Ms. Whisp tells Jax that she has no choice but to expel him. She says that the school has been more than lenient with his behavior, especially under the circumstances of his sister being locked away in that tower for years.  Jax then contemplates on how when your sister is stolen as a baby and locked away in a tower, it kind of rules your world. When Rapunzel was found, Jax thought that he would brought home immediately. Now, Rapunzel has been home a while now, and he hasn’t been able to visit her once. Jax starts to think that his family was so happy to have their heir back and they had no use for the spare. He was causing trouble at the school because he wants his family to notice him, so he can come home.

Ms. Whisp says that Jax will never get an invitation to Royal Academy, which Jax is secretly happy about. RA sounds horrible to him. Jax blinks back fake tears and begs Ms. Whisp not to call his father. But, his father, King Arnard, shows up at that exact moment. The last time Jax saw his dad was before Rapunzel was found, so he wonders what his dad’s doing there. King Arnard takes Jax outside to a wooden wagon with a small canopy that’s driven by horses. He ushers Jax to get inside the back, and starts talking to him. His dad knows that Jax has been wanting to come home, but he couldn’t let Jax, because there has been villain sightings, and darkness all over Enchantcia, which they can no longer keep at bay. Then, King Arnard tells Jax he wants him to be a spy at Fairy Tale Reform School. At first Jax is reluctant, but he eventually agrees.

Then, King Arnard gives Jax a tricked-out family pocket watch that can cause an explosion when it’s timed just right. When they arrive at the school, Jax gets off the wagon. As it drives away, Professor Wolfington leads him inside. As he heads inside, Professor Wolfington leaves because he has to prepare for class. Suddenly, a troll boy arrives, running away from a girl in a black dress, who is throwing fireballs at him (sound familiar?). Jax learns that her name is Jocelyn. Miri sees her and threatens Jocelyn with detention. Then, two huge ogres led an ogre girl inside, who is crying. Her parents leave, and she walks over Jocelyn, who tells her she’ll be staying at FTRS indefinitely. Jax suddenly joins the conversation, because no one told him he would be here indefinitely. Then, Flora calls the three of them inside her office.

We find out from Flora that Jax’s “backstory” is that he is from Corn Huskers Elementary, and he’s stealing the vegetable he’s learning to grow. Jax makes up some lame excuse by saying that he wanted to sell corn, because his was the best in the kingdom, but he never had enough to sell so he started to steal corn too. Flora doesn’t buy his story, and starts to question him. Luckily, she is called away by Miri because of a wand battle in the cafeteria. Harlow tells Jocelyn to watch Jax. Jocelyn then tells Jax that she doesn’t buy his story either, so Jax just tells her that he needed someplace to hide. Someplace no one will look for him and that looked like the perfect place to disappear. Jocelyn buys it, but tells Jax that Harlow is eventually going to find the truth about him. So, Jax makes a deal with Jocelyn. If he takes the blame for Jocelyn throwing fireballs at the troll boy, and gets detention, then Jocelyn will help Jax lie low and get sentenced to FTRS. Maxine also agrees to keep quiet about Jax.

When Harlow and Flora come back, they see that’s Jax has hacked the school calendar (thanks to Jocelyn’s help). Harlow and Flora are disappointed in Jax, and see that he needs to be reformed. So, Jax is sentenced to FTRS. The End!

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## Characters

- Jax

- Jocelyn

- Maxine

- Flora

- Harlow

- Professor Wolfington

- Miri

- Ms. Whisp

- King Arnard