When young Esmeralda Cabasso - Es to her friends - boards the train heading for SpringStorm Academy to learn spells and magic, she befriends some of her new classmates who are not exactly from this Earth. Some are even elves! The friends soon become the Seven Ladies, intent on teaching the school bully a lesson as well as causing mayhem throughout the academy. But there is one other thing - why do the staff insist on calling her by another surname? Are they trying to tell her something? When Es discovers the truth, her world is thrown into turmoil, and that's not a good state to be in when she has to stop a war from raging across the Four Earths...