Chapter 1
In a small, stoned cottage, there lived a girl named Kylie, who was cleaning her house one day. While in the basement she came across a large box, with candles, bottles, and a book inside. As she picked up the box and went upstairs, she thought, “I wonder what all this stuff is for...” She brought the box to her kitchen and took about ten bottles out, four candles, green, red, blue, and white, and then she took out the book that had four gems that were the color of the four candles. After taking everything out of the box, she went out for a while. When she came back, she put everything in the cabinets, but left the candles on the counter and the book still on her table. When she went to look at the book it was turned to a certain spell.
“Umm, that’s... weird...” Kylie said to herself, she then sat down and looked at one of the pages that had a certain spell that caught her eye. Kylie looked at her refrigerator and said to the book, “I’ll try you after I fix up some food to eat.”
When she was done eating, she went to try the spell. She pulled the book in front of her and read the page. The page read:
Place the four candles in a circle on the floor, then sit or stand in front of the circle and chant: “The earth, the air, the fire, the water!”
Kylie looked at the other page and read it. This page read:
To reverse the spell, chant: “Return, return, return, return!”
She then went to her living room and placed the four candles in a circle on the floor like the book said, then sat in front of the circle.
She looked at the book again, then said, “The earth, the air, the fire, the water...”
Nothing happened.
Kylie stood up and thought, “How did I know that was fake...” She went back to the kitchen to get a bowl of cereal. As she poured the cereal into a bowl she said to herself again, “Maybe I should wait, see if anything does happen...”
She went back to the living room and went to her book shelf. She took her favorite book off the shelf, and sat down, with her back towards the circle, and began to read. Behind Kylie, in the circle, a strange green mist appeared, then the mist turned into a figure.
“Good! You finally did the spell,” the figure said.
Kylie turned around and jumped when she saw the person.
“H-how did you get in my house!??!” Kylie asked, shooting to her feet.
“By the spell you just did.” the figure said, as she walked out of the circle.
“What spell!?”
The girl walked to the book on the floor and picked it up.
The girl pointed at the spell, and said, “This one. The one where you put four candles on the floor and say, ‘the earth, the air, the fire, the water’. A simple spell of my power, your power, and two others.”
“Power!?”
“Yes, the power you were given by mother in Pundorina.”
“Pundor, what!?”
“Pundorina, your homeland, the world you born into.”
“No, I was born in this world.”
Kylie pointed to the ground.
The girl closed the book, “Yeah, that’s what grandmother wanted you to believe, and what mother wished for you to believe.” Just then the girl noticed Kyle’s locket necklace, “What’s inside?”
“Inside of what!!??” Kylie asked.
“Your necklace.”
“Oh.... my locket?”
“Yes! Can I have it?”
“No!!! Grandmother gave it to me.”
“Are there pictures in there?”
“Yes, there’s a picture of my mother and grandmother, so I can remember them forever...”
Kylie held the locket in her hand.
“That’s not fair,” the girl crossed her arms.
“What’s not!?” Kylie threw her hands to her side.
“Grandmother or mother never gave me one.”
“Well, maybe because you didn’t have the mother or grandmother that I had!! Or, maybe it’s because of the gem necklace and belt you’re wearing!!”
The girl looked at her jewelry, “Well, they’re not as nice as the gift that grandmother gave you.”
“They’re not even you’re family!!!!!”
“Oh yes they are!!!!”
“Right! And you’re my sister!! Yeah, okay.”
“Actually, I am!”
“Give me a break.”
Kylie rolled her eyes.
“You don’t believe me?” the girl said, as she put her hand on her hip.
“No, I don’t,” Kylie said, mimicking the girl by putting her hand on her hip.
“Fine! Then ask me any question about mother or grandmother.”
“Okay, what was my mother’s name?”
“That’s easy! Kiyani. After all, I have known longer than you.”
“That was just a lucky guess!”
“Then ask me a harder one!”
“Fine!!” Kylie tried to think, “Okay, um.... what’s... my... grandmother’s name...?”
The girl put her hand on her forehead and looked at Kylie from between her fingers, “Do you every think of harder questions,” she put her hand down, “Or just these easy, little, pathetic questions?”
“Just answer it!!!”
“Rika!!!!”
“How did you know that? That’s not a normal name… I would’ve never guessed that.”
“That’s because it wasn’t a guess! I know, because I am your sister!!”
Just then there was a silence between the two.
“I still don’t believe you!” Kylie said.
The girl then had smoke blowing out of her ears from her anger. She then put out her fist, then opened it, and blew powder on Kylie.
Kylie coughed then said, “What was that?!”
“Powder, for you to believe of what I am saying is true!!”
“Oh... Hey!”
The girl smiled.
Eventually Kylie began to believe what the girl was talking about. Then the doorbell rang.
Kylie stood up, “Let me go get the door.”
As Kylie went to the door, the girl made herself invisible and followed Kylie. Kylie opened the door and saw one of her classmates from school standing in front of her with her book bag in her hands.
“Oh, hi Sarah...!” Kylie said.
Sarah then said, as she caught her breath, “We’re doing the project tonight, remember?”
“Yeah... I remember,” Kylie said.
“Good!”
“Come in.”
Sarah walked in and they went to the living room. In the living room Kylie began to look around.
“Looking for something?” Sarah asked, as she flopped onto the couch.
“Oh, no.” Kylie said, as she sat down.
Sarah began to open the book bag up, “So we have only pictures left to do, right?”
“Yeah.”
The girl came into the living room, still invisible, and sat down on one of the chairs. She then pointed her finger at the book bag.
Sarah began to feel around in her book bag for the project, but the bag was empty, “Hmmm, that’s weird, I swear this book bag was packed a second ago.... I guess I’ll have to do it myself,” Sarah turned to Kylie, “Is that all right with you?”
“Yeah, that’s fine.”
“Okay, and don’t worry, I won’t mess up.”
“Okay.”
Kylie walked Sarah to the door, then when Sarah walked through the door Kylie shut it. Just then she heard a laugh, and the girl appeared next to Kylie.
Kylie gasped, then said, “Why did you do that!?”
“Do what, scare you like that?” the girl asked.
“No! Make her book bag empty, we have a project due tomorrow, and it’s worth a big part of my grade. And Sarah, well, she’s not that good of a drawer.”
“Well sorry, but if she’d stayed here longer, she would’ve been getting a little curious about the house.”
“Why, would she be curious?”
“Has she ever been her before?”
“Yeah, the other night to finish up the writing part.”
“Well, she would have noticed the difference in your house, I mean, you can’t change the inside of a house in one day.”
“What are you talking about!?”
“You don’t see it?”
“See what!?!?”
“Ever since you brought that box up from downstairs, the house has taken its original form that it use to have when grandmother was alive. Don’t you remember what it looked like?”
Kylie looked at the walls, “Yeah, a little bit... Wait!! How did you know what it used to look like!?”
“Mother’s crystal ball, she was able to watch you grow up... and would sometimes let me see. Now come, I have to show you something.”
“Okay... What’s your name?”
“Jillian!”
“I’m Kylie.”
“I know.”
“Right.”
Jillian then walked past Kylie, Kylie followed her. They went out to the back porch, and went to the railing.
“Why are we out here?” Kylie asked.
“Watch,” Jillian answered.
Jillian threw her hand across her face. Then instantly a screen appeared in front of them. The screen showed hundred story high trees, peaceful rivers flowing, and a quiet village.
“It’s beautiful,” Kylie said, as she looked at everything on the screen.
“Yeah. This is how Pundorina used to be like, now it’s like this,” Jillian began.
She threw her hand across her face again, and the beautiful Pundorina changed. Most of the trees were cut down, the rivers flowed with anger and at times you could she blood streaming down, and the quiet village was ruined by fires or being torn down, and you could see battles in the distant fields as well.
Kylie gasped, and said, “There’s war now!?”
“Yes. All because of the Goblin King Katsuho,” Jillian paused for a minute, then began again, “The war began a year after you were born. I remember when it used to be like the picture I showed you a minute ago. I can remember running in the peaceful fields, father happy to not be fighting any wars and was allowed to stay home with mother, grandmother, and us,” her eyes began to water up, “I’m sorry... it’s just, I miss them so much.”
“What happened to mother and... father?”
“When the war began, since father was head of the soldiers, he went to fight. He didn’t want to but he no choice... And when the king dies in Pundorina, all his soldiers die with him.”
Jillian then made her sword appear and set it on the railing.
“So... father died along with the king?” Kylie asked.
“Yes...” Jillian answered.
Kylie looked at the sword, then back at Jillian.
“Where did you get that sword?” Kylie pointed to the sword on the railing.
Jillian looked at the sword, “From father, when mother, grandmother, and I found his body, I took it for my protection. It’s probably the only thing I have of his.... Anyway... after his death, mother knew that since the enemy knows that the element gems were in Pundorina that they will try and find them. We would have gone to the ones that hold the air and water gem to stop the enemy, but we were all too young to use the element gems yet... So the night after father’s death, you and grandmother went here, to Earth, along with one of the element gems.”
“So mother didn’t die when she gave birth to me?”
“No, like I said before, grandmother and mother wanted you to believe that.”
“Oh... well keep going.”
“...About fifteen Earth years later, there was a knock at the door, and mother sensed it was one of the enemies, so she put me in a closet to be safe. So... she opened the door and they took her, and she never came back. I’ve been taking care of myself since then, see, you were lucky you had grandmother to take care of you....” Jillian paused again. Then she made her sword disappeared and the screen, and turned to Kylie and asked, “So can I teach you everything you need to know so we can go back to Pundorina, and save it, before it’s totally destroyed?”
“Well....”
“All I need is a month to teach you.”
“Isn’t a month a little long, your world, I mean, our world might be gone by then.”
“No, a month here, is a day there.”
Kylie nodded.
Then Jillian said, “So will you let me teach you?”
“I guess, if it will help save mother’s and grandmother’s world.”
“Good, then let’s go inside.”
The two went inside, and Jillian began to teach Kylie everything.
