It's been a while since I did something like this. Comment or pm me if you want more.
~Chapter 1: Pet Palace~
Ada Beilschmidt sat passenger of her mothers Mercury Hybrid, staring out the window, listening to her music on her family had decided to move from Frankfurt, Germany to Stonehill, Pennsylvania in the U.S.A. Ada wasn't at all pleased, and she let her family know it. Her older brother, Gilbert, was too excited about it. In her mind anyway.
The car stopped and shut off. "We're here," Ada's mother said, a thick German accent coating her words. "Go and pick your room," she said, a smile on her delicate lips. Ada silently exited the car and looked at the house they were going to live in. Ivy growing up the walls, weeds everywhere in the lawn, chipping paint, it was just plain ugly.
Ada walked in and up the creaking stairs, hoping it would hold her weight. She could hear her brother exclaiming that he'd already found his room, then proceeded to run down the stairs past her.
At the top of the stairs, something caught Ada's attention. A whisper? No, just the wind. Ada comforted herself. She turned towards a door where she heard the wind. She seemed...almost drawn to it somehow.
Ada walked over and opened the door. A breeze blew something sparkly at her. She it and took a good look. It looked like a dandelion seed, but really colorful and sparkly. Almost as if it were refracting sunlight.
"Ada," her mother called from the bottom of the stairs. She carefully put the seed in her jacket pocket, then went to the stairs.
"Found my room *mutti!" she called down to her mother.
"All right, but speak English. We're in America now," her mother said, then went to go unpack things.
"I know. You won't let me forget," Ada grumbled, going to the car she arrived in to unpack her things. Gilbert was three bags at a time into the house. Ada sighed. He was always full of energy.
Ada made a few trips to the car. On the final trip when she returned, there was a small planting pot with potting soil in the windowsill. She set down her bags. Was that there before? Ada took the seed from her pocket and walked over to the pot, looking at the sparkly seed. She dug a small hole, carefully placed the seed in, and covered it and patted it in. She was curious to the type of flower it made.
Ada then looked out the window, but couldn't see much because it was so dusty. She took the sleeve of her shirt and wiped a hole big enough for her to see. Outside was an old barn, probably just as old as the house. Curiosity got the better of her.
She grabbed her jacket and ran outside to the barn. She slipped her jacket on and looked at an old rusted lock. She put her hand around it and gave it a good pull. It broke easily. 'How long has this house been here?' Ada mused to herself. She dropped the lock and pushed it open, wiping the rust from her hand.
Zipping up her jacket, she slowly stepped inside. Everything was dusty, creaking or rotting. Rusted cages lined either wall. All sizes and species of animals could fit in here.
Ada stepped on something and felt a crunch. She looked down and picked up a dusty picture frame. She wiped off the dust to reveal a now cracked picture of a red headed girl, a ferret, and what Ada assumed to be the red head's mother.
Something sparkled out of the corner of her eye. She looked over and saw something in a rusted birdcage. She walked over and saw a rock and a yellowed piece of paper. She gently opened the cage and took out both items.
The rock was like any other rock, dark and unappealing. She looked at the paper. It read, "Have faith. It will return." Ada read it over and over, translating it to German and back to English again. It just didn't make sense.
Just as she was thinking and translating, a loud crash came from the entrance. Ada walked to the entrance and looked down at the ground. There was an old sign with writing on it. She walked around it and looked up. The sign had fallen from vines above the door. Ada carefully flipped it over. From what she could tell, the sign read "Pet Palace."
I hope you enjoyed it. I sure did.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN AVALON WEB OF MAGIC