This is my newest story. I'm pretty sure I won't get tired of this story
so I'll most likely finish it. It's called 'The Elements'. It's a
crossover from Mercedes Lackey's 'The Gates of Sleep' and Tamora Pierce's
Protector of the Small series. If you haven't read 'The Gates of Sleep',
don't worry, you won't be that lost. I'll try to explain everything, well,
as much as I can along the way. Anyway, I hope you'll like the story a
lot.
The Elements are my characters; everyone else belongs to their respective owners, unless I say the character is mine. If you happen to like my story and would like to use the Elements in your story or something, go ahead. But please mention me somewhere.
A great terror has descended on Britain and with the 4most powerful Elemental Mages being only 10, the world is in great peril. To save them from the clutches of the evil witch, their parents decide to do the thing they dread most. They send their children, the 4 known as The Elements, to a dimension where they'll live under the instruction of one of the strongest Masters, Numair.
And now start's my story.ENJOY! Oh, and FLAME AWAY! I find those to be fun to read.
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***** The Elements *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Marina (AN: Marina was the main character in tGoS. She's a Water Master. She married Doctor Andrew Pike, Earth Master.) smiled softly as she carried her child, Aquaria into the parlor where some of her best friends awaited with their own children.
There was Clifton Davies (AN: is a reverend of very Minor water magic, or maybe it was air.I can't remember.), his wife (AN: I don't know who he married, if he even did marry.he didn't in the book.), and their son, Airic. Margurita, Sebastian (AN: were friends of Marina's parents.they raised Marina. They believed that they couldn't have children but I made it so they had one. Margurita was of Earth Magick and Sebastian was of Fire Magick.) and their son, Ashton. And finally, Thomas (AN: is Margurita's brother. He also helped raise Marina. He has Earth Magick.), his wife Eleanor (AN: Was a nurse for Andrew. She had no magic, but she was a sensitive, meaning she could feel magic.), and their daughter, Amberlene.
There was a strange connection between the newborn children. They were born on the same day, same hour, same minute and even the exact same second. And there was another thing that wasn't as strange for these children. They all had different Elemental magicks (AN: There were 4 Elements; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water). Her own Aqua was of Water like herself. Airic followed his father in the magicks of Air. Amber was like her father, being of Earth magicks. Ash was like his own father in the field of Fire.
Today would be the children's christenings. The parlor was filled with many Elemental Masters of all sorts. Each one stepped up to the cradles and touched a finger to the child's head and blessed the child with a gift. Marina listened to the masters as they stepped up and blessed her child. From the four strongest Masters of Fire, Earth, Water and Air were the gifts of Alliance to all the children. That gave the children the ability to ask for help from Elemental creatures (AN: creatures such as Undines, fauns, nymphs, dryads, Salamanders, dragons, mermaids, unicorns, phoenixes, griffins, and others.) who were not of their Elements. But with the four's strength, maybe even do some minor magicks in the other Elements.
See, the stronger the person is in their magicks, the more they resembled their Elements. If the children didn't resemble their elements, Marina wasn't sure what did. Aqua had dark blue-black curls, with ocean blue eyes and a green tint surrounding her pupils. Ash had flaming red hair with violet-red eyes. Airic was blond, a very pale blond color that was almost white. He had the most beautiful blue eyes, whose shade depended on his mood. Amber had auburn hair with green eyes and a tanned, natural complexion.
Other blessings her child received were skilled and steady hands, physical grace, and love for sports, music, and animals. Even beauty from one especially vain Lady of Wessex Air Master.
"Well, my love.I told you nothing bad would happen to the children." Doctor Andrew Pike told his pretty wife. "I know you would be right.but you forget that at my christening, I was attacked by a crazy woman who tried to curse me to death. (AN: In tGoS, Marina's non-magical Aunt Arachne (I spelled it wrong, but its close) cursed her with death by her 18 birthday.)" Marina answered, yawning as she put her daughter into the wooden cradle that Thomas had carved for little Aqua. "But we beat her and now she's dead."
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TEN YEARS LATER.
"AQUA! COME ON NOW!" Amber yelled to one of her best friends. "You know our Mums and Dads are waiting for us.you wouldn't want us to be late to our birthday surprise."
"I'm coming, Amber! I'll just got to fix this little gown that Aunt Margurita made me. I do need some help!" Aquaria answered her friend, pulling at the small pink buttons on the back of the Sunday dress. There was just three buttons in the middle that she just couldn't quite reach and it was aggravating her.
"Go on down and find Airic, Amber. I'll help Miss Hopeless." Ash called to his cousin before stepping into Aqua's room to button up the buttons she couldn't get.
"Thank you, Ash." Aqua said, pulling on a pink ribbon to tie her curls of blue-black hair back from her face. "Race you to the garden!" she yelled, running out of the room before the boy could answer.
"What's the surprise, mummy?" Airic asked his mother when all the children were present.
"May I let my shield (AN: a shield of magick to hide their magick and thoughts from others.) down?" Amber inquired.
"Yes, love. You may all, but only for lunch." Someone answered her. The children had shields that surpassed even one of the greatest masters and they were only mages, or students.
Suddenly the entire sky went dark and bunches of fauns and other Elementals ran back, screaming or crying of a great evil coming soon.
"What's going on?" Aqua screamed, jumping onto Ash.
"I don't know. Children, into the center." Andrew said, motioning for the adults to form a protective circle about the youngsters. There was a flash of lightning and a dark figure stood before the group.
"Well.Well.Well. So here's my precious little cousin all grown up with a daughter of her known." The evil Reginald (AN: Reggie was Marina's cousin and part of the Satanic followers who tried to kill Marina. He failed and was sent into a coma where he died several months later.) cackled.
"How? How are you still alive?" Marina screamed, covering her child, protectively.
"It's a little thing I call favors from the Dark God." He laughed, pointing his finger at Aqua and motioning for her to come forth. "You would be great among the forces of my league, my dear. Come and join us."
"I would rather kiss a frog!" Aqua yelled, gesturing rudely at the man.
"My! What a naughty child!" He closed his fingers into a fist and whispered something. Suddenly Aqua screamed, clutching at her throat, gasping for air.
"Aquaria!" Airic yelled in fear before he started lashing out at Reggie with his power. Seeing as Airic was doing, Amber and Ash followed throwing themselves into their magickal reserves to save their friend. Reggie released Aqua from his hold and retreated, screaming all the while,
"I'll be back! You children will pay!"
"We mustn't let him have our children!" Eleanor cried, hugging her daughter.
"No. We'll send them away as my parents did." Marina exclaimed. "Somewhere where they'll grow up under the surveillance of someone with strong magickal powers who can make sure our children learn their Mastery. Then they can come back after learning all they can!"
"But to where?" Andrew asked. "Certainly nowhere near here. Definitely not anywhere in Britain."
"Numair!" Thomas suddenly suggested. "Reggie will never find them there. And Numair can teach them everything he knows and we can send books of Mastery along so he can teach them."
"But it's so different from here." Clifton said.
"Then they can learn how to care for themselves. They have the clothes for the period. You know very well that Margurita was having too much fun with medieval clothing. They'll get along fine. We can send them with some gold and jewels to sell for money." Sebastian agreed with Thomas.
"Then it's settled." Mary, Clifton's wife (AN: I made her up.she's not real. She's my character.) "The children will go to Numair. Marina, Andrew, if you'll contact Numair and set up a meeting place, Margurita, Eleanor, and myself will go and start helping the children pack up. Thomas, Sebastian, you'll find gold and jewels for the children. Clifton, if you'll go find the books the children will need, that would be very helpful." Mary took over.
"Come along, my dears." Eleanor took the hands of the two girls as the boys followed. They were summering at Oakhurst (AN: the manor that Marina inherited from her parents.), therefore all their clothes were there, so it was a lucky thing. Margurita quickly came sweeping in with several large trunks, two for each child.
"Your clothes will go in this trunk." Mary pointed at the larger trunks. "Books and other personal items go in the littler trunks. If you'll go collect those personal items and bring them to Aqua's room, we will determine what will go and what will stay."
"Numair says to send them to a practice court near his rooms and he will keep an eye out for them." Marina reported, coming into the room. "I'll take Aqua and help her. I suggest you mothers do the same."
"Mummy, I don't want to leave you." Aqua said, helping her mother fold some pretty gowns.
"But you must, my baby. You must. Master Numair will care for you until you reach the age of mastery. Then, if he deems you fit to be a Master, you'll be allowed to come back."
"Alright, mummy. I'll try my best so I can come home soon. I think I'll go get my things." Aqua stood and ran over to her dresser and picked up the photo frames that held pictures of her friends, her aunts and uncles, and her parents. Then she began to ransack her bookcase for her fairy tales.
"Here, love. This is the locket that was supposed to be your birthday gift." Marina pulled a little heart locket from her pocket and placed the thin silver chain about her daughter's swan-like throat.
"Thank you Mummy." Aqua ran her fingers along the chain and smiled. One by one, the others began to trickle into the room.
"Books." Clifton groaned, dropping an armload of books onto the floor. "Levels starting from the lowest up to Mastery. On all Elements. I figured that Numair could teach them all the elements, so they would have the learning. Maybe even some of his type of Magick. I mean, since the children have so much magick in them."
"Good. Here are the jewels. I hope you don't mind that we invaded your safe, Marina. We weren't sure where else to get gems and gold pieces. I got some of the best pieces that we normally use for magic. And the gold bits that we got last year. It should be enough for the children for a while. We can always send more to Numair for the children." Sebastian said, putting down 4 sacks of velvet, filled with bits and baubles. "Thomas ran off saying something about his presents to the children should be of use."
"And they will be." Thomas said, returning with some expertly carved bows and quivers filled with the top of the line arrows with fine griffin fletchings (AN: I think I spelled this wrong.). "Bows.I've taught them so they should know."
"That will be helpful. I'm glad I found the time to teach them swordplay and staffs." Andrew said, walking into the room. "Numair has decided to convince the King to allow them to start as pages. He wants them to be knighted. Seems that's the only way he can be sure that they'll be busy."
"That's wonderful." Marina said sarcastically. "If we're all here now, I think its time for the surprise and then we'll finish packing. Then we'll send the children on their way."
"Here." Each set of parents presented their child with a piece of silver jewelry with a braid of colored threads embedded in it.
"It takes the shape of anything you want. You must always have it on your body. On the inside, is a colored thread that represents you; those threads are entwined. That will place you even closer on the magickal scale. The other bits are us, your parents. That brings us closer to you." Thomas explained.
"Thank you." Amber said as the others nodded in agreement.
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"I love you Mummy!" Aqua screamed as the bubble of the force field surrounded her and pulled her in along with the others and she was taken to a dimension called Tortall.
The Elements are my characters; everyone else belongs to their respective owners, unless I say the character is mine. If you happen to like my story and would like to use the Elements in your story or something, go ahead. But please mention me somewhere.
A great terror has descended on Britain and with the 4most powerful Elemental Mages being only 10, the world is in great peril. To save them from the clutches of the evil witch, their parents decide to do the thing they dread most. They send their children, the 4 known as The Elements, to a dimension where they'll live under the instruction of one of the strongest Masters, Numair.
And now start's my story.ENJOY! Oh, and FLAME AWAY! I find those to be fun to read.
' '= indicates thoughts " "= speech * *= mind speech
***** The Elements *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Marina (AN: Marina was the main character in tGoS. She's a Water Master. She married Doctor Andrew Pike, Earth Master.) smiled softly as she carried her child, Aquaria into the parlor where some of her best friends awaited with their own children.
There was Clifton Davies (AN: is a reverend of very Minor water magic, or maybe it was air.I can't remember.), his wife (AN: I don't know who he married, if he even did marry.he didn't in the book.), and their son, Airic. Margurita, Sebastian (AN: were friends of Marina's parents.they raised Marina. They believed that they couldn't have children but I made it so they had one. Margurita was of Earth Magick and Sebastian was of Fire Magick.) and their son, Ashton. And finally, Thomas (AN: is Margurita's brother. He also helped raise Marina. He has Earth Magick.), his wife Eleanor (AN: Was a nurse for Andrew. She had no magic, but she was a sensitive, meaning she could feel magic.), and their daughter, Amberlene.
There was a strange connection between the newborn children. They were born on the same day, same hour, same minute and even the exact same second. And there was another thing that wasn't as strange for these children. They all had different Elemental magicks (AN: There were 4 Elements; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water). Her own Aqua was of Water like herself. Airic followed his father in the magicks of Air. Amber was like her father, being of Earth magicks. Ash was like his own father in the field of Fire.
Today would be the children's christenings. The parlor was filled with many Elemental Masters of all sorts. Each one stepped up to the cradles and touched a finger to the child's head and blessed the child with a gift. Marina listened to the masters as they stepped up and blessed her child. From the four strongest Masters of Fire, Earth, Water and Air were the gifts of Alliance to all the children. That gave the children the ability to ask for help from Elemental creatures (AN: creatures such as Undines, fauns, nymphs, dryads, Salamanders, dragons, mermaids, unicorns, phoenixes, griffins, and others.) who were not of their Elements. But with the four's strength, maybe even do some minor magicks in the other Elements.
See, the stronger the person is in their magicks, the more they resembled their Elements. If the children didn't resemble their elements, Marina wasn't sure what did. Aqua had dark blue-black curls, with ocean blue eyes and a green tint surrounding her pupils. Ash had flaming red hair with violet-red eyes. Airic was blond, a very pale blond color that was almost white. He had the most beautiful blue eyes, whose shade depended on his mood. Amber had auburn hair with green eyes and a tanned, natural complexion.
Other blessings her child received were skilled and steady hands, physical grace, and love for sports, music, and animals. Even beauty from one especially vain Lady of Wessex Air Master.
"Well, my love.I told you nothing bad would happen to the children." Doctor Andrew Pike told his pretty wife. "I know you would be right.but you forget that at my christening, I was attacked by a crazy woman who tried to curse me to death. (AN: In tGoS, Marina's non-magical Aunt Arachne (I spelled it wrong, but its close) cursed her with death by her 18 birthday.)" Marina answered, yawning as she put her daughter into the wooden cradle that Thomas had carved for little Aqua. "But we beat her and now she's dead."
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TEN YEARS LATER.
"AQUA! COME ON NOW!" Amber yelled to one of her best friends. "You know our Mums and Dads are waiting for us.you wouldn't want us to be late to our birthday surprise."
"I'm coming, Amber! I'll just got to fix this little gown that Aunt Margurita made me. I do need some help!" Aquaria answered her friend, pulling at the small pink buttons on the back of the Sunday dress. There was just three buttons in the middle that she just couldn't quite reach and it was aggravating her.
"Go on down and find Airic, Amber. I'll help Miss Hopeless." Ash called to his cousin before stepping into Aqua's room to button up the buttons she couldn't get.
"Thank you, Ash." Aqua said, pulling on a pink ribbon to tie her curls of blue-black hair back from her face. "Race you to the garden!" she yelled, running out of the room before the boy could answer.
"What's the surprise, mummy?" Airic asked his mother when all the children were present.
"May I let my shield (AN: a shield of magick to hide their magick and thoughts from others.) down?" Amber inquired.
"Yes, love. You may all, but only for lunch." Someone answered her. The children had shields that surpassed even one of the greatest masters and they were only mages, or students.
Suddenly the entire sky went dark and bunches of fauns and other Elementals ran back, screaming or crying of a great evil coming soon.
"What's going on?" Aqua screamed, jumping onto Ash.
"I don't know. Children, into the center." Andrew said, motioning for the adults to form a protective circle about the youngsters. There was a flash of lightning and a dark figure stood before the group.
"Well.Well.Well. So here's my precious little cousin all grown up with a daughter of her known." The evil Reginald (AN: Reggie was Marina's cousin and part of the Satanic followers who tried to kill Marina. He failed and was sent into a coma where he died several months later.) cackled.
"How? How are you still alive?" Marina screamed, covering her child, protectively.
"It's a little thing I call favors from the Dark God." He laughed, pointing his finger at Aqua and motioning for her to come forth. "You would be great among the forces of my league, my dear. Come and join us."
"I would rather kiss a frog!" Aqua yelled, gesturing rudely at the man.
"My! What a naughty child!" He closed his fingers into a fist and whispered something. Suddenly Aqua screamed, clutching at her throat, gasping for air.
"Aquaria!" Airic yelled in fear before he started lashing out at Reggie with his power. Seeing as Airic was doing, Amber and Ash followed throwing themselves into their magickal reserves to save their friend. Reggie released Aqua from his hold and retreated, screaming all the while,
"I'll be back! You children will pay!"
"We mustn't let him have our children!" Eleanor cried, hugging her daughter.
"No. We'll send them away as my parents did." Marina exclaimed. "Somewhere where they'll grow up under the surveillance of someone with strong magickal powers who can make sure our children learn their Mastery. Then they can come back after learning all they can!"
"But to where?" Andrew asked. "Certainly nowhere near here. Definitely not anywhere in Britain."
"Numair!" Thomas suddenly suggested. "Reggie will never find them there. And Numair can teach them everything he knows and we can send books of Mastery along so he can teach them."
"But it's so different from here." Clifton said.
"Then they can learn how to care for themselves. They have the clothes for the period. You know very well that Margurita was having too much fun with medieval clothing. They'll get along fine. We can send them with some gold and jewels to sell for money." Sebastian agreed with Thomas.
"Then it's settled." Mary, Clifton's wife (AN: I made her up.she's not real. She's my character.) "The children will go to Numair. Marina, Andrew, if you'll contact Numair and set up a meeting place, Margurita, Eleanor, and myself will go and start helping the children pack up. Thomas, Sebastian, you'll find gold and jewels for the children. Clifton, if you'll go find the books the children will need, that would be very helpful." Mary took over.
"Come along, my dears." Eleanor took the hands of the two girls as the boys followed. They were summering at Oakhurst (AN: the manor that Marina inherited from her parents.), therefore all their clothes were there, so it was a lucky thing. Margurita quickly came sweeping in with several large trunks, two for each child.
"Your clothes will go in this trunk." Mary pointed at the larger trunks. "Books and other personal items go in the littler trunks. If you'll go collect those personal items and bring them to Aqua's room, we will determine what will go and what will stay."
"Numair says to send them to a practice court near his rooms and he will keep an eye out for them." Marina reported, coming into the room. "I'll take Aqua and help her. I suggest you mothers do the same."
"Mummy, I don't want to leave you." Aqua said, helping her mother fold some pretty gowns.
"But you must, my baby. You must. Master Numair will care for you until you reach the age of mastery. Then, if he deems you fit to be a Master, you'll be allowed to come back."
"Alright, mummy. I'll try my best so I can come home soon. I think I'll go get my things." Aqua stood and ran over to her dresser and picked up the photo frames that held pictures of her friends, her aunts and uncles, and her parents. Then she began to ransack her bookcase for her fairy tales.
"Here, love. This is the locket that was supposed to be your birthday gift." Marina pulled a little heart locket from her pocket and placed the thin silver chain about her daughter's swan-like throat.
"Thank you Mummy." Aqua ran her fingers along the chain and smiled. One by one, the others began to trickle into the room.
"Books." Clifton groaned, dropping an armload of books onto the floor. "Levels starting from the lowest up to Mastery. On all Elements. I figured that Numair could teach them all the elements, so they would have the learning. Maybe even some of his type of Magick. I mean, since the children have so much magick in them."
"Good. Here are the jewels. I hope you don't mind that we invaded your safe, Marina. We weren't sure where else to get gems and gold pieces. I got some of the best pieces that we normally use for magic. And the gold bits that we got last year. It should be enough for the children for a while. We can always send more to Numair for the children." Sebastian said, putting down 4 sacks of velvet, filled with bits and baubles. "Thomas ran off saying something about his presents to the children should be of use."
"And they will be." Thomas said, returning with some expertly carved bows and quivers filled with the top of the line arrows with fine griffin fletchings (AN: I think I spelled this wrong.). "Bows.I've taught them so they should know."
"That will be helpful. I'm glad I found the time to teach them swordplay and staffs." Andrew said, walking into the room. "Numair has decided to convince the King to allow them to start as pages. He wants them to be knighted. Seems that's the only way he can be sure that they'll be busy."
"That's wonderful." Marina said sarcastically. "If we're all here now, I think its time for the surprise and then we'll finish packing. Then we'll send the children on their way."
"Here." Each set of parents presented their child with a piece of silver jewelry with a braid of colored threads embedded in it.
"It takes the shape of anything you want. You must always have it on your body. On the inside, is a colored thread that represents you; those threads are entwined. That will place you even closer on the magickal scale. The other bits are us, your parents. That brings us closer to you." Thomas explained.
"Thank you." Amber said as the others nodded in agreement.
?????
"I love you Mummy!" Aqua screamed as the bubble of the force field surrounded her and pulled her in along with the others and she was taken to a dimension called Tortall.