Alex Darkthorne (1) grumbled as he skirted and stumbled through the heavy underbrush of the mysterious, newly discovered world of Azteca. The air was muggy and damp with insects and small bugs flying and buzzing around him. He had been so very excited at finally being able to come onto the frontlines of the fight against the evil Morganthe. But this world was so hot, muggy, with bugs and insects crawling all over the place; he had bug bites all over his arms and neck. This world was not a good place for an ice mage, not good at all. (2)
"Merle's beard this place is ridiculous, no wonder the natives have scales instead!" Alex slashed through the thorny ferns and low bushes with his wand-blade, freeing his captured black cape from a protruding tree root
"Yes, please help us not scaled, tiny creature; drag yourself through a marsh and give this letter to my friend! How is this considered a noble quest?" Alex complained now wading through a shallow water filled area of a path, holding the rolled up and bow tied scroll high to prevent it from getting wet (3)
"Ugh should have brought Sapphire with me or Ruby…" Alex sighed thinking of his magnificent blue and red dragons both of whom helped get him to his quests faster, they were probably flying and playing around in his ice castle surrounded by ice and snow, with freezing cold winds, and fluffy, soft cold ground. (4) Just thinking about his nice, cold home made Alex give a little sob. No matter, after giving this scroll to Techotl Redsmoke, he would be done for the day; able to go home and bathe off the sweat, dirt, and marsh goo attached to him, then rest.
So after the tedious tasks of swatting away buzzing insects, wading through more shallow areas of the marsh, and slashing his way through absolutely evil low hanging branches and ferns; he finally made it to his destination. Techotl Redsmoke was the leader of the Smoking Mirror Scouts in Mangrove Marsh, a large raptor-like dinosaur who questioned the benefits of war.
"Umm hello Sir Techotl this letter is from your friend Oztomeca the weaver." Alex said shyly to the large raptor dinosaur; don't get him wrong Alex was usually a very outgoing person but when faced with talking to a large dinosaur with equally large pointy teeth anyone would be mightily intimidated
"Ah thank you young wizard-creature, I have been awaiting for my friends' reply for a long while; he must have been very busy for taking so long to write back; your help is much appreciated." Said Techotl while unwrapping the large scroll to show flowing, curvy Aztecan script
"Your very welcome sir, it was all in a day's work; well I've got to go now. Have a great day, bye!" Alex gave a wave to the raptor dinosaur and teleported away to his wonderful, cold ice castle leaving behind a shower of blue sparks and snowflakes falling to the ground where he had just been standing.
Alex smiled as a gust of ice cold tundra winds blew across his face and cooled his tired, overly warm body down. He happily walked down the carved snowy steps and across the floating walkway of ice to the large flat iceberg on which his house stood. He could hear Sapphire and Rudy yipping and growling at each other and the flaps of their wings, they were always arguing over one thing or the other. Suddenly their growling stopped; it seemed that they had finally noticed his return; he had only made it halfway to the door of his house until he was pummeled by one red and one blue dragon.
"Hey guys, miss me?" he chuckled, Sapphire nosed at his hair which by now had turned an odd color between gray and brown from all the battles he had fought and the tumbles through ridiculous terrain. The original snow-white color was nowhere to be seen on that head of his, it probably smelled to, taking into account how Sapphire wrinkled her nose and shook her head.
"Yeah, I know, I'm a mess right now. I don't know how those dinosaurs do it, walking through muddy, water filled marshes and battling crazy monkeys. Anyway you two, I'm going to go and take a shower, I need one badly don't you agree?" Ruby and Sapphire yipped cheerfully, nudging him toward the door of the castle
"Yeah, yeah no need to rub it in." he grumbled fondly at their antics, letting Sebastian his spirit of nature pet play with the two energetic dragons after telling them not to rough house too much; Sebastian was so tiny compared to them even though he had a cool green sword…which he never used; so nonviolent and those two devils knew it.
After taking a relaxing, cleansing shower and taking the gunk out of his hair, returning to its former glory of soft snow-white, Alex went to take a long awaited nap…or was about to anyway. From his bed side table rang his chat bracelet, trilling annoyingly through the silent air of his bedroom. (5)
"Just when I thought I could get a peaceful afternoon." Alex sighed at his misfortune
The message was from his friend Talon Nightshade, a formidable necromancer even further out fighting on the front lines, a great help to have when dealing with troublesome enemies. Alex tapped the blue jewel in the middle of his bracelet to read the message from his friend.
Port to me, Prof. Ambrose wants to talk 2 us.-Talon
K, be there in a sec.-Alex
After writing out his reply Alex hurriedly dressed back into his now clean garments, reminding himself to ask his friend Emily about that quick cleaning spell he'd seen her do after battles; he desperately needed to learn that one. (6) Quickly he found Sebastian, apologizing to the spirit of nature pet at waking him up from his nap, he found his wand sheathing it onto his sword belt on his hip so he would be able to hold onto a sleepy Sebastian-his pet was a stubborn one, when he slept, he slept.
Finally Alex teleported away to his friend and found himself in Professor Ambrose's office, standing next to Talon, a tall boy of 16 with jet-black and piercing amber eyes. Also in the office not counting Talon and Alex, were five others. There was Blaze Moonflame a fire mage who sneered as Alex glared back at him; he couldn't remember the last time they had ever gotten along. There was a myth mage leaning against the office wall, with long wavy brown curls on his head and emerald green eyes. He also saw that his best friend Emily Stardust, a powerful and potent Life mage smiling and waving at him across the room from her seat; she was with two other girls that he had never seen before but from the looks of their choice in colors he could accurately guess their school of choice. One girl dressed with purple and yellow garbs was probably a storm mage, while the other was obviously a balance mage.
"Ah, yes now that we are finally all here, let us all introduce and become acquainted with each other, hmm?" Professor Ambrose finally said breaking the silence in the office
"Well, ok then; my name's Blaze Moonflame, I'm a pyromancer and currently working on missions in the newly discovered world of Azteca, currently archmage level." the archmage finished with a smug smile and directed his gaze straight at Alex
"So gramps how about you?" Blaze asked, purposely adding the ridiculous nickname to goad him on, immediately getting on his most sensitive nerves easily. Blaze always knew how to hit every sore spot when it came to Alex, and his hair had always been a giant, big bruise just ready to be poked at.
"Shut it Moonflame! The name is Alex Darkthorne a Thaumaturge, I'm working in Azteca and am currently also at archmage level." Alex muttered the rest out after his exclamation at Blaze
Talon went next impressing everybody with his magic experience at the highest level-promethean. His best friend Emily was at Transcendent level currently working in Avalon; next the guy who had been leaning against the office wall introduced himself as Chase Spiritstone a conjurer who also happened to be at archmage level. The other two girls were Rylee Rainshard and Tara Ravenspear, a diviner at legendary level and a sorcerer at promethean level respectively.
After introductions were done and over with, Professor Ambrose finally got down to business to explain why they had all been summoned by him.
"As you all know, the new world of Azteca has now just been found again and a select few have been able to travel to the long lost world, after the message for help had been translated by Professor Drake. We also know that there are many more to be discovered worlds still out there in the spiral. But it seems-"
"Professor are you saying that you want us to go to another world; has another world been found?" interrupted Blaze excitedly
"No young Blaze you will not be going to a new world, but rather going back to an old one." Professor Ambrose answered smiling that mysterious smile of his that said he was going to be dropping a huge surprise on them
"Going back to an old on, do you mean Grizzleheim; are the bears in need of our help again?" asked Alex, they had helped them twice already; hmm maybe the ravens were up to no good again. He hoped they weren't trying to wake up the Ice Titan again, that had proved to be a whole load of trouble.
"No, not Grizzleheim young wizards," Blaze grumbled at "young" mumbling something about being almost seventeen, "but Earth, where all seven of you hail from." Said Ambrose chuckling at all of their shocked expressions, well most of them anyway Chase chose to yawn widely instead and Rylee squealed something about shopping and taking a break
"Professor why would we be going to Earth, no magic exists there, I doubt Morganthe would care too much about taking over Earth, no offense to my home world, eh heh." Emily questioned, leaving off with a nervous laugh
"That was exactly what the Professors and I had thought also young Emily, but it seems to not be the case anymore."
"What do you mean? Magic exists on Earth; how did we not know about this?" question Talon with a puzzled look on his face
"There seems to be a secret society that has been hiding their magical abilities for hundreds and hundreds of years! It seems as if they isolated themselves for a reason, oh my, I hope it isn't for too serious a reason, we already have Morganthe to worry about." Professor Ambrose exclaimed while Talon hummed in agreement to the Morganthe bit, his lips turned down into a serious frown
"I can't believe it, that magic actually exists on Earth!" Rylee wondered out loud
"Yes it is pretty hard to believe isn't it? But what I'm most concerned about is why they would want to hide from the rest of the Spiral, what could they be hiding-if they are actually hiding anything." questioned Tara, a thoughtful and worried expression on her face
"Maybe they don't know about the rest of the Spiral, even if they are a magical society we can't assume they would know about the spiral doors scattered about right? I mean Earth has been left alone for a thousand years now, maybe they thought they were the only magical race left." Alex theorized, it seemed a pretty logical reason as to why they had been left alone for so long
"Hmm…snow white has a point there! We've left alone Earth for so long because we thought humans from that world did not practice magic anymore, all magically talented individuals came straight to Ravenwood to learn." Blaze pointed out, while Alex growled at yet another annoying nickname
"Ah, so we all just assumed that there was no magical society, a horrible error on our end. I wonder how their society has evolved in such isolation; it must be very different." Talon wondered, maybe they would be able to study magic from their home world also, it would prove to be interesting
"Probably very different, so Professor Ambrose is this why we're going to Earth, to learn more about this hidden magical society on Earth?" Emily questioned
"Yes young Emily, all seven of you are going to Earth to learn more about this society, you see they have a large school in a country called Scotland if I have that correct. This school is known to be the best in helping young wizards reach their full potential on the subject of magic. Gamma and I wish for you seven to go there and learn more of their ways in magic and see if we might be able to initiate friendly interaction between Wizard City and this new society. Now I have already talked to the headmaster of the school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and he seems to be interested in helping smooth out our inevitable relations between their government and us. He is also willing to let you seven transfer to his school for a year and learn their magic." Professor Ambrose briefed them on their new quest, speaking of the school and the intriguing headmaster
"Wow, so we're going to this school; will we be able to learn all the spells and stuff; what classes do they teach other than magic Professor?" asked Rylee
"Well Rylee, the classes are the most interesting! They seem to not have divided them into categories like ours have. They are divided into defensive magic, charms is a class for everyday magic, and transfiguration is a class where they change objects into something else. Then there seem to be other subjects, such as potions, astronomy, and herbology. Well there are many more classes but the ones I just listed are the basic ones that all students at Hogwarts must learn." Professor Ambrose explained
"I'm confused, what about offensive magic you never listed that as a class, I would think that would be in the core subjects." Asked Alex, he was hoping to learn something useful to help him in probably many upcoming battles; maybe something to buff up his attacks.
"I'm not sure why but the school seems to teach more defensive magic than anything, any offensive spells that might be learned will either be grouped together with their Defense Against the Dark Arts class or Transfiguration." Said Professor Ambrose (7)
"Defense against the Dark Arts? Why are they only teaching defense against Death magic, are they prejudiced against Death magic?" Talon asked scowling at the thought (8)
"I do not know young Talon; I think that's another thing you can research about during your stay at Hogwarts. It seems that these wizards are partial to a different type of lighter magic." Said Professor Ambrose
"Now Hogwarts is hosting a game called the Triwizard Tournament, it's a sort of magical contest that's held between three large wizard schools. Each school is represented by a one champion for the contest. But it seems that this time there will be four schools competing because Ravenwood will be joining in on the fun as well!" exclaimed Professor Ambrose clapping his hands together with a happy twinkle in his eyes
"That sounds interesting, who will be the champion chosen amongst us; I certainly hope not me I don't think I could collect enough energy to compete in a magical game on Earth, too much work." Drawled out Chase from where he was still leaning against the wall
"So he isn't mute?" whispered Rylee to Emily a little too loudly who snickered
"Ah young Chase, the champion will actually be chosen when you seven will be there with all the other schools." Explained Professor Ambrose
"Oh cool." Chase uttered in monotone
"Now, now enough of this sitting around and discussing, the day is almost done and you haven't packed for your big trip yet. You must all go and get ready. After you have packed go through Bartleby spiral door and there you will meet Headmistress Crisp; I'm sure you all remember her from your escapades in Wysteria, when you all competed for the Spiral Cup?"
"Yes, we all remember her." Blaze said in a scornful tone, while everybody else groaned at the thought of Headmistress Belladonna Crisp accompanying them to Hogwarts
"Now, now everything will go swimmingly I expect, though I'm sorry I, myself will not be able to accompany you seven; there is just too much to oversee here for me to be able to go to Hogwarts." Said Professor Ambrose sadly
"Now, everybody go on and pack whatever you might need, then go and meet Headmistress Crisp by Bartleby, I wish you an exciting and fun time." Exclaimed Professor Ambrose
"Bye Professor Ambrose, we'll make sure too take plenty of pictures for you and keep you up to date on everything!" said Emily as everybody waved goodbye to Professor Ambrose before teleporting away in a shower of multicolored sparks to get ready for their next great adventure
After hurriedly packing whatever they might need for a year in a new school, not that he needed to worry too much being able to teleport anytime to their house. (9) Finally all seven of them were at Bartleby's spiral door and saw Headmistress Crisp waving at them to hurry along, she was holding a gold shining key just like theirs to unlock Earth's spiral door.
"Alright everyone, we are all going to travel to Earth, a world of magicless humans who believe only on the power of science hmph. Anyway it seems that the spiral door in Earth will land us in a place called Stonehenge, have any of you heard of it?" asked Headmistress Crisp
"Yes I have, I've been there plenty of times." Said Talon sounding extremely smug for some reason
"Hmm…do well do you know you're way around the country of the United Kingdom?" asked Headmistress Crisp her eyes narrowing at Talon as if challenging him to give her a positive answer
"Like the back of my hand, I was born there actually; in London to be accurate." Answered Talon with an even more smug smile on his face, that Alex thought looked very natural on his face then the frown he had on earlier when asking Ambrose about the prejudice against Death Magic
"Then when we fly over to Hogwarts castle you will be leading with me young man to make sure all these children do not get lost on our way from Amesbury to Alnwick." Said Headmistress Crisp
Alex had been called a child plenty of times by plenty of people before; even Headmaster Ambrose called him child sometimes. Though coming from most of them it sounded like an endearment, they called him a child because of his age and appearance; also lord only knew how old they were. But from Headmistress Crisp it was an insult, mocking all of them, as if she did not believe they were worthy enough to be in her presence; she absolutely did not respect even after all they had done for her and her school. Alex could tell by the tense atmosphere that his fellow peers felt the same way; alas he should have known this would not be an easy trip. Headmistress Crisp had always for some reason hated Ravenwood and its students.
And so it was with this outlook that they all went up to the Spiral door inside the great tree Bartleby, all their keys to Earth raised, to start their journey in their home world to a new secret society of newly discovered wizards.
Author Notes
Oh gosh, this chapter totally went out of control; the story just ran away from me and started typing itself up. I'm not joking, I did not mean to type up this much for the first chapter but whatever. Reading through this over, it's really boring just explanations and stuff. I promise the next chapter will be more interesting. I'm not planning to post this up until I have two more chapters over with.
Those bolded numbers, what are they?
Okay, all the Ravenwood wizards are original characters, made up by me. Alex is based on my ice character from the game, except a girl. Lol!
If Azteca was a real world, I would expect it to be humid and muggy like how the prehistoric times were described as. And since Alex is an ice wizard, it's no wonder that he would hate that so much.
The place I'm trying to describe and failing at is Mangrove Marsh, yeah; those big puddle things I totally failed at describing it…
Alex's house is the Ice House in the crown shop; you can preview it to see what I'm trying to describe, I tried not to let every other word while trying to describe it be "ice". It was pretty difficult.
Yes. Really. Chatting bracelets were the only things I could come up with to explain how they talked to each other. I got the idea while looking at all these cool phone ideas, some people have now come up with phones that can be wrapped around your wrist, like a band. So I came up with Chatting Bracelets, they have three gems on it. Two diamond shaped ones; for shut down and the other for a friends list. The one on the middle is a circle that blinks with a pretty ringtone when you have a message. So you tap the circle and a holographic image pops up from the gem and all you have to do is wave your finger up or down to scroll through. Tap the image and a holographic keyboard comes up and you can reply and send to your friend. Pretty simple right, I like the idea; I hope you guys understood my weird rambling XD
I think Ravenwood students are able to do every day magic. What I mean by everyday magic is you know, like levitating objects and stuff. Like all those charms Hogwarts students learn; I think they do have the ability to do that also. If you run around Pigswick Academy you will see the students from there doing all sorts of stuff, so I think it is safe to say that Ravenwood students can join in Hogwarts classes and learn their spells, further along in this story.
I realized that Hogwarts students have very few effective attack spells, I looked through a giant list of Harry Potter spells and most are defensive, Harry's favorite Expelliarmus seems to be the most truly useful one.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure most Hogwarts wizards won't like hearing about Talon's brand of magic.
So I thought about Teleporting and Apparition, they kind of are the same thing I guess. But just for the sake of my story I will treat these two differently, okay? I need my Ravenwood wizards to be able to teleport. Apparition is slightly different, remember when the golden trio were running away from that werewolf guy in the Deathly Hollows and they apparated to a place they had not ever been to (another part of the forest), teleportation does not work like that it seems. Ravenwood wizards mark the place if they want to teleport there again; hence they need to have seen the place before. So it's slightly different. Apparition has fewer limits on it, while teleportation is more confining. Ugh, rambling again; you see I tend to do that a lot.
Ok guys and gals, I am finished with this chapter, it seriously wrote itself; this chapter was out of control. I just kept on typing like a possessed crazy person. XD Well until next time my dears!