Wizard101

Fire Flower

Chapter One: Rowan DawnRiver

One minute I'm studying for my history test due tomorrow, the next thing that happens is my paper is suddenly alight. I watch in shock as the flame ate my paper and left behind nothing but ashes. How did that happen?!

The orphanage manager's gonna kill me! I have to ace this tomorrow or else it's the streets for me! My name is Rowan and I am thirteen years old, I don't have a last name because the manager thinks I'm not good enough for one. I have a love and affinity for the supernatural, ever since I accidentally set a piece of bark from a tree on fire I've been studying the causes for it.

It seems like a natural thing for me, the temperature of a room rises if I'm angry, I never sweat whenever it's really hot outside, and sometimes when I'm furious if I touch anything metal it melts and anything else I touch burns, like the paper in front of me. I never cared about it since I got used to it instantly.

I close my eyes as I let a few tears leak out but never wiped them away. The manager, a stubborn, arrogant twenty-year old woman, has treated everyone with kindness but she treats me with her worse behavior, she's starved me several times, she's called me lots of swear words and wished I was never born, and she has threatened to send me to the streets almost everyday!

"I don't want to be here anymore!" I shout as I launch myself onto my bed and cried myself to sleep. My dreams are filled with emptiness, I have no chance of a future since the manager refuses to let me see any families who might want to adopt me. I have no one left in this world.


"Is she alright?" That's what I hear when I start to wake up. "Go ask the professor." Another voice answered the first. Did I sleep-walk to school on accident? I hear footsteps walk away and finally notice that...I'm on cobblestone not my bed sheets.

I slowly open my eyes to see a boy with shaggy brown hair and green eyes wearing weird clothes finally notice that I'm awake. "Are you okay?" He asked as he helped me up to my feet and stopping me from falling when I stumbled a bit.

"Where am I?" I asked curiously as my vision was still clearing. "You're in Wizard City," He answered as my vision finally cleared and saw a lot of teenagers wearing weird clothes. "Me and my sister just found you here asleep." After he said that a girl with light brown hair and blue eyes wearing a light blue trimmed white robe, light blue trimmed boots, and a light blue trimmed pointed hat was dragging, well the person was following, a blue clothed fairy with snowflakes coming from her feet.

"Oh you woke up!" She said happily as she clapped her hands. "Professor Grayrose this is the person I said that me and Dustin found asleep near Bartleby!" She shouted as she pointed at me. I instantly covered my ears as Dustin shook his head. "Come on Alura." He said as he grabbed her arm and dragged her away from us.

"Why don't we go visit the Headmaster," Grayrose said as she led me around the tree I was asleep on and through a tunnel. "He'll be glad to help you out."


"I see," The Headmaster, an elderly man wearing a star-and-moon patterned robe and hat, said as I finished taking a written test, well it was a test to me. "Let's know your name first." I instantly realized that throughout the four people, five if you count the owl, I never told them my name.

"Rowan DawnRiver." I said as I bowed slightly. What the hell was that?! DawnRiver?! Maybe I can finally be someone here then I was back on Earth. Next thing I noticed was that a red-and-orange light with a tint of yellow surrounded me and when it faded my clothes were changed to look like everyone's.

I was wearing a red trimmed orange robe, an yellow trimmed red pointed hat, and orange trimmed yellow boots. In my right hand was a stick of hickory with a gold band near the end, another gold band at the top keeping a ruby from falling off with two golden wing-like stands on each side.

"Take this to the Registrar in Golem Court," He said as his pet owl, whose name is Gamma, gave me a sealed scroll. "Then find the Fire School and meet your professor there." I simply nodded and walked out of the castle only to realize that I have no idea where this 'Golem Court' is.

"Are you okay?" A voice asked me from my right, shocking me out of my thoughts. I looked in the direction of the voice and saw a boy with spiky white hair, slightly dark tan, and silver eyes wearing a gold or yellow robe with purple trim, a very tall pointed matching hat, and matching boots and a very long staff with a purple ball on the top with three lightning bolts coming out of it.

"I'm just trying to find Golem Court," I said sheepishly, I am slightly shy around guys even if I known them for a long time. "I'm Rowan DawnRiver by the way." He smiled as he nodded, making me slightly blush. "Golem Court is past the Fairgrounds and past the tunnel to Ravenwood," He said as he showed me where the Fairgrounds and the tunnel was. "My name is Boris Tallstaff, maybe you'll do some quests for me sometime."

As I came out of the tunnel I noticed a stork writing in a book. Maybe he's the registrar? I approached him and he saw the scroll in my hand. "Ah! A new wizard!" He said, scaring a bit enough for me to flinch. "Sorry about that, lets see..." He looked through his book while humming and muttering things until his face lit up.

"Okay! You are now accepted at the Ravenwood Schools of Magic!" He shouted which made me cover my ears. I went back through the tunnel and searched for the one across the Fairgrounds. I noticed the Golem Court tunnel was labeled as 'Golem Court' so I have to find a tunnel labeled 'Ravenwood'.

Once I found the tunnel and went through it, I was amazed by what I saw.