"Gummo Reflo Mirro!"
As Zummi casted the spell over the white mirror that leaned to the wall, the same thing happened again; nothing. The mirror glowed after the spell and went back to normal, but nothing happened.
Zummi started to scratch his fury head. He had tried everything, but it didn't make any difference. "How in the great gummi medallion is this spell supposed to work?"
He had been working in an hour with a spell he had used on a very special mirror he had found hidden when he had been cleaning up his books. The same mirror was to be found in a picture in the Book, and now he had been experimented with the spell that had followed with it. He couldn't understand what he was doing wrong, but on the other hand eh didn't understand what he was to do anyway. The page where he had found the mirror was written in some strange language he had never come across before. He simply didn't figure out where to go next.
He heard the door being opened and looked up to see Cubbi enter with Cavin in his heals. "What's your doing, Zummi?"
"Oh, hello lads. You mean this?" Zummi smiled at them and held up the object. "Well, according to the Great Book, this is supposed to be a magical mirror, but I'm not sure of how it works. The spell is just as old as Ancient Gummis; probably as old as the medallion itself."
"What kind of magic mirror is it?" Cavin asked. The human boy was always eager to see what the magician was up to, and Zummi smiled of his enthusiasm.
"Well, according to the Book, it's supposed to show us things from another place. Look, look!" Zummi hurried Cavin and Cubbi over to the Great Book, which had an open page with the picture of the same mirror. "It will take you into a certain place where everything is the complete opposite as our own world, where everything that seems right to us, is wrong in this world and opposite. And left is right… no, eh, right…"
"The only thing not right here, is you, Zummi. What've you found this time." sounded the voice of Gruffi, who entered the room. "Weren't you supposed to clean up this place?"
Zummi smiled at his appearance and placed the mirror upon the Great Book. "There is this mirror, Gruffi. The Great book says…"
"The Great Book says this; the Great Book says that!" Gruffi flung his hands into the air, and forced Cubbi to move out of the way and crash into Cavin's leg, casing the human boy to step backwards and bump into the shelf where the Great Book with the mirror on top of it was lying. "Do you ever think for yourself sometimes? After you got that medallion, you hardly do anything else than reading it and do as it tells."
"But Gruffi." Zummi said putting the mirror down at the open page of the Book. "The Great Book of Gummis tells us how we gummi bears should live."
"And if the Great Book of Gummis had told you that we all should jump into the river or walk right into Drekmore and surrender to Igthorn, would you have done that too?"
"Oh, Gruffi. You know the Book only does well for Gummis."
While Zummi and Gruffi were talking, Cavin had another look at the mirror. It looked quite a lot like those exclusive golden mirrors he had seen hanging at the castle, but the gummi sign at the top of it could tell it was made of gummi bears. And it had some weird inscription on it that was impossible to read.
He looked into the dusty surface and wondered if you had to be a gummi to look into it. But he hadn't thought it through before he suddenly caught the sight of something that made him rub his eyes and wonder if he had seen wrong.
But he hadn't seen wrong; the sight that met him was real, and he wasn't sure of what to believe when he saw it. He practically jumped back in surprise and disbelieving.
"You guys!" he cried out. The others stopped talking and looked at him. "I think its working; it IS a magical mirror!"
"What did you see, Cavin?" Zummi asked excited.
"I saw myself, but it wasn't me. I mean, it was me, but I was… different. I was wearing different clothes, my hair was different and…"
"Of course!" Zummi said. "You see things as something else than in this world."
"Oh, that's just what we needed now." Gruffi shook his head.
Zummi on the other hand had his interest lightened. "Cavin, could you please look into it again? I have to see for myself."
Cavin, though a little skeptical, grabbed the mirror and placed it on the floor in front of them and held his head over it so they all could see his reflection. Even Gruffi gasped when they saw it; Cavin was still Cavin, but he was wearing different garments that looked a bit more rough and he also had a piece of cloth bounded around his forehead.
"Oh, I was right!" Zummi said excited. "There really IS a magical mirror. And it IS show us another world."
"Well, I have no idea, Gruffi." Zummi said and walked over to the open page at the Book pointing out the lines. "But the Book says that in the other world, things are quite opposite of the world we know. For example; here the gummi bears can't be among humans; but there for all we know they might be friends there. Maybe there are the humans who hide and the gummi bears who walk out there. And WE might have been different like we see Cavin is."
Cavin looked back in the mirror and turned his head back and forth to study the strange picture of himself, or what looked like himself. "I don't look that different, do I?"
"No, but you might BE different, your person might be something else than here. For example; in such a world, Gruffi might had been smiling all the time while Sunni would be true to gummi traditions.
"And maybe Grammi would be making GOOD meals for a change." Cubbi came out with. "Now I see it; everything is backwards!"
"In one way. Maybe Mirror-Cavin that we see here wouldn't even believe in gummi bears." Zummi contunied.
"Hah!" Cavin spat out and crossed his arms. "That would NEVER happen. Not in a million years. NO matter what I'd be like; I would ALWAYS believe in gummi bears!" He proclaimed proudly with his nose upwards.
"Oh, you don't know that." Zummi said. "But on the other hand, we don't know anything since we haven't been there."
"But how come only Cavin is able to see himself in it?" Cubbi said and looked over it, and the others noticed that he was right; the others weren't able to find their own reflection in the mirror. Cubbi stared at the empty surface. "I can't see myself?"
"What does that mean? That in that other world you're babbling about, we don't exist?" Gruffi said and looked at Zummi, who suddenly had become insecure.
"Oh, ehm… well, honestly…" he pulled in his collar and blinked. "I have no idea. After all…"
No one noticed that Cubbi was taking a closer look at the mirror. He wondered why it didn't give any special reflection when he was looking into it and carefully touched the glass plate with a wrinkle on his tiny snout.
But as he did, the glass suddenly started to glow with a white clear light that shaped itself into a sourt of hand who grabbed Cubbi's hand. "WOAA!"
"CUBBI!" Cavin cried out and grabbed the little bear in the other hand trying to drag him away from the mirror. But it was useless; the glowing hand pulled poor Cubbi longer and longer into the mirror plate.
Gruffi wasn't late to act; he grabbed the little cub's legs and pulled them as hard as he could. But it was useless; the mirror had soon dragged Cubbi into it, and then it continued with Gruffi.
"Great stars! Hold on, Gruffi!" Zummi said and grabbed his hand while Cavin, who hadn't been able to hold on Cubbi, grabbed the elder gummi bear around his waist pulling him all he could backwards. But before they all knew it, the mirror had sucked all the three gummi bears into it.
Cavin was left in shock, not knowing what to do. He crawled to the mirror and looked down in the plate and looked into it with despair. "Cubbi? Zummi? Gruffi? Are you there? Answer me!" He knocked on the glass plate, but there was no answer.
Cavin felt how he started to panic. "Oh no… what am I to do?"
