Angel: This story is being revised. I need to get rid of a plot point in this story, so this story won't be as you remembered it (Talking to you old readers of my story if you are still around). If you are new here, enjoy it nonetheless.
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Wind blew heavily in a place called Wizard City. The autumn leaves fell off of trees and were carried off with the wind. They often smack themselves into buildings or into other trees. The Sun was covered by the clouds. It was the year 2015. Student wizards walked around, chatting amongst themselves. It was getting closer to Thanksgiving and it was their final day to go to school before they are let out for their quick break.
A particular girl, however, had different plans in mind than go to school. In the always stormy grounds of Triton Avenue sat this myth wizard. She was sitting on the edge of a cliff, fishing pole in hand that dipped into the river below. Apparently fishing was her thing.
"Eh, I am already failing Cyrus Drake's classes. He is not going to even care about me…" The Myth wizard whistled, waiting for a bite from one of the many non-talking fish in the river. Students walked past to her to head to school, many of them stopping to look at her strangely or shaking their heads. The girl could care less.
This particular girl is called Mika FrogWhisperer. A girl at the age of 15 with silver hair tied into a pony tail and has dark purple eyes. Her skin is dark brown. There is a beauty mark that just lay under her right eye and a couple of freckles on her cheeks. Mika is about 4 feet and 10 inches in height and flat chested. She could pass for a boy really easily.
Mika wore an adept Myth robe that is blue and yellow, like most Myth students. Her boots are brown and covered in dirt. If there is one thing about Mika is that she is a rather dirty girl… in both counts… She rarely even takes bathes, making people avoid her all the more. It didn't really matter. She only needed a few people in her life.
"Mika, why aren't you in school? Break doesn't start until tomorrow!" Mika turned her head around and sees Susie Gryphonbane walk up to her. The storm student sat down next to her. She flicked her short brown hair behind her ear as she gave Mika an incredulous look.
"Fishing… at this time of day… and especially on a school day?" Mika just shrugged and dangled her feet, looking at the river below. She really didn't want to hear this crap again from Susie. Mika and her are pretty much friends, sort of. They are actually friends with benefits to be exact. It has been going on for about a year so far. Susie has been her friend since she was 10 and they finally decided to experiment a little when they were 14.
"You know me. I am a rebel to the end…" Mika responded, still feeling no yanks from the fishing line. Perhaps the fish weren't hungry today. Susie sighed as she crossed her legs, looking at the cloudy sky. She knew she just couldn't argue with Mika, there was no way to convince her to go to school.
"Did you hear the news last night?" Susie asked as she lay on her back, arms behind her head. Mika looked at her and nodded before looking back at the river. "Yeah, witches came by for a visit. Probably being their usual evil selves…" Mika could care really less about witches. She had always pegged them as evil beings. Evil beings that want to destroy wizards and just torture innocent people with their dark magical powers and spells.
"Not all witches are evil, Mika… some of them are good…" Susie pointed out to her. The Myth student scoffed as if to say, 'Yeah right'. The storm student sat up and gave her a little glare. "I am serious, some witches are actually good! Sure their spells are a little unorthodox, but come on."
"Why are you still here? Shouldn't you be at the Storm School?" Mika changed the subject, reeling in the fishing line to find a rubber ducky attached to the hook. "Smart ass fish…" She muttered as she reached into her pocket to pull out another worm to hook on to.
"Ugh, you are hopeless… and to answer your question, I have an A in my school, so skipping one day of class won't hurt. You on the other hand are failing your Myth Studies! If you keep failing you'll never become a Magus and just flunk out…" Susie pointed out in a matter-of-fact way. Mika just merely scoffed and shook her head.
"What's the point? Cyrus doesn't even like me. Better yet he hardly cares about anyone. If I had to describe Cyrus in one word that word would be, "Asshole!" She threw the fishing line back into the river to see if she'll get a bite this time.
"Well…" Susie couldn't deny that Cyrus was stubborn and strict with his students and others. However, she still wants her friend to at least pass with a D. She is concerned for her future. "I care about you, Mika. You don't want to just throw your life away by failing Myth Studies. Come on…"
"…" Mika didn't respond and just waited around for the fish to bite. Susie sighed and shook her head. As expected, it is very hard to convince Mika to do anything. Why does she even bother? Oh wait, that's right, she is Mika's only friend that has the patience to put up with her. She also has a little crush, but she wouldn't admit that to her.
"Just what are you planning to catch anyways?" Mika shrugged, looking up at the clouds above. "Any fish really. Any food is better than the food I have at home… and what they serve in the Cafeteria. I mean chicken breasts for lunch every day? Do they want us to get fat and have a heart attack early?"
"Well technically fish is not good for your health either if you think about it…" Susie looked down on the fishing line, seeing her poor pathetic attempts to catch anything in this river. If anything, she should have fished at her own Myth House. She has an ever flowing pond for crying out loud.
"Yes, but fish has some good protein that is good for you… well that's what I heard anyways…" Mika was beginning to get frustrated since no fish has taken her bait. Either they were incredibly smart or she is doing something wrong.
"If you really wanted fish I could have just used a water spell to throw some fish up here…" Susie suggested with a hint of a mischievous smile.
"That would take the fun out of catching them yourself; you know the old fashioned way…" Susie didn't listen and muttered some words under her breath. Putting out her wand, she pointed it at the river and then pointed up. A Pillar of water sprung out, carrying hundreds of fish with it. All the fish… and the water landed on Mika making her clean… but at the same time dirty with the fish.
"Hehe, there, now you can eat as much as you want." Susie giggled as she ran away from her. Mika growled as she shook the fish off of her, glaring at the retreating form of her diviner friend. "One of these days… I swear… one of these days!"
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~Time: February 26, 1692…~
I ran… as fast my feet could allow. They were hunting for me… I couldn't look back. The sounds of shouting came from behind me… My fellow people… were going to burn me… Surely the lord shouldn't allow his children to kill another? Was what me being accused of… more sinful than that of what they are going to do to me?
It didn't matter now… Step by step, I run deeper into the Forest, hoping that I would escape their line of sight. What ludicrous ideas, thinking that Satan was on Earth… placing himself in that of women like me… I apparently have been accused of being a witch… The reason… I know the contents of a book without even reading it… They also accuse me of cursing other women, not letting them to be gifted with a child. What madness…
They were coming closer… I can feel it… I can feel the heat coming from their torches. I pushed myself to my limits… my feet aching, my breathing is labored… I could not dare to look back, if I do look back… I will regret it. I must press forward and escape with my life.
I tripped open a bush, my white dress was caught and then part of it ripped off, leaving some scratched marks on my legs. I tried to ignore the pain as I quickly got up and continued to run… run from these devils who think they are saving people from Satan. If anything, Satan is consuming them… I would laugh at the thought, but I can only breathe and worry.
I came to a stop at a cliff. There was no other place to run. My heart stopped as I knew that this was it. The men chasing me shouted victoriously like I was now a trapped deer, ready to be killed and cooked. There was a river all the way at the bottom of this cliff… a small river. I hear the footsteps of the men coming closer and closer. If I jumped… would I live? Or would I plummet to my death?
It didn't matter… any fate is better than the one they have planned for me. I rather kill myself than to die being accused of witchcraft. I have no other choice. I prayed to the lord above to forgive me as I am going to end my own life. Before they even touched me, I dived into the gaping chasm and fell…
My blonde hair fluttered against the wind as I hear the shouts from the men above me. Who knew that life can so be cruel? I certainly didn't… but now… as I plummeted down the cliff… Life is harsh… I closed my eyes and let the darkness swallow me… Nobody would even remember me… even if they tried… Won't remember a woman named Christine Dalton…
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It was 3:00 PM when Mika returned home. She was sitting on her couch that was dirty with broken potato chips that were never cleaned up. Mika didn't care, she loved the mess. Susie often thinks she is just a boy trapped in a girl's body, but… so what if she is? The Myth Student can do whatever she wants. She doesn't need to hear anybody's opinions on her.
"Wonder what's on TV today…" Mika needed something entertaining to watch after being showered by fish by Susie. She didn't take any of the fish the diviner showered her with. Like a true fisherwoman, she threw the fish back and catches them the old way. Sure she only caught a few with her 4 hour fishing… but it is better than nothing. There was no way she was going to give Susie the pleasure of her actually accepting the fish.
Taking the remote control from the dirty and sticky coffee table, she turned on the TV. To her displeasure, they were talking about witches. Oh how she hated witches and wished they just banish to the other side of the Spiral.
"You know, speaking of witches, there is this particular witch that I would like to talk about…" A man named Kent Truman spoke up as he reads the papers he was given. "About over 300 years ago on a place called Earth, there is a witch named Christine Dalton… Now what is peculiar about this woman is that she mysteriously disappeared without a trace. Her body hasn't been found. Not even a record of her death."
"Don't witches usually disappear without a trace… I mean come on… they have the spells to do it if they wished…" A man next to him said who went by the name of Chad GoodWright. Kent shook his head at him before looking at the screen for the viewers to see his face.
"Yes, but however not all witches live forever so her body should have turned up somewhere during that time period, but nope. She disappeared and that was the end of it. It still shocks me to this day…"
Mika turned off the TV. Witches… The word just invokes bitter anger in her. She had bad experiences with them, which made her so nasty to them. In her eyes right now… they are all the same, every single one of them.
"You couldn't pay me enough to associate myself with a witch… I hate them! I wish they would all just die!" Mika took a deep breath to calm herself down before picking herself off from her dirty couch. She looked at the 3 fishes she caught, laying on the table.
"Well I might as well cook them… I am getting hungry…"
Before she did anything however, her cellphone rang. Groaning in exasperation, she reached into her pocket and checked to see who was calling. Ambrose. Of course… She sighed and clicked the "Talk" button.
"What is it, Headmaster?" Mika said in a tone that just screams a, "I don't care" type aura. She looked at her fingernails as she waited for Ambrose to answer her question.
"Mika… Cyrus has told me you skipped class today and that you are failing his class…" Mika groaned, she knew this was coming. He was going to guilt trip her or sends her on some extra credit thing. Ambrose doesn't like his students failing, apparently. Why can't he just leave students alone? It is their damn choice after all.
"Back 2 years ago you were a smart and studious Myth Wizard… I am just concerned as to why the sudden change of heart…"
Because back then I had to 'witness' that event.Mika thought but did not tell it out loud to Ambrose. All she can do is answer back with, "Yeah…so?" She brushed her silver hair behind her ear in annoyance. She really wanted to just enjoy the rest of her day.
"Cyrus decided that the best way to earn extra credit for his class is to head to the Witch Museum tomorrow morning. He wants you to write a 10 page report on the History of witches and their ties with us Wizards…"
"Please anything but that…" Mika pleaded, she really did not want to do that. She would rather clean her whole house top to bottom for extra credit.
"I am sorry, Mika, but I cannot allow you to fail this term. Come by my office at 9:00 AM tomorrow and we can begin your extra credit. That's right; you are spending your Thanksgiving morning with me… What fun! See you soon!"
Mika shut off her cellphone and threw it angrily on the couch. "Shit! This is going to be the worst Thanksgiving ever…"
