Nothing to say today :(
Remember recruitments for OCs is coming soon XD I think I need like a total of ten OCs between the ages of 12-16 (depending on what level your character is on) and they can be either good or bad, and thoughout the Taylor Swiftly and the Magical Essence series they'll be in the story yep! so that's it!
Enjoy Chapter Two! R+R
Chapter Two:
Recruitment Day
Whenever the sun comes up, I automatically awaken as my eyes slowly faded from a natural fire red, to calmly back into a cool, oceanic blue-on second thought, I quickly sailed off my small bed and headed to the small mirror next to it. My eyes were blue with a little purple around the pupil, which can mean they're starting to convert back. I turned to the large window next to the bed. The sky was just woken, turning from a dark purple and unhurriedly becoming dawn-orange.
I opened my wardrobe; putting together a white, plain dress with a red crop top over it with the sun symbol, over with a long red skirt and white, unicorn-skinned ankle boots (This outfit on Wizard101 is called Soot Stained Tunic). I decided to put my straight long hair loose as I brush it back behind my shoulders. I reached for my small, brown hand pouch and headed out the room.
I carefully walked down the wooden stairs; since being the only early bird in the family, the Crowns usually wake up at 9:00, and its 5:00. I slid from the manor house, and quietly ran behind the red barn alongside having that ocean setting in the morning dusk, it seem it rain all day last night due to the heavy amounts of water around my feet. As I made my way through the long river towards my secret hole, I slipped on Oliver's mining gloves, grabbed Sapura's tiny gardening hand shovel and starting to dig.
I scooped up the dark, rich soil and threw it up behind me, there was no sign of new minerals, as I kept digging slowly towards faster, and a voice startles me, "Taylor?"
I whipped around to see a muscular teenage boy with shoulder-length silver hair, bright blue eyes wearing bold purple tunic with yellow cut trims (Cloudburst Coat). "Stephen! What are you doing?"
The silver haired scoffed, "Yet you're asking me? Are you mining?"
I become frustrated and continued digging, "Well its seems you guys are leaving today, have a great magical life"
Stephen chuckled and sat next to me, leaning his back against the red barn, "You know ever since we adopted you, its seems my parents doesn't give you the respect you need"
You think?! I was only six years old when the Crowns adopted me, but the problem was that I don't remember where I came from. I don't have any memory issues but the last thing that happen to me was-I was in a very dark place where there was a voice calling my name, telling me to; Find your true fate as you reach your teenage years, as a Swiftly you'll become powerful of a mind and stronger than the physical touch, you'll make good friends and wicked foes, you'll be mentally challenge and trained to developed from a small dragon into the phoenix! As powerful heir of the Swiftly empire…you'll…become…the…Spiral's…greatest…
"Pryomancer" Stephen said blankly.
I shoved my hand down into the soil; something hard was piercing as I was stilling using the shovel-which broke. "Oh no, Stephen can you help me take out this mineral? I think it's a diamond!"
The silver haired nodded and grabbed me by the waist, he started to pull as I tried to tugged out a large object from the small burrow, "Pull harder Steph!" we grunted as hard as we attempted to yank it out, I let go for a little bit and tried to catch my breath. "Why are you digging up rocks?" Stephen was short-breathed.
"It's a hobby I pick up, now let's pull again!" I heaved my hand back into the tiny hole, Stephen wrapped himself around my waist and we started to pull again, as the tenderness my arms were pulling off, the large object shifted a little so I implanted my other hand into the hole, "Switch positions and hole my shoulders this time" I ordered.
We tugged with pressure, the object shifted a little faster, I wiggled my arms a little bit and it loosened some more. The object became more movable but it was still too heavy, Stephen pulled faster until the both of us soared backwards in the air and landed onto the cemented floor. I lifted myself up from the pain of my bottom, we tried our second attempt by putting both our hands into the hole and pull slowly, the object started to discharge more easily. With the finally tugged it came out to be a-
"An old boot?" I whined as I held a rusty, poop-brown boot. Stephen started to smirk into dissatisfaction, "Well as least you have a miner's boot!"
I retorted, "This isn't funny! Don't you see I'm a failure at everything?"
Stephen sighed and covered his arms around my shoulders, "I'm sorry Taylor, you're not actually failure, well just because you dug up Oliver's mining boot doesn't mean you didn't succeed. You may be a great wizard like you said yesterday"
Stephen is the only Crown brother that encouraged me; no one ever does because I wasn't like them. Most people in WizardCity have tan skin, vivid eyes, deep hair color and their wizards too!
I was the complete opposite of those people, even worse now my step-brothers were leaving to go to schools far away in the Spiral.
After an epigrammatic moment Stephen walked on the way to the house, I was going inside too, as I tried to lift the dirty boot it seemed to be heavily stuffed with something, as I struggle to lift the boot, a small flaming glow was rising. I ran inside the house as quietly by possible, my room was still dark but the gigantic glimmering lit the entire place.
It was about an hour now, I threw the dusty boot onto the bed and gradually crawled towards it, my hands opened the boot, and I saw the shiniest mineral-red, huge diamond-shaped jewel, when I looked inside of it; the gem was like a fiery color, with layers of vibrant orange and blazing red, a hint of yellow and sparkles twirled around it. "It's so beautiful" I whispered, I concealed the diamond away into a small pouch, and went back into the living room.
~oOo~
"Taylor we're leaving!" Sapura's booming voice disconcerted me. I was outside gardening some unicorn milk for Stephen's 'brunch', the two other Crown brothers; Xavier and Daniel already left for their schools, it did turn out that Xavier got accepted into MooShu Academy of Botanist and will be learning life magic, when the school came to recruit him, it was a fact Theurgists traveled as vines grow from the ground and travel its way up their feet, up all over their body and they teleport. Daniel got agree to take Downpour Of Triton Avenue's Kraken's program; I really don't know what the program was about but Daniel was going to be the first Crown to learn storm magic, also it was a actuality that Downpour used to be a school for mermaids, now it opens to mortals.
Sapura and Oliver on the other hand; already gone out the door, I gathered up a bucket of milk and headed towards the house where Stephen continued to pack his suitcases. He was wearing layered dark-purple and white cloak, a dark-skinned belt along with matching cone-shaped hat that hangs onto the side, making Stephen looking like a real wizards (Amethyst Studded Cloak and Student Helm; Storm) "You're really leaving huh?"
The silver-blonde haired turned around, his hair was put into a small ponytail, "Yep, Ravenswood is traveling in a Marleybone-styled Victorian steamboat, but they won't be here too early since they do have to travel all over the realms" he said as he tossed one of his robes into the suitcase.
I placed the bucket on the center table, "I thought about those things you said about failure and it is too late to enroll for wizardry?"
Stephen's chilly blue eyes shone, "You can't just enroll on Recruitment Day Taylor, and you'll have to wait until next year"
My mouth dropped, "I can't wait until next year! That's because I have to suffer another year with the Crowns!"
Stephen didn't answer back; he finished packing and left his luggage near the door. I jogged up the stairs to search for the diamond I found in Oliver's boot six hours ago. The crystal was still shining in the small pouch on under my bed, I grabbed and stared at it; the large ruby's lava appearance was blistering my eyes, I quickly stashed it back into the pouch and reach for the wardrobe, I changed into a blood-red collared dress with a matching dark cape flying behind me, alongside some red-striped pants, a red pointed hat (Robe of Being; Fire) I chose to put my hair in a ponytail, so my hair will cascade around my waist. I grasped the pouch where the jewel was held in and head out back into the living room.
I saw that Stephen and his belongings were gone, was he gone? When I looked out the window; Stephen and his parents were outside waiting on the road. I sprinted through the door in the direction of the Crowns, the redheaded woman heard me running and she turned around, "Taylor what are you doing here? Go back into the house now!"
"I'm not staying here! I'm going with Stephen and become a wizard"
The two redheads began to laugh sidesplittingly, "You can't be a wizard you silly girl! You have to be successful, not dirty! So go back into the house, you're not going to Ravenswood"
Those exact words I walked away from the Crowns, instead I hurried to hide behind the barn and dragged out my head to examine the Crowns. They're still standing by the edge of the road; I continued to watch over then, by the look on Stephen's chiseled face was apprehensive, Why is Steph so worried all of a sudden?
Then suddenly; a large lively sound of an ostentatious steam engine burned my ears, I slowly push my head upward, I saw a corpulent flying machine soaring throughout the light blue-and-strawberry-ice-cream skies. For a better view, it was a colossal-sized polished bronzed flying pirate-styled yacht, with large cleansed sails flowing along with the gusty airstreams, the vessel was a glossy gold with blue borders around the reservoirs sides, at the front figurehead was a golden head of the mammoth ship was an insignia of a badge-like, with a symbol of a tree along with a saying message: "Wizards Unite, In Magic We Trust". I gasped as the massive flying steamboat parked onto the edge of our lawn, I cupped my head a little further to get an improved vision, when the gangway (the flat board where people can get on and off the ship) opened, a tall, thin old person wearing a sparkling deep-blue robe along with a matching hat and carries a crescent staff with a large, crystal orb in the center. The long white-bearded man marched over to the Crowns; I titled my body a little further from the barn to listen to the conversation: "Hello young wizard, My name is Merle Ambrose the Headmaster at Ravenswood Academy of The Seven Magical Arts and were are so happy that we as a school is recruiting you"
Stephen smiled, "Thank you Mr. Ambrose, I just really hope I get placed into becoming a Pryomancer"
The elderly man sniggered, "Well Stephen Crown our Book of Secrets is a problematical book, you may not be in the school you hope for, rather its providence or what's hope, for" he gave him the tasteful smiled, "But don't worry it's just an advisory"
Book of Secrets? I thought, at that moment my pouch started to glow, I quickly check the small purse to catch sight of the red diamond was sparkling up. I held the bag close to me and continued to listen, Sapura was now speaking, "Mr. Ambrose, we want to make sure our eldest son gets the best magical education as possible, okay?"
"Oh Mrs. Crown! You don't need to worry, we send avowal letters monthly to let you know what Stephen has been doing, we have lots of electives, accomplishments and by the time first-year ends, Stephen will be more successful as imagine!"
Successful? My mouth dropped in awe when the Headmaster said that last sentence. I dipped my head forward and saw that Ambrose and Stephen were walking towards the ship; I had to make a quick decision to go to Ravenswood! But how would I enter the ship without the Crowns seeing me? Or before the ship leaves?
I heard a booming hissing from the steam engines, the ship was unhurriedly moving back into the skyway. I speedily scurried away from behind the barn and on the road to the ship, as it was flying away I spotted a lengthy rope hanging from the bilge, I set in motion towards the ship, No don't leave yet!
It was almost late and I was running as fast as I never run before, my hands were shooting up in the air back and forth, my legs remained stomping the ground. The ship was finally lifted, but the rope was still hanging from the end, my heart was pounding and the wind was slapping me in the face. I finally tossed myself soaring through the air and grabbed-
Yes!
I magnificently held hold tight onto the rope, as I watched under my feet; a wonderful view of a small mansion and the barn, the sweet flowery sight of the grazing land was now being covered by ghostly fogs. I looked above my head; the rope was attached to aft; in or towards the back part of a ship. I climbed up the rope, as I grunted ascending up the twine. I arrived in a bright room, there was a tiny chandelier directly above a huge, round wooden table, and there was nothing else but walls of bookshelves around the place. I turned around to shut the window where I came in from.
Is it bad to break into someone's study room; nearby on the table was a huge, thick book. I sauntered near it, to such an extent it started to shimmer and so was the pouch.
"What are you doing here!" an outraged tone alarmed me enough for the two objects ended shimmering. I glared in front of my direction to see a scrawny pelican creature with a skinny beak, wearing a graduation cap with a matching dark blue gown.
Blood started to heat up in my head, "Well um, I-I was looking for the bathroom!" I was a terrible liar, "And I guess this is the wrong room huh?"
The pelican clicked this tongue, "Tsk, Tsk, Tsk! The bathroom is all the way in bilge, now young lady this is the Headmaster's compartment and I suggest you join the other wizards in the tavern" as the he was about to leave he turned back around to asked, "How old are you and are you a first-year?"
I answered, "I'm fourteen and yes" the pelican didn't say anything else more but left. I gripped onto my pouch and left the cabin room. The hallway was dark, narrow and hanging torches were sustained to light up the wooden floors; I walked down the hall and close at hand was a gigantic two-door entrance, when I spread the doors wide open, the first sight was a now bigger glittery chandelier that replaced the ceiling of the flying ship, I peered at the tavern which thousands of students were sitting at round tables covering with white long tablecloths near large windows, as I step forward my foot sprained "Ouch!" I whispered, just realizing there were tiny stairs that lead to a carpeted floor directing to one door labelled, Second-Years Only.
I tottered down the stairs, on the right were boys wearing vibrant robes sitting around tables that can hold three people each, then looking again thousands of students were sitting down and only one girl was standing looking awkwardly around the place to sit.
On the left were varieties of girls sitting next to massive-sized windows with a view of blue skies and clouds moving at a fast pace.
"Ya lost Blondie?" a sweet, bouncy cheery voice called me, I turned to see a girl about my height, with long, puffy black hair that reached around her waist, glowing brown ebony skin, amethyst eyes and wearing a mauve hooded robe with yellow frills. Her facial expression tells me that she is one of those lightheaded, cheerful girls.
"Yeah, I'm kinda new here and the place is already packed"
"Well duh! We'll all new here! Come sit with me and my friend Tasha"
The girl grabbed my hand and dragged me to front of the room where there was the table next to a titanic window, probably the largest window in the whole flying ship. The girl plopped herself onto the shiny wooden seat, making her wavy hair jumped down her shoulders, I take a seat too, and observed around the right of side the boys seating in a search of Stephen, most the boys have deep-colored hair and there was no sight of slivery-hair. Was Stephen in the right place? Is this first-year? Well the cheery girl did say it was. I turned to her to see she was smiling at me, her teeth were straight and perfectly white, but she was so in high spirits it was scary.
"Your pretty" she blurted out, I jumped a little.
"Uh, thanks?"
She laid out her hand, "I'm Bailey StormBreeze, I'm a Diviner from Triton Avenue, but I'm the sovereign of Crab Alley" even though her voice tone was child-like I was impressed that dumb girls like her were princesses.
I shook her hand, "Nice to meet you Bailey, I'm Taylor Swiftly, I'm not really sure what type wizard I'm am, but we'll just have to see when Orientation comes…who's Tasha?"
Bailey twisted her curly ends wrapped around her purple-polished finger, "Tasha Seahammer is my best friend, well not technically we just met when they docked the ship in Triton Avenue a few hours back, but we kinda started talking and she seems nice, but she really appears as one of those fashion divas with a sassy attitude but as a conclusion she's a Theurgist from MooShu!" she said that very fast and enthusiastically.
I nodded self-consciously since I didn't really understand what Bailey said. "And here she comes!"
A thin girl with silky, black hair extended near the floor walked down the tiny steps towards us. She had light twinkling golden skin, a Korean facial appearance with dark eyes, wearing a light green flowery-pattern kimono; she also carried around a lacy hand-fan to match her robe and had a small beauty mark under her right small slanted eye.
She's so beautiful I thought, I bet all Theurgists are like this.
"Who's this Bailey?" her sassy, lippy tone asked.
"This is Taylor Swiftly!" she cheered then turned back to me, "Taylor this Tasha Seahammer, isn't she pretty?"
I nodded again, Tasha scooted herself next to me and laid out her pale hand, "My forename is Tasha Seahammer, I'm the empress-in-training of MooShu, the realm of Life magic and my father is also the emperor, along with my brother Juan-Paul Seahammer is a Sorcerer studying the art of Balance magic"
I shook her hand and asked, "So, if you're a Theurgist then why is your brother a Sorcerer? Is he adopted?"
"No, he was born in the deserts of Krokotopia but we both have different mothers, mine died when I was very young and my father married a Krokotopian Queen, Paul and I am just step-siblings" she said while looking down at her hands, crisscrossed. I looked over at the boys' side, and saw a glimpse of a boy my age, with chin-length brunette hair that covered his right eye, vibrant brown eyes, tan skin and was wearing a simple bronzed one-suit uniform. The boy's suntanned eyes stabbed their way towards me, So that's must be Juan-Paul, the boy turned away as soon I stared at him back, then I flipped my hair back other to Tasha and Bailey, who seemed to be having a conversation about the cutest boys wizards in the room.
I gazed out the window, the sky was tinted from blue to purple, the clouds were becoming thicker and the whole tavern was brightening. It was now turn out to be nighttime.
I tighten my ponytail and threw it over my shoulder, "So guys when we are going to land to Ravenswood?"
"Well, we do have one more stop to make…in Cyclops Lane!" Bailey shrieked so loud, her bubbly voice echoed the whole tavern.
"Okay, so tell me Bailey" I started after I finished yawning, "Do you have any siblings?"
Bailey nibbled onto her nails, "I do have an older brother who goes to Downpour right in our hometown, but my little ten-year-old sister Marty, is attending here in Ravenswood! Well just like Tasha and Paul, we have different magical abilities, Marty is going to a Thaumaturge or ice wizard just in case you didn't know!" she giggled but all I asked her if she had a sibling.
I interposed, "Okay then, so here's a question for you both, do you two notice a boy with blonde hair but silvery-like and icy blue eyes like mine? I need to find him, but I don't see him in the boys' side and Stephen is a first-year"
Tasha responded, "I didn't see a any silver boy, maybe he somewhere else" then she changed the subject, "but Taylor do you know a Necromancer boy name Sean-Apaul Raven?"
"No why?"
"Because he is Tasha's boyfriend!" Bailey cooed, the silky black-haired shushed her.
"I'm not that little demon's girlfriend! Besides my father forbids me to ever date a Necromancer because they're vicious and cruel enough to steal someone's health to restored theirs! Some spells they make and he is right over there!"
I glanced over back to the boys' side, a boy sitting next to Paul with dark skin, snowy slanted eyes, he also has a long blackish-brunette braid that fallen over his shoulder like mines, wearing a simple black out-suit like Paul's expect the sleeves were cut out to show his well-built, muscular arms.
"His eyes are almost completely white" I said in a surprised tone.
"Creepy right?" Tasha scoffed; "Even if my father didn't forbid me to date Necromancers, I wouldn't date them myself" Tasha started to apply pink lipstick and fluttering her long, extensively eyelashes.
I titled over to Bailey by the window, the black-haired girl was falling asleep, as of the view outside the window, and the sky was completely black and becoming twinkling with stars. "I thought your eyes were blue" Tasha whispered.
My heart fell from my body and blood drained from the face, "My eyes? I need your mirror!"
Tasha handed me a sea green leaf-shaped hand mirror, I watched my eyes turned from chilling blue into a flaming red, as I observed the blazing flames in my eyes, fireworks were bursting inside. "It's just the fluorescents" I lied and my pouch was glowing too but I tucked it in deep into my pockets.
"Well, Okay then you needs a blanket?" Tasha tossed a red blanket on my lap, "I'm going to sleep now, I've been here for two days tomorrow is Orientation Day!"
I smiled, and then realized; Today I snuck onto a flying yacht, got caught by a bird teacher, met two wild girls that became my friends and now I'm going to a wizarding school to become a wizard! But now a question remains: What am I going to do once we hit Ravenswood?
~oOo~
The tavern was completely black. The lights were out and everybody is sleeping like babies. I slowly removed the blanket Tasha given me; the two girls were sleeping lifelessly. I tiptoed from the table and quietly crept along the large steps and towards the hallway.
Torches were still blazing flames, then at that time the red gem started to light up the whole place, I sauntered down the long passageway with only the sounds of my heels clicking the dainty wooden floors. I looked at clock at the end of the hall, it has been an approximate six hours since I snuck onto the ship, yet I hope that we stopped at Cyclops Lane and picked the last wizards and they're sleeping.
"But Mr. Ambrose those wizards were our only hope!" an irritated tone of voice was muffling through the walls; I crawled over to the sound and saw the door opened a little showing a glim of light. I opened the door a little, there was a bald man with bold blue eyes wearing a yellow neck-robe with blue trims, and he was talking to the Headmaster that recruited Stephen earlier. I pressed my ears against the door and placed my fingers to hold it opened to see what's going on:
"Now, Now Cyrus Drake, Me and the other six teachers had this conversation, my heart is also torn that twenty students are already missing but we have to train our students to the best, if we don't we have to send one our teachers into exile and you won't want that!"
Twenty students in exile are missing? I squashed my ears further more into the room, at that point I saw a boy with white skin, black prickly hair and ice-cold eyes leaning on the wall with an anxious expression on his face, when his eyes traveled to my direction, I quickly threw my head away from the door, Please Please! You didn't see me!
"Mr. Ambrose how about we send our dark mounts into the fractions of Dragonspyre? So most of the students in exile can train more" a voice of a teenage boy suggested.
Ambrose spoke, "Aaron you are a very bright boy like your twin sister, Your mind is much sharper than mine! How about I selected you and Ashley to become our commanders?"
Then the outraged tone came back, "Ambrose! How can you let Thaumaturges, ice the weakest out of all schools become leaders!? You should enlist my conjurers control the school!"
After that there was a brief silent, I decided to quickly go to back to bed before I get too much information, but what did the Headmaster send students into exile in Dragonspyre? And why was that ice wizard who seemed to be a sixth-year in bed? I sneaked across the darken hallway. Then for some reason my stomach dropped. Close by in front of my sight was huge fogs of purple-black shadowy clouds near the doors to the tavern, it extended near my knees and yet the room got icier. I seized the glassy gem and it illuminated the whole passageway. Then, at the moment the ghostly fog rise, as it raise the shadows gloomy reached for me; Taylor come to me! It said in a ghostlike accent, Come join me into my realm! And I'll make you into the most powerful wizard in the Spiral!...Now give me the stone and join me
I held the stone close to my chest, "No" I whispered. The eerie fog tore towards me at a speedily tempo, my stomach started to melt and my first reaction was to run to the end of the hall.
The hall was dark, all I can hear was my boots hitting the ground and ghostly screams Waaaaaaaah! My heartbeat was pounding louder than my footsteps, "Let me alone!" My screams echoed into the vacant hallways, as the gem was still glowing the corridors seemed to have endless trail and as I looked back behind me, the black murkiness transformed into a shadowy man figure, I couldn't see what the person looked like. But it lifted up his misty finger, a powerful light was appearing and it ambled to me. I'm not a wizard yet, but I'm going to die! I'm going to die!
"Aaaaaaaaah!" I bawled as my eyes were glued shut.
"Are you okay?" a soft, mild voice called. I opened my eyes, the foggy graveyard vanished separately and what was replace it was a boy with clear light skin, blonde hair that reached his shoulders and was wearing a floor-length gold robe with blue trims around the neckline, his eyes were cover with a hoodie but his blonde hair covered his right eye like Juan-Paul. "I was looking for the tavern, then I saw a large light that looked like fiery flames and I also heard screaming. Are you okay?"
I wiped the tears from my face, "Yeah I am my name is Taylor and the tavern is at the end of the hallway, you're from Cyclops lane right? Since when did we dock? All of the students were sleeping"
The boy replied, "Yeah me and my sister Catherine just arrived a few minutes ago, I'm Andrew MythBright and well we both need to go to bed since its late"
"Fortunately I'll show you to the tavern, but a special note: the tavern is divided into two sides, there is a carpet on the floor that divides them and the boys' side is on the right, and Orientation Day is in fifteen hours"
I guided Andrew down the hallway, when we made it to the tavern we quietly stepped down the tiny stairs of the grand room, I used the crystal to the light the boys' area, "Try to find an empty seat and there should be a blanket under it" I whispered.
Andrew nodded and slide into a chair between Paul and Sean, "Thanks Taylor"
I smiled and guided the red light in the direction towards the front table; I crawled over there to see Bailey and Tasha were in deep sleep, I slithered back into my seat between the silky black-haired. The gem started to die down and I hid back into my dress but; I realized I don't have any clothes. The view of the sky outside was still completely black, and below the clouds were small, dim sparkling stars, as if the galaxy was the ocean. I looked away the place; the crystal chandelier above the enormous ceiling was diming down. I slowly closed my blazing eyes.
Ravenswood here Taylor Swiftly comes.
End Of Chapter Two
~What school will Taylor be placed in? (it's kinda obvious, but you can guess her secondary school, that I ALREADY pick for her)
