Morgan's P.O.V
"What do you think they're talking about?" I asked Haley.
"Dunno..." Haley said.
"Well that's helpful." I mumbled.
"Have you ever wondered who our parents are?" she asked.
"Dunno." I said. The truth was, I had. But they do say, curiosity killed the cat. Besides, I wasn't even sure if I wanted to know who they were. I just wished things could go back to normal. I wished I could go back to doing the same thing, every day, and not have to worry about wizardly things.
We approached a guard standing in front of another tunnel.
"Halt! No one can pass without permission from the headmaster." said the guard.
I held up the envelope the headmaster gave me, and the guard opened the tunnel.'
"Be careful, there's lots ghosts in their!" he said.
We walked through the tunnel, and immediately we knew that lots was an understatement.
There were ghosts everywhere!
I shivered. I hated ghosts, because I knew I was the only one who could see them. Except that when I looked at Haley, she was looking at the ghosts too.
"Can...can you see them?" I asked.
"She nodded.
"Oh...well that's unusual. I said.
"Hey, you there!" yelled a guard. "We're being overrun by these ghosts. Could you go defeat a few?"
"Um, well, those are ghosts? How can you kill ghosts?" I asked.
"You just...cast spells on them until they are defeated."
"That seems kinda mean!" Haley said. "They're just poor lost souls…"
"But they're evil lost souls." said the guard. "Now, please, if you don't defeat some, we might all become ghosts."
Haley and I nodded, and walked towards a ghost.
"Wait a minute. How do we cast spells?" I asked frantically.
Haley gulped, and said, "Help!"
The ghosts were casting cats engulfed in flames, and huge snakes with sparks coming off of them. Haley and I felt like we were about to collapse from all the damage we were taking.
"Did I hear someone call for help?" asked a tall boy, with purple hair. He had on a robe with a base of black and a trim of purple.
"Yes!" Haley said quickly.
"Get behind me!" he yelled.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"Aaron Thunderstorm." he said, as he made a lightning bolt symbol in midair. All of a sudden, in the small area they were all standing in, there was a terrible storm. Waves crashed on top of the ghosts, and they disappeared.
"Thank you!" Haley said.
"No problem." he grinned. "You might wanna catch some health wisps before you try to battle some more.
"Health wisps?" I asked.
He nodded. They're red wisps that heal your wounds." "Not trying to be nosy, but do you know any spells?" he asked.
Me and Haley shook our heads.
"Okay, well what school are you?" he asked.
"Life and death." I said.
"Okay, well I don't know any life or death spells, but I could teach you the basics of casting a spell." Aaron said. "So imagine the thing you are wanting to create, or summon. Put all of your energy in it. Then take your wand, or hand, and draw your school symbol." he explained. "Mine is a lighting bolt, since I'm a storm wizard. Death's is a sideways skull, and life is a sort of leaf."
"Let me try…" I said, aiming at a shrub. I imagined a black burst of energy, and drew a sideways skull in the air. The shrub disintegrated, and Aaron clapped.
"Bravo!" he said. "Now you try, um...what are your names?" he asked.
"Haley Sunblossom."
"And Morgan Shadowsong."
"Okay, you try now, Haley."
"Haley closed her eyes, and drew a leafy symbol in the air. A sprite appeared, and cast a spell of her own. Everyone was healing.
"Woah, a sprite! Good job." he said, impressed.
Haley blushed. "Oh, it's nothing.
"Well, we should get going now." I said, maybe just a tad jealous. Why did Haley always get all the attention?
"Right. Call me if you need anything. To contact me, concentrate hard and envision my name. Think of what you want to tell me, and I'll here. Bye!" he said, and then he disappeared, like what I had seen in my dream. Except in my dream, Malistaire left behind skulls, not storm clouds.
We reported back to the guard, and he thanked us. He told us to talk to someone named Ceren Nightchant.
"Hello!" said a boy in green robes and a hood. "They're are rumors going around that the fairies of Unicorn Way are turning evil!Could you go and check if they are, and if they are, could you go tell Lady Oriel? She lives in the Hedge Maze." he said, but because of the way he said Oriel, I thought he said Orio.
"And just why, exactly, can't you do it?" I asked, annoyed.
The boy looked shocked. "Well, the guards won't let me go too far because it's dangerous."
"They don't care about us, then? I asked, yet again, annoyed.
He looked shocked, for a moment, and opened his mouth to say something.
"Morgan, lets just do it." Haley said, before he could say anything.
"Lazy green boy…" I grumbled, but followed her. I sparked a few dark fairies to death, while Haley kept us healthy. Afterwords, we went to the Hedge Maze and found Lady "Orio". She was a big angel looking creature with curly blonde hair and a sword. "My fairies! They're becoming ev-"
"Yeah. They're becoming evil, we know, Lady Orio."
"Here, take this treasure card since you have come to help me." she said, as she handed us a golden card with a picture of herself on it.
"Huh?" I asked.
She rolled her eyes. "A treasure card, you use it once in a battle and then it goes away forever.
"Then what's the point of it?" I asked.
"Use it wisely." she said, ignoring my question.
"Go and defeat some evil fairies and collect their dust. I know that it's a dark task, but these are dark times. Take care, young wizards!" Lady Oriel said, and we left the Hedge Maze.
We returned with some fairy dust, and Lady Oriel studied it. She looked very upset.
"This fairy dust has been corrupted by something undead! Ceren Nightchant knows this street well. Go ask him if he knows of an evil undead person who's been corrupting these fairies.
"Of course, Lady of the Orio's." I said.
"You know her name is Lady Oriel, right?" Haley asked me.
"Oh." I said, and we made our way back to Ceren Nightchant.
"You're back! What did Lady Oriel say?" he asked.
"She said the fairies are being corrupted by something undead." said Haley.
"Do you know of any undead living here on Unicorn way?" I asked.
"...Of course!" he said. "It's Rattlebones!" he said.
"Rattlebones." I repeated. "There are such weird names in Wizard City!" I thought.
"Go defeat him, and then open the bone cages scattered around town. Rattlebones has taken residence in my old friend Delia's tower. Once you defeat him, the the fairies will be free!" he yelled excitedly. "Alrighty then!" Haley said, and we made our way to a tower. We entered, and a skeleton with armor and a dark fairy next to him said, "You cannot stop us, wizards! The corruption of the fairies is just the beginning of Malistaire's plans. Soon, WIzard City will fall and their isn't anything anyone can do about it! Mwahahaha!" Rattlebones laughed evilly.
"Yeah, mmm-hmm. Whatever. Just let us kill you." I said, as I cast a dark fairy, something I thought of after all these corrupted fairies. Haley cast a couple leprechauns. I remembered one time when she insisted that she saw a leprechaun hiding a pot of gold in the backyard. I didn't believe her then, but hey, we're wizards. Anything's possible. All of a sudden, a wave of exhaustion overwhelmed me. I fell to the ground.
"Morgan!" Haley yelled.
"I-I'm okay." I said, trying to pull myself together. I tried to stand up, but I fell again. I cast one last spell, killed Rattlebones, and blacked out.
