Dear Diary,
I'm in the middle of dinner right now so don't mind me if I accidentally drop some food on you or something. The library is really the coolest place in the entire world. There are SO many books! And I'm going through them like a whore goes through men! Er, that sounded really weird didn't it? Oh well, what's written is written and I really don't want to just cross it out.
Anyway, on a different note, nothing too exciting happened. Unfortunately. That means that I just might be going back to that 'boring life' I was telling you about.
I'll talk about what I found out in the library. I was looking up books when all of a sudden this brilliant idea just hit me. Why not look up dreams and pixies? I wanted to learn about my mom first so I found a book about pixies. That just explained a little about them. They're pretty (mind you, they're not beautiful) and they're clever. They use animal magic and that means that they can speak to animals. Does that mean that I can speak to animals? I wonder.
Like I said before, I wasn't really interested in that so I got another book. This new one had a little more information. It talked about a Great War between the magical beings. Nothing much, just mentioned a war. Damn book didn't help me either; it just gave me more questions. I looked over and found that the librarian that should have been there was no where to be seen. Maybe she didn't stick around in the library when there weren't any students there beside me? She DID give me the evil eye once when I got a few books at a time. She must have thought I was going to eat them or something.
Anyway, I was looking for her when I saw this sign over a metal fence blocking off more books. It said 'RESTRICTED' and I began to wonder if maybe a useful book was in there. I made sure that no one was around before I snuck in. It smelled like blood and I got this creep feeling going through my bones.
Just when I thought someone was going to jump out and rip my face off, I found a specially labeled shelf. It was marked 'Dark Spells'. I frowned (obviously) since I didn't want to use any dark spells. I kept looking for labels like that and that was when I stopped thinking that some teacher was going to come in and kill me for being there.
There were really interesting labels like 'Dragon Nesting Areas', 'Advanced Potions' (that was where the Polyjuice potion I was talking about before is), and then 'Magical Creatures'. At long last I came to something that sounded pretty close to what I was looking for. It was labeled 'Great Wars'.
Alright, when I said that nothing interesting happened today, I was lying. I found the coolest book in the world (does that sound familiar? I keep saying everything is cool now. Oh great, I'm turning into a valley girl!).
The book that I found was really beautiful black leather encased with yellowed pages and a golden engraving that ringed the ivory-colored writing. It was titled 'The War'. I thought that there seemed to be a lot of Great Wars but this war must have been the War of Wars. It was, according to what I read. It started out with a very . . . fatalistic entry.
"God has given me life, and He shall take it away from me. I neither believe in God nor in the fact that He could take my life. I've lived through eons in which humans have worshipped one God, many Gods, and even no Gods. All that I have learnt from them boils down to one simple truth: God is wonderful when it is convenient for Him to be there, but He has no business in a war."
I copied that out of the book. And I thought that I was pessimistic!
After that there was a table of contents. I looked through that until something caught my eye. It said, "Reasons Behind the War" so I flipped over to that page. It had another quote in it.
"Love is powerful and wonderful. That is why War is so feared and hated. War has a habit of destroying all love for even the strongest."
That made my skin creep just to read it. God, this guy knew what he was talking about! Anyway, I started to read the first paragraph and I'll give you a summary of what it basically said.
A long time ago, a million of thousands of years ago, two dragons met. One was a silver dragon and the other was a red dragon. Both were friends, both were allies; both were brothers to the end. The red dragon betrayed his brother and thus began the first of the wars. In the year known as the birth of the son of God, a new betrayal took place. Again a silver dragon was betrayed, but this time by a dwarf of greed and ambition. Magical creatures began to pick sides and eternal alliances were chosen.
The dwarves sided with the Darkest Creatures of the Night. Vampires, werewolves, gremlins, centaurs, Basilisks, sirens, harpies, Shadows, and others followed in their footsteps. The most notable of all were the Goblins. A Labyrinth of dangers trapped many creatures and, upon failing to find their way out in thirteen hours, were turned into goblins. The king at the time (King Jareth [that name struck a cord, but I don't know from where]) was known as the cruelest of all the Goblin Kings before him. He was a vicious warrior and feared nothing.
The creatures that sided with the wronged dragon consisted of nearly all (but the black, red, and green dragons) dragons, the fairies, elves, phoenixes, griffons, hippogriffs, hippocampus and men. The most notable of the light creatures were the Pixies. The Pixies had a Labyrinth of their own, filled with surprisingly violent tortures for those who were lured into them. The Queen of the Pixies (Queen Velderia [SHE'S MY MOTHER DAMNIT!!]) was known far and wide for her talents on the battle field. She was a well-trained fighter and especially known for her dagger fighting.
The War began when the dragon was wronged and so the sides joined.
Right then, in the middle of my reading, was when I heard a rustling in the library so I put the book into my bag and rushed out of the Restricted Section REALLY fast! I grabbed a book I had put down earlier and began to read it so that it didn't look like I was doing anything wrong. The librarian gave me this suspicious look but I just glared at her until she went to her desk. I haven't had a chance to read anymore since then but I'll read it when I get to my dorm. For right now, I have to finish eating.
I won't bother with a hate list right now, I don't have anything new to hate.
- Mya
I'm in the middle of dinner right now so don't mind me if I accidentally drop some food on you or something. The library is really the coolest place in the entire world. There are SO many books! And I'm going through them like a whore goes through men! Er, that sounded really weird didn't it? Oh well, what's written is written and I really don't want to just cross it out.
Anyway, on a different note, nothing too exciting happened. Unfortunately. That means that I just might be going back to that 'boring life' I was telling you about.
I'll talk about what I found out in the library. I was looking up books when all of a sudden this brilliant idea just hit me. Why not look up dreams and pixies? I wanted to learn about my mom first so I found a book about pixies. That just explained a little about them. They're pretty (mind you, they're not beautiful) and they're clever. They use animal magic and that means that they can speak to animals. Does that mean that I can speak to animals? I wonder.
Like I said before, I wasn't really interested in that so I got another book. This new one had a little more information. It talked about a Great War between the magical beings. Nothing much, just mentioned a war. Damn book didn't help me either; it just gave me more questions. I looked over and found that the librarian that should have been there was no where to be seen. Maybe she didn't stick around in the library when there weren't any students there beside me? She DID give me the evil eye once when I got a few books at a time. She must have thought I was going to eat them or something.
Anyway, I was looking for her when I saw this sign over a metal fence blocking off more books. It said 'RESTRICTED' and I began to wonder if maybe a useful book was in there. I made sure that no one was around before I snuck in. It smelled like blood and I got this creep feeling going through my bones.
Just when I thought someone was going to jump out and rip my face off, I found a specially labeled shelf. It was marked 'Dark Spells'. I frowned (obviously) since I didn't want to use any dark spells. I kept looking for labels like that and that was when I stopped thinking that some teacher was going to come in and kill me for being there.
There were really interesting labels like 'Dragon Nesting Areas', 'Advanced Potions' (that was where the Polyjuice potion I was talking about before is), and then 'Magical Creatures'. At long last I came to something that sounded pretty close to what I was looking for. It was labeled 'Great Wars'.
Alright, when I said that nothing interesting happened today, I was lying. I found the coolest book in the world (does that sound familiar? I keep saying everything is cool now. Oh great, I'm turning into a valley girl!).
The book that I found was really beautiful black leather encased with yellowed pages and a golden engraving that ringed the ivory-colored writing. It was titled 'The War'. I thought that there seemed to be a lot of Great Wars but this war must have been the War of Wars. It was, according to what I read. It started out with a very . . . fatalistic entry.
"God has given me life, and He shall take it away from me. I neither believe in God nor in the fact that He could take my life. I've lived through eons in which humans have worshipped one God, many Gods, and even no Gods. All that I have learnt from them boils down to one simple truth: God is wonderful when it is convenient for Him to be there, but He has no business in a war."
I copied that out of the book. And I thought that I was pessimistic!
After that there was a table of contents. I looked through that until something caught my eye. It said, "Reasons Behind the War" so I flipped over to that page. It had another quote in it.
"Love is powerful and wonderful. That is why War is so feared and hated. War has a habit of destroying all love for even the strongest."
That made my skin creep just to read it. God, this guy knew what he was talking about! Anyway, I started to read the first paragraph and I'll give you a summary of what it basically said.
A long time ago, a million of thousands of years ago, two dragons met. One was a silver dragon and the other was a red dragon. Both were friends, both were allies; both were brothers to the end. The red dragon betrayed his brother and thus began the first of the wars. In the year known as the birth of the son of God, a new betrayal took place. Again a silver dragon was betrayed, but this time by a dwarf of greed and ambition. Magical creatures began to pick sides and eternal alliances were chosen.
The dwarves sided with the Darkest Creatures of the Night. Vampires, werewolves, gremlins, centaurs, Basilisks, sirens, harpies, Shadows, and others followed in their footsteps. The most notable of all were the Goblins. A Labyrinth of dangers trapped many creatures and, upon failing to find their way out in thirteen hours, were turned into goblins. The king at the time (King Jareth [that name struck a cord, but I don't know from where]) was known as the cruelest of all the Goblin Kings before him. He was a vicious warrior and feared nothing.
The creatures that sided with the wronged dragon consisted of nearly all (but the black, red, and green dragons) dragons, the fairies, elves, phoenixes, griffons, hippogriffs, hippocampus and men. The most notable of the light creatures were the Pixies. The Pixies had a Labyrinth of their own, filled with surprisingly violent tortures for those who were lured into them. The Queen of the Pixies (Queen Velderia [SHE'S MY MOTHER DAMNIT!!]) was known far and wide for her talents on the battle field. She was a well-trained fighter and especially known for her dagger fighting.
The War began when the dragon was wronged and so the sides joined.
Right then, in the middle of my reading, was when I heard a rustling in the library so I put the book into my bag and rushed out of the Restricted Section REALLY fast! I grabbed a book I had put down earlier and began to read it so that it didn't look like I was doing anything wrong. The librarian gave me this suspicious look but I just glared at her until she went to her desk. I haven't had a chance to read anymore since then but I'll read it when I get to my dorm. For right now, I have to finish eating.
I won't bother with a hate list right now, I don't have anything new to hate.
- Mya