*Tommy paces nervously around the Lair for some sort of clue*
Tommy: I don't get it.. he just disappeared..but how?
Roxie: He probably took Merton for questioning, and a lure for me to return to the mirror...
Tommy: Are you sure? Because you do know we still have to-
Lori: *swings the door open and storms in* Damn them to hell!
Tommy: What? I was gonna say save them...
Lori: Sorry I'm late, I got caught climbing down the trelise and my parents caught me so I ran for it...*sigh* anyway.. what were we talking about?
Roxie: Why Mirone took Merton..
Lori: Maybe to get us to go in there.
Tommy: Why is it that everyone thinks that?
Lori: Maybe because we're smarter than you...
Tommy: D- d- oh forget it..
Roxie: *walks over to the desk and picks up the mirror* Well.. should we go or not?
Tommy: You mean inside the mirror?
Lori: No Tommy, she means to the bathroom..
Tommy: You're starting to sound like Merton and it's scaring me...
Lori: Sorry.. I guess he's starting to get to me..
Tommy: It's okay...the other day he got me to use big words like "lunar"and "cycle" in my sentences.. it was pretty creepy.
Roxie: That is creepy, for you to say that anyway..
Lori: Sorry to interrupt this episode of "When Vocabulary Attacks", but Merton's still trapped in that mirror!
Roxie: She's right.. *gently smoothes her fingers around the golden, cool surface of the mirror's frame* We have to devise a plan to get rid of Mirone, and let the muses and Merton out safely.
Tommy: Well, Lori and I can kick that guy's butt.. and you help everyone else escape.. it's easy enough.
Lori: Yea.. so why don't we just leave already?
Roxie: I know you are anxious to get him back, but when you open the portal, it is like a vortex, which can suck anything in or out meaning-
Tommy: Mirone can get out easily with all the powerful winds sucking him backward..
Roxie: Yup..
Lori: So we strap him down to something then...we just need to get some rope or something
Roxie: That would be a good plan, but unfortunately, he could break those restraints so easily with his powers.
Tommy: Well then we can look for a spell...
Roxie: Good idea...only it has to be with white magic because he knows black magic.
Lori: *notions hands around the room* We have a good enough selection of books, and we have the computer.
Tommy: She's right.. how hard can it be?
*Hours later, the sun is just setting outside the small basement window, books are ascew all over the Lair floor, Tommy's asleep with a book in his lap, Roxie has her brow furrowed and is reading with her eyes darting across the page, and one frazzled looking Lori typing furiously at the computer*
Lori: The only thing that keeps coming up in the search is "The Book of Spelldom : A Guide to Good Magic" and Merton doesn't have that one.
Roxie: Well Merton sure does have a lot more books on evil than he does good...
Lori: Yeah, well what can I say? He's E-bay's number one customer.
Roxie: Is it me? Or is Tommy sleeping in the upright position?
Lori: He learned that from almost four years of high school bio..I'd say that besides being good at football, Tommy is expertly skilled in the sleeping while sitting up department...
Roxie: Maybe we should wake him up..
Lori: Alright, I'll do it..*takes a deep breath then screams* TOMMY! WAKE UP!
Tommy:*jolts awake* Lori! What was that for?
Roxie: You know he wakes up if you nudge him a little..
Lori: I always find yelling more effective...
Roxie: How'd you fall asleep so easily? You were only reading for five minutes.
Tommy: Well, I read the first lines of the introduction and just fell asleep..
Lori: What'd it say that was so boring?
Tommy:*picks up the book and squints to read its tiny print* Welcome to the ri-ri-rigorous world of magic! In this book you will find exc-c-c-centric guides to incantating spells and what the spells can do to help you in your daily life or in the face or moral peril!
Roxie: What's the title of the book?
Tommy: *closes the book and reads the title a loud* " The Book of Spelldom: A Guide to Good Magic"
Lori: You mean to tell me that Tommy was sleeping on the book the whole time?!? *jumps up from the desk and tries to go and strangle Tommy*
Roxie:*stops her in mid strangle* Wait a second, Lori, we need Tommy.. you can kill him after we save Merton.
Lori:*calms down* You're right...*turns to walk away but then takes a running jump onto Tommy's back and starts to strangle him*
Tommy:*tries to get Lori off of him, but flails his arms around in surrender* Lori! Get off! *grabs her arms and flips her over his shoulders*
Lori:*lands on the ground with a THUD!* Oww... Sorry Tommy..
Roxie:*helps Lori up* Okay.. now that you've both stopped, *points to no where in particular*to the index of the book!
*cheesy batman music plays*
Roxie:* picks up the book and flips through the index* Rearranging rooms, Reid-Tara, repairment spells, here we go, restraintment spells, page 423 *flips the pages of the book quickly* Okay... "To perform a simple restraining spell, you must say the spell on the bottom of this page. If you want the spell to be powerful, you must use more will minded people to keep the binding strong.
Lori: So that's all we have to say?
"Spirits of the Skies
Spirits of the Sea,
Listen to my pleading cries,
I ask of help from thee.
Bind, (fill in name), the lowly scum,
Unto the spot from where he stands,
Let your ruling powers come,
And give no mercy to this man."
Tommy: Don't you think it's a wee bit dramatic?
Roxie: *shrugs*A spell's a spell.
Lori: So let's get a move on already!
Tommy: Roxie, say the spell.
Roxie: Okay, but brace yourselves...This mirror is very powerful *picks up the mirror and reads the spell in a language neither of them has heard* Clache clache multe dorum!
*the mirrow begins to vibrate and grows larger, until the surface is a blue, white, swirling vortex. Roxie, Lori, then Tommy get sucked into the mirror, and then the mirror goes back to normal and clunks to the floor*
Tommy: I don't get it.. he just disappeared..but how?
Roxie: He probably took Merton for questioning, and a lure for me to return to the mirror...
Tommy: Are you sure? Because you do know we still have to-
Lori: *swings the door open and storms in* Damn them to hell!
Tommy: What? I was gonna say save them...
Lori: Sorry I'm late, I got caught climbing down the trelise and my parents caught me so I ran for it...*sigh* anyway.. what were we talking about?
Roxie: Why Mirone took Merton..
Lori: Maybe to get us to go in there.
Tommy: Why is it that everyone thinks that?
Lori: Maybe because we're smarter than you...
Tommy: D- d- oh forget it..
Roxie: *walks over to the desk and picks up the mirror* Well.. should we go or not?
Tommy: You mean inside the mirror?
Lori: No Tommy, she means to the bathroom..
Tommy: You're starting to sound like Merton and it's scaring me...
Lori: Sorry.. I guess he's starting to get to me..
Tommy: It's okay...the other day he got me to use big words like "lunar"and "cycle" in my sentences.. it was pretty creepy.
Roxie: That is creepy, for you to say that anyway..
Lori: Sorry to interrupt this episode of "When Vocabulary Attacks", but Merton's still trapped in that mirror!
Roxie: She's right.. *gently smoothes her fingers around the golden, cool surface of the mirror's frame* We have to devise a plan to get rid of Mirone, and let the muses and Merton out safely.
Tommy: Well, Lori and I can kick that guy's butt.. and you help everyone else escape.. it's easy enough.
Lori: Yea.. so why don't we just leave already?
Roxie: I know you are anxious to get him back, but when you open the portal, it is like a vortex, which can suck anything in or out meaning-
Tommy: Mirone can get out easily with all the powerful winds sucking him backward..
Roxie: Yup..
Lori: So we strap him down to something then...we just need to get some rope or something
Roxie: That would be a good plan, but unfortunately, he could break those restraints so easily with his powers.
Tommy: Well then we can look for a spell...
Roxie: Good idea...only it has to be with white magic because he knows black magic.
Lori: *notions hands around the room* We have a good enough selection of books, and we have the computer.
Tommy: She's right.. how hard can it be?
*Hours later, the sun is just setting outside the small basement window, books are ascew all over the Lair floor, Tommy's asleep with a book in his lap, Roxie has her brow furrowed and is reading with her eyes darting across the page, and one frazzled looking Lori typing furiously at the computer*
Lori: The only thing that keeps coming up in the search is "The Book of Spelldom : A Guide to Good Magic" and Merton doesn't have that one.
Roxie: Well Merton sure does have a lot more books on evil than he does good...
Lori: Yeah, well what can I say? He's E-bay's number one customer.
Roxie: Is it me? Or is Tommy sleeping in the upright position?
Lori: He learned that from almost four years of high school bio..I'd say that besides being good at football, Tommy is expertly skilled in the sleeping while sitting up department...
Roxie: Maybe we should wake him up..
Lori: Alright, I'll do it..*takes a deep breath then screams* TOMMY! WAKE UP!
Tommy:*jolts awake* Lori! What was that for?
Roxie: You know he wakes up if you nudge him a little..
Lori: I always find yelling more effective...
Roxie: How'd you fall asleep so easily? You were only reading for five minutes.
Tommy: Well, I read the first lines of the introduction and just fell asleep..
Lori: What'd it say that was so boring?
Tommy:*picks up the book and squints to read its tiny print* Welcome to the ri-ri-rigorous world of magic! In this book you will find exc-c-c-centric guides to incantating spells and what the spells can do to help you in your daily life or in the face or moral peril!
Roxie: What's the title of the book?
Tommy: *closes the book and reads the title a loud* " The Book of Spelldom: A Guide to Good Magic"
Lori: You mean to tell me that Tommy was sleeping on the book the whole time?!? *jumps up from the desk and tries to go and strangle Tommy*
Roxie:*stops her in mid strangle* Wait a second, Lori, we need Tommy.. you can kill him after we save Merton.
Lori:*calms down* You're right...*turns to walk away but then takes a running jump onto Tommy's back and starts to strangle him*
Tommy:*tries to get Lori off of him, but flails his arms around in surrender* Lori! Get off! *grabs her arms and flips her over his shoulders*
Lori:*lands on the ground with a THUD!* Oww... Sorry Tommy..
Roxie:*helps Lori up* Okay.. now that you've both stopped, *points to no where in particular*to the index of the book!
*cheesy batman music plays*
Roxie:* picks up the book and flips through the index* Rearranging rooms, Reid-Tara, repairment spells, here we go, restraintment spells, page 423 *flips the pages of the book quickly* Okay... "To perform a simple restraining spell, you must say the spell on the bottom of this page. If you want the spell to be powerful, you must use more will minded people to keep the binding strong.
Lori: So that's all we have to say?
"Spirits of the Skies
Spirits of the Sea,
Listen to my pleading cries,
I ask of help from thee.
Bind, (fill in name), the lowly scum,
Unto the spot from where he stands,
Let your ruling powers come,
And give no mercy to this man."
Tommy: Don't you think it's a wee bit dramatic?
Roxie: *shrugs*A spell's a spell.
Lori: So let's get a move on already!
Tommy: Roxie, say the spell.
Roxie: Okay, but brace yourselves...This mirror is very powerful *picks up the mirror and reads the spell in a language neither of them has heard* Clache clache multe dorum!
*the mirrow begins to vibrate and grows larger, until the surface is a blue, white, swirling vortex. Roxie, Lori, then Tommy get sucked into the mirror, and then the mirror goes back to normal and clunks to the floor*