"This is my wife Irene my daughter Ivy and my son Dolph. These are our friends," he said indicating the two centaurs, "Chet and his sister Chem.Before I go any further, please introduce your friends," said Dor with a friendy smile. Ryo returned the smile, Dor was a pretty good king.
"This is Mia," he said pointing to each person in turn, "Yulie, Rowen, Cye, Kento, Sage, Dais, Kale, Sehkmet, and Kayura."
In the distance three more centaurs came into view.
"Ah, they have arrived," Dor said as the three came to a halt beside the two already there, each one carried a person, "This is my father, Bink, and my mother, Chameleon." Dor helped his remakably beautiful mother down from the centaur she had been ridding. This filly was different from the others, she had wings!
"This is Chex, Chem's daughter," said Dor indicating the winged filly, "and this is Chester, Chet and Chem's sire." While all the others had pretty or handsome faces Chester was, well, he was ugly. But he had a handsome horse half.
"And last, but not least is Ichabod and his friend Arnolde. Ichabod is mundane like yourselves and Arnolde is a Magician." Ichabod was very old, as was Arnolde. Both wore bifocals and both were probably scholars.
"Magician?!" Yulie excalaimed. First pie trees, then centars, and now magic, this was way better than Disney Land.
"Yeah," answered little Dolph, "I'm a magician too!" After he said this he transformed fist into a bird, then a centaur, a bee, and finally back into a boy.
"Wow! That is so cool! All I can do is kendo."
"Kendo? What's that? It's not magic, 'cause every one knows that mundanes can't use magic," he said point blank.
"Kendo is a form of fighting," he said, "Hey why do you keep calling us mundanes?"
"'Cause that's what you are, aren't you?" asked Dolph.
"Oh," Ichabod interupted, "excuse me, uh Ryo, but where are you from? I am guessing Japan, maybe?"
"Um yeah, hey wait! Why are we all speaking the same language!?"
"Because," Bink began, "You are in Xanth and in Xanth all humanoids speak the same language. There is no explaination for it except magic, and there's no explaination for magic."
"Magic? You mean everyone has magic?" Mia asked, trying in vain to keep Yulie from seeing the female centaurs.
"Yes," said Irene, "My talent is the green thumb, and as my lovely husband has already demonstrated, his is talking with the inaniamte." Then an annoying little voice came from Chem's shoulder. dd>"This is my wife Irene and my son Dolph. These are our friends," he said indicating the two centaurs, "Chet and his sister Chem. My daughter Ivy is at the castle, she isn't one for travel. But before I go any further, please introduce your friends," said Dor with a friendy smile. Ryo returned the smile, Dor was a pretty good king.
"This is Mia," he said pointing to each person in turn, "Yulie, Rowen, Cye, Kento, Sage, Dais, Kale, Sehkmet, and Kayura."
In the distance three more centaurs came into view.
"Ah, they have arrived," Dor said as the three came to a halt beside the two already there, each one carried a person, "This is my father, Bink, and my mother, Chameleon." Dor helped his remakably beautiful mother down from the centaur she had been ridding. This filly was different from the others, she had wings!
"This is Chex, Chem's daughter," said Dor indicating the winged filly, "and this is Chester, Chet and Chem's sire." While all the others had pretty or handsome faces Chester was, well, he was ugly. But he had a handsome horse half.
"And last, but not least is Ichabod and his friend Arnolde. Ichabod is mundane like yourselves and Arnolde is a Magician." Ichabod was very old, as was Arnolde. Both wore bifocals and both were probably scholars.
"Magician?!" Yulie excalaimed. First pie trees and now magic, this was way better than Disney Land.
"Yeah," answered little Dolph, "I'm a magician too!" After he said this he transformed fist into a bird, then a centaur, a bee, and finally back into a boy.
"Wow! That is so cool! All I can do is kendo."
"Kendo? What's that? It's not magic, 'cause every one knows that mundanes can't use magic," he said point blank.
"Kendo is a form of fighting," he said, "Hey why do you keep calling us mundanes?"
"'Cause that's what you are, aren't you?" asked Ivy.
"Oh," Ichabod interupted, "excuse me, uh Ryo, but where are you from? I am guessing Japan, maybe?"
"Um yeah, hey wait! Why are we all speaking the same language!?"
"Because," Bink began, "You are in Xanth and in Xanth all humanoids speak the same language. There is no explaination for it except magic, and there's no explaination for magic."
"Magic? You mean everyone has magic?" Mia asked, trying in vain to keep Yulie from seeing the female centaurs.
"Yes," said Irene, "My talent is the green thumb, and as my lovely husband has already demonstrated, his is talking with the inaniamte." Then an annoying little voice came from Chem's shoulder.
"It's the fact that they talk back that makes it a i>real/i> talent." Everyone looked to see that the speaker was a tiny little man, roughly the height of a man's handspan. He smiled seeing the looks on the warriors faces.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Dor said, "I forgot to introduce Grundy the Golem."
"He is kinda a loud mouth but we love him" Ivy said giving him a be-quiet-now stare.
"The reason," continued Ichabod," that we are refered to as mundanes is because we do not possess magic. You see, in the normal world there is no magic, with the exception of rainbows, so it is reffered to as mundania."
"But we do, well the guys do have magic," protested Yulie moving Mia's hand from his eyes, "They all have mystical armors."
"..." was the response of Bink, Dor, and the others.
"Really?! Wow that's amazing! Mundanes with Magic!" exclaimed Dolph with his eyes wide and an ear to ear smile, "Can I see!?"
"Sure," Yulie said, looking almost excited, "Hey Kento! Transform, please!"
"Uh, okay," he said and he did.
"WOW! Can you do anything else?" asked Dolph, staring at the newly armored Kento.
"Yeah, my attacks are magical, but if I did one some one might get hurt," he stated mater-of-factly.
"Oh, well, what can the rest of you do?" he asked the other warriors.
"Basicly the same," answered Kayura, "except with different armors, weapons, and attacks. I have an armor as well, but I also possess the Starlight Swords, and the powers of the Ancient."
"So, you're a Sorceress?"
"No, just more abilities. Ryo's more powerful than me anyways. i>He/i> is the only one who posseses the power to call upon the Inferno armor." Then Dolph realized that his parents, Grampa Bink, Ichabod and the centaurs hadn't said a thing. He turned to them and saw that they were wide-eyed and their jaws were dropped in confusion.
"Daddy, what's the matter?" asked the young princess as she tugged on her father's hand. Then, when Dor tried to say something, it was so quiet that Ivy could hardly hear it.
"Mundanes, with magic? What- what could there be to explain this?... Magician Humfreys would know, but he's gone missing... maybe," he turned to his father, "Do you think he would know?" It was apparent that Bink had been on the same train of thought. He looked at Dor and nodded.
"But we should take them to the castle, i>he/i> wouldn't appriciate too many visitors," said Bink, both looked much more serious than anyone had ever looked before.
whew! how about that, don't cha just luv being left at a cliff hanger?!?!?! well next chapter will be up soon and i promis a very long chappie!!!! TTFN!