"Welcome to your new home, for now at least."
Gala blinked. "What do you mean, for now? Will I be leaving soon?" Gala sighed. Bramble chuckled.
"'Course not. But sometimes, circumstances make you want to go and live somewhere else. Any pet is welcome to stay as long as it needs to. Of course, want and need are usually different things, but you get the idea. Anyway, this red door here is to the outside of Caratown, and will be the one you'll take to get to Ren's cabin and take magical classes. The other doors are off limits. They're to everywhere, and those are fae runes on them. They're rather hard to find once you're somewhere else, so you may not want to go through them, k?" Bramble sounded quite serious, so Gala simply nodded, awestruck by the possibilities. They walked along a small road with a few other pets passing, who greeted them as they walked by. Everyone seemed to know one another, and the atmosphere was alot friendlier than in Neopia Central. The duo soon reached a small avenue with townhouses along the side and an apartment building at the end of it. He lead her into the building. "Your flat will be the rooftop one, it's smallest and probably best for you to practice flying, now that you have wings. I live in the townhouse right there," Bramble gestured to a neon green house. "I'm an earth elemental, so I've had training in that area already. I'm a real green thumb with plants, see?" He gestured around his front yard, which was as wild as the jungles in Tyrannia. Gala walked over to a plant propped up in several places with sticks. "Those are Lazydels. They won't stay up on their own, so you have to prop 'em up with sticks." Gala touched the plant with a careful paw. A tendril of vine erupted from the stem and wrapped itelf around her claw. She jumped backwards, nearly landing on a Sunday Bush. The foul smelling bush (it wasn't sunday) twitched and a few flowers opened their buds slowly, causing a sweeter scent to be revealed. Gala blinked. Bramble looked rather shocked and excited. He knelt by the plants, touching a few and making small sounds that sounded rather like leaves moving in the wind.
"Wh-what's going on?" Gala stammered, staring at the plants, which were suddenly swaying in a nonexistant breeze.
"The plants are talking like crazy about you! Maybe you're an earth elemental! Then you could learn under me until we get to FaerieLand and you meet the Uber Earth fae. It'd be so wicked awesome, I never really met any other earth mages! Touch this plant, and tell me if you understand what it's saying!" He pointed to a Peabeanjay Flower. "They're chatterboxes."
Gala, somewhat uncertainly, knelt on the ground next to Bramble, and gently touched the flower's soft petals. She suddenly became aware of everything growing around her. She felt almost overwhelmed by the life around her, but none-the-less focused on the purple flower she was touching. A soft whispering filled her mind, and Gala strained to understand, but it remained quiet whisperings, almost-words. She looked up at Bramble. "I don't understand it. I know it's trying to say something to me, but I just can't understand it. It's too quiet. Can you tell it to speak up?" Bramble stared at Gala, his eyes full of disappointment.
"For a plant, it was yelling quite loudly. I could probably have heard it across CaraTown without trying. Maybe you're not an earth elemental." Bramble kept his disappointment in check. 'It's not the kitten's fault she's not an earth element, though she obviously has SOME sort of connection with plants, for her to understand anything at all.' He thought to himself. "Well, let me show you to your new home." He stood up, brushing the dirt from his fur. Gala nodded, doing likewise. Her fur was now a rather dark shade of brooding blue, he noticed. 'I wonder what that means...'
'Being an earth elemental would've been so much fun! Being able to talk to plants would've been so cool. I wonder how Bramble ate, though. Wouldn't being able to talk to veggies and stuff make it feel like cannibalism or something?' Gala's 7 year old mind, while mature for it's age, wandered off in other directions as she followed Bramble through the apartment building up to the small flat on the last floor. Each floor was a small apartment, and, with five floors in all (Gala's apartment being on the fifth floor), there were alread 4 pets living there. Stopping short of the stairs that lead to the roof, Bramble was nearly bumped into by a zoned out Gala, who had started wondering what kind of conversation one would have with a Plantmelon one was about to eat. She muttered an apology to Bramble, her fur turning a faint shade of pink with embarassment. He shrugged, and opened the door they were next to. A label, which had to be magical, that said "Unoccupied," flashed, faded, and was replaced with fancy script that said "GalaLeFey." Gala gaped at it before she looked into the room.
For a moment Gala thought she had gone colorblind, until she realized the entire room was black and white. The furniture in the room was the Zen set, and the walls had been left white. Bramble blinked, apparently getting used to the lack of color in the room. Gala grinned and ran in, admiring the room. "This... this is my new home?" Gala looked around in muted awe. Bramble smiled.
"For as long as you need it, you got it." Bramble smiled. Gala suddenly remembered something.
"I left some stuff in a hollow tree on the outskirts of the High Street. Do you think I can get it?" Gala asked. Bramble looked thoughtful for a moment.
"I'll get it. One sec, I'll be right back." He left the building, walking toward one of the doors. Gala watched him through her window. He put his paws on the ground and looked like he was deep in thought. She vaguely noticed him tracing symbols on the ground absentmindedly. She watched, astonished, as the grass itself was passing her bag of food and the Book of Escapes to Bramble. He picked it up, ran his paws through the grass fondly, and wiped the dirt of his claws as he picked up the bag. He reentered the buildng and Gala met him at the top of the stairs.
"Jhuidah! That was so cool!" Gala didn't even notice the name of the trading faerie pop out of her mouth in exclamation. Bramble, however, found it interesting.
"Did you live on the Mystery Isle when you were younger? 'Jhuidah' is an exclamation said there quite often, as well as 'Pango Pango.' Do you remember?" Gala shook her head in answer to the question. "So you were in the pound so long you didn't even remember your original owner or siblings? Wow..." Bramble sounded wistful. "I'll leave you to get accustomed to your new flat. I'm sure others will come by to visit soon." With a wave, Bramble left, going into his garden and lying down on the grass in his garden, letting the cool earth and the life all around him clear his mind.
Gala shrugged as he left, and turned to look at the furniture in her neohome. Her living room had a Zen Desk, Sofa, Table, Mirror, Curvy Drawers and Rug, as well as Functional Gray Chairs. The carpet was black and the walls were white, giving Gala the feel of being in a giant ying-yang. Her fur had turned a happy blue, and when she caught a glimpse of her reflection in the mirror, she almost didn't recognize herself. She spent a few perplexed minutes looking for the skinny blue kougra in the mirror before realizing it was herself. Looking through the drawers of the curvery drawers, she found it was full of food. Dumping the remains of the food she had been living off of on her own into it, she looked for a place to store her book. She glanced at the desk. She had heard these had quite a few secret compartments. Feeling around, she found an area under the drawer of the desk that was just the right size for the Book of Escapes. She slid it in and shut it, noting the place where it was in her mind for further reference. Glancing around, she noticed two doors aside from the front door. Choosing the one on the wall next to the front door rather than the one right across from it, Gala walked in.
Gala's sensitive kougra nose twitched at scents that seemed familiar. The room she was in was obviously a bathrrom, with a bathtub in one corner and a Coconut Stand turned into a vanity near it. Next to the bathtub was a Fresh Bamboo Mat where one would step out, and at the foot of it was a Fresh Bamboo Shelf unit full of Towels and other grooming products, as was the Vanity. The walls were a faint shade of blue and the tiles on the floor were pale yellowish green, and small painted flowers dotted the wlls. Noticing another door with a Dry Bamboo Mat in front of it, Gala shrugged and stepped through.
Taking a few paces, Gala found herself in the bedroom, reminiscent of her original coloring. The walls were pale sunset red, and the carpet was the same lush black as in the living room. The bed, sofa, long drawers, and chair in the room were Tiger print, making Gala feel like she was back in her old fur again. In the coner near the long Drawers was an Italian Style Recliner, and near the sofa was a Red Pot and two Bean Bag Chairs, one red and one rainbow. At the foot of the bed was a Cream Rug, that had been tinted (probably magically) into the same golden hue as Gala's eyes. Gala smiled as she jumped into the bed, snuggling the covers. Happy with her new home, but bored, she began jumping on the bed, doing small flips in midair. A knock on the door startled her, and she accidently jumped off the bed, luckily landing on a nearby beanbag and only getting a minor bruising. She ran out the other door in the room, knowing it had to lead to the living room, and ran to the door, hufffing rather ungracefully as she opened the door.
"*pant pant* h-hi, I'm *whew* Gala." Gala grinned as she looked up at her visitor, a female blue acara.
"Err... Hello, I'm Dewdrop. I'm a friend of Bramble's. I'm a water element, so I usually help him a bit with his garden. You know, watering plants and such. We're a pretty good team." Dewdrop beamed. "Anyway, Ren sent me to help you get cleaned up. No offense, but your fur must have seen better days at one point, right?" Dewdrop grinned and pulled Gala into the bathroom.
Too quickly for Gala's taste, she has plunged into hot water in the bathtub. Dewdrop poured what seemed like the entire bottle of Shampoo into Gala's fur, scrubbing the dirt from the past weeks on the street and past years in the pound. Gala whined, not enjoying the water. When she had gotten a rich lather, she dumped hot water onto Gala, cleanly rinsing the fur. She then got the bottle of Conditioner and began working it into Gala's fur, untangling knots and mats as she went through Gala's fur. Dewdrop tickled Gala's ribs as she passed them, making Gala giggle despite herself. "This isn't too bad, is it? I remember this one time, I had to tie a little Jetsam down to get him clean, and they're supposed to LIKE the water!" Gala grinned as Dewdrop rinsed the conditioner from her fur, then began to go through the grooming supplies. She pulled out some Super Shiny Shampoo, and worked it through Gala's fur. Gala sneezed a few times at the strongly sweet scent. Weary of the water, as soon as Dewdrop tuned her back again, Gala tried to quietly leave the tub.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Dewdrop yelled, and plopped her back in the tub. Gala scowled and crossed her paws as she sat down. "Honestly, you'd think these pets had an allergy to water..." Dewdrop muttered, rolling her eyes. She grabbed the Wing Sock and ran it through Gala's new, albeit now waterlogged, wings, making the feathers shine. Finally (at least to Gala), Dewdrop pulled Gala out of the tub, wrapping a towel around her. She pulled out a Frizz Free Mane Cloth and began rubbing it roughly through Gala's fur. Gala yelped. "You wanted quick, you get quick, but quick has it's own flaws..." Dewdrop scolded. Gala frowned as Dewdrop, apparently satisfied with how dry Gala was, pulled out a Snazzy Moon Comb and began to comb Gala's fur. Gala growled, shrieked, and cried as Dewdrop hit knots and snarls in her hair, but dewdrop, unrelenting, pressed forward until Gala's hair held no resistance to the comb. Dewdrop then grabbed a Gold Brush and ran it through Gala's fur a few times, before switching to a Red Short Hair Brush, and combing Gala's fur till it shone. Gala struggled and fidgeted, but Dewdrop ignored her, pressing a strong paw against her shoulders. She took the bottle of Perfume and spritzed Gala with it. Gala sneezed at the flowery scent. Dewdrop grabbed a pair of jeans and a white t-shirt she had brought in with her and gave it to Gala, who quickly got dressed. Dewdrop steered Gala over to the mirror at the coconut vanity. Gala gaped at the kougra looking back at her. Her fur and hair were clean and smooth, quite shiny. She looked rather like the pet of an owner who hadn't been able to feed her pets much, but was impeccable about grooming them. Gala twirled in the mirror, examining herself from the tip of her nose to the tip of her tail. Her fur turned an excitedly happy royal purple as she spun around in circles, looking in the mirror and making herself dizzy. Dewdrop laughed.
"Oh! Before I forget, Ren sent something for you with me. I wan't really here to give you a bath, you just looked like you REALLY needed one." Dewdrop snickered as Gala scowled at her. The blue acara led her back into the living room, and picked up a small package she had left on the Zen Table. She handed it to Gala, who carefully unwrapped it. A small rod of dark chocolate colored wood with a round clear crystal at the end was revealed. "It's a wand. Since Ren's going to be teaching you magic, she figured you'd need one. Your wand is for practical and basically general magic. The more you use it, the more it keys into you. Eventually the stone on the end becomes the color of you element." Dewdrop pulled out a wand of a lighter color of wood, with a bright blue stone on its end. "See? Because I'm a water element." Dewdrop grinned. She made a small movement with her wand, and bubbles began to grow out of the tip of her wand. She smiled as she popped them with her claws. "Hope you have fun in class!" Dewdrop winked as she left, leaving a trail of bubbles behind her. "Oh, and if you need me, I live in the turqoise townhouse next to Bramble's!" She yelled up the stairs. Gala walked over to her window and looked for the house specified.
'Cool looking house...' Gala thought to herself. The entire front yard was a rather deep pond. Gala wondered how Dewdrop would get across, and decided to stay to watch. Dewdrop walked up to the edge of the water and immersed a paw in it. At first, Gala didn't notice anything happening. Then she noticed bubbles coming up the the surface, quickly. Gala was vaguely reminded of a can of neocola. The bubbles quickly joined together to form a patway just large enough for one pet to walk through. With ease won with practice, Dewdrop walked across, oblivious to Gala watching her, and enterred her home, shaking the water off her paws as she went inside.
Gala stepped away from the window, and looked at the wand in her paws. 'This is so... powerful. I wonder what it'll be like to learn magic.' She noticed a note and a watch in the package her wand had been in. Gala picked it up and read it aloud.
"Magical classes start at 9 am. Be prompt! Your alarm is set for seven. Come to my cabin for classes. You know the way.
"~Ren"
Gala blinked. "What do you mean, for now? Will I be leaving soon?" Gala sighed. Bramble chuckled.
"'Course not. But sometimes, circumstances make you want to go and live somewhere else. Any pet is welcome to stay as long as it needs to. Of course, want and need are usually different things, but you get the idea. Anyway, this red door here is to the outside of Caratown, and will be the one you'll take to get to Ren's cabin and take magical classes. The other doors are off limits. They're to everywhere, and those are fae runes on them. They're rather hard to find once you're somewhere else, so you may not want to go through them, k?" Bramble sounded quite serious, so Gala simply nodded, awestruck by the possibilities. They walked along a small road with a few other pets passing, who greeted them as they walked by. Everyone seemed to know one another, and the atmosphere was alot friendlier than in Neopia Central. The duo soon reached a small avenue with townhouses along the side and an apartment building at the end of it. He lead her into the building. "Your flat will be the rooftop one, it's smallest and probably best for you to practice flying, now that you have wings. I live in the townhouse right there," Bramble gestured to a neon green house. "I'm an earth elemental, so I've had training in that area already. I'm a real green thumb with plants, see?" He gestured around his front yard, which was as wild as the jungles in Tyrannia. Gala walked over to a plant propped up in several places with sticks. "Those are Lazydels. They won't stay up on their own, so you have to prop 'em up with sticks." Gala touched the plant with a careful paw. A tendril of vine erupted from the stem and wrapped itelf around her claw. She jumped backwards, nearly landing on a Sunday Bush. The foul smelling bush (it wasn't sunday) twitched and a few flowers opened their buds slowly, causing a sweeter scent to be revealed. Gala blinked. Bramble looked rather shocked and excited. He knelt by the plants, touching a few and making small sounds that sounded rather like leaves moving in the wind.
"Wh-what's going on?" Gala stammered, staring at the plants, which were suddenly swaying in a nonexistant breeze.
"The plants are talking like crazy about you! Maybe you're an earth elemental! Then you could learn under me until we get to FaerieLand and you meet the Uber Earth fae. It'd be so wicked awesome, I never really met any other earth mages! Touch this plant, and tell me if you understand what it's saying!" He pointed to a Peabeanjay Flower. "They're chatterboxes."
Gala, somewhat uncertainly, knelt on the ground next to Bramble, and gently touched the flower's soft petals. She suddenly became aware of everything growing around her. She felt almost overwhelmed by the life around her, but none-the-less focused on the purple flower she was touching. A soft whispering filled her mind, and Gala strained to understand, but it remained quiet whisperings, almost-words. She looked up at Bramble. "I don't understand it. I know it's trying to say something to me, but I just can't understand it. It's too quiet. Can you tell it to speak up?" Bramble stared at Gala, his eyes full of disappointment.
"For a plant, it was yelling quite loudly. I could probably have heard it across CaraTown without trying. Maybe you're not an earth elemental." Bramble kept his disappointment in check. 'It's not the kitten's fault she's not an earth element, though she obviously has SOME sort of connection with plants, for her to understand anything at all.' He thought to himself. "Well, let me show you to your new home." He stood up, brushing the dirt from his fur. Gala nodded, doing likewise. Her fur was now a rather dark shade of brooding blue, he noticed. 'I wonder what that means...'
'Being an earth elemental would've been so much fun! Being able to talk to plants would've been so cool. I wonder how Bramble ate, though. Wouldn't being able to talk to veggies and stuff make it feel like cannibalism or something?' Gala's 7 year old mind, while mature for it's age, wandered off in other directions as she followed Bramble through the apartment building up to the small flat on the last floor. Each floor was a small apartment, and, with five floors in all (Gala's apartment being on the fifth floor), there were alread 4 pets living there. Stopping short of the stairs that lead to the roof, Bramble was nearly bumped into by a zoned out Gala, who had started wondering what kind of conversation one would have with a Plantmelon one was about to eat. She muttered an apology to Bramble, her fur turning a faint shade of pink with embarassment. He shrugged, and opened the door they were next to. A label, which had to be magical, that said "Unoccupied," flashed, faded, and was replaced with fancy script that said "GalaLeFey." Gala gaped at it before she looked into the room.
For a moment Gala thought she had gone colorblind, until she realized the entire room was black and white. The furniture in the room was the Zen set, and the walls had been left white. Bramble blinked, apparently getting used to the lack of color in the room. Gala grinned and ran in, admiring the room. "This... this is my new home?" Gala looked around in muted awe. Bramble smiled.
"For as long as you need it, you got it." Bramble smiled. Gala suddenly remembered something.
"I left some stuff in a hollow tree on the outskirts of the High Street. Do you think I can get it?" Gala asked. Bramble looked thoughtful for a moment.
"I'll get it. One sec, I'll be right back." He left the building, walking toward one of the doors. Gala watched him through her window. He put his paws on the ground and looked like he was deep in thought. She vaguely noticed him tracing symbols on the ground absentmindedly. She watched, astonished, as the grass itself was passing her bag of food and the Book of Escapes to Bramble. He picked it up, ran his paws through the grass fondly, and wiped the dirt of his claws as he picked up the bag. He reentered the buildng and Gala met him at the top of the stairs.
"Jhuidah! That was so cool!" Gala didn't even notice the name of the trading faerie pop out of her mouth in exclamation. Bramble, however, found it interesting.
"Did you live on the Mystery Isle when you were younger? 'Jhuidah' is an exclamation said there quite often, as well as 'Pango Pango.' Do you remember?" Gala shook her head in answer to the question. "So you were in the pound so long you didn't even remember your original owner or siblings? Wow..." Bramble sounded wistful. "I'll leave you to get accustomed to your new flat. I'm sure others will come by to visit soon." With a wave, Bramble left, going into his garden and lying down on the grass in his garden, letting the cool earth and the life all around him clear his mind.
Gala shrugged as he left, and turned to look at the furniture in her neohome. Her living room had a Zen Desk, Sofa, Table, Mirror, Curvy Drawers and Rug, as well as Functional Gray Chairs. The carpet was black and the walls were white, giving Gala the feel of being in a giant ying-yang. Her fur had turned a happy blue, and when she caught a glimpse of her reflection in the mirror, she almost didn't recognize herself. She spent a few perplexed minutes looking for the skinny blue kougra in the mirror before realizing it was herself. Looking through the drawers of the curvery drawers, she found it was full of food. Dumping the remains of the food she had been living off of on her own into it, she looked for a place to store her book. She glanced at the desk. She had heard these had quite a few secret compartments. Feeling around, she found an area under the drawer of the desk that was just the right size for the Book of Escapes. She slid it in and shut it, noting the place where it was in her mind for further reference. Glancing around, she noticed two doors aside from the front door. Choosing the one on the wall next to the front door rather than the one right across from it, Gala walked in.
Gala's sensitive kougra nose twitched at scents that seemed familiar. The room she was in was obviously a bathrrom, with a bathtub in one corner and a Coconut Stand turned into a vanity near it. Next to the bathtub was a Fresh Bamboo Mat where one would step out, and at the foot of it was a Fresh Bamboo Shelf unit full of Towels and other grooming products, as was the Vanity. The walls were a faint shade of blue and the tiles on the floor were pale yellowish green, and small painted flowers dotted the wlls. Noticing another door with a Dry Bamboo Mat in front of it, Gala shrugged and stepped through.
Taking a few paces, Gala found herself in the bedroom, reminiscent of her original coloring. The walls were pale sunset red, and the carpet was the same lush black as in the living room. The bed, sofa, long drawers, and chair in the room were Tiger print, making Gala feel like she was back in her old fur again. In the coner near the long Drawers was an Italian Style Recliner, and near the sofa was a Red Pot and two Bean Bag Chairs, one red and one rainbow. At the foot of the bed was a Cream Rug, that had been tinted (probably magically) into the same golden hue as Gala's eyes. Gala smiled as she jumped into the bed, snuggling the covers. Happy with her new home, but bored, she began jumping on the bed, doing small flips in midair. A knock on the door startled her, and she accidently jumped off the bed, luckily landing on a nearby beanbag and only getting a minor bruising. She ran out the other door in the room, knowing it had to lead to the living room, and ran to the door, hufffing rather ungracefully as she opened the door.
"*pant pant* h-hi, I'm *whew* Gala." Gala grinned as she looked up at her visitor, a female blue acara.
"Err... Hello, I'm Dewdrop. I'm a friend of Bramble's. I'm a water element, so I usually help him a bit with his garden. You know, watering plants and such. We're a pretty good team." Dewdrop beamed. "Anyway, Ren sent me to help you get cleaned up. No offense, but your fur must have seen better days at one point, right?" Dewdrop grinned and pulled Gala into the bathroom.
Too quickly for Gala's taste, she has plunged into hot water in the bathtub. Dewdrop poured what seemed like the entire bottle of Shampoo into Gala's fur, scrubbing the dirt from the past weeks on the street and past years in the pound. Gala whined, not enjoying the water. When she had gotten a rich lather, she dumped hot water onto Gala, cleanly rinsing the fur. She then got the bottle of Conditioner and began working it into Gala's fur, untangling knots and mats as she went through Gala's fur. Dewdrop tickled Gala's ribs as she passed them, making Gala giggle despite herself. "This isn't too bad, is it? I remember this one time, I had to tie a little Jetsam down to get him clean, and they're supposed to LIKE the water!" Gala grinned as Dewdrop rinsed the conditioner from her fur, then began to go through the grooming supplies. She pulled out some Super Shiny Shampoo, and worked it through Gala's fur. Gala sneezed a few times at the strongly sweet scent. Weary of the water, as soon as Dewdrop tuned her back again, Gala tried to quietly leave the tub.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Dewdrop yelled, and plopped her back in the tub. Gala scowled and crossed her paws as she sat down. "Honestly, you'd think these pets had an allergy to water..." Dewdrop muttered, rolling her eyes. She grabbed the Wing Sock and ran it through Gala's new, albeit now waterlogged, wings, making the feathers shine. Finally (at least to Gala), Dewdrop pulled Gala out of the tub, wrapping a towel around her. She pulled out a Frizz Free Mane Cloth and began rubbing it roughly through Gala's fur. Gala yelped. "You wanted quick, you get quick, but quick has it's own flaws..." Dewdrop scolded. Gala frowned as Dewdrop, apparently satisfied with how dry Gala was, pulled out a Snazzy Moon Comb and began to comb Gala's fur. Gala growled, shrieked, and cried as Dewdrop hit knots and snarls in her hair, but dewdrop, unrelenting, pressed forward until Gala's hair held no resistance to the comb. Dewdrop then grabbed a Gold Brush and ran it through Gala's fur a few times, before switching to a Red Short Hair Brush, and combing Gala's fur till it shone. Gala struggled and fidgeted, but Dewdrop ignored her, pressing a strong paw against her shoulders. She took the bottle of Perfume and spritzed Gala with it. Gala sneezed at the flowery scent. Dewdrop grabbed a pair of jeans and a white t-shirt she had brought in with her and gave it to Gala, who quickly got dressed. Dewdrop steered Gala over to the mirror at the coconut vanity. Gala gaped at the kougra looking back at her. Her fur and hair were clean and smooth, quite shiny. She looked rather like the pet of an owner who hadn't been able to feed her pets much, but was impeccable about grooming them. Gala twirled in the mirror, examining herself from the tip of her nose to the tip of her tail. Her fur turned an excitedly happy royal purple as she spun around in circles, looking in the mirror and making herself dizzy. Dewdrop laughed.
"Oh! Before I forget, Ren sent something for you with me. I wan't really here to give you a bath, you just looked like you REALLY needed one." Dewdrop snickered as Gala scowled at her. The blue acara led her back into the living room, and picked up a small package she had left on the Zen Table. She handed it to Gala, who carefully unwrapped it. A small rod of dark chocolate colored wood with a round clear crystal at the end was revealed. "It's a wand. Since Ren's going to be teaching you magic, she figured you'd need one. Your wand is for practical and basically general magic. The more you use it, the more it keys into you. Eventually the stone on the end becomes the color of you element." Dewdrop pulled out a wand of a lighter color of wood, with a bright blue stone on its end. "See? Because I'm a water element." Dewdrop grinned. She made a small movement with her wand, and bubbles began to grow out of the tip of her wand. She smiled as she popped them with her claws. "Hope you have fun in class!" Dewdrop winked as she left, leaving a trail of bubbles behind her. "Oh, and if you need me, I live in the turqoise townhouse next to Bramble's!" She yelled up the stairs. Gala walked over to her window and looked for the house specified.
'Cool looking house...' Gala thought to herself. The entire front yard was a rather deep pond. Gala wondered how Dewdrop would get across, and decided to stay to watch. Dewdrop walked up to the edge of the water and immersed a paw in it. At first, Gala didn't notice anything happening. Then she noticed bubbles coming up the the surface, quickly. Gala was vaguely reminded of a can of neocola. The bubbles quickly joined together to form a patway just large enough for one pet to walk through. With ease won with practice, Dewdrop walked across, oblivious to Gala watching her, and enterred her home, shaking the water off her paws as she went inside.
Gala stepped away from the window, and looked at the wand in her paws. 'This is so... powerful. I wonder what it'll be like to learn magic.' She noticed a note and a watch in the package her wand had been in. Gala picked it up and read it aloud.
"Magical classes start at 9 am. Be prompt! Your alarm is set for seven. Come to my cabin for classes. You know the way.
"~Ren"