THE MAGIC OF GREEN: THE FIRST YEARS

By Cecil

PROLOUGE

May 7th... May 7th, 1987... Days like this one, they are the variety that tend to seem inert and harmless to history, as many people are not always of full consciousness to what is around them. Days like this tend to be forgotten completely and passed off as simply another day in the limited span of a person's life.

However, the truth is, this day was to be very important to a select few, a select few whose fates seem interwined and destined to cross. For others, it is important since those directly involved are linked to the people in question. For others, they feel anger, others guilt, and more even feel happiness. Others know of the importance of these types of days, but do not visible show that they care, while in truth, deep down, they are furiously trying to figure out what happened.

Whatever the case may be, May 7th, 1987 was a very important day...

Alpincio Forest, Eagleland.

Alpincio Forest was a large reserve of woods and forestland that rested along the city boundaries of two towns in Western Eagleland. One of the two towns was a place called Onett. Onett was said to be your 'podunkish' town, or in laymen's terms, the city that was extremely average, dull and uninteresting. However a couple of place of interest for tourists still existed in Onett. The first was the Arcade, which was also the hangout of all the kids in Onett, where they would go to relieve stress from their lives on the various arcade machines within. Some of the games included were said to be Pac-Man, Galaga, Donkey Kong, Pong, and even a Dr. Who pinball machine.

Another place of interest in Onett was the Library, which for odd reasons, was the only known library in all of Eagleland, the other towns and cities, Twoson, Threed and Fourside possessed no libraries. However Onett's library was also a gather place for some of the nuttier people in Onett and parts of Eagleland as well, as people tended to ramble on about "magic butterflies" and "giant ants", or "Giant Step", another great spot of interest.

The other town that was part of Alpincio Forest, was Twoson, which was also bordering the South portions of Onett. Twoson, on the other hand, it was a buyers' spot of interest, and also not as normal as Onett's boring climate. Such places of interest included the bicycle shop, just to the south of the entrance of town. Another right next to it was the Department Store. The Department Store was filled with people from all around Onett, Twoson and Threed, mainly for those who weren't in the mood to go to the store in Fourside, which was on the Easternmost shores of Eagleland.

Another special place of interest was Burglin Park further to the South. Burgin Park was home to year-round bazzares that sold various things ranging from condiments, to old broken junk that others may have found of use. However some caution was advised around Burglin: the place was also home to theives and sometimes robbers that would openly attack someone for money or other possessions. Another interesting note was that the boss of Burglin Park, Albert Everdred was also a partial crime boss and a dangerous person to some. Only those who knew Everdred personally were trusted friends.

In all of the buyers' pandemonium of Twoson, one other place of interest, also a one-of-a-kind in Eagleland, was the Polestar Preschool, owned by James and Penelope Polestar since 1979. This 8 year old building was both home to the Polestar family, and their two daughters, and also a place for the very young children of Eagleland to send their children. The Polestar girls, Paula and Sandra seemed to get along with a lot of the kids, despite being only 5 years of age themselves.

However, the events of May 7th, 1987 did not take place within the town of Onett or the town of Twoson, but within Alpincio Forest itself...

Alpincio Forest was lush and densely aligned with trees and bushes, many of them populated well by Squirrels and other field mice of various types. Birds were chirping in the distance, and the sun was shining brightly, putting down 72 degrees of sunlight through the trees of the forest. The air wasn't the most fresh, but it was much better off than the town streets.

"Yes, a better day than any to begin this charade, I would say!" came the voice of a human within the forest whims. The human was within a moderate sized clearing in the midsts of the forest outskirts. The human was a male, black skinned, with short brown hair, and was roughly 5 feet, 10 inches. His red eyes however, showed an air of chaos, bitterness and sarcasm in his voice. The truth was, the man hated his life for the most part, and he especially hated the prospect of peace.

"Sunlight, trees, warm air. Perfect situations for breeding chaos, I always say!" the man barked to himself again, in snidely sarcasm. He walked a few steps forward, and stopped on a dime, and proceeded to look upwards, and began raising his arms to the sky. The man began to mumble in a low voice, slowly picking up speed in his chanting.

"Abinora... Ahangodo... Balstinta... Satrunos... Harganis... Krehotia... FOYREM!!" the man chanted, in a trance, and suddenly altering the vertical angle of his arms down and perpendicular with the ground, pointing his outstretched palms at the center of the forest clearing. At first, nothing seemed to happen, and people who had heard the man's chanting would've mistaken his words as those of a loon.

However it then happened. The ground began to slowly shake and tremble underneath his feet. The man did not flinch or seem worried about being discovered. He couldn't worry. No one would've felt that tremor unless about right on top of his location, as the magicial energies he had usurpered had only a small radius of effect. The ground continued trembling under the might of the Earth's magical convulsions, and the man's trance stiff as ever.

Suddenly more happened, the vacant space in front of the man began to crackle with thunder, starting slowly in occurance, as a small blue speck of light had began to fade into the middle of the vacant clearing of the forest. The small blue speck was actually the source of the rumbling of thunder, as it slowly began to expand in size over the perimeter of the clearing, expanding outwards and emitting sparks of energy from through the small blue void itself. After the portal had opened up roughly 10 feet in circumfrence, it stopped finally, but still continuing to pulse and drone on monotonously.

The man smirked in contempt at his creation, his deed, his PORTAL. Yes, that was right. The man had created a dimensional rift that extended outwords and connected to one or many other different worlds. In other words, the man knew of ways to contact beings from other universes, planets, realities. At least it seemed that way.

"Now, to call it forth, call it forth to burn Eagleland, and then the world, asunder!!" the man howled in anticipation, beganing to chant again, in yet another strange language, "Grangorta... Hinyeagh... Deluuim... Lingariva..."

Now, you're probably wondering if this was the reason May 7th, 1987 was an important day. Well, this action was part of it, but what would ensue next was the other portion of it. One grain of sand the man had not anticipated...

Uh oh. Serpents, I bet. I know I told Mr. Everdred I'd be careful, but something seems wrong. Prehaps I can find out ahead of time what they're planning.

Came the thoughts of a small girl from just a bit aways outside of Alpincio Forest. The girl was small, roughly 2 feet, 3 inches with white skin, Sugar-pink hair and dark purple eyes. She looked to a small opening along the border of the forest seperating Onett and Twoson from each other. She slowly crept her way into the opening in the trees, following the source of an odd chanting and murmuring. The girl seemed to notice a bit of thunder in the air, and small tremors beneath her feet. She became more urgent to find out what was wrong and ran.

Ran only to find herself entering the same clearing of the forest the taller black man was currently chanting his spell. The man seemed to be in a trance and didn't seem to notice her, and she could still hear him murmuring unknown phrases that definately weren't part of her own vocabulary. She decided to study the features of the man more destinctively. She looked over his short brown hair, red eyes, his jacket, his shoes, his...

Wait, his jacket?!

The girl focused in on an insignia on the upper shoulder of his jacket. A snake wrapped around a two-bladded battleaxe.

Cripes! He's a Serpent!

As she had made this realiziation, the man, still unaware of her presense, began to chant again, this time in english, "Foul creature of the skies, of myth, of lore, of fire!! I commandth you... be summoned to me... BE SUMMONED TO ME, your master Ramona!!" The girl had finally realized the full effect of the spell in truth, and realized: the man was going to summon a creature from beyond their world to lay waste in the name of the Serpents. She growled at this, the Serpents were always a gang of hatred, evil and deception. However few knew of the truth in their abilities. Rumors flew around Twoson and Onett that they possessed the knowledge of Wicca, a magic that could tap into the planet itself to open portals, draw lifeforce from others, and many other chaotic effects. She had finally had enough of this!

"Stop!! That's enough!!" she screamed at the man. The man was suddenly jolted out of his trance, and he jumped at the sight of her. He snarled.

"Who the he@$ do you think you are, barging in on MY territory?!" He roared. "And what made you and your lowlife cronies think this forest is YOURS in the first place?!" the girl hissed back, "Exactly what are you pulling, Serpent!?" "Well, I guess I can tell you now, but I tire of this boredom, this peace, this serenity. I wish to throw chaos into the mix." the man barked back. "You're sick!" the girl cried back in contempt. "Perhaps, but you will be his first meal!!" the man said back, referring to the creature he had just began summoning. The girl looked at the portal and back at the man.

He's trying to send the world to flame! Just like always, cruel as the rest of his misbegotten gang.

She then tooked back at the portal, closing her eyes, and walking towards it, despite the gusts of wind coming from it, and trying to blow her frail form to the winds. "What the he#%?! Do you have a death wish, brat!?" the man yelled at her. The girl ignored him and continued and struggled against the wind, gritting her teeth tighter and tighter as she came within feet of the gate itself. She suddenly opened her purple eyes, her GLOWING purple eyes. The winds of the portal began to calm down slowly, getting the man's attention. "What!? No... no!! The spell's failing!!" he growled.

The portal in truth was not failing. The glowing eyes of the little girl had been what caused it to calm down, er no... not calm down, more like change wind direction. Yes, the portal was now sucking in wind from Earth. The girl had changed the polarity of the portal's gravity. "Why the he@% did the gate reverse direction?!" the man was now growing red in the face in rage. He then realized what the girl had done. "You rugrat bi&#%!! You did this, didn't you?!" The girl didn't respond, as her eyes suddenly lost the omnious glowing in them, and she looked to him, and grinned a sickenly sweet smile at him, just to frazzle him...

Just as the portal's pull seized her in its' grip, and she was drawn into the winds and shot through the gate. Realizing the gate had finally began transferring something signifcant from one place to another, it began to slowly shrink and shrink down, to the man's dismay, until it had completely vanished. The man snarled for appoximately 10 seconds in disbelief and anger. His opportunity was snatched away from him by a little toddler. He turned on foot to return through the forest paths, knowing his Serpent superiors would not be happy he failed. But as his visage left the clearing, he smirked.

That little girl had just sent herself to death's door. When she arrived, the same creature he had been attempting to summon would be waiting for her, and tear her to shreds. At least he would never see her again...

However, little did he realize the truth of what he had started...

The girl that had interfered with his plans wasn't just any Eagleland girl...

She was a Polestar... she was Sandra Polestar...

And due to this, the Serpents were about to have company... very pissed off company...

In the form of Sandra's other sister Paula... who herself possessed abilities in secret that were as inhuman-like as Ramona's own...

4 hours later, fighting and large flames were reported by Twoson reporters in the area, and several dozen Serpents were taken into custody, and their leader broken and fled from Twoson by Paula's following onslaughts...

As you have probably figured out, this story is not of Ramona's accounts. No, Ramona, despite his gang being totally disbanded during Paula's anguished fighting, remained alive, and would flee to the West Coast and make a calmer life in North America.

Still, the story also isn't about Paula and how she handles her grief and sadness over Sandra's disappearance...

This story is about Sandra herself, and the adventures she will have over time, and the friends, rivals, enemies, and other people she meets...

And as she learns the Magic of the Green Child...