AN: Hey I'm back! How'd u like the prologue? I only got 1 review and that was from my friend! Give me criticism, tell me what u thought about, just review! Just don't go to great lengths to tell me it sucked. I'm explaining everything for people who haven't read the books. Ahem, Ahem, coughJennacough
Disclaimer: Oh, yeah, I'm sitting here in a 1-story house in the middle of nowhere, and I own the Avalon series. Get real.
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Previously:
Far away, within a different world, a fifteen-year-old girl with reddish colored hair and hazel eyes awoke from a nightmare that seemed all too real.
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Emily Fletcher jolted up from the nightmare she just had. She could remember something about the Spider Witch and the Evil Sorceress, and something about a plan, but the dream was slowly fading.
Just a nightmare, just a nightmare, she thought. But for some reason she couldn't get the uneasy feeling from her stomach. What time is it? Emily yawned sleepily. She looked over at the clock. WHAT? 9:30! She had 30 minutes before she had to be at Ravenswood Manor for a meeting.
(a/n yeah, yeah I hate author's notes in the middle of a story too, but if you've read the books, you can scroll down) She helped her friends Kara and Adriane at a historical site, Ravenswood Wildlife Preserve. They gave tours of the grounds and manor, and had help from Ozzie, the amazing talking ferret, and Kara's and Adriane's bonded, Lyra (a winged cat) and Dreamer (a mistwolf).
You may wonder, how can there be such a thing as a winged cat, or what the heck a mistwolf is. Well, you see, the three friends were no ordinary girls. They were mages sent by the farimentals (elemental being in charge of elemental magic) destined to save the magical world of Aldenmor from the evil Spider Witch and Evil Sorceress. When they were trying to defeat the Evil Sorceress and save the trapped mistwolves (I'll get to them in a minute) from a crystal, they succeeded at getting the mistwolves out, but the Sorceress fled and joined up with the Spider Witch to try and retrieve the power crystals from the home of magic itself.
Mistwolves are magical wolves that can turn into mist at will and hide things or people from others. 'Nuff said.
When the three mages were at the Sorceress castle, Kara accidentally let loose all of the magical power crystals, and wild magic is roaming around at a high level. The magical web that binds the worlds together is unstable, and if the power crystals get into the wrong hands, then, the magic will be controlled by evil. Emily, the healer and water elemental mage with the rainbow jewel; Kara Davies, the princess of the Fairy Realms (although she didn't know about it until a few months ago) and also the blazing star with the unicorn horn, also the fire mage; and Adriane with the cat-eye jewel, the warrior and who met a boy on Aldenmor by the name of Zach-a time mage (they refuse to admit it, but they like each other) and the earth mage; retrieved four but destroyed one (accident by Kara) and are in a race against time to retrieve the remaining four crystals before the witches do.
To do this, they need to advance into being Level two mages. To be a Level two mage, you must bond with a magical animal and a paladin. A paladin is an elemental animal that the mage bonds with. Adriane bonded with Stormbringer, or Storm, first. Then Dreamer. Storm was a mistwolf supposedly to have died when protecting the other mistwolves from the Black Fire.
Black Fire is a green poison that if touched, would spread throughout the body, eventually killing the person or animal. Healers can save the animals, but they're not always around.
Turns out that Storm didn't die, was just stuck on the Spiritual Trail. The Spiritual Trail is where deceased mistwolves roam free, giving there magic to the mistwolves still alive. Without them, the mistwolves would lose their magic. Storm was stuck there because there was a break in the trail, which Adriane helped fix. Adriane also bonded to a dragon named Drake. Zack boned to it also.
Next to be bonded was Kara. She bonded with Lyra after the winged leopard made a surprise appearance at her school, without the wings of course.
Kara was the first to receive a paladin. It was a firemental horse by the name of Starfire. He didn't have enough energy after retrieving the crystal (and breaking one) so now he only comes out when Kara needs him most. She found him in the Fairy Realms where she met Lorren, goblin prince and Forrest Prince.
Adriane got her paladin next. When she was saving the Spiritual Trail, the wraith attached to Ravenswood died, and Storm took her place, thus becoming Adriane's paladin.
Emily had no bonded so far, and was afraid that she would never reach Level two. That was until she met a shape shifter animal. He helps her try to get home along with Marlin, the mer-prince. The shape shifter helps Emily find a water farimental. This farimental tells her she is not destined for a bonded, but still a paladin, the shape shifter who also happens to be a power crystal.
There, I think the explaining is done, except for saying that Ozzie is an elf in a ferret's body that's an air elemental mage. Back to the story.
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Emily rushed downstairs after taking a shower and getting ready to shove down some breakfast. When she got downstairs she let out a huff of laughter before running down the rest of the stairs. Ozzie was in a little chef's outfit at the stove trying to make pancakes. He was covered in flour and looked like he was about to explode with anger. He kicked the oven door that was below and howled with pain. Emily rushed over to turn the stove off.
"Owwwww! Gah, that hurts!" Ozzie exclaimed (oh, yeah, Ozzie can talk).
"That's what you get for kicking to door!" Emily laughed. "C'mon, grab some toast. We're gonna be late." She herself grabbed some toast, picked Ozzie up and walked outside to her bike. Twenty minutes later they arrived at Ravenswood. They made it just in time.
"Hey, Emily, what's wrong? You're out of breath and you look like you run away from a ghost," Kara asked.
"Nothing, just Ozzie decided he was gonna be a chef today, dress up in a little chef's costume, and tried to make pancakes. I didn't wanna be late."
"HAHAHA!" Adriane burst out. She could just picture that. "Oh, hahaha, kay. Hahaha. Let's get down, hahaha, to business, hahaha!" Adriane choked out.
Kara looked on in a sarcastic shock. "Wow, Xena,"- Adriane almost always wore black – "I didn't know you could laugh."
"Oh shut up, Barbie." Kara loved pink.
"C'mon people, we don't have all day!" Emily dragged them inside, keeping them apart, as they always had to be down each other's throats. They finally got to the library alive and in one piece. Kara grabbed Emily and Adriane's wrists that didn't have their jewels on and concentrated on bringing out the huge computer. The computer popped out and Kara let go. Ozzie headed over to the computer to work on the e-mails, when one of Pegasi ran in and announced, "A portal has opened."