R4994W: Sorry I forgot to update sooner. I would like to thank my one and only reviewer harvestmoon27. Thank you for reading it harvestmoon27.

Tiger: She probably just read it because she was bored.

R4994W: Hey! She might of liked it. I liked her story. Did you forget Matt's still here?

Tiger: AHHHHHHHH! Stranger! (runs off and hides somewhere again)

Matt: What's his problem?

R4994W: I don't know. He just doesn't like strangers.

Disclaimer: I don't even think I own this computer anymore.

Chapter 4 Alchemy

"Mike! Mike! Look at what I have!" I burst through the door of our house screaming at the top of my lungs in excitement.

"What! What! What!" He was taking a nap on the sofa at he time and sprang into the air. "What's the matter?"

"Nothings the matter. I threw a rock at the captain's head and he got mad and we fought and there was a huge burst of light and a tremor and he said I was an alchemist, which I still don't know what is, and he handed, actually threw, this book at me and he went away." I actually said all of that in one breath so I was breathing extremely hard.

Mike had a blank expression on his face. "Okay? What did you say again?"

"After you left I started to play with Midnight and Shadow… on military grounds." Mike looked concerned, but didn't say anything. "The captain came out and yelled at me. I lost my temper and threw a rock at him. It hit him in the head-"

"You threw a rock at the captain's head?"

"Yeah. Anyway, I challenged him to a fight. We started to fight when I fell down and felt a tremor."

"Again?"

"Yep. After the tremor was done, the captain said something like 'Why didn't you tell me you were an alchemist? This fight will be more interesting.' Out of nowhere he summoned a spear. I asked what alchemy was and he just handed me this book."

"Well open the book!" Mike exclaimed.

Mike and I spent the next two hours looking at the book. There was so much info about alchemy. Thousands of words describing the abilities of alchemy. So many symbols and signs. The most important sign was the transfiguration circle.

"That explains why!" I exclaimed. "Earlier when I was fighting, I was clapping my hands and fell, palms down. That's what caused the tremor."

"If so you couldn't have done it with out a transfiguration circle." Mike snapped back.

"Read right hear. It says some alchemist's don't have to use a circle." I pointed to the paragraph in the book that said that. "I don't think the captain does either."

"Oh, well that's cool. You want to practice?"

"Of course I do!" We ran outside and looked around trying to decide what to do. We had no idea what to conjure. "You conjure something and I'll move something."

Mike clapped his hands and put them to the ground. A huge boot appeared in front of him. "Nice boot. I thought you could do better." I snickered at him teasingly. "Well at least we know that you don't need to use a circle either."

I concentrated real hard then clapped my hands. A huge pillar of earth appeared as I put my hands to the ground. "Oh yeah! That's what I'm talking about."

"Nice. Let me try." Mike said playfully. Mike and I spent the rest of the day doing alchemy. We had to then fix what we had done. It took up a lot time. It was 10:00 p.m. when we got done.

I walked into my room and changed onto my p.j.'s. I looked over and Shadow was curled up in a ball at the foot of my bed. I glanced at my mirror and noticed something different. I couldn't tell what though. My hair was the same. I had no make up on, as usual. I wore my mother's neck… my mother's necklace! It was gone!

In an office nearby the captain sat, watching as the silver and gold locket dangled from his hands.

R4994W: There another chappy done.

Rose: Hey! How did he get my necklace?

R4994W: How did you get here!

Rose: The same way he did.

R4994W: And how exactly is that?

Matt and Rose: I don't know

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