Chapter 6- The House in the Woods
After the 6-hour ride on the planes, we finally made it to Japan. We unboarded the plane, and almost immediately, Aura was at my side, and Blaire was at Rebecca's.
"So, let me get this straight." Rebecca said, while we waited outside the airport for Aunt Marie to get her Rental Car. "You have some weird feeling ever since you found Aura?"
"Yup" I said.
"I got the same feeling." Aura said.
"Well then, we have to hide you both," Blaire said.
"I wish we could. But if you can't go anywhere without getting that feeling, then we have to disguise you. But how…?" Rebecca said.
Just then, a car began to speed down the road. Not Aunt Marie, she went the other way. Besides the car was glowing. Rebecca pulled out her Spellbook and assumed the car was empty. "Keshield" The lava shield was all too familiar. However, upon impact of the car, the shield cracked.
Going around to look at the accident, I tried to lighten up the situation. "At least we weren't in there! We'd be human pancakes!"
"Haha. Very funny." Rebecca said.
"Yeah! You wanna be a Human PANCAKE?" Terra yelled.
"Excuse me." A voice said behind us. We all turned around to see a young woman, maybe 18 years old, standing behind us. She wore a kimono, and she almost looked like she was from the past. Like an ancient royal… "That wouldn't happen to be your Spellbook, would it?" She asked.
"Uh… Yes?" Rebecca said. This was one of the rare times she was actually confused.
The women in the kimono nodded. "Can I ask you to come with me?" She asked.
"Yeah. My mommy told me never to go with strange people unattended. You could get thwacked." I said.
"That's weird." Terra said, "You must get 'thwacked' a lot being that you are strange."
"SILENCE MORTAL!" I yelled, then lowered my voice, "I'm not weird. I only act weird." I had shunned Terra by now with my arms crossed.
"Sure you do." Terra said.
"Please stop fighting." The young woman said. "Please, follow me." She led us up the street for about five minutes of continuous walking until we reached a stretch of road that seemed to go nowhere.
"Follow that road. I'll be there momentarily." She said. And walked down the road.
We walked down the road until we reached a house that was completely frozen in ice.
"Okay, am I just seeing things? Or is that house frozen solid?" Terra said.
"By now it should have thawed. It is summer, so I don't see how…" I started.
"This ice was made by a Mamodo. He came while I was shopping at the market and froze the whole hose over. One of my servants told me. Now, I cannot return into the house. If there was any way you could help…" She explained, "…I'd gladly pay you back in any way…"
"Stand back." Rebecca said, "I'll try to thaw this thing out." She opened her book, but I put my hand over the spell.
"NO! If you shoot fire, you'll burn the whole house down! There are people in there!" I warned.
"So what do you think we should do?" Terra said, "Chip at the ice?"
"Worth a shot." I said, pulling my Spellbook out of my bag.
"Uh… I was only kidding…" Terra said.
"Well, I'm not!" I said. "BIARAS" To my surprise, the waves, when made contact with the ice, chopped the ice to little pieces. By the time the spell had worn out, the ice wasn't all gone, but at least you could get in the door…
"Thank you! Thank You!" The kimono woman was overjoyed, "If there is any way I could repay you, I'd get at it right away!"
"Anything…" I said, thinking.
"Get over yourself!" Terra said.
"Fine. Actually, we have the feeling we are being followed. If there was any way we could get disguised…" I explained.
"Yes. You see, we're being stalked, but we'll need to go to the Mamodo festival. So if there is any way…" Rebecca said.
"Hmm… I think I may have an answer." The woman said, "Also as my guests, you may relax anywhere you need." The woman then proceeded up the stairs behind her.