Chapter 8: The Ironworks and Animations
Tracy said, "Well I see you have faired well, am I right? Glad to see you have been helping people like a good little chap! Now, in Chelsea Court you did find a cat bloke named Baxter, didn't you? Well, I hope you did because he is the one going under cover for us so we can beat Pops O'Leary, his former "Master", anyways, you three will have to work with 'em to get to Pops, and when you beat him I'm sure that should help a mighty heap!" So, trying to figure out what exactly she was saying, the Special Team went off to the ironworks, the balloon looked the same, so we hoped on giving the pilot Tracy's tickets. "Hey little ones, this place your going is dangerous! You sure you want to go? Somehow, the tickets levitated and shown in front of his face. Well, looks like you wizards knows sorcery, too. I just thought. "None of know sorcery, I don't know how that happened. He sort of looked at us. We sort of looked at him. He said, "Well, huh, guess one of you knows sorcery, who knows how." I said, "Mr. Dog, don't sorcerers need rings?" The dog said, "Well, yes, any of you have rings beside the ones that are used for wizardry?" I inside gasped. "Mr. Dog, I have one. It's a Cat with a black gem on top. I never knew why my parents gave it to me, but it put itself on me and I never took it off." The dog smiled. "Looks like you will be a sorcerer and a wizard. Capable of summoning monsters and everything, see, I'm Barkhazar, and I'm also a sorcerer, I know, I'm flying balloons but I really AM a sorcerer. He got out of the plane seat. See here? The plane was FLYING ITSEFT! It almost didn't seen odd to me since well EVERYTHING has been slightly odd. Talking Lizards, Dogs, Salamanders, Schools of Magic, Sorcery, everything! Anyways, back to me and Barkhazar. "Barkhazar, this isn't possible, because I read that Barkhazar was one of the apprentices of Mutlin. Your not OLD enough to be THAT old!" Everyone else didn't know who Barkhazar or Mutlin were, so they whispered, who is that? To me. I said that Barkhazar would probably tell them. Well, no use hiding it, you all are the Prime Mutlinins, and I know where you too's rings are. He held out a ring with a Dog on it and a red gem on top. Emily took it and it barked, wagged it's tail and curled around her finger. Then, Barkhazar smiled and took out another ring, it was a horse with a sand colored gem on top, Grace took it and it neighed and curled around her finger. I was so happy that I was with a group of friends that were like me! Then again, that was before Barkhazar said something else. "All of you Sorcerzards will be very powerful as you are all related to Mutlin, but you, Lauren FrostTail, you are not only a Mutlinian but also a Mormeowian, hence your cat ring, but this should not stop you! You are a nice one, you are the only living Mutmeowian, and you are nice, thank goodness." At this point in time I stopped knowing what he was talking about, but didn't show it, well thats not true I knew that Mormeowians were evil and Mutlinians were good but I was both? How was that possible? I decided not to ask, and instead say, "Well shouldn't we all practice sorcery?" Everyone cheered, and said, "Of course! Why not?" Thats when the balloon stopped. "Were here now, at the Ironworks, you all better be off, I'll watch practice sorcery in the Ironworks." Barkhazar said. We ran into the Ironworks. We found a "Bloke" Named Baxter and he told us that the gate was closed, and we would have to gain entry, after that he told us that we should defeat the guy who worked directly under Pops to get the code. I decided I wanted to practice sorcery and Emily and Grace said ok, they could handle it. First a casted Vampire on shadow, Meteor Strike on Roxy, and Sandstorm on Maggie, and they all turned into those spells. Then I stayed near Baxter. I thought and as soon as I closed my eyes I saw Barkhazar. He was watching me, I saw. So I thought, "I'm going to practice, what should I start with?" Soon a voice in my head said, "Well, try to animate one of those dead gloems. Then I can increase your rings power, with the Animation spell." "Cool, ok I'll try." I stared at a golem and lifted my hand. I pointed my hand at it and thought, "move" Nothing happened. "Move" Still nothing "MOVE" Still. "MOVE!" Still! "MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE!" Then I closed my eyes. A beam of green energy went into the golem, but nothing happened. I thought one more time, closed my eyes and said softly, "Rio-se" It rose up and came to my side! I said, "Thank you Golem." It just stood there. Oh well, I had forgotten that it didn't work. But then the gear started turning and it ran over to the door Emily and Grace went it. I chased after it. Then it stopped when it got in and I saw why. There was a bubble around them! IT WAS A TRAP! I said, "Rio-se!" and Golo(The Golem, I call it Golo) used Wildfire! Then the bubble can't shrink but I sort of walked in it. I thought "Golo guard please." Then I walked it. The giant bubble held the fight in which Emily and Grace were loosing. I used Animate on the box in the corner, nothing happened through. Then my gem blew up in light and I was enclosed in a bubble. It was Barkhazar. "Yes, Barkhazar?" Barkhazar said, "Well done, you Animated objects, in a few levels you will learn Animated spell which allows you to make your own death creatures, but now you can animate items, anyways I will give you the Rio-se spell in your ring so you can use it on more items." My ring glowed and a black light went into it. Then it said Rio-se in the ring and the Rio-se disappeared. "Barkhazar, I will keep training, I mean Emily and Grace will train, too right?" Yes but it will just come to them, since you are Mutmeowian you need a Master to help you, but your spells will be much more powerful." I nodded, and stepped out of the bubble and thought, "Well now how do I "pop" this thing? Then It hit me. That was a spell I needed to learn! I thought and Shadow come into my thought and said, try different ways, like Pomopus or something. So I tried, and I failed, then I looked at my ring that on it said Ubble-op I pointed my ring at the bubble Barkhazar made and said softly, "Ubble-op" then the bubble burst into a thing of black dust and disappeared, then some darkness absorbed into my ring and it said on it UBBLE-OP and it disappeared into the ring. "Good job Lauren. You learn fast." "Barkhazar, Mormeowthe is the villain who is doing this right?" "Yes but this is not the time to explain it, Emily and Grace need to get out of this bubble!" I said loudly, "Ubble-op!" and the bubble popped, which let Golo stop using Wildfire, and let me see two guards Golo was fighting! I asked, "Emily, Grace do you need help?" "No we don't! But if those guards come we will! Make sure they don't!" So I turned at the guards. "Shadow, Help Golo." I said. Shadow started hitting them, and I used a Banshee on one of them and it died, then I used Ghoul on the other and it died. The I remembered. I had already gotten the animated spell! I was also only 4 levels away from the spell Doom and Gloom. "Barkhazar, I already have the spell animate, but animating objects is easier." No reply, but I sensed that he was happy because I liked sorcery. Then I rushed into the battle with Emily and Grace, they had killed the minion but Shakes, the boss, what still alive and hitting them. I used Sacrifice on Emily and Grace, and Shakes was hit by a Locust Storm and a Meteor Strike. Then he died, revealing the code to unlock the door. We rushed over to the door, but when we unlocked it there was another gate! We went to Baxter. "Well, they usually keep that door open, I know the code, through. We put in the code but it didn't work. "Baxter, it's not working!" Baxter looked sad. "It changed every week or so, I guess they changed it today." I wasn't about to give up! I asked Barkhazar, "Is there a spell to blast the heck out of things?" "Yes, but it will present itself to you" I looked at shadow who said, "Try Blas-ka" I said out loud, "Blas-ka!" and the door burst open! We went through, and collect some plans Emily found. It said that Pops was going to break Meowiarty out of jail! We went up to Pops room where they asked for a password, but Emily blew the door on fire, after that we challenged Pops O'Leary to a fight which he accepted and we won, Emily had killed him with a Sunbird. Baxter congratulated us, and we had finished The Ironworks.