It was noon and Jung Juri was still flying high above the clouds, a silly smile lingering on her wrinkles-free but can't be denied old face. She laughed mischievously as the flow of ideas about her plans in relation to the surprise visit in the kingdom of Far Farrrrrr away was quickly absorbed by her brain. How she loved the ideas. She was about to laugh again when flock of pigeons came flying above her. One of the said birds was not fond by the way she laugh so the silly bird let go of it's special weapon, the white poop, straight to Jung Juri's hair. Jung Juri felt something was thrown to her hair, her hand went to touch her new-styled locks and as soon as her hand touched the pigeon's poop, she screamed rather loudly making the flying pigeons distracted. Because of the damage it caused to the flock's small bird ears, their direction were suddenly changed, instead of going east, they went to west. Poor birds they were about to go to the summer countries to rest and avoid the winter but fate twisted and they were going to the wrong way, to the west, where winter patiently awaits them. Fate lead them to die, or should I say Jung Juri's scream lead them to die in the cold winter.
After the unfortunate fate of the pigeons, without the knowledge of the one who caused it, Jung Juri finished getting rid of the pigeon's poop on her hair, her plan was finish, and all she needs to do is to execute it. First plan is to persuade her youngest granddaughter to help her. And that's what she was going to do after exhausting transportation to her aged home.
It was Saturday and to the girls delight, no class. This is their chance not to study, not that they study on weekdays but they have a very good reason not to do the most boring activity in the world. They were now outside of their house and were playing.
Zyme was torturing the frog that she caught hopping on their flowerbeds. She laughed evilly and poked the poor frog's stomach for several times. She hated frogs and it disgusts her so she can't help but chase the amphibian every time she sees one. There's plenty of frogs inside the cage and were just waiting for Zyme to tortured them.
Bit was running away from the goat after she kept hitting it with a stick. Just like her older sister Zyme, she has hatred towards animals, but to only one animal and that's a goat. She climbed quickly up to the tree avoiding the pointed horns of the pissed goat and she laughed heartily when she succeeded to hit the goat's butt for the 10th time.
Under the tree where Bit was climbing awhile ago was Zero, she was reading but not the school subject's book but something related to dinosaurs, The Extinction of Tyrannosaurus Rex. She pouted after reading the 1000-pages book, but truthfully she was just looking at the pictures, only the colored pictures. She hates the fact that her beloved dino was already extinct.
Away from her crazy eonnies, Sky was playing with Crookshanks, Cloud's cat. She smiled as she stroke the cat's auburn fur but her sweet smile turned into something that was describe as pure evil when Cloud was not looking at her direction. Her affectionate stroking to Crookshanks' fur changed into pulling the cat's hair from the root making the cat yelped and ran away from her. She grimaced, that's her chance to torment the hideous feline that killed her mouse a long time ago but still, she hated Cloud's cat from the bottom of her heart.
When her beloved eonnies were doing their hobbies, torturing the animal's dear life, as the youngest, Cloud was silently writing something on the dirt, something that goes like this.
Cloud loves Hongki
Oh, and she was the youngest? The youngest who kept thinking about love stuff unlike her older eonnies whose thoughts were just about how to torture animals. Yes, you can't say that she's the youngest. She's not that innocent as you think she is. She sighed as she drew a big heart around the names. Well, she's a 13-year old witch and she s in her Adolescence stage; her hormones are raging and are growing rapidly at this phase. Ask your psychologist for more infos about hormones.
After the great journey to go home, Jung Juri was indeed at home. She looked inside the house for her granddaughters and saw nothing but Crookshanks with a furless spot on her back. She sighed, knowing that it was Sky's fault. She took her wand and muttered something that can't be stated because it's too private according to the old witch. After the private spell she casted, Crookshanks fur went back to normal and the cat now was happily eating the poor chick she found on the poultry. Jung Juri went to the garden and all her granddaughters were there, doing their horrific hobbies. Her grand offspring didn't notice her existence seeing that the 5 were so engrossed with their 'activity'. She went to the 4 and each received kisses and at that time, they were aware that their nana came back from wherever she went to. Jung Juri tip toed when going to Cloud, like a thief. She peered from her shoulder to see what Cloud's was doing.
Cloud loves Hongki
After seeing the writings, an idea crept in her mind. Cloud perked up sensing her nana; she quickly kissed her cheeks and went back writing, like her grandma wasn't there at all.
"Cloud, I know Hongki very well, his family and friends" She said wanting to get the attention of Cloud. The said girl looked at her grandma like, 'You're stalking Hongki?'. Jung Juri laughed and quickly explained.
"I'm too beautiful for Hongki my dear Cloud, don't look at me that way" And both of them laughed.
"You mean you're too old for him" Cloud corrected.
"Fine, then I'll not give you this" Jung Juri then held a fried chicken. The writer won't include where she got the yummy fried chicken.
"I'm just kidding nana! You're the most beautiful being on the planet, now give that, please" Cloud changed her answer rather fast after seeing the cooked chicken. She handed the fried chicken to her.
"As I was saying before, I know Hongki and I know how you can get him" She stated, starting to persuade Cloud.
"Neh? How? Love potion?"
"Yes, that will do... but a spell"
"I'm not that good in casting a spell nana, none of us do" Cloud said talking about herself and her eonnies.
"I will going to teach you of course, advanced and professional spells"
"Whoaa! Really? What about my eonnies? Are you going to teach them too?"
"Of course but not now, their time will come but today and for the coming of weeks it is yours" Cloud was gaping at her now, most likely drooling to the revelation she just heard. Her nana will going to teach her professional spells for crying out loud. This will help her in many many many unimaginable ways. But something was not right, there's something about her nana that she didn't know. Something about the offer.
"Fine, so what's the catch Nana?" Cloud asked and took a bite of the chicken. Jung Juri laughed nervously and shook her head.
"Nothing..."
"Oh, come on! What's the catch? You want something from me right? Or you want me to do something for you..." She said suspiciously. Jung Juri sighed exasperatedly. Clever girl.
"Alright Cloud... but first lets go inside the house" They were about to go inside when Bit asked.
"Hey nana! Where are you going with my dongsaeng?"
"Yaaah! Where are you taking her?" Xero added.
"Omo! Why did she have a chicken?" Sky asked as she spotted Crookshanks nearby.
"Are you going to teach her how to make love potions? Take me with you!" Zyme said.
Jung Juri titled her head to face them.
"We're going to study about the history of Bugwarts and I'll teach her about advanced Arithmetic and Divination, you 4 want to come?" She lied, making sure that her granddaughters will dislike their activities.
They shook their heads without second thought.
"No thanks Nana" They chorused and went back to play.
The two went inside and Jung Juri explained to Cloud about her perfect plan, the surprise visit to the Castle after the Sungmin delivered her baby. She also informed Cloud about her use in the visit, the highlight of the stopover. She will be the one to cast the curse to the prince with the use of professional spell that Jung Juri will teach her for the entire weeks of training. Cloud was so proud to be given such an assignment, she immediately complied to do it, and helping her Nana is her gift for Jung Juri's upcoming 100th b-day.
"Promise me that you will obey my simple instructions for you for a month" She said.
"For you Nana and... wait! Promise me first that you will teach me advanced potions."
"Even the professional one Cloud, just do as I say."
After their agreement, the training started as soon as the sun touched the horizon. It was another glorious day for Jung Juri, her plans were starting to work, persuading Cloud: Check! Training Cloud: will start today.
The two relatives went to the forest to train. Jung Juri thought this is the best place to train her granddaughter about one of the magic branch called Transfiguration. The 4 other girls were still having the time of their lives sleeping while Cloud was flying now with her Nana to the woods. After several minutes they were now inside the vast green woodland. The birds started to chirp when they saw Cloud approaching but after they spotted Cloud's company, they begun pooping. Birds these days.
"Nana, why are we here in the middle of nowhere... I mean in the forest?" Cloud asked as she tried but failed to climb to an apple tree.
"We're here to train cloud" came the answer.
"But, why here?"
"There's a lot of animals we can use for your training" Cloud's eyes widened in delight, she started to brushed her palms together as if she's planning another silly idea.
"Ooooh! Let s begin now Nana!" She said excitedly and hurriedly took her wand inside her bag.
"Alright, but first, do you know what Transfiguration is?" Jung Juri stood on a boulder, making her taller than Cloud now, despite the fact that Cloud is taller than her with a good 3 inches. Cloud closed her eyes as she tried to remember what Professor Taekyung s lesson was about.
"Transfiguration is essentially the art of changing the properties of an object?" She said not sure of her answer.
"Brilliant! Now, I'll teach you one of the simplest spell in Transfiguration" Jung Juri said and took a black rat from her pack and put in on other boulder.
"Listen Cloud, Sunshine daisy butter mellow turn this fat rat yellow!" Jung Juri casted a simple spell on the rat, turning the black vermin yellow. Cloud, after seeing it cheered.
"Try it Cloud, remember the spell, Sunshine daisy..." Cloud nodded as her Nana took another black rat from her pack.
"Sunshine daisy butter mellow turn Nana yellow!" Cloud said, not knowing the mistake she had done.
"CLOUD!" Jung Juri screamed when she turned yellow. Cloud gasped and rolled down with laughter afterwards. Juri sighed exasperatedly and muttered something with her wand and with a split second she went back to her normal skin tone.
"Nice one Cloud, try it again. It s fat rat not Nana, understand?" Cloud smiled mischievously and practice again.
"Sunshine roses butter fellow turn this fat rat yellow!"
Nothing happened.
"Cloud, my dear! Concentrate! Its sunshine daisy butter mellow turn this fat rat yellow! Not roses or fellow"
"Mianhe...yo" Once again Cloud held her wand and pointed it to the rat.
"Sunshine daisy butter mellow turn this fat rat yellow!" And the rat turned yellow.
"Good Cloud, now for the next spell..."
The training went on and Cloud's improving her transfiguration skills. The first day of witch spell training ended with a blast, literally. Jung Juri fell off on her broom when flock of black birds, crows, kept stealing what's inside her bags, the yellow rats. Well, fortunately she didn't die just having some few bird bites, that's all.
Annyeong! Birds these days, they kept bugging, not birding Jung Juri. Psssh. Cloud is the Master of Sunshine daisy spell. I wish I have a wand as well... Comments and subscriptions are loved.
-Cinderella In Boots.