This idea came into my head a few days ago and it literally became one of the cutest things I could think of. So I wrote it down. I have used some of my OCs from my other fic, The PHC, so those of you reading that should recognize them.
Also, my pseudonym has been officially changed to Leora Andie Lacertae Phthalo. Thank you so much for all the names you have sent. I will add them all to my name collection (no I am not a saddo) which I will eventually publish on my profile for others to use! My Wattpad and Tumblr names have changed too; I am leoraphthalo on both, so please follow me on both... I am lonely over there...
Review Replies:
Guest (Apr 12)- Awwww, thank you! Hope you like this one!
Pheobe- Hey! Yeah, I've been wanting a Valkyrie returns from Alice's POV for aggggeeesss... I got fed up of waiting and wrote it myself! And yeah, Valkyrie is badass! I love your names; I am definitely using them for some of my OCs. I was tempted by Ainia (its a palindrome and pretty and SQUEEEE!) and thanks for adding the origins and meanings because that makes it sooo much easier for me to add the names to my collection!
Athena Trouble- Thank you for your suggestions too! Artemis and Sophie are going into the collection! And I am soo happy you like the drabbles!
Iriskary- Seriously, writing ideas in notebooks has been a life saver for me. I want to write a Howl's Moving Castle Fic, but I have no idea where to start, but then I remember I had already written one (and it's seriously long too) so I can simply nick some ideas from that!
Guest (Apr 8)- Aww! I thought I sucked at fight scenes, so thanks for the feedback! Thank you also for the name suggestions!
Lexi- I need to finish the one you want me to post (seriously, it isn't finished) and thanks for the Lizards... :)
Skelly- I MADE YOU SPEECHLESS! NAWWW!
Insanity- You sound exhausted. Exams or what? My name is amazing!
DeadGirl- Hey! Thanks! I've been trying to read your fics, but they are soo long I can't read them all at once... :( On the plus side, it is long, so lots of reading! :)
Disclaimer- Yeah, I don't own Gracious or Donegan, but I do own the plot! And the fluffles! And my OCs! WOOH!
Hope you enjoy!
Gracious O'Callahan and Donegan Bane were born on the same day at around the same time. They were placed in cots, side by side and pretty much became best friends since that moment. Their mothers, who had been friends with each other for a long time already, were often together, meaning the two boys were often together, getting up to all sorts of mischief.
Donegan learnt magic first; both of them could still remember the day when, whilst they had been sitting in the big tree by the river that curled through the village they lived in, the taller boy made a flame. They had both been practicing the technique and Gracious was so surprised that Donegan had actually created fire that he fell out of the tree, breaking his arm on the way down.
A week of bed rest for the shorter boy meant that he caught up with his best friend in no time at all and soon the two five year olds were skipping round, lobbing fireballs at each other until their mothers came out to stop them.
"If you are not careful, a mortal is going to see you," scolded Elysia Venka, Donegan's mother.
Elena Darnell, Gracious' mother, nodded in agreement. "If you want to practice you magic, you will have to be careful not to do it where other people can see you."
They had been so serious about it that the two boys nodded and practiced near the big tree. Barely any mortals came down here as most thought it to be haunted by the ghost of a man who was once hung there and it was only if you stood on the hill above the alcove that you could see anyone. When they found out the tree was hollow, the two boys decided to tidy the hole, making it into a comfortable den.
When they were seven, they met their first monster.
It wasn't a particularly big monster. Nor was it a particularly scary one, but for two still fairly small boys it was a huge success when they managed to defeat it.
It had pounced on them when they had been sitting inside the tree, planning their latest prank on the local schoolteacher, a strict man that they didn't like. The creature, which looked like a cross between a pigeon and a lizard, perched itself on Donegan's head, screeching, causing the taller boy to yelp in surprise whilst Gracious gave a small scream. The smaller boy quickly picked up the notebook they had been writing in, swatted at the creature so quickly that it didn't move away it time and suddenly it was squished against the inside of the tree.
They looked at it, the monster all crumpled and dazed before Donegan peeled it off.
Upon showing it to Ely, the red haired woman laughed. "That is a munchkin," she told them.
"I thought they were like little people," Gracious said, looking a bit unimpressed.
"They like to think that they are, but no. They are just really stupid monsters that get a little aggressive if their territory is invaded."
"Oh."
"Where did you find it?"
"At the big tree," Donegan explained.
"Ah. That explains why everyone in this village thinks it is haunted."
Gracious explained the incident to his mother when he got home.
"Mummy, can I be a monster hunter when I grow up."
Elena smiled. "You can be anything you want to be."
If people are confused as to why G&D are elementals, Landy explained that people start off with elemental powers and then move into their disciplines. THANKS FOR READING!- Leo Phthalo