p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"TEMPEST GAVE A WEAK NOD AND CLOSED HER EYES. KIARA ADVANCED ON TEMPEST, BRANDISHING HER SWORD. BUT THEN MARELLA JUMPED UP AND BARKED "NO HARM SHALL COME UPON HER. SHE IS ONE OF US." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"WE BOTH LOOKED AT HER, SILENTLY DEMANDING ANSWERS, BUT SHE INSISTED THAT WE TREAT HER FIRST. SO WE PUT HER IN A SPARE ROOM. THEN MARELLA PROCEDED TO TELL US EVERYTHING. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"APPARANTLY, TEMPEST HAD BEEN PUT IN A MARRAGE CONTRACT BY HER GRANDPARENTS, WHO WERE HER GURDIANS, BECAUSE HER PARENTS WERE MYSTERIOUSLY MURDERED. DESPERATE, SHE RAN TO THE ONLY PERSON SHE THOUGHT COULD HELP HER: NAMELY, THE DARK LORD, AKA THE BLACK PHOENIX. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"APPARENTLY, SHE DIDN'T GO TO THE 'LIGHT LORD' AKA ALBUS 'TOO MANY NAMES' DUMBLEDORE, BECAUSE SHE GOT A MYSTERIOUS LETTER THAT SAID THAT DUMBLEDORE KILLED HER PARENTS. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"SHE DIDN'T WANT TO BELIEVE IT AT FIRST, BUT THE CONTENTS OF THE LETTER KEPT POPPPING UP IN HER MIND. SO, SHE DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"WHEN THERE WAS NOBODY, SHE SNEAKED INTO HIS OFFICE AND SNOOPED AROUND. THERE, SHE FOUND A DIARY AND A BOOK. SINCE BOTH WERE LOCKED WITH, WELL, LOCKS, SHE THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE IMPORTANT AND SHE TOOK THEM./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanSHE THEN WENT SOMEWHERE PRIVATE AND OPENED THEM. IN THE BOOK, SHE FOUND LOADS OF SCHEMES. SOME OF THEM WERE HORRIBLE. OKAY, MOST OF THEM. WHEN SHE FOUND ONE THAT SAID THAT DUMBLES WAS GOING TO SACRIFICE ME AND KIARA, SHE WAS FURIOUS! WHEN THAT WAS REVEALED, WE BOTH SAT THERE, STUNNED. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"TEMPEST THEN CONTINUED WITH HER STORY. AFTER SHE OPENED THE BOOK, SHE OPENED THE DIARY. AFTER READING THE DIARY, SHE WAS SO MAD, SHE LITERALLY STARTED SPLITTING IN HALF. WHY? BECAUSE DUMBLEDORE WROTE IN THE DIARY THAT HE KILLED TEMPEST'S PARENTS. AND IT WAS AT THAT MOMENT, THAT TEMPEST SWORE TO HERSELF, THAT NO MATTER WHAT, SHE WOULD MAKE DUMBLEDORE PAY. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"BUT THE WEIRD THING WAS, THE MOMENT WHERE TEMPEST KILLED EIRA AND LIA OR THE ONE WHERE SHE BURNED THE ACADEMY, SHE DIDN'T REMEMBER! SHE ALSO SAID THAT SHE NEVER KILLED EIRA AND LIA. SHE CLAIMED THAT IN REALITY, THEY HAD ACTUALLY FALLEN TO THEIR DEATHS. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"SO WE ASKED HER FOR THE EXACT DETAILS, BUT SHE SAID THE DETAILS WERE FUZZY. I DECIDED TO TRY LEGILIMENCY ON TEMPEST, AND TO MY SHOCK, TEMPEST WAS RIGHT! SOON WE WERE ALL TRYING TO SOLVE WHAT HAPPANED. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"THEN A THOUGHT OCCURRED TO ME. "HEY, TEMPEST, DO YOU CARRY YOUR CONTRACT AROUND? I NEED TO HAVE A LOOK AT IT." TEMPEST GAVE ME A FUNNY LOOK, BUT GAVE ME THE CONTRACT, NONETHELESS. I CAREFULLY LOOKED AT IT AND SAW WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;""AHA! I WAS RIGHT!" I YELLED, MAKING EVERYONE JUMP. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, LUCINDA?" ASKED TEMPEST AND KIARA. THE OTHER TWO WERE SILENT, BUT IT WAS CLEAR THAT THEY WERE CURIOUS TOO. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;""THE CONTRACT SAYS THAT THE PERSON YOU'RE CONTRACTED TO CAN MAKE YOU DO ANYTHING HE LIKES, AND YOU WON'T REMEMBER. INSTEAD, YOU WILL REMEMBER SOMETHING ELSE. I think your betrothal made you kill Eira and Lia, AND BURN THE ACADEMY and that's why YOU DON'T REMEMBER."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI EXPLAINED TO THEM. TEMPEST TOOK THE CONTRACT FROM ME AND LOOKED AT IT. "SO IT IS TRUE." SHE MURMURED TO HERSELF. "THE BASTARDS." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"WE TALKED EVEN MORE AND DECIDED THT IN THE MORNING, WE WILL GO TO THE RUINS. LINH AND MARELLA SHOULD ACOMPANY US, AS THEY ARE VERY STRONG. WE TRIED TO CONVINCE HER, BUT TEMPEST INSISTED ON GOING. WE ALL MADE OUR PLANS AND HEADED TO OUR ROOMS. INSTANTLY, I CRASHED INTO MY BED. SOON, I WAS ASLEEP IN NO TIME./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"IT WAS DAYLIGHT, AND WE WERE ABOUT TO LEAVE. ALL OF US HAD WOKEN UP VERY EARLY AND PREPARED FOR THE TRIP. AFTER WASHING, WE HAD A HEARTY BREAKFAST. I HAD A BLOOD SHAKE, WHOLE WHEAT BREAD AND BLOOD POPS. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"KIARA, ON THE OTHER HAND, HAD OPTED FOR A GLASS OF SOME WEIRD POTION(SHE CALLED IT 'THE BLACK CAT') SHE INVENTED, A BLUEBERRY MUFFIN, AND A LEMURIAN SPICE LATTE. TEMPEST, HOWEVER, HAD A GLASS OF BLUEBERRY ITALLIAN SODA, A CHEESE BURGER, AND A YOGURT AND FRUIT SALAD. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"SOON, WE WERE ON OUR WAY. MONSTERS ATTACKED, BUT WE DEALED WITH THEM. AND I'M NOT TRYING TOspan style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanSOUND LIKE I'M FULL OF MYSELF, BUT PERSONALLY, I THINK THAT THE 5 OF US MAKE A GREAT TEAM. SOON, WE ARRIVED AT THE RUINS./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;""ARE YOU SURE THAT'LL WORK?" I ASKED KIARA. "ABSOLUTELY." SHE REPLIED. "SO HOPE HERE GOES NOTHING." I MURMURED. WE ALL BACKED UP AS KIARA RAISED HER HANDS AND YELLED "STÊTHI, Ô HáRMA DIABOLêS!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"SUDDENLY, THE RUINS ERUPTED WITH PURPLE LIGHT, CRACKLING WITH ENERGY. THE NOISE WAS SO LOUD, WE HAD TO COVER OUR EARS. ADD THAT TO THE FACT THAT THERE WAS A TORNADO HEADING OUR WAY. THE WIND PUSHED US BACK EVERY TIME WE MOVED./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;""HURRY!" KIARA YELLED OVER THE NOISE. WITH ONE FINAL PUSH, WE LANDED IN THE PORTAL. KIARA JUMPED IN, RIGHT AS THE TORNADO HIT THE RUINS. WITH A DEAFENING NOISE, THE RUINS WERE SMASHED, AND WE WERE CARRIED INTO THE PORTAL./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"SOON, WE LOST ALL TRACK OF TIME. IT WAS SENSELESS. WE COULD HAVE BEEN THERE FOR DAYS, MONTHS OR YEARS. WE HAD NO CLUE. SOON WE WERE THROWN ONTO THE GROUND. WE LOOKED UP, AND A BRIGHT BLUE SKY, AND THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY EVER./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"A STUNNING WOMAN WALKED OVER TO US, AND IN A MUSICAL VOICE, SAID "CHILDREN, WELCOME TO AVALON."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"WE BOTH LOOKED AT HER, SILENTLY DEMANDING ANSWERS, BUT SHE INSISTED THAT WE TREAT HER FIRST. SO WE PUT HER IN A SPARE ROOM. THEN MARELLA PROCEDED TO TELL US EVERYTHING. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"APPARANTLY, TEMPEST HAD BEEN PUT IN A MARRAGE CONTRACT BY HER GRANDPARENTS, WHO WERE HER GURDIANS, BECAUSE HER PARENTS WERE MYSTERIOUSLY MURDERED. DESPERATE, SHE RAN TO THE ONLY PERSON SHE THOUGHT COULD HELP HER: NAMELY, THE DARK LORD, AKA THE BLACK PHOENIX. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"APPARENTLY, SHE DIDN'T GO TO THE 'LIGHT LORD' AKA ALBUS 'TOO MANY NAMES' DUMBLEDORE, BECAUSE SHE GOT A MYSTERIOUS LETTER THAT SAID THAT DUMBLEDORE KILLED HER PARENTS. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"SHE DIDN'T WANT TO BELIEVE IT AT FIRST, BUT THE CONTENTS OF THE LETTER KEPT POPPPING UP IN HER MIND. SO, SHE DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"WHEN THERE WAS NOBODY, SHE SNEAKED INTO HIS OFFICE AND SNOOPED AROUND. THERE, SHE FOUND A DIARY AND A BOOK. SINCE BOTH WERE LOCKED WITH, WELL, LOCKS, SHE THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE IMPORTANT AND SHE TOOK THEM./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanSHE THEN WENT SOMEWHERE PRIVATE AND OPENED THEM. IN THE BOOK, SHE FOUND LOADS OF SCHEMES. SOME OF THEM WERE HORRIBLE. OKAY, MOST OF THEM. WHEN SHE FOUND ONE THAT SAID THAT DUMBLES WAS GOING TO SACRIFICE ME AND KIARA, SHE WAS FURIOUS! WHEN THAT WAS REVEALED, WE BOTH SAT THERE, STUNNED. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"TEMPEST THEN CONTINUED WITH HER STORY. AFTER SHE OPENED THE BOOK, SHE OPENED THE DIARY. AFTER READING THE DIARY, SHE WAS SO MAD, SHE LITERALLY STARTED SPLITTING IN HALF. WHY? BECAUSE DUMBLEDORE WROTE IN THE DIARY THAT HE KILLED TEMPEST'S PARENTS. AND IT WAS AT THAT MOMENT, THAT TEMPEST SWORE TO HERSELF, THAT NO MATTER WHAT, SHE WOULD MAKE DUMBLEDORE PAY. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"BUT THE WEIRD THING WAS, THE MOMENT WHERE TEMPEST KILLED EIRA AND LIA OR THE ONE WHERE SHE BURNED THE ACADEMY, SHE DIDN'T REMEMBER! SHE ALSO SAID THAT SHE NEVER KILLED EIRA AND LIA. SHE CLAIMED THAT IN REALITY, THEY HAD ACTUALLY FALLEN TO THEIR DEATHS. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"SO WE ASKED HER FOR THE EXACT DETAILS, BUT SHE SAID THE DETAILS WERE FUZZY. I DECIDED TO TRY LEGILIMENCY ON TEMPEST, AND TO MY SHOCK, TEMPEST WAS RIGHT! SOON WE WERE ALL TRYING TO SOLVE WHAT HAPPANED. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"THEN A THOUGHT OCCURRED TO ME. "HEY, TEMPEST, DO YOU CARRY YOUR CONTRACT AROUND? I NEED TO HAVE A LOOK AT IT." TEMPEST GAVE ME A FUNNY LOOK, BUT GAVE ME THE CONTRACT, NONETHELESS. I CAREFULLY LOOKED AT IT AND SAW WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;""AHA! I WAS RIGHT!" I YELLED, MAKING EVERYONE JUMP. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, LUCINDA?" ASKED TEMPEST AND KIARA. THE OTHER TWO WERE SILENT, BUT IT WAS CLEAR THAT THEY WERE CURIOUS TOO. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;""THE CONTRACT SAYS THAT THE PERSON YOU'RE CONTRACTED TO CAN MAKE YOU DO ANYTHING HE LIKES, AND YOU WON'T REMEMBER. INSTEAD, YOU WILL REMEMBER SOMETHING ELSE. I think your betrothal made you kill Eira and Lia, AND BURN THE ACADEMY and that's why YOU DON'T REMEMBER."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI EXPLAINED TO THEM. TEMPEST TOOK THE CONTRACT FROM ME AND LOOKED AT IT. "SO IT IS TRUE." SHE MURMURED TO HERSELF. "THE BASTARDS." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"WE TALKED EVEN MORE AND DECIDED THT IN THE MORNING, WE WILL GO TO THE RUINS. LINH AND MARELLA SHOULD ACOMPANY US, AS THEY ARE VERY STRONG. WE TRIED TO CONVINCE HER, BUT TEMPEST INSISTED ON GOING. WE ALL MADE OUR PLANS AND HEADED TO OUR ROOMS. INSTANTLY, I CRASHED INTO MY BED. SOON, I WAS ASLEEP IN NO TIME./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"IT WAS DAYLIGHT, AND WE WERE ABOUT TO LEAVE. ALL OF US HAD WOKEN UP VERY EARLY AND PREPARED FOR THE TRIP. AFTER WASHING, WE HAD A HEARTY BREAKFAST. I HAD A BLOOD SHAKE, WHOLE WHEAT BREAD AND BLOOD POPS. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"KIARA, ON THE OTHER HAND, HAD OPTED FOR A GLASS OF SOME WEIRD POTION(SHE CALLED IT 'THE BLACK CAT') SHE INVENTED, A BLUEBERRY MUFFIN, AND A LEMURIAN SPICE LATTE. TEMPEST, HOWEVER, HAD A GLASS OF BLUEBERRY ITALLIAN SODA, A CHEESE BURGER, AND A YOGURT AND FRUIT SALAD. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"SOON, WE WERE ON OUR WAY. MONSTERS ATTACKED, BUT WE DEALED WITH THEM. AND I'M NOT TRYING TOspan style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanSOUND LIKE I'M FULL OF MYSELF, BUT PERSONALLY, I THINK THAT THE 5 OF US MAKE A GREAT TEAM. SOON, WE ARRIVED AT THE RUINS./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;""ARE YOU SURE THAT'LL WORK?" I ASKED KIARA. "ABSOLUTELY." SHE REPLIED. "SO HOPE HERE GOES NOTHING." I MURMURED. WE ALL BACKED UP AS KIARA RAISED HER HANDS AND YELLED "STÊTHI, Ô HáRMA DIABOLêS!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"SUDDENLY, THE RUINS ERUPTED WITH PURPLE LIGHT, CRACKLING WITH ENERGY. THE NOISE WAS SO LOUD, WE HAD TO COVER OUR EARS. ADD THAT TO THE FACT THAT THERE WAS A TORNADO HEADING OUR WAY. THE WIND PUSHED US BACK EVERY TIME WE MOVED./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;""HURRY!" KIARA YELLED OVER THE NOISE. WITH ONE FINAL PUSH, WE LANDED IN THE PORTAL. KIARA JUMPED IN, RIGHT AS THE TORNADO HIT THE RUINS. WITH A DEAFENING NOISE, THE RUINS WERE SMASHED, AND WE WERE CARRIED INTO THE PORTAL./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"SOON, WE LOST ALL TRACK OF TIME. IT WAS SENSELESS. WE COULD HAVE BEEN THERE FOR DAYS, MONTHS OR YEARS. WE HAD NO CLUE. SOON WE WERE THROWN ONTO THE GROUND. WE LOOKED UP, AND A BRIGHT BLUE SKY, AND THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY EVER./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Algerian;"A STUNNING WOMAN WALKED OVER TO US, AND IN A MUSICAL VOICE, SAID "CHILDREN, WELCOME TO AVALON."/span/p