So continuing, what I mean is that SOS is almost done. I have part seven, part eight, and it all ends in part nine. I got it all planned out. However there is a twist in part eight, it consists of four mini parts because of what happens in it.
Then part nine wraps it all up.
I know how it ends too.
You guys may think it's a little cruel, cause I know that if I was reading something like this it would drive me insane and make me want to smash the computer then throw it out the window. So then why am I doing it to you guys? I don't know.
And for those of you who haven't read GWB part three it's up in the last post, I posted it yesterday. Lucky you guys! Two story parts in two days!
So here is chapter six of SOS.
It's unedited. I just finished about a minute ago. No joke. I'm in study hall and have nothing to do so I finished chapter six and am posting it now.
Enjoy!!!
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Chapter
Six – the words of esmerelda
It was
panic outside.
Wizards
were swarming around, yelling, screaming, frightened. But of what? I
look up at the sky to find it darkened and dreary. A storm cloud for
sure, but not a friendly, calm one like all Diviners could tell.
“What’s
going on...?” I whisper to myself. Then I remember... great evil...
arise while I search... Nathan... Chrons... Athol...
I start
pushing my way through the crowd. Whatever was going on was bad. As I
do I try to focus on whisper chatting Alric. He must know what was
going on. He had called me out here.
“Alric!
Where...
are you...
what’s... going
on?”
However,
to Alric, who was near the Fair, he only heard: ‘Alric! Where...
you... going on?’
“Suri!”
he responded. “Where
are you?”
I
focus all my might on getting a entire whisper through. “Outside
library. Where are you?”
“Near
the Fair. You want to come quick. Somethings on in Golem Court.”
“Okay,
be right there.”
I start
pushing my way through the crowd. I get to the edge of the pond where
no one was running. What was wrong with the pond? Fearful but
curious, I stick the toe of my boot into the water.
A little
but of steam comes from my toe and I quickly pull it out again. Some
of the fabric was eaten away.
Acid.
A sudden
thought comes over me. Acid in water. That’s usually what happened
before a volcano erupted on a mountain lake. Sulfur dioxide would
contaminate water. Was that what was happening?
And
earthquakes. The small tremor I had felt in the library causing the
shelf to fall. Those were common to. But there were no volcanoes in
Wizard City. There was only the one in Dragonspyer.
I gasp
and stumble back. My hand finds a stone house and I balance myself
against it. Was the volcano there erupting and causing damage here?
And if the volcano was erupting then that meant...
Could
the dragon Titan be awakening?
And what
had happened at Golem Court?
I start
to edge my way around the pond. Since people were staying away from
it the crowd was much less. Everyone seemed to be running towards
Ravenwood or the Pet Pavilion. Finally I make to the Headmaster’s
Tower. I edge my way along there towards the Fair Grounds. The number
of Wizards running about like a bunch of headless chickens had gone
down to about 250. Which was still a lot.
“Alric!”
I yell. His head pops up from behind the platform Sabrina Greenstar
usually stood on. I go over to him. “What’s going on?”
“The
tower. Golem Tower collapsed.”
“What!?”
“And
that’s not all. The pond as turned into acid.”
“Yeah,
I saw that. Burned the toe of my boot off.”
“And
there’s more,” continues Alric.
“More?
What could be more?”
He takes
a breath. “The three streets. Fire Cat Ally, Cyclopes Lane, and
Triton Avenue. They’re all gone.”
I stare
at him open mouthed and gaping. “What!?”
He nods.
“And not like everyone as vanished as the schools. There is
seriously nothing. To go there it would be like walking off a cliff.”
“How
could such a thing happen?”
Before
he could answer we both shot our heads up to look at the sky at the
sounds of a explosion. A huge, glowing rock comes hurtling out of the
sky and lands with a ‘bang’ in the pond where the acid promptly
starts eating it up.
Another
one comes down and takes out a tree.
“What’s
happening!?” I yell.
“Something
must be exploding!” Alric yells back.
“Those
rocks are pyroclastics, like from a volcano. Could the one in
Dragonspyer be blowing up!?”
“Maybe!”
Neither
of us saw the one coming from behind us.
We never
had a chance to react.
And with
the searing pain of a hundred burning fires we were crushed under the
weight of the biggest flaming rock of them all.
***
“Suri?”
I hear
my name being called. But I could not answer. My body felt made of
lead. I couldn’t move.
“Suri?”
says the voice again.
I force
myself to move. Just a little. I force my eyes open. Pain. It was all
around me.
“Suri!”
The pain
shatters. Relief washes over me. I sit bolt up right and look around.
My eyes were still blurry but I was able to make out someone next to
me.
“Oh
thank goodness! You’re alive!” says Alric happily.
I look
around. “Where... where are we? What happened?”
“Well,
I believe we were hit by a meteor. But somehow we ended up here.
Where ever ‘here’ is.”
Of
course that sentences tipped me off.
“We
must be in a Place of Nowhere,” I say.
“Where?”
I sigh.
“Really Alric? Nowhere. We’re nowhere. Hence the name Place of
Nowhere.”
“Oh.
How do we get out?”
“We
have to break something. But we have to wait until we find the voice.
She’ll tell us something important, then we break something, and
then we get out.”
“Is
this, by chance, where you went when you fell over the side of Elik’s
Edge with that Nathan guy?”
I pause,
then nod. “Yeah. It’s not really something that happens all the
time so I like not to think about it. Though I’ve already been in
this place twice. Now this time makes it three.”
“Whose
the voice?”
“I
don’t know.” I look around. We seemed to be on a brick rode.
Hills of multicolored sand dunes rose and fell all around us. “Guess
we start walking,” I say finally. Alric nods.
We walk
in silence. There was no sound save our footsteps.
Suddenly
we hear a loud dripping of water up ahead. It seemed to echo off some
invisible wall. We give each other sidewards glances then start
running. Why? I don’t know, some crazy force of fate and destiny
combined probably. But at the same time there was a sort of hope to
it.
We reach
a large valley. In the center was a pond of green water, and there
was a large, gray rock that was hovering above it. Yes, hovering
above it. And from it dripped water. Green water I’m probably
guessing.
“There
are some pretty weird things here,” I mutter. Alric only nods.
We
start down towards the pond which was in a crater of some sort. Once
we reach it I look around. There seemed to be a never ending amount
of sand.
“Check
this out,” says Alric. I look down at him, he was kneeling next to
the water. He reaches his hand into the water and pulls out a gray
stone. But before I can ask what was so important that I had to tear
my gaze away from a endless desert of no hope, it changed color
before my eyes to a yellowish color with bronze spirals.
Eyes
wide I kneel next to him. “How did you do that?”
“I
didn’t do anything. I just picked up a stone and it changed color.
You try it.”
I
reach my hand into the water and pull out a small gray pebble. As I
watched it turned to a purple color with silver stripes, or was it
silver with purple stripes? Oh well, it was like a zebra. But weren’t
they actually, scientifically proved to be white with black stripes?
Or was it...
AGH!
Never mind!
“Why
do you think it does this?” I ask instead.
Again,
he shrugs.
Then a
genius solution comes to me like a lightning flash of inspiration.
Yellow
and bronze. The colors of Myth and Balance.
He was a
Chrons! Specifically one of Myth and Balance.
“You
are clever, Suri. Already you have found two Chrons.”
“Who
said that?” asks Alric.
“The
voice,” I say with a touch of pride. Already I had
found two Chrons. Nathan of Death and Fire, and Alric of Myth and
Balance. “Alric, I don’t really know how to explain it to you but
you’re a Chrons.”
“A
what?” he asks, sounding dumbfounded.
“A
Chrons is a wizard with power is two schools. You have as much power
in your second school as you do in your own school. But do not
confuse it with your secondary school.”
“Oh.
So what two schools am I?”
“From
what Suri figured out not a minute ago you are Myth and Balance.
Mynce, you are a Sorcjure.”
“Myth
and Balance. Hmm... Balance is my second school then?”
“Yes.”
“Cool.”
Then I
have a question. “Hey voice, do you have a name?”
Silence.
Had I offended her or something? “I
do have a name. I was once a wizard like yourself. But I did
something that was probably not the best choice and I forced to live
out eternity in Places of Nowhere.”
“But
you name...?” I urge.
“Esmerelda.
Esermelda Silverwillow.”
I
freeze. Alric gives me an odd look. “Why did you just freeze?”
“Um...
uh... no reason. Just... caught off guard. How– how did you get
here?”
“I
was trying to stop my father. I thought that if I could send him
somewhere he could never get out all would end. So I used the Rose of
Interchange, and it’s power, to banish him to here. I thought that
I was his only child, so without me and without him no one could take
up the Silverwillow name.”
“But
you were wrong,” I say. “What happened?”
“I
had a brother I didn’t know about. Hidden from me. He continued his
father’s work. I thought I could purify the line, but I was wrong.”
I soak
in this information like a sponge. My family. This voice. Esmerelda,
was my great-great-great-many-more-greats grandmother.
Of
course I didn’t say that out loud.
The
place started to give me the creeps. I wanted to get out of here.
“So
Alric is awakened and all that now right?” I ask.
“Yes.”
“Great,”
is all I say. Before anything else can happen I pick up a gray
pebble. But before it turns any color I burst it into a million
pieces. With a air suction sound the multicolored sand dunes, green
pond, and floating rock, evaporates around us and we come back to
face utter destruction.
Houses
were destroyed. The road was torn up. Fires raged everywhere.
“What’s
happening?” I whisper.
Alric
was frowning. “It’s like the Era of Darkness all over again.
Fires are first.”
“Then
what?” I ask.
“Famine.”
I
shudder. “Then the plague.” He nods. “We have to find the last
Chrons,” I say strongly. “Whoever is behind this must be
stopped.”
“But
who is?”
I
pause. “If what you said was true, about this happening all before,
than Athol must be behind it. Like Esmerelda said. Another one has
come around.”
“Who’s
Athol?” asks Alric.
I
look over at him with a grim expression. “Athol Silverwillow,
Shadow Wizard and bringer of the last Era of Darkness.”
The
solution had been in my mind for a while. Athol must be a Shadow
Wizard, especially after I’d heard what Nathan had told me. The
book he had read on becoming an Abiit. Of course he hadn’t known
what it was talking about but when put together with what
Harold the librarian had told me...
You
had to live for three months out in the wild learning the ways of
wilderness.
Athol
had disappeared for three months. No one could find him.
Next
you had to confess everything you felt to a spirit in a stone.
Athol
was heard yelling in his room. Sometimes angry, sometimes calm.
Finally
you have to give up everything, your school, your family, your soul.
Athol
went to Ambrose and said we was leaving Ravenwood because he had
found a better school with more advanced magic.
He
became a Shadow Wizard.
The
Era of Darkness began.
Of
course how could I break it to Alric and Nathan that I myself was a
Shadow Wizard? That my last name was also Silverwillow and in some
way I was related to a mass murderer? How could I tell any of that to
them? How would they feel? What would they do?
“Suri,
is something wrong?” asks Alric softly.
I
give him a sad smile. No, I couldn’t tell them yet. Not just yet.
“I’m fine. Let’s go find Nathan, tell him your a Chrons too
now.”
“Wait,
Nathan’s a Chrons too?”
“Yeah.
He was awakened when we fell over Elik’s Edge. The last Chrons we
have to find is of Life and Ice.”
“But,
what two schools are you then?” he asks, doing the math.
“I’ll
tell you later. C’mon.”
We
start making out way through the rubble. I hope Delina and David are
alright. And Cathrine.
“Where
are you?”
I whisper chat Nathan.
“Suri?
Thank goodness you’re alright! I’m with my family in our second
house in Marlybone. You may want to come quick.”
“Alright.
I’m bringing Alric. He’s a Chrons now. Myth and Balance.”
“Great.
Teleport.”
I
grab Alric’s hand. “Nathan’s in Marlybone. We can stay there.”
“Alright.”
I
teleport to Nathan with Alric in tow. We land in an ornate living
room in a small apartment. Why did this room look familiar?
“Suri!”
says Nathan happily. “Hey Alric.”
“Hey
Nat. Nice place.”
“Thanks.
Kind of dreary with the ever night but I don’t mind the constant
fires.”
“Yeah,
I almost bought a Marlybone house once but decided against. I think I
have a Krokotopia house one.”
I
was silent. I had figured out why the room looked familiar.
It
was where Calamity was hiding.
I
break into the conversation with the question, “Can I use your
bathroom?”
Both
boys looked stunned, as if they couldn’t believe I had actually
asked that. “Um, sure. Right around the corner,” says Nathan with
a odd catch in his voice. Sheesh, boys. Every girl loved them yet
they had everything wrong with them. That’s what I say.
I
nod my thanks and hurry out of the room. I find the bathroom, close
the door but don’t go in. I go I little further down the hallway to
the basement door. Hopefully Calamity would be down there. Better I
find her first than anyone else.
I
sneak down into the darkness. “Calamity!?” I whisper yell. “You
down here?”
“Suri?”
I here a whisper back. In the dim light I see a shape, Calamity,
emerges from behind some boxes. “I thought you said this wasn’t a
quest house.”
“It’s
not, it’s a second home to a wizard family. Thank goodness I know
the family. Come on.” I
lead her quietly back up the stairs and to the bathroom door. I could
hear Alric and Nathan still talking.
“Okay,
I said I was using
the bathroom. When I come out again pretend you teleported to me.”
She
nods.
I
go into the bathroom and flush the toilet. Then I come out and
Calamity pops her lips, making the teleportation sound. I pretend to
be startled.
“Calamity!
What are you doing here?” I say in a fake voice.
“Oh,
my house was demolished by a meteor so I teleported to you, hoping
you were somewheres safe,” she responds, equally fake. Alric and
Nathan appear around the corner.
“Who’s
that?” asks Alric.
“This
is Calamity Emeraldsword. She can stay right?” I say with a hint of
do-as-I-say in my voice.
Both
boys look at each other, to me, to Calamity, then back to each other.
This goes for what seems like forever until finally Nathan says,
“Su-u-re.”
“Great!”
I say happily.
“I
guess now since I have three extra guests I better go get the
sleeping arrangements set up. Wanna help me Alric?”
“What?
Oh, ah, sure!”
They
head upstairs. Calamity and me look at each other, and then she says,
“I’m gonna go raid the kitchen.”
I
nod. “Okay.” As she leaves I make to follow but something catches
my attention. A small, black, book on the bookshelf. I tilt my head
so I can read the binding.
Black
Book of Doom
Cheery.
I
probably shouldn’t have taken it from the shelf, but curiosity won
me over and I did take it. Plus the title was weird. Exactly how many
books are called that? Not many I’m sure. If you saw that book
would your curiosity
be
spiked? I bet it would.
Taking
it from the shelf I open the cover to the first page. It was a fat
little book, but it seemed kind of light. I begin t read.
Chapter
One
Once
upon a time there was a world of light and life and growth. Then
darkness came. Nothing but a night sky and darkness. No stars, no
moon, no light, save a few candles people had saved.
And
it continued like that. Dark and depressing for the first few pages
until suddenly the center of all the pages were gone creating a sort
of book box to hide something. No wonder it had been light, the
middle was carved out for crying out loud!
Okay,
I know I said that really calmly but truth is I started freaking out.
Cause
nestled in those pages was a pocket watch.
I’m
guessing that at one point it was a bright golden color but time as
worn that away to a darker gold.
“Hey
Calamity, check this out!” I yell. She comes back from the kitchen
chewing on a roll.
“What?”
I
hold up the pocket watch. “Look at what I found.”
But
before she can make any move to come nearer the ground shakes
violently and a ear splitting crack numbs my, you guessed it, ears.
Alric and Nathan come stumbling down the stairs.
“What’s
going on?” yells Alric.
We
all back against the wall. “Earthquake, I think,” Calamity yells
back. After a pause she says, “a long one!”
Finally
the shaking ceases and we take a glance out the window.
We
all gasp.
Most
of the buildings had collapsed and a huge crack spans the entire
street. No monsters were in sight.
“What
was that from?” I wonder aloud. Though in my head I knew the
answer: the great evil.
I
bet Alric and Nathan knew it too.
“I
wanna take a closer look,” says Calamity. She bounds towards the
door.
“No
wait! It’s not safe!” yells Nathan as we all chase after her.
When we catch up to her she’s standing on the edge of the dark
abyss the earthquake had created. “This isn’t safe,” repeats
Nathan. “What is another one happens, we all go tumbling into
nothingness.”
“Like
the apartment is any safer. See all those buildings? They didn’t
fare so well,” retorts Calamity.
Now
to explain what happened next can be put into three simple words: I.
Hate. Fate.
Okay,
I know lots of people who say ‘hate is a strong word’ so for your
happiness I guess I can rephrase that into 13 words.
I
strongly dislike fate with a fiery passion of a thousand burning
suns.
How’s
that?
Fate
decided that there should be another earthquake right then an there
and that me and Calamity should fall into the gaping hole already
there and fall to ours dooms.
But
we didn’t die.
And
when we stopped falling I knew exactly where we were.
So
let’s call that four times.
A
Place of Nowhere.
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Mean right?
I know, the ending is rushed. I was trying to finish tit. Just wrap up chapter six.
Since I feel like I need to say something else I'll have you know that the next chapter (chapter seven) is called skipping stages two and three (it is uncapitalized cause I don't capitalize the chapter titles, so I know it looks weird, so just bear with me).
I'll be posting again soon!
AAHHH!! TWO MORE WEEKS AND I'LL BE IN ITALY!!
Truth me told I'm more looking forward to the 2 hour lay over in London.
:)
Tea! Crumpets! Scones! Must try them!
It's gonna be the highlight of the vacation.
Plus, did you know that the word Cappuccino is Italian? So they (the Italians) probably serve them all the time. Yeah! Hot chocolate and coffee every morning!
You're probably thinking: yeah, Emma, no. You're already way to hyper.
Okay, fine, I won't tell you about my hyperness. Or I'll forget and tell you anyway. I'll be posting every day while I'm there.
:)
I got to go now. Study hall is almost over.
Laterz!
~Emma
