Wizards Return
As we
walked into the remains of the decrepit castle, we could feel the ruined ground
through our run-down Krakow’s (footwear commonly worn in the Middle Ages). We
looked around and saw invasive vines creeping up the almost nonexistent inner
walls. We were in awe of what we saw, then heard the booming voice again,
"You have finally arrived." The voice sounded like it was right
behind us and we twirled around to see the mysterious worn man who had passed
by the turret window. "I have been awaiting you".
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It had been a long day,
when I arrived at home after working in the field to find a strange letter
addressed to me and my younger sister Isabell. I lifted it up and opened it. I
was lucky enough to have had a father who taught me how to read. The letter
said, “Meet
me at the abandoned castile in the woods.” All the kids had
heard of the castle, but few had gone to see it. I thought of whoever told us
to meet them there and pictured them sitting and waiting. Without much time to think, I grabbed my
sister’s arm and we trudged off toward the ruins.
“Is there anyone in there?”, I wondered aloud, staring up at the gothic
castle. “The letter said they’d meet us…" his voice trailed off as a tall
man in a robe, shrouded in darkness walked by one of the turret windows. Just
then, the gigantic drawbridge started to descend. The bridge thudded to the ground and he heard
a loud but worn voice call, "ENTER!". As we
walked into the remains of the decrepit castle, we could feel the ruined ground
through our run-down Krakow’s. We looked
around and saw invasive vines creeping up the almost nonexistent inner walls.
we were in awe of what we saw, then heard the booming voice again "You
have finally arrived." The voice sounded like it was right behind us, we
twirled around to see the mysterious worn man who had passed by the turret
window. He said "I have been awaiting you".
He told us that he was
a wizard and he needed some apprentices because he was one of the last
sorcerers in the world and he would like to train us. We were skeptical but we
said yes. He told us that our training would start at 5 am the next day and
that we would be staying at the castle which was actually hidden with a magical
border and was beautifully furnished. He showed us to our rooms and we slowly
drifted off to sleep.
Once we woke up, we found a cloak for each of us. For the
rest of the day, we were led around the castle by the man, who told us that his
name was Simon. Simon told us about how there used to be many sorcerers but an
evil sorcerer killed most of them off before the king put an end to him. After
he showed us around that day, he told us to meet him in the courtyard to learn
our first spells. It took a few days, but we eventually learned the spell to
materialize food out of thin air.
Once we had learned that spell, we both started learning the
spells really fast. In a month we had learned five spells, but one night I was
going to the lavatory pit and I saw Simon creeping around. I watched as he
pulled one of the books off a bookshelf and a door swung open. I
watched him enter the door which slammed shut behind him. I snuck over to the
bookshelf and repeated what Simon did and the door swung open to reveal a long stone
hallway. I crouched along the hallway and as I got farther along, I saw that it
led into an open cellar with a large frozen shape in the middle of the room. The
shape was about thirty feet tall with humongous twenty-foot wings and teeth
that could kill. Even though the monster that I had figured out was a dragon
scared me, I stayed to see what Simon could possibly be doing. I looked over
towards a desk on the far side of the room and I saw that he had a board that showed
plans of some kind. Part of it said, “Find apprentices to help complete the
spell.” That’s when I realised that he was using us to free the dragon from its
prison. When I realised that, I ran back to my room to get to sleep so I could
tell my sister the next morning.
The next day I told my sister what I had seen the night
before, and she told me that she thought I was lying. I told her that I would
show her on the next day we had off training and so I did. When I showed her,
she realised that we needed to do something. We spent the rest of the day
figuring out what to do and we figured out a plan that we could attempt. We
weren’t sure if it would work
because it would include trying to over power Simon, but it was the best thing
we could think of. I snuck into the room to try to surprise him but when we got
close enough to peer in, we saw that he was there already and it looked like he
was waiting for us. He shouldn’t have known because we made sure he wasn’t
around to overhear us. That didn’t matter any more, we just had to go and hope
that we could beat him quickly. To try and keep him from doing anything, I cast
a spell to disarm and stun him which worked for less than a couple seconds. Luckily,
Isabell cast a fireball spell but Simon had recovered and was able to ricochet
the spell back at us. As I looked up, I saw a loose stone which I shot with a
combustion spell. This made an explosion and wherever I cast the spell, the
explosion dislodged the stone. I watched
as it fell onto Simon’s head and knocked him out. As we turned to look at the
frozen dragon, we heard a cracking and watched as the ice broke and freed the
dragon. As soon as it broke out, it started to attack us. We quickly rolled out
of the way but it slightly burned my toe. I cast a spell that would electrocute
the dragon but it didn’t do anything. That was when I remembered a story my
friends had told me about a dragon that was impervious to magic and the only
thing that could kill it was a certain wand that the master wizard had. I
remembered that Simon had told us that he had been gifted a wand from one of
the strongest wizards back when there was a lot of them and I thought maybe he had
the wand.
I dashed over to Simon’s limp body and grabbed the wand out
of his hand and cast a spell of slowing on the dragon which worked and slowed
it down. I cast another combustion spell which threw the dragon back and
stunned him for enough time that my sister could get back to my side. The
dragon was too strong for just me to take on, so I gave the wand to Isabell and
tried to distract the dragon for enough time so that Isabell could cast a spell
to freeze the dragon again. She started to cast (this spell took more time to
cast than others) and the dragon swung its razor-sharp claw at me. I ducked
under, then all of a sudden everything went quiet. It was so quiet that you could hear birds
chirping from outside the even more broken-down castle. I tuned around carefully, not knowing what I
would turn around to see but when I turned around, I saw Isabell standing there
and a frozen dragon sitting right behind me. There was no time to rest because
we needed to do something about the dragon, so we cast a cloaking spell and
turned to where Simon’s limp body lay. “Now what?” Isabell said. “We
have to figure out what to do with him.”
We grabbed the wizard and took
him to the, luckily still intact holding cell. We threw him in and locked the
cell door. After, we took all his items for magic and cast a spell to give him
cups of ground up mix of carrots, pork, water, and some potatoes. It looked
disgusting! Once we had done that, we stacked up bricks of stone until there
was just one left for him to get air out of. Once we had done that, we took a
walk back to our quaint little village and went to talk to the nobleman of the
town. We demonstrated some of the spells that we knew and he was so impressed
by what we had done, that he sent a message to the King. He told the King that
we would be a great addition to his ranks. Shortly after, he sent a letter back
saying that he would love to treat us to one night at the castle so we could
show him all that we knew. We replied yes and left on our journey. We met some
of the nicest folk we had ever met and once we had made it to the castle, we
showed the king who was delighted by what we showed him. He asked if we could
help to train more wizards to bring them back to our world. We gladly said yes and now we have some apprentices
that we are training even though we are not much older than they are. They are
good and diligent learners and I predict that the world will soon have many
more sorcerers like us.
