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While antique-shopping one day, Japi stumbled upon a little shop she'd never seen before. This was slightly unusual because she loved to look at the strange things that most people overlook and had scoured the entire town for every junk-shop, antique store, thrift store, and specialty shop in search of such treasures. This little shop happened to be having an auction out front. Japi decided to take a closer look.

The display showed two very colorful and very beautiful metal chimes. Her eyes widened and her ears percked as the sound of the beautful music reached her ears. The two chimes were in almost perfect harmony. There was a woman taking bids from a sizeable crowd.

She heard the auctioneer say, "7k going once..." Instinctively, she raised up her hand, "8k!" she said. "8k," repeated the auctioneer. There was another bid from the crowd, "8.5k!" Japi raised her hand again, compelled by the music of the rainbow chimes. "9k!" The auctioneer repeated her new bid and asked for more, but there were no more bids. Japi was still staring at the chimes when the auctioneer came up to collect the money. She fumbled around in her purse a bit, scrounging up the gold she needed, and paid the woman.

Another attendant was taking the chimes down from their hooks and placing them in identical boxes. She wrapped them up, placed them in a bag, and handed them to Japi.

"Thank you," said Japi, and before she knew it, she was the owner of twin chimes.

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The chimes weren't exactly twins. They were actually slightly different. Once shined with a more oily texture, while the other one was more a flat rainbow. Each had a base made of the material of it's sister. Japi had no idea why she had decided they were female, but she had. She had even given them names, as was an odd habit of hers. She had called them Nina and Anna. Nina was the oily one, while Anna the flat colored.

Japi placed Anna on the eastern front porch, where she sat to watch the sun rise, and Nina on the western back porch, where she watched the sun set.

Japi loved the soft tinkling of the chimes and listened to it whenever she got the chance to be away from her work, tending to other people's problems. She liked to sit in the kitchen, which had one window to the front porch and one to the back.

She noticed one day that the chimes were in perfect harmony, which had not happened before, at least not for such an extended period of time. She went to check on each one respectively, but there was nothing there but the chimes. She decided to bring Anna to the back porch for the sunset that night.

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Not only was it the most beautiful sunset that night, but the chimes sang strongly to her as well. She went to bed, deciding to leave the two together on the back porch for good now.

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to be continued...

Your journal is set up. Your chimes won't recieve actual stats until they progress to Air Spirit form.

Please post here when you know which spells you'd like each sister to learn. And please specify which spells are for which sister.

It had taken a while to find the perfect place for it. I would hang it in one place, only to find that either it didn't seem to like the room, or the room didn't like it. Finally, I had decided that outside would be best, it seemed to work, but then I had to find somewhere to put it. It was hanging outside of the window to my room, ringing softly in the winter-spring wind. I listened to it whilst reading, smiling at how lucky it was to have found such a treasure. My room had seemed to accept the chime for a while, but then discord would occur. Maybe this was for the best, the room and the chime seemed happy. I glanced out to the chime that had momentarily gone quiet.

I knew that the music calmed me, even though it was created from chaos that was the wind and the elements. I started reading again, listening happily to the chime. It was one possession I would not lose, or try to the best of my abilities.