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Marrione
By Haley

Chapter 1
“Ahh!” silk haired Xaniphia felt a strange pulling sensation and grows dizzy. Thump. “Owowowowow!!” she cries out. “What happened? What’s this strange place? Where am I? The soil feels… hard, like cooked clay, but it looks loose.” She sobbed. Being twelve didn’t matter when she had no people to impress with her bravery. No friends to impress, no friends at all. No family was there either. There was only Xaniphia sitting there thinking how much her tailbone hurt and how lonely she was. She realized her home was lost. A six or seven year old walked out from behind a big rock.
The girl looked nervous, as if she had never seen a human. She was one herself of course, at least that’s what Xaniphia, or Xani thought of at that time. She stepped very slowly as if a dangerous dog was there instead of the harmless girl Xani. Halfway between the rock and Xani the girl paused. “Could this be the one?” She whispered so silently you couldn’t hear her unless your ear was right next to her. She realized that it could be no other and boldly walked the rest of the way.
Xani reacted similar to this strange girl. She was nervous, but how bad could she be? She was younger than her. Xani of course cared about first impressions very much. She straightened up and was ready to run or to talk at any moment. It was important also that she gave this girl a feeling that she was welcome if she was friendly too, and as Xani thought of this she relaxed herself a little. Though she couldn’t give this girl power, after all Xani was older.
After those seconds of strong tension the girl spoke to break the silence. “I’m Luna Carmeli Loy, next heir to the throne of Marrione, who are you?”
“I’m Xaniphia, Xani for short.” Xani didn’t notice the strange name of the place, in fact she didn’t notice more than Luna when Luna introduced herself.
“Where are you from?”
“America.”
“Are you playing a joke on me? What in Marrione is America?” Luna gave Xani a questioning look. Her eyes turned from deep water to shallow water colored.
“Are you playing a joke on me? You seriously don’t know what America is. Anyways where is this?”
“Marrione, you can remember how to pronounce it like Mars is on. I know it’s sort of a lame trick, but it works.”
“That means this is a different… a different…” Xani gave up on the idea, she meant to say a different planet, but it was too ridiculous.
“That means you are the chosen one.” Luna’s words were strong yet faded daydreaming.
“What?”
“You must be from Earth.” Luna acted as if she didn’t say the previous statement and ignored Xani’s question.
“What do you mean the chosen one?”
“Anyways, we must build shelter.” Luna ignored Xani’s question yet again.
“What do you mean the chosen one?” Xani persisted again.
“Where do you think we should build it? That cave, or maybe somewhere under the open sky…”
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE CHOSEN ONE????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Xani blew up, Luna wasn’t listening and Xani just had to know.
“I think the cave would be nice.” The truth was any question of the sort before Luna told the person what they were doing completely there could not be heard by her.
“Yes, I’d prefer the cave.” Xani said giving up on her question. Obviously Luna would not answer. She was certainly a stubborn child. As soon as she said something Luna could hear Xani noticed something. Earlier Luna’s eyes changed, and now Luna’s skin color changed. It changed from a healthy tan to a white. Not a sickly white, but a white that had a glow to it. Luna possessed some sort of magic. That was for sure.
Chapter 2
In the cave it was pitch black after you walked in just a few feet. It was afternoon, but it seemed like night. Luckily Xani stayed up late all the time and didn’t mind the dark, but she kept stumbling over twigs and stones. She turned back to glance at Luna and Luna’s eyes lit up everywhere around her, even in back. Her skin was still slightly glowing. No wonder she wasn’t tripping.
When they reached the back of the cave a minute or two later Luna had collected enough sticks, twigs, and dead leaves to make a decent fire that could last from the middle of the afternoon through night. “Now that we have the location, enough supplies for the fire, and a roof for our heads, let’s go get something to sleep on.” Xaniphia jumped at the shock of Luna’s statement. The silence wasn’t strange as it usually is when you are with a person, but it was noticeable. Luna was hoping for a reply, but Xani stayed silent. After all, she was with a complete stranger, a tiny 7 year old who took charge a bit too much.
Finally Xani said, “What do you sleep on in nature? It seems there isn’t anything soft enough in nature to sleep on, seriously.”
“Well, let’s see here, if you want to sleep on rocks and pebbles I guess we can…” Luna was sure annoying, sarcasm at that age?
“Well what do we do then?” Xani finally decided there at least could be a couple of things to make it less painful.
“First of all we need to get these rocks and pebbles out of the way. We have to do this by hand though. Big leaves are to floppy, and there is nothing else around here that might help.” They immediately went to work getting things out of the way. “Ok, now let’s go find some leaves or something for our heads, we don’t want scraped ears in the morning. After a couple of hours they returned to the cave with only a couple of leaves they found that would help a tad.
“Uh, Luna?” Xani asked softly. “Does there happen to be any water around here?”
“I guess it’s time then.” Luna said decisively.
“What?”
“Ok, let me start from the beginning after I get your water.” Luna said realizing Xani looked almost ready to faint.
Her eyes turned to the cleanest clear bluish color you could ever see. “Aquamarr Enchena Watensa!” A puddle of water appeared right in front of Xani’s face, simply floating there, almost sending a feeling of impatience, impatience to have her drink it. Slowly and cautiously Xani drank a bit of water. Instantly she felt as if she had a perfect body.
“How did you do that?” Xani asked.
“It’s called magic. Ok, I’m going to tell you a children’s bedtime story. Most people say it isn’t real, but it is. It will explain why you’re here and everything. You ready?”
“Sure.”
“Once upon a time there was an empty spot in space. No stars, planets, or anything for miles around. So one planet from each of the eight galaxies sent a part of themselves here. Mazalione sent some soil. Arset sent some plants. Rizew sent some birds and fish. Retey sent some land animals. Ity sent some other liquids, its version of water. Ozette sent some minerals for the life forms of this planet to make things with. Numeel sent some air that all planets use to breathe. Earth sent a lake and its surroundings.
All of the things sent broke in half. Half evolving into this planet and half of it made a new life form, which is what I am. We named our planet after the first initial of each planet that sent help to this space which would have become a black hole otherwise. The life forms were named after an idea which Earth gave us. It sent water and we are actually 99% water and 1% magic. More water than Human beings from Earth. So we are the Aquamarrs. The magic helps us contain the water of our bodies and help us survive. We have so many more magic abilities than you’d think with only 1% magic.
This planet is now in debt to all the planets who sent help. So when a planet becomes overcrowded it sends some of its life forms over, usually the smartest of the planet. For you it would be humans, not fish. They come to do work for our planet then return. We are usually in some sort of need for our planet since it was made of bits and pieces of completely different planets from different galaxies.”
“Wow…”
“It is quite a lot, I know.”
“Well, that means I must have a chore here to do.”
“Actually before we get to that there is one more thing.”
“What is that?”
“I have to tell you the worst part of your visit. There is no water around here, it’s on the other side of the planet. I have to use magic to get water here and it drains a LOT of my energy.”
“Oh.”
“And you need water more often here than on Earth, and I mean NEED.”

Chapter 3

Well, it started out as a school essay we had to make, I had no ideas, so I took some ideas from an rp on the other LDS guild, then I liked it and started writing a longer version more thought out, and now it is NOTHING at all like the rp except the name Luna and she comes from that planet, but that's it.

Yeah, detail is my weakness in writing, this is why I posted it, I like having people tell me how it could improve, after all one day I'll try to get it published!

ok, when I'm not so tired I might work on it a bit next weekend or Wednesday, I have ballet so many days of the week, and Sunday I try to catch up on my sleep, usually resulting in me being a bit too jumpy. I think I'm just trying to get my ideas down so I don't forget them, I'll work on details after my ideas come out.

woa, cool!