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Ianna Umbridge Vice Captain
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 Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:51 am
Finding The Moon - Part One "You want me to go WHERE?" Ianna screamed at her unseen daughter.
"The moon." came Matilda's voice, soft as silk and purring in Ianna's head as if there were nothing unordinary about going into outer space and traveling on a satallite.
"NO! NO NO NO NO NO! When I signed up for this gig, I didn't sign up for realm and space hopping. EARTH hopping, that's another thing. I may LIKE going to Paris, or Cairo, or...or...Hawaii or something, but THE MOON!? ARE YOU FRIGGIN NUTS?!"
There was a long silence. "That's to be debated. However, I need you to go to the moon. The first wand has began to awaken, and it needs you. I need you. Mother."
Ianna could almost feel Matilda smirk at her. She KNEW that when she used that word Ianna was putty in her hands...She never heard that title anymore...
"Fine...I'll g--" She didn't get to finish her sentence, but was immediately transported, without warning, to the moon.
"O...." Ianna looked around, though the first thing she noticed was...SHE COULDN'T BREATHE! She gasped for air, finding none, and panic rose in her.
MATTY! MATTY! ******** HELL MATTY I NEED OXYGEN! I AM NOT IMMORTAL! Ianna thought frantically. She felt light headed already, and began to droop.
"Oops." came the response, a pocket of air immediately wrapping itself around her.
"Bloody hell, Matty." she muttered, gasping for the air and greedily sucking it in. "This better last me."
Now that she could breathe, Ianna seemed a little more interested in where she was. The soft grey dust, the craters, and the millions upon millions of stars all around it. Oh! And the VIEW of the EARTH! It was amazing...
"I hate to interrupt, Ianna, but...Time is of the essence..."
Ianna snapped out of her daze and nodded her head, beginning her journey of searching for the wand.
After hours of fruitless combing of the moon's surface, and several refills of air, Ianna was close to giving up. "You sure it's here?"
"Of course I'm sure!" Matilda snapped indignantly. She was never wrong.
"Yeah yeah...But I can't--" she trailed off, a glitter of silver catching her eye. "Nevermind." she muttered, moving towards the staff of silver and moonstone which stuck out of a crater.
"See. I told you."
"Bite me." she hissed as she pulled the wand from the hole, dusting it off. "It's beautiful..."
"Yeah, it is...Pure silver and moonstone, quite expensive too. But it's more important than money." Matilda mused, never really getting the human concept of money, even when she was one. "It will be of the moon, when it emerges. And a looker too. Well, time to go home."
And so...Ianna was returned home, wand in hand, to find a home for the wand.
~End Part 1~
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 12:00 pm
Ianna sat grumpily in her shop. She knew that whoever was meant to find the Moon wand would be drawn into her shop by the wand's pull...but bloody hell! Did it have to take so long? She'd been waiting two weeks to find the right guardian, and so far, nobody had come in. She was getting anxious.
Silvery eyes darted to the left, the wand of the moon glinting in the very dim light of the shop. "Well, you'll have to wait a little longer, my friend."
Ianna's fingers trailed over the smooth metal of the silver wand handle and sighed, closing her eyes. She despised the fact she would have to give up her pretty trinket, but she knew that the wand, however pretty and shiny, was not hers to keep. She missed having a child around the house...Matilda had aged so quickly that it almost killed her. But...This at least, when she wasn't putting her life in danger to get the wands, was fulfilling enough.
She knew what would happen when the wand's owner came. They would be confused, wondering what led them to the dingy little dusty shop in the middle of nowhere. They would wonder why the hell they were there, and who the hell she was. And then, she would have them read from the book, just as a test to see if they truly were. If they weren't, she knew the book would stay closed until the real guardian came.
Her eyes opened to look at the old leather bound book laying beside her. "Yes, Thinking about you." she murmured, the book giving a shudder of appriciation. It wasn't forgotten in the hubbub of finding Moon. "I just wish we could hurry this up."
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Ianna Umbridge Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:24 pm
Ganty was walking home from here work, she was feeling weird all day allready and thought it would be a good idear to go home and sleep it out, she felt sick, but not realy sick at the same time. She was walking past closed stores and houses. She didn't pay any atention to any of the buildings untill somthing in here mind told here to look to here left. Ofcourse in that point of time she didn't that it was a wand that was leading here there, a lot spirit killed of somthing he believed in...
She looked left and noticed a small shop, in the display window there were small trinkits nothing special, nobody would notice this shop it was small and old, it looked open so Ganty walked to the door, she opened it. There she was standing in a dusty old shop looking face to face to a old lady not knowing why she even entered the shop.
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:31 pm
If Ianna had known Ganty thought she looked like an old lady, she would have beaten her with the Book of Life and Death sitting before her. That is, if she even noticed her there.
She didn't, for quite some time, until the Book gave a rumble and Matilda mentally prodded her.
THATS HER THATS HER THATS HER!!!
All though it was strictly in her head and Ganty wouldn't be able to hear Matilda speak.
Ianna blinked. "Ow. That bloody well hurt my ears. Don't yell at me." she blinked yet again and lifted her head from her notes, noticing the girl walking into the shop. The book before her gave a little shudder..it was definitely her.
Brilliant eyes locked on Ganty's features and she nodded her head. "Welcome to Ghosts of the Past."
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Ianna Umbridge Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:05 pm
((ooohhh damn XD i thought she was a old lady SORRY!! At least she cant hear what im thinking =P And my virus scanner started thing always makes my computer SLOW ><))
Ganty steped closer to the woman, now that she stands in the light she could see its not a old lady after all. She blinked when the woman looked up at here and sade the name of the shop
"Welcome to Ghosts of the Past." she mubbeld
"What a strange name for a shop, could i ask you what you are selling in your little shop?"
She looked around saw a lot of shelfs with books on them and wonderd where they would be for. Again she looked at the woman, waiting for here responds.
Again she looked around, how could she be so rude!
"Sorry my name is Ganty, i was just wondering around the streets when i found this little shop and the window display doesn't realy say what your selling"
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:18 pm
Ianna smirked. The smirk was rather fightening, if you didn't know how half insane Ianna was at times, especially when Matilda was talking to her.
"Selling? Oh, we don't sell anything here. You see..." she paused. "Well, here. See for yourself." Ianna reached for the large leather book and pushed it across the counter to sit infront of Ganty. It immediately slammed shut. "You'll have to be able to open the book to read what we do here. If you can, you're set. If not, I must ask you to leave..."
Ianna watched quietly, patiently, and smiled.
"Will you quit playing with her, Ianna! SHES THE BLOODY GUARDIAN!"
"I -know- that, Matilda. I'm not STUPID. But, You know the rules as well as I. She reads from the book or doesn't get her wand." Ianna seemed to be speaking to voices that weren't there again.
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Ianna Umbridge Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:06 am
[ Message temporarily off-line ]
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:52 am
Ianna shrugged her shoulders. The minute Ganty had touched the book, the leather covers sprung open, pages flipping madly and causing dust to fly everywhere until it landed, as if turned by magic, on a specific page.
On this page rested a picture of the silvery moon wand which had been resting on the counter beside her. Under the picture in small print, though perfectly legible read:
"Moon. Wand ID 00000. A Soul has been trapped within the confines of the wand. Congratulations, you have become the next guardian to take on the task of raising it from infancy to greatness. We, Ianna and I, have the upmost faith in you to complete your task dutifully. Best of luck,
Matilda."
Ianna watched for Ganty's reaction as she leaned against the counter, the smirk never leaving her face. "Well? Got anything to say?"
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Ianna Umbridge Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:50 am
After the book hade opend and Ganty just stood there for a fuw seconds, then she looked up at Ianna. "What....how.....where....what just happend o.o" That was about the only thing she could bring out... "and .... and how is Matilda and and whats this about a wand?! What is going on?" Here head started to feel light, she hade to sit down.
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:49 pm
Ianna knew that the woman would react the way she did and simply smiled. "This wand." she indicated to the silver and moonstone based wand sitting beside her. "Houses a soul. One who died a miserable, horrible or wrong death. It should not have happened. As a result of this, Matilda's spell....My daughter's spell...trapped her soul in the wand to give it a new chance."
Ianna paused and watched her before telling her Matilda's story, how she cast the spell, and that Ganty was the one chosen to be a parent to the child which would soon issue from the wand.
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Ianna Umbridge Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:44 am
"So" She looked at the wand, it was very preaty nice siler with some kind of white crystal on the top "This wand houses a soul but..but way me? There are so many people out there that would do a much better job then me! I'm sure of it. And what will happen when this soul will come out of the wand? And where is your daughter now anyways?" She hade so many questions she didn't know where to start, was this realy happening to here?
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:28 am
Ianna nodded her head a bit. "Nobody knows why a guardian is chosen, but they are. They're drawn here, and they don't know why. And the book can tell if you're supposed to be one." her fingers stroked down the spine of the large book, which gave a shudder of pleasure. "When the soul comes out, it will have 10 more stages of life. Wisp, Baby Ghost, Human baby, toddler, kid, teenager, youth, adult, sorcereress or sorcerer, and eventually, if they train, an Ancient. It's your job to act as if you were their parent.
Congratulations, Ms. Ganty. You're a mother."
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Ianna Umbridge Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:47 am
"A mother?" Ganty blinked she never realy thought about beeing a mother and for sure not of a wand... "How long will it take for this wand to become a baby? And what should i do now with the wand? I have so many questions to ask you i don't know where to start! I never thought somthing like this would happen, are you sure somthing in in that wand? It looks like any normal wand" She looked at the wand again, every time she looks at is she feels warm inside. "Am i supose to take it home now?"
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:54 am
Ianna chuckled at the barrage of questions. She was doing her best to be patient, but Matilda had been bugging her and reminding her to hurry up because she needed to go to atlantis to recieve the next wand.
"Yes, a mother. And I'm not sure how long it'll take your wand to evolve....This is the first wand found, other than my daughter's, and my daughter grew to ancient in two months...
They'll have an accelorated growth time..." Ianna paused and chuckled again. "But it wont be as fast as two months. Matilda changed that. I'm guessing...maybe a few months before the wand emerges through the first three stages and becomes a flesh and blood child." she looked to the wand and picked it up, handing it to Ganty. The moment she touched it, the tip would light up with a beautiful silver light. "It's awakened now. You can take it home."
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Ianna Umbridge Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:13 am
Ganty looked at the wand when a beautiful silver light came from the tip of the wand "That�s a long time" she responded "but I will do the best I can, can I ever come back here and ask questions I might have later on when the wand is "growing"?" She still couldn't all really place the events that just happened, was this real? Can people's souls really but trapped inside a wand waiting for the perfect "mother or father" "I hope i can handle this" she looked again at Ianna. "I will do the best I can, I hoop to see you again one day"
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