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Part 3 of A World Without Magic is below.
P.s.-ON Demand people WILL NOT be getting this due to my location. Please cope for now.
Part 3
Von squeezed the red stone again and Melvin, Kai and everyone else fell asleep.
* * *
Melvin opened his eyes and saw Kai asleep next to him. Melvin looked up and saw Von standing next to a portal. An orb was flying around him and a face that looked like Von was talking.
“I’m telling you Von this girl came out of nowhere and pushed me through the portal. When we came through my portal opener was broken,” the orb man said to Von.
“Well what did you do with the girl?” Von asked the man.
“The girl passed out from the trip, so I threw her in the river,” the man said.
“You what! You better hope she’s dead or she will tell everyone about what happened!” Von yelled.
“Okay sir. Now are you coming or not? We need to go now if we want to find this boy your talking about,” the man in the orb said.
“Very well,” Von said as he grabbed the orb and shook it the face disappeared. Von pocketed the orb and went through the portal.
Melvin blinked a few times in disbelief that Von would take the towns magic. He also had so many questions going around in his head that he couldn’t think straight. Luckily Kai began to awaken.
Melvin grabbed Kai and shook him, “Wake up Kai! He’s gone. Von’s gone and he has our magic!” Melvin yelled in Kai’s ear.
Kai snapped awake and pushed Melvin aside.
“Where did he go? I demand to know where he is!” Kai questioned Melvin.
“He went through a portal, and he was talking to this strange orb that said something about a girl that messed up his plans and that he wanted to find some boy,” Melvin answered.
“A girl? What girl was he talking about? Where is she now?” Kai asked.
“The orb guy said he dumped her in the river after she passed out from going in a portal. Pretty weak even for a girl huh?” Melvin said.
“It’s not weak if this girl lost her magic,” Kai said.
“Oh, I didn’t think about that,” Melvin mumbled.
“Melvin you need to find these Von and that guy from the orb, he has our magic! They are planning something Melvin! You need to go to the ocean and get on a boat. Go around our walls and follow the river to the Trisofourous Mountains. Get past the mountains and find the temple. Your trip will take two week to the temple and back, got it.” Kai said to Melvin seriously.
“Yeh yes sir!” Melvin stuttered and he ran off towards the ocean.
Dani coughed, water spat out of her mouth and she looked around. She was on the side of a river, which was pretty slow. Dani stood up and looked around.
“Great, I don’t know where I am or why I’m here,” she said to herself.
Dani decided to walk down the river towards the ocean in hopes to find a siteos.
It wasn’t long before Melvin came to the ocean, but there were no boats on the dock. Melvin sighed and looked around he saw a small shack with smoke coming out of the chimney.
Melvin stomach growled, he hadn’t eaten since early that morning and he was also tired. Melvin went into the shack, which was dirty and smelled like Kai’s great grandparents feet.
He saw nobody in the main room except an old man sleeping on a couch. Melvin slowly walked towards the old man who was in a very worn out tunic and short shorts. The man’s baldhead reflected the only light in the shack, which made it hard for Melvin to see.
The man suddenly awoke and grabbed Melvin’s arm and twisted it. Melvin fell to the ground yelling in pain.
“Ha ha, silly boy trying to use the Old Mans head without paying now is he?” the man said as he got up stepping on Melvin’s leg.
“Your head?” Melvin asked while trying to escape from under the old man.
“Yes my head Melvin Stragatini! It shows the future you bag-of-dirt for brains,” the old man croaked.
“Will you please get off me?” Melvin yelled.
The old man stepped off and Melvin stood up.
“How do you know my name?” Melvin asked the man.
“I know everything Melvin I-wet-my-pants-at-night-until-I-was-ten,” the old man laughed.
“How did you know that I did that?” Melvin asked angrily.
“I told you I know everything, little boy,” the man said.
“Who are you?” Melvin questioned.
“I am Samodextrious Extratresstredious Steve, but you can call me Ses,” the man said as he went into the back room.
“How do you know everything?” Melvin asked as he followed.
“How do you know nothing?” Ses asked.
Melvin started thinking about how Ses could know everything, than he remembered something from his studies when he was below apprentice level.
“You’re the old town leader, once you served forty years of town leader you must learn from the old, old town leader about how to see the future, know the present, and the past. That way if anything happened to the town you could help save it,” Melvin said.
“See you do know about who I am and what I do. You also know you need to get a boat and go to the river. Then walk up the river to the mountains and find the temple,” Ses said.
“Yeah, your right,” Melvin said slowly.
“I’ll feed you and give enough supplies to last two months,” Ses said.
“Two months? Kai said it would take two weeks to get to the temple and back,”
Ses chuckled, “You will need more just in case Melvin.”
“Fine,” Melvin mumbled.
Melvin was soon fed and said goodbye to Ses. Melvin turned to walk away, but Ses grabbed his arm and threw Melvin on the floor, just as he did when they first met.
“Before you go take this,” Ses handed Melvin a whistle the shape of a bird.
“What is this?” Melvin asked as he examined the gift.
“A wisdom whistle, blow into it and I shall come and give you advice, but it only has three whistles Melvin and I can only stay for a minute, so have your question ready okay.”
“Yes sir. Hey do you have any magic?” Melvin asked.
“I lost my magic a long time ago Melvin, long before anyone knew you could lose it,” Ses replied.
Melvin nodded and left for the canoe. He had very little sunlight left for the trip and knew he had to go fast. Melvin wrapped the whistle around his neck and pushed the canoe in the ocean.
At the Riverbank
Dani grabbed the Bass and threw it onto the side of the river with the other fish. She had only walked for a half-an-hour before the sun started going down. She had decided to get some fish so she can trade a fisherman for some supplies and information.
For some strange reason Dani could always catch fish with ease. Ever since she was five and went fishing with her father during the spring and summer she had been catching more fish then her father, usually with her bare hands.
Dani picked up some large sticks and drove them through the fish. Than she put the sticks erect in the mud so the very small bears in the country couldn’t steal her catch, it helped the fish dry and it made it easier to skin the fish or as Dani’s father always said defin and degill.
Dani put the last fish up and lay down to sleep, but would soon be interrupted by a strange unexpected arrival.
* * *
Melvin stepped out of the canoe and pulled out his bag of ridiculous amount of supplies Ses gave him. He was now on the other side of the magic town wall. Melvin looked up and saw, not to far away from him, a bunch of sticks with fish at the top. Melvin could never fish, he was always to busy doing something else to have time fishing, like splashing the girls or cutting their fishing rod strings right as they caught a fish. Melvin was interrupted from his thought due to a loud scream coming from beyond the fish sticks.
Melvin grabbed a blade of grass and mumbled a few words the grass turned into a small dagger. He looked up and saw a bunch of smoke from where the screaming was. Melvin ran into the smoke and saw two men crouched down with their hands on their heads and a girl near the river throwing rocks at them. Melvin squinted and saw that one of the two guys was Von and the other was the man who was in the bubble.
Von took a brown stone from his pocket and squeezed it; a vortex of dirt flew towards the girl. The vortex went around her and she couldn’t move.
Melvin threw the dagger at Von, but the man behind him mumbled something and the weapon turned into grass again.
“Well, well, well, it is Kai’s apprentice. What your name again? Oh yes Smelvin,” Von said.
“How did you survive my spell? Did that goody-two-shoes Kai protect you?” Von asked.
“Why are you here?” Melvin asked “And who is this girl?” he added.
“We are tired of how life has been. So we are fixing it,” the man next to Von said.
“Who are you anyways?” Melvin asked.
The man frowned and said, “My name’s Van Hooten brother of Von Hooten, not at your service.”
“Were you trying to be funny?” Von asked Van, “This is important business we can’t joke around like some five-year-old in a team of good guys trying to save the world with their animals on their side!” Von scolded Van.
Von shut up and looked at Melvin; Von raised the brown stone and squeezed it. Melvin jumped out of the way, but there wasn’t a vortex, instead a bunch of rocks turned into a giant rock monster.
The rock monster picked Melvin up and threw him at the wall, than ran up and held Melvin in place.
“Finish him,” Von ordered his beast.
Melvin closed his eyes right as the creature’s fist headed towards him.
(To Be Continued)
