War of Wizardry

THE EXPLOSION

Circe and Felixa

Once, in a faraway land called Anatrichiastikí Gi lived Circe and Felixa, two very evil witches, with their pet ghoul, Rodvelus. Circe loved brewing up all combinations of potion ingredients whereas Felixa had a hobby of making the worst spells one could think of.

 

Once as Circe was making a potion muttering, ‘Crushed root of banyan tree… skin of three year old dead snake collected at Two fifty two a.m. at night… powdered root of palm mixed with an infusion of oakwood… plus three quarters of a bezoar mixed with centaur blood…’, when Felixa messed up in one of her spells, pointed her wand straight at the cauldron and screamed,’ succendam usque despumat aeni’ which blew up the potion.

 

This was a very strong potion, as Circe had added extra centaur blood, which was very harmful. Felixa and Circe mounted their brooms along with Rodvelus and evacuated.

 

The house blew up a nanosecond later.

 

‘You are such an idiot!’ exclaimed Circe.

‘You didn’t have to put extra centaur blood!’ screamed Felixa.

‘But you blew it up!’

‘What was that potion for?’

‘It was for unconsciousness.’

‘But you added extra centaur blood!’

‘Which means it could kill!’

‘This is the best day of my life! How big was the cauldron?’

‘Size eight.’

‘That could kill all the people of the country!’

‘Hahaha’

 

Felixa and Circe flew off.

 

DREAMS COME TRUE

Lucas

Lucas was an eleven-year-old boy, with yellow hair and great intelligence. He was in grade 6. He was always top in his class, a great big ‘nerd’ as people called him. But despite all this, he had a dream… of magic coming true and himself becoming a wizard.

He had two best friends in class, named Malcolm and Chloe. Out of them, Malcolm was all into fun, he was a great jester of the class, and he was a big foodie. Chloe, on the other hand, was very kind, thoughtful, and was always helpful in studies. She was thin, always wore yellow, and just hated dark colours.

Once, on just another normal school day, there was a whoosh of green wind outside their school. Lucas was the only one interested in it.

When, he heard a voice whispering…

‘Lucas Davis, Chloe Revira, and Malcolm Hendrix… come to me… human flesh… aah sounds good…

A millisecond later, a guy wearing a dark green coat and dark green jeans and a dark green tie and a dark green belt came to them. ‘Davis, Revira, Hendrix, we have to get out of here. C and F have already done something. I will take you all to safety. I’ll explain there.’

Lucas had learnt not to talk to strangers, because once his older sister Amaira had been kidnapped. But this seemed like an emergency, so they went.

The four went out of school and the guy held their hand and snapped his fingers. 

Imagine you are on a roller coaster which keeps on repeating. Now imagine the speed multiplied by hundred. This is what Lucas felt.

They reached a place with many tents planted all around, and in the middle, a really big tent.

The guy screamed ‘I have brought Lucas Davis to camp. Recognisation process is to be done!’

A tall man, about three times Lucas’ size, wore a red pointed hat, a red wizard’s cloak, holding a wand walked toward them. Somebody behind him in the same outfit, but black, came carrying a refrigerator that was like, really huge. The guy in dark green said ‘They will place the Recognisation Box on you three and that will prove if this is really you. Don’t be scared. It’s nothing.’

They placed the refrigerator on them. It felt really comfortable inside. The three stood for what seemed like an hour but was five minutes, and the door to the refrigerator opened. A familiar looking girl came running to Lucas.

‘Lucas!’ she screamed.

‘Amaira’, said Lucas, ‘After all this time?’

‘Always.’

Amaira, who before was a little managed girl who was very sensitive, had now become much cooler. Her hair was much longer than that of before, and it was all messed up. She now wore a black cloak, with a silver badge pinned on her chest; she also wore a silver tiara, and held a stick which looked like was made of oak. She hugged Lucas, then Malcolm and then Chloe.

‘Lucas’, she said, ‘You’re a wizard bro.’

FLUKE UP FIRST CLASS

 Lucas

Amaira showed Lucas, Malcolm and Chloe around the Camp. Each tent was of different activities and classes, like Meditation, Duelling, Potions, Chanting, Transformation, Mind’s Magic, Spell-a-thon and Value Education. There was a row of about a hundred or more tents surrounding and all about the Camp. Amaira had said that about five people could sit in one tent, because a maximizing charm had been used inside. It was very interesting. Amaira also said that Lucas, Malcolm and Chloe would be sharing a tent with her and her friend Amelia. Lessons began immediately. There were basics of duelling and charms, taught by Ferrgrid Matuer and Berryl Siona respectively. In Duelling, Professor Matuer taught them the basics of the disarming charm, Inermem possidebit, the knockback charm, Vi magnis dis, the tickling charm and the rope conjuring charm, Titillationem and sýllipsi schoinión respectively, and the petrification charm, Apolithoméno. Lucas was made to duel this big bully of Camp named Charlie. 

Professor Matuer said ‘On my count of three, both of you will cast your charms! One… Two… Three!’

As Amaira had expected, Lucas drew his new bamboo wand and yelled ‘Titillationem!’. 

A huge bunch of ropes burst out of Lucas’ wand. They wrapped themselves around Charlie, when Lucas shouted ‘Vi magnis dis!’

Charlie was knocked all the way back. Cheers erupted from the crowd. Lucas had succeeded in defeating Charlie, by fluke.

THE BEGINNING OF WAR

Chloe

The Dark Green guy (they figured his name was Noah) came running into the Main Tent, where Chloe was talking to the Camp Chief, Adrian Bargson. Noah whispered something in his ear, and Adrian said ‘Prepare the camp. If C and F are coming to attack, make sure all beginners are safe. Keep the higher teens like Amaira, Amelia, Josiah, Aiden, Carlos and Justin to guard. Put protections, potion shields and enchantments to delay them. Also keep reinforcements ready and have all our adult beasts to go into war.’ 

‘What’s the problem sir’, asked Chloe.

‘Two evil witches, Circe and Felixa are planning war on our camp’ 

Chloe gasped. Adrian continued: ‘ They have killed half the country already and are planning to destroy us before we stop them. Save yourselves Chloe. Tell everybody in the tents on the right side to leave and go to the Back Camp and-’

‘What’s that?’

‘ A safe place where all of the campers stay during war. Circe and Felixa have already fought with us thrice and have failed, but killed most of our campers. Go! Warn everyone to leave! We shall not let any of our campers die this time.’

Chloe ran out of the main tent and went to Lucas. She told him everything Adrian had said, and Lucas’ reaction was: ‘Oh no.’

Everybody packed up as they started leaving camp. Chloe went out of the tent. Noah and the other advanced-level campers like Amaira were putting protective enchantments (though advanced, Chloe had learnt it. The incantation was defendat with the movement ‘up, left, swish circle, down.) 

Chloe thought, maybe she could stay and defend the camp. She didn’t mind making a sacrifice for such a place. 

She went to Lucas, who was just talking to Malcolm. 

‘I’m planning to stay’, she said, ‘I’m gonna fight for the camp, may I be underage or a beginner.’

‘We were just planning that!’ exclaimed Lucas, ‘I am definitely going to help Amaira and finish Circe and Felixa!’

‘Me too’, said Malcolm, ‘I searched up these two witches in the oldest wizarding books and I have amazing pranks to play on Felixa.’

As the three of them went out, Amelia and Justin released all magical animals, Chimaeras, Yetis, Rhinosaurs (Dinosaur/Rhino) and all other weird beasts. 

Just then, a pale ghoul came in front of Camp, with an army. 

Of Zombies.

Rodvelus had attacked.

THE INITIAL DEATH

Carlos

Zombies charged from one side, Campers from another. All the Campers were continuously shouting curses from all sides, as the Zombies spat poison on the campers, who were trying to survive.

Carlos looked at the battle as he charged. Amelia and Amaira together took down six zombies at once, while Josiah and Justin stood back to back destroying as many zombies as possible (they might have already killed one-fourth the zombie population), Mario rode rhinosaurs into battle while Frank fought at the yetis’ side. The three beginners, Lucas, Malcolm and Chloe also fought pretty well as each of them duelled a group of zombies at once. ‘Exitium Ignis!’ he screamed as he shot a meteor sized fireball at the zombies, destroying most of them. He saw Aiden using the four elemental attacks on them, and Kian hypnotizing them using his amazing hypno-string and getting the zombies kill their own species. All of them were fighting pretty well, even Carlos himself when a zombie caught hold of one of the campers by the neck. Carlos couldn’t see who it was as it was pretty blurry then as he shot a curse at the zombie who was killing the camper. 

The curse shot the zombie down, but another person fell too, as all the other campers ran to the fallen camper.

Carlos ran to see what had happened, seeing Amaira crying kneeling down, as the lifeless body of Amelia Kenara lay still on the ground, with her wand in her hand, sinking into the depths of death.

REVENGE FOR AMELIA

Malcolm

‘AMELIA!’ screamed Amaira shaking Amelia’s body, ‘NO! NO! AMELIA! This can’t be happening! Amelia, no!’

She stood up, as her tears went down her cheeks.

‘I swear that I will take revenge for Amelia. I will destroy those witches if they plan to do any harm to any of my friends!’, she said.

As a few campers took Amelia’s body away, Amaira charged into battle, using some of the worst curses ever. She duelled large groups of zombies at once destroying hundreds of them.

Malcolm and Justin charged at Rodvelus himself, but nothing happened as they just slashed swords through his body. 

Just then, thunder rumbled across the sky.

‘What?’ exclaimed Lucas, ‘It was like, so sunny a millisecond ago!’

The thunder was followed by a high pitched cackle.

Circe, thought Malcolm. 

A bolt of lightning struck the ground, and made a symbol like an X made of swords which carried blood. 

Malcolm took a rhinosaur and said, ‘Guys, I have an idea. But for that I need a nice big layer of elemental enchantments all over the place. And also-’ He pointed his wand at the rhinosaur, ‘Alae animali pati’ The rhinosaur got wings. And Malcolm flew off. 

He went as high as he could into the sky. He saw Circe and Felixa on their brooms, enjoying what was happening down there like a movie. He then pulled a rope out of his pocket, slowly flew behind Circe and tied one end of the rope to her broom and the other end to Felixa’s. He then went all the way down to camp and came back with Lucas on another flying Rhinosaur. 

Malcolm whistled. Circe and Felixa turned around, seeing Malcolm and Lucas.     

‘Campers!’, Circe screamed ‘Feli, you get the one in green, I’ll get the taller one.’

Circe, who was sitting on her broom zoomed towards Malcolm, as he tried to run away, as Felixa did with Lucas. Both of them flew for a great distance and soon enough, the rope pulled them back as they banged into each other.

Malcolm and Lucas burst out laughing.

‘You rascal!’, screamed Felixa. She cut the rope and Circe and Felixa chased them all the way down to Camp. 

Lucas and Malcolm went through the elemental borders.

Circe and Felixa had a surprise waiting. 

As soon as the reached close to Camp, a spark of fire, the first element, hit Circe’s broom, which erupted and burnt, as she fell from the sky. 

At the same time, a jet of water, the second element, splashed into Felixa’s face, making her vision all blurry. 

Then, earth, the third element, went two ways. A group of large rocks banged Felixa and broke her broom, where as it splashed mud into Circe’s eyes.

‘Ha!’ said Malcolm as all the Campers were watching and laughing. ‘Now wait for wind to do the honours.’

And like he said, wind, the fourth element pushed them fifty feet up in the sky and then just left them falling into the camp.

Now any non-magical person would have died falling from such a height, but Circe and Felixa were witches, so they didn’t die but got really badly injured.

‘AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! MY EYES!’ screamed Circe.

‘You deserved it.’ said Amaira, walking in from behind. ‘Now everyone, we shall give them a painful death, for all they have done. Let us make an energy orb.’

Every single camper there, even Adrian, looked at Amaira in awe. She then said ‘Cast all the duelling charms and curses you can think of. Then we blast it at them.’ 

Felixa tried to cast a spell at them, but her wrists were broken. ‘N-n-n-n-n-n-no y-y-y-y-y-yyou ca-n-n-n-not -d-d-do this t-t-t-to us’ she stammered. 

‘Oh really?’ said Mario, ‘After all the things you have done to us? Thrice?’

‘And all the times you have been merciless to our campers’, said Josiah ‘I was there Felixa, seeing all my best friends getting killed by the both of you.’

‘How can you expect us to be merciful to you? Josiah is right.’ said Aiden.

Adrian took his wand and pointed it at a crystal orb. He cast a spell in his mind and said ‘Fill it’.

Every single one of the campers filled it with the worst curses they knew, and most of them even cast the killing curse. Then Lucas, Malcolm, and Chloe gave in all the duelling Charms they had learnt, and even Charlie helped them. In the end, when they were about to blast the orb at them Adrian said, ‘Wait. We don’t want their ruins at camp and hence I shall also cast an immediate decomposition spell to decompose them after they die.’

He cast the spell and then, every single camper put their hands on the Energy Orb and threw it on Circe and Felixa, who were just lying in a heap. 

The orb broke, and a flash of about fifty-thousand spells blasted on them, as Circe and Felixa screamed, their bodies decomposing away.

The Camp was safe. Sunlight had come back. The rest of the campers had returned from Back Camp. 

Lucas hugged Amaira, and then went to his tent with Malcolm and Chloe as the three of them slept after all that hard work.

THE END

PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

Circe: Sir-see

Succendamusque despumataeni: Suk-en-dum-us-kyoo disp-yu-maat-ainee

Revira: Rev-eye-raa

Matuer: Ma-choo-uh

 Inermem possidebit: In-uhr-mem pos-ee-dibit

Titillationem: Thee-thill-aa-tio-nem

 Sýllipsi schoinión: Si-lip-see scon-ee-on

 Apolithoméno: Aa-po-lith-o-may-no

Defendat :Dai-fen-daath

Exitium Ignis: Eggz-ith-ee-um Ig-nis

Alae animali pati: Aa-lay aa-nee-ma-lee pa-tee