am a special magical creature. I come from the island of Avalon, at least my parent does. They run this place called Avalon by what I have learned about them. I like many adopted children have two families. The family that raised and the family that I came from, the family I came from is very old and has many children. All the magical chartators that are legand and truth are my brothers or sisters. I was raised in a clan of gargoyles.
What are gargoyles? That is an wasy answer but hard to understand. Yes, we are found on castles. We protect the castles is a job that we have. We are different looking from one another. We may look like someone else but maybe a different color. One may be green or yellow or whatever color in the world you can think of. We may be different shade of a color. We can be shades of green, yellow, blue, or whatever color. We can tell each other apart very easily.
Some of us may have names like a guy I think I may have been in love with. He is in my clan and is named Gothlic. He is the leader of the clan. I am no longer with my clan because I learn of my true family.
It was a nice night. We are only awake during the time. I was on guard duty that night I left the clan. It was my turn and it is and was a night that I will never forget. I meet my real mother. In the clans, we don't know who our parents are, that is because it has always been that way. I meet Lady Tantana, Queen of Avalon, and mother of all magical charter with magic in them. I learned she was my mother throught my teacher.
"My dear child, I have come to tell you something. I am here to tell you what your true mission is, she told me.
"My true mission?! What do you mean?"
"Your life purpose. It is very special."
"Come with me and I will tell you everything."
"I can't. I am on guard duty and if I go I will be punish very harshly."
"Trust me you will never be punish for this."
"How do you know?"
"I know you future. Later I can tell you how I know it."
I didn't know if I should have trust her. She seemed to want me to go with her, but I can't. I have to warn when an attack by the evil Vikings would come. They attack the night before she came to me. I didn't know what to do at that time.
"I know you are beside yourself with this major desion like this. You must learn to trust me. Please just trust me." she was trying to help make the desion that would change my life.
"I just don't know. I just don't know."
"Just trust me. Trust me!!!!"
I made a leap of faith. I went with her. I don't know why at the time. I really trust her. Why did I trust is still a mystery to me? It may have be the fact that she was my mother and had the great magic is waht I thought later.
We walk to a lake. I was becoming nerves about leaving my friend and my only family. She could see in my face that I was worried about them. She smiles warmly and grabs my hand and said, "I will help you feel better about leaving this world."
"What do you mean leaving this world? I asked. "I thought you were going to tell me about my true purpose."
She just smiled and she began to wave her hand and said these weird word, "Suiming. Iundujf Iufhfngl idheifhfgulaej."
To me they make no sense at that time. Where they really word or were they just craziness? I don't know. I just know that the next thing was I remember was she said next to me was. "Don't worry. I was a spell in which will protect them. I know you don't understand the words but they will someday come very clear to you."
I then saw a boat come as if from nowhere. It was moving very slowly. It fondly came to the shore. I saw a beautiful young woman with blond hair. She was like nothing I have every seen before or since. The young women look at me and made a face as if she saw something in which she really didn't like. She than look at the other women. Her face by what I could tell had the question. 'Why?'? Why was what I couldn't make out? My own question was also why. Why me? Why would this girl make that awful face to me? What did this weird lady want from me?
"Please get on the boat, the first lady said to me.
"Are you not coming? I had to ask.
"NO!! I cannot. You must get on the boat. She said quickly as jackrabbit.
"Alright, I will go with her."
"Come we will train you for you true propose." the young beautiful women said. "Again with this stuff about the my TRUE PURPOSE."
They both look at me. I think they know that I was getting very anger about what they were saying about my true purpose was.
"You will find that out soon enough." my mother had said.
"Please hurry up it is almost time for the sun to raise, said the young lady. "You will turn to stone, soon."
I got in the boat and it began to move. The journey was on the quit side. I didn't say anything. The young women didn't either. She was just driving the boat. We went into a mist. The mist like the boat had seemed to come out of nowhere after she said some words. I really didn't hear the words.
It must have been the next night because I had to break out of the shell of old skin. The skin is made of rock. I began to look around. I could not understand where I was. I was looking around trying to make sense of everything. The thought came into my head; I was in a different place. I was not at the castle in which I grew up. Where was I? Where was the beautiful young blond woman?
"You have awakened from your sleep. I heard from someone behind me.
"Yes, why do you ask? I asked. It was the same voice from the boat. Can you see that I am awake?"
"I just ask the question. I don't need questions from you. And look at what I have to work with."
"What do you mean?"
"Oh, nothing." she said that as if it was really something.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
She was looking at me as if I was a piece of meat. Like I was something in which come to her for her grand help.
"We have to change you into something... more... workable. Yes that is it. I know what to do. She began to circle me and looked me up and down, sideway, and crossways.
Then I said, What are you doing?"
"Trust me!" she gave a cocky little smile and then giggled.
"What is it with the TWO WORDS 'trust me'? First it was the other lady and now you."
She was still circling. She had paid me no attention about what I was saying. She began to say some very weird. "Bat wings, devil's breath, human is what will be left."
After she said the words, a weird circling cloud was around me. It was purple, and was growing faster. Then it was gone and then she screamed, "OH NO!!!!!!"
"What did you do? I asked with great excitement.
"I have to say the spell in Avalonan, she said without even saying a word to me. Then she began to say even more words. "Undye, getada, lettoiin ge no."
Another cloud began going around. This time the cloud was the color of green. It was just circling as the first one had done. When the cloud stops, she yelled, "YES! YES! YES!"
"What did you do to me? Why did you do that beside making me more workable as you said?" I asked.
"Questions, questions, questions is that all you have to say, she said.
"What does that mean?" I asked.
"See, see, more question you ask Me." she said. "Let us go. I have much to say to you. You have much to learn about this world and about who you are. How to use the gifts in which you have been giving. You will be amazed by what you will learn."
"Alright." I was questioning but had to get along with what she was saying. "I do have one question for you."
"What is the question? I can answer anything you want me to.
"What is your name? That is my question." I asked simply.
"My name is Rio. The Rio Grand was named after me. This is not important." Rio answered my question.
"Why is it not important?"
"That is another question!!" she had yelled
"Well your answer gave me another question." I said with all my heart.
"You only asked for one question, she informed me. "We have a lot of work to do. I really don't want to be answering question all day. You have a lot of learning to do before you are ready.
"Ready??? Ready for what???"
"NO MORE Questions!!!!!!!" she said. "You look tired."
"No I am not." I yawned.
"See."
"All right."
"Come with me. I will take you to a nice room."
"Thank you. Thank you very much."
They walked up from the shoreline to a beautiful castle. The castle was very big and it seemed like no one had lived in that castle for many years. As we got closer and closer to the castle I had a weird feeling. I had a feeling that I was finally home. This had no looked like the castle I had came from. It was different but more at home. I knew that I was never here. Never on this island. Why? was one of the main questions that I asked my self. WHY? was the major thought.
We walked up the drawbridge to the castle and it all of the sudden it came down all of the sudden. As if some one had been told that we were there and to drop it at that moment. She shows me to a room. The room was a beutiful room. It had green draps with golden tye backs. The bed look and fet so soft. It was made of goose fethers. I fell a sleep.
That was the began of my new life. A life in which at first was forein but slowly being a major part of my life. I learn about my parents, about what my brothers and sister, and every thing else about my new world. I learn many magic spells. Spells that have helped me many times. I, at the moment my training, was done but still didn't know what my "True Purpose" was till one fufil day.
"Rio, can I asked you some thing?"
"Of course." she said. "What is it?"
"What is my 'true purpose'? You still have not told me what it is."
"Your right. You were sent to get to know the clan you were raised with. This is because a grand child will be born. A child in which need you to protection it."
"Why can't I learn of my past before I was sent into the other world?"
"Because all the children of Avalon and our mother were sent from here because she angered our father, Lord Overon."
"How did she and the children do that?"
"I can't say"
"Why not?"
"It was must be keep a secret. That is all I can tell you."
"It must be like the magic. Where it come from. Right."
"Yes, your are right about that." She said. "But is one of the major questions everyone has. It is like the question who am I."
"Your right."
I learned that day what it was and to me it seemed like a good idea. A few days later, it was days later in which I had to do my purpose. It started as any other normal day. Rio come up to me that day and said, "The world has changed since you first came here. One day here is like weeks, months, or even years in the other world. So as I said the world has changed from what it was."
"It must be time for me to go. Right?" she only nodded her head as I went on. "So you are saying that I must be ready?"
"You are more than ready for your job. You should be. I trained you. So you must be ready."
"So what must I learn.
"You must learn how to live as a human in that world. You already know how to be a gargoyle. You live in that form for many of your years on that world."
"I understand. What do I need to know?"
She said, "I can't tell you everything. You must use your power of time. You are one of the few of us children who has that power. It will tell you everything. Trust me. You have up to this point."
"All right here goes. Time from the past, Time from the future, Time from the present. Show me what has happened since I leaved the world of morals. Daydaytoday."
I hoped that I remember the spell. When a big pink cloud come around me I knew I did at least some kind of spell. I didn't know which it really was. My mind began to fill with all this information, times, days, and places that had happen. All these events that has shaped the world to be a different place since i had left it. I saw these knew things called cars being invented, I saw computer, and every singular invented thing out there. After the pink smoke disappear, I smile, and I knew that it had worked. I knew everything that had happened. I began to feel like a new person in my old body.
"You did it!!!!!!" She yell withso much exicement
"I know everything that has happened in that world. The world that I leaved behind to come here. The world that was really my home. The world in which I was a part of for a long time."
She said to me before I could go on with more details, "I knew it would work. You trusted me. It is time for us to see this new world."
"Can I say the magic spell to get us there?"
"Of course you can."
We had gotten on the boat. I began to say the words. I can't tell you because any being can go here with these magic words. You don't need magic to use these. We, as children of Avalon, loves to use this spell because it is easy for us to remember. We could say the one in which we need magic for but it not as fun to use.
The mist as it had before when I got here in the beginning.
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