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Shadow Moonlight - Part 1

Clouds! So many clouds. Rippling through the skies as if a long sheet of silk swaying into the breeze. Jonathan could only hear the wind, the birds swinging as they flew with him, and his own breathing. "Now this. This is true tranquility," he would say. He then would close his eyes, take a deep breath, and soar without a care. He would shape the cotton colored puffs of moisture just the way he wanted, expressing his own type of art. He would dance a dance only the winged creatures of legend could as the sky was his ballroom.

Instantly the sound of "
Ruff!" shattered his peace, and his dream broke into many scattered and already forgotten memories. Jonathan awoke to see his small dog half proped upon his bed, panting rapidly with a site, coated heavily with drool, hanging from his mouth. Jonathan was a simple man, and quickly forgave the dog for he had not known any better. A rather skinny man, thin as thin could be but amazingly strong in magic. He wasn't looking forward to another day of school, but figured it was for the best that he went.

"Easy," Jonathan began, softly patting the dog upon the brow and stroking his fingers back along it's fur, "Go lay down for a while, I'll play later." The dog slowly creeped from the bed, putting his sob story in motion as he slinked away in an obvious unreal depression.

Jonathan then began to rise from his bed of leaves intertwined with brush and covered on both sides with linin, and stood to his full 5'9'' stature. He walked clumbsily as he did everyday, crashing into various wooden articles of his house. He would tell himself that it was a test of stability, and that he wasn't clumbsy, but instead wise to check on such minute things.

"Another day, Right Jon?" Jonathan began, gazing into the fountain of water he had constructed and filled himself. He grinned a moment, scratching behind his long elven ears before heading for his bedroom once more. Here he pulled out a few items he felt he should wear. "Today's the day we do our elemental testing. I'll find out what element works best with me, isn't that great boy?" He questioned the dog, expecting some kind of magical response. The dog merely tilted it's head and barked once. Jonathan smiled, "I guess that's the best you can do, eh?"

Jonathan had learned of a specific spell cast on dogs and other animals to grant the the ability to speak or at least mumble something that sounds like understandable language. Jonathan had tried this several times on his poor dog, but found that nothing seemed to work.


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Later, Jonathan approached his school. He stopped a moment to take in the full effect of the day that would come. A glance to the nailed-to-the-ground sign that read, "Lord Aeron's School of Elemental Magic." Jonathan had yet to meet Lord Aeron, but gathered he must be one of the few elves that were able to fully control all elemental magics and thus started an All Elemental Magic School. For now, Jonathan hadn't paid much attention to it, but now that he thinks back on it, there had been not one time he had ever seen the creator of the school he was going to graduate from.

"Jonathan!" His name sounded from behind him, and slowly Jonathan turned to gaze at the approaching figure of Kaelen Bright. "Whew, Jonathan. How are you? Ready for your test? What element do you think you're going to get? I think I'll get fire! I just love fire! Don't you? I think--"

"Slow down, slow down." Jonathan interruped, shaking his head at her blurted out questions. "I want Lightning, actually." He smiled softly and motioned for her to follow him to school, "Why do you like Fire so much?"

Kaelen smiled and sighed softly, "It's always warm when your baren and cold. Always Light when you're soul is dark. Always there from young to old. Fire always warms my heart." She then glanced over at Jonathan, who was smiling rather widely at her poetic phrases.

"I like that. Did you write that?" Jonathan asked slowly, watching his breath a moment as it floated passed in the cold air as they walked.


"Yep, I sure did. Isn't it beautiful? I love it! It's so, well war--"


An explosion interruped her ahead of them. Shockwaves rippling across the sky in waves of color. Jonathan and Kaelen both widened their eyes in disbelief. Quickly, they dropped their books and dashed for towards the source.