About a half an hour ago, we got back from Durand Eastman Park. We went on a hike around the Eastman Lake and saw swans and ducks with their babies, herons, huge spiders, and lots of mushrooms. One was bright orange. I thought tha they looked neat.
Tomorrow is my last day of freedom, and then on wednesday, I have to get up at 6:30 so that I can get to my 8:00 class. I want to get there early so that I can go to the book store and get myy last book for my Mythology class. It wasn't ther ethe last time that I was there, so now I have to get it when everyone else is there. I hope that I get to see my friends there in between classes. Well I know that I get to see Leah in my science and spanish class, but I also get to see Sara in my spanish class as well. Maybe I will see other peole that I have seen in my previous classes.
I think that I will go to the library tomorrow because I want to get more books and movies. I am going to be a bit bummed out because I won't be able to read as many books as I normally have done this summer because I have all of this school stuff to read. But I suppose that the only good thing about going to school is that I get to see my friends, my tv shows are back on, I get to sing for church, and I get to ride horses on fridays.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Textbook Madness!
I went and got my psychology book yesterday, and I swear that I am going to fall over this semester. It is so huge that I can just barely carry it by itself. It is ridiculously large. Good thing that I have that class first and that I have a locker to put it in, otherwise I think that I would have to build up muscle to carry it, or put it in the car when I am done. My geography class has two text books of some size and my spanish books match in size. Th eonly small books I have are for mythology and I only have one of them. I suppose that I will live, but we will see.
Monday, August 27, 2007
King of New York
I’M THE KING OF NEW YORK
MUSH:
A pair of new shoes with matchin' laces!
RACETRACK:
A permanent box at Sheepshead races!
SPOT CONLON:
A porcelain tub with boilin' water!
KID BLINK:
A Saturday night with the mayor's daughter!
RACETRACK:
Look at me
I'm the king of New York
Suddenly
I'm respectable
Starin' right at 'cha
Lousy with stature
JACK:
Nobbin' with all the muckety-mucks
I'm blowin' my dough and goin' deluxe
RACETRACK:
And there I be
Ain't I pretty?
RACETRACK and JACK:
It's my city
I'm the king of New York!
BOOTS:
A corduroy suit with fitted knickers
LES:
A mezzanine seat to see the flickers
SNIPESHOOTER:
Havana cigars that cost a quarter
DAVID:
An editor's desk for the star reporter
NEWSIES:
Tip your hat
He's the king of New York
DENTON:
How 'bout that!
I'm the king of New York
NEWSIES:
In nothing flat
He'll be covering
Brooklyn to Trenton
Our man Denton
KID BLINK:
Makin' a headline out of a hunch
DENTON:
Protecting the weak
RACETRACK:
And payin' for lunch
DENTON:
When I'm at bat
Strong men crumble
RACETRACK:
Proud yet humble
RACETRACK and DENTON:
I'm (He's) the king of New York
ALL:
I gotta be either dead or dreamin'
'Cause look at that pape with my face beamin'
Tomorrow they may wrap fishes in it
But I was a star for one whole minute
Startin' now
I'm the king of New York
DENTON:
Ain't ya heard?
I'm the king of New York
ALL:
Holy cow
It's miracle
Pulitzer's cryin'
Weasel, he's dyin'
Flashpots are shootin' bright as the sun
I'm one highfalutin' son-of-a-gun
Don't ask me how
Fortune found me
Fate just crowned me
Now I'm king of New York
Look and see
Once a piker
Now a striker
I'm the king of New York
Victory!
Front page story
Guts and glory
I'm the king of New York!
We followed the goddess though we weren’t sure of what we thought of her. But even as we followed her, I felt this gnawing presence. I didn’t know what it was, but it was close.
Gebri didn’t think much of living. The cave was atrocious, not a clean spot in sight.
“Griffen a light,” Kalob said. Griffen followed behind the goddess leading us with his light. Deep within the cave we found Gebri muttering spells over the obcedian block. A light shot out of the goddess’s hand and hit Gebri’s shoulder.
“I think that I’ll take that,” the goddess said.
“My lady,” Gebri said, almost pleasantly, as he stood up, “One such as yourself must have better manners then to throw a gentleman against the wall,”
“You are not a gentleman father. You broke my mother’s heart with your greediness. Now you want to destroy everything I know. I can’t let you do that,” the goddess held her hand up to silence me.
“Yes a lady would be kind, but as you see, I am a goddess and we are not always ladies. You have someone who should have been destroyed a long time ago. If you hand him over, you will be let go,”
Gebri spat, “ You don’t think I know that as soon as you killed my master I will die too? Oh I have thought of ways to do this so that I can have all the power, but with a binding spell it won’t work,”
“Does it really matter?” the goddess said flicking a fire ball at him. But Gebri ducked behind a rock.
“Once, my master returns you will think twice before you do that,”
“Look,” said Mathyus. The Obcedian block was growing. A head began to appear with a bulbous nose.
“My master returns,” Gebri cackled. The goddess created an energy force field to keep Garados from becoming human.
“You must rebind him to the block before the force field is gone,” the goddess said to us. “Hurry! I can only hold it so long,”
WE stood in a pentagon around the block. Concentrating we lit up our crystals and created a light trail, connecting our crystals with love and light. But as hard as we tried, nothing wold keep Garados in the block. An arm and then the left foot grew out of block.
“We’ve got to try hard,” Jess said. But Garados’s life force overtook us. There was a crack and I was repelled backwards, hitting my head against a rock. I blacked out.
PART 6
“Where am I?” I mumbled. “ What the hell happened? Where is Garados?” I said nearly shouting.
“I’m right here,” the voice sent shivers up my spine. My hairs stood on end. “You should never try a binding spell when only part of you magic is intact,” Garados said smoothly. I shook my head groggily. As I opened my eyes, I saw the inside of the cave. Garados stooped in front of me. I tried to tear him from limb to limb, but my body wouldn’t move.
“I do love having power. Tell me Kel how does it feel to lose,” I spat at him. “ Fine, act like an animal. It will only keep you here longer,” Garados left. Once gone, the magical restraints were lifted. I slid to the floor of the cave.
My head hurt. I had gouges cut out of my arms and legs. My back was scrapped from the rocks when I slid down, and I think that I broke a finger or two. But even though I was wounded, I managed to survey my surroundings.
Garados left me where I fell. The boys and the goddess had disappeared. But Gebri was still around, watching me from another cavern entrance. Apparently that wasn’t good enough because he had to come over and harass me with his taunts.
“I told you that failure was in your future. You are just like you mother Kel. simply irresistible, but not strong enough,” he said grabbing my chin until I yanked away. “ She tried to so the same thing to my master long ago, but he escaped. My master is more powerful than the other wizards that she eradicated,”
“How you dare talk about my mother like that,” I went to shove hi over, but he just flicked his finger and I was paralyzed. After awhile he let me down. This time I would use my power. I reached down to grasp the crystal but it wasn’t there. Gebri cackled gleefully.
“No crystal for you,” and he left, his laughter echoing off the walls. I was left seething in my anger.
*
I was at the point where I couldn’t feel the presence of my friends or my mother. But I did feel a newer one. It was a different one then I ever felt before.
“You have more power then your mother,” I heard in my head. “But it looks as if you are caught Kel, daughter of angel Lessionia,”
“Who are you?” I asked in my head.
“Just someone who has your best interests in mind,” he replied.
“A name would be nicer,”
“Informality is much better though. Now if I help you escape, you must do something for me,”
“If I have to give you Garados for it, forget it,”
“Ah, so you’ve heard it from Lessionia?”
“No, it is running through your head. ‘Does she know about Lesionia and I? The attack on the house? My plans for Garados?’”
“You are definitely stronger than your mother,”
“Now if you don’t mind, I would like you to leave my brain. I will think of a way to escape on my own,”
“I’m sure you will,” and then he was gone.
“Oh, Gebri,” I called. His head popped up from behind a rock. “Someone know where you are,” I taunted.
“How do you know?” he asked picking up the front of my shirt.
“That’s enough Gebri,” said Garados after Gebri slapped me for not answering. “If she is not ready to tell, we will just give her some time,” said Garados but much too smoothly. He walked over to the far side of the cave. He made the walls clear. a deep pit with no bottom was visible, and my friends were about to plummet down through,”
My words spilt out so fast that I could barely understand them.
“I don’t know who he was, but he knew my mother and he wants you Garados,”
“Well that buys you and your friends some time,”
“Why aren't they awake?”
“Once they were asleep it was much easier to take their crystals. Now that I have five, all of you can watch me change the world,”
“You monster!” I screamed. I pulled on the magical bonds holding me. “ I will not let you do that!” Slowly I moved forward.
“Impossible! You shouldn’t be able to move at all,” Grinding my teeth, i continued to push forward. I thought about all the people I loved; my Mother, Grandfather, Jess, Griffen, Mathyus, Kalob, and yes Horitori too. I wasn’t going to just let them die. My heart over flowed with love and light that I began to overcome Garados’s magic.
“This should be impossible! It’s inconceivable! No one could have the power to do this except....,” Garados said astonished.
In a flash my mother showed up. “Yes Garados, my daughter, Kel, is the one of the prophecy. The one of angel, elf, and man. One who has the power to eradicate all evil. Your time has come,”
I closed my eyes and in that instance, I saw myself when I was little. It was at Grandfather’s house. My mother and father were chasing me around the yard. Grandma was in the garden picking strawberries. I ran behind her skirts.
“You can’t get me now,” I giggled. My father came at me, picking me up. He twirled around once. I had my hands outstretched. I giggled some more. My father brought me down. I hugged him, my arms around his neck.
“I love you daddy,”
“ I love you daddy,” tears rolled down my face as I gave one more push. Garados was gone.
Falling to my knees, I hit the floor. “Father,” I called. Gebri laid sprawled on the floor. He clutched his chest. My mother hovered over him. He motioned for me.
“Lessionia, I never meant to hurt you. Garados’s hold was so strong, I...,”
“Shhh,” my mother said kissing him after. “It doesn’t matter now. Her tears fell to his chest.
“My baby girl,” my father said, taking hold of my hand. “ I never stopped thinking about you. Now you’re all grown up and beautiful,”
“I love you daddy,” he closed his eyes and I cried.
*
Part of me died that night in the cave. I never realized that my mother had left my side to help my friends. All I could do was sob for the father that I never had. Garados was gone, but nothing made since anymore.
I drifted on a plane of existence, never in one for any length of time. Nothing kept me in place. Briefly I would see my friends in and out of the plane, but soon they disappeared and only my mother was left.
I had a dream about her and that a man came to here offering her the ability to go back heaven, but she declined saying that she would stay on earth. That same man came to me. He presence was the exact same presence as in the cave.
“I realized that I was wrong for harming you and your mother. I did not believe that such a prophecy existed,”
“I forgive you,” I whispered. He came out of the shadows of my dreams. I saw his face, as a high angel; Caron. He bowed at me, right arm clenched in a fist over his heart. He took to the sky and disappeared.
*
“Kel,” someone whispered. My eyelids fluttered open to see Jess’s radiant face.
“Jess,” he laid down next to me. We didn’t say anything at first, but his arms around me made me feel secure. I snuggled up next to him knowing that everything was okay and a kiss made my hear realize that too.
THE END
Gebri didn’t think much of living. The cave was atrocious, not a clean spot in sight.
“Griffen a light,” Kalob said. Griffen followed behind the goddess leading us with his light. Deep within the cave we found Gebri muttering spells over the obcedian block. A light shot out of the goddess’s hand and hit Gebri’s shoulder.
“I think that I’ll take that,” the goddess said.
“My lady,” Gebri said, almost pleasantly, as he stood up, “One such as yourself must have better manners then to throw a gentleman against the wall,”
“You are not a gentleman father. You broke my mother’s heart with your greediness. Now you want to destroy everything I know. I can’t let you do that,” the goddess held her hand up to silence me.
“Yes a lady would be kind, but as you see, I am a goddess and we are not always ladies. You have someone who should have been destroyed a long time ago. If you hand him over, you will be let go,”
Gebri spat, “ You don’t think I know that as soon as you killed my master I will die too? Oh I have thought of ways to do this so that I can have all the power, but with a binding spell it won’t work,”
“Does it really matter?” the goddess said flicking a fire ball at him. But Gebri ducked behind a rock.
“Once, my master returns you will think twice before you do that,”
“Look,” said Mathyus. The Obcedian block was growing. A head began to appear with a bulbous nose.
“My master returns,” Gebri cackled. The goddess created an energy force field to keep Garados from becoming human.
“You must rebind him to the block before the force field is gone,” the goddess said to us. “Hurry! I can only hold it so long,”
WE stood in a pentagon around the block. Concentrating we lit up our crystals and created a light trail, connecting our crystals with love and light. But as hard as we tried, nothing wold keep Garados in the block. An arm and then the left foot grew out of block.
“We’ve got to try hard,” Jess said. But Garados’s life force overtook us. There was a crack and I was repelled backwards, hitting my head against a rock. I blacked out.
PART 6
“Where am I?” I mumbled. “ What the hell happened? Where is Garados?” I said nearly shouting.
“I’m right here,” the voice sent shivers up my spine. My hairs stood on end. “You should never try a binding spell when only part of you magic is intact,” Garados said smoothly. I shook my head groggily. As I opened my eyes, I saw the inside of the cave. Garados stooped in front of me. I tried to tear him from limb to limb, but my body wouldn’t move.
“I do love having power. Tell me Kel how does it feel to lose,” I spat at him. “ Fine, act like an animal. It will only keep you here longer,” Garados left. Once gone, the magical restraints were lifted. I slid to the floor of the cave.
My head hurt. I had gouges cut out of my arms and legs. My back was scrapped from the rocks when I slid down, and I think that I broke a finger or two. But even though I was wounded, I managed to survey my surroundings.
Garados left me where I fell. The boys and the goddess had disappeared. But Gebri was still around, watching me from another cavern entrance. Apparently that wasn’t good enough because he had to come over and harass me with his taunts.
“I told you that failure was in your future. You are just like you mother Kel. simply irresistible, but not strong enough,” he said grabbing my chin until I yanked away. “ She tried to so the same thing to my master long ago, but he escaped. My master is more powerful than the other wizards that she eradicated,”
“How you dare talk about my mother like that,” I went to shove hi over, but he just flicked his finger and I was paralyzed. After awhile he let me down. This time I would use my power. I reached down to grasp the crystal but it wasn’t there. Gebri cackled gleefully.
“No crystal for you,” and he left, his laughter echoing off the walls. I was left seething in my anger.
*
I was at the point where I couldn’t feel the presence of my friends or my mother. But I did feel a newer one. It was a different one then I ever felt before.
“You have more power then your mother,” I heard in my head. “But it looks as if you are caught Kel, daughter of angel Lessionia,”
“Who are you?” I asked in my head.
“Just someone who has your best interests in mind,” he replied.
“A name would be nicer,”
“Informality is much better though. Now if I help you escape, you must do something for me,”
“If I have to give you Garados for it, forget it,”
“Ah, so you’ve heard it from Lessionia?”
“No, it is running through your head. ‘Does she know about Lesionia and I? The attack on the house? My plans for Garados?’”
“You are definitely stronger than your mother,”
“Now if you don’t mind, I would like you to leave my brain. I will think of a way to escape on my own,”
“I’m sure you will,” and then he was gone.
“Oh, Gebri,” I called. His head popped up from behind a rock. “Someone know where you are,” I taunted.
“How do you know?” he asked picking up the front of my shirt.
“That’s enough Gebri,” said Garados after Gebri slapped me for not answering. “If she is not ready to tell, we will just give her some time,” said Garados but much too smoothly. He walked over to the far side of the cave. He made the walls clear. a deep pit with no bottom was visible, and my friends were about to plummet down through,”
My words spilt out so fast that I could barely understand them.
“I don’t know who he was, but he knew my mother and he wants you Garados,”
“Well that buys you and your friends some time,”
“Why aren't they awake?”
“Once they were asleep it was much easier to take their crystals. Now that I have five, all of you can watch me change the world,”
“You monster!” I screamed. I pulled on the magical bonds holding me. “ I will not let you do that!” Slowly I moved forward.
“Impossible! You shouldn’t be able to move at all,” Grinding my teeth, i continued to push forward. I thought about all the people I loved; my Mother, Grandfather, Jess, Griffen, Mathyus, Kalob, and yes Horitori too. I wasn’t going to just let them die. My heart over flowed with love and light that I began to overcome Garados’s magic.
“This should be impossible! It’s inconceivable! No one could have the power to do this except....,” Garados said astonished.
In a flash my mother showed up. “Yes Garados, my daughter, Kel, is the one of the prophecy. The one of angel, elf, and man. One who has the power to eradicate all evil. Your time has come,”
I closed my eyes and in that instance, I saw myself when I was little. It was at Grandfather’s house. My mother and father were chasing me around the yard. Grandma was in the garden picking strawberries. I ran behind her skirts.
“You can’t get me now,” I giggled. My father came at me, picking me up. He twirled around once. I had my hands outstretched. I giggled some more. My father brought me down. I hugged him, my arms around his neck.
“I love you daddy,”
“ I love you daddy,” tears rolled down my face as I gave one more push. Garados was gone.
Falling to my knees, I hit the floor. “Father,” I called. Gebri laid sprawled on the floor. He clutched his chest. My mother hovered over him. He motioned for me.
“Lessionia, I never meant to hurt you. Garados’s hold was so strong, I...,”
“Shhh,” my mother said kissing him after. “It doesn’t matter now. Her tears fell to his chest.
“My baby girl,” my father said, taking hold of my hand. “ I never stopped thinking about you. Now you’re all grown up and beautiful,”
“I love you daddy,” he closed his eyes and I cried.
*
Part of me died that night in the cave. I never realized that my mother had left my side to help my friends. All I could do was sob for the father that I never had. Garados was gone, but nothing made since anymore.
I drifted on a plane of existence, never in one for any length of time. Nothing kept me in place. Briefly I would see my friends in and out of the plane, but soon they disappeared and only my mother was left.
I had a dream about her and that a man came to here offering her the ability to go back heaven, but she declined saying that she would stay on earth. That same man came to me. He presence was the exact same presence as in the cave.
“I realized that I was wrong for harming you and your mother. I did not believe that such a prophecy existed,”
“I forgive you,” I whispered. He came out of the shadows of my dreams. I saw his face, as a high angel; Caron. He bowed at me, right arm clenched in a fist over his heart. He took to the sky and disappeared.
*
“Kel,” someone whispered. My eyelids fluttered open to see Jess’s radiant face.
“Jess,” he laid down next to me. We didn’t say anything at first, but his arms around me made me feel secure. I snuggled up next to him knowing that everything was okay and a kiss made my hear realize that too.
THE END
Friday, August 24, 2007
PART 5
Magic always leavevs a trail no matter what. It was really easy finding my father because he liked using his power a lot. He was staying in a cave not far from Garados’s destroyed castle. So now all we had to do was to go back to the mainland.
“Mother, are you coming back with us?” I asked her as we got ready to fly.
“I wish I could Kel, but the angelic power I had to use to escape has worn me thin, not to mention the power I had to use to help you. Besides, you don’t need me. The five of you are stronger than the last guardians. But my love will go with you,”
She held out her arms and I squeezed her tight. When we at last stood apart, she smiled with the warmth that I always knew.
The five of us took to the sir. Griffen leading the way. Our clothes took form of the warrior. My mother flew next to us for a way.
“Bet you can’t do this,” she said, and with the last bit of energy that she had she twisted and looped in the air and then sped up dropping thirty feet closer to the water before she tightened her turn and zig zagged up towards us, coming to a short stop next to me again. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t manage the sharpe turns.
“You need to fly more,” she shouted as she dropped out behind us, going under a cloud.
Touch down was a success. From the sky we could see the ruins of Garados’s castle. From there we landed close by.
It was then that I felt a vibrating in the back of my breeches. It was the golden disc. Alexandra the Huntress krept out of the edge of the rubble.
Griffen stiffened at the sight of her. Alexandra’s eyes were on fire.
“Did you acomplish your mission Griffen?”
“He’s no longer your pet Huntress,” I spat as I stepped between them.
‘I suppose that he listens to you now,” I glared at her. “Well,” she said talking over my head, “If he knows what’s good for him, he will obey you. Tell him to give me the golden disc,”
“Why should I?”
“Why does it matter. You don’t even know what that disc does,” she retorted.
“But if you, Alexandra want it so bad, then it must be worth something,”
“If he doesn’t give it to me, then I will keep my promise,” Griffen hastily came forward.
“Give it to her Kel,” Alexandra smiled smugly.
“But Griffen,”
“Kel, if you love something, you will do everything to protect it,” he looked at me, his eyes pleading. I gave him the disc.
“Thankyou,” said Alexandra.
She climbed the rubble of Garados’s castle. Holding the disc high, she closed her eyes. Warm light rushed down fro the heavens, engulfing her with light. Swirls of blue and green moved round and round. The Huntress disapeard and the goddess before us.
“Why the ruse?” asked Kalob. “We would have jsut given it to you,” he said bluntly. Slowly the half transparent goddess came down the rubble.
“It was to test your love and trust for each other as well as other people. Not to mention that I can’t change back into the goddess without the disc. Garados is a wizard but also a theif and a trickster. The golden disc gives me extra power to transform me into a human. But without it I can’t change back. Garados, cunningly stole it form me in hopes of keeping me away. But he was fool enough to hid it in plain sight where a farmer found it. Consequently when Garados found the farmer, he had to burn the whole village. Garados cannot enter a holy temple,” Her voice, a laugh echoed. “I am still annoyed at how foolish he is, though it is funny,” She closed her eyes for amoment. “Genri has Garados. He is not far from here. I suggest that we go before it is to late,”
Magic always leavevs a trail no matter what. It was really easy finding my father because he liked using his power a lot. He was staying in a cave not far from Garados’s destroyed castle. So now all we had to do was to go back to the mainland.
“Mother, are you coming back with us?” I asked her as we got ready to fly.
“I wish I could Kel, but the angelic power I had to use to escape has worn me thin, not to mention the power I had to use to help you. Besides, you don’t need me. The five of you are stronger than the last guardians. But my love will go with you,”
She held out her arms and I squeezed her tight. When we at last stood apart, she smiled with the warmth that I always knew.
The five of us took to the sir. Griffen leading the way. Our clothes took form of the warrior. My mother flew next to us for a way.
“Bet you can’t do this,” she said, and with the last bit of energy that she had she twisted and looped in the air and then sped up dropping thirty feet closer to the water before she tightened her turn and zig zagged up towards us, coming to a short stop next to me again. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t manage the sharpe turns.
“You need to fly more,” she shouted as she dropped out behind us, going under a cloud.
Touch down was a success. From the sky we could see the ruins of Garados’s castle. From there we landed close by.
It was then that I felt a vibrating in the back of my breeches. It was the golden disc. Alexandra the Huntress krept out of the edge of the rubble.
Griffen stiffened at the sight of her. Alexandra’s eyes were on fire.
“Did you acomplish your mission Griffen?”
“He’s no longer your pet Huntress,” I spat as I stepped between them.
‘I suppose that he listens to you now,” I glared at her. “Well,” she said talking over my head, “If he knows what’s good for him, he will obey you. Tell him to give me the golden disc,”
“Why should I?”
“Why does it matter. You don’t even know what that disc does,” she retorted.
“But if you, Alexandra want it so bad, then it must be worth something,”
“If he doesn’t give it to me, then I will keep my promise,” Griffen hastily came forward.
“Give it to her Kel,” Alexandra smiled smugly.
“But Griffen,”
“Kel, if you love something, you will do everything to protect it,” he looked at me, his eyes pleading. I gave him the disc.
“Thankyou,” said Alexandra.
She climbed the rubble of Garados’s castle. Holding the disc high, she closed her eyes. Warm light rushed down fro the heavens, engulfing her with light. Swirls of blue and green moved round and round. The Huntress disapeard and the goddess before us.
“Why the ruse?” asked Kalob. “We would have jsut given it to you,” he said bluntly. Slowly the half transparent goddess came down the rubble.
“It was to test your love and trust for each other as well as other people. Not to mention that I can’t change back into the goddess without the disc. Garados is a wizard but also a theif and a trickster. The golden disc gives me extra power to transform me into a human. But without it I can’t change back. Garados, cunningly stole it form me in hopes of keeping me away. But he was fool enough to hid it in plain sight where a farmer found it. Consequently when Garados found the farmer, he had to burn the whole village. Garados cannot enter a holy temple,” Her voice, a laugh echoed. “I am still annoyed at how foolish he is, though it is funny,” She closed her eyes for amoment. “Genri has Garados. He is not far from here. I suggest that we go before it is to late,”
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