Olivia is nine years old. She likes to write fantasy - and her favorite movie is 'Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse'. Some of her favorite things to do are singing and dancing.
“Not seeing where he was going, he slipped on a puddle of spilled water. As he plummeted towards the floor, he reached out towards the ceiling. Suddenly, his descent slowed to a halt. He was levitating.”
Once, there was a young boy from the realm of magic. He was a young wizard and an apprentice of the greatest wizard in all of the realm. His name was Golgemort. And the apprentice’s name was Leo. And in the Earth realm, there was a girl named Rose who knew of the realm of magic in her grandmother’s stories.
One day, Rose discovered a door covered in symbols in a different language. She tried to open the door, but it didn’t budge. But then, she found a small chest hidden in the snow. And inside was a key with strange handwriting on it. She assumed it was the key to the door. And it was. She opened the door and there was a hall of blue, glowing crystals. And at the other end of the hall there was another door. She walked down the hall and on her way down to the other door, there were little fairies flying around. She opened the door and she saw something beyond her imagination… a young boy…
A few weeks earlier…
Leo was walking in the woods when he stumbled upon a little hut. Inside it he saw glowing lights. He looked inside and saw an old man. The man looked like the great wizard Golgemort. He tried to enter the house quietly without the man seeing him, but he tripped on a magic wand lying on the ground.
Then, Golgemort turned around and saw the boy lying on the ground.
“What are you doing in my house?” Golgemort said, his eyes full of rage.
“I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to invade your privacy, I was just curious,” Leo said hurriedly as he took a few steps backward. Not seeing where he was going, he slipped on a puddle of spilled water. As he plummeted towards the floor, he reached out towards the ceiling. Suddenly, his descent slowed to a halt. He was levitating.
Golgemort was shocked. “How are you doing that, boy? I thought I was the only wizard left…”
“The only wizard? I thought there were many wizards.”
“Well, a long time ago, there was a war between the magic realm and the Trolls. We won, but the Trolls kidnapped all the other wizards, but I escaped and I thought I was the only one left.”
“The only what?”
“Were you not listening to me, boy?”
“Not really, no,” Leo replied glumly, looking down at his worn boots.
“What’s your name, boy?”
“Leo,” he whispered.
“Speak up, boy!”
“My name’s Leo!” he yelled.
“Calm down,” Golgemort said. “What is it you want?”
Leo looked up excitedly. “If you truly are the great mage, Golgemort, then you could train me to be a real wizard! Please, oh great and mighty sorcerer, be my teacher!”
“No, child, I can’t. I’m not a real wizard anymore. I’m far too old. You’re better off going somewhere else.”
He looked up excitedly. “Could you please teach me?”
“Fine!” the old wizard snapped. “5:00 a.m. Your training starts then. Don’t be late or you shall suffer. Now get out of my house.“
Leo nearly jumped five feet into the air. “I won’t let you down, master!”
“Alright, alright. Now go! Don’t tell anyone about my existence! Everybody thinks the wizards are all dead.”
Leo quickly stepped out of the ramshackle house and ran with excitement towards his village.
He was so tempted to tell all his friends about Golgemort, but he remembered his promise to the great wizard. He couldn’t let anyone know that magic still existed…
Meanwhile, somewhere in the Earth Realm…
“Let me tell you a story, my child… about the realm of magic…”
“Grandma, I’ve heard this story a million times already!”
“Fine, if you don’t want to hear my story again, go play outside,” Rose’s grandmother said, leading her to the door of her room.
Rose sat in her bedroom, thinking about the classic tale that her grandmother would not shut up about. A long time ago, there was a war between the wizards of the Magic Realm and the Trolls. The great wizard, Golgemort, led an army of the greatest wizards against the Trolls.
“Nasty creatures,” her grandmother would always say.
After thinking for a while, she elected to go outside. There was a thick layer of snow covering her backyard: perfect for building a snowman.
“I’m going out, Grandma!” she called up to the half-deaf woman.
Her grandmother grinned. “Alright, just don’t be too long now.” She knew Rose would find the door eventually.
Rose went out into the snow. She walked until she came upon a door with strange gold handwriting. She tried to open the door but it didn’t budge!
It was 5 a.m. Leo had been waiting outside for 5 minutes. When the old man came out, it was 5:06. The man said to Leo, “You’re here,“ the man said, surprised.
“Yes,“ Leo said. “Alright, I’m ready to get into it, what kind of powerful, Troll-killing spells do you know?”
Then Golgemort said in his face, “Why do you want to learn any Troll-killing spells?”
Then Leo said, without thinking, “We never know when the Trolls are going to attack!”
Golgemort sighed. “You have a lot to learn.”
“Okay, then. What’s the first step of sorcery?”
“Well, the first step is using your wand. We have to get you one first.”
Then, Golgemort took him down into a dimly-lit cave with a gold door at the back.
“So, I can choose any wand I want?” Leo asked.
“No, no, no, child. The wand chooses you.”
“How do I know that it chooses me?”
“Well, if the wand doesn’t blow up in your face, it’s the one for you.”
“It blows up in my face?!” Leo exclaimed, horrified.
“Yep!” Golgemort said excitedly.
Leo gulped. “O-okay… ”
Golgemort unlocked the golden door, revealing a room with shelves upon shelves of different wands. Then, Leo picked up a wand and it exploded in his face. Golgemort stood in the corner, a smirk on his face, as Leo pushed himself up from the ground, his hair charred and ruined.
“Not the one,” Golgemort said. “Try another one.”
Leo gulped, even more terrified than he was before. He went over to another wand and picked it up. For a few seconds, nothing happened. Leo looked back to his master with a grin on his face.
“Hey, master, I think– ”
BOOM!
“… never mind.”
Golgemort looked around for a moment. “Maybe we should try a different type of wand,” he said, bringing the ashen boy a beautiful golden box, with only the tiniest hint of wear. “Maybe this one will do it,” Golgemort said, opening up the box to reveal a wand inlaid with phoenix feather, with gold and silver vines wrapping around the base.
“Try it out,” Golgemort said. Leo took it, holding it gingerly away from his face.
“Please don’t explode, please don’t explode, please don’t explode… ”
After a few seconds, it didn’t explode. Nothing happened.
“Well, it didn’t explode within five seconds. I guess this is your wand.”
“Really?” Leo asked, a look of utter joy crossing his face. He jumped up and hugged his master.
“Get off me, boy!” Golgemort said, pushing him off. Leo was too ecstatic to even care
about his master’s hostility.
“Well, we better get to training, then,” Golgemort said.
“Yeah, yeah,” Leo said, still thinking about his wand.
Then, Rose found a small chest with a key inside. She assumed it was the key to the door and it was!
Inside the door was a blue crystal hallway with small fairies flying around. And at the end of the hallway, there was another door. She opened it. And she saw something beyond her imagination. A boy, wielding a small stick with multi-colored lights coming out of it. The boy appeared to be in battle with a dirty old man. She realized that the boy was fending the old man off, and needed help. She quickly jumped on the old man’s back and pulled him to the ground.
The man grunted. “What are you doing, child. Didn’t you see that we were practicing?!”
Rose looked at him quizzically. “Practicing? It looked like you were fighting!” Golgemort saw the girl’s clothes. She wore a strange skirt lined with stripes and odd buttons. Not the traditional robes of the realm.
“What are you wearing?!” Golgemort exclaimed.
“You’re really asking me that?” Rose said, irritated. “I’d like to know where I am!”
“You are in the Realm of Magic,” Golgemort said. “Don’t you know that?”
“No, not really,” Rose responded. “Although…I have heard about a world like this from my
grandmother’s stories…”
“Where are you from?” Golgemort asked.
“Um… Earth?”
“Ah, yes, the Earth Realm,” Golgemort said, looking off into the distance. “And how did you get here?”
“Well, I was playing around in the snow, and I found this door in the tree. I tried to open it but it wouldn’t open. Then I looked around for a key somewhere and I found a small chest with a key inside.”
“I see,“ Golgemort said. “You can come to my house.” Then he yelled, “LEO, LET’S GO!”
“Okay!” Leo responded.
“Um, sure,” Rose said hesitantly.
So they set off to Golgemort’s house. Rose turned to the strange boy. “So what’s your name?”
“Leo,” he replied, looking down at his feet. “What’s yours?”
“Rose,” she said energetically. “So what’s the deal with–”
“We’ve arrived,” Golgemort interrupted. Rose laid her eyes upon the filthy shack that sat within the middle of a green swamp.
“Really? This is your home?” Rose said incredulously. “This looks horrible!”
Golgemort chuckled. “That’s what they all say.” He opened the splintered door, revealing a gorgeous home. The ceiling was a diverse array of different colors, all blending into each other, making everything seem infinite. Tiny fairies buzzed about the room, serenading Rose with an ethereal melody. Invisible maids were doing the dishes and cleaning the floors and cooking one of the most wonderful meals Rose had ever seen.
Golgemort turned to Rose, a cocky smirk on his face. “Is it really that horrible?”
Rose looked down, filled with embarrassment. “No, not really, I guess.”
“Anywho, welcome to my humble abode,” Golgemort gestured to the space. A filthy grey dog popped out of its hiding space in the corner.
“What is that!“ Rose said.
“That’s just a dog,” he said.
“Oh,” she said. “This place is a bit strange. Are you sure that was a dog? It didn’t look like a dog.”
“Yes, I’m sure it was a dog. Now we have to find a way for you to get back home,” Golgemort said firmly, because he was getting a bit irritated with her and her billion questions.
“Easy, I just go back through that door and go home.”
“Ha! The door doesn’t stay in one place for too long. It could be anywhere now. The dragon realm, the giant realm, even the realm of the mermaids, and that’s under the sea.”
“Then how do I get home?” she said a bit nervously, thinking she would be stuck in the realm of magic forever.
“Well, the door stays here for at least two days before it leaves for a different realm. And you came here a few minutes ago. So there’s a good chance we can still find it. But it’s dangerous, since in some parts there are dark wizards.”
Rose gulped.
“You know, The Cave of Wizards, where I got my wand, I saw some armor and a protection spellbook and we can give Rose a wand,” Leo said.
“You’re right, but she doesn’t know anything about magic,” Golgemort said.
“So what?” Leo said. “I learned magic and I knew nothing about it.”
“Yes, but it took you at least a few weeks to master it, and we only have two days to find the door.”
“Then we’ll only teach her the basic spells, to protect herself,” Leo said.
Golgemort was getting a bit annoyed with the back and forth and finally he said, “All right. Let’s go.”
“Where exactly are we going?” said Rose.
“The Cave of Wizards!” said Leo. “We’re going to get you a wand and teach you how to protect yourself from the dark wizards.”
“But I don’t know anything about magic!”
“Well, it’s easy. All you have to do is–”
“We’re here!” Golgemort said, standing in front of two big gold doors.
“Wow,” Rose said.
“This is where we’re going to get you a wand,” said Leo. Golgemort was looking for a wand while Leo told Rose how it works. “But you’d better hold it away from your face, because it’s the wand that chooses you, not you who chooses the wand. So you should be prepared for it to explode in your face if it’s not your wand.”
“Do I have to have a wand?” Rose said.
“Do you want to get killed looking for the door?” Leo said.
“No,” Rose said, a bit frightened.
All of a sudden, Golgemort said, “Try this.” It was a wand in a box, made out of wood with golden feathers wrapping around the bottom.
Leo yelled, “Remember to hold it away from your face if it explodes!”
“If it doesn’t explode within five seconds, it’s your wand,” Golgemort said.
Then Rose said in her head, five… four… three… two… one… Nothing happened, and Golgemort said, “Well done, this is your wand! It took Leo at least three tries to get his. Now we need to teach you spells. The first step is knowing how to hold your wand.”
“Like this?” she asked, holding the wand firmly.
“Yes, but you need to hold it a bit looser.”
“Like this?” she asked.
“Perfect.”
They spent all evening practicing. “Well, it’s getting late, and I think you’ve mastered all the basic spells. I think you should go to bed. Tomorrow morning we can start looking for the door,” Golgemort said.
The next day, when the sun rose, Rose woke up. Golgemort and Leo were already up.
Golgemort asked, “Are you ready to go?”
“Yes.”
“Aren’t you forgetting something?”
Rose all of a sudden said, “Oh yeah! I forgot my wand!”
“And?” Golgemort said.
“And I have to get dressed.”
Five minutes later, Rose said, “Now I’m ready to go.”
“Then let’s go,” Leo said, very excited to go on his first adventure using magic.
So they set out into the dark part of the woods, where Golgemort assumed it would be, since he had gone into different realms before, and he knew the pattern of the door.
“We’re entering the dark part of the woods,” Golgemort said. “Everybody should get their wands out. Leo, do you have yours?”
“Yes.”
“Rose, do you have yours?”
“Yes.”
“Now we have to enter very quietly,” Golgemort said. “The dark wizards could be watching us.”
They walked for at least an hour. Nothing happened.
Rose said, “We have been walking forever. Are you sure there are dark wizards in the woods?”
Then all of a sudden, the dark wizards knocked them out with a magic spell.
When they woke up, they were sitting in a small throne room in front of the leader of the dark wizards, Azulon. He had white hair, and one eye looked like it was blind. It was very creepy.
Azulon said, “Golgemort.”
Golgemort said, “Azulon.”
“Whaaaat?” Rose said.
“I guess I haven’t introduced myself,” said Azulon. “I am Azulon, commander of the dark army, ruler of death, king of the dark wizards.”
“I guess you’re really into darkness,” Rose said.
“Never mind,” said Azulon. “Why are you in the dark parts of the woods, Golgemort? You know that we are here and you know we kidnap anybody who trespasses.”
“We’re only looking for the door,” Golgemort said.
“So the door is here,” Azulon said, fascinated.
“Yes, why do you want to know?”
“Uh, I don’t know,” Azulon said. “To conquer all of the realms!”
“I should have known,” Golgemort said. “You still have that desire to conquer all the realms.”
“Of course I do. I am the greatest wizard in all of the realms.”
“Wrong!” Leo said. “Golgemort is!”
“Shush! Child,” Azulon said, and put him back to sleep with a spell.
“Why do you want to conquer all the realms so badly?” Rose asked.
“To prove I am the greatest wizard of all time!” Azulon said.
“Won’t that just terrorize people?” Rose said.
“No! They will think that I am the greatest wizard ever!”
“Enough with saying you’re the greatest wizard! We get it!” Rose said.
Golgemort said, “Just let us pass. It’ll be easier this way.”
“No! I need to keep you here so you don’t find the door before I do.”
“Okay,” Golgemort said, knowing that they had their wands so they could escape.
When Azulon and his guards left, Golgemort used a spell to get him out of the chair. Then he said, “Leo! Wake up!”
“What? What?” Leo said. “How are you out of your chair?”
“Are you blinded, child? I used a spell!”
“Get me out of this chair if you got out of your chair using a spell,” Rose said.
And soon, they were all free. “Now we have to find a way to get out of this building. There are the dark army guards everywhere.”
“What about through the window?” Leo said.
“We can’t do that. The guards are surrounding the building.”
“What if we used a spell to make us invisible?” Leo said.
“Yes, but we would need a rope, and we would have to make that rope invisible too.”
“Simple. The invisible spells last up to an hour,” Leo said.
“Okay,” Golgemort said, “But first we need to find a rope.”
“Good point.”
“We can only look for one in here, because there are guards outside the door,” Golgemort said.
“There’s one!” Rose said, pointing to a rope on the wall.
“Good spotting,” Golgemort said to her.
“Now we’ve got to make this rope invisible,” Rose said to both Leo and Golgemort. “Could one of you do that?”
“Sure,” Leo said, taking out his wand and making the rope invisible. “Now we have to make ourselves invisible.”
Golgemort said, “I’ll make you two invisible, but Leo will have to make me invisible.”
Golgemort made Leo and Rose invisible. Leo and Rose put their hands in front of their faces, but they couldn’t see them.
“Where are you guys?” Golgemort said.
“Right here,” they said.
“Well, you guys shouldn’t move, otherwise you could get lost because I can’t see you. Leo, I’m right in front of you, you can now cast the spell with your wand.”
“You are now invisible,” Leo said.
“I already knew that! Now we have to find a place to put the rope where the guards aren’t.”
“Right here,” Rose said, while pointing.
“Great spotting,” Golgemort said again.
So they opened the window, placed the rope in between the guards, and climbed down the rope as silently and quickly as possible. When they were all down, they started running into the woods, as silently and quickly as possible.
They ran for twenty-five minutes and at least two miles away from the secret lair. Then they had been running for an hour, and wouldn’t stop, knowing that they might get caught. Then, they collapsed. They couldn’t even see the secret lair anymore, so they knew that the dark army hadn’t caught up with them.
When they woke up, they saw the door in the distance. But then, they realized that there was a big river with crocodiles. They had to figure out a way across it.
Then, they realized they had forgotten their wands back at the secret lair.
Then Golgemort said, “It’s all right, I can do magic with my hands.” Then he did a spell that created a very high bridge across the river.
They crossed the bridge, but then they realized that the door was moving slowly, so it was farther away than it was before. So they kept walking, and walking, and walking, and walking, and walking, and walking, until they saw flying books in the air.
“Careful, they’re really dangerous,” Golgemort said.
“How dangerous can flying books be?” said Leo, so he walked up to them and they started flying around him and hitting him on the head. “Yep, they’re definitely–” he collapsed.
“We better wake him up,” Golgemort said. “Azulon could come into the room where we were kidnapped and find out we escaped any minute. Leo! Leo! Wake up!”
Rose yelled, “Look! The door is moving again! We have to wake him up!”
“Okay, I’ll use my spell to wake him up.” Golgemort woke him up.
Leo said, “Ugh, what happened?”
Then Rose said, “The door is moving quickly! We gotta go!”
Leo stood up and said, “But we’re going to need a protection spell to get past the books.”
“Good idea,” said Golgemort.
“Great,” said Rose.
“How do we cast that spell?” Leo said. “All our wands are in the secret lair.”
“Golgemort can do hand magic,” said Rose. “That’s how we got across the river, remember?”
“No, not really,” Leo said. “And can’t you remember I was hit by a bunch of books so I don’t remember stuff?”
“Oh, right,” Rose said. “Either way, the door is moving faster and faster. It looks like it’s going to go into another realm. We have to catch up with it.”
So they started running towards the door, but then they stumbled upon the flying books.
“Now we need to protect ourselves,” said Rose. “Golgemort, can you make a protection spell?”
“I can try,” Golgemort said. “Aluminos devatos!” He said. And when they walked by the books, they didn’t get hit by any.
“It worked!” Rose said.
“I know,” Leo said.
“I told you,” Golgemort said.
Then Rose yelled, “Look! The door is moving even faster than before! We’ve got to move!”
So they started to run and run and run. They couldn’t catch up to the door, so they decided to run even faster. Then, Leo spotted Azulon and his dark army behind them.
“Um, I think we’ve got company,” Leo said.
“Oh, no,” Golgemort said.
“Not them,” Rose said. “How are we gonna get away from them?”
“I don’t know,” Leo said.
“I think I might have a way,” Golgemort said. “If we keep running, we’ll tire them out. The Dark Army can’t stay alive for long, they’re from the dead.” They kept running and running and finally caught up to the door when the door stopped.
Then, all of a sudden, a voice said, “We’ve got you!” They turned around and it was Azulon, holding up his wand. “Surrender now!” Azulon said.
Golgemort and Leo yelled at the same time, “Rose, go!”
“No!” Rose said.
“Just go!” yelled Golgemort.
“No! I’m not going to just leave you to die with Azulon!”
“It’s fine! I’ve dealt with him before!”
“I’ll come back to help you!” Rose said, a bit sad. And she went through the door.
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