The Family Magic Jewels

 

“What are we doing here?” Flarth asked crudely. “I was outside, playing with my friends.”

“Father told us to come here,” I replied.

It was nighttime. There were torches burning all around the room.

All four of us were there inside the throne room. Silest, Zenith, Flarth, and I. I stood in front of the throne and looked up at the ceiling. Once I took another step, Zen had ran past me and pushed me negligently to the side. I fell to my side with a small sound of my shell hitting the cold marble floor. The red carpet I had bean standing on moved with me and both Silest and Flarth, who had been standing behind me, tripped. All three of us struggled to get up. We were tangled inside the long carpet. Once I finally freed myself, I saw Zen sitting on our father’s throne, grinning mischievously.

“Wow. All that happened because of a small push,” he laughed.

I glared up at him. Silest and Flarth squirmed out from the twisted up carpet and glared at Zen as well.

Father walked into the throne room with a small, silver chest in his hands. He looked down at the carpet then at us. He shook his head and smiled warmly.

“Zenith, careful. I might decide to leave you out on this if you keep up your mischief,” he said naively.

Zen jumped off the throne and peered at the silver chest father had in his hands.

“What’s in there, I say?” He asked rapidly.

Our father raised a brow and opened the chest slowly in front of Zen. “Well, take a look.”

As he took a glimpse at the items in the chest, his eyes started to glitter. I dusted myself off then walked to them and tried my best to look past Zen. No good. I was too small. I stepped in my brother’s cape and moved my foot back swiftly. Zen tripped and hits the floor, face first.

My father glances over at me and rolled his eyes. He handed me the chest and I looked down at it. My eyes began to twinkle just as much as Zen’s eyes glittered. There were four jewels in the chest. Not just any ordinary jewel you would find decorating the walls of the castle. These were magic jewels. An emerald. A sapphire. A ruby. A diamond.

I gaze at them all with my mouth gradually opening. I shut my mouth hurriedly. If I had just let my jaw hang there, my drool would have streamed out of my mouth. I swallowed quietly then let out a small laugh of embarrassment.

“Father, are these magic jewels for us?” I asked, trying to say it as polite as I could.

He smiled at me kindly. “Yes, Travallian. They are.”

I smiled back and handed the chest back to him. Flarth and Silest walked over to the three of us then peered down at the chest. Our father took the diamond out of the chest and gave it to Silest. She smiled cheerfully as she took the diamond.

“Silest, that diamond possesses strong white magic and the power to manipulate someone’s memory,” he said firmly. “Take good care of it. Mega Flare shall be teaching you techniques on using memory spells with it.”

“Okay.”

He turned to look at Zen who had finally gotten up. I snickered. Father took the ruby out of the silver chest and gave it to him. Zen snatched it and examined it.

Father made a face of annoyance then cleared his throat. “That is the ruby of strong black magic and the power to control time,” he said seemingly to himself since Zen looked as if he was fixed more on the ruby than him. “Zekoru and I shall be training you on how to use it properly.”

“Sure…sounds fun.”

He turned to look at Flarthenter and I. He took the two remaining stones out of the chest. He gave the sapphire to Flarth and humbly gave me the emerald.

“Both of these stones possess both black and white magic. Red magic, you may say,” our father kneeled down and looks straight at us persistently. “Flarth, your sapphire gives you stronger teleportation spells. You shall be able to teleport anywhere with ease. It’s quite handy, if you ask me,” he turns to me. I clutched the emerald tightly then look at him. His smile was filled with a spine chilling feel when I looked up at him.

“What is this emerald capable of other than red magic?” I asked timidly.

“Transformation,” he answered.

I grinned grandly. Transformation? In my possession? Wonderful. I laughed in an evil sort of way. I pointed at Zen and continued to laugh. I stopped suddenly then just went back to my grin.

Zen glared. “Why does he have transformation? Why is he the Keeper of the transformation stone?”

“Zenith, my son,” my father jerked his head and narrowed his eyes at him. “Travallian is because he is. Each jewel you all hold in your hands possess their own power. Only you can use the jewels. Not anyone else.”

I set my emerald on my staff. Flarth put his sapphire in his pocket. Silest locked her diamond to her necklace. Zen cast a spell on his ruby. It split into two ruby pins. He untied his cape and pinned it to his cloak.

“First thing tomorrow, you all shall go to your mentors,” father looked over at Flarth and I. “You two shall be training with your friends, Zeo, Salina, and Atteno. Their mentor is willing to teach the both of you some tricks about the family jewels you both have.”

“Who is their mentor?” Flarth asked.

“A sorcerer named Necronus. The father of two children. Elinor and Jakeri. They shall be training with you as well.”

“Sounds great,” I replied as I swung my emerald staff horizontally. “I’ll be there as soon as I wake up.”

“Yeah,” Flarth rolled his eyes. “Same here.”

Our father got up slowly and looked out the window. “It is time for all of you to get to bed. Tomorrow’s a big day for all of you, my children.”

We all nodded to him and walked out of the throne room. Zenith ran down the halls and headed for his bedroom. When he got in, he slammed the door shut. The three off us all flinched from the loud sound the door had made.

“Goodnight, you two,” Silest said to Flarth and I as she yawn.

“Goodnight, Silest,” I said.

“Sleep well, Sil,” Flarth said as he stretched.

She left us and headed to her bedroom. Flarth and I both walked toward our rooms and opened the doors. Both our rooms were across each other.

“See you tomorrow, Trav,” Flarth said to me. “Can’t wait to see your transforming power. It’s going to be cool.”

“Yeah,” I replied. “I can’t wait to see you teleport everywhere. Haha. Goodnight, Flarth.”

“Goodnight.”

We both entered our rooms and quietly closed the doors.

I walked around my room. I set my staff beside my bed. I went to my walk-in closet and got some clothes. I took off my filthy cloak and threw it into a basket. I put on my night clothes and walked out the closet. I jumped into my bed then laid my head on a pillow. I fell asleep as soon I closed my eyes.