I recently discovered some pieces of paper (annoyingly enough, they weren't the pieces of paper I was actually looking for), but I still found them!

This was the highest marked piece of writing in my Year 12 English class, with an A+ by it's side. Being bored, I decided to type it up and post it for you all. (Some names are actually that of friends of mine from BYOND, by the way. I'm unimaginative when it comes to naming things.)

The ending fizzles out because we were limited to one thousand words (I really don't know why... I'd much rather of had no limit at all, and just gone nuts. I was enjoying writing this story, until I realised I was dangerously close to going over my limit (which I did, but she didn't notice.) and thus, possibly losing marks).

Another note: Because MS Word sucks hard and fast, some of the grammar marks, quotation marks and commas might be a little misplaced. Copying and Pasting from MS word to here replace them with other rich-text crap I had to go through and fix up.

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During one warm summer evening, one of those evenings where you just don't want to do anything. The animals were resting, pies were on window sills and not being stolen, pie thieves were eating the pies they stole a previous, less relaxing evening. About the only ones who weren't relaxing on this better than fine evening, were a group of pagans who live just out side the small city of Evalon. They were doing their annual tradition. Dancing naked and changing around a fire. But they too, were taking it easy. Only lazily dancing and chanting to which could only be made out of several mumbles strung together by slow, dreary drum beats. The only one, who had any energy left in him at all, was Darren, our hero. Because of his overly dull name, Darren decided that when he graduated from Temon Wizard University, he would take on the name "Tiberath". But that's a fair way off.

Darren was slowly walking up form the forest. His long and finely combed hair was swaying in a cool breeze which drifted down from the tall mountains¹. The sparkles in his blue eyes grew when he realised he was three feet from a park bench. Moving slowly to reach it, he sat down and gazed at the pagan ritual. Killing two birds with one stone really. Aside from being so lazy he wouldn't jump out of the window of a burning house because it would take, what he considered to be, a drastic amount of effort. He was also a raging pervert. Both traits have gotten him into so much trouble, everyone just ignores his presence and continues on with what they are doing. He considers this a bonus, for he hates being interrupted no matter what he's doing.

"Lo-thar" came the sound of a soft, subtle female voice, scaring the pants off Darren. "Enjoyin' the show are we?" It sounded again.

Looking around to see what was disturbing him, he turns to find a really attractive woman, roughly his age, with fine blond hair, dry lips and a natural red cheek colour. Flabbergasted that an attractive woman would look in his direction, much less speak to him, he sat there, silent. "Wots the matter, cat got your tongue?" She sounded once more. "Sorry", he replied Trying sound charming. "My name is Darren, soon to be the great wizard Tiberath". He continued on. "Darren, eh?" That there be a bland name". She teased. "My name be Lara. But someday I plan to be a great sorceress named Abigail" she replied with a giggle. A giggle suited for a child one third her age.

Striking it off well, both of them were shocked to learn they were in the same advanced magicology class at Temon Wizard University. Instantly trying to show one-another up, they began casting mild spells on one another and seeing if the other could counter. This was fairly dangerous practice from two, low-level spell casters.² Spell casting in Evalon, unless for defensive purposes, was also illegal. Lara and Darren were lucky that it was such a lazy evening, that no one cared.

They continued on with their competition for several hours. This is surprising really; Darren normally gives up and just claims victory after two or three minutes. Lara must have made a good impression. After they finished their bout, (Darren had been turned into a tree, and Lara had been stricken with blindness, causing her to walk into Darren) they decided to call it a draw. Checking the time to make sure they were not too late, they realised it was a soon evening and had to walk back through the forest to get there. If it hadn't been mandatory for all students to be there 103.76% of the time, they most likely wouldn't have gone. Nevertheless, they started their walk down the track through the forest of the tall mountains. It was unnamed because no one had really discovered it. It was just there and people didn't notice it was undiscovered.

The walk through the forest was normally hazardous with ogres, trolls and any-and-all form of dangerous creatures ready to attack. But the evening was just too fine. The creatures of this forest and it's danger level, is the soul reason why the head wizard, Ben Rothe, decided to put the University smack bang in the middle of it. Hoping no one would make it in. This is one reason why most of the university's advanced classes are already at graduate level.

Darren and Lara were slowly trudging towards their destination, until Darren discovered some kind of talisman. Not sure what it did, both Darren and Lara rubbed their hands along it. Realising, with shock and horror (yes, horror!) that it was really one of Lara's earrings, they continued on disappointed.

Without warning, a snow mouse³ jumped out from behind a tree and attacked the two eager and suspecting travellers. Quickly surrounding the beast, Lara span in a circle and flailed her hands about in some complex motion, encasing the mouse in an ice box. Darrem, who is much too lazy to show off, raised his hand and mumbled, sending the a pink ball of light towards the bear. Shattering the ice cage and realising the now cold and enraged mouse.

Not bothering to waste time, Darren and Lara changed some kind of sleeping incantation, which put the mouse... and everything else in a thirty kilometre radius, to sleep. They now ran towards the University, their encounter almost had them late. Upon arrival, the lined up to attention and the headmaster, Ben, spoke: "Everyone" he boomed. "Because it is such a fine evening, all classes will be cancelled for the rest of the day". He continued to boom, now with a small grin, knowing the dangers everyone faced just to get there and now, sending them back again.

Lara and Darren used their new night off to lie down, in front of a small pond to the west of the University and discuss many of the tales and adventures they have had. Darren being lazy, had none. So he let Lara do al the talking. This just seemed natural. Both of them hiding it, were eager for their next encounter.


[Footnotes]

¹The tall mountains consist of three somewhat medium sized mountains. When it came time to name them, having already used every famous name available at the time; the explorers got lazy and decided to just name them "tall", "taller" and "tallest". With a sense of humour, they named them in reverse order.Back

²Wizards have a fairly poor sense of humour. They also try to add this sense of humour into everything. In competition with a rival university, the elders of Temon Wizard University decided to sound smarter by naming their classes: "Advanced", "Super Advanced" and "So advanced, other advanced things look and go, 'Damn! That's advanced!'" Back

³Snow mice might sound cute and small, but they are really the size of bears and hold many other features bears have. You could almost call it a bear if it wasn't already named a mouse. This animal was named by a wizard. Back