The Knights of EirelaianThe Knights of EirelaianHalflingChapter OneLeilani woke up that morning not feeling in the best of forms. In fact, to be brutally honest, she was in the worst possible form anyone could imagine. Well, at least, it felt that way to her. She had slept in half an hour; tripped over her bed covers as she climbed out of bed; and had fallen flat on her face as she tried to put on her slippers. Not the best way to start your sixteenth birthday.Trudging down the stairs, Leilani scowled until she reached the bottom stair and rounded the corner to the kitchen: greeting her mother with a face that could put the whole of Mexico into an Artic
The Knights of Eirelaian Ch 2The Knights of EirelaianHalflingChapter Two"So Firefly, do you like your present?"Leilani looked up from her mother's world famous Hawaiian cooked breakfast and shrugged her shoulders. "It's certainly interesting" she said, feeling the soft suede material of the over-tunic, "Dad doesn't usually give me this kind of stuff for my my birthday. Is something up, Mum?""Nothing's up" Leilani's mother answered her casually, giving her a cheery smile, "I can't imagine what gave you that idea. Why don't you eat up the rest of your breakfast and try on your present.""But Mum...""Is that the time? Quickly Leilani, time's running out."L
The Knights of Eirelaian Ch 3The Knights of EirelaianHalflingChapter Three"Dad?"Seamus Hanlin stared at his little girl sitting on the seat across the table from him. To be honest she wasn't really a little girl anymore."Dad?"Leilani had more than halfway grown into a fine young lady. Her hair was black as soot and cut into a short messy chin length bob which was a lot shorter in the back than it was at the front, and her eyes were the same jewel green his own eyes were: snapping and bright also. She already made a fine looking apprentice knight in the black breeches she'd been lent and her apprentice uniform."Dad! Wake up! I've been t
The Knights of Eirelaian Ch 4The Knights of EirelaianHalflingChapter Four"Firefly?"Leilani found herself back at school feeling as if she'd woken up from a strange dream. The weird thing though was this felt more like a dream than anything else. For one thing the classroom was completely empty except for herself and a handsome boy about her own age with rusty red hair and clear blue eyes, and there was no teacher."Are you sure you can handle it?"Leilani looked surprised at the boy. He was staring at her like someone who stares at a beautiful piece of art that only they can appreciate. "I'm sorry," she said, trying not to stare too long at his beautiful bl
Black Catkin Part 1The Legends: The Scrolls of the Black CatkinPart 1"Weeeeee!!! Do it again, Pandora?" squealed the dirty fair-headed little girl, her dark green eyes sparkling with delight."Yeah Pandie. Show us your jumping trick" smiled an older brown haired girl. The other girl, whose hair was dark blonde, smiled mischievously and began to change shape. Before long a dark blonde pussycat was sitting where she had been, licking its paws.Suddenly it started to trot over to a nearby oak tree, climbed up it, until it reached the top most branch, climbed out onto the branch, lay down and started to mew. Hey Cas
Black Catkin Part 2The Legends: The Scrolls of the Black CatkinPart 2Arizan looked at the girl standing in front of her. She had long dark blonde hair that reached all the way to the middle of her back, a childlike face (which reminded Arizan of a cross between the face of a kitten and a young cat) and hazel eyes framed with long thick dark lashes. Right at that moment the girl's eyes were glowing a strange eerily green, and she looked like a cat cornered by a pack of hungry dogs, frightened and confused."I don't understand what you mean," she said, playing with charm on the small chain around her neck, "I am a witch if that's what you're asking, but on
Black Catkin Part 3The Legends: The Scrolls of the Black CatkinPart 3"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE PARCHMENT WAS LOST?!?! WHAT FOOL WAS CARRYING IT?!?!"Calder Blueoak winced and held the phone receiver away from his ear. This guy's worse than, Hunter Redfern, he thought to himself, At least when Hunter was in charge, I didn't get almost deafened answering the phone. "I mean, we lost it," Calder spook into the phone, "it was beyond our control. We were attacked, and Felix..."Before he could finish what he was saying, the voice on the end of the phone interrupted him. "So, that little made vampire worm lost the parchment." said the voice, deadly calm, "Don't
Black Catkin Part 4The Legends: The Scrolls of the Black CatkinPart 4Pandie stared at the boy in front of her. She wasn't used to people at her so intensely, and this boy was giving her strange looks. Why is he looking at me like that? she thought to herself, Have I still got some dirt on my face? I thought I cleaned that all off in the rest room.Then, as if to answer her question, she found herself looking at her through his eyes. To him, she was mysterious, beautiful, and looked like a heroine from an ancient myth. I don't look like that, Pandie thought to herself, remembering all the times she'd arrive home from hunting, with dirt on her face, twig
Their Fathers' FootstepsPrologueTwo girls with dark curly hair occupied the garage slash makeshift music room. Whilst the shorter of the two sat cross legged on a nearby workbench, the taller one played a lilting melody on her hot pink electric guitar."You are everything to meThe very thing I want to beYou keep me flying so highThe love I take I give back to youA love so tender and oh so trueThat keeps me flying so hi... damn it!""Now young lady, is that any way to talk to a Fender?""Sorry, broke my nail and one of the strings at the same time Da.." Amy Lee stopped short and noticed that instead of her dad her dad's best friend was standing at the
Their Fathers' Footsteps Ch 1Chapter One"Because obviously""Ro!""He's out of my league""Ro!""I'm wasting my time""Ro!""'Cause he'll never be mine""Ro!""And I know I'll""Ro!""Never will be good enough for him""Roanna Jane Fletcher stop singing and come downstairs and answer this phone before I tell your friend Tink that you've joined a pack of rugby playing nuns in The Alps!"Upon hearing her dad's urgent sounding voice Roanna stopped singing and ran downstairs, grabbing the phone from his outstretched arm. "Hey Tink," she spoke into the mouth piece cheerily, "how's it going?""Why, thank you so much for holding the phone for me Dad" Roanna's da
Their Fathers' Footsteps Ch 2Chapter Two"Daisy-Mae Mary Judd," Daisy-Mae's mother called up the stairs, "you have five seconds to get out of the bathroom and downstairs before your father decides he'd rather not take you to your mystery band practice at the old music hall. 1..."The sound of clattering could be heard from inside the bathroom."2...""I'll be down!" Daisy Mae called from inside the bathroom, hopping about from one foot to the other as she put on her pink socks with the black stars and her black and pink retro Converse trainers, "Just cladding my feet!""3..."Daisy Mae quickly ruffled her hair, put on her thin black satin hair band, and threw open
Midnight Spell ProloguePrologueAndie crash landed inside the elf cave and dusted herself down. She had just finished tidying up her letters bag and was about to sneak to Santa's office to put the letters she'd collected in his in tray while he wasn't looking when a loud bossy annoying voice stopped her in her tracks. "Andie Cornflower Moss Brookly!" the head elf bellowed, "What is the meaning of this?""Um, well, you see" Andie mumbled all flustered, "I, er""Speak up" the head elf Emily demanded crossly, "I don't speak idiot fairy you know" Andie pouted at this outburst."I had after school detention" she sighed, her voice more clear now, " and extra home
Midnight Spell Chapter OneChapter One"Andie?" Danny nudged his best friend, "Hey Andie? Wake up!" Andie sat up like a shot: her eyes wide open. "Is sleeping your favourite hobby Andz?" Danny teased lightheartedly, "Because you're al...""Tutankhamun became pharaoh of all Egypt when he was just nine years old" Andie interrupted him, rambling off another random historical fact, "He reigned for nine years until he was killed at the age of eighteen years old. His original name was Tutankhaten and he wrote the longest letters ever. I saw them one time when I sneaked into...""Andie, it's Saturday""Huh?""We're not in school in History Class""We're not?""No"
Midnight Spell Chapter TwoChapter Two"They're around here somewhere" Andie giggled quietly at the sight of Danny with his rear stuck in the air as he searched through one of the boxes of decorations, "I swear the Christmas Tree lights were in here." Looking to make sure Danny or Sandra weren't watching Andie touched the tree lightly with one fingertip. Without any warning a string of glittering lights zoomed out of her finger and whirled round and round the Christmas Tree: sparkling brightly."Oh look Danny!" Andie spoke out loud, pretending to gasp, "They're on the tree!""What??" Danny lifted his head out of the box, his face all puzzled, "Where'd they come fr
The Knights Of Eirelaian Ch 15The Knights of EirelaianHalflingChapter FifteenOver half of the greichon lay mortally wounded or dead around the feet of Egan-Rahn and the mysterious silver haired girl. Both looked at the remaining greichon slowly surrounding them poised to attack and then looked at each other and grinned."After the count of three"OneTwoTHREE!The little maiden hid in a nearby tree out of harm's way and watched the chaotic battle below her. Only she knew who the farm boy really was and only he knew what she'd become. She wouldn't be able to explain it to anyone later if they asked, but it felt like someone else was watching what she could see
Black Catkin Part 34The Legends: The Scrolls of the Black CatkinPart 34"She'll come back to you"Calder paused testing the restraints on the eagle and looked bewildered for who in Blaine Moreno's cave dungeons could be daring to talk to him. "No talking from prisoners of The Dark Dragon King" he snapped bluntly as another dark soldier assassin walked past the entrance to the prison, his true thoughts hidden by a mask of iced cruelty.As soon as the other soldier left the cream haired lamia turned and looked towards the grey eyed witch staring calmly at him. Her dark honeyed locks were fading to a dull silver around her face and was cut short and harsh mak
The Knights of Eirelaian Ch 14The Knights of EirelaianHalflingChapter FourteenRunning after Alistella, making sure the princess never left her sight, Emma allowed herself to melt into the dark vapoured winged form of her hunter fey persona and ploughed through the path of the storming greichon, leaving a trail of torn bodies behind her for her twin Danwin to finish off. What ever happened, it was her duty to protect the princess even if it meant that sometimes she had to rely on someone else to help pick up the pieces.She's too fast! she shouted to her brother's mind, Why does she always have to be too fastYou trained her that way came the amused laughing reply
The Knights of Eirelaian Ch 13The Knights of EirelaianHalflingChapter Thirteen"You're late"Egan-Rahn ignored the comment and set the girl he was carrying on the ground. "I believe you'll find that you are early, Norcadius" he said bluntly, "Entirely not my fault that you and your men couldn't wait and caused the whole camp to be alerted in the process." "Still" he went on as the greichon messenger sneered angrily at him, "This may just work to my advantage. Call all your men here""So you can use the dark fey queen to your advanta... Ack!""I work for Queen Morgada and only her" Egan-Rahn spoke coldly as he drained the energy from the grey man, "Have you got th
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