Adventure-prolouge

The fog rolled in and the night was dark. It was a new moon and there were few stars visible in the sky because of all the trees overhead. Elizabeth and Peter Wright were deep in the forest. Quietly they walked down the pathway. The couple could just make out a faint light from a building in the distance.
When they approached the house Elizabeth peered through the basement window of the cottage. She pushed back her curly brown hair and squinted in the darkness. Inside she saw Nicholas Fisher pacing back and forth. The entire room was cluttered with papers. Some were crumpled up into balls and scattered across the floor, and some were piled on his desk. There was a table in the corner of the room with a potion on it, and that was the worst of it all.
Both Peter and Elizabeth knew what these things were for. They were the things Nicholas would need to steal their magic and take over the kingdom. Because of these things, that potion, the fait of the entire kingdom, possibly even the whole world was in the hands of the Wrights.
Elizabeth and Peter were royalty, king and queen of the kingdom Carsile. And they had magic. But very few people knew of this and very few others had powers. It was all a secret.
The way it worked with magic if one has it so will all their descendents. Both Elizabeth and Peter’s families had magic. Peter was royalty and when he married Elizabeth they ruled together.
They used their magic discreetly and only those who too possessed magic knew of their powers. It was law of The Wizards that magic had to be secret. The Wizards was a group of very powerful wizards who lived in an unknown place deep in the Amazon rainforest. You could only find it if you had magic. The Wizards were just regular people, who had magic, that became members of the group. The Wizards made laws for everyone that had magic. And they decreed that magic had to be a secret.
Only one known person knew of magic that did not possess the power himself. That person was Nicholas. He used to work at the palace. One day he snuck into the king and queens private study and overheard them speaking of magic. After he eavesdropped on the conversation Elizabeth and Peter wanted him thrown in prison. Then later the king and queen would decide whether or not to wipe his memory or do something else. Most people did not know why such a harsh punishment was given, but it was because he knew of magic.
Although when the guards tried to arrest him on the rulers order, Nicholas ran away. The guards chased after him until they were out of sight. For hours the king and queen waited anxiously. Very late that night the guards returned empty handed. Nicholas had escaped.
The king and queen decided to let him go with his new found knowledge of magic. They did not think he would do anything. But he had. And that was why they were there, because he now had the power to take away their magic. The two of them were the only people Nicholas knew of with magic, so they were his only target.
If he did take away their power Nicholas would surly take over the kingdom, but he would not stop there. He would take over all that he could and share the secret of magic with the whole world. So now they were here to defeat him.
Once Elizabeth had scanned the room and observed Nicholas she stood up. Elizabeth brushed the dirt from her blue dress and said to her husband,
“He has everything ready, now he is just trying to find a way to get us there so he can use his potion,”
“Won’t he pleased when he finds out we’ve come on our own,” Peter said with a laugh. Elizabeth giggled.
“Well, let‘s go,” she said. Then the two turned and headed for the door. Elizabeth pointed her finger at the locked door. There was a tiny spark and the door flew open. Quietly they walked to the top of the basement stairs.
“Wait?” Elizabeth whispered as she held out her arm to keep Peter from going downstairs.
“What is it?” he asked.
“What exactly are we going to do?” she asked. Peter shrugged.
“We could just paralyze him and then take him to the Wizards,” Peter suggested. Elizabeth pondered this for a moment. ‘
“I suppose,” she said. Peter nodded and then followed his wife down the stair.
Slowly they crept down the wooden staircase. They went carefully so the stairs wouldn’t creek.
It was time. Peter was the first to take action.
“Hello Nicholas,” he said loudly. Nicholas whipped his head around and glared at the two of them. He had a nasty expression on his face.
“Why, hello,” he responded bitterly. Nicholas glared furiously with his dark green eyes. He had oily skin and black hair that fell just above his ears.
“So nice to see you again,” said Elizabeth sarcastically. She stepped closer to Nicholas.
“Parlazima,” she shouted. Nicholas dodged the spell. He dove to the ground. When he got up he ran for Elizabeth. He pulled her back and dragged her towards the potion. He grabbed Peter with the other hand and went to the potion. Elizabeth and Peter desperately tried to cast their spells but Peter gripped onto their hands tightly and pressed them again their mouths.
The king and queen could not speak their spells or cast them with their hands. They were helpless. But the squired franticly to escape from Nicholas’s strong grasp. But they could not. He released his grasp for only a second and snatched some rope. Then before either Peter or Elizabeth could do anything he had them tied up and their mouths covered.
“Wait!” Elizabeth screamed though the scarf covering her mouth. It came out muffled but understandable “Ever since we heard you had discovered a way to make this potion we’ve wondered how you did it. You don’t have magic, but you need it to create that.” she said. Nicholas smiled.
“Ah, yes. I was hoping you’d ask that. And you answer should be hear in just a moment. In fact he should be here exactly now,” Just as he said that a portal appeared the center of the room. Out of it walked a man. His face was dark brown and he was wearing a long dark cloak.
Immediately the king and queen knew who he was. He was a Wizard.
“No, that’s impossible,” Peter said muffled by the scarf. He blew his brown hair out of his face. The wizard smiled an evil smile.
“No it’s not,” he began. “I did not want to be part of that group of wizards anymore so I decided to help Nicholas. I was also tired of you two being so famous. It was very annoying I provided the necessary magic to make this potion,” he said.
“Well at least you’ve finally showed up,”
“I’m quite sorry Nicholas but I had to stay for a Wizards meeting, they don’t know I’m helping you,”
“Well I suppose it didn’t really matter. They took care of that on their own, they just showed up,” Nicholas said. The Wizard looked to Elizabeth and Peter. Through the scarves Peter managed to say,
“Well we were walking in the park near to here when we realized we were near to your house. When you’re the king and queen you know things like that. So we figured we hadn’t checked on you since you found out about magic. We opened a looking portal and then we saw this, I mean the potion,” Peter said. Nicholas and the Wizard nodded. Then they just calmly walked over to the table and picked up the potion.
Now Elizabeth and Peter were trying to escape again. At that moment Peter remembered something. He fumbled around in his pocket, under the ropes, and pulled out a knife. He quickly cut the ropes when the Wizard and Nicholas were pouring the potion out of the caldron.
“Parlazima!” he shouted. Both the Wizard and Nicholas fell to the ground, paralyzed. Next Peter untied Elizabeth.
“We’ve done it!” she cried. “Now, to call the real Wizards,”
“Calling all Wizards,” they shouted together as they raised their hands. Another portal opened and this time four men and five women stepped out. They all wore cloaks and looked anxious.
“What’s going on!” shouted a short woman with pale skin and long curly blond hair. Elizabeth and Peter explained everything to the Wizards. They were astounded that their fellow Wizard had done such a thing. Elizabeth and Peter were some of the most famous wizards there were. They could not believe he would betray them.
They decided Nicholas would have his memory erased and sent back to work at the castle. That way the king and queen could keep an eye on him. The Wizard who helped him would be taken back to their hideout and then it would be decided what to do with him.
Elizabeth and Peter returned home with Nicholas. The whole way back they explained to him who he was and that he worked as a servant at the palace. When they reached the castle Elizabeth and Peter explained to everyone at the palace that they had worked everything out with Nicholas. They explained that they wanted him to resume work and not be thrown in the dungeon.
Years passed and nothing really happened. Nicholas went on working at the castle. Elizabeth and Peter had a daughter named Ella. She would be the new princess. But, she would not learn magic. The couple decided it was best if they waited until Ella was older to tell her. After their incident with Nicholas they didn’t want to take chances with a little girl telling someone about magic. When she was eighteen they would tell her.
So things went on as normal. The years passed. The Wrights ruled. Ella was a princess. And she had no idea that magic existed.