Chapter #2You find the scroll. by: mess   "John, I'm going over to the yard sale, are you coming?" Julia suddenly asked you.
Not having anything better to do you thought to yourself that you might as well just join her.
"Sure... I'll tag along." You answered.
You and your sister headed out of the house and towards the villa. You and Julia had been really close since the day your father and mother got separated. The two of you always shared everything and really enjoy each others company,
Arriving at the old man's villa you saw a huge sale in the front yard, loads of old antique furniture, sculptures and other things like ritual masks, art and other strange things from all around the world.
As fast as you got close to the front yard Julia rushed towards all the stuff, picking up things, studied them for a while before laying them down and unto the next item.
You walked around looking at all the weird stuff, wondering where the man got all of these things, there had to be stuff from every corner of the world. You walked around the yard looking, you saw the old man walking around telling people stories behind the stuff in the yard.
As you walked around you came by a table with a lot of medieval looking stuff, like helmets, daggers and some old silverware. Suddenly your eyes caught the attention of a old scroll laying on a piece silk cloth.
You carefully picked up the scroll and examined it.
"Fancy old relics do ya?" You heard a voice behind you.
As you turned your head you saw the old man standing behind you with a smile on his face.
"Uh.. yeah, guess I do" You replied.
"Well, it's a interesting piece you got there young man." He said pointing at the scroll in your hand. "It's said that it contains a powerful spell". He chuckled.
"A spell?" You asked skeptical.
"Indeed a spell, I got it from my time working as an historian in Europe. "So are you interested?"
You pondered about the whole thing for a few seconds, you always had a interest for magic and fantasy stories, this would be a neat item to have.
"How much?" You then asked.
The old man looked at you for a while. "You look like a decent lad. Tell you what, you can have it. By the looks of it I earn enough from the young lady you came with" He said smiling and looked over at your sister walking around with her hands full of decorative stuff.
"For free? Really? Thanks!" You said smiling, surprised over the kindness of the old man.
You stood there listening to the old man's stories about some of the stuff for about 30 minutes before your sister finally came towards you with four full bags.
"Well, I'm done!" She said, clearly happy with her findings. "Are you?"
"About time." You said.
Julia just frowned at you and handed you two of her bags.
"Come on John, lets head home! I can't wait to have a closer look at my findings!" She said, almost dragging you of the yard.
"So did you find anything yourself?" Julia asked you as the two of you walked towards your house.
"I actually got a free... scroll from the old man." You answered.
"A scroll?" She asked you with a frown on her face.
"Yeah.. a scroll, he claimed it to contain a magical spell" You said rolling your eyes, convincing Julia that you didn't believe his statement. But really you were kind of eager to try it out, as you always fancied stories about magic and such things.
"Oooh... magic spell... yeah... right" Julia said with a stupid smile on her face.
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When the two of you got back home you helped Julia with getting all her stuff inside her room, before you walked into your own. You laid the scroll on your desk and carefully rolled it out. As you were about to examine the words on the paper you where interrupted by Sharon's voice.
"JOOOHN, get down here!" She yelled.
"God... what now?" You said to yourself and went down stairs.
"What's up..?" You asked Sharon.
"What do you think John? the lawn! You should have done it yesterday." She said angry.
"Man... can't I do it later? I'm kinda busy with something. Why can't Tina do it? She doesn't do anything around here!"
"Don't take that tone with me young man! march out now!" She said and pointed at the front door.
You knew you couldn't discuss with Sharon when she's in that mood, so you walked outside and started the lawn mover.
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It took you about 30 minutes to get it done. As you finished you eagerly ran back up to your room to take a look at the mystical scroll.
You entered your room and...
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