Chapter 1: The Mysterious Creature

The first day of April started welcomed by the transient beauty of the sunrise, very early in the morning, In a quiet neighborhood where no one seems to talk to each other and moreover, seemed to not know anyone except themselves, Except, A young girl of 12 years old with a quiet disposition knew every face she saw by the window of her room, she spent her hours each day in her room reading and watching the time pass by her window, she would often imagine scenarios in her head and sometimes write fictional stories about anything inspirational she could see,And she was Mabel Ashler, she have blonde wavy hair and brown eyes and a good constitution, her mother was a hardworking middle aged woman named Maribel Ashler who love to take care of her loved ones and talking to friendly looking people she could see, And when the clock struck six o-clock,she was cooking breakfast in the very moment Mabel went downstairs,

Mabel could smell fried eggs and sausages in the kitchen and her mother greeted her “Good Morning my dear”

When her mother finished cooking breakfast, her mother mentioned the latest morning news to her father, Oliver Ashler who was wearing his office uniform and was reading a newspaper who looked up and listened: “ Have you heard about a very strange news? That a strange new species of bird was spotted near our neighborhood? According to the news, it has a tiny circular body and a horn like a unicorn”.

Mabel who was in the room that time accidentally eavesdropped because, she somehow felt the description of creature seemed to be familiar to her like she kind of saw the creature before...

her father replied,”There was no such news in my newspaper, so you think it was real? It’s not that important, We will not see it in person anyway,” He folded his newspaper while her mother replied,” I am telling you this because, they were searching for it, and if you saw it, you must catch it, and of course it, they would pay us if we did”.

After breakfast, Oliver, her father finally left by his bicycle to go to his office and Mabel was told to start her morning duties by her mother who was busy folding the freshly washed and dried clothes in the living room, Mabel head outside to buy some tomatoes and carrots to the nearest vegetable stall, when Mabel was already halfway into her destination, something caught her eye, and it perched into a lamppost and the creature have Blue feathers, a tiny delicate circular body and a single horn on the creature’s forehead, Mabel freezed on the spot when she saw the creature that

perfectly matches her mother’s description of the bird, The bird flew off the lamppost and it flew straight into an empty alleyway, Mabel couldn’t help her curiosity and she followed the bird into all directions it would go to, but the bird flew over a roof and flew through it, Mabel lost sight of the bird but after a few

seconds, she found a way, Mabel walked on the left two times until she came into a halt and saw the bird perched on a shoulder of an old woman wearing a black cloak, Mabel suddenly thought of the fact that birds were usually afraid of humans, was this normal bird behavior? Or this kind of species was never harmed or seen by humans at all? Mabel thought of this question as she quickly hid behind the nearest wall without thinking before the old woman could even look around.

Mabel peeked on the distance, The old woman took out a smooth wooden stick with swirling intricate silver design and a diamond on the tip “maybe some kind of magic wand?,” Mabel thought, but she shrugged her thought off her, “magic was not real,” she repeated this sentences in her mind

the old woman swirled the wand into a precise motion and she could hear a faint mutter she could not clearly hear, All of a sudden, a flash of blinding rays of light came explosively off the tip of the mysterious stick, when the light slowly disappeared , the old woman and the bird vanished into thin air, like they never exist in the first place...

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