The
Magicians of the Moon
Princess Serena was very excited
about today’s event; today she and her family were visiting the theatre to
watch two magicians perform magic. The two magicians, that Serena was going to
see, were said to be very famous and their magic was said to be truly magical
and Serena was looking forward to seeing the show.
The theatre, where the magic show was
being shown, stood outside the village. It was a big, wooden built theatre and
the village was really too small for such a large building. The theatre held a
lot of different events, apart from magicians doing magic. Plays, concerts and musicals
were often held there and the royal family of Lunaasia loved to go the theatre,
especially Princess Serena.
Serena was happy with two things
about going to the theatre today. One was to see the magicians perform their
magic, and the other reason was there were statues at the theatre. There were
some statues inside the theatre and some outside the theatre. Hopefully one of
the statues at the theatre will hold a moon bead here. Once the royal family
got to the theatre, Serena asked her mother if she could look at the statues
outside the theatre. There was some time left before the magic show began, so
Queen Luna let her go. “But you must be quick Serena;” she said “the show will
start soon”. “I’ll be quick Mother” said Serena.
There were different statues outside
the theatre; there were statues of actors, musicians, the founders of the
theatre and there were also statues of magicians. Serena had a quick look at
all the statues to search for any beads, and suddenly she found two dull
looking beads. The two beads were on the base of a statue of a magician. “Wow,”
Serena said, to herself, “this is the first time that I have found two moon
beads on a statue. This makes my search for the rest of the moon beads easier”.
Serena checked over the other statues to
see if there were any more beads, but there weren’t. “Oh well, at least I found
two instead of one” said Serena, to herself. She quickly went back to her
mother and sister, just as it was time for everyone to take their seats for the
magic show.
Inside the theatre, the stage was all
ready for the magic show to begin. The stage had very dark purple curtains,
with gold and silver stars on. The royal family sat in three big chairs, in the
middle of the seating area, and everyone else took their seats. Hundreds of
people had come to see the magic show, so the whole seating area was packed.
Soon the magic show started to begin.
Two magicians magically appeared on the stage; a male and a female. The male
magician introduced himself as ‘Moonarak’, and the female magician introduced
herself as ‘Moonania’. They began the magical act with making doves fly out of
their top hats. Next they magically made two long white ribbons fly around the stage,
and there wasn’t anything, not even string, holding them up. Everyone,
including the royal family, clapped and cheered loudly for the magicians; they
thought their magic was really magnificent. Princess Serena loved their magic
the most; she couldn’t keep her eyes of the magicians.
The magicians performed some other
clever magic acts; they transformed little pieces of paper into white rose
petals, made confetti burst out of their hats, transformed little rocks into
little diamonds, made water sprout out of a table and made rabbits appear and
disappear again. Everybody loved the magical acts and clapped and cheered
loudly. Now it was time for the final magical act. “Moonania and I would like a
volunteer from the audience to take part in this final magic trick of ours”
said Moonarak. Everyone in the audience wanted to be in the act, especially
Princess Serena. Moonarak chose Serena and asked her to come up on the stage.
Serena was happy that she was chosen and went up on stage at once.
Moonarak and Moonania placed Serena
into the middle of the stage and had her kneel down on the stage floor, and
then they filled two big watering cans with water. “Now our last trick is that
we will be pouring whatever there is in the watering can onto the princess”
said Moonarak. “But no need to fear,” said Moonania “because we promise you
that the princess will not be soaked”. Serena braced herself as the two
magicians started to hold the watering cans above her head. When they tipped
the watering cans, instead of water pouring out, silver glitter came out of the
watering cans and onto Serena. Serena was delighted to have silver glitter over
her, and the audience clapped and cheered. Serena curtsied and went back to her
seat, and the show was now finished.
Everyone was sad that the magic show
was now finished, but they all enjoyed it just the same. Just as the royal
family was about to leave on their coach the man in charge of the theatre came
up to the royal family, and said that the magicians wanted to speak to Princess
Serena. “They didn’t say why they wanted to speak to you your highness,” the
owner of the theatre said to Serena “but they are anxious to speak to you”.
Serena couldn’t understand why they wanted to speak to her, but she agreed to
speak with the magicians.
The owner led the princess to where
the magicians were and left them alone together. “We wanted to speak to you
your highness, because we sensed our beads are with you” Moonarak explained.
“Your beads?” asked Serena “oh, do you mean these beads?” She showed the two
dull moon beads to Moonarak and Moonania. “Yes those are our beads” said
Moonania. Suddenly she and Moonarak began to glow.
Moonarak transformed into a sorcerer,
with long white hair and wearing a white and silvery robe. Moonania transformed
into a sorceress, with long light silver hair and was also wearing a white and
silver robe. “You two are the Moon Sorcerer and Moon Sorceress, right?” asked
Serena. “That is correct your highness” said the Moon Sorcerer. “We thank you
for helping us find our beads your highness” said the Moon Sorceress. Before
the Moon Sorcerer and Moon Sorceress went back into their beads, they magically
presented Serena a gift of a bunch of white roses, and then they went back into
their beads. “Now that I have thirteen moon beads; I just need to catch three
more, and then I will have found all sixteen moon beads” Serena said happily to
herself.
Serena went back to the coach, so
that she and her mother and sister could go home. Funny thing was that no one,
except Serena, remembered the magic show that they had just seen. And they were
talking about seeing a marvellous play at the theatre today. Serena found it a
bit funny that everyone had a different memory of what happened today, but it
was for their own good since the two magicians were really moon spirits. Serena
felt happy while going home because of the magical day she had enjoyed.
