The
Mythical Moon Spirit
Today there was a commotion going
about in the village of Lunaasia. The villagers had been seeing a male lion
roaming about in the village and it made them too scared to come out of their
homes. They feared that the lion would attack and eat them. There was also a
sighting of an eagle flying around the village. The eagle wasn’t a threat, but
the lion was. No one had any idea where the lion or eagle came from, but they
wanted the lion captured as soon as possible before it hurt anyone.
When the news of the lion reached
Queen Luna, she became worried for her people. “Have any people been killed by
the lion?” she asked James. “No none your majesty,” said James “but there have
been peculiar reports of the lion and eagle”. He explained to Queen Luna that the
lion and eagle were roaming around the village as if they were searching for
something. “The lion and eagle don’t seem to be searching for food or anything
special. And what’s even stranger is that the lion and eagle seem to be
interested in the griffin statue that stands in the middle of the village”.
“Now that is strange behaviour for a lion and eagle to do,” said Queen Luna “animals’
maybe the curious type, but this is still strange behaviour. We better call out
the guards at once and have them catch the lion and eagle, but tell them not to
kill any of them, understand?” James understood and went to give the order to
the guards immediately.
The strange behaviour of the lion and
eagle got Princess Serena thinking; it made her think that maybe there was
something about the griffin statue that made the lion and eagle so interested.
‘I need to look at that griffin statue myself and see what it is’ she thought. The
problem was that Queen Luna wouldn’t allow her to visit the village because of
the lion roaming about. So Serena decided to go to the village, in secret, and
by herself for once. ‘I know this is against the rules’ she thought ‘but I must
find out what is happening’. She changed
her royal gown into something plain and common, and when no one was looking she
sneaked out of the castle grounds and made her way to the village on foot by
running. “I better hurry before my mother or sister realizes that I have gone
out” said Serena. The truth is Serena wasn’t allowed to leave the castle
without her mother’s permission. But she was willing to break the rules, just
this once, to find out what was going on with the lion and eagle. “Once I find
out about this lion and eagle, I’ll quickly run back to the castle and then no
one will ever know I left”.
The village was empty at the time that
Serena arrived; everyone had locked themselves up in their houses and shops
because of the lion. And right now the lion and eagle were nowhere in sight and
neither were any guards. “It feels strange being in the village on my own for
once,” said Serena “but I better hurry and get to the griffin statue now,
before anybody does show up”. The big griffin statue was located right in the
center of the village. Serena knew that a griffin was a mythical creature and
it had the head of an eagle and the body of a lion. It also made her wonder if
that was the reason why the lion and eagle liked the statue so much.
Serena took a good look around the
statue, making sure not to be seen by anyone, and there in the middle of the
front base was a dull looking bead. “Ah-ha,” said Serena “this must be the
answer to everything”. She pulled out the bead from the statue. “It’s obvious
to me that the lion and eagle are really the animal forms of this moon bead,
which explains why they were interested in the statue. Question is where are the
lion and eagle now?”
As soon as Serena said that, the lion
and eagle appeared in front of her. Serena bravely stood her ground as the lion
and eagle just stood there looking at her. “This bead is yours isn’t it?” she
asked the lion and eagle, holding out the bead in front of them. The lion and
eagle nodded their heads to say yes. “You two must come with me back to the
castle at once,” she said to them “guards will be here looking for you, to
capture you, any moment now”. The lion and eagle understood Serena’s words and
started to follow her.
Serena led the lion and the eagle all
the way back to the castle grounds. There was no one around so no one would see
that Serena was with an eagle and a lion. The dull looking bead started to glow
and the eagle and lion started to glow too. The glowing lion and eagle started
to join and become one with each other, and then they turned into a grey
griffin, with a silver beak, a silver mane and white wings. Serena couldn’t
believe what she had just seen. “Well since a griffin is half lion and half
eagle, I guess this would all make sense” she said, surprisingly. It was a real
surprise to see a real griffon, because griffons were really a myth and only
seen in books.
Suddenly the Moon Sorceress came out
of her bead, and then she hugged the Moon Griffin and the Moon Griffin nuzzled
her back. “Thank you for finding my animal partner Princess Serena” she said.
Serena was happy to have found the Moon Sorceress’ animal partner and asked
which animal partner was the Moon Sorcerer’s. The Moon Sorceress explained that
the Moon Dragon was the Moon Sorcerer’s animal partner. So Serena didn’t need
to look for the animal partner of the Moon Sorcerer because she had already
found it. The only partners she needed to find now were the partners of the
Moon Pegasus and the Moon Unicorn. The Moon Sorceress and Moon Griffon went
back into their beads.
Everyone forgot about the commotion
of the lion roaming round the village, thanks to the magic of the moon beads.
It was a good thing too otherwise there might have been more commotion. Another
good thing for Princess Serena is that no one, not even her mother or sister,
knew that she had sneaked out of the castle and into the village on her own. Princess
Serena decided that she would never again sneak out of the castle or go off
somewhere by herself or break any rules; breaking rules was obviously not a
good thing for a princess to do.
With now having fourteen moon beads,
there were only two more moon beads for Princess Serena to find. But then she
had a thought; what would happen once she collected all sixteen moon beads?
Would she get to keep them or would they just disappear altogether once she got
them? Of course Princess Serena had no idea what would happen, and the only way
for her to know the answers is to find the last two remaining moon beads.
