The Dream Walker
by Michelle
Murray
GENRE: Middle grade fantasy
BLURB:
Miranda is plagued by vivid dreams of a another world. A world
of castles, forests, Ice Caves, and dragons. She goes to a bookstore to see why
she is having these visions, and learns she is a Dream Walker. Miranda heeds
the call of need, and travels to Mystica. For years, the wizards have been
trapped in stone. Now, one curious boy has
released Midnight. Midnight gathers an army, and prepares for war.
Miranda needs to find the white wizard Lightning and free from his stone
prison. Can Miranda free Lighting and save Mystica?
Excerpt:
The spell book was worn and torn at
places. It was musty and full of mildew. Yet, Midnight could make out one
spell. This spell was all he needed. The spell trapped people’s souls in
stones.
Midnight traveled Mystica looking for
the ingredients for his spell. It made him giddy and somewhat impatient to have
the spell he needed. Being impatient, he decided to travel in smoke form. It
made for far faster journeying. A trail of
black smoke zipped through the air of Mystica.
His first landing was a waterfall on
the west side of the Dwarf Mountains.
Materializing into his wizard form, he landed softly on the crevice of the
mountain. His smoke form would not help him here, so he was forced to travel
the rest of the way on foot. Precariously, he made his way across the slippery
rocks to the back of the waterfall. Blue water splashed his robe, face, and
hands. The sound almost deafened him, and drowned out everything else.
Levitating himself to the other side, he only managed to hit his head on the
cliff. As he rubbed his head, he landed with a splash in the cool water. He
swam, paddling madly with his arms to fight the currents to the cave at the end
of the waterfall. Climbing out of the
water, he reached the sandy terrain of the ledge. He shook the water off his
robe, and gathered five stones. One stone for each of the wizards he wanted to
entrap. The stones were clear, almost opaque. They fit in the palm of his hand,
and were smooth and round. Polished by the water.
Triumph filled him! Mystica would be
his! A laugh, maniac in nature, escaped his lungs. Morphing into cloud form, he
continued on to the next ingredient. He needed fire flowers next. Fire flowers
were flowers with orange petals and a red center. They had double petals that
resembled the two suns on Mystica. They
grew on the heart of an island in the middle of Lily Lake. Lily Lake breamed
with seaweed, algae, and green moss. It was more of a swamp than a lake. Fish
swam beneath the green slime, often biting each other. The island itself had
sharp green thorny plants all around the perimeter. In the very center, was a
clearing with the fire flowers. Midnight came down from his smoke form on the
island, snatching his robe on the thorny plants. Blood trickled down his arm from the thorns.
He barely noticed. The blood dripped down into the water, making the fish
hungry. Grabbing his cape from its entanglement, he strode purposely forward. Ripping
the fire flowers from their beds, he added them to his potion bag. Fish from
the water jumped from the lake and started attaching him. Swarms of fish with
sharp fang like teeth came toward him. They bit into his skin leaving red marks
and spilling more blood. The blood called more and more fish from the water.
Surrounded by attacking fish, Midnight said a spell:
Clouds of dark
Clouds of black
Take these fish back!
AUTHOR BIO:
Michelle is a married working
mother of two fine young men (her children). She lives in Wisconsin. When not
writing, she enjoys reading especially science fiction/fantasy and
classics.
Her favorite authors include Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Margaret Weiss,
and Colleen Houck.
She also enjoys doing painting and crafts, and
spending time with her family. She enjoys going for walks, and swimming. She
has been known to jump in Lake Michigan with no life jacket!
She has been
writing since high school. Michelle took a break from writing to concentrate on
raising her children.
She has an app on her IPad that
gives her a word of the day and poem of the day.
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