Tuesday, August 10, 2010

My Adventure: Dedicated to Lauren (Mom)

Dear mom,

I just want to show you my adventure, but before I begin, I must tell EVERY SINGLE BOY READING THIS THAT I DO NOT LIKE TINKERBELL!

My Adventure:

Ferimin, a faery, had a secret. He told me that I could reveal this secret to the public, and by "the public," I mean my blog fans.
Ferimin's secret was that his first true love, Lieorel, was waiting for him at Lorelay's rock. Ferimin was delayed by the elves (VERY naughty spirits) and when Ferimin came to Lorelay's rock (located in Germany. It's a real place. Look it up on the internet) Lieorel wasn't there, and he assumed she was taken away by other elves.
Later, Ferimin fell in love with another faery named Tari. But when Ferimin told me his secret, I decided it wasn't too late and so I took his secret as a quest.
Before I tell you my adventure, I'm going to have to tell you about Lorelei (no, I didn't say Lieorel)
Lorelei was a girl waiting for her true love at Lorelay's rock. But when her true love, a fisherman, didn't appear, she realized that he betrayed her and went off with some other woman. Sad and furious, she killed herself by jumping off the rock and down to her watery grave. But her soul became an ondine, an immortal water spirit. Lorelei would sing a song, and sailors on a boat sailing across the Rhine (a river that runs along Germany and Norway) would hear it, become absorbed, and become so ignorant of the dangers of the Rhine, they would go CRASH into Lorelay's rock. This is Lorelei's revenge.
See how both Ferimin's secret and the story of Lorelei are almost the same? Plus, Lorelei and Lieorel are anagrams, meaning that they have the same letters only switched around.
But to make sure, I went to a Library of Records in Faeryworld (a library with records and files) and sure enough, Lieorel and Lorelei were in the same spot. Not wanting to find out any other secrets, I went to Germany (using magic), taking Ferimin with me.
We got to the Rhine, and went to Lorelay's rock...

Lorelei saw us.
But she recognized Ferimin, and said, "Too late to apologize to me now, you brats!" With a wave of her hand, she transported Ferimin into a cage. "Now YOU! HAHAHAHAHA!" She tried to pour holy water on me (holy water disentegrates faeries, which was the creature she thought I was) But, because I was human and because you can't exactly spill liquid in water, it didn't work.
"Drat!"
With my magic, I unlocked the cage Ferimin was in, and we tried to explain to her what was going on. "See, we just want to-" Suddenly Tari walked in. "Ferimin! I was looking for you! But then you disappeared! Our wedding's tomor-Lorelei?"
Lieorel, Lorelei, whatever you want to call her, was in a rage.
"We just wanted you as a friend!" I said quickly. "LIAR!" shouted Lorelei. With her magic, Ferimin, Tari, and I switched places with a sailor named Minifer, his wife Rita, and child Eylk (anagrams again!)
Then I thought of a plan. "We could sail to Norway! Yggdrasil (the tree with a spirit named Mimir gaurding it, the connection between Asgard, the place where the norse gods live, and Midgard, Earth) could take us to the chief god Odin, who knows how to read the runes, and switch us back!" I said. "But how do we get to Norway that fast?" asked Tari. Then, Ferimin and I thought up the solution. "MAGIC!" we shouted in unison.
We forced the boat to go to about 700 miles per hour (mph) In seconds, we were in the capital of Norway, Oslo.
We found Yggdrasil.
Climbing into the roots of the gigantic ash tree, Ferimin, Tari and I were in the midst of Rane.
Rane was an evil villain that betrayed the faeries. He was in prison, but we didn't know that he escaped. LORELEI, I instantly thought. She helped him escape. That was why she was ready for us at the Rhine. Lorelei befriended Rane, and trusted him to back her up in case we found a way to switch ourselves back-like going to Odin for advice. She tricked us.
"We meet again, Kyle!" (I was the one who arrested Rane in the first place.) "Will you surrender?"
"NEVER!" I shouted. "Oh, I forgot you were supposed to be a little hero! Just like Ferimin! But he's not going to help you now!" Rane uttered a spell, and Ferimin was no longer standing up. He was instantly bound tight with snakes, and Mimir (that spirit that guarded Yggdrasil) tackled him.
"DIE!" shouted Rane. But I wasn't standing in front of him anymore. The moment he leapt at me, I magically tranported myself BEHIND him. So instead of attacking ME, he attacked THE WALL. CRASH! He was knocked out.
Then I grabbed Mimir, and with a massive effort, hurled him at the wall.
I used my magic to untie Ferimin. We got Tari, who was a bit dazed from what she had seen me do, then ran into the portal between Asgard and the world you're reading this blog in this very moment.
We ran on a wild goose chase, with Mimir and Rane on our tails.
Running across the rainbow bridge to the kingdom of the gods, running past the guardian spirit Hjolnir, we made it to Odin.
Odin, who knew everything, said, "I know what you want. The spell is right under your noses. But I will be at your throats!" ANOTHER BETRAYAL! "Thor, god of thunder and lightning, I think you've got some electrocuting to do!"
Thor ran up, and threw a lightning bolt. But, luckily, he had a ridiculous aim, and when Rane walked in right that moment, the lightning bolt electrocuted him, and when we dodged, the lightning bolt bounced to Odin, and bounced right out the door to the rainbow bridge. Hjolnir dodged, and so did Mimir, who was right behind Rane. Entering Yggdrasil, the lightning bolt bounced on the walls, bounced right of the ash tree, and bounced straight into Oslo. CRASH! It hit a building, and every Norse person in it ran out, being chased by a crazy thunderbolt!
Meanwhile, back at Asgard, we fought Thor, and we looked for the spell. Then we found it. See, when Odin said "right under your noses," I guess he meant, well, RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES. Because the spell was written on the FLOOR, right at the spot we were standing before.
Ferimin recited the spell in English, and I repeated him in old faery language. Suddenly we were back in Lorelei's lair, and the real Minifer, Rita, and Eylk were stuck in Asgard.
We made a run for it.
Ferimin, Tari and I swam out from under Lorelay's rock, and we found Oslo in total CHAOS! Everyone was running from the thunderbolt Thor had thrown from earlier.
"We've got to get out of here!" I shouted, hiding myself along with my friends in the ensuing crowd.
Suddenly Ferimin caught the lightning bolt, and with magic, didn't electrocute himself!
The whole of Faeryworld made it there just in time. But, as they took us back home, they didn't catch Lorelei, Rane, or any of the Norse gods. But, with a bit of luck, I'm sure they'll find them, just as they found us, as they are still on the run, and "right under their noses!" I'll spread the news when they are all in faery prison.

THE END.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Think About It...Norse/Icelandic Legends

I'm going to relate some norse legends with christianity. It may be weird, but I'll try to get my point across.
First of all, there was Sigmund, a man sent by Odin, the Chief norse god. He was brave, fearless and strong. Then he up and died and the only trace left of him was a magical sword. See, I think the magical sword could be like Eve's faith, once she saw the tree of the knowledge of good and evil God told her not to eat. Her faith was broken immediately.
Then Regin, the dwarf, tried to rejoin the sword to use it for evil, just like Satan the Serpent did with Adam's faith. Sigurd (Sigmund's child), like Adam, was tricked into killing a dragon that was Regin's brother. Sigurd was ashamed.
But later, Regin was defeated. (You can learn much more about the legend in Wikipedia. Just look up "Ring of the nibelungs") This is like how Jesus, at the Cross, at Calvary, at Golgoth died and defeated the devil.
So the lesson of both stories would be dealing with obedience, not to stray away like a lost sheep.
That's it. I just wanted to show you what I thought.