The Paladin's Ascension Pt 1 Blue Moon's Curse: Tales of Good and Evil, #1

By Laura Jean Lysander

      The Continuing Parody of humoristic fantasy, the Saga of the Knights of the Provincial Order, Residing in the Magic Dream Realm have done it again, for now even more harrowing chaos and evil dastardly doings to surmount and encounter have entered their paths. Young Squire Galahad, a Chosen half of a Divine love-bonded couple that gives their Realm and ours its existence has now entered the Honah Lee Academy as a Squire and returned to the Magic Dimension Realm, having to leave his beloved best friend Dinny Sapphire behind who abides within our Earthly dimension of life. Galahad has pledged a heart-wrenching vow to somehow find a way to transport Dinny Sapphire to the Magic realm by her coming-of-age 18th Birthday, yet he needs the aid and support of his newly acquired Bunkmates at the Academy: Squire Perci, the epitome of Divine Otherworldly chastity, and Squire Bors, his valiant, strong, humorous partner in Dynamic duo, and the anomalistic B-pyxis Finnimbrun, the twin of a magically borne male/female pair of oddly symbiotic twins, or... 'just plain Finn' as his male half would put it; Finn, Borne of pure magic and actually of 11yrs of age while birthed (go figure that out read the tale!)  He is confronted by his own inborn curse the night he is born, and befriended by a twee tiny little light globe who sprinkles sparkling healing dust and smooches him every night to help subdue the debilitating hex upon him and devotedly follows him everywhere he goes since his birthnight. The new Quad Squad of Squires vow an inter-dimensional retrieval plan to find a way to aid their brother Galahad while learning of their mystic and physical esoteric studies...but a newly arrived and Mysterious Sister Apa, a hypnotic, bewitching young beauty enters the Academy and bunks right next door to them with her Triplet suitemates and seems to have other plans to thwart this...most of it all targeted in oddly obsessive amour...towards Squire Finn, who alike Perci and Bors had pledged a vow of chastity and clear intent just to aid Galahad, for he was borne for just that purpose. When Finn is besieged by  Sister Apa's wiles and wild rebellion...which she surely takes too far...he also is astounded and stunned to find out through a strange missive adventure that he himself is also Divinely Chosen, has a Sacred Chosen Love bonded partner, a hexed and Cursed adopted Fae Princess Calliope, who was also born in the Other Tyme like Dinny Sapphire but now resides in their Magic Dimension, only placed under a horrible vile spell by the posthumous Villainess Empress Shar; This debacle of distortion of Finn Sandwiched between a quandary of two females is disrupting the trajectory of what  Finn knows he was born to do, find a way Galahad can be with his Love Dinny Sapphire physically...which also involves a 'heavenly intervention', for Dinny Sapphire is founded to also be of...Otherworldly Alien lineage, one not seen nor heard of in a long, long time...and this brings other Villians into the mix, a Mr. Krunk Jr lurking about Dinny Sapphire's every move to oust her otherworldly secrets and finally get the revenge he so craves, with the help of even another Twin...who is tied to the alluring sister Apa, the Mordacious Warlock Wizard Momos, who has her in his partnership of tyrannic take down to set her torrid trap into motion; Will Galahad, with his best Mate Finn and the Dynamic duo of Bors and Perci, be able to get through their trials and tribulations and reach their goals of Knighthood and Chivalric Quest to aid Dinny Sapphire and Galahad's Chosen Love bond? Or will it all end in infamy and disgrace? Read on, valiant ones, and find out...

• Language: English
• Publisher: LJ Lysander
• Release date: Jan 25, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215280300

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BY LAURA JEAN LYSANDER

A MAGIC BLESSING...

REMOVE ALL EVIL FROM THIS PLACE

MAY LIGHT AND LOVE IN ALL REPLACE

MAY ONLY THE DESIRABLE  DWELL HERE EMBRACED

AND BANISH MISFORTUNE WITH MAGICAL GRACE~

SO MOTE IT BE...

YOU, THE READER ARE NOW BLESSED,

IN PROTECTED ENCHANTMENT,

HALLOWED SOUL, DESTINED INST ADVANCEMENT;

WITHIN ALL REALMS THOU MAYST DWELL

TO CONTINUE THIS TALE THY WILT NOW TELL...

INST ITS EVERLASTING FELICITY’S SPELL~

INTRO

ONCE UPON A TIME ... there was a mystic, magical world, a dimension of time where some unknowingly baffled souls just like you and me (of no fault or will of their own) were enchantingly chosen, and would visit this magical Realm of a world only In Their Dreams. This Dream World Realm was just as real and alive as the one you are in now; This incredible yet unknown to the masses slumbering visitation has and still is continuing, on and on since eternity; for those that have known and been privy and personally partaken of the visits, it has been a cherished, vital secret as well as a harrowing peril; the fate of many innocent lives always hung within the balance of the actions of these certain individuals, who always were matched in pairs. One individual from the Other Tyme which is Our waking World, the one we live and breathe in, and another from the Magical Dream World Realm dimension, or in some rare instances, those paired Chosen who have been borne from one parent of each dimension, or someone within their ancestry descendant line had a known or unknown connection to another Chosen Pair. These two together in their pairing partnership were called in the Magic Dream World dimension Chosen. Chosen in sacred Divine fate for their love for each other was freely given, and chosen by them; they took the chance of allowing and showing, professing their deepest true love for each other regardless of the consequence and almost insurmountable barrier of being in two separate dimensions and worlds it may have brought to them, and its intensity and vibration of positive divinity, their undying faith, and love for each other breached both worlds so strongly it created, sustained and fed the foundation and existence of the working, breathing sustenance of such energies, thus creating the allowance of the inanimate and animate life, objects, entire Poiesis and continuity of the  entire Dream Realm Dimension, the macrocosm and conception of its continuity with their devotion and Eternal love for each other;

There were those of the Pair destined born in and from the Other Tyme, the one we know and live in, who only could meet their beloved ‘Chosen One’ within their dreams, and then return to their lives as we know it awakened and back into their reality; that starting point vantage Tale was covered in the very first Modern Fairy Tale Novel that started this growing, now rambling epic continuation: it was the Novel In Your Dreams. Some individuals of the Other Tyme would instantaneously cross into the Dream Realm in their slumber as mere infants, and if stumbled or founded upon there by someone an inhabitant of the Dream magic Realm within it, they were usually taken from where they manifested in their dream and adopted into the family who had discovered them, thinking they were abandoned for many knew these individuals were of the Fabled Other Tyme, and it was an honor and incredibly rare to find them, and they usually always wished to care for them; They were to stay there in the Mystic Dream Realm to reside and now live their lives onward, and would vanish in the Other Tyme, just disappear... and/ they would in time possibly meet their destined, Chosen partner, for most  were destined to find them if transpired into the Dream Realm that way; Then there would be other kinds of Chosen Pairs not alike those, where once upon a time those oddballs, the chosen pair were not each from one of the separate Worlds, who somehow reversed everything regarding the pairing’s origin, for, of course, you have to have those types as well, the ones who would be born in the Mystic Dream Dimension World and have either one and the other parent, not one or the other from each separate Worlds, have a bit of each ancestry line in them and instantaneously from time to time without being able to control it, just miraculously wind up, pop into the The Other Tyme, Our Living World and not the Magic Dream World Dimension as if it, our World were to them all a dream and not their reality, just ours. Did you follow that? Kind of convoluted, but described.

If you’ve read the first Two ‘Tales’ books... then you know the Chosen couple whom I’m haranguing about. Since this Chosen Pair scenario is an infinite occurrence and serial, this pairing of Chosen Ones, there may be infinite variables in this will continue to play out; it could be compared to DNA sequencing and genetics, or fingerprints- for no two Chosen Pair narrative, synopsis and Destiny are or will ever be alike, for even identical twins have different fingerprints. I’m just touching upon it now to give some clarity to the core and gist of the ongoing storyline upcoming-for the only congruence in this fated Pairing of historic eons is... that True Love is always magic; it is eternal and divine; it can move and change and create worlds in any form it unfolds itself to be; there is no cookie-cutter or factory mold on it; what you may think is true love may hold many facets, planes, angles and slants in other Realms or,-even this one, and it, if that is what you wish to believe in. To immerse yourself within and birth, give creation to it can formulate nightmares of calamitous captivating celestial chaos to all, and also in its overwhelming passion, tenderness, devotion, and driving divinity it may destroy all that you formally thought was your factual reality what you think true love is to be...for all the infinite reasons it was proposed and duly meant to do;

May the magic of True Love

Be with you and your loved ones always,

So Mote It Be...

Enjoy The Fairy Tale~

We make realities out of our dreams,

And dreams out of our realities;

We are the dreamers of the dream~

Roald Dahl~

PROLOGUE

"T hat’s her... whatever you can dig up on her, whatever files you can find, anything. GET THEM, and send them on over, Email them to that classified address I gave to you, no one can or will... access it but me; it’s super top secret. Drop them off where I told you to, every little iota of what-not you scrounge up on ‘er, she’s sure not slippin’ away from me now...and she knows it , too. It’s just a matter of time before that little rare gemstone Sapphire violet blue-Air-Elf-whatever she now calls herself is on my radar. The name’s-ah, Dinny...Dindrane Slylph; And spiff it up, I got mounds of mucking research work to do!" the hardened voice scabbed, gratingly grumbling into a smartphone. The owner of the voice and phone then tapped his phone screen with large, sausage-shaped, puffy fingers, aggravatingly annoyed, and slammed it down upon the shiny, cold black desk in a hot huff, coughing up a grungy wad of phlegm with his usual irritating habit, fingering and chewing the end of his stubby, expensive lit cigar nervously.

Another muted, wary voice stammered out from the speaker of that smacked-down phone,  shakily whispering outward, responding, pleading with the other gruff one.

"But Dr. Krunk Jr, whatever was there with that confidential paranormal maximum security agency it’s- that is all classified, totally sealed, some of it even missing. I and those you’ve recruited for this bust can’t get into it or access it-you need high-allowance, special clearance for that kind of covert, cloaked material. No one can request it unless they were part of the original... plan and team, and that was dissolved decades ago; The public community system, I cracked that, it’s honestly showing, says the person of interest... she’s just a random foster child, albeit a bright and uniquely physically gifted and stunning to the eye appearance of one, though; talented in many defensive, physical sports and music. Her birth parents are listed as... unfortunate; they were poor, penniless, menial labor workers, out and out, in the shelter system, just shadows, who died right after some tragic odd accident; nothing else to go on here. It doesn’t mention what the accident was that did the parents in, or who they were, not even their surnames...that part is dicey and questionable, but they were unremarkable, not even worth the time to report or jot down their background story I guess, and seemed unable to properly care for her right after she was born. It could be an underage parent case, you know the type, all hush -hush no hospital birth or check-in, no official records. So...it says here her guardian foster parents named her. Not even a previous birth certificate was found for the child. That Foster family filled that in too; She’s been taken care of and sustained well by her fosterling family since only a couple of months old, studies aggressively, is very astute, and growing like a charm but she-

The gruff voice in the room listening on speakerphone butted in rudely-

"It’s all a barfin’ cover, always has been. All that’s hokey pokey phony! I got something from that original plan...and team. Something that’ll most likely prove it all,-well, at least half of what I’m researching. She and her foster family now are over at that massive historic well-kept Caliburn Estate, helping in caretaking it; that’s no coincidence either! Get out every master hacker we have on call to crack the record system, and I’ll start to launch a few of my elite, unseen cloaked spy drones they can’t find or figure on, get some of our team to pose as hired help to patrol that estate up close and real personal; you’ll all be rewarded handsomely and right after you can all split, no questions asked, no one can trace you; I’m making even more incredible connections I’ll not need your help through it all; It’s gonna be a while, and I mean a whopping long wait till I can even attempt anything, but you know it's gonna be worth it, and she’ll never know what hit ‘er. Most likely a nice awful surprise slammed on her when she’s out celebrating her coming-of-age debutante birthday. We can’t risk it till then, whatever, and she’ll be grown and of age proper for it all to finally evolve, be evoked and enabled,-ah, transformed and legally allowed. Mhm-properly transmuted; doing any of it now, that kind of reveal I’m conniving to out it all, and an attempt wouldn’t give any results and most likely blow everything I’ve planned out. I don’t think she even knows what’s gonna go down with ‘er, but I do. If I’m right, and I know I am! I’m always right and I’ve waited for the entire tenure of my career so far for this! Till then, I’ll need your breakers to stake out and raid that clever dame Dr. Sebastien’s office lair while she’s quietly away and make it out to be like some sorta break-in robbery. Her assistant comes and goes in there from time to time, checking up on their recently hired helping staff. Something key might be there...rather sure of that which we can use to aid us. I can smell it out, something’s there that is sanctimonious, Sebastien can’t hide from me either. I’m sure they forgot it, or it’s just in plain sight, what I need, for she’d be crafty enough to do that, some odd clues for me-you got that?" Krunk Jr, tensely sneered back, puffing his smelly cigar, smiling coyly to himself.

Got it. The phone voice on the other end flatly drawled with an exasperated sigh, then hung up.

Krunk Jr. slowly pulled out an odd uniquely gleaming golden ring from his pocket with a glowing, dark violet-blue, richly hued, faceted stone set and embedded upon it, fingering it, squinting down at it coyly.

"All I gotta do is replicate this, somehow create... more of it; I think...I can find someone who can help me with that down the line, even if it takes me years; some mastermind as devotedly evilly deserving as me; that will be my crowning glory! Hell, it’s all gonna be mine. All those secrets, all that power, all that Magic crap... is true! And I’m gonna be the one to show ‘em all, take it all over, get in there, into that Magic dream Dimension somehow like she did, as they both did and finally get what I have coming, what I in my descendant's name deserve from it! And, finally, I’ll show the REAL truth of the broken legacy of what my father was ruined for, couldn’t prove all those years back- even more than that; It goes galactic this time, even beyond dimensions, HA! Ha ha HA! And my oh my little Miss Dindrane, you’ll be worth the wait!"

Parturitions, Transitions, Suspicions, Intermissions,

&

Coalitions~

1

Once Upon a Time, as it always begins, in the magical, mystical Eastern Realm, residing in the Province and Regional Terra of Honah Lee, the relieved and liberated inhabitants were getting back into the traditional swing of things. It had been almost a small season and a half that had passed by, a month and a half in our ‘Other Time’ way of perception that the Circle of Life, Honah Lee Academy, all the Knights and inductees, and all of the Magical Realms within it had been brought back from their frozen spell of hexed slumber; for the ones who had been stuck frozen there all during that hazy time, it was almost as if no actual time had passed at all, besides and except the current and present small season and a half’s activities as of now;

The Provincial Order in Honah Lee was planning, setting up to start the next section of yearly Large Season classes and trials and hubbub, reverting to the everyday training and trials schedule they for so many seasons used to have in tradition; only now they, the Honah Lee Academy had taken a temporary stint and were all in full residence living at the Deep Sea Realm Castle Fortress, using it as a Dormitory and all aspects of the Academy, for Honah Lee’s ancient Academy’s Castle’s dreadfully calamity of damage, was diligently and meticulously being rebuilt by the stalwart and speedy Menehune, the clever, strong, powerful islander elf-like magic fairy folk; claiming in pride it, their masterpiece of forming masonry would most assuredly take about six small seasons to finish to perfection and be well worth the wait. Of course, they were also using their enchanted Magic, but it would still take a while to repair for the evil dark whammies thrown at it had to be squelched out. No one dared question their exquisite masonic authority on the matter, so... they let it be and would reside at the Deep Sea Realm Fortress Castle until then, and would consult the Mystic Divine Codex for the proper time to switch back and re-locate within its walls once more. It might be even longer than planned, but the Deep Sea Realm Fortress had the same blueprint and even more underground space and access to the Bay, so it was a home away from home and only a trip through the Forest away. 

Some of the Provincial Knights returning from the Horrid North Castle storming Skirmish were also giving their muscle and aiding the mighty Menehune in their merry quest for Architectural glory. All the teaching knights situated at the Academy, and the newly arrived Squires/Squiresses who wished to swear, pledge, and vow their entrance into the Order were formulating and organizing everything in line for another learning season as if finally the incredible, shell-shocking events beforehand were starting to fade and melt off, and all the Realms together were united in camaraderie as never before, the Circle Order’s selfless servitude a strong undercurrent in busily forging and expanding within the Realms, creating allies anew;

King Knight Ryu, his consort Cinnabar, and his sister, Queen Knightess Tatsu and her consort Cypress in the Western Realm were busily ruling their newly regained, won Kingdom; Knight Cobbe and Knightess Mawu were in the North Kingdom Realm as appointed Regents there as asked and instructed, and Knightess Penn Cobb’s sister, and Knight Lisah, Mawu’s brother also were appointed Regents in Sworn Duty in the South Kingdom Realm with their precocious six and a half year old twins Colt and Filly, who were a real handful; the last two knighted betrothed pairs were asked, instructed to head and wisely aid those Realms for the inhabitants as Alpha Knight Bismuth Caliburn and Alpha Knightess Lumonyx Nimue had beseeched and implored them to take the titles, for gaining their birthright sovereignty of it all was a bit much at the moment and surely they knew best to divide the  Kingdom management; they had pledged their lives as Provincial Servants, wished not to become an Emperor or Empress; they knew their roles within the Circle Order were more...geared towards issues and quests in and about the Other Tyme for they had that incredible rare ability no one else alive was known to possess... to snap into it if permitted..and sometimes just out of the blue they’d wind up there; they themselves had been granted a month (small season) for honeymooning time half a small season ago, and had quickly sequestered themselves somewhere within and below... the Deep Sea Realm Fortress, their third included acquired Kingdom Domain, including the caved arisen dome of the Tropical jungle Fae Realm... atop and even under it; their honeymooning time was almost at their end now, for in case anything else unbeknownst should darkly rear head, they, those two Chosen lovers were not letting that precious time given to them go to waste.

Supreme Orders of the Circle of Life Shraden and Ivy were up and about as they had been before the mordacious meddling, now traveling betwixt all those aforementioned Realms wherever they were asked and needed to be, and in the process of sojourning; they were to stay three small seasons in each Kingdom Realm to aid the set up the ground working of them all, leaving Alpha Knight Nobleness professor Kren and Midlady Knightess Dendrite to run the Sea Castle activities, along with Dragon Knight Hayden and Milady Oshon, and his Twin brother and Dragon in birth as well Knight Nedyah alongside them, with his newly pledged to partner Doctor Hope Sebastien; her trusty lady friend Secretary Charlotte Faith and her new Knightly partner Charitus, both back from their honeymooning half a small season ago were designated to help teach at the Academy many Other Tyme lessons and classes for the Squires, for they knew more than anyone, had first hand accounts and expertise of its mysteries; Dr. Hope Sebastian was given a title of Master Resident Physician Shaman of spirit and soul, to tend to and patient any phycological needs to all in the Academy or whom requested it, any whom needed any mental or psychological guidance of nature; No one, not one inhabitant knew at all yet what to expect from this burgeoning change, but they were all so graciously grateful not to be frozen anymore, even perhaps might have all wound up dead and vanished, and eternally grateful they were not in the  Reign of the posthumous Empress of Darkness, the now no longer alive Ivy’s evil sister, Crissy AKA Kwystal Shar’s tyrannical clutches.

Yes, everyone was now sweetly, sublimely settling in, finally, at peace in the place they with loving hearts, elegantly in eternal grace called home, so grateful to be finally within their divinely longed-for, fought to the death for magical Realm dimension home...

All except for...you guessed it;

Did we forget to mention someone here?

Young Galahad...

Galahad...and Dindrane Sylph, Dinny/Sapphire, his beloved best friend, his heart of  Chosen hearts, whom he had to foreswear and leave behind.

He, now to be young Squire Galahad, now almost twelve seasons old wasn’t speaking of it, his Other Tyme almost six-year Enforced Excursion Adventure to anyone. He was steadfastly, perfectly following all of Professor Nobleness Kren’s instructions to the T; he was to finally start, to be given a bunk room with two or maybe one more new incoming Squires, bunkmates by the end of the night tonight to endure and perform, study with his vowed Squire trials and classes in the Deep Sea Realm Honah Lee Academy with the rest of his age grouping class; It was his utmost dream to do so since he could walk and talk while living in the Magical world, it was all he kept pestering, hankering, asking Knight Kren and his parents, brother and sister to become and do; he had never complained nor spoke about what all went down. He never fully explained it to them either, how he mysteriously did it all... the covert role he pulled off; no one could get it out of him.

Alpha Knight Kren was watching young Galahad very closely all this time while arriving back in the Magical Dimension since Galahad’s parents were now sallying forth on their Supreme Order Duty, and his much older brother and sister Cobbe and Penn, the twins also had their forsworn stations all in far away Realms as of now...Galahad was honestly alone, and he wasn’t six and a half years/seasons old anymore as Kren had last remembered, and had actual sight of him. He had lived almost six whole years in the Other Tyme World Dimension and had aged six years, unlike everyone in the Magical Realm where they were all absolutely frozen in time during that dilemma, and to them here, it was just a mere second; no time had passed, no one had aged. Galahad had lived as an ‘Other Tyme’ person, with Sister Penn and Uncle Lisah and their Twins Colt and Filly now six years old themselves borne there as his Mother Ivy had been, and all stuck in the Other Tyme aforementioned had aged six years Knight Bismuth and Lumo in her shapeshift forms too, along with Galahad’s Father Shraden’s Shapeshift form, his pet Police Dog Void, while inhabiting there was just a supremely loved, spoiled and hard-working decorated Canine Dog; All had aged six years. His Father Shraden couldn’t be the role model of a living breathing ‘father’ for him while stuck there in his Dog shapeshifter form;

Bismuth Caliburn...he had stepped up and in so humbly, even without a memory of his own to help and surrogate-fathered him, as if his very own. Penn and Lisah had their hands full with the twins and worked relentlessly with their actual hands-on, heroic enchanted-spelled scenario service jobs, Canine policewoman and life-saving Fireman during the escapade of the Other Tyme, did a great service to all in their roles, and guided Galahad all they could. They, Biz and Galahad were much bonded and still were. His Aunt Lumonyx Nimue while entrapped there was just able to shapeshift into a myriad of creatures, never human until the very last few minutes of the epic end, but played her role to perfection, now no longer only stuck in her expert shapeshifting abilities, to play the role through that would aid them all access back to their coveted Magical world, and to help Bismuth change destiny and fate, allow the lives of Knight Cobbe and Knnightess Mawu to be reinstated, it was a swap. They, those two betrothed Knights were brought back from the dead with a clever rewind of allowed time, to miraculously continue onward with their lives there. It was a tradeoff, and it worked, with some heavy allowances of mental anguish and forbearance of six years immersed within the world as we know it.

They were all finally back here, where they truly, valiantly wished to be...

Alpha Knight Kren in charge of Honah Lee Academy knew Galahad had much aligned academically in nature with the way Knight Bismuth studied astutely while he was at the Academy in Squire mode. Academically, Galahad was so far ahead of his peers and class with it all, it would be just a rewind of learning everything he already had mastered and discreetly known; what Galahad had been capable of at only six years of age/seasons was beyond comprehension; what now could this precocious soul possibly pull off with six and a half more seasons tacked on to him, all spent in the Other Tyme? Well, he didn’t know how Galahad would adapt or react to it, the training or social aspect of it, the Mystic and vastly different Academy day-to-day life and training, or even if he should even be in with his age group of Squires due to the anomalistic status of his past actions, yet to ostracize him would be even worse;

Castellan Kren deducted he, Galahad was to go through with it all just like the others would do in his peer group until or unless something came up to show him to change all that, for he had consulted the Mystic, Divine Codex, the Magic Grimoire of this World they now had access to; it arcanely gave him some small, rhyming verses it was famous for as so to hint at it, and there were also clues in front of him, personal ‘bunkmate to be’ clues that told him to do it that way; let him go through the stages of Squirehood with everyone as planned. He knew Galahad would never go for or even accept any special treatment, exclusion from trials or initiations, or any hieratic advanced position given without the same lessons as his peers. He’d shun it unless forced onto him sworn. He was an enigma; His name said it all; He knew there was some kind of tumultuous future already laid out for him, something vital and of deep, soul-changing cataclysmic proportions at some point in his life, besides what he had already incredibly done, which was rather epic in valiant history for one not even dubbed, of his youth and age, or through his final trials... for no one, not one Knight ever known of the Circle of Life had done what he had. He already had a mystic, magic sword. Galahad’s Sword was already formed, and symbiotically forged with Bismuth’s and Lumonyx’s twin trident swords, until his fate came to fruition; everyone already knew that, and of him; they all in apprehensive anticipation had to wait on it; they knew it would be mind-boggling and epic in nature, just not what his trajectory was specifically, what was to come regarding its looming destiny...yet.

And tonight was grandly fortuitous...It was All Hallow’s Eve, Samhain, Halloween in our terms, and there was a Full Blue moon out in the clear, starry sky; it was indeed special for the Circle of Life Knighthood initiates, and all others within the Realm. After the evening meal in the Great Hall of the Sea Castle, they would be gathering outside for a get-together, a ‘meet and greet’ for everyone situated at the Academy and the entire Eastern Realm; just a special night to kick off their new Seaside temporary residence; Temporary as in... probably five large seasons/years to pass with it and not six smaller ones; that hint was arcanely given in some obscure rhymes by the Divine Codex whence inquired on.

The Deep Sea Realm Castle Fortress was almost identical to the Honah Lee Academy Castle in its architectural blueprint, with only a few more hidden, undisclosed secret wings, and larger, more embellished, decorative, and fancily intricate, with rainbow-tinted coral and sea statues abounding. It had been cleaned and restored to perfection by the Menehune, and the iridescent crystalline structures embedded and surrounding it shone and sparkled, the spouting fountains adorned its magnificence, unlike Honah Lee Academy, ingrained with interspersed waterfalls trickling down made it more ethereal and atmospheric, including the cavern dome and crystal barrier/wall that had created itself, arose, up merged from the water encircling its exterior made the fairy-tale illusion of the Deep Sea Realm painstakingly clear. The mealtime’s later, mid-nite dessert was to be served outside in the adjacent courtyard surrounding the castle,  after nightfall, at midnight, a high-magic time, and all were asked to join in to soak in the rays of the full Blue moon, to celebrate their new beginning semester of training. The province villagers, lords and ladies, and any Coven/Warlock/wizarding folk who wished to come and celebrate were invited; it was an ‘Open House’ welcoming back nite for all of the Eastern Realm. Music, dancing, and merry-making were strictly enforced and allowed. Kren had messaged the Supreme Orders Shraden and Ivy, asking if they were able to stop between their travels of duty to attend, and a magical, glowing sentence\reply on his sword made him delighted with glee, for it said that 'But a few hours of love with all at the mid-night of Halloween’s Eve they could not resist, nor deny or refuse,’ specially if he had personally asked for their attendance.

The high, flaming outside torches were lit, the silken flags, banners, and tents were staked all about the large, erupted Island of the Deep Sea Realm Fortress, and all the attendees and guests had arrived, all who wished to attend. The Academy tonite was an Open door to all, and some latecomers were making their way over the stone crystal walkway towards the downed drawbridge and into the immense courtyard which surrounded the seawater pool and fountain amid its grandeur.  The guests were all gawking, oohing, and ahhing at the sight of the majestic Sea Castle. Those who had the time and ability to visit, that is. Druidesses, even some High Priestesses showed up with Warlocks and wizards, even younger still in training covenstead initiates, the strict all-female sect, all draped from head to toe; it was astounding to see the entire mix of Magi community intermingled with the lay village folk, lords, and ladies, and the Provincial Knights; truly no other time had it happened before except for that one rare, dire, incredulously revealing meeting within the hallowed walls of the Eating Hall turned POS pantheon at Honah Lee Academy Castle so many seasons ago; as the attendees milled about happily and even peacefully with mirth and even dancing, they were served succulent desserts of choice and hors d’oeuvres; healthy, delectable, delightful tiny mouthfuls. It was serene, a gorgeous night, as all were one with each other regardless of beliefs, traditions, or chosen ways of traditional life. All came together tonite to celebrate happiness and good tidings, and new horizons. The stars were twinkling, blanketing the sky, the Moon was huge, luminous, actually blue-tinged, its beams bouncing off the bay inlets calming waters, sparkling the tops of the slow-moving tepid waves.

Young ‘sir’ Galahad, now a vowed Squire, for just a few hours ago he had taken that coveted oath, was milling around and about as asked, behaving socially yet without a sound or exclamation or part of his mute lips, as instructed to do and doing it perfectly, except that he was definitely allowed to converse and speak to anyone. He just wasn’t doing that...at all.

Unusually Quiet, Knight Nedyah and Knight Hayden the Twin golden dragon Knights both commented at the same time, unrehearsed. The Squires about them observing them in admiration guffawed to laughter at their synchronistic deduction. He, Squire Galahad, was bowing to everyone who stopped him, watching their surprised, enamored reaction of his bearings, shocked he was in public and participating in all this, hearing them all exclaim how much his young figure and form resembled his renowned, regal and so fair to the senses legendary Father; the spitting image of him at that age, except for the slightly shaded tone of difference in the iris eye; the tranquil shade of Honah Lee bay at the shallows, one of the Baroness Ladies remarked to him with a chuckle, eyeing him with intrigue, as he raised himself from a bow and silently just softly stared back to her and her Lord Husband as they regally strutted by, politely bowing and curtsying back, picking up some more sparkling mead offered to quench their lips.

Galahad emoted an undetectable sigh, turning and glancing down upon the surface of the inner sea pool and fountain he had been accosted at, peering at his pristine, youthful reflection just burgeoning with the beginnings of puberty; the dark, thick wavy hair, swept back into a neatly leather-wrapped ponytail for it was about past his chin; the sinewy, lean, figure under his new uniform starting to expand and grow muscular day by day, and would so even more with the training, the rigorous physical defense classes. The fair skin, that signature jawline and chin, and the calming, serene, lulling glow of those large, sea-foam, aquamarine-toned lookers. He glanced upward, above his head for he had quickly noticed another figure, actually two of them, also now reflected in the pool standing behind him; one with striking, bold emerald eyes and long, shocking, curling fiery-red hair, and the other figure so alike his formed appearance only older, with glowing, ice-blue Larimar-hued eyes...

He swiftly spun about and silently gasped, then deeply and slowly, with an exaggerated reverence if seen, though it was his earnest reaction of emotions, bowed to his parents, Supreme Orders Shraden and Ivy, keeping his eyes turned downwards, realizing and remembering one of the most important rules of Academy training, that he was not to have physical interactions with his borne or if taken in, adopted family line while he was in Squirely Training; it was a demerit and forbidden, a distraction to do so while in studies learning at the Academy; He was not going to break any rules, he knew he thoroughly had to keep them, especially due to whom everyone here knew him to be, and the expectations of his future, and on the first day of Initiation into the Order for all to see, a highly broken rule... would be quite a disaster and gossip.

Ivy took her son’s steadfast hand, upon his right ring finger was worn a uniquely crafted half-ring, unusual for a Squire to wear any kind of jewelry or adornment but for him, he’d never take it off; he tried to pull it, his hand back and away, but Ivy, she squeezed it gently, as Shraden’s strong fingers grasped at his shoulder, both in unison to quell him and his apprehension of being seen with them.

"Myne Son, ‘tis only one night, one of the most magical we have and will see for ages, a few hours to be together or even less; Everyone here, even such Squires who havest family inst Honah Lee canst greet and meet them ift they decide to show up tonight. That rule slides this evening for everyone. Thy am truly touched, honored thou feelest so deeply about thine newly taken sacred vows, yet for tonight, thyne vows canst be lifted." His father Shraden’s strong, deep, stirring voice whispered to him.

"We will be gone for quite a while after this, not only a month as now passed, but many large seasons most likely... unless needed and called here to serve or imperative counsel, a couple of nights for a stop-in, and mainly if so, only for visits for the yearly dubbings if there is an Alpha Initiate;  My lovely son, you...oh, you look so much like your Father now, about the same age as I had first had to leave him and not see him for many years; It almost makes me weep to see it, but with glorious joy; We will adhere to the Circle Order’s beliefs and rules... if you feel so strongly, dear son, we will leave you be," his mother Ivy’s soft, pleading reply also spoke to him.

"Givest thee that longed, a precious gift just for tonight; The gift of a visit for family, close and loving without care for worry; Providence wilt smile upon it, upon us all for just a wee short time. I shan’t know... when or where, or if it ever wilt be abled again for us. Thou understand this most of all; T’is the single most reason why we came here tonite, I must selfishly confess," Shraden softly whispered, urgently, eyes misted, begging his son to give them that small time with him.

Galahad slowly lifted his head and glared readily at both of them with a silent, broken sigh, and a slow blink; then a wide, mischievous smile graced his lips and he strongly threw his arms about them both, embracing them with a fervent wail of happiness and immensely jubilant laughter so loud all those walking about nearby all turned at it, then whispered and smiled and blushed at actually seeing them, the Legendary Supreme Orders, true to life and right a foot or more away, and their prodigy son so close to them that they backed off a bit, stunned, and they all bowed.

So... they, the small band of kinfolk reunited, all relaxed, and sat at the coral and glassy rim of the fountain pool and spent that dire, precious time together just as a family, eating some lovely Academy desserts and sipping ciders in warm comfort and sweet whisperings, for about half an hour, until Alpha Knight professor Academy Master Kren summoned the Supreme Orders and all the Knights attending to his side, and they took leave of Galahad, backing off almost tearing. They joined all the Knights in attendance upon the large platform nearest the Magic, mystic Codex, surrounding it in a circle, and simultaneously at Knight Kren’s command, they all held up their swords in unison with a murmuring, rumbling, melodious incantation chant...the glorious, glowing, rainbow-like fiery energy, blazing, fizzing lightning erupted from their swords, all colors of the lighted spectrum, the bolts converging up and outward, to create a form of fireworks for the guests and all attendees, who all gasped and gawked and were stupefied at the sight of such high Provincial magic being shown to them on this most coveted day of Celebration for them; For tonight was a sacred Celebration for the Circle Order. It was Samhuinn, All Hallow’s Eve; Halloween Eve; it was an eye-candy show, just for entertainment for them this time, rare for the Knights to come together to procure. They, the Knights of the Providence would never reveal any sacredly used initiate magic to the public; but it was their way to summon the energies and warp them somehow in a lesser usage, to form ‘fireworks,’ for it was dearly hard to create anything like them here. Flaming torches, yes, but not gunpowder-fueled inventions. The blazing lightning apparitions and lightning bolts all zigzagged up and about the immense towers and turrets of the Sea Castle, creating all sorts of intricately beautiful designs within the sky, magical artistry to ogle and enjoy.

Galahad was still sitting upon the rim of the fountain pool, staring up at the incredible display, still... so terribly silent mulling over his lot in all of this, making sure his behavior was excelsior, for he knew all the Squires at the Academy were looking to him as a role model, even if he hadn’t even started classes yet. He felt some sort of far-off, odd vibrations, rumbling under his palms that were clutching the coral and Sea stone rim then turned and peered downward, over and to the water of the large pool, which also seemed to be reacting and rippling. The vibrations he felt seemed to have some sort of musical beat to them, as he remembered in the Other Tyme he could feel them when cars or any wheeled vehicle would drive by, the base and beat of blaring songs the drivers would play inside the vehicles with their high-tech radio or digital music makers if they had their music volume up real high. It was that same sort of feeling, and bizarrely, he noticed a strange, greenish-blue, white-violet glow under the deepest part of the pool that he knew was connected to the tunnels that lead out to the Bay; he had deciphered that something odd was swimming under there, had its own bioluminescent light source and was creating a kind of song or beat, melodic funky music with a strong pulse...

Galahad was never one for ignoring such apparent intrigues, of course. Even with all he had already gone through in his young life, not even on a night such as this one. He knew there was a reason for it, it was honed and ingrained within him to react to it; and as he leaned over to get a closer eyeful to look, a silvery-golden-edged, brilliant white snout peeped out from the top of the pool near the rim; to him, it resembled the snout of a sea-horse, a sea-dragon, only it was much larger, about the true size of a baby horse, a foal; and as quick as a wink with all the onlookers entranced by the energetics of the firework show in the sky, not even seeing it happen, Galahad was hooked and entwined, hugged by a curling prehensile seaworthy tail of the same colors, and splashed under and downward into the waters of the fountain sea pool within a split second time, and swiftly dragged under, pulled and streamed into the outgoing tunnel to the bay, and he found himself under the water and totally outside the Deep Sea Realm Fortress with lightning speed;

Stunned, all he could do was instinctively hold his breath, watching bubbles float all about him, shielding his view of where he was being abducted to, moving with perfected underwater maneuvering, and still couldn’t see properly what was bringing him out there, even though he swore it was a sea-horse pony dragon; he thought he should be panicking but he felt serenely safe, and it seemed as if he honestly didn’t have to even hold his breath under the water; it was as if he could at once without any reason not have to breathe at all; he knew that and stopped holding in his breathing, and was able to somehow transpire his bodily functions without air and under the water with ease, and he could hear that rhythmic, funky beat music becoming louder. He was being swiftly taken outward to the bay Ocean by a sea creature dearly and protectively holding onto him; the music of the singing sirens and underwater magic sea creatures now became coherent, full force, and it was clear they too were celebrating something tonight which was so very precious; the song he heard was from the artist Enya, he knew it from the Other Tyme...Orinoco Flow...it was truly miraculous; it was gorgeous, ethereal and so beautiful to Galahad to hear all the ocean creatures actually singing in harmony and also celebrating...

GALAHAD HOVERED SOFTLY within the water under the Bay, as the bubbles cleared and the imagery visualized in front of him. He saw all the sea creatures also having a soiree, a jamboree, singing, somersaulting, dancing...intricate dances, it was so beautifully tender to his soul that he formed tears, yet of course, they were washed within the sea itself. He then turned to try to see what was firmly gripping onto him; it was assuredly a sea pony, a sea dragon; one without horns, at least not yet, as Galahad remembered the steeds Comet and Andromeda, the magical horses of Bismuth and Lumonyx; it was one very close to the same, though still a youngster, yet it shone with brilliance he had never seen. It was pure dazzling white, with etches of gold and silver, the palest blue eyes that beamed out its own light and luminescent ability just as its plated body; it was not in half-equine mode, it was full-off a Sea Pony-dragon, half and half. Sea horses and Sea Dragons differ a bit, just as they do in real life. This one had the prehensile tail of a seahorse but the fancy appendages of a sea dragon and a longer snout. It