"A spell to visit days gone by," you read to yourself. A time travel spell? "No way. This has gotta be fake."
Or is it? You remember hearing about a guy who used to write store reviews for the local paper, until he messed around with a 'fake' magic book and ended up turning himself into a baby. Still, that wasn't time travel. Time travel was impossible!
Still...
Feeling a little silly, you read the incantation on the page. Manu sheba serak tull, andromaca morshat null, verrim takle sezzak shzrash, talakuble, porthos, VASH!
You realize how loud you shouted the last syllable and blush. What if your mom overheard you yelling "magic words"? You look back down at the page.
But before you say this, make sure you--
What? Why didn't they put that at the beginning? It's a good thing this is all fake. But even as you think this, blue lights begin dancing in front of your eyes, and your stomach takes a leap as though gravity has reversed. The spell is taking effect! Hurriedly, you read the rest of the page, even as the world beneath you begins to fall away.
specify a target and a time frame; otherwise default settings will be applied.
Default settings? What were those? And why did an ancient spellbook sound like the manual for a television?
There's no time to wonder, because you're already being yanked through time, through space, through an endless violet tunnel, and then you land...
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