[fancypost borderwidth=0px][justify]Hey everybody, I've got permission to make/sticky this from Eidolon! In this thread, the SunClanners will know nothing of Charlie’s accidental spell and will simply suddenly find the town to be filled with ghosts and themselves to be turned to skeletons! They won’t really be skeletons, but since invisibility is free they will look like skeletons because everything but their bones will be invisible. The effects of the spell will have worn off outside of this thread. Post 5 times to get a spooky badge and 5 tokens!
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The little wizard's apprentice picks his way carefully across the forest floor, his too-large robes and baggy messenger bag dragging in the dirt, not to mention how he has to keep pushing up his huge hat. He'll grow into them, he tells himself with silent determination, one day soon he will. Charlie's been walking for a fair while now, so long that he's pretty much forgotten what he was supposed to be looking for, and so long that he doesn't even bat an eye when he passes into SunClan territory. Then again, obliviousness is a very common trait for the young boy to display, though maybe it's also that he's so hungry. It feels like his stomach has been growling forever, Charlie thinks as he flops down with a sigh, his hat sinking over his eyes. He only makes a half-hearted attempt blow the floppy rim out of his face. Man, he would kill for something sweet right about now.
That's when Charlie gets an idea; a particularly brilliant one, at that!
Halloween is only a little ways away, what if he could make it come early, just for him? All he really wants is candy, and it should be the prime time of the year to conjure up some! Maybe he could do some kind of specially Halloween candy summoning, right? Proud of his good thinking, Charlie grins toothily as he leaps to his paws, filled with sudden gusto, and shoulders off his bag to pull out his book of spells. He doesn't think there's a spell for this one, so he’s going to have to improvise this one. Such is usually reserved for more advanced practitioners, but the boy is pretty confident in his abilities. Charlie clears his throat, places a paw on the pages of the book, and lifts his chin to loudly address the sky. “Ahem… o’ hallowed spirits of all hallow’s eve! Uh, my intentions you will not deceive, for I have come to trick-or....treve? Crap! Why did I say eve? I can’t rhyme that with treat-”
BOOM!
Thunder roars across the sky and, at nearly the same time, the sky splits open and a bolt of lightning strikes the soft earth below not even a full yard away. Charlie lets out a surprised eek! and scrambles backwards into a bush, paws clasping above his head and pulling round brim of his hat down over his ears. His face and paws buzz with lingering warmth from being so close to the crackling electricity, and he thinks he might’ve singed his whiskers a little, but a bit of heat is nothing new to Charlie. After all, his spells tend go poorly more often than they do otherwise. The boy bounces back quickly, noticing how the electricity has made his fur poof out and shakes it out so it will fall flat once more. When he crawls back out from under the bush his fur is still standing straight up in various places and leaves cling to his robes, but Charlie hardly notices nor cares.
“Phew!” Charlie breathes, grinning a bit as he picks up his book once more and dusts the dirt off of it. That was… something. Did he do that? It could easily be a coincidence, considering when he looks up at the sky it’s swirling thick gray clouds over a town in the distance, but it was completely clear moments ago when he first began to speak. ...Oops. “Guess I better get outta here before something else happens!” he murmurs as he shoves his book of spells into his leather messenger bag at his side, turns, and begins to trot away from the territory with his hat leaning lopsidedly to the right side of his head. However, what Charlie doesn’t know is that, nearby in the heart of SunClan’s city, his spell is just getting started, as spirits rise from their graves and bones dance into view...
