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Mystics Of the Magic- Chapter 1 Fire

“Light comes from many places. But light can be tainted by darkness. Fire is strong, but it can be weak. Find your fire within you, and protect it with all your might.”

Jade Lava

The moon's light shines upon the earth. The children were sleeping in the beds; safe and sound. Jack, the guardian of joy, flew over the town he protected. He flew away to look over the next part of town. It had been ten years since the five guardians sent Pitch, the boogieman, back into the darkness. Earth has been safe since then. But, they weren’t the only guardians who protected the earth. In a different reality, in a world called Narium, there were guardians who had protected the earth for years. Occasionally, they would visit the guardians of childhood to make sure they were doing their jobs. One such guardian, Aqua Aquarius Ocean, the guardian of hope from Narium, had known Jack Frost for the last three hundred years. His childish, laid back personality got on Aqua’s nerves. She had to constantly remind Jack that his role as a guardian was important and sacred. He was half of the reason that winter came. If anyone could describe their relationship, it would be a brother and sister type relationship. 

“Good thing Aqua isn’t out tonight”, Jack says.

Rumbles come from the ground. A moren beast runs through the town; shrieking like a thousand lost souls.

“We almost got it!” Aqua and Jade, from the Magma Plains, chased the moren beast through the town.

“How did this thing get out of the dark gate”, Jade shouts.

“I don’t know!” Aqua looks over and sees an alleyway. “Follow and contain the beast! I’ll cut it off!” Aqua uses her water-like wings and flies down the alleyway at top speed. Jade shoots a chain from her magic and it wraps itself around the moren beast. With all the strength in her, Jade holds the moren beast from running away.

“No you don’t, you lousy–” As the moren beast struggled, Jade’s grip on the ground started to slip. “What was I thinking!? AAA!” The moren beast dragged Jade through the town without stopping.

Bunny, the guardian of hope from earth, sleeps on his high hill in the Waren. He had been working non-stop for the last two months painting his eggs for easter. He had over worked himself and decided to get some rest. But that plan went to ruin when he heard rumbling from above. The warren was connected to many places on earth. It was a way for him to know if there was danger.

“What the bloody hell is going on up there?” Bunny gets up from his spot on the hill and creates a travel hole to make his way up to the surface. He jumps out and looks around.

Aqua flies past multiple buildings until she sees the moren beast dragging Jade. Aqua flies up and next to the beast.

“Jade, let go!” Jade lets go of the chain and spins out. Aqua jumps onto the beast back and then comes to the realization that she had no plan to stop the moren beast. “What was I thinking?! AAA!”

Bunny looks behind him and sees the moren beast running past him; Aqua holding on by the back.

“Sorry!”, Aqua shouts. Bunny’s right eye twitches and says in annoyance, “Aqua...!” Aqua looks down at the moren beast head and says, “Okay, pal. This is your stop!” Aqua uses her water powers to summon a gunnier-like weapon and stabs the moren beast back. “JADE!” Jade runs up and uses her strength to knock the beast into a light pole; Aqua jumps off its back and lands on a nearby pole. She jumps down and walks over to the wounded beast. “Now to send you back to where you belong.” Aqua raises her paw and says, “I send you to your destination!” Magic flows around the moren beast and makes it vanish in an instant. “Mission accomplished.”

“What were you thinking?!” Aqua rolled her eyes while Jade looked back to see Bunny jumping down from the building.

“Bunny… what brings you here?”, Aqua asks in a sarcastic manner. One thing to know about the relationship between Aqua and Bunny is that the both of them did not see eye to eye. Sure, they knew what was important, and they had the same goals in mind, but their methods were completely different in terms of bringing hope and light to the children of earth. So occasionally, they would have unnecessary disagreements.

“I heard something from above the waren.”, Bunny says. “So I’ll asks again: What were you thinking?” Aqua shakes her head and says, “Look, Bunny. Whatever happenes that involves magic, or a moren beast, is not your concern.”

“It’s my concern when it's on earth”, Bunny said in an angry and calm voice. He was starting to get annoyed with Aqua even more now. “You could have been seen.”

“And we weren't”, Aqua reminded him. “And as much as I would love to continue this conversation on who’s right or wrong, me and Jade have to return to Narium.” Aqua summons a portal and walks through it. Bunny sighs in frustration and says in annoyance, “How is she a guardian?”

“Be nice.”, Jade said. “We know that her way of thinking is a bit… radical, but she means well.” Bunny looks at Jade, closes his eyes and chuckles. “What?”

“I just find it funny that you're Aqua’s voice of reason”, Bunny says. Jade rubs the back of her head and says, “Well, when you're the solace of the second in command of Narium, what else can you do?” Jade and Bunny both chuckle. “I better go. Aqua might be wondering where I am.” Jade walks through the portal.

“What took you so long?”, Aqua asked.

“Nothing. Let’s get a move on.”, Jade said.

“Race you back to Narium!”

“You're on!” Aqua and Jade ran through the portal at their highest speed. The end of the portal opens up and Aqua and Jade fall down. In a swift motion Aqua and Jade fly upward and above the town of Narium. The creatures of the town walk by and around. Aqua and Jade land in front of the castle and walk to the entrance. The doors open and Iran is seen to be reading a scroll; passing back and forth while she reads. She looks over at the door and says with a smile, “Back so soon?”

“You can’t get rid of us that easily, Master.”, Aqua says.

“Aqua, you can call me Iran.”, she said. “You're my second in command.” Iran had always been Aqua's mentor since she was little. Aqua looked up to Iran for many reasons. “Did you catch the moren beast?”

“Yup.”, Jade said. “But Bunny saw us.”

Oh, I can only imagine how that turned out. Aqua?” Aqua looked down at the floor without moving her head. She then looked at the clock and said in a steadfast motion, “Oh, look at the time! I’m needed on patrol! Bye!” Aqua rushed down the stairs and flew off to join the patrol team. Iran sighs and asks, “Did they fight?”

“I wouldn’t say that.”, Jade says. “They had a quarrel. Nothing physical.”

“I see. Did anything else happen?”

“The fire tribe of the hope union are moving closer to our borders.”, Jade says. “Do you know why?”

“The leader of the fire tribe thought it would be a good idea to move closer since summer is almost here.”, Iran explains. “The earth tribe are moving closer to Narium as well.”

“Is that wise?”, Jade asks. “You and Aqua told me that the elemental tribes have never seen eye to eye.”

“True. But they have come to a compromise. I only hope they don’t start a fight again. Is there anything else to report?”, Iran asks.

“No. That’s all.”, Jade says. “May I go now?”

“You may.”, Iran says. “Good night, Jade.”

“You too, Iran.” Jade walks down the stairs and out the door.

Aqua flies above the town and near the edge of the forest. She looks down and sees the patrol team. Pond, the guardian of imagination, looks up to see Aqua. She waves over to her and says, “There you are, Chérie. What took you so long?”

“I had to report in with Iran.”, Aqua said. “Sorry I’m late.”

“Good. Now that everyone is here, we can start the night patrol.”, Sun says. “Pond and Aqua will patrol the south of the village. Crystal and Silver will patrol the north and east. Me and Raven will patrol the west. Move out.” Aqua and Pond fly off to the south while the others fly to their respective areas. A cold breeze flies through the air and Pond gets the chills.

“It’s so cold!”, Pond exclaims.

“It’s not that bad.”, Aqua says. “It feels nice.”

“I would have thought you would have the same reaction as Bunny.”

“I have no idea what you're talking about.” Pond raises her right eyebrow. She flips over and says with all her acting skills, “Oh, blimey, It’s cold! I can’t feel my feet!” Aqua looked at Pond with her right eye twitching from pure annoyance. She knew she would pull a stunt like this sooner or later. “What?”

“One: I’m not Australian. I’m hispanic. Two: I don’t complain like a fifthteen year old that’s never felt the cold before.”, Aqua says. She flies close to Pond and says in what Pond likes to call “Aqua’s scary yet menacing voice, “And where the hell do you get off comparing me to Bunny?”

“I’ve seen how you both act for the last few hundred years and there are similarities.”, Pond says. “You both have a huge ego. You both hate the cold. You both get annoyed by Jack. Should I continue?”

“Pond, I am not above turning you into a dragon for a month.”, Aqua says.

“Do your worst, Ocean. You know this will just turn into–” Before Pond could say another word, she saw Aqua looking down; her face covered in a dim red light. She looks down to see a fire in the village of clarity. “Where did this fire come from?”

“I don’t know.”, Aqua says.

“Aqua! Pond!” Sun and Raven fly over to Aqua and Pond. “The fire is spreading. Aqua, summon Jade and Iran. we’ll get RainFall.”

“Right.” Pond, Sun, and Raven fly down to the village while Aqua flies up to the sky; her body being silhouetted out by the light of the moon. She howls like a wolf; loud enough to reach the castle.

Iran writes in her book while looking at a pair of scrolls. Her ears then perk up and she looks out her window to see a dim red light and black smoke. She jumps out of her seat and flies out from her balcony.

Jade walks through the quiet town alone. Her fur then stands from hearing a howl from the south and she looks up to see black smoke accompanied by a dim red light. She runs out of the town and heads to the south village.

Aqua catches her breath for a quick second and then flies down to help the others.

“Aqua!” Aqua stops midway and sees Iran and Jade running to the edge of the village. She flies down and says, “There might be villagers trapped in the fire. Jade, help me out the fire. Iran, get the villagers out of here.” Iran ran into the fire and started to cut down the burnt buildings and trees. Jade follows Aqua through the fire as Aqua uses her water to put out the fire. Jade uses her magic to contain a small amount of fire and floats it up to the sky. Aqua swiftly flies around the fire and takes it out with water. Jade and Aqua do this multiple times without rest. Jade runs deeper into the village and covers her head.

“This isn’t working!”, Jade said. Aqua flies down and creates a protective barrier. “The fire is only gonna spread if we keep this up. We need a plan.” Aqua looked around to see what she could come up with. A bright blue light glows from Aqua’s back. It was her crystal.

“I have an idea.”, Aqua says.

“What is it?”

“If you, Raven, RainFall, Iran, and Sun can keep the fire in a single area, I can lead the fire away from the village. Can you all do it?”

“Yeah.” Jade takes out her communicator. “Guys, keep the fire in the center of the village. Contain it.” Aqua lowers the barrier and Jade runs into the fire. Aqua flies up to the sky. The others make their way out of the village and wait for Jade’s signal. Aqua looks down at the fire covered village from above. She looks over to Jade and nods her head.

“Everyone, do it now!”, Jade shouts. With a deep breath, they all say in unison, “Compression Harmonix!” Multicolor magic surrounds the fire in the village. The magic pushes the fire to the center of the village; the buildings burnt to a crisp. Aqua looks down and takes a deep breath.

“I respectfully ask to borrow the power of Diana and Constellation this night.” She covers her body in water as a way of protection. “LUNA SPINHEDAS!” Aqua spins around in rapid speed and she heads down to the fire. She flies into the fire and gathers it up to the sky. She opens a portal that leads to earth and the portal closes.

“Where did she go?”, RainFall asks in worry.

Aqua lifts the fire to the sky and keeps spinning. Once she is high enough from the ground, she makes the fire thin by depersing in the sky. Aqua falls to the ground and takes a moment to catch her breath; her body experiencing the backlash of her power. She grits her teeth in pain.

“That fire wasn’t normal.”, Aqua thought, still gritting her teeth. She pushes herself up and looks at her back. “Looks like my crystal isn’t broken. Irene, my body hurts…!” Aqua picks herself up and looks around. Something wasn’t right. She looks around the area. She looks over to her left and sees a moren beast with two red eyes. It couldn’t have been the moren beats she and Jade caught before. Aqua took a closer look at the moren beast and saw that it was covered in rock and lava. “What? How did an inferno moren beast get on earth?” Before Aqua could walk over to capture it, the moren beast charges at her. “Whoa!” Aqua jumps out of the way while moren beast runs away. “Oh no you don’t!”

Jack flies over the town once more before saying, “Everything looks good here.” Jack then hears a demonic scream from below and he looks down. He sees Aqua chasing a monster through the town. “What the?” Jack flies down and catches up to Aqua and asks, “Aqua, what’s going on?”

“That moren beast isn’t supposed to be here.”, Aqua yells. “It’s gonna destroy the town if we don’t do something.” Jack looks at the moren beast and says, “Got it.” He flies a bit faster, passing the moren beast and stopping at a good enough distance.

“What’s he doing?” Jack gathers all of his magic and creates an ice cage. The moren beast gets trapped in the cage. “That worked?”

“You make it sound like my ideas are bad.”, Jack says, sitting on top of the cage. Aqua rolls her eyes and gets into the cage. She uses her powers to keep the moren beast still.

“Now, where did you come from?” Aqua closes her eyes and reads the mind of the moren beast. In her sight, she sees an environment of rock and lava. The next thing she sees in a portal opening before her. The moren beast walks through it and looks around. The next few memories are a bit blurry, but the last vision she sees in the south village being set on fire. Aqua opens her eyes and says, “So it was you who set the village on fire… and…” Aqua stepped back and said, “I sent you to your destination.” Blue magic covers the moren beast and it disappears. “There. That should do it.”

“So that moren beast came from where?”, Jack asks.

“I’m not sure.”, Aqua says. “But wherever it came from, I sent it back. Thank you for helping me, Jack. I need to get back to Narium.”

“Sure thing, Aki.” Aqua felt her nerves go up. As Jack quickly flew away, Aqua shouted, “DON’T CALL ME THAT!”

Aqua flew down to the burnt village and ran to the others.

“Is everyone okay?”, Aqua asked.

“Yeah.”, RainFall said. “We got everyone out in time.”

“Are you okay?”, Sun asked. “Your fur is a mess.”

“I’m fine.”, Aqua said. “My injuries are minor. There was an inferno moren beast here.”

“What? How do you know?”, Iran asks.

“After I got rid of the fire, I had a run in with a moren beast from the Magna Plains.”

“Are you sure?”, Jade asks. Aqua nods her head yes and says, “There’s no doubt about it. Something must have happened in the reality inbetween and the magic reality.” The others looked at each other with worry and concern.

Me and the others didn’t know what would happen next. All that we knew is that our lives would never be the same.

Here is chapter 1 of Mystics of the magic! I forgot to mention this before but there are LBGTQ+ characters in this story.

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the sound of thunder 🥰

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fellow pinoys i hope ur staying safe out there 😭🤍

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The river through town overflowed it banks by 7-8 feet. Is this the new norm? Kind of glad it wasn’t snow though.

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TSRNOSS, p 803.

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Nearly 500 Mudslides in California As Deadly Storm Damage May Reach $11 Billion

An Atmospheric River unleashed record rainfall in California, causing over 100 mudslides, while winds gusted to 160 mph in the mountains.

— By Jesse Ferrell | February 7, 2024

A deadly and extreme atmospheric river overtook California Saturday and remained over the southern part of the state through Tuesday. The storm caused record rainfall, heavy snow and high winds, which knocked out power to nearly a million people while snarling travel.

More than 475 mudslides or debris flows were reported and at least nine people were killed by the storm, according to CNN.

AccuWeather estimates the preliminary total damage and economic loss from the intense storms and record rainfall in California this week will be between $9 billion and $11 billion. The storm is still impacting the most heavily populated part of the state and has caused damage to homes and businesses in highly developed and well-populated areas, including some of the most expensive neighborhoods in the State.

This is a preliminary estimate, as the storm effects are continuing to be felt and some areas of the state have not yet reported complete information about damage, injuries, and other impacts.

On Sunday, Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for eight California counties, including Los Angeles and San Diego. On Sunday and Monday, downtown Los Angeles recorded 7.03 inches of rain -- roughly half of that city's historical average annual rainfall. It was the highest two-day rainfall ever recorded in February and the third-wettest two days since records began nearly 150 years ago. By Tuesday evening, L.A. had counted 13.95" for their rainfall season total - surpassing their historical average.

Northwest of downtown, several stations reported more than a foot of rain as of Tuesday evening.

Hurricane-force winds plagued the mountains, including the 10,820-foot peak of Ward Mountain, where a gust of 162 mph was clocked. In 2017, Ward Mountain set the state wind gust record of 199 mph. Other impressive wind gusts reported on Sunday included 148 mph at Palisades Tahoe and 125 mph at Mammoth Mountain.

In the higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada, 3-6 feet of snow fell, causing road closures, avalanches and blizzard conditions.

At lower elevations, winds were not as extreme but were unusually high across a wide area Monday, felling trees and knocking out power to nearly 900,000 customers Sunday evening, according to PowerOutage.US.

Near the coast, San Francisco airport reported 67-mph gusts while Sacramento topped out at 59 mph.

— Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather Meteorologist and Senior Weather Editor

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As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.

Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped 9 inches of rain on the city over three days—over half of what the city typically gets in a year. It’s the kind of extreme rainfall that’ll get ever more extreme as the planet warms.

The city’s water managers, though, were ready and waiting. Like other urban areas around the world, in recent years LA has been transforming into a “sponge city,” replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, like dirt and plants. It has also built out “spreading grounds,” where water accumulates and soaks into the earth.

With traditional dams and all that newfangled spongy infrastructure, between February 4 and 7 the metropolis captured 8.6 billion gallons of stormwater, enough to provide water to 106,000 households for a year. For the rainy season in total, LA has accumulated 14.7 billion gallons.

Long reliant on snowmelt and river water piped in from afar, LA is on a quest to produce as much water as it can locally. “There's going to be a lot more rain and a lot less snow, which is going to alter the way we capture snowmelt and the aqueduct water,” says Art Castro, manager of watershed management at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “Dams and spreading grounds are the workhorses of local stormwater capture for either flood protection or water supply.”

Centuries of urban-planning dogma dictates using gutters, sewers, and other infrastructure to funnel rainwater out of a metropolis as quickly as possible to prevent flooding. Given the increasingly catastrophic urban flooding seen around the world, though, that clearly isn’t working anymore, so now planners are finding clever ways to capture stormwater, treating it as an asset instead of a liability. “The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley. “No one driveway or roof in and of itself causes massive alteration of the hydrologic cycle. But combine millions of them in one area and it does. Maybe we can solve that problem with a thousand Band-Aids.”

Or in this case, sponges. The trick to making a city more absorbent is to add more gardens and other green spaces that allow water to percolate into underlying aquifers—porous subterranean materials that can hold water—which a city can then draw from in times of need. Engineers are also greening up medians and roadside areas to soak up the water that’d normally rush off streets, into sewers, and eventually out to sea...

To exploit all that free water falling from the sky, the LADWP has carved out big patches of brown in the concrete jungle. Stormwater is piped into these spreading grounds and accumulates in dirt basins. That allows it to slowly soak into the underlying aquifer, which acts as a sort of natural underground tank that can hold 28 billion gallons of water.

During a storm, the city is also gathering water in dams, some of which it diverts into the spreading grounds. “After the storm comes by, and it's a bright sunny day, you’ll still see water being released into a channel and diverted into the spreading grounds,” says Castro. That way, water moves from a reservoir where it’s exposed to sunlight and evaporation, into an aquifer where it’s banked safely underground.

On a smaller scale, LADWP has been experimenting with turning parks into mini spreading grounds, diverting stormwater there to soak into subterranean cisterns or chambers. It’s also deploying green spaces along roadways, which have the additional benefit of mitigating flooding in a neighborhood: The less concrete and the more dirt and plants, the more the built environment can soak up stormwater like the actual environment naturally does.

As an added benefit, deploying more of these green spaces, along with urban gardens, improves the mental health of residents. Plants here also “sweat,” cooling the area and beating back the urban heat island effect—the tendency for concrete to absorb solar energy and slowly release it at night. By reducing summer temperatures, you improve the physical health of residents. “The more trees, the more shade, the less heat island effect,” says Castro. “Sometimes when it’s 90 degrees in the middle of summer, it could get up to 110 underneath a bus stop.”

LA’s far from alone in going spongy. Pittsburgh is also deploying more rain gardens, and where they absolutely must have a hard surface—sidewalks, parking lots, etc.—they’re using special concrete bricks that allow water to seep through. And a growing number of municipalities are scrutinizing properties and charging owners fees if they have excessive impermeable surfaces like pavement, thus incentivizing the switch to permeable surfaces like plots of native plants or urban gardens for producing more food locally.

So the old way of stormwater management isn’t just increasingly dangerous and ineffective as the planet warms and storms get more intense—it stands in the way of a more beautiful, less sweltering, more sustainable urban landscape. LA, of all places, is showing the world there’s a better way.

-via Wired, February 19, 2024

[tsuutarr]

On your hike, you find an abandoned shrine made of stone, created to worship a god that has long been forgotten. You don’t know why, but the sight makes your heart hurt, compelling you to tug and pull the vines that wrap around the stone shrine, cleaning up any dirt that mars it.

Once you’re satisfied, you leave a tiny coin offering, before leaving towards your next destination.

You are unaware of the small mark that begins to form on the back of your neck, glowing a brilliant blue.

What you do become aware of, though, is the water-related death that seems to occur around you. Your partner for a project drowned in a bathtub, your neighbor choked on some water, your friend slipped on a puddle and shattered their skull, and other such occurrences seem to be happening frequently recently. Not to mention the rain that has been present constantly these past few weeks – the gentle drizzle somehow feels like little kisses being peppered on your skin, while the harsher rainfall feels like hands caressing you.

You think you may be going a little crazy, but you can’t help it. You try to stay indoors when you can, avoiding any large bodies of water. You haven’t been able to drink water or shower in peace lately, too scared that you may face some water-related death.

Despite your caution, however, you’re forced to venture out due to work on a particularly rainy day. Despite your caution, you end up falling into a large river, slipping on the slippery sidewalk.

Despite your caution, you’re pretty sure you’ll die, the water dragging you down like weights.

When you see the violet glow of four eyes, you think you’re already dead.

But the large hand that cradles your face is too calloused and real for you to be dead.

“Pet,” the large creature purrs, his teeth shark-like and sharp. His voice rumbles deeply like the ocean, his four hands roaming your body. “Do not fret. I am your god. You will be safe by my side.”