Royal Meeting

I was sitting on the edge of the bed blinking a few times looking like an absolute puzzled stupid right now. I mean WHAT? How is that even possible? Somewhere I thought is thus a joke? But why would she joke something like this? Those weird dreams, that incident... Started flashing my mind and I pushed my hair in frustration. I was too shocked after reading my mom's letter. I couldn't understand what exactly to do. I am a what? Witch? How on earth can that be possible? I mean, I can do magic? That's ridiculous. Do these things ever exist? No. I don't think so... But why would She lie about it? And would uncle Tom joke with me like this? I checked the handwriting one more time to make sure this was my mom's and to my surprise it was. 

Anyways I took a deep breath before taking the letter in my hands again and I kept the letter under my pillow as I had to go for my daily work schedules. But my mind was full of those thoughts and waited impatiently for tonight, as it was supposed to be a full moon night. I wanted to try this to make sure if this works. A sudden hope worked on me thinking I might have n escape from here. I might have a family... Dad... He is alive? Then why didn't he come to meet us all these years? KIngdom? Will I have to go to the palace? But no, wait... The king in London Isn't a Macduff... Aghhh This is too frustrating for me... I wanted to know the truth. I waited patiently for the night. Finally, after completing my work I came to my room and took out the letter from under my pillow. I checked if everyone is asleep or not. After making sure personally by visiting each room that everyone slept, I came to the roof, finally opened the letter once again.

I mumbled while looking at it -" Okay, Let's try, What was it? yeah... ' Equimenous Wizarda '!!!"

I expected something big to happen like those Disney movies, I looked here and there while blinking my eyes a few times. NO!! Nothing happened... Maybe the spell expired? Ahhh!!! I sighed while looking down sadly. I read out the letter one more time to make sure I have read it correctly the last time.

I waited for a few more minutes and nothing happened. I tried two times more but still, nothing happened. For some reason, I was hoping this all turn into a truth, but I guess it's not. I was right Magic doesn't exist. How can I be so fooled? Maybe mom just wrote it for her amusement... I sadly chuckled and I turned back to the stairs to come down. But then suddenly, I heard some noise and turned back. I looked up at the sky I saw a bright light, coming towards me. I stumbled a little while walking a few steps backward from the sudden act. And slowly it came towards me and stopped on my rooftop. I was a little confused with the fact of what was going on, so I made my hands ready for self-defense. I waited for some time while looking at it with a confused look and complete shock on my face and it turned into a beautiful royal lady.

The Lady stood up while dusting her clothes and looking here and there with a confused face, she slowly turned towards me while looking at me from head to toe and asked-" Who are you, young witch?" She glared at me once again with a frown as asked-" Well you don't seem to be a proper witch yet, how do you recite this spell? Why did you call me? Don't you know this is a royal spell? Besides, it is forbidden to use spells outside your school until you become a proper witch." She paused while I was busy looking at her and she asked again-" Now, will you speak who are you?"

I said in a panic-" Uh... Y-yes, y-yes If you give me time to speak then I would"

She blinked twice as she replied-" Well then, sure speak. "

I said slowly-" well, honestly I was expecting my father to appear, but anyway, here..." I handed over the letter and said-" My mother wrote me this letter before she died, and there was the ...umm... spell was written. I am Parshawna Macduff, daughter of Gracious and Jonny Macduff."

She looked at me with an utter shock she replied-" Parshawna who???"

I said with a wide eye and a pout-" Parshawna Macduff"

Smile immediately curved at her face as she came towards me and held my shoulder, her eyes were shining bright as she replied with a constant smile -" No way!!! Good Lord, you are my granddaughter"

Without any further words, she hugged me, but I was too shocked to speak anything at that moment. I just stood frozen at my place looking at her with a shocking face. Granddaughter? Is she my grandmother? Wow, I was an orphan sometime ago... Now I have a grandmother?

She broke the hug as she said-" I have been searching for you for years my dear. we have lost hope. But you found me, us. How are you, my dear?"

I replied-" I am fine..." with a forced smile on my face as I was still not sure what was going on. Does that mean everything in the letter was true? Magic does exist?

She asked-" How was Uhm... Your mother?" She hesitated a bit before asking me that.

I replied as I looked at her with a sad face-" She died, a few days ago" I looked down.

She sighed as she patted my head and said-" I am sorry my dear. But now that I am here, you need not worry. You do look a lot like your mother, but you have your father's smile I can see."

I paused for a moment and said-" Father, I never saw him, I have always been told, He is no more". I suddenly remember that I do have a father maybe... If this is true.. that means... How is he? How does he look? Does my smile look like him? I have never seen him... My heart started beating so fast with the news of not being an orphan anymore... Will I be finally able to find my family now?

She smiled and replied-" I can understand. Let's go somewhere where we can talk okay?"

I agreed. She whistled and a flying broom appeared, To my amazement, I have never seen anything like this before, I was in utter shock as I kept looking at it with wide eyes as I blinked a few times to make sure I am seeing things right. She smiled and grabbed my hands pulling me into the broom as we flew to the sky, I honestly was scared at first and closed my eyes in tight shut and held her arms. But after some time when the clod breeze started touching my face, I felt little calm and slowly opened my eyes. I looked at the surroundings and my mouth parted a little with the beautiful night view. I looked down and saw we were flying so high from the grounds, passing by the buildings and houses. The streets and houses looked so small from above. After some time I started enjoying the ride. After some time we came to the outskirts of the town, as we stopped somewhere in the middle of the big field.

We got down as she helped me to get on my feet. The night was cold and freezing as I started looking at the place while rubbing my hands on my arms to make me warm. She looked at me and asked-" You must be 17 and weird things are happening with you?"

I replied-" Yes, very weird" while giving her a confused look.

She smiled and replied-" I know come" She took me a little inside the field as there were several trees. I don't understand why we came here... She turned towards me and said-" you see, behind this tree, there is our world, your home." She pointed out to a big oak tree present there. " I looked at her with a frown as I couldn't understand what was she saying. She continued-" But you cannot go in there right now"

I frowned and asked-" Why not?"

She looked at me and said-" Well, You must not have the golden wand with you right now, you need that wand to enter the WitchLand. We need to bring that first... as for the only heir of Witchdom's throne you have to bring what was lost and as a royal family member, it is your duty to return the long-lost wand that you have to its place. You need the wand to enter our world."

I asked in confusion-" Golden what?? What is that now?"

She looked at me with a concerned face and asked-" You do know about what your father left here for you right?"

I replied-" No" while nodding my head slowly. 

She frowned as she asked me again -" Your mom must have told you?"

I replied-" No, I don't recall mom telling me anything like a golden wand or something"

She sighed as she holds my hand and said-" Listen to me carefully okay? Your father is not only a wizard but also the king of Witchdom. You are his only heir. That night when he had to leave because of the war in WitchDom, to protect his kind, his world from the evil spirit of the dark. He came to you and your mother. He kept here the golden wand with you. Only you can bring it back"

I asked softly-" He left because he had to join the war? If that was the reason, why didn't he take us with him?"

She replied with a sigh-" Well, my dear, no ordinary person can enter our world. And your mother was an ordinary person. So you see, your father had to leave to save his country. But when he left for serving his country, had left a royal magical wand for you to protect you and your mother here. Which belongs to you now. Not only did he know one day you would come back to him, but it is one of the ancient wands and most powerful wands in the WitchLands. It has legendary powers, and that was the time when we couldn't take the wand inside as there was a fear of losing our most valuable things in the hands of evil. So he gave the wand to your mother, to protect you and the wand from the hands of any evil person. So that when the time comes, you can take it back to where it belongs."

I replied-" But mom never told me anything about such wand"

She replied with a worried face-" Oh dear, that could be a problem. You must return with the wand to the WitchDom."

I replied-" But, tell me where I can find it? I will get it and then we can go right, grandma?"

She replied-" My dear only if I would know. But as much as I have heard your father who mentioned, somewhere where you have the sweetest memories of your family."

With that, she recites another spell ' Liviano Torchitta '.