Starfrock The Web Wizard - Chapter 1 - "Memories"

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  /\ STARFROCK THE WEB WIZARD
  <00> Chapter One
  \/ "Memories"
  
  [1] The old man sighed heavily as he opened the thick book. There were only a few blank pages left in which to write the most recent events of his life. It took quite a bit of effort to hold the pen in his trembling hand. Unfortunately his agile mind was at the mercy of the limits forced upon him by the difficulty encountered in the physical act of writing. If only he had youth on his side. It was then that his thoughts started to wander back to when he was a young boy.
  
  [2] Growing up in the Kingdom of Jorg was not easy for him as a child. He remembered all the times his mother had scolded him over making 'Joe' sad. When he was very young all he knew about 'Joe' was that he was his Mom and Dad's best friend. In fact he was the best friend of all of his parents' friends. Although he never saw 'Joe' he understood that it was paramount that he make 'Joe' happy and that he, along with his parents, regularly spoke to him as if he were actually living there with them at home. As he got older he wanted to know as much about 'Joe' as he could.
  
  [3] Now the rulers of the Kingdom of Jorg were known as the Covening Body and they lived at the Warlocks' Tower in Spellsville. Whenever the Covening Body wanted to say something important to the People of Jorg they would get the Frighting Department to send out letters and even books into the Kingdom. One of these books was called 'The Creation of the Kingdom of Jorg' and it had become of great interest to the old man when he was in his teens.
  
  [4] The tale was told of a young warlock by the name of Chuck who felt that the magic of his parent's coven had worn off. Poor Chuck was dis-illusioned. However, one day when he was taking his daily walk he heard the sound of a man talking about a new kind of magic. This sparked the interest of Chuck to the extent that he formed his own version of that magic and conjured up a small building which he called the Warlock's Tower.
  
  [5] It was he who formed "The Babel Students", a small group of people who felt, like Chuck, that the magic had disappeared from their lives. So together they spent many years consulting that which is known as The Ancient Book with the hope that they would be able to find the whereabouts of The Light of Truth. Since Chuck was finding The Ancient Book only pointed in the direction of The Present Truth, he decided to study The Calculations According To The Great Stone Witness and was overwhelmed to find it encoded therein many of the things he had been proclaiming as The New Prophecy.
  
  [6] During this time Chuck had welcomed into his Inner Circle a young man called Joe who was practicing The Arts of The Judges. As Chuck got older and fell into bad health Joe became more prominent in the Inner Circle and became known as Defender of the True Magic. It wasn't long before Chuck left the Warlock's Tower and went to live with The Great Wizard In The Sky.
  
  [7] Thus began Words War One. Some of those from the Inner Circle did not like the way Joe was dealing with them and eventually they were expelled from the Warlocks' Tower. Many of The Babel Students were saddened. Some became very angry with the Inner Circle and spoke out against them saying that their magic was a sham. Over the few decades that followed many members of The Babel Students had nothing more to do with the Inner Circle. These were dubbed 'The Evil Babel Class'. (Some of their descendants still exist to this day.)
  
  [8] Not long after this incident Joe and those of the Inner Circle were sentenced by The Powers That Be to many years in prison. It was rumored that the magic being emitted from the Warlocks' Tower was weakening the power of some men to fight in the Sea Of Restless Mankind. Joe blamed prominent Illusionists from Crystal Dome for this outrageous lie. However, after the space of a few years The Powers That Be reversed the judgment and released the bonds keeping the Inner Circle captive.
  
  [9] Joe did not waste time in getting back to Warlocks' Tower to start a new era of Organization. Knowing that many had become dis-illusioned because of the seeming failure of The New Prophecy, Joe took it upon himself to let the 'Faithful Babel Class' (as they came to be known in later years) know that The Light Of Truth had been found by the Inner Circle and that it was being kept at Warlocks' Tower. He told them that from now on all leaders of Babel Student covens would have to take a test to see if they really practiced the True Magic.
  
  [10] The old man had read that eventually Joe also went to live with The Great Wizard In The Sky. All of the 'Faithful Babel Class' loved Joe and knew that he was ever looking down on them, and one thing was for sure, they never wanted to make him sad! Joe's parting gift to the followers of Warlocks' Tower was the Kingdom of Jorg, a place where the magic was becoming so powerful that people of all sorts were coming under its spell.
  
  [11] Suddenly the blank pages in the opened book were getting wet. The old man realized that tears were falling from his eyes. It was as though certain memories had been queued up but had not yet reached his conscious mind, that his emotions were responding before he was fully aware. In a few moments he understood his sadness. Right in front of him was a picture of his mother, father, sister and himself taken when he was about eighteen years of age. He had never seen his family since about that time. Very soon afterwards he had been banished from the Kingdom of Jorg and to this day had lived in the Land of the Oppo States.
  
  [12] His right hand moved over to the short wire-like object laying on the table to his left. He had been told all that time ago that this had been the cause of his banishment. They had accused him of going down the Broad Band Road and getting entangled in The Web Of Lies. No amount of reasoning would convince them that what they called True Magic was just an illusion. He had been found guilty of setting up Oppo Site and calling himself Starfrock The Web Wizard!