This is my song from the show.
Monday, June 5, 2017
Chapter 5: Leaving (Marina)
The night sky glittered above me as I climbed up from the lake shore and onto the island. Pulling out my lumira, I said "lumor" and it lit up my path. I looked around for Leo as I climbed up the hill towards the cave in.
Suddenly he jumped out at me brandishing his lyteknife and growling ferociously.
"Leo!" I shouted, "Leo, it's me!" He hesitated. I groaned.
"Really? Every time?" I sighed. "Color and light are more precious than gold and jewels and should not be taken for granted. There! satisfied now?"
"Well you never can be to careful." he muttered sheathing his lyteknife.
"I know, I know!" I rolled my eyes, "We've been through this before."
As he led the way to the other side of the island I asked, "Honestly, do you really think anyone really would have found a bagus, found the island, and impersonated me? Do you have any idea how unlikely that sounds?"
Leo just grumbled, "Sneaking up on me in the middle of the night..."
"Sorry about that." I apologized. "Mom and Dad wouldn't let me out of the house."
"What? Why?" he asked turning his head slightly as he walked.
"Well... um... It's a long story." Leo turned and raised his eyebrows. "Maybe we should wait till we're sitting down."
Leo looked confused, but just gave a slight nod, turned, and resumed walking.
"Here we are." Leo stopped at a small hole in the ground. "I've started trying to re-establish our cave, and find some of the stuff we left behind." He began to slip into the hole, "It'll be a tight squeeze, but you should make it. It's only temporary anyways."
Leo was right. It was a tight squeeze. But I did make it.
"It's actually kinda cozy in here." Leo told me as I emerged into a small cave. "I managed to find our old armchairs. They're kinda dirty, but they work fine."
"I can fix that!" I pulled out my lyarol, pointed it at the chairs, said "Rhyome" The dust disappeared.
Leo sighed, "I wish I could do that."
"Yeah." I answered, trying not to giggle at the funny look that came over Leo's face. "It's kinda stupid that only humans can use magic."
Leo stared off into space, a wistful look on his face.
"Leo?" I questioned, "Leo? Leo!" I snapped my fingers in front of his face and he jolted back to the present.
"Sorry." he apologized. "Memories."
"About what?" I asked.
" Um, nothing really. Just... the good ol' days. You know." He smirked at me.
Leo was acting weird. "Are... you OK?" I asked
"Of course I am! Why wouldn't I be?" He said, sounding more like his old self.
"Umm... you were acting kinda weird."
"Nonsense!" He plopped down into one of the now clean chairs and changed the subject.
"So what was it you wanted to tell me?"
I fell into the other chair and the story spilled out. Every detail came out and I was surprised at how much and how well I could remember. I described in perfect detail the horrible jerk as I got pulled up by the vine into the clouds, the jerking motion of coming down suspended by my own levira, and even the small droplet of water that I had forgot about until then.
Leo just listened politely until we got to the part with the vine. Then his eyes widened and stared at me seemingly enraptured at the sun getting covered, Suada, and the multitudes of fruit unfolded. It was as if I was reliving it all in perfect detail and narrating it beautifully.
When I finally finished, Leo leaned back in his chair and stared at me intensely for a while. He seemed to be in shock.
"L-Leo? Are... are you OK?"
"She's back." he whispered barely audibly.
"What? Leo? Are you OK?"
Slowly, he nodded. His eyes seemed to focus more clearly on me.
Very slowly he began to ask a question. But it wasn't even about Suada, or the dark sun, or the fruits. Instead he asked,"The... drop of water... do you know why that happened?"
"What? Oh!" I widened my eyes. "No! I had forgotten about it until now."
Then, remembering my underwater experience, I wondered if they were connected. I blushed remembering that I hadn't told Leo about that yet.
"Um... Leo?"
"What?" he answered absently, as if he wasn't really listening
"I um, forgot... to tell you" I ventured and stopped, realizing How stupid I sounded. I sighed and continued "I... didn't tell you, I made a discovery the other day, when I made the drawing of the water dragon... I... um... Iforgottousethewaterpotionandjumpedinwithoutitbuticouldstillbreathe!"
"What?!?" Leo was looking at me funny.
I took a deep breath and told the story in deep detail and made sure to talk slowly.
When I finished Leo sat up and shook his head, eyes wide, "It's all happening!"
"Umm... Leo?"
"Well," he said,seeming to recover, "We'd better get going." He began gathering things littered around the small cave and scooping them into a bag.
"Wait, What?!? what do you mean 'Get going'? Where are we going?"
He looked up and hesitated. Finally he said "There's someone you need to meet" and resumed packing, for, I realized, that was what he was doing.
"Who? Where are we going?!?" I repeated.
He didn't appear to have heard me.
"Go pack. Leave a note for your parents. You'll need clothes." He looked up "And food. Lots of food."
"But-" I protested "Go!" He shooed me out of the cave.
I scrambled awkwardly out of the tunnel and, brushing myself off, I jogged down to the lake and waded in.
Where were we going? A note for my parents? What am I supposed to say? Clothes? Food? He's making it sound like we're going to be gone a long time!
I climbed out of the lake and dried off with my lyarol. I slowed as our little log cabin came into view.
I tiptoed into the house carefully avoiding the squeaky floorboards that were so well known to me. I knew every inch of our house, and now Leo wanted me to leave?!?
I didn't even know why I was sneaking around the house so carefully. Half of me wanted to purposely wake my parents and have them force me to stay home where they would fawn over me over-protectively like they always have. But, as I tiptoed through the house I realized that, I had never really liked that. I had been sneaking away for years and seeing Leo, having little adventures now and then. So some inner impulse compelled me to keep tiptoeing.
I got to the closet and grabbed my backpack. Then I tiptoed to the pantry.
I felt a little guilty about taking food when so recently a famine had been predicted, but Suada did promise to overcome it.
I filled the entire backpack with food, and had to go get another one for my clothes.
I couldn't believe what I was doing. I was actually leaving home! I was leaving all that I had ever known! But Leo seemed so serious! Where were we going?
These thoughts whirled through my head many times over again as I packed my clothes and sneaked out through the back door.
I met Leo on the shore of the lake. He was dripping wet. He hurriedly asked me to use my lyarol to dry off his soaked backpack.
"Did you leave a note for your parents?" He asked as he refastened on his huge heavy looking backpack.
"No." I answered, "I don't know what I was supposed to say."
"I figured you wouldn't." he said handing me a piece of paper. "Use your levira to put this on your bed." I concentrated on the house through the trees and the piece of paper floated out of sight.
"Now," He instructed me, turning towards the island, "Concentrate on the aspectus."
"Oh!" I said, "You managed to dig it up?" I asked surprised that he hadn't shown the looking table to me earlier.
"Yup." He replied. " I managed to drag it down to the shore but I obviously couldn't swim with it."
"Wait, you want me to use my levira on it?" I asked.
Leo hesitated for a moment and then said "Yes."
I wasn't sure that the levira was meant to hold up something so far away and heavy as the aspectus but I tried. I closed my eyes and concentrated very hard on the image of the aspectus in my mind.
Leo 's vision is better than mine and I heard him pull in a sharp breath as the levira strained. I must have lifted it up a little but then the levira gave a sharp jerk and the weight evaporated.
"I can't do it." I told Leo. "The levira isn't meant to hold up things that far away or that heavy." I looked at Leo and noticed that he was still staring wide eye out towards the island. I followed his gaze and gasped. There was the aspectus, floating towards us on the water rapidly! Floating! The aspectus was way too heavy to float on water! What was holding it up?
I turned to ask Leo and noticed that he was staring weirdly at me.
"Um... Leo?" I asked.
The thud as the aspectus hit the shore seemed to snap him back to reality.
"Marina, do you still have your old parvisa?" he asked as he began to drag the aspectus further up on shore. It was heavy! Even Leo was having trouble dragging it up the shore.
"Leo how was it-" "Do you?" he interrupted.
"I think so, but-" "Where is it?"
"Probably in my stash behind that tree. But how was it floating?" Leo ignored me and went to get my parvisa.
"Leo-" once again I was interrupted as Leo shoved my parvisa into my hand and said, "Shrink the aspectus"
"Ugh!" I complained, but I obliged.
"Leo," I persisted as he shoved the now tiny aspectus into his already full backpack. "Why was it floating?"
Leo set off along the edge of the lake and finally replied, "You'll find out when we get there."
"When we get where?" I asked.
He ignored me. "She'll explain everything."
"Who?!" I said, getting really annoyed.
There was a long silence as I waited.
Just as I was about to ask again he replied
"Fortuna."
Suddenly he jumped out at me brandishing his lyteknife and growling ferociously.
"Leo!" I shouted, "Leo, it's me!" He hesitated. I groaned.
"Really? Every time?" I sighed. "Color and light are more precious than gold and jewels and should not be taken for granted. There! satisfied now?"
"Well you never can be to careful." he muttered sheathing his lyteknife.
"I know, I know!" I rolled my eyes, "We've been through this before."
As he led the way to the other side of the island I asked, "Honestly, do you really think anyone really would have found a bagus, found the island, and impersonated me? Do you have any idea how unlikely that sounds?"
Leo just grumbled, "Sneaking up on me in the middle of the night..."
"Sorry about that." I apologized. "Mom and Dad wouldn't let me out of the house."
"What? Why?" he asked turning his head slightly as he walked.
"Well... um... It's a long story." Leo turned and raised his eyebrows. "Maybe we should wait till we're sitting down."
Leo looked confused, but just gave a slight nod, turned, and resumed walking.
"Here we are." Leo stopped at a small hole in the ground. "I've started trying to re-establish our cave, and find some of the stuff we left behind." He began to slip into the hole, "It'll be a tight squeeze, but you should make it. It's only temporary anyways."
Leo was right. It was a tight squeeze. But I did make it.
"It's actually kinda cozy in here." Leo told me as I emerged into a small cave. "I managed to find our old armchairs. They're kinda dirty, but they work fine."
"I can fix that!" I pulled out my lyarol, pointed it at the chairs, said "Rhyome" The dust disappeared.
Leo sighed, "I wish I could do that."
"Yeah." I answered, trying not to giggle at the funny look that came over Leo's face. "It's kinda stupid that only humans can use magic."
Leo stared off into space, a wistful look on his face.
"Leo?" I questioned, "Leo? Leo!" I snapped my fingers in front of his face and he jolted back to the present.
"Sorry." he apologized. "Memories."
"About what?" I asked.
" Um, nothing really. Just... the good ol' days. You know." He smirked at me.
Leo was acting weird. "Are... you OK?" I asked
"Of course I am! Why wouldn't I be?" He said, sounding more like his old self.
"Umm... you were acting kinda weird."
"Nonsense!" He plopped down into one of the now clean chairs and changed the subject.
"So what was it you wanted to tell me?"
I fell into the other chair and the story spilled out. Every detail came out and I was surprised at how much and how well I could remember. I described in perfect detail the horrible jerk as I got pulled up by the vine into the clouds, the jerking motion of coming down suspended by my own levira, and even the small droplet of water that I had forgot about until then.
Leo just listened politely until we got to the part with the vine. Then his eyes widened and stared at me seemingly enraptured at the sun getting covered, Suada, and the multitudes of fruit unfolded. It was as if I was reliving it all in perfect detail and narrating it beautifully.
When I finally finished, Leo leaned back in his chair and stared at me intensely for a while. He seemed to be in shock.
"L-Leo? Are... are you OK?"
"She's back." he whispered barely audibly.
"What? Leo? Are you OK?"
Slowly, he nodded. His eyes seemed to focus more clearly on me.
Very slowly he began to ask a question. But it wasn't even about Suada, or the dark sun, or the fruits. Instead he asked,"The... drop of water... do you know why that happened?"
"What? Oh!" I widened my eyes. "No! I had forgotten about it until now."
Then, remembering my underwater experience, I wondered if they were connected. I blushed remembering that I hadn't told Leo about that yet.
"Um... Leo?"
"What?" he answered absently, as if he wasn't really listening
"I um, forgot... to tell you" I ventured and stopped, realizing How stupid I sounded. I sighed and continued "I... didn't tell you, I made a discovery the other day, when I made the drawing of the water dragon... I... um... Iforgottousethewaterpotionandjumpedinwithoutitbuticouldstillbreathe!"
"What?!?" Leo was looking at me funny.
I took a deep breath and told the story in deep detail and made sure to talk slowly.
When I finished Leo sat up and shook his head, eyes wide, "It's all happening!"
"Umm... Leo?"
"Well," he said,seeming to recover, "We'd better get going." He began gathering things littered around the small cave and scooping them into a bag.
"Wait, What?!? what do you mean 'Get going'? Where are we going?"
He looked up and hesitated. Finally he said "There's someone you need to meet" and resumed packing, for, I realized, that was what he was doing.
"Who? Where are we going?!?" I repeated.
He didn't appear to have heard me.
"Go pack. Leave a note for your parents. You'll need clothes." He looked up "And food. Lots of food."
"But-" I protested "Go!" He shooed me out of the cave.
I scrambled awkwardly out of the tunnel and, brushing myself off, I jogged down to the lake and waded in.
Where were we going? A note for my parents? What am I supposed to say? Clothes? Food? He's making it sound like we're going to be gone a long time!
I climbed out of the lake and dried off with my lyarol. I slowed as our little log cabin came into view.
I tiptoed into the house carefully avoiding the squeaky floorboards that were so well known to me. I knew every inch of our house, and now Leo wanted me to leave?!?
I didn't even know why I was sneaking around the house so carefully. Half of me wanted to purposely wake my parents and have them force me to stay home where they would fawn over me over-protectively like they always have. But, as I tiptoed through the house I realized that, I had never really liked that. I had been sneaking away for years and seeing Leo, having little adventures now and then. So some inner impulse compelled me to keep tiptoeing.
I got to the closet and grabbed my backpack. Then I tiptoed to the pantry.
I felt a little guilty about taking food when so recently a famine had been predicted, but Suada did promise to overcome it.
I filled the entire backpack with food, and had to go get another one for my clothes.
I couldn't believe what I was doing. I was actually leaving home! I was leaving all that I had ever known! But Leo seemed so serious! Where were we going?
These thoughts whirled through my head many times over again as I packed my clothes and sneaked out through the back door.
I met Leo on the shore of the lake. He was dripping wet. He hurriedly asked me to use my lyarol to dry off his soaked backpack.
"Did you leave a note for your parents?" He asked as he refastened on his huge heavy looking backpack.
"No." I answered, "I don't know what I was supposed to say."
"I figured you wouldn't." he said handing me a piece of paper. "Use your levira to put this on your bed." I concentrated on the house through the trees and the piece of paper floated out of sight.
"Now," He instructed me, turning towards the island, "Concentrate on the aspectus."
"Oh!" I said, "You managed to dig it up?" I asked surprised that he hadn't shown the looking table to me earlier.
"Yup." He replied. " I managed to drag it down to the shore but I obviously couldn't swim with it."
"Wait, you want me to use my levira on it?" I asked.
Leo hesitated for a moment and then said "Yes."
I wasn't sure that the levira was meant to hold up something so far away and heavy as the aspectus but I tried. I closed my eyes and concentrated very hard on the image of the aspectus in my mind.
Leo 's vision is better than mine and I heard him pull in a sharp breath as the levira strained. I must have lifted it up a little but then the levira gave a sharp jerk and the weight evaporated.
"I can't do it." I told Leo. "The levira isn't meant to hold up things that far away or that heavy." I looked at Leo and noticed that he was still staring wide eye out towards the island. I followed his gaze and gasped. There was the aspectus, floating towards us on the water rapidly! Floating! The aspectus was way too heavy to float on water! What was holding it up?
I turned to ask Leo and noticed that he was staring weirdly at me.
"Um... Leo?" I asked.
The thud as the aspectus hit the shore seemed to snap him back to reality.
"Marina, do you still have your old parvisa?" he asked as he began to drag the aspectus further up on shore. It was heavy! Even Leo was having trouble dragging it up the shore.
"Leo how was it-" "Do you?" he interrupted.
"I think so, but-" "Where is it?"
"Probably in my stash behind that tree. But how was it floating?" Leo ignored me and went to get my parvisa.
"Leo-" once again I was interrupted as Leo shoved my parvisa into my hand and said, "Shrink the aspectus"
"Ugh!" I complained, but I obliged.
"Leo," I persisted as he shoved the now tiny aspectus into his already full backpack. "Why was it floating?"
Leo set off along the edge of the lake and finally replied, "You'll find out when we get there."
"When we get where?" I asked.
He ignored me. "She'll explain everything."
"Who?!" I said, getting really annoyed.
There was a long silence as I waited.
Just as I was about to ask again he replied
"Fortuna."
BAAY ended recently. I am SOOO depressed. Actually, I was starting to recover until we went to my brother Jonathan's 5th grade track meet, and I saw about fifteen people from BAAY! So now I'm depressed all over again. I wrote a song. It's a reprise of Where Did The Rock Go. It's a little depressing, but, well, I was super depressed when I wrote it. You have to really know the tune to be able to put the words to the melody.Anyway, here it is.
I'm assuming most people in School of Rock feel this way too. So this is for you School of Rock!
Where'd School of Rock Go?
Back at the auditions,
nervous, excited,
I was so extatic,
when I got the part I did.
Dances loud and craazy,
songs beyond control,
every note and lyric,
branded right across my soul.
Where'd School of Rock go?
Where's the keyboard, bass, the drums, and guitar?
Where are all those voices raised to heaven,
blazing down like shooting stars?
Tell me where're the rehearsals?
All the fun and all the friends that I made?
How can I forget all those dances?
How can I just let it fade?
Somehow we got closer,
all of them and me,
guess that time kept passing,
but I didn't stop to see.
Somehow all those strangers,
turned into good friends,
never realizing,
that someday it had to end.
Where'd School of Rock go?
Charlie, Jack, Ava S, Ava Len?
Where are all those awesome fun rehearsals?
When they're gone then what remains?
Where're the directors?
Where are Maddie, Lisa and Erica?
Where's the power and the beauty and the frenzy and the rapture?
Where's the magic of the moments only BAAY could ever capture?
Now the only thing I'm hearing are the echos disappearing.
Now that it's all over,
I guess I'll be ok.
Eventually I'll get over it,
There'll be more shows anyway.
I guess that life will go on,
as I know it should,
but this show won't ever fade,
as if it ever could.
Where'd School of Rock go?
Where's the passion and the joy and the fun?
Even though I'll do so many more shows,
this will still be the one.
Where'd School of Rock go?
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