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to fight him, I’ll bring your hat back
to you.”
    “You?” He studied me and obviously found me lacking.
“You have no chance of defeating Magnus.” Merlin growled at him and he scoffed.
“What are you going to do, wolf, bite me?” In response, Merlin went over to one
of the chairs and sunk his teeth in to the leather cushion. “No!” the ghost
shrieked in utter horror. “Not my custom relaxed leather! It took fifteen
virgin maidens to make leather so supple and smooth that also matched my silk
curtains!”
    Merlin let go of the cushion and glared at the ghost
again. “So, you’ll help me?” I asked.
    The ghost’s shoulders slumped. “Your wolf is as
uncouth as the wizard I knew who had the same name.”
    “ I am not uncouth ,” Merlin assured me.
    “He’s not my wolf,” I assured Vactarus.
    “In the basement of my manor is a secret room full of
riches I attained from many different worlds. You may have one artifact,
only one, and you cannot change your mind later. You can also use the field
behind my house and my ritual room to practice your attack. In exchange, you
will bring back my hat.”
    I glanced at Merlin and he nodded. “Deal.”
    “Then I will return shortly.” He vanished.
    I grinned widely. “Yay! I got my first accomplice! Or
are you my accomplice?”
    Merlin just sighed. I didn’t care; I was ecstatic to
be getting a real magical weapon. A moment later, a young girl appeared right
in front of me. This time, I refused to scream. Instead, I mustered every ounce
of manliness I could… and squeaked quietly.
    Because the young girl was also a ghost.
    Her hair was blond and pulled up in pigtails, her
blue eyes were huge and doll-like, and her pink cheeks were emphasized by her
pale skin. The blue dress she wore was rough on the edges and dirty. She smiled
at me. “My name is Kisha.”
    Vactarus appeared beside her and I squeaked again,
less quietly. “Kisha, my daughter, will show you to the vault.”
    Kisha blushed, smiled shyly at me, and played with
the hem of her dress. I squeaked louder until Merlin frowned at me worriedly.
That was quite a sight to see, but Merlin seemed to have mastered wolf
expressions.
    Kisha waved her hand and started towards one of the
doors. “Follow me.” Merlin and I did.
    I opened the door, which revealed a dark hallway.
“So… how long have you been… Vactarus’s daughter?” I asked, using my natural
talent to make everyone in the room extremely uncomfortable.
    She laughed. “I’m not really Vactarus’s daughter. I
was already a ghost here when he took control over the manor. When he died, he
sort of adopted me.” She walked through another door.
    I heard a soft click as the latch released before the
door swung open. Merlin and I entered cautiously, immediately having to step
down some old, crumbling, stone steps. We followed the steps down until we reached
the bottom. I pulled out my wand and let energy flow through me. Since I was
very against being trapped in the dark, my magic instinctively knew what to do.
The tip of the wand lit up with bright white light that chased away the
darkness.
    “ No white magic to see here ,” Merlin muttered
sarcastically.
    In front of us was a stone wall with magic sigils on
it. Behind us were only the steps we had descended. “What do we do?” I asked.
Kisha was gone and there wasn’t another door.
    “ Unlock the entrance the same way you did with the
syrus .”
    I waved my wand at the wall with the sigils on it. Reveal
your secrets . Nothing happened. I tried again. Please open . Again,
nothing happened.
    “ These sigils are not weak , but this door
can be opened . You have to really want this .”
    I glared at the wall and thrust my wand towards it
like I was going to stab it. “Open!” I demanded out loud.
    Suddenly, a vertical crack formed in the middle of
the wall and grew larger. It was a very straight crack, so I knew it was
intentional. I was very glad I wasn’t bringing the manor down on