Clemetis Random Legacy

Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Chapter Forty Eight

Early in the morning Miralys phoned up a number of her friends and arranged to meet in one of Dragon Falls' many parks for a casual get together

She and Quyhn played a game of chess and Quyhn commiserated with her over Jo's death the night before.

Some of their other friends, spent the afternoon catching up on their homework together

And later in the afternoon some of them dropped by the diner for a meal

Before taking a brief tour of the theatre, Miralys was however mindful of the lecture she'd had previously from her mother about staying out late and made sure they all left in plenty of time to get home before curfew

Menolly meanwhile had decided not to push her luck by sneaking out a second day in a row and mooched around the house, she spent a lot of time playing her bass

And poured her miseries out to the cats

But she couldn't resist setting up some booby traps around the house while everyone else was out

Even that failed to lift her mood much however and she retreated to her bed to sulk

As she went to booby trap one of the showers, Jo's death suddenly hit her and she screamed her frustrations & unhappiness to the empty house

That night, Tamara found herself unable to sleep, overcome with grief over Jo's death and unhappily reminded of the loss of her own family, she took Midnight out for a nighttime ride

As she dismounted at the quiet pool Midnight had taken her to, she was amazed to see a beautiful unicorn pacing slowly towards her, shimmering in the moonlight

Tamara was even more thrilled when he deigned to accept a carrot from her

And as she whispered to him and stroked his mane she felt some of the weight of her grief dissipate

After some time she heard a soft voice in her head, "Mortal, my name is Shimmer and I choose to make my home with you for a while"

Tamara mounted Shimmer and rode him home

As he settled into their home, Tamara found that tending to him soothed her grief

The next morning was a school day again and, true to her word, Tamara drove Menolly to school and stood watching until she had gone into the building

That done, she spent the day taking Cinnamon over the training fences, and looking after all the horses.

Joshua tended his garden as usual, his steak and patty plants were improving in quality and he hoped soon to get them up to perfect quality, a contact at the restaurant had told him that if he could get enough high quality steaks they would be able to get him some seeds to a very special plant

Showering after that, he was caught by one of Menolly's traps and was less than impressed

Miralys had waited after school for Menolly to finish in her band class, Tamara had asked her to make sure her little sister made it home from school on time, fortunately she had been asked to play in a game and so she didn't have to just sit around waiting for hours

When they got home, Menolly begged her mother for forgiveness and a let off, but Tamara remained adamant.

Menolly stomped off to talk to Fluff instead

"None of them understand me! They're just a bunch of mean yetis!" She moaned as Fluff meowed back

Miralys had been taking her responsibilities towards Cinnamon seriously and, as her sister sulked about her punishment, she carefully groomed Cinnamon and cleaned her hooves

Those done, she took Cinnamon for a brief ride along the beach, enjoying the peace and quiet and the exercise

Shimmer consented to allow Tamara to ride him in the horse races and they came a respectable third in the cross country

Meanwhile Dune, Cinnamon's foal, grew up to look very much like his mother, albeit with slightly less markings

After the race, Tamara was astounded to discover Shimmer had some special abilities as he took them from the Equestrian Centre to home in a flash of light

Once she got back from her ride, Miralys asked Joshua for help with her homework and they sat outside in the dusk for a while working on it

After the rest of the house had gone to bed, Shimmer introduced himself to Cinnamon

Who was only too happy to go into the stall with him...

As the household slept, Jo came out of her grave to check on her grandchildren

Floating round the house, she spotted the trap Menolly had put on the laptop and triggered it, not wanting her youngest grandchild to get into any more trouble

Joshua and Tamara woke up early, before anyone else in the house and, rather than get up just yet, decided to spend some quality time together...

Later in the morning (although still early) they made their way downstairs and ate a quiet breakfast together

Tamara knew she would get a better price for Dune if he was trained, so she rode him down to the training grounds

Where she had him practice over the jumps for the day

Shimmer followed them and chose to spend the time racing

As the day moved on, Dune became tired of training and Tamara knew he wouldn't learn anything further that day, it was nearly time for the day's race so she mounted Shimmer and rode him to the Equestrian Centre for the race

Both Miralys and Menolly had been taken on a field trip to the hospital with their class that day

When they got back, neither of their parents were home, Tamara was training Dune and Joshua was fishing

The first thing Miralys did when she got in was feed Cinnamon a carrot and brush her coat

After which she ate some leftovers from the fridge while Menolly practised her bass noisily

Having finished eating, Miralys did some chores round the house, putting the laundry out to dry

Before putting on a fitness video and working on her fitness

With both parents out the house and her sister occupied with her exercising, Menolly sneaked out of the house, she was fed up of this tiny island, and of her parents telling her what she could and couldn't do...

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Town News

Adamaris Dennis has started dating a townie
Bryce Roman is dating Meriwether Stacy (a townie & the consignment store clerk)
Tyson Marlin is dating a townie called Susanna Stacy
Ryanne Roman has dated both Lukas Sperie and a townie called Sebastian Striker
Tylar Marlin, Ellis & Gideon Harris and Glimmer Sabo have aged up to teens
Gideon is dating Isadora Marlin
Glimmer is dating Nathaniel McKinley

Saturday, 4 February 2012

Chapter Forty Seven

Menolly's tricks of the night before were extremely successful, catching both her mother and her older sister

Joshua had got up early that morning and tended his garden happily, oblivious to the drama going on in the house

Tamara calmed down by bottle-feeding the new foal, Dune

Before training Cinnamon over the jumps while Dune played with Midnight

Having finished with the garden, Joshua wandered around the town for a while collecting random seeds, he was hoping to find some special plants as he'd been able to grow all the normal ones in his garden

After a few hours searching for seeds he decided that was enough for the day and went down to the ocean to fish

Miralys and Menolly had both caught the bus to school that morning

But Menolly decided on the spur of the moment that she didn't feel like going to school, so she dropped behind her sister and snuck off to a small park where she spent the morning playing her bass

After a while she started to feel a bit hungry so she headed across town to the cafe where she bought herself lunch

Nearby she found a dingy old pub with a selection of instruments and decided to have a go at playing the keyboard

Miralys meanwhile had spent the day in school, first in class and then at the athletics club. After she'd finished she and a group of classmates decided to do their homework in the playground at the school before going home.

Shortly after the group had all finished their homework and gone home, Menolly made it to school at last, but not for class... She snuck into the deserted school and released all the frogs from the science lab!

Still feeling rebellious, she decided not to go home just yet and paid a visit to the nearby beach club where she ordered a drink

And then spent the rest of the evening tearing up the dancefloor

Unfortunately for her, when she didn't head home at curfew the police came round checking the bars for teens and she was well and truly caught

Tamara was waiting for her when she got home and she was furious, the school had called to let them know Menolly hadn't been at class and they had been getting more and more worried especially when Menolly didn't come home on time either...

"Where have you been? And what have you been doing all day?! We've been worried sick about you! If you can't behave properly, go to school and come home on time then you're clearly not responsible enough to be allowed out the house, you're grounded!"

The next day was saturday and Miralys had been offered the chance to spend the day at the local business offices so she saddled up Cinnamon and rode over there

Tamara tended to Dune, bottle-feeding him, brushing his coat and generally looking after him

While Joshua tended his garden and took the produce down to the consignment store to sell along with the results of his latest experiments in nectar-making

After sulking in the bath for much of the morning and playing her bass loudly on the balcony

Menolly waited until everyone else had left the house for various errands and work before booby trapping the sofa

And sneaking out the house, there was no way anyone was going to make her stay grounded!

She found her way to another club, a dance club this time, and played the guitar for hours, playing out all her frustrations through her music

Breaking her grounding however had results she'd never dreamed of, while she was off enjoying herself, Jo and Joshua had been sitting down watching TV together when Jo felt a strange sensation run through her

As Tamara ran into the room, Jo knew her time had come at last, and while Joshua and Tamara stared she felt herself turn transparent and begin to float

Joshua, Tamara and Miralys (who had just got home from her day of work experience) gathered around weeping as the Grim Reaper came to take Jo's soul away.

Joshua chose to bury his mother between his growing garden and the pond, he hoped that she would rest in peace there

His last duty to his mother done, he and Tamara sat down on the sofa to await the return of their prodigal daughter

Menolly eventually felt she'd played all her frustrations out and decided she didn't want to be picked up by the police again so grabbed her scooter and headed home

When she got there, her hopes of sneaking back in without her parents noticing were dashed. Her father was first to greet her as she walked in the door.

"So, you've decided to come home again have you? Your mother told you not to leave the house so why did you ignore her? You knew how worried we were last night when you didn't come home, did you not think we'd notice if you disappeared again?"

Tamara then confronted her daughter

"You thoughtless, heedless child! While you've been gallivanting around town, breaking your grounding and curfew as well, we've been worrying about you!

"Your grandmother died tonight and you weren't even here to say farewell to her when it happened! Don't even think about leaving the house tomorrow and come Monday one of us will take you to school to make sure you don't skip again!"