Jagg Wire Chapter 1

This is the first chapter of my new book. This has nothing to do with anything in my real life experience but still I enjoy to write it. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did writing it.

~Chapter 1~ ~The Blood Stained Road~
Every time a drop of magic is used there’s is a piece of paper that is made. These pieces of paper are called check notes. These are called check notes because the notes are made at a factory underground where small gnomes check each piece of note for letters. If they find any letters it means that what ever used magic, and made the note, used black magic. Black magic is forbidden everywhere in Faridrome. Faridrome is the city of gnomes. Some gnomes are given the gift of magic at birth. Others are given the gift of wings. That is how gnomes are classified; a gnome that uses magic is called a fairy and a gnome that can fly is called a sprite. When a gnome turns into a sprite, (gets wing), it goes through a state called mephosis. During this state the sprite is completely vulnerable. I don’t mean that as in, when he is going through mephosis he could be easily killed. Instead it means that they can easily be persuaded. For many years criminals have used this effect to their advantage. That is one of the one of the two only reasons there are criminals and crime in this underground world. The other reason is black magic. Long ago before humans walked on the earth gnomes were alive and could roam wherever they wanted. But then man evolved from the monkey and banished gnomes from the face of the earth. The humans thought they had rid the planet of the creatures, but they were wrong. The gnomes had actually gone into hiding below the earth’s surface. Eventually the gnomes had become more advanced than humans and had become centuries farther in evolution than the humans. But throughout history these gnomes have kept their heritage of using magic and the check notes.         It just so happens one day that a gnome named Gragler found a note with the letters “S U P E R H U M A N” on a note. He immediately gave this note to the head official. From here retrieval squad was recruited and give a single mission, find and arrest who ever caused that check note to be written. “Do we have any idea where the note’s black magic originated from?” asked head official Grott. “We have two traces, one from the gnome who made the spell and another from whatever it used the spell on.” Replied Firm, the tech unit. Grott is the head official or as most call him “commander G”. He calls all the shots in the gnome police force or as most call it the “g force”. Firm is the highest (and smartest) of all the tech units in Faridrome. He is actually not a gnome but a winged . The g force found him wandering around above ground one day and he was often getting into trouble with the humans, so the gnomes asked him to join them underground once they had realized he was extraordinarily smart. He usually makes all the high-tech machinery in Faridrome. He owns his own office in the g force but rarely comes out of it so most call him “the hermit”. “Let’s go for the gnome first; maybe we can get some answers outta him.”  Said Grott. The Retrieval Squad followed the directions given to them by Firm. Their directions were to go above ground using the Kink, then go to Michigan, and finally go to a town named “Diggery Lane”. This location is where the black magic originated. A Kink is piece of machinery that Firm invented. It’s a big metal ball that a gnome would be able to sit in and pilot that has claw attachments on its side that it uses to climb through tunnels in the earth to the surface. From here they have specially made equipment that cloak themselves and the user when needed so humans don’t spot them. “ First target is in sight, should we approach?” said the Retrieval Squad leader. “Yes, but be very careful, if he has used black magic before then he is not to be trusted.” Said firm through a headset in the leaders ear. “ She, sir, the gnome is a female.” “ Oh my mistake, give the headset to her and I’ll apologize and ask her to come over for some milk and cookies and- I DON’T GIVE A RAT’S BEHIND WHAT GENDER THAT CRIMINAL IS! I JUST WANT YOU TO INTERROGATE IT. Okay?” “ Sorry sir, I’ll get right to that.”  They start to walk down the street, and then they see some kind monster run away from and shoot acid at their gnome target. “Sir, we have a hostile should we shoot it while we have the chance?” said the squad leader. “No, we’ll chase it later. For now we’ll just have to talk to this gnome and see if we can get any information about that monster.” Replied firm. “I need to talk with you gnome citizen, you have some explaining to do.” “He tricked me.” Said the gnome. “What did you say?”  “He tricked me.” “What happened?” said the squad leader. “A man walked up to me and said he knew I was a gnome. I denied it, but he went on to say that he needed magic for a good cause. I told him I wasn’t a gnome and that he’s crazy. He ignored me and told me he’d give me gold, gnome gold. 10,000 of it to be precise. So I thought I could trust him, since he had gnome gold. I wasn’t paying attention to what he said, something about super strength. So I granted it. But as soon as I did, the gold melted into water. I got so angry I wanted to kill him, but I finally realized what spell I gave him. I wouldn’t be able to kill him. So I turned him into a monster called a graven. Immediately after, I used my magic and he shot acid at me.” Then they heard a faint cry from down the road, “Help me!!!”  “Where’d that come from firm?”  Asked Sorrin. “I can’t trace it exactly but…” “Just follow the blood stained road.” Said the criminal.  “Than we better get going!”  As the gnome retrieval squad ran down the road, the gnome criminal slipped into the night and was soon devoured from the inside by the acid that was injected into him by the monster.