The lost flute of the Hypnomist

 

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Chapter 1

Abigail woke up to the sound of breathing, she quickly pulled the covers over and lept out of bed before quickly seeing her aunt with her guard up. Abigail quickly grabbed the grappling hook that was on her nightstand and shot the hook around one of the rings of the chandelier, and went up into the air before flipping and extending her leg out to her aunt. Her aunt quickly moved the tray of tea before grabbing Abigail’s leg. Abigail then went flying in the air till she landed comfortably back on her bed. Abigail then sat up as her aunt said,

“ Nice hearing darling, now I must attend to Mr. Dramorn, but I also must inform you that I got a call and someone will be coming to visit, do be ready to give them a sweet welcoming.” Abigail smiled as she said,

“Will do aunt Lilly.” With that, aunt Lilly walked out and down the hall leaving Abigail clapping and smiling excitedly as she thought, This is gonna be fuuun!

When Abigail came down the large stairs she had her golden brown hair in a messy bun while she wore black leggings and a purple shirt that felt like soft velvet, it also had a large hood. She also carried a small pink, purple, and dark blue striped string bag with gold strings and a strap around her shoulder. She then turned to the left of the large living area and into the dining room where she saw a plate of yellow scrambled eggs, three bacon strips, two halves of warm buttered bagels, and a glass of grape juice at her usual spot, the second chair from the end closest to the door on the right-hand side. Abigail smiled and waved to her aunt's boss, Mr. Dramorn who sat at the end of the long dining table studying what looked to be a weird flute. Abigail then sat down as she said,

” Good morning sir.” Mr. Dramorn didn't look up as he said,

” Good morning Abigail.” Then he went back to studying the flute while every so often eating from the bowl of hot oatmeal near him. As Abigail, thought, today Mr. Dramorn is wearing his informal red suit and he still has his slippers on as well as his blue jeans, and he doesn't have his watch on his wrist which means Mr. Dramorn doesn't work at the writing station. Just then, as if Mr. Dramorn could read her thoughts he said,

You only came here one year and eight months ago and you already have my daily wardrobe figured out, eh?” Abigail smiled and said excitedly,

Yeah, pretty much, so what are we going to do today Mr. Dramorn?” Mr. Dramorn replied,

” Well, I have this flute to look at, see if it's enchanted in a way, then I have some family coming to stay.”

” For how long?” Asked Abigail immediately. Mr. Dramorn sighed and said,

” For one and a half weeks, their father going away on a business trip and they want me to watch them, say it will be good to have some fun in the house.” Just then there was a ring that sounded through the house and Abigail’s aunt called from another room,

” I got it, Abigail get into place.” Abigail quickly finished eating her third bacon strip and a little bit of both eggs and bagel before pushing herself out of her seat as she drank the last of her grape juice. Then she ran out of the dining room yelling,

” Okay, Lilly! ” She then ran up the stairs to her room, turning off the lights that were in the hall and her room. She quickly went to her large bookcase at the end of her bed that ran along the rest of the wall and touched the spine of a blue book before watching as a part of the bookcase slid open revealing a bright blue light. Abigail smiled thinking, Let's set the trap. She walked into the small room and turned around to see the bookcase slide back into place and her secret elevator lifted her to the attic. Abigail was now in a tower room with a single-window that overlooked the entire front yard, gated entrance, and the large city of Draco in the distance. With the large buildings that stuck up at different heights. Just then Abigail saw a bright red van heading back along the one-way road that leads from Mr. Dramorn’s mansion to Draco City. She narrowed her eyes as she thought, alright, trap time.

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   Abigail had her spy sounds hearing devices in her ears. As she leaned against the floor she heard her Aunt Lilly say,

” And this is the hall where Mr. Dramorn’s sleeping and study quarters are. Please be mindful that Mr. Dramorn likes to keep to himself, so no going down there, but here is your room, please don't make too much ruckus.” Abigail smiled as she heard three different voices say,

” Thank you.” Before she also heard the door close. She then quickly started to run around the room. From one chest to another, till finally she had all she needed laying out on the floor,

“ Four spare grappling hooks, twelve smoke bombs, heat vision goggles, night vision goggles, ultra-violet light goggles, three, forty eight-inch ropes, six nets, and net launching gun, I already have hearing devices, shurikens, and an electric shock hand glove.” Once everything was in her magical drawstring bag that could expand on the inside without getting larger on the outside, she quickly and quietly went back down to her room using the bookcase elevator and easily getting past all the traps set in her room. Abigail then went into the dark hallway and put on her night vision goggles before quickly jumping and pushing herself off the wall to the other wall then up to the chandelier where she heard one voice say,

“ Alright, we're totally going to escape out of here right?” Then another voice said a little sarcastically,

“ Right, just one question, how are we going to do that?” Next, a third voice spoke, saying

“ Give me a credit card-” 

“ Don't have that.” Replied the sarcastic voice

“ A pencil-”

“ Nope.”

“ A que tip?” 

“ Still no, all we have is our luggage a few possessions, a bag of marbles, and… none of the things you listed.” 

“ Yeah, I already figured that out when you first told me, Fox.” Abigail who was still on the chandelier muttered quietly to herself,

Fox? It must be a secret code name, must take down the enemy quickly.” Then she heard the energetic voice say,

“ We can just use the marbles.”

“ And do what Fritz?” 

Fritz!” Exclaimed Abigail, quietly as she heard the smart person say,

“ And do what exactly?”

“ This!” Replied Fritz. Suddenly Abigail heard loud noises that sounded like he was banging the marbles against something. Abigail quickly shot a grappling hook back to her door and silently landed on the ground in front of it. Just then she heard the door next to her room open and Fritz said,

“ See? It worked, The Falcon has struck again!” Abigail narrowed her eyes thinking, That's it, you're going down! 

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Chapter 2

Abigail pulled out her long rope and started to swing it into the air as who Abigail thought had to be Fritz came into the hallway and Abigail quickly threw her rope around him as he turned around to face the now open doored room. Abigail quickly pulled him towards her as she opened her door and quickly lept up onto her own chandelier and tied him to it as she heard from the hallway the two other boys say,

“ Fritz!” Abigail quickly ran back out of her room and tossed another rope around both of the other two boys and pulled them into her room, tying them up with Fritz, while they whined. The one who wore the orange hoodie said,

“ Please don't hurt me, I'm too loved to be eaten!”Abigail who was hidden out of the way of the light that she posed on them and in a dark corner said with narrowed eyes ignoring the plead,

“ Who are you, what are you doing here, who do you work for!” The boy who wore an orange backpack said quickly,

“ I’m Felix my brothers are Fox, and Fritz, we came here because our dad is going on a long business trip and umm... I don’t think we work for anyone.” Suddenly Abigail started laughing and she slowly went over to the light switch as her laughter faded and she said,

“ I totally got you good.” Fritz then asked,

“ Uh, who are you?” Abigail took off her night vision goggles as she said in reply,

“Oh I’m Abigail, my aunt is the butler.”

“ Okay, uh, care to cut us loose?” Said Fox. Abigail replied,

“ Yeah.” Before she quickly pulled out a shuriken from her bag and tossed it at the rope that was tied around her chandelier. The boys then fell with a loud thud. As they got up Abigail said,

“ So… wait your all triplets right? Just to be clear, who is who?" The boy with a short-sleeved orange shirt over his long-sleeved orange shirt with blue jeans and brown hair said,

“ I'm Fritz, the fun one, Felix is the weird, smart one with the backpack, and then Fox the sly, sneaky, prankster is the one with the hood.” Abigail looked at Felix and saw he was wearing an orange backpack with his orange short-sleeved shirt and blue jeans, and his hair was a little tidier than Fritz's hair, while Fox was wearing an orange hoodie and blue pants and his hair was flat and chill. 

“ Okay, now I have a couple of questions for you, starting with… What's your favorite fighting technique, who's the evil triplet, what fun games do you play?” Felix answered all three of those questions by saying,

“ Uh, we don't really have fighting techniques, and Fox is the evil triplet, and probably our favorite game to play is-”

“ Dart Battle!” Exclaimed Fritz who quickly ran out of the room. Abigail watched with a surprised look till Felix said,

“ You might want to run, he wins every time we play this.” Abigail smiled and said,

“ What exactly is this Dart Battle?” Felix replied,

“ It's a simple game where each player gets a ‘fake’ blaster or gun whatever you want to call it, filled with styrofoam darts that have suction cup ends and if you get hit with one, then you are basically out of the game until next round.” Abigail smiled and said,

“ That sounds fun!” Just then Fritz came back into the room with four Dart Blaster guns that had blue and black claw-like marks on them,

“ Dart Battle! You have ten minutes to set up a base and get ready for an attack, ready, go!” Both Fox and Felix quickly grabbed a blaster and ran off, while Fritz gave Abigail a blaster saying,

“ It's okay if you don't win, your new to this game but I bet you'll get the hang of it.” Abigail smiled before Fritz ran off. Abigail smiled and said,

“ This should be fun.” With that, she closed the door to her room and quickly grabbed some items saying,

“ But they don't know my type of fun.” 

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The ten minutes have passed and Abigail was sneaking down through the dark hallways when suddenly she heard the sound of darts being shot and Fritz saying,

“ I'm gonna get you!” Then Fox's voice said,

“ Nope! I am, haha!” Abigail quickly shot a grappling hook up to the chandelier just as they came around the corner. Suddenly, Fritz said,

“ Got Yeah! Woohoo!” Fox sighed saying,

“ Awe man, but you still have to get Felix and Abigail.” Fritz smiled and said,

“ They are going down! Wooooohooo!" With that, he ran off in the other direction and back to the stairs but went across to the other hallway in search of Felix. Meanwhile, Abigail saw Fox look around saying,

“ Now where is Abigail?” Abigail smiled before jumping and quietly rolling on the floor behind Fox, then quickly hid behind a display case of a treasure that Mr. Dramorn found. Abigail saw Fox turn around and start walking down the hall where Abigial was till finally he safely passed her not knowing she was there. Abigail smiled and once Fox was gone she quickly made her way over to the other hallway. She then shot another grappling hook up to the nearest chandelier and posed ready to shoot. Suddenly Felix and Fritz came down the hallway and Abby shot a dart at their feet to stop them. They both looked up and Fritz asked,

“ Abigail? How did you get up there?” 

“ Stop trying to fool me, Fritz! Your time will be over soon.” She shot another dart but Fritz dodged as he asked,

“ What? I'm not trying to fool you, what are you even talking about?” Abigail replied,

“ It's just my character backstory, how about you?” Fritz gave her a confused look saying,

“ Uh… my guy has a gun?” Abigail smiled and said,

“ Not anymore.” With that, she shot another dart at him and hit him in the leg before jumping down and landing in front of Fritz saying,

“ Looks like I got you out." Fritz smiled and said,

“ Yeah, but not Felix.” Abigail turned around to see Felix trying to slowly and silently sneak away. Abigail shot a dart but Felix started to run away saying,

“ Wait, wait, don't kill me please!” Abigail smiled and ran after Felix as she said,

“ I won't kill you, but the dart will.” She then jumped and slid down the staircase railing as Felix said,

“ Living room's safe zone, living rooms the safe zone!” Abigail jumped on Felix making him land on the ground saying,

“There are no safe zones in a battle.” With that, she shot him on the forehead and got off of him saying,

“ Well, that was fun, lets do it again!” Fritz came down into the living room and said,

“ You know Abigail, it doesn't always have to be super intense, it's just a game.” Abigail gave confused look and said,

“ Oh… I've only had fun by being prepared for anything, so I guess it's all new.”

“ So what fun things do you like to do that probably aren't as violent.” Asked Felix, Abigail replied,

“ Do you guys want to see Mr. Dramorn's treasure room?” Fox went right up to Abigail with wide excited eyes saying,

“ Our Uncle has his own Treasure room!?" Abigail smiled and said,

“ Follow me.” With that, she ran up the stairs and into her room where she quickly went over to the wall with an air vent cover blocking the whole that led all through the house. Just then the boys came in and watched Abigail kick open the door, before saying,

“ Well, off to adventure!” With that, she crawled down into the air vent tunnel, looking back to see all three boys following after her. She continued through the tunnel as Fox asked,

“ So where's the treasure room?” Abigail replied,

“ This tunnel leads through multiple rooms in the house, and I have remembered every turn and exit and entrance, even where I am in different parts of the tunnels." They turned another corner and Abigail kicked open the cover before rolling out and landing on her foot. She stood up looking back at the boys as Felix and Fritz fell down from the vent tunnel which was higher off the ground than the one in Abigail's room. 

“ I have noticed that you don't seem to get out much… Right?" Abigail sighed and said,

“ Yeah, my aunt prepares me for anything, but then she says that I'll be safe here in the mansion, which I'm not really against...” She let her voice trail off and a short silence came over them before Fritz asked,

“ Don't you want to explore new worlds and adventure unexplored places?”  Abigail smiled excitedly and said,

“ Of course… but… I've never disobeyed my aunt, she's so amazing and I want to be as strong as her, but that also means being strong enough to do the right thing.” Fritz blinked a couple of times before saying,

“ Not entirely the answer I was expecting but at least you want to adventure! Now come on, where's our uncle's treasure room?” Abigail smiled and said,

“ This way.” She led them down the hall passed many more glass cased artifacts like magical weapons and other mystical, cursed objects. Abigail then led them to a door on the left of the hallway and said,

“ Prepare to be amazed by the greatest treasures known to man found by the greatest adventurer in all of history!” She opened the door and let the boys enter into a room with multiple chests, cases, and treasures as well as statues. Abigail walked with Felix saying,

“ This is one of the crown jewels of Ireland, given to Mr. Dramorn by the queen of Ireland herself, for helping retrieve all the jewels.” 

“ Then why is this one not with the others?” Asked Felix. Abigail replied,

“ Because as thanks for finding the others.” Felix smiled and took out of his backpack a journal and started writing something in it. Abigail walked around until she came to a case that enclosed a neatly kept nest filled with a single egg that was a green and blue colored shell. Fritz came over asking,

“ Ooooh, what's that?" He pointed to the egg and Abigail smiled proudly saying,

“ The Dragon egg of Stolen Souls, legend has it that if cracked, a dragon will emerge from its shell and it will seek nothing the but the souls of pure living beings. Luckily, this is made of a special type of glass that if the egg where to be cracked, it wouldn't be able to escape.” Just then a loud bang came from somewhere else in the room and Abigail quickly went towards the sound of the bang and saw Fox standing next to an opened chest. Fox quickly said,

“ I only opened it to see if there was any treasure inside, and there were just these books on it.” Abigail pointed to the chest and said,

“ You don't understand, that's the chest of the Acidic Viper!” Just then a large snake rose out from the now opened chest. Abigail's eyes went wide with fear as the snake opened its large black eyes and extended it's frill as it gave a loud hissing roar, showing off it's two long, sharp fangs. Abigail quickly ran to grab Fox's hand and pulled Fritz as they went by just as Fritz said,

“ Wow! That is so cool!” Just as Abigail pulled them back towards the open area where Felix was drawing a picture of the jewel of Ireland in his notebook he turned around and saw them running. Felix dodged them asking,

“ Wow, wow, wow, what's going on?” Abigail was breathing to heavily to explain, but luckily Fox was pointing in the direction they came and saying extremely loudly,

“ Giant snake!” Just then they all heard from the doorway someone say,

“ What in the world of Atlantis is going on in here?” Abigail looked and saw Mr. Dramorn looking at them with the weird flute he was studying earlier that day and a surprised yet still very angry facial expression. Just then there came a roar from the clutter of artifacts and the snake held itself high, cowering over them.

“ Ahhhhhhh!” Exclaimed Felix, Fox, Fritz, and Abigail, while Mr. Dramorn said,

“ Ah, phewey." 

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Chapter 3

Abigail pulled Fritz out of the way of another blast of green acid saying,

“ Fritz! What are you doing? You're gonna get yourself sizzled to a crisp.” Fritz replied,

“ But it's a giant snake, which is related to dragons so I want to get a chance to ride it.” With that, Fritz ran out from behind another box of items trying to get close to the snake while Abigail rolled her eyes and went after him saying,

“ Fritz! Stop messing around!” Just then the snake raised its long tail and was about to land it right on top of Fritz but Abigail pushed him aside, rolling out of the way, and landing on top of Fritz. Abigail got off of Fritz and pulled him behind a large chest saying,

“ You can't do that, there are too many ways you could get eaten by that hugely, vicious, acidic snake, although how do you know it's related to a dragon?" 

“You're not the only one who knows a lot about cool mythical creatures.” Just then Felix came and hid with them saying,

“ Abigail! How do we stop it!” Abigail closed her eyes and said,

“ Okay, the Acidic Viper has acidic blast that can burn through anything, it has rough scales and a strong tail. Its frill makes it scarier and when it extends its frill then that's when it's about to…” She let her voice trail off and she stood up looking over the chest at the large snake who was wrapping itself around Mr. Dramorn. Abigail narrowed her eyes and brought out her grappling hook and shot it around one of the ceilings beams, then she zipped off into the air, dodging the snake as she said,

“ Felix, get it distracted, let it release Mr. Dramorn, Fox, you start setting up traps, Mr. Dramorn once your free, I want you to help get into position to get Fritz onto it, until then, Fritz… make it mad.” Fritz jumped up and threw his legs over the chest as he ran at the snake yelling with excitement,

“ Woohoo, that's my specialty.” Abigail watched from above as Felix started to get the snake's attention, while Fox started grabbing a bunch of stuff and using it to create a trap. Suddenly the snake released Mr. Dramorn who quickly rolled out of the way of the snake's tail before running with Fritz yelling,

“ Alright lad! Let her have it!” Fritz jumped as high as he could and Mr. Dramorn lifted him onto the snake's neck, close to its head. Abigail then yelled,

“ Fritz! Be prepared to jump when I say so!” Fritz, who was jumping on the snake's large head and tugging at its frill said,

“ You got it!” Abigail then shot her grappling hook to another beam and kicked the snake in the jaw with her feet making it lean back, and Fritz grab a hold of it's left frill before climbing and punching its eye saying,

“ Wow! Your eyes are huge, let's shrink them down to size!” Abigail smiled and she landed on the beam before untangling her hook from the beam and shooting it at another beam, hitting the snake again and again. Finally, Fox said from the clutter,

“ Alright! Hit'er down!” Abigail nodded with a cunning and confident smile before jumping and swinging right for the snake's snout, suddenly the snake opened its mouth and roared. As if everything went into slow motion, Abigail saw one of its fangs. She narrowed her eyes and adjusted her body so she eventually swung and kicked the fang with all of her might. She broke it. Abigail swung up as the snake gave a loud, obnoxious screeching roar as it felt the agonizing pain. As she came down again Abigail reached out for Fritz's hand saying,

“  Fritz! Now!" Fritz jumped and grabbed Abigail's outstretched hand, just as the snake gave another acidic blast but as they swung up Abigail lost her grip and flipped through the air land on the ground a little wobbly. Abigail and Fritz landed just as the snake fell down and with its weight, it released a large net to wrap itself tightly around the snake's head. The snake flailed its large tail trying to get free. Fox came and walked over to Abigail and Fritz who asked,

“ You sure that net will hold?" Fox shrugged and said,

“ Not one of my best traps, but it once held Fritz and Felix, so…” He let his voice trail off as Abigail looked at the snake again saying,

“ Well, if it doesn't hold, then it will be your fault, Fox.” Fox held his hands up saying,

“ Hey! Be lucky I even know how to make a good trap otherwise what would you have done without me?” Fritz replied,

“ Uh, we could just let that cool dragon take its soul.” Abigail and Fox turned just in time to see a dragon with green and blue scales open its mouth close to the snake and they all watched as a green wisp came from the body of the snake and flew right into the mouth of the dragon. Abigail gasped and said,

“ The Dragon of Stolen Souls.” Felix then came from behind a jade statue of a different dragon, and said loudly,

“ Hey, we did it!” Suddenly the Dragon turned and made a growling sound at Felix as Abigail yelled,

“ Felix run!” Felix started to run back into the clutter of stuff saying,

“ What is that!?” Abigail said,

“ It's the Dragon of Stolen Souls, the one that was trapped inside the egg that I showed you!” 

“ Yeah well, how do we stop it!” Exclaimed Fox. Suddenly Mr. Dramorn said,

“ Well, maybe if someone wouldn't have snuck in, none of this would have happened.” Abigail narrowed her eyes and said,

“ Mr. Dramorn, can we please talk about this later, right now we need to stop the dragon, and then you can lecture us.” Suddenly another yell came from one corner of the room and Abigail quickly ran into the clutter saying,

“ Hold on Felix!” She ran and suddenly saw the dragon who had cornered Felix. Abigail started to run towards him when suddenly she tripped over something. Abigail fell and saw next to her was a magical artifact. The jewel of ghost and spirit capture. Abigail grabbed the red jewel that had fallen out of its case and  narrowed her eyes as she ran towards the dragon saying,

“ Hey! Dragon! Get out!” Abigail shined the jewel at the dragon and saw a bright red light shine on the dragon and saw the dragon get pulled into the gem. Once the bright red light was gone she quickly put it down on another box of artifacts and ran to Felix who was leaning against the wall looking sick. Abigail bent down and asked,

“ Are you okay Felix?” Felix coughed a little bit before saying,

“ Yeah, I'll be fine, just a little worn out.” Abigail helped Felix up and started to help him walk out from the boxes, and chests till they came back to the cleared area. Both Fritz and Fox ran over to see if Felix was okay while Mr. Dramorn  had his arms crossed and was tapping his foot saying,

“ So, who's idea was this?” Abigail stood up and opened her mouth when suddenly Fox stepped up in front of her and said quickly,

“ It was mine, She was talking about your treasure room and I wanted to see it, we started looking around and my curiosity got the better of me, so unleashed the snake.” Mr. Dramorn still had his eyes narrowed as he said,

“ Well, now you know that no one is to be in here because there are too many dangerous artifacts in here, that's why the door is protected from anything magical or evil that might get in or out.” Fox then said,

“ But it wasn't protected from a bunch of curious kids who want to do something fun and not be trapped in their room so that they can learn more about you, by the way, how did you not hear us playing with our dart guns." Mr. Dramorn replied,

“ I was listening to some music while I take a nice nap in my room… but that's beside the point! You should not have come in here without permission and you just got your brother hurt.” Abigail looked back at Felix who was still looking sick and said,

“ I think I know how to cure that, sir, if I may?” She held her hand out to Mr. Dramorn who still held the flute in his hands. Mr. Dramorn narrowed his eyes saying,

“ You don't even know what this flute does, and… uh… how do you know what this flute does exactly?” Abigail smiled and said,

“ I love learning about magical artifacts because they're so cool, so yes I know what the hypnomist flute can do and I know how to play it correctly.” Mr. Dramorn sighed before handing it off to Abigail as Fox asked,

“ So what does this Hypno-flute thing do exactly?” Abigail replied,

“ It is a magical flute that when the tribes of the Seerakize where first settling they didn't know that their new home was infested with Mistobrye, an ancient type of snakes that can hypnotize anyone. So they fashioned up a magical flute that could do wondrous things, such as hypnotize a snake and heal wounds from any magical creature related to a snake, which as it so happens, dragons are distant cousins to snakes." Fox blinked as Mr. Dramorn who now stood next to Fox said quietly into his ear,

“ Wow, she's good.” Abigail put the flute up to her mouth and started to play as she closed her eyes memorizing the exact notes of how to play the healing song of the Hypnomist. When she was finished and she opened her eyes she saw Felix still sitting on the ground but looking much better. Abigail smiled and asked,

“ Felix? You feeling better?” Felix slowly stood up and wobbled a little bit, before Fritz helped steady him and he replied,

“ Yeah, thanks, Abigail.” Abigail turned to give the flute back to Mr. Dramorn who said,

“ You keep it, Abigail, you've definitely earned it.” Abigail looked at the flute and smiled before hugging the flute close to her and jumping up and down, till when she stopped Mr. Dramorn said,

“ Now, I should probably apologize to you all, you are a fun, adventurous, trouble-making team and I have a very important mission for us all… How would you all like to come with me, to uncover a magical artifact in the hidden city of Hikoo?" Abigail smiled and she saw the boys smile as well before all jumping up and down saying,

“ Yes!”  Mr. Dramorn led them out of the treasure room saying,

“ Alright, then we pack and leave tomorrow, so tonight get a good night's rest.” Abigail went with the boys to help make their new bunk beds with Mr. Dramorns supervision and once they were all unpacked, Abigail and the boys went to bed.

While laying in bed Abigail couldn't sleep, for she had just had the greatest time with her new friends and her idol, figure out how to stop magical beasts. Finally, when she did manage to close her eyes she listened to the sound of the flute that she played and let the music in her head drift her off to sleep. 

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