Chant

Karmen flipped the ancient book back to the front cover, flipping the pages in search of a table of contents. She didn't really except to find one ,the book wasn't like a printed book just anyone could buy at a book store. It was more like the old Journals Jackson's grandmother had kept for so many years.

It was hand written in a beautiful script with scrolled art work at the top and bottom of each page. Right underneath the scrolled art work on top of the page a title or perhaps one would call it a description of the type of chats written underneath it.

Some of the words and titles were quite confusing and she couldn't figure out what they may be used for.

Finely her eyes landed on one she thought she might try . It seemed quite harmless mentioning things like picking up twigs and branches . She glanced around the florist floor seeing all the limbs laying around thinking to herself, she might try to use this chant to pick one of the small limbs laying about.

She couldn't imagine why anyone would need such a chant ,it seemed a little useless . But she wanted to try one of the them today ,even if it was something she would never have any use for ,today or even in the future.

She didn't expect them to be useful anyway, not in this modern day and age .They were written in ancient times before modern machinery was common place in everyday life.

She pointed to the chant she wanted to try, showing it to Jackson ,for him to take a look at." what do you think about this one."

He glanced over her shoulder to read the chant she was pointing to. Reading the entire chant carefully, some of the words sounded kinda funny and felt strange on his tongue.

The words were not written in Latin or Greek he understood and could read both languages perfectly. But he didn't pay that much attention to the strange words because some of the chants that had been passed down through the Eddington Royals sounded a little funny too .

He noticed the chant didn't say anything about fire, floods or destruction ,and he also noticed at the end of the chant it had the Latin word pausa. Which means exactly what it sounds like to stop or pause.

He leaned back pushing her up from the ground sounding confident " let's try it "

Stalking over to where a branch had fallen out of a tree he pulled it to the center of the small clearance they were standing in.

He walked back and stood beside her to coax her. " Ok Babe, just read the chant exactly the way it's written and concentrate on the limb." He pointed to the bottom where the Latin word he recognized was written word, pointing it out to her. "Babe if something starts to get a little out of hand just read this last phrase."

"Okay," she said, Holding the ancient journal in her hand ,she started reading the chant, pronouncing each word carefully and at the same time trying to concentrate on the limb in front of her.

After reading the chant and nothing happened , the smile fell from her face, she tugged her brows together , stomping her foot and grumbled in frustration " Damm it,that sucks"

Jackson chuckled, at how frustrated she became. He doubted if she had experienced failure very often, she was just to damm smart for that.

" Babe, try it again, this time read over the chant and try to memorize what it says, and try concentrating on the limb more and recite the chant from memory."

Silently reading over the chant a couple of times, she lifted her head from the book, she took a deep breath and recited the chant from memory while focusing her concentration on the limb in front of her.

Suddenly the wind picked up swirling the leaves and sticks around on the forest floor. It looked like a small tornado they as it moved closer in a large circular to the base of the tree. Then just as quick as it started it suddenly ended. The wind dyed down and the debris fell down onto to the ground in a big heap in front of them.

Before she could get discouraged he shouted out "Do it one more time Babe, try to concentrate a little harder."

Closing her eyes chewing on her bottom lip , she took a deep breath then started all over again.

With her brows scrunched tight in concentration she recited the chant a little louder, her voice coming out like a commander.

Once again the wind picked up swirling the leaves around like a tornado it moved up the the tree trunk swirling and stripping the leaves off the branches sending them flying into the air. The birds flew for the heavens and squirrels scurried to the ground .

Jackson looked over to see her eyes had grown wide he quickly spouted out

" Don't stop Babe, keep going it's just a tree."

" listening to what he was saying she kept repeating the chant watching as the limbs started flying in all directions stripping everyone of them from the tree . In just a few seconds the tree crashed to the forest floor with a huge cracking sound that echoed through the air braking her concentration.

The wind dyed down and the small tornado disappeared dumping bark and branches on the ground.

She stood still as statue , gawking at the tree in front of her with her mouth hung open .

Jackson grabbed her up spinning around in a circle. He set her down and hugged her tight " Babe, I don't know if that's what was supposed to happen, but that was cool as hell." He shouted, before he could celebrate anymore his phone started to ring. He pulled it out of his pocket to see it was Alex.

[ What the hell was all that noise, do you need me to help you]

[ No, we're fine, But your not going to believe this shit, Karmen made a tree fall ]

[ What the hell are you talking about, how did Karmen make a tree fall.]

[ with a chant Alex ,it was the coolest thing I've ever seen.]

[ Really]

[ Yeah, she made a little tornado first that stripped all leaves and branches off. Then the damm tree just fell down.]

[ What happened after the tree fell]

[it scared her and she lost concentration]

Maybe she would like to try it again, when I'm with the two of you. Sounds like something I'd like to see]

[ I think we might can talk her into. She's a little confused right now, because she wasn't expecting the tree to fall. She was only trying to pick a limb up off the ground.]

[ I'll let you go ,so that you can comfort her, but bring that book up to mine and Lexi's room tonight after her mom and dad go to

bed, I want to look at that chant she tried.]

[Okay , soon as I get her calmed down, we'll come back to the lake house.]

[ okay, see yeah]