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Have you ever played a game of
cards?
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Not playing cards,
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An ancient card game,
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Round Table
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The Grey Griffins never knew how serious this game was, they only ever played it as a fun, fiction, card game
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Max• Rich• Divorced parents• Age 10• Grey Griffin
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Harley• Strong• Brave• Age 10• Grey Griffin
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9
Natalia • Strict• Reinforcer• Note taker• Mystery solver• Age 10• Grey Griffin
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Ernie• Junk food-aholich• Coward• Wimp• Age 10• Grey Giffin
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The Grey Giffins
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Avalon, Minnesota • Small town
• Dense forest• Home of the Grey Griffins
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When Max finds a magical book in his grandmothers attic
while trying to run away from the slayer goblin, a very deadly dark fairy, he finds a glowing book
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Codex Spiritus
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The book talks to him,And Max said what the book said,And the lock came undone and it came open
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And out jumps a cat,And she calls herself
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Spriggin
Spriggin
Fairy - shape shifter
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The spriggin, which Max named Sprig, asked Max to release a creature from the book,a harmless shadow
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Max released the shadow,And the shadow almost killed Max
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Max decides to tell the rest of the Grey Griffins, but when Max, Harley and Ernie slept in their tree house one night in the woods, they wake up to find the Codex Spiritus open, and the magic creatures in the book released
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After a long time passes, and the forest growing ever darker, the Grey Griffins continue to solve what’s going on
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And they find out that the Shadow King, Oberon, wants the Codex Spiritus
Morgan LaFey, King Author’s sister, the Dark Witch, also wants it
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And Ray, a former friend of Max, has been consumed by the dark magic of the Shadow King
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Steals the Codex Spiritus
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And Iver, the man who taught the Grey Griffins about Round Table, is missing
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But not before he mentioned the Catacombs to Max an Harley
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And Max receives a letter
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The Grey Griffins’ are Templars
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Max is a direct descendent of King Author
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The Grey Griffins plot a plan to sneak back into the forest to take the book back from Ray, and Natalia comes prepared with iron, because fairies hate iron, and they are walking right into a fairy filled forest
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They find Ray on top of a fairy hill
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Harley beats Ray up
Using an iron ring
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And max steals back the Codex Spiritus
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And they run through a portal and out into the streets, where they notice Morgan LaFey and one of their school teachers, Dr. Blackstone eating dinner
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The Grey Griffins dedicate Ernie to eavesdrop on the two and listen to their conversation
This is where Ernie becomes braver in the story and mans up
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Ernie finds out that Dr. Blackstone is working with Morgan LaFey
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Max makes another plan for Harley and Natalia to investigate their teachers house, and Harley sees that he has kobolds, a fairy immune to iron, guarding a dead Iver
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And he overhears about something about a church and catacombs
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And then Sprig comes back to remind Max that he needs the jewel before any evil gets it
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Titania’s Jewel is in the Catacombs
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Underneath the Chapel in the Mist
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The four kids ride their bikes to the chapel as fast as they could pedal, but it was to late
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The church was taken down because Morgan LaFey already figured it out
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But the Grey Griffins didn’t give up
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they run into a sign near a well“The Road to Heaven or the Road to Hell,Trust the Vows and Descend the Well.”
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When they go down the well they find a pile of gold and a pirate ship
A Milestone Heavy or a Needless Eye,Remember your Vow or you Will Die
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So they walk out of the room, not touching anything, because they do not need anything in the room
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Siege Perilous
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“The Three Templar Tests,” Max stated,“Obedience, Greed and Purity
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The Grey Griffins knew that if the wrong person sat down, they would all die, so they all agreed that Max will go
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But as Max sits down, he remembers all his sins in life, and the Grey Griffins shortly regret everything as the statues start moving
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But the floor started rising like an elevator, and they see a light coming down, and when they reach the top, whishing they were already dead, they see Iver still alive
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But the Jewel is still missing
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Iver takes them over to a portal, right above the fairy hill in the woods, where they see Morgan LaFey with Titania’s Jewel
And Oberon’s Gate, the way for Oberon to come into the human world, is opening
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And the four jump through because Iver is to crippled to fight, and Max thinks of a plan
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Natalia and Harley are going to push the bodyguard off a cliff
Ernie runs in with the Codex Spiritus looking like Max And Max runs in to get the jewel
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But the bodyguard turns into a werewolf, and Natalia and Harley are only saved by a mysterious gunshot
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The Templar Knights of modern day
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And a life form comes from the sky, an angel, who starts attacking Morgan LaFey
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And Ray jumps out
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Pins Max to the ground
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And puts a knife to his neck
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When Harley tackles Ray to the ground before he can kill Max
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And before anyone can react, Max runs through the battlefield of fairies and Templars, and heads to the jewel
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And he takes it
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And Oberon’s Gate starts to close, and the fairies stop coming, letting the Templars kill the rest off
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All the while, Morgan LaFey starts to lose her powers, and the angel finally brings her down, but only for now
NOOOOOoo
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And all the Templars left, the forest and everything else went back to normal, and the angel came down
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It was a different teacher, Ms. Heen.
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Matt PrellPeriod 3 Reading
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She tells them they still have school the next day, but she will not be their teacher
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And that their journey is up to them now
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Derek Benz & J.S. Lewis
The Revenge of the Shadow King
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You’ll never do greatness, be a hero, or lead a good life if you never step up and fulfill your destiny’s set path
Fate/Destiny