Rick & Wylie's Fantastical, Magical Adventures Book 1 [Journey to the Kingdom]
by Andi Katsina
Every few thousand
years, true evil, the likes of which roamed the earth eons ago,
attempts to rise up from the navel of the world, to once again instil
its darkness and establish its reign.
Rick and Wylie’s
fantastical, Magical Adventures, tells the story of a father and
daughter, Rick and Wylie, who go on a week’s vacation to the island
of Kaua’i, in Hawaii.
Wylie buys a bag
of costume jewellery from a yard sale, to decorate a ship’s anchor,
as part of a school project. Amongst the jewellery is a small quartz
pebble. Wylie asks her dad can she take it with her on vacation. Rick
takes teardrop shaped pebble to the old traditional Chinese
jewellers, near his L.A. studio, to have a ribbon threaded through
the hole, so that Wylie can tie it to the inside of her pocket, to
guard against loss. The jeweller, Mr Fang, says he needs to keep on
to the pebble for a few days, Rick doesn’t let him.
Rick and Wylie
have a great time on holiday. Friends come to visit them. They go to
visit friends in Maui. In Kaua’i they go zip-lining, they visit
lots of places, and go kayaking.
On two separate
occasions Wylie tells her dad that she has seen the jeweller, Mr
Fang, lurking about. Very concerned, he contacts his Production
Company staff in L.A.. They go to Mr Fang’s shop to establish his
whereabouts. Strangely enough, they are unable to find Fang’s shop,
it has disappeared! They all become quite anxious about this, but
with only a day of their vacation left, they agree it should be okay.
On the last day,
Rick and Wylie go on a boat trip, during which Mr Fang can be seen on
the cliff tops, screaming up to the heavens, screaming out to the
ocean, as if controlling the elements. A storm ensues. The boat
capsizes. Rick and Wylie are separated.
Wylie is taken by
the magical, invisible Manini fish, to an underground seawater cave,
where she meets the Forest Keepers, Cherub like people, caretakers of
the Mystical Küpono Forest; a mystical, magical forest, deep within
the island of Kaua’i.
The Manini fish
tell Wylie that she must wake up the Sleeping Menehune Kingdom, and
that’s where her dad will find her. On her journey she passes from
region to region, encountering many trials, and creatures. Wylie
makes it to the kingdom, discovers the underground palace, and waits
for her dad to rescue her.
After the boat
capsized, Rick began sinking. When he realised Fang was after the
Wylie’s quartz teardrop, he took charge of it. Sinking, he
remembers Wylie had said there was a name scratched on the back on
the teardrop. He utters the name. Suddenly he is flying up in the
air, in a little fluffy cloud. Rick zooms off to a holy mountain in
Tibet, it opens up, and still in his cloud he plunge deep down,
ending up on top of the sacred Mount Meru. It transpires that the
cloud is the hat of a genii, a Meru Guardian, one of the guardians of
the world.
The
Meru Guardian
takes Rick
back to
Kaua’i.
His brother,
and members
of his
Production
Team have
come to
Hawaii to
join the
search. Two
of Rick’s
friends, and
his brother,
return to
Los Angeles
to try
to contact
the holy
people from
the sacred
Mount Kailash
monastery in
Tibet, who’s
help they
need in
dealing with
Mr Fang,
who is
in actual
fact a
lot more
than just
the evil
wizard, Wan
Chu Fang.
Rick and three
friends go into the Mystical Forest to search for Wylie. The route
they take leads to many trials and mishaps. In the kingdom, Rick and
Wylie go down a dry water well to retrieve a stone key. It’s very
hair-raising with bubbling lava hot on their tail. In the underground
palace their friends remain in one of the grand stone chambers,
whilst Rick and Wylie go along a passageway to insert the stone key
into a stone disc. They hear a loud voice claiming to be that of the
Menehune king, asking them to come forwards and declare themselves….
It’s at this point that Book 1 ends, and book 2, with a whole new
fantastical, magical adventure, begins…
Andi Katsina
Twitter: @andreakatsina
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