Taking on the Magical World 55 Chapter 54: Cleaning Up

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Glanmore laughed loudly, "O' yo mean th' Sea Serpent o' Cromer!" Glanmore pauses and his smile slackens, "Oh... I shouldn't have said that."

I smile wickedly, thank you very much mister pirate, for telling me the password, I shout in my mind while doing fist pumps.

Still, with that evil smile on my face, I speak the password to Glanmore. "Sea Serpent!"

The door of the bathroom slowly cracks open.

The twins turn to Glanmore and start bowing and scraping. "Thank you, good sir, for telling us the password, we are truly in your debt!" They say in a high pitched toned like they are heralds announcing the king's arrival, but smirks on their faces say other ways.

I regard the three of us and reflect amusingly. No wonder the three of us get along so well, we really look and act like proper villains.

Glanmore looked at us, vexed then said, "Get inside, lads, before I shut the door close!"

"Alright we are going inside, but really, thanks for the telling us the password, even if it was an accident," I say to the man in the portrait. Even if he did not mean it, he did us a nice favor and for that, he has my wholehearted gratitude.

Glanmore turned away from us, while he clears his throat, from the corner of my eye I can see that he has a light blush on his face. Who knew that pirates could fell embarrassed.

I speak to Glanmore but this time in a serious tone. "Glanmore, please make sure you do not blabber to every single person who comes around here, about your life story. You will basically be telling them the password."

The twins vigorously nod their heads, when I say that to Glanmore. Fred speaks up, "Yeah, a lot of people are going to come here now, to see our new shop and some of them will not have the best of intentions. You cannot just blabber away the only thing that his going to defend this place."

Glanmore looked like he is really ready to jump out of his portrait and then give the three of us a good beating, but I guess, he noticed he couldn't. So, he went for the next best thing, threatening. "Get inside, before I stick all yo with the pointy end of my sword." He says to us seething, while wave around his short sword in the portrait.

The three of us laugh at the attempt Glanmore had made to get out of his portrait, while we run inside into the bathroom.

From behind us, I think I heard him use curses that are not for children's ears to hear.

I cast the Wand-Lighting Charm and so do the twins since there is not a single light source to speak off in this place. When we do light our wands, I notice that there are candlelight lamps hanging all around the lavatory, but they seem to not be working at all.

As we look around the place, we were greeted to the unpleasant sight of an old rusty, dust-filled, dirty, and smelly bathroom that is major disrepair which really looks to me like a ruin than a bathroom.

The whole place is a round room. Right in the middle of the bathroom are the remains of what used to be a fountain. I say remains because the whole middle section is gone, all that is left is the outer section and there is nothing else in there but trash.

On the right side of the bathroom are two large blue stained glass windows that show a good view of the forbidden forest but the glass is covered in dust and spider webs.

On the left side of the bathroom is all the bathroom stall, which adds up to a grand total of seven. I open them all and see that they are all dirty and filled with garbage.

From across the door we entered from there is another door opposite us, I wonder where it leads I think to myself. Around the sides of the opposite door, three sinks line it from the right side and another three line its left side.

"We really got our work cut out for us!" Said George, after we finished looking around the whole place.

Fred nodded his head, "Yeah this place is no better than a junkyard."

"I agree with you, Fred but this place is well hidden, and it is protected by Glanmore. I do not think we can find any other place that would be better than what we have right now. So, stop complaining, because this will be as good as it gets." I say and look each of them in the eyes. I really mean what I have said, this place could use a lot of cleaning up. After we are done, we could get our shop set up here since it is a pretty good place.

I look around the place, man just as George said, our work is cut out for us. I turn to the twins and ask, "Do you guys know any cleaning spells?"

The nod their head, with that I sigh in relief. Good, I do not have to waste time and teach them some, I say to myself.

"Alright get started, I am going to see if I could get those candle lights lamps working." I say to them and without looking back I head towards the candlelight lamps hanging around the bathroom.

I go up to the first one, I point my wand at it candlelight lamp and wave my wand in the correct movement and say the incantation. Then I breath at my wand and a stream of bright orange light flies out from it to the candlelight. This is a neat little spell I picked up over the Christmas holiday from my mother collection called the 'Breathing Light' spell.

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