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Re-publishing the story again, this time, in chapters. Again, I have taken some liberties to edit and fill up gaps in the storyline.

Chapter 1: The Quest for Magic

Once upon a time, there was a young girl who became obsessed with learning magic. For she had grown up seeing her mother perform many wondrous and magical acts and the girl yearned very much to be like her. But though she pleaded and pleaded, her mother would not teach her. Still, the girl did not give up and she scoured the lands looking for someone who would teach her magic.

One day, while walking through a dead forest, she came across a wise and powerful king who had used magic to turn a patch of rotting trees into a beautiful garden with marble-tiled pathways and flowers that glowed with enchantment. But the girl quickly learned that all magic came with a price. The king, in the act of picking one of the magical flowers, was transformed into a hideous beast!

Frightened, the girl ran as fast as she could until she came upon an old abandoned tower in the forest. Upon entering it, she discovered a library in which she found a tome of ancient lore. In the book was written a way to obtain magic using a spell that required: a wand of any kind, a golden apple, diamond slippers, the necklace of dark power, water from the fountain of youth and lastly, fairy dust. Also included in the book was a map showing where each of those items could be found.

And so the girl decided to embark on a quest to gain these items and complete the spell. But first, she returned home to her mother - whose name was Alicia, and who was known as the Good Witch of Flower Valley - for help. However, Alicia refused to aid her and forbade her from leaving home again. But the girl would not be deterred and when it was dark and the girl thought her mother was asleep, she snuck out of the valley to seek out the spell ingredients on her own.