Meet Crystal Stargazer Trouble Maker Extraordinaire

Lurking behind the furniture a young dog creature called a windwolf stalks her pray. She waits for the right moment … and then pounces.
“Mom!” yells Crystal’s brother, Loflin, “Will you get this thing off my head. After about the hundredth time it’s getting kind of old.”
“Now Crystal, what did I tell you about stalking your brother in the mansion?” directed her mom.
“Awww … no one will see me, I’m in the mansion. Why can’t I stalk Loflin in the mansion?” cried Crystal.
“As I’ve told you before, your brother has gotten very tired of getting pounced on.” explained Mrs. Stargazer.
At that moment Crystal’s father entered the room wearing a Haz-Mat suit. Mr. Stargazer was one of the top researchers in the galaxy, so he went to dangerous places very often.
“Come on, she’s only seven, she has an instinct, why not let her
ts in the yard. The plants don’t mind. She could use her powers on them,” coolly said Mrs. Stargazer.
“Daddy, Daddy, watch this!” shrieked Crystal. Closing her eyes she summoned a ball of fire between her hands.
“Very good Crystal, you are starting to master your powers. Now you can practice on the candles and fire vines,” cheerfully exclaimed Mr. Stargazer. “I really must get going, a research team thinks that they may have found some dragon artifacts. They may be useful for our line of toy dragon artifacts.” Upon saying these words Mr. Stargazer stepped into a special tube that teleported him to an excavation site on a nearby asteroid.
“Mom, can I go to the mall to get some uh, stuff? I won’t need much money, but I want to use my Throttle Disk,” giggled Crystal.
Her mom sighed. “Let me guess, you want to go to the mall to play throttle tag on the rooftop arena. “
Crystal begged, “Please mom, can I, can I? I promise that I will be careful!”
“Very well, but take the front door, don’t go into any new shops and be home soon,” listed Mrs. Stargazer.
           “Sure”, Crystal told her mother as she strapped her boots to the disk. With a purr the disk lifted off the ground and zoomed through the door. Outside was a big city instead of an island - the front door was a portal. After passing through the door Crystal sailed over the sidewalk toward the mall.
When she got to the mall she carefully soared toward the roof. Luckily the line was short and Crystal got to play immediately. The laser gear was heavy, and the laser gun was fairly big. The chest pads also had to be adjusted to her tall and slender frame. The Throttle-Tag match went on for a long time because all of the players were so good. One of the opposing teams tried many sneak attacks on Crystal, but she managed to block all of them with her state-of-the-art throttle disk.  A few times Crystal managed to stay in the air with her disk turned off. This kind of maneuver required very advanced magic to do.  To her it was even harder because she had not yet reached the time for her powers. She was only seven and magic only started to grow at the age of eight.
Finally the match ended with Crystal’s team taking the victory. Being her normal dare-devil self Crystal decided to jump off the tower with her disk turned off. She stood on the edge of the tower and looked down at the street almost three-hundred feet below. Taking a deep breath she jumped over the edge and grabbed the edge of the disk that she was standing on. She pulled on it until it was perpendicular to the ground. Once she stuck out her right arm she began to spiral downwards in a quick and tight flight pattern. Every second Crystal gained more speed until she was only fifty feet from the ground. Crystal pulled her disk to it's normal horizontal position with all her strength. When she finally stopped she was only three feet from the street. Using her powers she had, by some miracle, managed to stop before she crashed. Confused about she had done such a feat Crystal decided to go home.
When she went through the front door she saw her parents leaving with her brother. Their servant, Fawarna, who was made of fire, was holding their bags.
Mr. Stargazer exclaimed, “Oh Crystal, I’m so glad that you’re here! Those were genuine artifacts from the Great Battle that were found. We would take you but you are not old enough. Besides we trust you with Fawarna.”
Loflin jumped and exclaimed, “She’s not going? That means that no one can stalk me there! This is so cool!”
“I know that you’ll miss your parents, but we’ll have lots of fun!” chirped Fawarna.
“I have some powers,” complained Crystal.  “If I have magic how come I can’t go?”
“You’re not eight yet,” directed Mrs. Stargazer, “eight is the legal power age. All children younger than eight are not allowed to be around dragon related items, I should know, I’m a council member. There will be no arguing with the law, Crystal, deal with it.”
“Oh come on, mom,” wined Crystal, “Can’t I go? I’ll be eight next week.”
“No, the law is the law and you will obey it,” thundered Mrs. Stargazer.
Crystal yelled, “This isn’t fair! It could take a week to find the artifact. I would be of legal age by then. Loflin can’t stand magic, and he still gets to go!”
Mr. Stargazer sadly replied, “Your mother is right. You could be exposed to harmful magic, and we can’t take that chance.”
“This is so not fair!” howled Crystal. With this she stormed upstairs to the forth floor of the mansion. She retreated to her room with some loud stomps and a slam of a door.
“I’ll talk to her,” offered Fawarna. She glided upstairs in a way only a fireball could.
“I hope she’s ok,” breathed Mr. Stargazer.

Sample chapter from my first book