An Australian series. I liked this enough. It is for teenagers, mind you, so I’m not their target and I would have liked it much more back then, but I still enjoyed it enough. I liked that these kids were very natural and normal (magic aside :lol:), they dressed like kids, not obsessed with fashion like many other shows, they didn’t even wear heels, and I loved it.
Imogen and her short blond hair were on the poster that I liked so much, the reason why I watched this series in the first place … it’s a bit disappointing to find the character so disagreeable :-/ At least for most of this first series. Still, the whole thing was nice enough, the ending too, that I enjoyed watching a second series.
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Behind a bookshop there is a magical library with fairies and other magical beings invisible to normal humans. Elf Imogen takes away a book and fairy Lily sees her so she follows her and they fight over the book. Human teenage Kyra sees this book floating in the air - while out running after dark… her cop step-dad is not happy about this, as it should be. When Kyra touches the book, she’s knocked unconscious and brought home by Lily. Now Kyra can see them and can even hear dogs’ thoughts. Imogen convinces Lily to make Kyra forget but it doesn’t work.
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Kyra has the elf power of moving through space and ends up in a snowy place. Imogen gets her back and they take Kyra to see prof. Maxwell and his “library of magic”. He doesn’t know what to think of her, but Kyra is scared of it all and goes back home, but she sort of has magic now and doesn’t know how to cope with it so she goes back to the library. When there’s a floating chair, Kyra is the one who can catch it because she’s a basketball player . After that, she wants to study how to use her powers instead of how to get rid of it.
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Kyra’s friend Peter sees some of her magic - the super speed and the attempt to look invisible… he saw only her legs - so Lily makes him forget, but now he thinks he really is Romeo instead of simply playing the part in their friend Matty’s play, so Lily has to put things right, albeit reluctantly. At the end, Kyra masters her invisibility.
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All lost things go into the “Lost property suitcase” and they magically sent them back by touching them to a book. A magical letterbox must not be touched for four minutes every month; Lily and Imogen stop two people but the third is a postman that turns into a dog. The two girls ask Kyra’s help and Darra too. Kyra has so much to do now with two schools, her dog-sitting duties and basketball practice …
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Imogen teaches Kyra to use her elf powers to not-quite-teleport. Ruksy and Lily show some magical children a museum then an elf-boy does something and a magical armor gets out and they have to call the Department. The kids also help, and Kyra makes it right :-) but Peter met the armor and knows something is on.
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Peter is set on uncovering the truth… Kyra is a “tri-ling” because she has three types of blood. The kids have tests. The first is solved by Darra and Kyra, the second by Kyra and Imogen. Orla of the magical news wants to test Kyra more, so she talks of valuating them individually and sends a shadow cloud against Kyra an Imogen. Orla moves the cloud towards Peter so Kyra lets Imogen ‘win’ the test to help Peter. Orla is set against Kyra because she’s part human, but Maxwell is as well, his mother was help and his father was human, very much in love but never accepted by others.
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Lily does a magic on Kyra to give her fairy wings for a day and they go out for a fly collecting teeth and she leaves her alone. Kyra’s wings vanish leaving Kyra still small into a little girl’s bedroom. Kyra tells her story to this child, Sally. Then Darra helps Lily to return Kyra as she was.
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The written tests show everyone did well but Darra and Kyra failed. She has too much to do. Lily and Imogen use magic to make Kyra’s team win, but she gets upset and then puts things right. Darra passes the theory test but is sure he’ll fail the practical, to magic an elephant out of a book. Kyra talks to him and he gains the confidence to do it.
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Imogen is really annoying, doing things just to irritate others, being rude always…
Checking on a haunted house, Kyra and Darra end up on a beach and can’t ‘jump’ back. After touching an object, as Kyra touches a map she can look into the library. She can’t be heard by people but she can control Ladder so she sends a signal to the girls who reopen the portal for them..
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The Department is interested in Kyra’s abilities. Peter gives gps-earbuds to Darra (for Kyra) and so he tracks him back and forth, not knowing how he does it, and at the end Peter hides and records Kyra and Maxwell.
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Peter shows the video to Kyra so she tells him about magic and takes him to the library, because he threatened to post the video online and she felt she had no choice. Peter accidentally enters a book… When Kyra can’t find Peter, it’s only thanks to Ladder that they learn what happened. Ruksy saves him. Now Peter understands but Ruksy doesn’t delete his memory…
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Peter should let it all go, but he keeps talking about it. Kyra has a dream where books fly and stack on a table, and then she learns it really happened. She touches a book - the first book in the first episode - and then she zaps Maxwell turning him into a guinea pig. Not knowing about this new power, Lily and Imogen take care of her.It was supposed to be a sleepover for Kyra and Matty, and now there’s four girls :-) Darla and Ruksy try to research a way to put things right. Kyra zaps Lily into fairy size and zaps Imogen’s elf ears visible, and they can’t turn back. Kyra gets zapped by the book again - only she saw an orbe while looking at the book - and everything turns back to normal. Matty is sad because her parents are divorcing, and kind Lily talks to her and they talk a lot and are finally ok. Kyra tells Maxwell about the orb, and he hides the book in the restricted section.
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Kyra now can tell everything to Peter. Ruksy tells Imogen and Lily about Maxwell not telling them all he knows so they go looking in the restricted section. “The orb of Lemuria”, they research it, it’s a myth, and ‘nobody’ knows where it is… Imogen got sprayed in the face by the Giggle Bloom. Since Maxwell told Kyra to skip school for a few days, Darra misses her and goes to her… they have fun together, but she says that her life is already too complicated so they’re better off as friends. Ruksy tells Kyra that Maxwell knows something about what’s happening to her and hiding it.
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Kyra and Ruksy confront Maxwell. The Bureau of Magical Things is how Maxwell and two friends called themselves when they talked of how magical beings and humans could coexist. They were architect Boynton - the house with the portal was his, as well as the place by the beach - and Giselle, a fairy and Maxwell love partner. Giselle died on a mission lead by Maxwell. Boynton recovered the orb but said nothing. When Darra is in grave danger while out with Imogen and Orla, Kyra has a vision and can help from afar. Maxwell thinks it’s because of how it started: Kyra got magic when she touched a book while “it was caught between two magical energies, a fairy’s and an elf’s”, “it took fairy magic and elf magic to create the orb”. They say that Boynton hid the orb in that simple book. Kyra gets it out.
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Maxwell and Kyra go to the Department of Magical Intervention (DMI) and give Sean the orb. Sean is unhappy about Kyra’s powers and thinks she’s too young for such a power, and Sean’s also scared because Kyra is divided between the two worlds and has no intention of abandoning the human world and her dad. Lily and her mom talk to Sean about Kyra, then Kyra bakes him a cake and stays for lunch, and he agrees that there’s no need to banish her, or whatever.
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Tomorrow will be “prize-giving day”, “the DMI student awards”. Kyra’s mom was Michiko, and she was a judo champion. Kyra wants to attend the ceremony because they all say it’s so very important, but her dad wants to go on a trip in memory of her mom, and that’s important too. Darra’s dad Jareb is very very rich and snobs Kyra, tells her that Darra is destined for bigger things than her… the first award goes to another school, but then there is one of Lily, one for Imogen, one for Ruksy and even one for Kyra. Jared is not happy about it, he’s afraid of her, as are many of the adults because basically she’s more powerful than them all. She’s so late her dad thinks she doesn’t want to go camping at all, but Lily and Ruksy help her set a sort of camping in their garden.
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The DMI found a way to remove the orb from Kyra, but it’s never been done and it’s risky. She might lose all her magic and even all her memories, so Kyra asks Peter to record her on video so she’ll be able to remind herself of this life. They need the orb to remove her orb powers, and afterwards Sean wants to destroy the orb, and Maxwell would be ok with that, but Orla is not. The orb is stolen by a Imogen-lookalike, but nobody believes Imogen when she says it wasn’t her, so she asks Kyra for help ,even though finding the orb would not be good for her.
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Imogen is in Kyra’s room so she learns that Peter knows about them. Kyra, Peter and Ruksy want to help Imogen. Orla accuses Maxwell to get him away from the library. Then she turns into Kyra and tells Darra and Lily to destroy the orb. She touches the orb while both their magics are hitting it.
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When Kyra tried to stop Orla, she lost her powers and memories. Now Orla has the orb and its powers and it’s the most powerful being, so she forces Sean to resign and takes his place, but she wants more. Jared supports her because she’s an elf like him. Darra goes with his dad but Imogen is loudly against it all. Ruksy stops Peter from showing the video to Kyra, saying it’s safer for her this way, but then Kyra remembers something and can again understand Doris the dog.
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Kyra watches the video and remembers everything, and at the department, the kids and Darra try to stole back the orb, but her powers get it back, and she locks in every magical being. Now Orla frees the Eye of Horus in town, she wants to create chaos then step in and have human recognise her superiority…
Now the girls work together, with even Peter’s help, and trap Orla like she did to her, to take the powers from Orla and back to Kyra, and then Maxwell destroys the orb. Now nobody can ever take the magic out of Kyra. Everything is back as it was, but Kyra says that it all happened because the two worlds are kept separate… no, it happened because Orla wanted all the power! Kyra says that Orla had a point (!), “that magical people have to live in secret and serve humans, don’t you think it might be time for that to change, even just a little?”. Now the kids are a ‘special team’, with Peter too, calling themselves The Bureau of Magical Things.
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What does it mean? They did not serve humans, they hid for their own protection…
Anyway, will Kyra master her powers? Orla did it so easily, basically Kyra could do everything by herself…
Kyra is Kimie Tsukako Shi
Imogen is Elizabeth Cullen
Darra is Julian Cullen
Lily is Mia Milnes
Ruksy is Rainbow Wedell
Peter is Jamie Carter
Maxwell is Christopher Sommers
Orla is Melanie Zanetti
Sean is Nicholas Bell
Mathilda is Arnijka Larcombe-Weate
Jared is Paul Bishop
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