Rescuing and curses Book 4
Rescuing, and curses
By: Jules and Anna
Chapter 1
Amour
Just a normal day- sort of
I was in my basement training with my sword, the swords name was amare. Sorry, my name is Amour Temour I have pink hair and pink eyes. Like the cool kind, not the pinky stupid fake pink, mine is all natural. I’m magical. I have power over love, wings, sight and trickery. I lived in Mississippi. I was on summer break from my boarding school called SilverStone. I was so happy to be home. Training was going well when the doorbell rang.
“Amour, you got that?” My mom yelled.
“Yeah Mom. I got the door!” I yelled to her. It was Saturday, at noon. Everything was perfect so far! I opened the door, it was squeaking. “I need to oil this.” I whispered to myself. I looked up and the two men at the door.
“You look sharp!” I said when they looked at me.
“Are you Amour Temour?” The man on the right said.
“Uh, yes?” I said, but now everything was getting suspicious, the smell of chocolate and cream, milk, the summer smells were getting to me. I heard clicking noises and guns rose, pointed at me. I flung the door shut and locked it a lot. I ran upstairs and busted my mom’s door down.
“Code R.” I said. She threw a bag at me and I opened my wings. I flew through the huge window and went straight to Sapphire's house. My best friend Sapphire had a brown hair with a lot ,I mean like half of her hair is, purple (natural) highlights in it hair and her eyes changed color.
“What?” She yelled at me.
“Code R! Need to run! Come! Not going alone!” I panted half from thrill. She grabbed a bag and jumped out and spread her wings. We flew down a few blocks and barged through Emerald’s window. Emerald has brown hair and changing color eyes.
“Come now!” I screamed. She grabbed her bag and we set off.
“Thank goodness we live in Florida!” Emerald exclaimed. We got to the docks and I stole a man’s boat keys. We ran into his boat that was empty and drove off.
“Wow. The sunset it wonderful.” I heard Sapphire say. Emerald was asleep and I was driving.
“Where are you?” I giggled. Sapphire was in the seat next to me.
“Forgot I turned invisible.”She laughed. “We have a full tank now. We should be able to drive until noon tomorrow.” She explained.
“Great.” I said. I gave my friend a hug and she took the wheel. I stared out at the sunset. I fiddled with my little necklace. I was looke away from the sunset and looked at the water. I saw some fish. I looked around and saw and island but kept moving. Soon we docked at an island.
“We will sleep here tonight.” Sapphire stated. Emerald got our bags and made a tent. I made us some food and we fell asleep.
“Morning all!” Emerald greeted us when we ate breakfast. She handed us a can of beans to share.
“We won’t get there for a few weeks, maybe a month.” Emerald mentioned looking at the map. I groaned.
“This is a great way to start off summer!” I joked. The others left we ate for a while longer and all of a sudden Sapphire whipped her head around. I look over there as well. About 15 men jumped out of bushes and attacked us.
"Come on. Lets execute plan Alone." Sapphire said. She instantly pointed at me and we formed a triangle to have our backs to each other. I waved my hand over the area and let out a laugh. I executed step 1: to change their visions. I chose to make them see weird hallucinations, like dancing flowers and changin dogs. Emerald and Sapphire went invisible and I let my wings out. I unsheathed my sword and beat the air. I flew up and took strikes at enemies' heads. I took five to their deaths and Sapphire rematerialzed along with Emerald. They had struck down the other 10. Then a leader walked out. I landed. Her walked and grabbed my chin. He told me something in a foren language, but not Latin. I didn't understand it. Emerald and Sapphire grabbed his arms and threw him down, moving my sword to the perfect spot to stab the heart. We all stabbed in syncronization. We packed up our things and got in the boat. Emerald was driving.
"Thanks for using you battle powers for our strategy. It helped a lot." Emerald said.
"You worked like sisters." I added. Sapphire put her hair in a pony tail so the purple was on the underside and her brown hair on the top.
"Thanks. But it wasn't all me." She thanked us. She looked to the far island in front of us. "I think we can did something flammable there, we should stop so we don't have to later." He mentioned. Emerald nodded and gave a little yes. We kept driving at a steady pace. My cell phone rang.
"Hello?" I answered.
"Look, just meet us at that island. Otherwise you die." A kind voice told me. Another got on the phone.
"Just come, we aren't gonna kill fellow magicals. We dot want normals to kill you." The other one said. They truely sounded worried. They hung up. I told Emerald.
"Gonna land." She said. She down up and docked us to the island. We got off. Instantly a crowd attacked. We wen off instinct. I made others fall in love with the blades they carried. I slashed and kicked and screamed and they died. I had no time to use magic.
"One left." A raspy voice said. My sword wasnt near. I turned. I punched. He kicked and I grabbed his foot. I flipped him. He fell on his face and I punched again. Emerald came and killed him.
"Your welcome." I said. I heard rushing footsteps. I grabbed my sword. I realized Sapphire wasn't here. Two guys and Sapphire stepped out.
"Too late. We would've helped." The brunette guy said. His friend rubbed the back of his neck nervously.
"Yeah. We are just too late." He said. "I'm Adam.19" He said. He ran his fingers through his short black hair.
"TJ.19" The brunette said. We all nodded.
"Nice meeting. I'm Amour, 15."
"I'm Emerald, 17 years."
"Sapphire, 16." We introduced. They grabbed some little twigs and snapped them. They were pretty good looking. They put the twigs in a little basket. We walked back to our boat. We learned Adam was a fire user and TJ was an air user. We got in the boat and TJ checked the tank. He nodded to Adam and twigs got poured into our tank. He closed everything up and we started the engine. We ha a full tank again. Wow, he’s pretty cute. I thought about TJ. This shouldn’t be hard. I walked and sat next to him. I batted my eyelashes. I let my beauty power flow out of me. Neither of them seemed affected. I pouted, confused.
“What’s wrong?” TJ asked looking at me.
“I have power over beauty, and sight and I used my beauty powers on me so you’d like me but neither of you were affected.” I said, putting my bottom out in a cute way.
“You’re the only beauty power? And sight? Well i guess it could be that people who are in love could be immune I guess.” Adam said. Rubbing his neck. I thought about something. My last visit to my magical mom.
“Hey Visus, er, mom. Which do you prefer?” I had asked her.
“Mom is fine after all you are mine.” She said.
“Yah, so, uh, hi. Why’d you come today?” I asked.
“To warn you.” She said in a dead serious tone.
“Some time soon you will have a challenge that will mean a lot of things. You will meet two boys and you’ll like them and you’ll use your beauty power on them but it won’t work. People who are in love are immune to it.” She said. I nodded, then she slipped something into my hand. A dagger in a case.
“What’s this for?” I asked.
“It was mine it’s name is cultellus. It’s charmed. You can throw it and try to get rid off it but it will always be there. And when you need it most it will appear on your side.” She said, she seemed nervous.
“What’s wrong with it?” I asked slowly.
“Nothing. I haven’t ever given that to one of my children and you’re my only child in 347 years.” She said. I had never heard that.
“Wow, you’re old. Er, sorry. Why didn’t you have any other children for that long? And how are you still alive?” I asked.
“I’m immortal but now I’m making you a goddess so I’ll still be immortal just not powerful. You’re my successor. And my children always bear a curse on them.” She said, looking down.
“What is it?” I asked her.
“I can’t help you. I’m so sorry.” She said crying.
“WHATS THE CURSE?” I yelled.
“I can’t do anything about it, you’ll find out. I’m so sorry.” She said.
“Mom.” I breathed. She looked up.
“I must go.” She said. She touched my check and said something. I couldn’t hear. She disappeard.
I gasped. I figured out what she had said before she left.
“Puer ferre malum.” I said.
“My child, bear the curse.” TJ translated. They looked at me. Adam kept his eyes forward. His jaw clenched. His hands were in balls.
“What does that mean?” They asked.
“It’s something my mom told me before she left 2 weeks ago.” I said.
“Okay? Adam what’s wrong dude?” TJ asked him. Adam stood up and slowly unclenched his fists. He turned to me.
“Nothing.” He said. Smiling.
“Uh, okay. But Amour why would your mom say that to you?” Emerald asked me. I told them the whole story.
“You figured out then?” A familiar voice asked. I turned around to see her standing there, tall brunette hair with sea blue clear eyes. Smiling, like she was proud of me. My mom.
Chapter 2
Amour
The curse I bear.
“Mom.” I said.
“Amour.” She said.
“So proud of me, huh?” I asked. She frowned.
“Amour, I can’t choose the curse.” She said.
“You can’t huh? You didn’t feel like you should tell me?!” I said.
“Amour--” She started I cut her off by pulling out Cultellus. She stopped.
“And this stupid knife! IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH IT DOESN’T IT?” I screamed in her face. I threw it out into the ocean.
“Woah, what’s the curse?” Sapphire asked stepping in front of Visus, my mom.
“I am cursed to always be the target in every war and I may even start the wars. Also I’m cursed to always have that stupid knife, Cultellus, strapped to me for battle and every time I pull it out it will either help me or show me something in the future or what’s happening to someone else and where they are!” I said.
“That last part isn’t so bad.” TJ said. The knife appeared on my side.
“Go mom!” I said. She nodded and disappeared. I pulled out Cultellus and looked at it. My anger died down.
“Huh.” I said.
“What?” TJ asked. I was looking at it. It showed 5 girls and one boy in a dark corridor. They were panicking. The girl with the black hair and amber eyes was snapping and using a black sword to control skeletons and seemed to be giving them commands. The girl with the blue hair, was creating ice and using it to make barricades on the windows. The girl with the auburn and brown hair was using earth powers to also help with the barricades. The girl with the blonde hair was creating a tiny light to look around the corridor. The other girl with blonde hair was in latine bellator armor and was floating trying to listen for any intruders I guess. Then the boy was creating magical food. He was also pulling out brownies he smiled, I looked closer. It was actually sanitatum cibum. Healing food for magic. Who were they? The others gathered around me and watched the scene. TJ and Adam sat down when I put away my knife. They looked sick.
“Do you guys know them?” I asked.
“The one with blue hair is the ice goddess. Rose. She’s my girlfriend. The one with brown and auburn hair is Maxie, she is goddess of medicine and healing and earth. Adam’s girlfriend. The others are ones they just rescued. I think their names were something like Athryst, Aura, and Denny. I don’t know who the other is.” He said. I sat down. I pulled out my knife. And spun it around the table. Adam took up driving the boat. I layed down, clutching Cultellus to my chest. I fell asleep quickly.
Chapter 3
Emerald
Water
Well in a day I found out my best friend had a curse, and we had to find these people we don’t know. I got bored after the big looking in the knife thing so I was watching in on Amour’s dreams. I have power over dreams, invisibility, storms, and war. She was dreaming of home so I felt intruding and decided to stop. I walked up to Adam. He was still driving and it had been 3 hours.
“We should stop soon to run. Harry-Face will be on to us. He probably has navy behind us.” He said.
“Okay well let me take the wheel for a while and you sleep.” I said.
“Okay here ya go.” He said. He stepped away and went and layed down. I took the wheel. I thought about my magic parent. My dad. Bellum. He was very known in the magic world. He was the god of war, I being his favorite kid would be the next goddess of war. I hadn’t told my friends about my magical dad, and I felt guilty about it. I thought about the last visit I had with him. I had met him at my magic and fighting camp.
“Hey kiddo.” He said.
“Hey dad!” I said. I hugged him then quickly pulled away. He handed me my sword. I looked at my side where I always hung my sword. I looked at him.
“I just had that in there!” I said. He laughed. I took the sword it had a black grip and the sword part was gold and ivory I put it back in the case and looked at him.
“Better keep that safe, it was a present!” He said.
“Then why’d you steal it?” I asked, teasingly.
“I didn’t.” He said. He looked around.
“I have to go, to a meeting.” He said. I nodded and looked down. He always had war meetings. He turned and walked away. Out of camp.
I looked at my side my sword was still there. I smiled. I looked up, sun was rising. I looked around and saw an island in the distance. I steered us towards there. I put it in auto pilot and walked to wake everyone up. They sat up and looked at the wheel and screamed.
“Autopilot.” I said, calming them down. Our boat slowed down. I ran and saw that we had 3/4 a tank of gas. I looked up and saw a helicopter. Behind us some jet skies and another speedboat next to us. With divers on it. We were stuck. A ladder fell and a boy with blonde and brownish hair came down. He also had sea green eyes. I fell for him quick.
“Hi, I’m Jacob.” He said. Then three others came down as well. They tied our hands together and pulled us up there.
“Do you work for Harry-Face?” I asked. They all laughed.
“No. We are pirates. We’re magic as well. I have power over electronics.” He said.
“You can everything on this boat except our bags they are only filled with girl stuff and clothes.” I said. He nodded and then looked at one of the guys.
“Burk?” He asked.
“There is precious metals on this boat. But they are tiny.” He said.
“Burk here can sense metals, all types of metals.” Jacob said. He took me and TJ up on the helicopter. The other three were on the boats. TJ tried to fight him and got knocked out by Burk. I remained still. The helicopter was big, enough to hold 15 people. And black. I sat there. I took out my pocket knife and quickly and silently cut off my ropes. I looked around Burk was snoozing. I looked at TJ and entered his dream.
“I will watch my football game, rather you say so or not!” He yelled to another person. Not real.
“Aww.” I said. I crossed my arms.
“Woah, what’s happening?” He asked.
“I am one of the only dream users in the world. There is one more dream user. They live in Europe though. So I entered your dream to tell you this: I cut my ropes of and I have a plan. If you’re power over air I need your help so after I leave wake up. Get ready to open up the door while I distract Jacob and then jump out and float in air. Pretty low preferably. Then when I jump out catch me and lower us onto the boat and we need to save them,. Can you do that?” I asked him and he nodded. So I left. TJ opened his eyes and looked at me. I did a slight nod. I scouted for my sword it was two seats away from me, near the door. I looked at TJ then to it and he understood. They had taken his ropes off since he was out, he grabbed it quickly.
“Jacob?” I asked in a sweet tone, Amour had taught me how to flirt properly. He turned to me.
“Yes?” He said. While he was checking the time on his watch I nodded to TJ. He understood. I leaned over to Jacob and kissed him. He seemed surprised.
“Wow.” He said. I smiled.
“Sorry, couldn’t help myself.” I said through a forced smile.
“It’s fine. I liked it.” He said. I leaned in again I heard the door slid open. And I kicked him down. I hit Burk in the face and ran and jumped out. I started falling. TJ caught me we were still up high. I looked for the helicopter, the pilot had kept flying. I laughed. TJ lowered us and we touched the boat. I pulled out my sword and attacked the driver off the boat. He fell into the ocean, making the dark blue go read from his cut on the neck. There was three divers to take care of. I laughed. I roundhoused kicked them across the face. I kneed one in the stomach. I stabbed him in the leg and he fell down. I left him to bleed. I turned to one guy and he jumped off the boat, I turned to the third guy and he kicked me in the stomach. I got back up and stabbed him in the ribs. I kicked him and the other diver off the boat. I turned around and TJ had cut off everyone’s ropes. I stopped the boat and looked around. We were in the middle of the ocean. The sea was a dark blue and the sun was about mid point so I would say it was about 12:15 ish. There were no islands in sight. I turned to them.
“Where is the map?” I asked. Sapphire pulled it out of her back pocket.
“I have it, how’d you guys get out?” She asked. We told her the story and she nodded.
“Wow must of taken a whole lot of gut to kiss him.” She teased. I rolled my eyes.
“How far are we? Are we even on track?” I asked her.
“Yah we are. We have traveled 1 day so we are about 2 days less than a month away.” She said, groaning.
“I think we should ride this thing to the nearest, safest island we can and then ditch it.” Sapphire said.
“Okay we will go Sapphire’s plan. Little Miss Wisdom.” I said.
“Who wants to drive?” Adam asked. Sapphire raised her hand. I smiled. I sat next to her.
“So have you figured out who your magical parent is yet?” She asked me. I sighed, I had told them I didn’t know who it was.
“You know don’t you, that I do know who it is?” I asked.
“Yeah, come on tell me!”
“Bellum.” I said. She froze then recovered.
“That’s so cool!” She squeled.
“That’s Rose’s magical dad, but she doesnt have his powers. He’s more like a step-stepdad. Is your magical mom or step-mom Emily?” TJ asked, I didn’t know he was still up.
“Emerald. Yah, step-stepmom. Why?” I asked him. He looked at me.
“Are you adopted?” He asked.
“Yes, why?” I asked.
“When were you adopted?”
“At 1, why?”
“Did you have a sister?”
“Yes! WHY?” I asked.
“I think. . . I think Rose is your sister.”
Chapter 4
Emerald
My sister?
“Sister?” I asked him.
“Yeah. Fits the story Rose gave me. She says when she was two her younger sister who was 1 was given up for adoption. She said her step-step magical dad was Bellum but he never visited he apparently only visited her sister. She said her sister’s magical dad was Bellum and her magical step-stepmom was her magical mom, Emily. Emily had told her all of this.” He said, it fit my story perfectly. But I had never known about a sister. “My dad always made sure I was doing okay in school and still going to camp collatus during break to train." I explained. Sapphire was looking out at the water as if to say This feels awkward. I laughed a little.
"You seem pretty tense." Sapphire said to TJ.
"Yeah. We don't do separate rescues often and I know she's a goddess but I feel I need to protect her." He mumbled. "How'd you know?"
"Wisdom. Yeah. Are you and Adam brothers or something?" Sapphire questioned.
"No. We just ran away and joined when we met. Really close friends." He said. I nodded.
"Well, I need to sleep. Night." He said and walked back to where he slept. Sapphire kept driving. We sat in silence. About 5 minutes later we heard a splash. I looked over the edge and Adam was there, swimming.
"What are you doing?" I yelled.
"Taking a swim." He stated and swam faster. He seemed to be trying to get away from something. He stopped. We eventually got to him and he got back on. Without a word from him he dried off and went back to the bed. I frowned. I got Sapphire to go and sleep and to let me drive. I stared out at the ocean. c. I looked at my sword, strapped to my side. I remembered the day my dad gave it to me.
“Hey kiddo!” He had said. I was outside in the back of my house.
“Dad!” I said, I was 13. I smiled.
“Hey, I have a present for you!” He said. I jumped up and down. He pulled out a white sword holder and clipped it onto my belt. I was expecting it to be too big but it shrunk to my size.
“It will always grow to fit you perfectly, Emerald.” He had said. I pulled out the sword and stared at it. He seemed happy about me liking it. Then he disappeared.
“I was busy, I had the ending of the war to deal with.” A voice said. I quickly pulled my sword out and turned around, thrusting it under the intruders chin. I looked at them and slowly lowered my weapon. There he stood, tall, with brown hair and brownish reddish eyes. My dad.
“What is it? Have your parent appear on a boat day?” I asked. He knew about Visus coming apparently and didn’t ask questions.
“Yes, yes it is.” He said,
“Really?”
“No.”
“Oh, okay then don’t do that to me!”
“Okay sorry, and uh can you please put Acutus back in?” He asked, he was actually using the name of my sword. I swallowed and put it back in. My friends were waking up now. He was wearing armor. They stood up, and they saw him.
“Who are you?” Amour demanded.
“Bellum.” He said, they froze and put all weapons down.
“What are you doing here?” Adam asked.
“Uh, guys, meet my dad, dad meet my friends.” I said.
Chapter 5
Sapphire
Fighting
“You’re the war god? In person? And Emerald’s dad?” Amour asked. He laughed.
“Yes.” He answered. Emerald seemed happy. Adam backed away..
“No need to be afraid of me.” He said.
“What?” I asked.
“He’s afraid I’ll hurt his friends. I won’t.” He explained.
“How do I know? You did before!” Adam said.
“They were mocking me! A god! You don’t do that!” He said. Upset now. Lightning flashed.
“Oh. . . oh no! Ignis needs everyone, especially me. Quickly get out of here. I’ll give you a boost to shore from there run!” He said, he snapped and disappeared. Everything went fast and then the boat stopped and flung us to the shore. The boat floated out to sea.
“Yay. Two godly parents visiting and don’t forget, Bellum showed up.” I mumbled to myself. I remembered something as I was standing up. Something that my mom taught me as a little kid at the age of 4. Before I was adopted. I also remembered a girl with bright auburn hair sitting next to me. She seemed like my older sister. She had taught us this.
“You never insult a god. Especially Bellum. He is the brother of Ignis, god of lightning, there other brother, Calor, god of heat, rules with them. There is no one god over another. So NEVER insult a god. Okay?” And apparently Adam’s friends in his past had insulted him.
“What did your friends do?” I asked Adam.
“They said ‘Bellum? Being powerful? Stupid. The one who made him powerful was stupid.’ and then when we got in a battle they didn’t make it. As they were dying we got a message ‘You never insult a god. Especially me. I have power over the fights and wars. I can take away your fighting blessings or give you better fighting moves. No NEVER insult me. Okay?’ and I nodded.” Adam said. That message was the same message as my mom had given to me. I grabbed my sword and walked out towards inland. I was slashing at bushes and leaves and branches. I didn't know where I was going. I got to a clearing. I made battle dummies come to me. I wanted to fight something. I just realized all the anger I had. Reason it happened then? I don't have one. I just slashed and stabbed an kicked and cried and yelled until I couldn't move. I fell to my knees. I heard footsteps. I pointed my sword in the direction they were coming from. TJ and Adam came out of my path.
"What?" TJ looke very confused as he saw the scattered dummies and stuffing.
"I needed to do something." I said. I nodded at the stuffing and dummie and they put themselves together again.
"If you have no wizard powers-" Adam began.
"Battle dummies. I have power I've those since they have to do with battle." I cut him off. They were back to normal again and I started to stab them more. Adam grabbed my arms.
"Look I knew a girl who did that every time she got angry, except she couldn't summon dummies. She is different now. I know you have hurt inside. Save it for real battles." He said. I sheathed my sword and he let go. I sat on a rock.
"I don't even know who my magical parent is. I barely remember before I was adopted." I cried. Adam came to hug me but I pinched him. TJ tackled me with a hug. I got him off of me and stood up.
"I'm gonna take a walk. Don't wait up." I said. I stomped off into the trees.
"Great. What good am I? Emerald has war and a wisdom power isn't going to help now. I've really only used it for tests." I grumbled as I kept walking. I slashed at some trees to make a small open space. I looked at the sky and it was dark. I laid down on the ground to sleep. I was almost asleep when I heard Amour calling my name. But I fell asleep.
"I don't want to kill him. I am taking his place." I saw a man say. They people who are trapped were there. I realized that this was live. They couldn't see me. Except the girl named Maxie. She got away and I followed.
"Look, I got you here. Tell Adam what you see." She demanded. I nodded. We got back and I saw a lecture on his plans. Wow. It was over and I woke up.
"Are you alright?" Amour asked.
"I'm fine." I said. I sat up and looked around. Tent. "Why did you bring me back?" I continued.
"We need you." Amour answered.
"Nope. I learned Emerald has war powers. So ou don't need wisdom unless we have to fight a math test."I protested. Everyone looked at Emerald. I got out of the bed I was in and walked away. I sat at the beach. Noone came out for a while. "I guess they don't need me." I thought. I remembered my things were in the tent so I went in a grabbed the bag while everyone was talking to Emerald. I slipped out. I snapped some twigs and put them in the boat's gas tank and got on the boat. I started it up. I hit the gas and I was moving. The island I was moving from was huge. Probably the one that we would have to travel on foot. I went a little to the right. I checked my gas. Still full. I followed the island for a few hours. Then I docked. I walked under the too and went to set up tht bedroom. I pulled out my phone and I saw I had gotten 20 texts. All from Amour or Emerald. All asking where I was and where the boat is. I told them I was farther ahead on the island. Adam got on Amour's phone and told me to get back to camp. I stopped texting then. I set it down and pluged it in to charge. I crawled under the covers. I was pretty tird even though it was only 8:00. I slept.
Chapter 6
Sapphire
On my own
I woke up and hit my head in the ceiling. I walked up the stairs to drive the boat. I was only 30 miles away from everyone. I sat in the drivers seat and was about to start the boat when I heard my friends. I don't know why but I was trying to start the boat faster. They all got into the boat before it could run. I turned around.
"What." I said.
"We were worried." Emerald told me.
“Why? Did little miss war not know how to fight a small group of people?” I asked.
“Okay stop it. Why are you making me the bad guy? So we both have fighting powers. But they are totally different. See in you’ve been trained better to fight small groups, with smaller weapons and better at fist fighting. Where as I have been trained better to fight big groups with big weapons and a bow’n’arrow.” She said.
“Well you didn’t tell me before about Bellum and you having war powers.” I said.
“You think thats a bomb I really want to drop? Bellum only has 2 other kids all over the world!” She said. I looked at her, I felt anger and resentment build up inside of me. She was always the more known one at the school. She was always better with more people. She’s the daughter of the god you hoped would be your dad. She is the reason for all of the anger. I thought to myself. Without thinking I lunged at her. I tackled her into the water. I was better with shorter weapons, she said. I thought. I pulled out my dagger and looked up she was gone, I looked to the others. They were in shock. I went under and slowly opened my eyes. To bad neither of us was water users. Not many of those. I frowned. She wasnt there. Then I remembered. She was invisible. I smiled and went up. I walked away. I swam to the boat and started it up. I hit the gas and drove off. I looked back, none of the others were trying to follow me. I gave the boat more gas and kept going. Quickly. The ocean was very blue, so blue it was clear. I saw a group of fish in the water. And then I saw it. The enemy submarine. I started to rise. I hit the gas. But it hit m boat. I looked back and everyone was helping Emerald, backs turned. I fell into the water. I opened my eyes. I saw some one. Like my mom.
"Honey. It's me. Your mom." She said.
"No. I don't have a magic mom. My sister is Maxie and we have normals as parents. "
"You are wrong silly. I'm not also Drew's mother." She said. She pulled me to the top of the surface. She played with the water I stared at it.
“Here catch.” She said. She tossed it and it fell apart and I stared at it for a minute.
"Why do my friends care more for Little Miss War then me. Oh never mind. I
know why."
"You think you aren't needed don't-"
"Look Mom. She has war. She can help them and they don't need wisdom. I dots even think I had any real friends at school. Or at all. Yay." I cut her off. She hugged me.
"Swim to the submarine. You can get in. Trust me." She told me then disapeared. I swam to it and saw a door I listened to it. It wasnt locked. Good. I felt it. Easy to pick. I grabbed a handle and twisted it clockwise. Won't open. Counter clockwise. It had a lock. I kicked the door twice. Unlocked. I pulled it open and swam in. I closed the door so not too much water would come in. I saw a few men sleeping and two driving. I pulled out my knife and slit their throughts. I threw them from the seats and made my way back. I killed the sleeping men with my knife. Then the last with his own gun. I made my way to the back.
"I've been waiting." He said.
"I'm Josh. Thanks for rescuig me. My friends here are Jack and James." He said. He was pretty hot.
"I'm Sapphire. Come with me. You need to have big lungs though." I said. They nodded. We swam to the top. We swam to the beach with my old friends on it. I told them the story. I looked around the beach was pretty. I looked at Emerald, everyone was behind her like she was the leader.
“So little miss war, you’re the leader huh? Again.” I sneered. She was looking at Jack but then switched her attention to me.
“What’s wrong with you? So we share a similar power how is that bad? And wisdom is power. Wisdom is good in a fight but you REFUSE to see that. You’re just being stuck up because my dad is Bellum and yours isn’t. Your magical parent is Creana, and you’re magical dad well we don’t know do we? Just like I don’t know my magical mom. It’s fine for us not too, we are supposed to not know both of them so they choose. And my dad Bellum choose me. And Creana choose you.” She said.
“Oh, you’re so big and powerful huh? Trying to reason with me? Not gonna work Warry.” I sneered. Jack, Jacob, and James moved to the side. I flicked my hand. A dagger entered it. She grabbed her bow and reached behind her for an arrow. I didn’t have power over that weapon, it was long distance. I had power over swords and daggers, not bows and javelins and stuff like that. That was war. I decided to go more long than a dagger. I flicked my hand and a sword appeared. She looked at it. She put back the arrow she had, it was black and silver tip. She pulled out a gold and silver tipped one. She notched it. It looked pretty sharp. She took a step forward, I raised my sword. She hesitated. And then looked behind me, she stayed very calm. She was trying to fake me out. I stepped back. She seemed nervous.
“What can’t beat me Waress?” I asked. She shook her head, she continued to look behind me. I cracked my neck and she raced forward. She grabbed my arm and turned me. I rolled over her back. She turned quickly. I grabbed her leg and flipped her on her back. I was winning. I smiled she got back up and put away the arrow and pulled out a sword. I charged at her with my sword. She blocked it and tried to hit me. I grab the hilt of the sword. I flipped it out of her hand. She put her hands out.
“Don’t try my power." I said. She had a sword now. Mine was now a dagger. I I slapped her hand and she looked at me. I punched her across the face with the handle of my dagger. She has a little cut on her face now, and a big bruise. She looked at me.
“What happened to us?” She asked. I kicked her under the legs. And she fell.
“A month before we ran away you told me I was fat an ugly. For the 30th time!” I said. She got up and pulled out an arrow and picked up her bow. She shot and I dodged.
“Ha!” As I was saying that she shot at my shoulder. It barely cut the top. I looked at her.
“Some friend you were.” I said. Then there was thunder. Adam shot down some lightning in between us.
“STOP IT!” He yelled we froze and dropped the weapons.
“We have bigger problems than you’re little jealousy stuff!” He continued.
“Like my girlfriend is in danger and we don’t know where she is!”
“Adam.” TJ said putting a hand on his shoulder. TJ pulled back quick, Adam was covered in lightning. Emerald sat down and looked at me.
“I’m sorry okay? I should’ve told you! But that doesn’t call for totally hating me!” She said.
“Sorry- shmorry, just shut up and leave. I’m going to the Safe Land on my own.” I said. She got up and walked away. I looked at the others.
“Amour?” I asked.
“You said on your own, and I agree with Emerald.” She said, walking off. Adam and TJ followed. So did Jack and James. Josh stayed.
“I’m coming with you, I do owe you after all.” He said. We walked into the forest. I pulled out my map and saw we had 3 weeks to go.
“Let’s get moving. I don’t want any delays.” I said. He nodded. I couldn't walk. I collapsed on the ground. I started balling.
“I don't know what I've done." I muttered. I was shaking and Josh helped me up. He gave a me big hug.
“ I feel horrible!" I yelled at myself.
"Then lets follow them. Maybe you can apologize for being that way. Maybe they will let you come along." He told me. I was nodding. He let go and I made my tears dry.
"Water." He told me. I giggled a little bit. I grabbed arm and dragged him with me, we went deeper into the woods."Maybe we should go back. She did save us." I heard Jack say.
"No. I'm tired of trying to help her. She has done too much damage. Especially to me. She is just like Maxie and Maxie would never do that. So no." He stated. I started running to the voices. I got through a last tree and fell onto TJ. I crawled off.
"Sorry." I apologized. I saw Emerald. I ran and hugged her. I couldn't stop crying.
"I'm so sorry. I'm happy you didn't kill me yet!" I apologized. She laughed a little bit.
"Thanks. Lets forget we turned on each other." She said. I nodded and go off of her. We started off when a half lady half spider woman came into view a bunch of baby spiders followed after her.
“Hi so nice to meet my next meal. I’m Aranea.” She hissed.
Chapter 7
TJ
Aranea
I was starting to rethink who I saving when Sapphire attacked her best friend. Then they battled trying to win and I was certain I did not want to make them mad. Then the crazy ugly spider lady came along and told us we were her next meal. I was NOT liking this trip.
“Guys, let’s attack.” I said, Trying to get up courage but it was barely a whisper.
“You think you can win? Oh my silly boy you can’’t” She said, turning to Adam
“Uh, are you blind?” I asked her.
“Yes, why?” She said, turning to Amour.
“Wow, it’s just you’re in such good shape to be blind.” She said. Arenea turned to me.
“Is your hearing good?” I asked. She turned to Sapphire.
“No! Stop asking questions! LET ME FEED ON YOU!” She said.
“Okay one last question. Do you speak latin?” She turned to Emerald.
“No, Romanian yes. I like Romanian magic better are you latin?” She asked.
“ There are two types of magic?” Adam asked.
“No, many more. There is latin, Romanian, Greek, Icelandic, and Latvian.” She said. I was getting a headache.
“Woah, I am having a horrible headache.” Everyone moaned at the same time.
“Changers eh? Mostly latin by the smells of you.” She said sniffing.
“Changers?” Amour asked.
“That means you change form. It just makes you fight differently and speak differently no big deal. I only speak Romanian and Latvian.” She said, like she was proud.
“Okay guys lets adgrederentur retro. Emerald AMATIO adgredientur a fronte. Bonum?” I asked. IT meant ‘Okay guys let’s attack from the behind. Emerald and Amour will attack from the front. Good?’ they nodded. And we set off. I saw Emerald pull out a sharp arrow that was all gold. She set aim at the eyes and released the string. Halfway in the air it became two and hit both eyes. Aranea screamed. I pulled out my sword and whipped up some air. I floated up then saw Emerald pull out a storm gray bow. She pointed it up and shot it. Storm clouds formed in the sky. She took out a tragula and said something in Latin then lightning came down and stuck onto her tragula (latin javelin) She looked around and said something then the lightning went off and hit most of the baby spiders.
“PROCELLIS!” She yelled. Storm clouds whipped up around her and then disappeared and she had on armor. I climbed on to the spiders back. Looking away from Emerald. I caught a glimps of Adam in front of me. He was in his rage again. He was electrocuting the spider lady. He kept stabbing it. t doing it. The spider lady flund him off and he hit a tree. She hurt my best friend. I climbed to her neck. Saphhire was fighting off baby spiders and Amour was infront of the Aranea. Sapphire was over taken by baby spiders. She screamed. Emerald looked down and yelled.
“infantem aranearum!” Which meant Baby Spiders. The air became electric and then lightning came down at the same time as a tornado. The babies were nowhere to be seen. Emerald was helping clean out bites on Sapphire. Amour was now on the ground trying to get away from Aranea and Adam wasn’t moving. Years of rage filled up in me and I raised my sword. I thought about all of the unfair things in life.
“Failing Math because Suzy was hitting on you. Toby always stealing your girls. Never being able to practice magic because of the law. The War. My friends being hurt. Rose being captured. . . Rose.” I thought. At the thought of Rose being hurt I hurled down my sword and it went into Aranea’s neck. She froze.
“No.” She said then she turned to dust. I fell. I landed on my ankle but I had worse problems than that.
“Is everyone alright?” I called looking over to Emerald and the now hit and cut on the skull Amour. Sapphire was lying down.
“No! But go take care of Adam!” Emerald said. I nodded and ran to him. He still wasn’t moving.
“Adam, bro. Are you alright? Can you hear me?” I asked him. He flipped to his back.
“Hi.” He said forcing a smile.
“Can you move?” I asked him. He took a moment to think then sat up.
“The lightning took most of the hit but some got to my arm. And I won’t be able to use lightning for a while.” He said.
“Okay cool let’s get up and-” I cried out in pain. My ankle was in too much pain. Emerald looked up. She ran over. She first checked Adam. He had a broken arm and dislocated shoulder. Then me, I had broken my ankle.
“I think I may have some sanitatum cibum. I brought some just incase.” She said, she dug through her bag and pulled some out. She handed some to Adam and then some to me. Sanitatum Cibum is healing food for the magic.It tasted like brownies usually. I ate it and felt the warmth enter my body. Sapphire was covered in bites and she was scratching her arms. She was shivering. I looked at her to ask if she was ok.
"Fine. War powers would've been more helpful then battle. Huge thing." She shrugged. Emerald gave her some of the magic food and we all got up. Amour gasped.
"Jack, Josh, James!" She yelled out. We hear triplet groans and we each ran to one. Adam and Sapphire ran to Josh while Emerald and I ran to Jack. Amour was helping James. Jack was lying down. He had a black eye. And his nose was bleeding. I grabbed a tissue from my pocket and dabbed at the blood.
“Ok, that’s all I need.” He groaned. HE sat up. Sapphire was over here with the others. She used some water- which I didn’t know she could do- to help heal him.He stood up and brushed off his clothes. We got our things and started walking again.
“That was an eventful hour.” Emerald said sarcastically. We walked away from all the dust and to the Safe Land.
“Dude, it’s getting late.” Josh said. We had been walking for about 5 hours now, and we were all tired.
“Alright. We will set up camp now.” I said. EMerald came up to me.
“Need help?” She asked.
“Thanks.” I said as she started helping. I went to collect the padding for my tent and looked back over. She was done. I walked back over and gave her a hug.
“Lil’ sister.” I said. She laughed. I set her down and Walked into the tent. I called everyone in.
“Choose your rooms. Some might have to share, girls with girls. Guys with guys.” I pointed at everyone. Adam and I choose our room. I went to make sure no guys were with any of the girls. None were.
“Good.” I said to myself. I walked back to Adam and I’s room to sleep. Before I dreamt, I dialed a number on my phone.
"Hello." I heard a guy say.
"Hey Gustus, look. I know we all usually stop by for our marks, but can they show up in their sleep? You already know what to do. Im pretty sure the runaways with my girlfriend are lacking marks also. So please do that. It would be great. How else will the get int the Safe Land?" I rambled.
"Sure. Thanks. Now it will take a minute then LET ME SLEEP." He yawned. I heard a beep and he hung up. I layed down and closed my eyes. Then I heard Gustus enter my tent.
“Wake everyone up.” He said. I did. I explained the marks to them and Amour went first. She came out with an arrow through the heart on the side right under her ribs. Sapphire went next and came out with a cheetah face on her inner elbow. Then Emerald want. She came out with a phoenix on the spot right under her elbow.
“It’s a storm phoenix. It’s a regular pheonix but it can control storms or turn into the storm colors.” She said. I nodded. Sounded cool. We all went to our tents and back to bed.
“Guys! We need to move!” Sapphire was shaking Adam awake. I jumped out of bed and got our stuff together. Out tent was magical so it went into my pack immediately. We started running into battle. I had my sword out. I slashed at enemies and they were dead in a matter of seconds. We continued running. I was thinking over the thing Aranea said about changing forms. i didn’t want to try it. I wanted to be me.
‘What if it could help though ? What if I could save my friends and make it to Rose without getting hurt/ No, I had to stay true to myself , for me, for Rose. For us.” I thought, then I heard a very loud scream. It was from Amour.
Chapter 8
TJ
Screams.
The sound coming from Amour was just scary. It almost made me pee myself. I turned around and looked at her.
“What the heck is wrong?” I asked. She pointed to her knife. She had flung it to the ground and it was glowing. there was movements on it. I picked it up. There was a guy about 7 feet tall and blonde hair Staring at us. HE smiled and had a couple teeth missing. He turned the camera thing so we could see a guy with black hair and amber eyes ties to a chair and knocked out. The other dude had a black eye. HE started to speak.
“Hi I am Optio. No longer assistant to Rex mortuorum. As you may know him. King of the dead. For years I have lived to be immmortal to serve him. For years I have encountered the dead and put up with their annoying hissing! I DON’t EVEN SPEAK DEAD! And for years I have put up with him saying ‘I can’t wait till Athryst becomes Queen of the dead.’ With no mention of me! Now I will have my revenge I will suck the power out of both him and his daughter Athryst. Your girlfriends and their new friends fought me and got away. I don’t know where they are but I will KILL every single one of them. And I’ll make it painful, don’t worry.” Optio said. I took the knife and threw it at a tree. It stuck in. I heard his laugh then it went away. I wanted to punch something. No I wanted to kill something. I grabbed my sword and threw it. Killing a squirrel. I picked it back up and threw it again this time it killed a fox. Adam grabbed a hold of me. I couldn’t move, he was cutting off blood circulation.
“Dude, it’s fine. We’ll save them.” He said. I exploded.
“No! YOU DON’T LOVE MAXIE THE WAY I LOVE ROSE! YOU NEVER WILL!” I screamed. Adam let go and took a step back.
“You don’t know how I feel for maxie. . .” He said. I was so angry I wanted to punch him for some reason.
“YES I DO!” I yelled in his face. He punched my stomach and pushed two finger on a pressure point.
“I LOVE MAXIE!” He screamed. I released my clenched fist.
“I know man, I’m sorry. I just am so upset, I can’t bear the thought of losing Rose. And I know you can’t bear the thought of losing Maxie either.” I said. He calmed down and nodded. He started walking off. We all followed.
“We should move quick. All that yelling you boys did is sure to draw attention.” Emerald said.
“Yah, I’d run. It’s not fun to get in a fight.” Sapphire seconded.
“Uh, guys. We should get behind something. Or in the ground somehow. I hear a helicopter.” Amour said. We all stopped and looked up. Emerald made a mini sink hole and we all fell under the ground. the hole closed up enough for us not to be seen but enough for light and air.
“So I’m guessing storm powers?” Adam asked.
“Yah.” Emerald said.
“But I’m guessing that my best friend here is going to be goddess of water.” She continued touching Sapphire’s shoulder. Sapphire smiled in the light.
“I doubt it.” She kept smiling, but she was sincere, sh ehsot me a glance as if to say She will be alright, no need to replace your girl. We waited for a couple minutes and then went up. It was dark now. We set up our tents and went to bed. I Stood guard first. I searched through my bag and I felt something weird, I pulled it out. It was glowing. And it was an egg. It started hatching and a baby pegasus. It neighed and looked around. It was about 7 inches tall and had a black back and chest with a gray mane and black wings with gray and the top. Emerald woke up and it ran to her. I realized the perfect name for it.
“Uh, Emerald, meet your pegasus. Storm. Or whatever you want to name it.” I said. I pulled out several more eggs and woke the others up. The second one to hatch was Amour’s it was white back and chest with a gray mane and gray wings with white tips.
“Aww, hi there Filia Reginea.” She said.
“Princess.” I translated.
Then Sapphire’s hatched it was black and summer brown, almost golden colored. It had brown back and chest. Black mane, a black spot around its eye, a black spot on it front right leg and black wings with blue and purple tips.
“splendida.” She said. It meant bright, like their personalities. They were dancing in an awkward fashion, which gave a laugh.. Then Adam’s hatched. It was black and redish colored. All very random.
“Hey it’s fur is random! You can’t describe it! It’s like you!” I teased he playfully punched me.
“Calling him Blaze.” Adam said. Then mine came out it was white and brown. It had a white back and chest. Brown wings. Brown legs. And then a white mane and tail. I named it sprint. Although I liked Emeralds and Sapphires better.
“Say hello to the world our little babies.” Emerald said.
Chapter 9
Adam
Pegasi
They all grew really fast. The next morning they were fully grown, and mine was super cool, if Blaze wanted too, he could set his mane on fire! Sapphire’s pegasus was awesome too, they were exactly alike. Except one was a girl and the other was a pegasus girl. They were doing this hilarious dance then they got hungry. She fed Splendida some carrot-soup and then Sapphire ate some eggs, which I made. All of our pegasi started neighing and grunting as if they are talking to each other. Sapphire sat down next to me.
“You really miss her, don’t you.” She said.
“Yeah.” I said.
“I barely remember her. I only remember bits and pieces of that year.” I said. Emeralds horse, Procella, neighed and looked at a bush. She kicked it and we heard a groan.
"Attack!" It yelled. I got up and threw them on the ground.
"Who are you!" I yelled with the sword to his neck.
"Joey." He whispered.
"Who do you work for!" I yelled again.
"President Zach." He said. I stabbed him. Noone else came.
"Good!" I yelled. "Come on. Lets move. We have about 2 weeks if we keep going like this." I said and we grabbed our stuff. We walked. I started running and then everyone did too. We kept it up for a good hour then slowed to a jog.
"We just cut a few hours off of our trip time." TJ said.
"Good." Josh panted. We kept walking. I heard a rustle. I put my hand on my sword. It was just a rabbit. I stepped nod heard a clunk. It was metal. I opened it and it wa a tunnel. It put a little fire to see. I went down. It was long and I walked for half an hour then walked back out.
"Guys, I found the tunnel. Lets check it out in the morning." I said. We had cut about a day off of our course not including that one. We set up camp and I made a campfire. I pulled a bar of chocolate out of the cold section of my bag.
"Maxie would go crazy over this." I laughed. I missed her so much. TJ patted my back.
" It's alright dude. We will find the girls. And the magics too." TJ comforted me. We were like brothers since we ran away and met. I smiled. I sat up straighter.
“Well lets go to sleep, shall we?” i asked them. Everyone seemed tired so i went into my tent and laid down. I closed my eyes and fell asleep. The next morning I woke up to the bright sun shine. The others were already up. Amour shoved some food at me and I ate it gladly.
"How did you get my sausage recipe?" I asked.
"I didn't. I just make it like this." Amour said.
"Mine is still better." I poke at her. I put my empty plate in the sink of our magic tent and it was washed. Everyone else did that too.
“Ok, let’s go to the Safe Land. We are still saving the others.” I said as I packe dup my things. Everyone packed up and TJ and I took down the tent. TJ put it in his backpack and we walked off.
“We have been walking for hours!” Josh complained.
“Fine, lets sit for a minute.” I said. We all sat on the ground. We sat silently then heard hooves. Our pegasi had come. We sat on them, bareback and flew off. We were flying above the woods, I grabbed Blaze’s mane of fire, and it was solid for my hands. I saw Splendida holding her head up high, with Sapphire on her back. Josh was holding onto his pegasus, he looked so scared. I looked over and saw E,erald was missing.
"WOAH!" I said. I stopped my Pegasus and looked around.
"What's wrong?" Emeralds voice asked.
"Where are you?" I asked her.
She laughed and then she and her Pegasus appeared.
"Procella here can turn into storms and turn invisible with me." She explained.
"Wha- . . . I was scared that you were kidnapped!" I said. She shrugged and whistled and her horse took off we followed after. We were flying pretty quick and we had probably gone 5 miles in 10 minutes. Then I heard a scream. We all stopped before we ran her over. There she stood, black hair gray eyes and followed by mist. Silver.
Chapter 10
The news.
“SILVER!” I said. I jumped off Blaze.
“Adam!” She gasped. I grabbed her in a bear hug. She was one of my best friends that was a girl. I fell through her.
“What?” I asked.
“I’m a projection, I am stable enough to see and hold stuff but you can’t touch or hurt me.” She said. “What are you doing here?” I asked.
“No time. Grab weapons. Hurry.” She said. We all did and then they came out. About 50 men and 25 women. We got in our stances. The pegasi whined and disappeared. I let my sword on fire. Emerald got her storm armor on and her arrows notched. Sapphire grabbed her sword and it glowed blue as did she. She smiled. TJ became an air spirit. Amour got ready to blind the group and the three other boys looked scared.
“Wimps.” I muttered. One guy stepped forward. Man was he ugly.
“Prepare to die.” He said. He motioned his hand and they attacked. One tried to stab Sapphire but it went straight through her. She stabbed him through the neck. We got back to back.
“I’m water. I can control water. I can become a more stable form of water so when people try to stab me their sword goes through.” She said. A girl came at me. She slashed at me. I barely dodged. It got my shoulder and then I straightened up. I smiled. I looked behind her and acted scared. She turned and I stabbed the point where your spine and brain meet. It was a quick ending for her. Emerald was shooting down 3 people at a time. She was layering her arrows. Amour was killing quickly and tricking people into killing their team. Jack, James, and Josh were getting attacked and barely killing others. I ran over there. I stabbed a couple of guys and looked behind me. They were lying on the ground. James was dead. Jack was about to be as was Josh.
“You need to have learned how to fight!” I said. Jack nodded. I pulled out some tissue and tried to dab up his blood. He pointed behind me. I turned around and grabbed a guys arm.
“A brick!?! Really dude?” I said. I turned his arm and hit him with the brick. He died. I looked around. Everyone was dead. I turned back around and they were gone I sat down. I stared at them. The others came over. We sat there and stared for a while. Silver opened her mouth.
“Wow.” She said.
“What?” I asked
“They died quick.” She said. I looked at her.
“Sorry.” She said.
“What are you doing here though?” I asked.
“Adam. We need help!” She said.
“And thats why there’s a projection of you, huh?” I asked. She nodded.
“What is it? Are you saving a group or what?” I asked.
“The Safe Land. I’m in the Safe Land.” She said.
“What?!?!” I said.
“For some reason after you, TJ, Maxie and Rose went out of the Safe Land and split up no one could enter or leave the Safe Land. We are totally stuck! Whenever someone comes to the gate to get in they disappear. It’s almost like the earth eats them or something.” She said. We all looked at each other.
“It is.” I said. Then I explained about Maxie and Rose and the others. She looked scared.
“I have to go. I’ll be back though.” She said. She disappeared.
We all looked around. Amour stood up.
“Let’s move.” She said.
“Yeah we don’t want to stay in one place for too long.” Sapphire said. She stood up.
“Let’s hurry. All the use of that magic has made me tired.” She added. I could see it in her eyes. Emerald grabbed Sapphires arm and put it over her. Emerald whistled. It got dark then light again and her horse appeared. It was in it’s ‘friendly storm form’ has Emerald said. It changed back to a regular Pegasus and Sapphire put a hand up. She looked up at the sky. And said,
“Splendida!” And the beautiful water Pegasus appeared. Sapphire sat on her and they took off. Emerald jumped on Procella after Sapphire left. All the other Pegasi appeared and we hoped on. Blaze went up over the clouds.
“Good boy.” I said. I saw the others in front of me. I sped up and met up with them.
“Wow. We are up high.” Silver said. I almost fell off Blaze.
“Hi.” I said.
“Back!” She said.
“I see. Where’d ya go?” I asked her.
“To the council. To tell them about Rose and Maxie.” She said.
“What did they say?” I asked, eager to know.
“Well. They think. . . They think. . . That this is the next war. That Optio is helping Zach and they are going to attack us so that’s why no one can get in. Optio forbids it and they get eaten by the earth like Maxie and Rose did.” She said. I was silent for a couple minutes. Maybe I should get Maxie and we can leave this war! The stupid world full of hatred and war! Maybe an explosion. Or some poison or- NO you will NOT let Zach or Optio do this to you! You WILL live to have a life with Maxie! You WILL win this war and kill President Zach next to Maxie, for Maxie. I thought to myself.
“What now?” I asked.
“The Safe Land is gearing up for a war. Children have left school to train more. Old grandparents have gone into hiding. People are training and stashing up food and preparing for the worst. Putting babies into bunkers along with the old people." She stammered.
“Part two of the war, huh?” I asked.
“I thought it was over.” TJ said. He had gotten right beside us and listened into the conversation.
“Don’t worry bro. We’ll find the girls and kill this Optio guy and then we’ll kill President Zach. " I said. Patting his shoulder."Well, I have to go. Bye!" Silver said. She disappeared. TJ was right next to me.
"I can get out you know? Why haven't I? I mean the only thing I'm living for is Rose. I could escape. We could. We could just stab ourselves an die. But why haven't we. Do we have more to live for?" TJ asked me.
"We do. We do." I said.
“Guys we need to land!” Emerald said. She was looking at Sapphire. She was almost out.
“Yeah. You alright Sapphire?” I asked.
“Yeah. I think that since it was my first time doing that it wore me out.” She slurred.
“You’re slurring your words. We are landing as soon as possible.” I said.
“It’s not slurring. It’s called talking in cursive.” She tried to say without slurring them. I shook my head and looked at her. She had put her head on Splendida.
“Hey! Emerald. Pull Sapphire on to Procella.” I said. Emerald did.
“Splendida? Will you do something for me? Go down and make sure its safe to land? For Sapphire?” I asked it. It neighed and flew down. It came back up and looked at me as if to say ‘Land!’
“Alright guys. Let’s land.” I said. We all flew down I gave Sapphire some water. And we set up the tents and went to sleep.
Chapter 10
Amour
Figuring it out.
Well, my mom promised me in my sleep she and a couple other parents would come visit and I told the others that but they still hadn’t visited. Then it happened. They came.
“Dad!” Emerald said. My mom, emeralds dad, a lady with brown hair and gray eyes, and a guy with blonde hair and brown eyes were there.
“Son.” The guy with the blonde hair and brown eyes said.
“Dad?” Adam asked. Stepping forward.
“It’s me. Ignis.” He said. The god of lightning was there.
“Daughter.” The lady with brown hair and gray eyes said.
“Mom!” Sapphire said.
“Hi, I’m Sophia, goddess of wisdom.” She said.
“Nice to meet you.” I said. Bellum looked at TJ and handed him something. It was a vial.
“Use it when you find Optio. My wife gave it to
me and she’s really scared for Rose and Maxie. Emily, is my wife.” He said.
“What is it?” He asked.
“Just throw it in his mouth and he’ll die quickly.
Poison.” Bellum said. Everyone was quiet for a moment. We all sat down and talked then they left. Everyone went to bed but me and TJ, who was standing guard.
“There is no hope. I’m never going to save Rose!” He said.
“Hey. You will.” I said. I gave him a hug.
“Thanks. I just don’t know what I’d do without her.” He said. Thank the lord I was over him. I gave him a friendly hug. The stars twinkled. I heard beeping. Like a ringtone. TJ pulled out an awesome gray phone.
"I forgot we both brought our phones!” He cheered as he read a text. He put it down. I grabbed it. It was from Rose.
Hey, love you. My phone is almost dead. I’ve been using it to keep up with the Safe Land and Maxie. Optio is close. Can’t use the phone much anymore. Okay? Love you bye!
“It’s okay we’ll find them.” I said. TJ nodded and Adam ran over.
"I just got a text from Maxie!" Adam yelled. He read the text out loud.
"She said; Hey! So Rose sent TJ a text and I have about half of my battery life left, but I have to keep in contact with home. Don't worry about me. Try flying to get the runaways into the Safe Land. They will know its you. Then come down on the ground. You will eh sucke in and you have to save us!" Adam read. "I'm texting her back." He continued. He typed furiously, like his life depended on the text. He really loved her. He also wanted so badly to save everyone, and be a hero. He showed us the text. It read:
Ok. We have pegasi now and we will see if they can carry us over. We will take a few of the runaways to help. They have some awesome power. Love you. Stay alive.
He hit the send button. It went to Maxie's phone. No reply. We waited. Still no reply.
“REPLY!” He yelled. The others were up now.
“I have a plan.” Emerald and Sapphire said at the same time.
“Here we’ll vote on the plan. Give us both of them.” TJ said.
“Well my plan is we go underground. From here. It’s always quicker to go underground and we could possibly stumble upon them from there. Then we kill Optio and -” Emerald was saying but Sapphire cut her off.
“Or we could fight them?” She suggested and pointed behind all of us. Everyone turned. There stood 2 foot giants ready to kill.
Chapter 11
Amour
Capturing
“These are the little magicals that boss sent for.” The uglier one said. Though they were both ugly.
“Shut up Bardis.” The other one said. Bardis meant ‘Stupid.’ was about correct.
“Sorry Mutum.” Bardis said. Mutum, dumb. Wow.
"Hi Dumb and Dumber!" Sapphire joked. That made them mad. Her battle mode kicked into gear. Emerald's war mode did too. The nodded in sync. We all grabbed our weapons. Emerald had her bow and arrow. Sapphire had her knife and I moved my hand over the area of my vision. Now everyone saw us as bushes. I couldn't help but laugh. We charged. I backed up and looked around. I saw Emerald notch an arrow and point it at the sky. She shot it in the clouds. A bunch of cloud storms gathered near her a bunch of storm winds started up and she screamed something and then lightning came down and struck another arrow that was black. The arrow seemed to suck it up and the arrow became black and gold she shot it at Brudis and it shot him. He was electrocuted then passed out. That made Mutum mad. It all happened at once. Sapphire went in for the kill, Mutm noticed and swung his hand it hit her chest and knocked her against a boulder. Adam went in behind him. He got on the back and rode him while TJ was grabbed and locked in a fist. Emerald tried to call down more lightning but Mutm punched her. I tried to grab him. But he caught me and squeezed me, everything went black.
“Good job, Mutm.” A voice said. I opened my eyes. I knew him immediately. We were all in cages.
“Arthur?” I asked. It wasn’t possible, Arthur died 5 years ago in a car accident.
“It’s Optio now, my dear Amour.” He said. Arthur and I were best friends at 13 and started to get closer but then we were in his mom car and there was an 18 wheeler and the driver was drunk so it was driving on the opposite side. His mom tried to swerve but she ran into a tree and the 18 wheeler flipped trying to turn quickly at the same time and it landed on top of us. Right before though he used his powers to save me. But I still got a scar on my bicep. It killed him and his mom.
“Arthur - er - Optio. What has happened to you?” I asked. TJ was waking up now. ALong with Emerald.
“ Bitterness in death. I was there at my funeral listening to your speech. I remember what you said. You said: ‘Arthur was my best friend. I can’t believe he was the one taken. You know most people don’t know this but he threw himself in front of me to save me. He was my hero. I will miss him. Goodbye Arthur.’ and before the truck hit us I told you something. I thought you heard! But you didn’t even say it back!” He said.
“What did you say?” I asked.
“I said this : ‘Amour, I love you.’ and you didn’t say anything.” He said.
“I didn’t hear that.” I said.
“Well even if you did tell me ‘ I love you.’ it wouldn’t of made a difference. I’ve had to work for this guy for years! He’s thrown me into the lobby of death! Made me clean up dead people’s stuff. And made me sleep in a small dungeon with no thanks whatsoever! HE FORCED ME TO DO THINGS I’VE NEVER WANTED!” He said.
“Amour? You know him?” TJ asked.
"Yes." I squeaked I realized I knew the man who trapped innocent people. He trapped people dear to my rescuers, threatening death upon them. Adam started to moan. I saw him start to sit up. He saw his cage. All I saw was a roaring fire instead of a body. The fire died. Adam sat there. Shaking the cage. I sat inside my cage. I traced my finger over the cold steel bars. Optio walked over to me. He grabbed my hand.
"Maybe you can be Queen." He said. He kissed my hand then walked away. I couldn't help but blush. Sapphire was awake by now.
"Really? You are blushing because the evil guy kissed you. "She grumbled.
"I'm still not into him." I said. Sapphire rolled her eyes.
“Okay?” She asked.
“And anyway I don’t want to be your queen.” I said.
“Your loss.” He said. He flicked his hand and the cages got a little smaller.
“Bardis. Watch them.” He said. Bardis nodded and he walked out, Mutum following after. We sat there for about 10 minutes. I looked at the others. I was goddess of love and trickery so I had a plan.
“Bardis.” I said in a soothing voice. He walked over.
“Y-e-a-s.” He said.
“I can see your future.” I said. He looked at me.
“Please tell me!” He said. He held out his palm. I did a stupid fake psychic move. I ran my finger over his palm.
“Hmm. I see greatness in your future. You will be a king!” I said, lying.
“Tell mine!” Sapphire shouted. She was helping. Bardis went and unlocked her cage. She walked over. She caught a glimpse of the ring of keys.
“Sure.” I said. I looked at her palm.
“Oh no!” I shouted.
“What?” She was sweating to help out with the trick.
“A very very bad thing is about to happen!” I gasped. She fell and rolled and grabbed the keys. She moaned and stood up. Bardis was scared.
“What's wrong with her?” He asked, confused. He rubbed his head. A wild sneaker hit him.
“That is what is wrong with me. Nothing.” Sapphire said. Bardis stood in shock as she unlocked my cage. I punched him. Sapphire unlocked Adam’s cage. She ran and kicked Bardis in the jaw.
“Unlock everyone else!” She yelled as she threw the keys to Adam. Bardis fell as we beat him.
“Hello. Good.” I heard Optio say. I saw him leaning on a tree. He walked over and he stuck a needle in me. I fell. I heard Sapphire screaming. Man, she is so emotional. She was muffled. Everything went black.
Chapter 12
Emerald
Waking up in a ditch
I woke up in another cage. Wonderful. I sat up and rubbed my head. This one had more locks on it. But it the metal wasn’t as hard. I looked around. My friends were already up. No one was watching us. Huh, must of thought we couldn’t make it out. Or there were guards at the door on the other side. I felt something in my pocket. I pulled it out and it grew. It was my latin spear. I had left it at home though.
“Everyone check your pockets.” I heard Sapphire say. She was holding a mirror. It was black. Weird.
“I have my vial of poison.” TJ said.
“I have my sword.” Adam said.
“I have my sleeping powder.” Amour said.
“And I have my latin spear.” I said.
“I have my mirror.” Sapphire said.
“What good will that do?” Adam asked.
“It can transport me wherever I want in the place I am in.” She said.
“Can it get you out of a cage?” Amour asked.
“No. The magic can’t work if the holder is locked up.” She said. Everyone moaned. I looked at the tag on my spear.
You know what to do with it. I gave everyone a useful gift. You will all find ways to use it with. Dad.
I did know what to do with it. I looked around everyone was sitting down with their head down. I looked at the landscape around us. Still underground. But mostly everything was gold , silver or some type of metal.
“I wonder. . .” I started. I let my storm powers surge through me and into the spear. It shot out and all the metals reflected the lightning and hit the cages. I felt falling. I hit the ground and my cage bust open. All my friends were on the ground as well. We rubbed our heads.
“Take us to the realm of the dead.” TJ said.
“What? How do you know where it is?” I asked.
“This map. I have a feeling to go to the realm of the dead.” He said. Sapphire looked at her mirror.
“I want the mirror to be black and purple.” She said. I rolled my eyes. Everything went light then dark again
I opened my eyes and we were in the realm of the dead. All the ghosts and skeletons looked at us. Some were in warrior outfits. Those ones ran off. I chased after them. They looked like the ones that Athryst, I think was her name, was commanding. The others followed. The skeletons slipped through a hole underneath a tree. I followed. The others hesitated at first but then jumped. We fell for a while then hit the ground. I looked around then stood up. It was dim and there were a bunch of papers and dead squirrels and rabbits. There were 3 beds and people sitting at the table with weapons. I pulled out my spear but TJ and Adam ran forward. Two of the girls dropped their weapons. TJ picked up the one with awesome blue hair. He kissed her. Adam picked up and spun around the girl with auburn hair and kissed her too.
“So I’m taking your Rose and Maxie?” Amour asked.
“Yes. Hi. I’m Rose.” She said.
“I’m Amour.” She said.
“I’m Athryst.” The one with black hair said.
“Denny.” The only boy in that group told me.
“Aura.” The girl with blonde hair said.
“And I’m Lucy.” She said.
“Amour.”
“Emerald.”
“Sapphire.”
“TJ.”
“Adam. The boyfriend of the most awesome girlfriend ever!” Adam said. We all laughed.
“Well we have been hiding out here.” Rose said.
“Uh, Rose are -” I started to say.
“Yes. You are my little sister. When I was 3 you were 1 and mom gave you up for adoption.” She said.
“And you’re my sister as well.” Maxie said, to Sapphire. I couldn't help but run over to Rose and hug her. It felt like a reunion with a long lost best friend.
"I know it's great and all that you are together now, but we need to kill Optio. " Athryst reminded us. I had to admit she kinda scared me. Being the goddess of death and all. I nodded. Looking down.
“You don’t have to be afraid of me.” She said, smiling. She did seem nice. I smiled and nodded. They made us sit down and gave us some food. TJ was holding on to Rose like she was going to disappear. Same with Adam holding on to Maxie.
“So we all know we need to plan for killing Optio and getting out of here.” Maxie said. Everyone in my group looked at me and Sapphire.
“Uh sure I guess me and Sapphire could work something out.” I said. The other group looked confused.
“Oh uh. I guess we should do power introductions.” Sapphire said.
“I have power over war, storms, invisibility and dreams.” I said. Maxie nodded.
“I’m battle, flying, water and wisdom goddess.” Sapphire said.
“Beauty, sight, trickery and wings.” Amour said.
“Mixie and ice and water goddess.” Rose said.
“Mixie and earth goddess.” Maxie said.
“Air goddess.” Aura said.
“Wizard.” Denny said.
“Light and life goddess.” Lucy said.
“Death and dark goddess.” Athryst said.
“Air.” TJ said.
“Lightning and fire.” Adam said. I looked at Sapphire. We instantly knew what to do.
“Attack and Distract.” We said at the same time.
“What’s that?” Lucy asked.
“Well one distracts the guards and then the other kills.” I explained.
“Paper?” Sapphire asked. We found some paper and a working pen then she started drawing. Athryst explained the pathways as Sapphire drew a diagram of them. Sapphire got the map right. She drew us and labeled. There were guards, Denny was distracting.
“Awh why do I always have to distract?!” He complained. I was confused. They told us the story of how Denny had to go into the cave to distract the big giant dude and he got captured and a concussion from it. I laughed then realized Denny was not happy with me laughing at him. I calmed down. I looked at the map again. So after the guards were distracted Rose and I would sneak in to check for others then signal the others to enter then we’d split up. Rose and I would go check the west wing. Maxie and Sapphire would go to the east wing. TJ and Adam would take the northern wing while Athryst and Amour would take the south. Aura and Lucy would go check the outside area on the attic. We headed out.
Chapter 13
Emerald
The Final Fight
I grabbed my sword of the table then we burst through the doors. We walked into a dirt road. I went with Rose and went off together. And Maxie and Sapphire went off together. As Rosé and I walked through the corridors of the underground lair, we talked a lot.
"I know this sing the ideal way to see my sister again, but I missed you!" She said. I couldn't help but smile.
"Then again, wouldn't you like to fight side-by-side with your sister?" I laughed. I got three lint we need to find a door so I felt around the wall. I stopped as I felt a smoother surface. I found a round shape. I brushed it off. It was a doorknob! I shook it violently and then it clicked sideways, it opened. I rammed my entire body weight onto the door. It burst open to a bedroom. There was a man inside. Optio. I don't know what I was thinking, but I ran towards him. I threw myself to him, forcing my fist into his face.
"Why are you here!" He groaned as i pounded his head. He fell onto the floor.
“To kill you!” I said. Rose put ice on top of his hands icing them to the floor.
“Fine! We’ll fight!” He said. He broke free and pushed me against the wall. He punched my face. My lip was bleeding and a tooth was loose. Rose went up behind him and snapped his arm. It broke. He fell on his knees in pain when she broke his kneecap. I brought out my bow ’n’ arrow and put it against his temple. Rose stuck her blade on his throat.
“Kill me! I don’t care. I’m not the one in charge here. Neither is Zach! We are all puppets! PUPPETS IN THIS GAME!” He said. I released my bow before I could understand the meaning of it. When I did I regretted it. I looked up. Rose was staring at me.
“Rose-” I started.
“It’s fine. You didn’t process before you released. We need to find the others.” She said. I nodded. We sounded the horn that meant “He’s dead.” We then went to go unleash the god of death.
Chapter 14
Sapphire
The last chapter.
After a battle you’re usually weak and tired. Not Rose and Emerald. They ran towards us like their life depended on it. When they told us the story it wasn’t just their life. But every single Magic person alives life.
“It’s true. They are just puppets.” Said a voice. I looked around. The god of death was chained to a wall about 15 feet away. Athryst ran forwards to him and undid the chains. He walked forwards. He snapped and a hole appeared.
“This will get you to town square. Hurry.” He said.
“But dad” Athryst started.
“It’s fine! GO!” He commanded her and she disappeared. We all looked at him. We walked to the hole and it sucked us in. We appeared right next to Athryst in town square. A huge crowd was gathered. Athryst looked stunned and scared. We all pushed through the crowds. I saw the head council lady standing there. She was saying something but I couldn’t hear her. We climbed onto the stage.
“Rose! Maxie!” She said. Silver came forward and grabbed them in a big hug.
“What’s wrong?” Maxie asked. She looked at us.
“The humans have found us. We are going to war. And this time we might not make it alive."
By: Jules and Anna
Chapter 1
Amour
Just a normal day- sort of
I was in my basement training with my sword, the swords name was amare. Sorry, my name is Amour Temour I have pink hair and pink eyes. Like the cool kind, not the pinky stupid fake pink, mine is all natural. I’m magical. I have power over love, wings, sight and trickery. I lived in Mississippi. I was on summer break from my boarding school called SilverStone. I was so happy to be home. Training was going well when the doorbell rang.
“Amour, you got that?” My mom yelled.
“Yeah Mom. I got the door!” I yelled to her. It was Saturday, at noon. Everything was perfect so far! I opened the door, it was squeaking. “I need to oil this.” I whispered to myself. I looked up and the two men at the door.
“You look sharp!” I said when they looked at me.
“Are you Amour Temour?” The man on the right said.
“Uh, yes?” I said, but now everything was getting suspicious, the smell of chocolate and cream, milk, the summer smells were getting to me. I heard clicking noises and guns rose, pointed at me. I flung the door shut and locked it a lot. I ran upstairs and busted my mom’s door down.
“Code R.” I said. She threw a bag at me and I opened my wings. I flew through the huge window and went straight to Sapphire's house. My best friend Sapphire had a brown hair with a lot ,I mean like half of her hair is, purple (natural) highlights in it hair and her eyes changed color.
“What?” She yelled at me.
“Code R! Need to run! Come! Not going alone!” I panted half from thrill. She grabbed a bag and jumped out and spread her wings. We flew down a few blocks and barged through Emerald’s window. Emerald has brown hair and changing color eyes.
“Come now!” I screamed. She grabbed her bag and we set off.
“Thank goodness we live in Florida!” Emerald exclaimed. We got to the docks and I stole a man’s boat keys. We ran into his boat that was empty and drove off.
“Wow. The sunset it wonderful.” I heard Sapphire say. Emerald was asleep and I was driving.
“Where are you?” I giggled. Sapphire was in the seat next to me.
“Forgot I turned invisible.”She laughed. “We have a full tank now. We should be able to drive until noon tomorrow.” She explained.
“Great.” I said. I gave my friend a hug and she took the wheel. I stared out at the sunset. I fiddled with my little necklace. I was looke away from the sunset and looked at the water. I saw some fish. I looked around and saw and island but kept moving. Soon we docked at an island.
“We will sleep here tonight.” Sapphire stated. Emerald got our bags and made a tent. I made us some food and we fell asleep.
“Morning all!” Emerald greeted us when we ate breakfast. She handed us a can of beans to share.
“We won’t get there for a few weeks, maybe a month.” Emerald mentioned looking at the map. I groaned.
“This is a great way to start off summer!” I joked. The others left we ate for a while longer and all of a sudden Sapphire whipped her head around. I look over there as well. About 15 men jumped out of bushes and attacked us.
"Come on. Lets execute plan Alone." Sapphire said. She instantly pointed at me and we formed a triangle to have our backs to each other. I waved my hand over the area and let out a laugh. I executed step 1: to change their visions. I chose to make them see weird hallucinations, like dancing flowers and changin dogs. Emerald and Sapphire went invisible and I let my wings out. I unsheathed my sword and beat the air. I flew up and took strikes at enemies' heads. I took five to their deaths and Sapphire rematerialzed along with Emerald. They had struck down the other 10. Then a leader walked out. I landed. Her walked and grabbed my chin. He told me something in a foren language, but not Latin. I didn't understand it. Emerald and Sapphire grabbed his arms and threw him down, moving my sword to the perfect spot to stab the heart. We all stabbed in syncronization. We packed up our things and got in the boat. Emerald was driving.
"Thanks for using you battle powers for our strategy. It helped a lot." Emerald said.
"You worked like sisters." I added. Sapphire put her hair in a pony tail so the purple was on the underside and her brown hair on the top.
"Thanks. But it wasn't all me." She thanked us. She looked to the far island in front of us. "I think we can did something flammable there, we should stop so we don't have to later." He mentioned. Emerald nodded and gave a little yes. We kept driving at a steady pace. My cell phone rang.
"Hello?" I answered.
"Look, just meet us at that island. Otherwise you die." A kind voice told me. Another got on the phone.
"Just come, we aren't gonna kill fellow magicals. We dot want normals to kill you." The other one said. They truely sounded worried. They hung up. I told Emerald.
"Gonna land." She said. She down up and docked us to the island. We got off. Instantly a crowd attacked. We wen off instinct. I made others fall in love with the blades they carried. I slashed and kicked and screamed and they died. I had no time to use magic.
"One left." A raspy voice said. My sword wasnt near. I turned. I punched. He kicked and I grabbed his foot. I flipped him. He fell on his face and I punched again. Emerald came and killed him.
"Your welcome." I said. I heard rushing footsteps. I grabbed my sword. I realized Sapphire wasn't here. Two guys and Sapphire stepped out.
"Too late. We would've helped." The brunette guy said. His friend rubbed the back of his neck nervously.
"Yeah. We are just too late." He said. "I'm Adam.19" He said. He ran his fingers through his short black hair.
"TJ.19" The brunette said. We all nodded.
"Nice meeting. I'm Amour, 15."
"I'm Emerald, 17 years."
"Sapphire, 16." We introduced. They grabbed some little twigs and snapped them. They were pretty good looking. They put the twigs in a little basket. We walked back to our boat. We learned Adam was a fire user and TJ was an air user. We got in the boat and TJ checked the tank. He nodded to Adam and twigs got poured into our tank. He closed everything up and we started the engine. We ha a full tank again. Wow, he’s pretty cute. I thought about TJ. This shouldn’t be hard. I walked and sat next to him. I batted my eyelashes. I let my beauty power flow out of me. Neither of them seemed affected. I pouted, confused.
“What’s wrong?” TJ asked looking at me.
“I have power over beauty, and sight and I used my beauty powers on me so you’d like me but neither of you were affected.” I said, putting my bottom out in a cute way.
“You’re the only beauty power? And sight? Well i guess it could be that people who are in love could be immune I guess.” Adam said. Rubbing his neck. I thought about something. My last visit to my magical mom.
“Hey Visus, er, mom. Which do you prefer?” I had asked her.
“Mom is fine after all you are mine.” She said.
“Yah, so, uh, hi. Why’d you come today?” I asked.
“To warn you.” She said in a dead serious tone.
“Some time soon you will have a challenge that will mean a lot of things. You will meet two boys and you’ll like them and you’ll use your beauty power on them but it won’t work. People who are in love are immune to it.” She said. I nodded, then she slipped something into my hand. A dagger in a case.
“What’s this for?” I asked.
“It was mine it’s name is cultellus. It’s charmed. You can throw it and try to get rid off it but it will always be there. And when you need it most it will appear on your side.” She said, she seemed nervous.
“What’s wrong with it?” I asked slowly.
“Nothing. I haven’t ever given that to one of my children and you’re my only child in 347 years.” She said. I had never heard that.
“Wow, you’re old. Er, sorry. Why didn’t you have any other children for that long? And how are you still alive?” I asked.
“I’m immortal but now I’m making you a goddess so I’ll still be immortal just not powerful. You’re my successor. And my children always bear a curse on them.” She said, looking down.
“What is it?” I asked her.
“I can’t help you. I’m so sorry.” She said crying.
“WHATS THE CURSE?” I yelled.
“I can’t do anything about it, you’ll find out. I’m so sorry.” She said.
“Mom.” I breathed. She looked up.
“I must go.” She said. She touched my check and said something. I couldn’t hear. She disappeard.
I gasped. I figured out what she had said before she left.
“Puer ferre malum.” I said.
“My child, bear the curse.” TJ translated. They looked at me. Adam kept his eyes forward. His jaw clenched. His hands were in balls.
“What does that mean?” They asked.
“It’s something my mom told me before she left 2 weeks ago.” I said.
“Okay? Adam what’s wrong dude?” TJ asked him. Adam stood up and slowly unclenched his fists. He turned to me.
“Nothing.” He said. Smiling.
“Uh, okay. But Amour why would your mom say that to you?” Emerald asked me. I told them the whole story.
“You figured out then?” A familiar voice asked. I turned around to see her standing there, tall brunette hair with sea blue clear eyes. Smiling, like she was proud of me. My mom.
Chapter 2
Amour
The curse I bear.
“Mom.” I said.
“Amour.” She said.
“So proud of me, huh?” I asked. She frowned.
“Amour, I can’t choose the curse.” She said.
“You can’t huh? You didn’t feel like you should tell me?!” I said.
“Amour--” She started I cut her off by pulling out Cultellus. She stopped.
“And this stupid knife! IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH IT DOESN’T IT?” I screamed in her face. I threw it out into the ocean.
“Woah, what’s the curse?” Sapphire asked stepping in front of Visus, my mom.
“I am cursed to always be the target in every war and I may even start the wars. Also I’m cursed to always have that stupid knife, Cultellus, strapped to me for battle and every time I pull it out it will either help me or show me something in the future or what’s happening to someone else and where they are!” I said.
“That last part isn’t so bad.” TJ said. The knife appeared on my side.
“Go mom!” I said. She nodded and disappeared. I pulled out Cultellus and looked at it. My anger died down.
“Huh.” I said.
“What?” TJ asked. I was looking at it. It showed 5 girls and one boy in a dark corridor. They were panicking. The girl with the black hair and amber eyes was snapping and using a black sword to control skeletons and seemed to be giving them commands. The girl with the blue hair, was creating ice and using it to make barricades on the windows. The girl with the auburn and brown hair was using earth powers to also help with the barricades. The girl with the blonde hair was creating a tiny light to look around the corridor. The other girl with blonde hair was in latine bellator armor and was floating trying to listen for any intruders I guess. Then the boy was creating magical food. He was also pulling out brownies he smiled, I looked closer. It was actually sanitatum cibum. Healing food for magic. Who were they? The others gathered around me and watched the scene. TJ and Adam sat down when I put away my knife. They looked sick.
“Do you guys know them?” I asked.
“The one with blue hair is the ice goddess. Rose. She’s my girlfriend. The one with brown and auburn hair is Maxie, she is goddess of medicine and healing and earth. Adam’s girlfriend. The others are ones they just rescued. I think their names were something like Athryst, Aura, and Denny. I don’t know who the other is.” He said. I sat down. I pulled out my knife. And spun it around the table. Adam took up driving the boat. I layed down, clutching Cultellus to my chest. I fell asleep quickly.
Chapter 3
Emerald
Water
Well in a day I found out my best friend had a curse, and we had to find these people we don’t know. I got bored after the big looking in the knife thing so I was watching in on Amour’s dreams. I have power over dreams, invisibility, storms, and war. She was dreaming of home so I felt intruding and decided to stop. I walked up to Adam. He was still driving and it had been 3 hours.
“We should stop soon to run. Harry-Face will be on to us. He probably has navy behind us.” He said.
“Okay well let me take the wheel for a while and you sleep.” I said.
“Okay here ya go.” He said. He stepped away and went and layed down. I took the wheel. I thought about my magic parent. My dad. Bellum. He was very known in the magic world. He was the god of war, I being his favorite kid would be the next goddess of war. I hadn’t told my friends about my magical dad, and I felt guilty about it. I thought about the last visit I had with him. I had met him at my magic and fighting camp.
“Hey kiddo.” He said.
“Hey dad!” I said. I hugged him then quickly pulled away. He handed me my sword. I looked at my side where I always hung my sword. I looked at him.
“I just had that in there!” I said. He laughed. I took the sword it had a black grip and the sword part was gold and ivory I put it back in the case and looked at him.
“Better keep that safe, it was a present!” He said.
“Then why’d you steal it?” I asked, teasingly.
“I didn’t.” He said. He looked around.
“I have to go, to a meeting.” He said. I nodded and looked down. He always had war meetings. He turned and walked away. Out of camp.
I looked at my side my sword was still there. I smiled. I looked up, sun was rising. I looked around and saw an island in the distance. I steered us towards there. I put it in auto pilot and walked to wake everyone up. They sat up and looked at the wheel and screamed.
“Autopilot.” I said, calming them down. Our boat slowed down. I ran and saw that we had 3/4 a tank of gas. I looked up and saw a helicopter. Behind us some jet skies and another speedboat next to us. With divers on it. We were stuck. A ladder fell and a boy with blonde and brownish hair came down. He also had sea green eyes. I fell for him quick.
“Hi, I’m Jacob.” He said. Then three others came down as well. They tied our hands together and pulled us up there.
“Do you work for Harry-Face?” I asked. They all laughed.
“No. We are pirates. We’re magic as well. I have power over electronics.” He said.
“You can everything on this boat except our bags they are only filled with girl stuff and clothes.” I said. He nodded and then looked at one of the guys.
“Burk?” He asked.
“There is precious metals on this boat. But they are tiny.” He said.
“Burk here can sense metals, all types of metals.” Jacob said. He took me and TJ up on the helicopter. The other three were on the boats. TJ tried to fight him and got knocked out by Burk. I remained still. The helicopter was big, enough to hold 15 people. And black. I sat there. I took out my pocket knife and quickly and silently cut off my ropes. I looked around Burk was snoozing. I looked at TJ and entered his dream.
“I will watch my football game, rather you say so or not!” He yelled to another person. Not real.
“Aww.” I said. I crossed my arms.
“Woah, what’s happening?” He asked.
“I am one of the only dream users in the world. There is one more dream user. They live in Europe though. So I entered your dream to tell you this: I cut my ropes of and I have a plan. If you’re power over air I need your help so after I leave wake up. Get ready to open up the door while I distract Jacob and then jump out and float in air. Pretty low preferably. Then when I jump out catch me and lower us onto the boat and we need to save them,. Can you do that?” I asked him and he nodded. So I left. TJ opened his eyes and looked at me. I did a slight nod. I scouted for my sword it was two seats away from me, near the door. I looked at TJ then to it and he understood. They had taken his ropes off since he was out, he grabbed it quickly.
“Jacob?” I asked in a sweet tone, Amour had taught me how to flirt properly. He turned to me.
“Yes?” He said. While he was checking the time on his watch I nodded to TJ. He understood. I leaned over to Jacob and kissed him. He seemed surprised.
“Wow.” He said. I smiled.
“Sorry, couldn’t help myself.” I said through a forced smile.
“It’s fine. I liked it.” He said. I leaned in again I heard the door slid open. And I kicked him down. I hit Burk in the face and ran and jumped out. I started falling. TJ caught me we were still up high. I looked for the helicopter, the pilot had kept flying. I laughed. TJ lowered us and we touched the boat. I pulled out my sword and attacked the driver off the boat. He fell into the ocean, making the dark blue go read from his cut on the neck. There was three divers to take care of. I laughed. I roundhoused kicked them across the face. I kneed one in the stomach. I stabbed him in the leg and he fell down. I left him to bleed. I turned to one guy and he jumped off the boat, I turned to the third guy and he kicked me in the stomach. I got back up and stabbed him in the ribs. I kicked him and the other diver off the boat. I turned around and TJ had cut off everyone’s ropes. I stopped the boat and looked around. We were in the middle of the ocean. The sea was a dark blue and the sun was about mid point so I would say it was about 12:15 ish. There were no islands in sight. I turned to them.
“Where is the map?” I asked. Sapphire pulled it out of her back pocket.
“I have it, how’d you guys get out?” She asked. We told her the story and she nodded.
“Wow must of taken a whole lot of gut to kiss him.” She teased. I rolled my eyes.
“How far are we? Are we even on track?” I asked her.
“Yah we are. We have traveled 1 day so we are about 2 days less than a month away.” She said, groaning.
“I think we should ride this thing to the nearest, safest island we can and then ditch it.” Sapphire said.
“Okay we will go Sapphire’s plan. Little Miss Wisdom.” I said.
“Who wants to drive?” Adam asked. Sapphire raised her hand. I smiled. I sat next to her.
“So have you figured out who your magical parent is yet?” She asked me. I sighed, I had told them I didn’t know who it was.
“You know don’t you, that I do know who it is?” I asked.
“Yeah, come on tell me!”
“Bellum.” I said. She froze then recovered.
“That’s so cool!” She squeled.
“That’s Rose’s magical dad, but she doesnt have his powers. He’s more like a step-stepdad. Is your magical mom or step-mom Emily?” TJ asked, I didn’t know he was still up.
“Emerald. Yah, step-stepmom. Why?” I asked him. He looked at me.
“Are you adopted?” He asked.
“Yes, why?” I asked.
“When were you adopted?”
“At 1, why?”
“Did you have a sister?”
“Yes! WHY?” I asked.
“I think. . . I think Rose is your sister.”
Chapter 4
Emerald
My sister?
“Sister?” I asked him.
“Yeah. Fits the story Rose gave me. She says when she was two her younger sister who was 1 was given up for adoption. She said her step-step magical dad was Bellum but he never visited he apparently only visited her sister. She said her sister’s magical dad was Bellum and her magical step-stepmom was her magical mom, Emily. Emily had told her all of this.” He said, it fit my story perfectly. But I had never known about a sister. “My dad always made sure I was doing okay in school and still going to camp collatus during break to train." I explained. Sapphire was looking out at the water as if to say This feels awkward. I laughed a little.
"You seem pretty tense." Sapphire said to TJ.
"Yeah. We don't do separate rescues often and I know she's a goddess but I feel I need to protect her." He mumbled. "How'd you know?"
"Wisdom. Yeah. Are you and Adam brothers or something?" Sapphire questioned.
"No. We just ran away and joined when we met. Really close friends." He said. I nodded.
"Well, I need to sleep. Night." He said and walked back to where he slept. Sapphire kept driving. We sat in silence. About 5 minutes later we heard a splash. I looked over the edge and Adam was there, swimming.
"What are you doing?" I yelled.
"Taking a swim." He stated and swam faster. He seemed to be trying to get away from something. He stopped. We eventually got to him and he got back on. Without a word from him he dried off and went back to the bed. I frowned. I got Sapphire to go and sleep and to let me drive. I stared out at the ocean. c. I looked at my sword, strapped to my side. I remembered the day my dad gave it to me.
“Hey kiddo!” He had said. I was outside in the back of my house.
“Dad!” I said, I was 13. I smiled.
“Hey, I have a present for you!” He said. I jumped up and down. He pulled out a white sword holder and clipped it onto my belt. I was expecting it to be too big but it shrunk to my size.
“It will always grow to fit you perfectly, Emerald.” He had said. I pulled out the sword and stared at it. He seemed happy about me liking it. Then he disappeared.
“I was busy, I had the ending of the war to deal with.” A voice said. I quickly pulled my sword out and turned around, thrusting it under the intruders chin. I looked at them and slowly lowered my weapon. There he stood, tall, with brown hair and brownish reddish eyes. My dad.
“What is it? Have your parent appear on a boat day?” I asked. He knew about Visus coming apparently and didn’t ask questions.
“Yes, yes it is.” He said,
“Really?”
“No.”
“Oh, okay then don’t do that to me!”
“Okay sorry, and uh can you please put Acutus back in?” He asked, he was actually using the name of my sword. I swallowed and put it back in. My friends were waking up now. He was wearing armor. They stood up, and they saw him.
“Who are you?” Amour demanded.
“Bellum.” He said, they froze and put all weapons down.
“What are you doing here?” Adam asked.
“Uh, guys, meet my dad, dad meet my friends.” I said.
Chapter 5
Sapphire
Fighting
“You’re the war god? In person? And Emerald’s dad?” Amour asked. He laughed.
“Yes.” He answered. Emerald seemed happy. Adam backed away..
“No need to be afraid of me.” He said.
“What?” I asked.
“He’s afraid I’ll hurt his friends. I won’t.” He explained.
“How do I know? You did before!” Adam said.
“They were mocking me! A god! You don’t do that!” He said. Upset now. Lightning flashed.
“Oh. . . oh no! Ignis needs everyone, especially me. Quickly get out of here. I’ll give you a boost to shore from there run!” He said, he snapped and disappeared. Everything went fast and then the boat stopped and flung us to the shore. The boat floated out to sea.
“Yay. Two godly parents visiting and don’t forget, Bellum showed up.” I mumbled to myself. I remembered something as I was standing up. Something that my mom taught me as a little kid at the age of 4. Before I was adopted. I also remembered a girl with bright auburn hair sitting next to me. She seemed like my older sister. She had taught us this.
“You never insult a god. Especially Bellum. He is the brother of Ignis, god of lightning, there other brother, Calor, god of heat, rules with them. There is no one god over another. So NEVER insult a god. Okay?” And apparently Adam’s friends in his past had insulted him.
“What did your friends do?” I asked Adam.
“They said ‘Bellum? Being powerful? Stupid. The one who made him powerful was stupid.’ and then when we got in a battle they didn’t make it. As they were dying we got a message ‘You never insult a god. Especially me. I have power over the fights and wars. I can take away your fighting blessings or give you better fighting moves. No NEVER insult me. Okay?’ and I nodded.” Adam said. That message was the same message as my mom had given to me. I grabbed my sword and walked out towards inland. I was slashing at bushes and leaves and branches. I didn't know where I was going. I got to a clearing. I made battle dummies come to me. I wanted to fight something. I just realized all the anger I had. Reason it happened then? I don't have one. I just slashed and stabbed an kicked and cried and yelled until I couldn't move. I fell to my knees. I heard footsteps. I pointed my sword in the direction they were coming from. TJ and Adam came out of my path.
"What?" TJ looke very confused as he saw the scattered dummies and stuffing.
"I needed to do something." I said. I nodded at the stuffing and dummie and they put themselves together again.
"If you have no wizard powers-" Adam began.
"Battle dummies. I have power I've those since they have to do with battle." I cut him off. They were back to normal again and I started to stab them more. Adam grabbed my arms.
"Look I knew a girl who did that every time she got angry, except she couldn't summon dummies. She is different now. I know you have hurt inside. Save it for real battles." He said. I sheathed my sword and he let go. I sat on a rock.
"I don't even know who my magical parent is. I barely remember before I was adopted." I cried. Adam came to hug me but I pinched him. TJ tackled me with a hug. I got him off of me and stood up.
"I'm gonna take a walk. Don't wait up." I said. I stomped off into the trees.
"Great. What good am I? Emerald has war and a wisdom power isn't going to help now. I've really only used it for tests." I grumbled as I kept walking. I slashed at some trees to make a small open space. I looked at the sky and it was dark. I laid down on the ground to sleep. I was almost asleep when I heard Amour calling my name. But I fell asleep.
"I don't want to kill him. I am taking his place." I saw a man say. They people who are trapped were there. I realized that this was live. They couldn't see me. Except the girl named Maxie. She got away and I followed.
"Look, I got you here. Tell Adam what you see." She demanded. I nodded. We got back and I saw a lecture on his plans. Wow. It was over and I woke up.
"Are you alright?" Amour asked.
"I'm fine." I said. I sat up and looked around. Tent. "Why did you bring me back?" I continued.
"We need you." Amour answered.
"Nope. I learned Emerald has war powers. So ou don't need wisdom unless we have to fight a math test."I protested. Everyone looked at Emerald. I got out of the bed I was in and walked away. I sat at the beach. Noone came out for a while. "I guess they don't need me." I thought. I remembered my things were in the tent so I went in a grabbed the bag while everyone was talking to Emerald. I slipped out. I snapped some twigs and put them in the boat's gas tank and got on the boat. I started it up. I hit the gas and I was moving. The island I was moving from was huge. Probably the one that we would have to travel on foot. I went a little to the right. I checked my gas. Still full. I followed the island for a few hours. Then I docked. I walked under the too and went to set up tht bedroom. I pulled out my phone and I saw I had gotten 20 texts. All from Amour or Emerald. All asking where I was and where the boat is. I told them I was farther ahead on the island. Adam got on Amour's phone and told me to get back to camp. I stopped texting then. I set it down and pluged it in to charge. I crawled under the covers. I was pretty tird even though it was only 8:00. I slept.
Chapter 6
Sapphire
On my own
I woke up and hit my head in the ceiling. I walked up the stairs to drive the boat. I was only 30 miles away from everyone. I sat in the drivers seat and was about to start the boat when I heard my friends. I don't know why but I was trying to start the boat faster. They all got into the boat before it could run. I turned around.
"What." I said.
"We were worried." Emerald told me.
“Why? Did little miss war not know how to fight a small group of people?” I asked.
“Okay stop it. Why are you making me the bad guy? So we both have fighting powers. But they are totally different. See in you’ve been trained better to fight small groups, with smaller weapons and better at fist fighting. Where as I have been trained better to fight big groups with big weapons and a bow’n’arrow.” She said.
“Well you didn’t tell me before about Bellum and you having war powers.” I said.
“You think thats a bomb I really want to drop? Bellum only has 2 other kids all over the world!” She said. I looked at her, I felt anger and resentment build up inside of me. She was always the more known one at the school. She was always better with more people. She’s the daughter of the god you hoped would be your dad. She is the reason for all of the anger. I thought to myself. Without thinking I lunged at her. I tackled her into the water. I was better with shorter weapons, she said. I thought. I pulled out my dagger and looked up she was gone, I looked to the others. They were in shock. I went under and slowly opened my eyes. To bad neither of us was water users. Not many of those. I frowned. She wasnt there. Then I remembered. She was invisible. I smiled and went up. I walked away. I swam to the boat and started it up. I hit the gas and drove off. I looked back, none of the others were trying to follow me. I gave the boat more gas and kept going. Quickly. The ocean was very blue, so blue it was clear. I saw a group of fish in the water. And then I saw it. The enemy submarine. I started to rise. I hit the gas. But it hit m boat. I looked back and everyone was helping Emerald, backs turned. I fell into the water. I opened my eyes. I saw some one. Like my mom.
"Honey. It's me. Your mom." She said.
"No. I don't have a magic mom. My sister is Maxie and we have normals as parents. "
"You are wrong silly. I'm not also Drew's mother." She said. She pulled me to the top of the surface. She played with the water I stared at it.
“Here catch.” She said. She tossed it and it fell apart and I stared at it for a minute.
"Why do my friends care more for Little Miss War then me. Oh never mind. I
know why."
"You think you aren't needed don't-"
"Look Mom. She has war. She can help them and they don't need wisdom. I dots even think I had any real friends at school. Or at all. Yay." I cut her off. She hugged me.
"Swim to the submarine. You can get in. Trust me." She told me then disapeared. I swam to it and saw a door I listened to it. It wasnt locked. Good. I felt it. Easy to pick. I grabbed a handle and twisted it clockwise. Won't open. Counter clockwise. It had a lock. I kicked the door twice. Unlocked. I pulled it open and swam in. I closed the door so not too much water would come in. I saw a few men sleeping and two driving. I pulled out my knife and slit their throughts. I threw them from the seats and made my way back. I killed the sleeping men with my knife. Then the last with his own gun. I made my way to the back.
"I've been waiting." He said.
"I'm Josh. Thanks for rescuig me. My friends here are Jack and James." He said. He was pretty hot.
"I'm Sapphire. Come with me. You need to have big lungs though." I said. They nodded. We swam to the top. We swam to the beach with my old friends on it. I told them the story. I looked around the beach was pretty. I looked at Emerald, everyone was behind her like she was the leader.
“So little miss war, you’re the leader huh? Again.” I sneered. She was looking at Jack but then switched her attention to me.
“What’s wrong with you? So we share a similar power how is that bad? And wisdom is power. Wisdom is good in a fight but you REFUSE to see that. You’re just being stuck up because my dad is Bellum and yours isn’t. Your magical parent is Creana, and you’re magical dad well we don’t know do we? Just like I don’t know my magical mom. It’s fine for us not too, we are supposed to not know both of them so they choose. And my dad Bellum choose me. And Creana choose you.” She said.
“Oh, you’re so big and powerful huh? Trying to reason with me? Not gonna work Warry.” I sneered. Jack, Jacob, and James moved to the side. I flicked my hand. A dagger entered it. She grabbed her bow and reached behind her for an arrow. I didn’t have power over that weapon, it was long distance. I had power over swords and daggers, not bows and javelins and stuff like that. That was war. I decided to go more long than a dagger. I flicked my hand and a sword appeared. She looked at it. She put back the arrow she had, it was black and silver tip. She pulled out a gold and silver tipped one. She notched it. It looked pretty sharp. She took a step forward, I raised my sword. She hesitated. And then looked behind me, she stayed very calm. She was trying to fake me out. I stepped back. She seemed nervous.
“What can’t beat me Waress?” I asked. She shook her head, she continued to look behind me. I cracked my neck and she raced forward. She grabbed my arm and turned me. I rolled over her back. She turned quickly. I grabbed her leg and flipped her on her back. I was winning. I smiled she got back up and put away the arrow and pulled out a sword. I charged at her with my sword. She blocked it and tried to hit me. I grab the hilt of the sword. I flipped it out of her hand. She put her hands out.
“Don’t try my power." I said. She had a sword now. Mine was now a dagger. I I slapped her hand and she looked at me. I punched her across the face with the handle of my dagger. She has a little cut on her face now, and a big bruise. She looked at me.
“What happened to us?” She asked. I kicked her under the legs. And she fell.
“A month before we ran away you told me I was fat an ugly. For the 30th time!” I said. She got up and pulled out an arrow and picked up her bow. She shot and I dodged.
“Ha!” As I was saying that she shot at my shoulder. It barely cut the top. I looked at her.
“Some friend you were.” I said. Then there was thunder. Adam shot down some lightning in between us.
“STOP IT!” He yelled we froze and dropped the weapons.
“We have bigger problems than you’re little jealousy stuff!” He continued.
“Like my girlfriend is in danger and we don’t know where she is!”
“Adam.” TJ said putting a hand on his shoulder. TJ pulled back quick, Adam was covered in lightning. Emerald sat down and looked at me.
“I’m sorry okay? I should’ve told you! But that doesn’t call for totally hating me!” She said.
“Sorry- shmorry, just shut up and leave. I’m going to the Safe Land on my own.” I said. She got up and walked away. I looked at the others.
“Amour?” I asked.
“You said on your own, and I agree with Emerald.” She said, walking off. Adam and TJ followed. So did Jack and James. Josh stayed.
“I’m coming with you, I do owe you after all.” He said. We walked into the forest. I pulled out my map and saw we had 3 weeks to go.
“Let’s get moving. I don’t want any delays.” I said. He nodded. I couldn't walk. I collapsed on the ground. I started balling.
“I don't know what I've done." I muttered. I was shaking and Josh helped me up. He gave a me big hug.
“ I feel horrible!" I yelled at myself.
"Then lets follow them. Maybe you can apologize for being that way. Maybe they will let you come along." He told me. I was nodding. He let go and I made my tears dry.
"Water." He told me. I giggled a little bit. I grabbed arm and dragged him with me, we went deeper into the woods."Maybe we should go back. She did save us." I heard Jack say.
"No. I'm tired of trying to help her. She has done too much damage. Especially to me. She is just like Maxie and Maxie would never do that. So no." He stated. I started running to the voices. I got through a last tree and fell onto TJ. I crawled off.
"Sorry." I apologized. I saw Emerald. I ran and hugged her. I couldn't stop crying.
"I'm so sorry. I'm happy you didn't kill me yet!" I apologized. She laughed a little bit.
"Thanks. Lets forget we turned on each other." She said. I nodded and go off of her. We started off when a half lady half spider woman came into view a bunch of baby spiders followed after her.
“Hi so nice to meet my next meal. I’m Aranea.” She hissed.
Chapter 7
TJ
Aranea
I was starting to rethink who I saving when Sapphire attacked her best friend. Then they battled trying to win and I was certain I did not want to make them mad. Then the crazy ugly spider lady came along and told us we were her next meal. I was NOT liking this trip.
“Guys, let’s attack.” I said, Trying to get up courage but it was barely a whisper.
“You think you can win? Oh my silly boy you can’’t” She said, turning to Adam
“Uh, are you blind?” I asked her.
“Yes, why?” She said, turning to Amour.
“Wow, it’s just you’re in such good shape to be blind.” She said. Arenea turned to me.
“Is your hearing good?” I asked. She turned to Sapphire.
“No! Stop asking questions! LET ME FEED ON YOU!” She said.
“Okay one last question. Do you speak latin?” She turned to Emerald.
“No, Romanian yes. I like Romanian magic better are you latin?” She asked.
“ There are two types of magic?” Adam asked.
“No, many more. There is latin, Romanian, Greek, Icelandic, and Latvian.” She said. I was getting a headache.
“Woah, I am having a horrible headache.” Everyone moaned at the same time.
“Changers eh? Mostly latin by the smells of you.” She said sniffing.
“Changers?” Amour asked.
“That means you change form. It just makes you fight differently and speak differently no big deal. I only speak Romanian and Latvian.” She said, like she was proud.
“Okay guys lets adgrederentur retro. Emerald AMATIO adgredientur a fronte. Bonum?” I asked. IT meant ‘Okay guys let’s attack from the behind. Emerald and Amour will attack from the front. Good?’ they nodded. And we set off. I saw Emerald pull out a sharp arrow that was all gold. She set aim at the eyes and released the string. Halfway in the air it became two and hit both eyes. Aranea screamed. I pulled out my sword and whipped up some air. I floated up then saw Emerald pull out a storm gray bow. She pointed it up and shot it. Storm clouds formed in the sky. She took out a tragula and said something in Latin then lightning came down and stuck onto her tragula (latin javelin) She looked around and said something then the lightning went off and hit most of the baby spiders.
“PROCELLIS!” She yelled. Storm clouds whipped up around her and then disappeared and she had on armor. I climbed on to the spiders back. Looking away from Emerald. I caught a glimps of Adam in front of me. He was in his rage again. He was electrocuting the spider lady. He kept stabbing it. t doing it. The spider lady flund him off and he hit a tree. She hurt my best friend. I climbed to her neck. Saphhire was fighting off baby spiders and Amour was infront of the Aranea. Sapphire was over taken by baby spiders. She screamed. Emerald looked down and yelled.
“infantem aranearum!” Which meant Baby Spiders. The air became electric and then lightning came down at the same time as a tornado. The babies were nowhere to be seen. Emerald was helping clean out bites on Sapphire. Amour was now on the ground trying to get away from Aranea and Adam wasn’t moving. Years of rage filled up in me and I raised my sword. I thought about all of the unfair things in life.
“Failing Math because Suzy was hitting on you. Toby always stealing your girls. Never being able to practice magic because of the law. The War. My friends being hurt. Rose being captured. . . Rose.” I thought. At the thought of Rose being hurt I hurled down my sword and it went into Aranea’s neck. She froze.
“No.” She said then she turned to dust. I fell. I landed on my ankle but I had worse problems than that.
“Is everyone alright?” I called looking over to Emerald and the now hit and cut on the skull Amour. Sapphire was lying down.
“No! But go take care of Adam!” Emerald said. I nodded and ran to him. He still wasn’t moving.
“Adam, bro. Are you alright? Can you hear me?” I asked him. He flipped to his back.
“Hi.” He said forcing a smile.
“Can you move?” I asked him. He took a moment to think then sat up.
“The lightning took most of the hit but some got to my arm. And I won’t be able to use lightning for a while.” He said.
“Okay cool let’s get up and-” I cried out in pain. My ankle was in too much pain. Emerald looked up. She ran over. She first checked Adam. He had a broken arm and dislocated shoulder. Then me, I had broken my ankle.
“I think I may have some sanitatum cibum. I brought some just incase.” She said, she dug through her bag and pulled some out. She handed some to Adam and then some to me. Sanitatum Cibum is healing food for the magic.It tasted like brownies usually. I ate it and felt the warmth enter my body. Sapphire was covered in bites and she was scratching her arms. She was shivering. I looked at her to ask if she was ok.
"Fine. War powers would've been more helpful then battle. Huge thing." She shrugged. Emerald gave her some of the magic food and we all got up. Amour gasped.
"Jack, Josh, James!" She yelled out. We hear triplet groans and we each ran to one. Adam and Sapphire ran to Josh while Emerald and I ran to Jack. Amour was helping James. Jack was lying down. He had a black eye. And his nose was bleeding. I grabbed a tissue from my pocket and dabbed at the blood.
“Ok, that’s all I need.” He groaned. HE sat up. Sapphire was over here with the others. She used some water- which I didn’t know she could do- to help heal him.He stood up and brushed off his clothes. We got our things and started walking again.
“That was an eventful hour.” Emerald said sarcastically. We walked away from all the dust and to the Safe Land.
“Dude, it’s getting late.” Josh said. We had been walking for about 5 hours now, and we were all tired.
“Alright. We will set up camp now.” I said. EMerald came up to me.
“Need help?” She asked.
“Thanks.” I said as she started helping. I went to collect the padding for my tent and looked back over. She was done. I walked back over and gave her a hug.
“Lil’ sister.” I said. She laughed. I set her down and Walked into the tent. I called everyone in.
“Choose your rooms. Some might have to share, girls with girls. Guys with guys.” I pointed at everyone. Adam and I choose our room. I went to make sure no guys were with any of the girls. None were.
“Good.” I said to myself. I walked back to Adam and I’s room to sleep. Before I dreamt, I dialed a number on my phone.
"Hello." I heard a guy say.
"Hey Gustus, look. I know we all usually stop by for our marks, but can they show up in their sleep? You already know what to do. Im pretty sure the runaways with my girlfriend are lacking marks also. So please do that. It would be great. How else will the get int the Safe Land?" I rambled.
"Sure. Thanks. Now it will take a minute then LET ME SLEEP." He yawned. I heard a beep and he hung up. I layed down and closed my eyes. Then I heard Gustus enter my tent.
“Wake everyone up.” He said. I did. I explained the marks to them and Amour went first. She came out with an arrow through the heart on the side right under her ribs. Sapphire went next and came out with a cheetah face on her inner elbow. Then Emerald want. She came out with a phoenix on the spot right under her elbow.
“It’s a storm phoenix. It’s a regular pheonix but it can control storms or turn into the storm colors.” She said. I nodded. Sounded cool. We all went to our tents and back to bed.
“Guys! We need to move!” Sapphire was shaking Adam awake. I jumped out of bed and got our stuff together. Out tent was magical so it went into my pack immediately. We started running into battle. I had my sword out. I slashed at enemies and they were dead in a matter of seconds. We continued running. I was thinking over the thing Aranea said about changing forms. i didn’t want to try it. I wanted to be me.
‘What if it could help though ? What if I could save my friends and make it to Rose without getting hurt/ No, I had to stay true to myself , for me, for Rose. For us.” I thought, then I heard a very loud scream. It was from Amour.
Chapter 8
TJ
Screams.
The sound coming from Amour was just scary. It almost made me pee myself. I turned around and looked at her.
“What the heck is wrong?” I asked. She pointed to her knife. She had flung it to the ground and it was glowing. there was movements on it. I picked it up. There was a guy about 7 feet tall and blonde hair Staring at us. HE smiled and had a couple teeth missing. He turned the camera thing so we could see a guy with black hair and amber eyes ties to a chair and knocked out. The other dude had a black eye. HE started to speak.
“Hi I am Optio. No longer assistant to Rex mortuorum. As you may know him. King of the dead. For years I have lived to be immmortal to serve him. For years I have encountered the dead and put up with their annoying hissing! I DON’t EVEN SPEAK DEAD! And for years I have put up with him saying ‘I can’t wait till Athryst becomes Queen of the dead.’ With no mention of me! Now I will have my revenge I will suck the power out of both him and his daughter Athryst. Your girlfriends and their new friends fought me and got away. I don’t know where they are but I will KILL every single one of them. And I’ll make it painful, don’t worry.” Optio said. I took the knife and threw it at a tree. It stuck in. I heard his laugh then it went away. I wanted to punch something. No I wanted to kill something. I grabbed my sword and threw it. Killing a squirrel. I picked it back up and threw it again this time it killed a fox. Adam grabbed a hold of me. I couldn’t move, he was cutting off blood circulation.
“Dude, it’s fine. We’ll save them.” He said. I exploded.
“No! YOU DON’T LOVE MAXIE THE WAY I LOVE ROSE! YOU NEVER WILL!” I screamed. Adam let go and took a step back.
“You don’t know how I feel for maxie. . .” He said. I was so angry I wanted to punch him for some reason.
“YES I DO!” I yelled in his face. He punched my stomach and pushed two finger on a pressure point.
“I LOVE MAXIE!” He screamed. I released my clenched fist.
“I know man, I’m sorry. I just am so upset, I can’t bear the thought of losing Rose. And I know you can’t bear the thought of losing Maxie either.” I said. He calmed down and nodded. He started walking off. We all followed.
“We should move quick. All that yelling you boys did is sure to draw attention.” Emerald said.
“Yah, I’d run. It’s not fun to get in a fight.” Sapphire seconded.
“Uh, guys. We should get behind something. Or in the ground somehow. I hear a helicopter.” Amour said. We all stopped and looked up. Emerald made a mini sink hole and we all fell under the ground. the hole closed up enough for us not to be seen but enough for light and air.
“So I’m guessing storm powers?” Adam asked.
“Yah.” Emerald said.
“But I’m guessing that my best friend here is going to be goddess of water.” She continued touching Sapphire’s shoulder. Sapphire smiled in the light.
“I doubt it.” She kept smiling, but she was sincere, sh ehsot me a glance as if to say She will be alright, no need to replace your girl. We waited for a couple minutes and then went up. It was dark now. We set up our tents and went to bed. I Stood guard first. I searched through my bag and I felt something weird, I pulled it out. It was glowing. And it was an egg. It started hatching and a baby pegasus. It neighed and looked around. It was about 7 inches tall and had a black back and chest with a gray mane and black wings with gray and the top. Emerald woke up and it ran to her. I realized the perfect name for it.
“Uh, Emerald, meet your pegasus. Storm. Or whatever you want to name it.” I said. I pulled out several more eggs and woke the others up. The second one to hatch was Amour’s it was white back and chest with a gray mane and gray wings with white tips.
“Aww, hi there Filia Reginea.” She said.
“Princess.” I translated.
Then Sapphire’s hatched it was black and summer brown, almost golden colored. It had brown back and chest. Black mane, a black spot around its eye, a black spot on it front right leg and black wings with blue and purple tips.
“splendida.” She said. It meant bright, like their personalities. They were dancing in an awkward fashion, which gave a laugh.. Then Adam’s hatched. It was black and redish colored. All very random.
“Hey it’s fur is random! You can’t describe it! It’s like you!” I teased he playfully punched me.
“Calling him Blaze.” Adam said. Then mine came out it was white and brown. It had a white back and chest. Brown wings. Brown legs. And then a white mane and tail. I named it sprint. Although I liked Emeralds and Sapphires better.
“Say hello to the world our little babies.” Emerald said.
Chapter 9
Adam
Pegasi
They all grew really fast. The next morning they were fully grown, and mine was super cool, if Blaze wanted too, he could set his mane on fire! Sapphire’s pegasus was awesome too, they were exactly alike. Except one was a girl and the other was a pegasus girl. They were doing this hilarious dance then they got hungry. She fed Splendida some carrot-soup and then Sapphire ate some eggs, which I made. All of our pegasi started neighing and grunting as if they are talking to each other. Sapphire sat down next to me.
“You really miss her, don’t you.” She said.
“Yeah.” I said.
“I barely remember her. I only remember bits and pieces of that year.” I said. Emeralds horse, Procella, neighed and looked at a bush. She kicked it and we heard a groan.
"Attack!" It yelled. I got up and threw them on the ground.
"Who are you!" I yelled with the sword to his neck.
"Joey." He whispered.
"Who do you work for!" I yelled again.
"President Zach." He said. I stabbed him. Noone else came.
"Good!" I yelled. "Come on. Lets move. We have about 2 weeks if we keep going like this." I said and we grabbed our stuff. We walked. I started running and then everyone did too. We kept it up for a good hour then slowed to a jog.
"We just cut a few hours off of our trip time." TJ said.
"Good." Josh panted. We kept walking. I heard a rustle. I put my hand on my sword. It was just a rabbit. I stepped nod heard a clunk. It was metal. I opened it and it wa a tunnel. It put a little fire to see. I went down. It was long and I walked for half an hour then walked back out.
"Guys, I found the tunnel. Lets check it out in the morning." I said. We had cut about a day off of our course not including that one. We set up camp and I made a campfire. I pulled a bar of chocolate out of the cold section of my bag.
"Maxie would go crazy over this." I laughed. I missed her so much. TJ patted my back.
" It's alright dude. We will find the girls. And the magics too." TJ comforted me. We were like brothers since we ran away and met. I smiled. I sat up straighter.
“Well lets go to sleep, shall we?” i asked them. Everyone seemed tired so i went into my tent and laid down. I closed my eyes and fell asleep. The next morning I woke up to the bright sun shine. The others were already up. Amour shoved some food at me and I ate it gladly.
"How did you get my sausage recipe?" I asked.
"I didn't. I just make it like this." Amour said.
"Mine is still better." I poke at her. I put my empty plate in the sink of our magic tent and it was washed. Everyone else did that too.
“Ok, let’s go to the Safe Land. We are still saving the others.” I said as I packe dup my things. Everyone packed up and TJ and I took down the tent. TJ put it in his backpack and we walked off.
“We have been walking for hours!” Josh complained.
“Fine, lets sit for a minute.” I said. We all sat on the ground. We sat silently then heard hooves. Our pegasi had come. We sat on them, bareback and flew off. We were flying above the woods, I grabbed Blaze’s mane of fire, and it was solid for my hands. I saw Splendida holding her head up high, with Sapphire on her back. Josh was holding onto his pegasus, he looked so scared. I looked over and saw E,erald was missing.
"WOAH!" I said. I stopped my Pegasus and looked around.
"What's wrong?" Emeralds voice asked.
"Where are you?" I asked her.
She laughed and then she and her Pegasus appeared.
"Procella here can turn into storms and turn invisible with me." She explained.
"Wha- . . . I was scared that you were kidnapped!" I said. She shrugged and whistled and her horse took off we followed after. We were flying pretty quick and we had probably gone 5 miles in 10 minutes. Then I heard a scream. We all stopped before we ran her over. There she stood, black hair gray eyes and followed by mist. Silver.
Chapter 10
The news.
“SILVER!” I said. I jumped off Blaze.
“Adam!” She gasped. I grabbed her in a bear hug. She was one of my best friends that was a girl. I fell through her.
“What?” I asked.
“I’m a projection, I am stable enough to see and hold stuff but you can’t touch or hurt me.” She said. “What are you doing here?” I asked.
“No time. Grab weapons. Hurry.” She said. We all did and then they came out. About 50 men and 25 women. We got in our stances. The pegasi whined and disappeared. I let my sword on fire. Emerald got her storm armor on and her arrows notched. Sapphire grabbed her sword and it glowed blue as did she. She smiled. TJ became an air spirit. Amour got ready to blind the group and the three other boys looked scared.
“Wimps.” I muttered. One guy stepped forward. Man was he ugly.
“Prepare to die.” He said. He motioned his hand and they attacked. One tried to stab Sapphire but it went straight through her. She stabbed him through the neck. We got back to back.
“I’m water. I can control water. I can become a more stable form of water so when people try to stab me their sword goes through.” She said. A girl came at me. She slashed at me. I barely dodged. It got my shoulder and then I straightened up. I smiled. I looked behind her and acted scared. She turned and I stabbed the point where your spine and brain meet. It was a quick ending for her. Emerald was shooting down 3 people at a time. She was layering her arrows. Amour was killing quickly and tricking people into killing their team. Jack, James, and Josh were getting attacked and barely killing others. I ran over there. I stabbed a couple of guys and looked behind me. They were lying on the ground. James was dead. Jack was about to be as was Josh.
“You need to have learned how to fight!” I said. Jack nodded. I pulled out some tissue and tried to dab up his blood. He pointed behind me. I turned around and grabbed a guys arm.
“A brick!?! Really dude?” I said. I turned his arm and hit him with the brick. He died. I looked around. Everyone was dead. I turned back around and they were gone I sat down. I stared at them. The others came over. We sat there and stared for a while. Silver opened her mouth.
“Wow.” She said.
“What?” I asked
“They died quick.” She said. I looked at her.
“Sorry.” She said.
“What are you doing here though?” I asked.
“Adam. We need help!” She said.
“And thats why there’s a projection of you, huh?” I asked. She nodded.
“What is it? Are you saving a group or what?” I asked.
“The Safe Land. I’m in the Safe Land.” She said.
“What?!?!” I said.
“For some reason after you, TJ, Maxie and Rose went out of the Safe Land and split up no one could enter or leave the Safe Land. We are totally stuck! Whenever someone comes to the gate to get in they disappear. It’s almost like the earth eats them or something.” She said. We all looked at each other.
“It is.” I said. Then I explained about Maxie and Rose and the others. She looked scared.
“I have to go. I’ll be back though.” She said. She disappeared.
We all looked around. Amour stood up.
“Let’s move.” She said.
“Yeah we don’t want to stay in one place for too long.” Sapphire said. She stood up.
“Let’s hurry. All the use of that magic has made me tired.” She added. I could see it in her eyes. Emerald grabbed Sapphires arm and put it over her. Emerald whistled. It got dark then light again and her horse appeared. It was in it’s ‘friendly storm form’ has Emerald said. It changed back to a regular Pegasus and Sapphire put a hand up. She looked up at the sky. And said,
“Splendida!” And the beautiful water Pegasus appeared. Sapphire sat on her and they took off. Emerald jumped on Procella after Sapphire left. All the other Pegasi appeared and we hoped on. Blaze went up over the clouds.
“Good boy.” I said. I saw the others in front of me. I sped up and met up with them.
“Wow. We are up high.” Silver said. I almost fell off Blaze.
“Hi.” I said.
“Back!” She said.
“I see. Where’d ya go?” I asked her.
“To the council. To tell them about Rose and Maxie.” She said.
“What did they say?” I asked, eager to know.
“Well. They think. . . They think. . . That this is the next war. That Optio is helping Zach and they are going to attack us so that’s why no one can get in. Optio forbids it and they get eaten by the earth like Maxie and Rose did.” She said. I was silent for a couple minutes. Maybe I should get Maxie and we can leave this war! The stupid world full of hatred and war! Maybe an explosion. Or some poison or- NO you will NOT let Zach or Optio do this to you! You WILL live to have a life with Maxie! You WILL win this war and kill President Zach next to Maxie, for Maxie. I thought to myself.
“What now?” I asked.
“The Safe Land is gearing up for a war. Children have left school to train more. Old grandparents have gone into hiding. People are training and stashing up food and preparing for the worst. Putting babies into bunkers along with the old people." She stammered.
“Part two of the war, huh?” I asked.
“I thought it was over.” TJ said. He had gotten right beside us and listened into the conversation.
“Don’t worry bro. We’ll find the girls and kill this Optio guy and then we’ll kill President Zach. " I said. Patting his shoulder."Well, I have to go. Bye!" Silver said. She disappeared. TJ was right next to me.
"I can get out you know? Why haven't I? I mean the only thing I'm living for is Rose. I could escape. We could. We could just stab ourselves an die. But why haven't we. Do we have more to live for?" TJ asked me.
"We do. We do." I said.
“Guys we need to land!” Emerald said. She was looking at Sapphire. She was almost out.
“Yeah. You alright Sapphire?” I asked.
“Yeah. I think that since it was my first time doing that it wore me out.” She slurred.
“You’re slurring your words. We are landing as soon as possible.” I said.
“It’s not slurring. It’s called talking in cursive.” She tried to say without slurring them. I shook my head and looked at her. She had put her head on Splendida.
“Hey! Emerald. Pull Sapphire on to Procella.” I said. Emerald did.
“Splendida? Will you do something for me? Go down and make sure its safe to land? For Sapphire?” I asked it. It neighed and flew down. It came back up and looked at me as if to say ‘Land!’
“Alright guys. Let’s land.” I said. We all flew down I gave Sapphire some water. And we set up the tents and went to sleep.
Chapter 10
Amour
Figuring it out.
Well, my mom promised me in my sleep she and a couple other parents would come visit and I told the others that but they still hadn’t visited. Then it happened. They came.
“Dad!” Emerald said. My mom, emeralds dad, a lady with brown hair and gray eyes, and a guy with blonde hair and brown eyes were there.
“Son.” The guy with the blonde hair and brown eyes said.
“Dad?” Adam asked. Stepping forward.
“It’s me. Ignis.” He said. The god of lightning was there.
“Daughter.” The lady with brown hair and gray eyes said.
“Mom!” Sapphire said.
“Hi, I’m Sophia, goddess of wisdom.” She said.
“Nice to meet you.” I said. Bellum looked at TJ and handed him something. It was a vial.
“Use it when you find Optio. My wife gave it to
me and she’s really scared for Rose and Maxie. Emily, is my wife.” He said.
“What is it?” He asked.
“Just throw it in his mouth and he’ll die quickly.
Poison.” Bellum said. Everyone was quiet for a moment. We all sat down and talked then they left. Everyone went to bed but me and TJ, who was standing guard.
“There is no hope. I’m never going to save Rose!” He said.
“Hey. You will.” I said. I gave him a hug.
“Thanks. I just don’t know what I’d do without her.” He said. Thank the lord I was over him. I gave him a friendly hug. The stars twinkled. I heard beeping. Like a ringtone. TJ pulled out an awesome gray phone.
"I forgot we both brought our phones!” He cheered as he read a text. He put it down. I grabbed it. It was from Rose.
Hey, love you. My phone is almost dead. I’ve been using it to keep up with the Safe Land and Maxie. Optio is close. Can’t use the phone much anymore. Okay? Love you bye!
“It’s okay we’ll find them.” I said. TJ nodded and Adam ran over.
"I just got a text from Maxie!" Adam yelled. He read the text out loud.
"She said; Hey! So Rose sent TJ a text and I have about half of my battery life left, but I have to keep in contact with home. Don't worry about me. Try flying to get the runaways into the Safe Land. They will know its you. Then come down on the ground. You will eh sucke in and you have to save us!" Adam read. "I'm texting her back." He continued. He typed furiously, like his life depended on the text. He really loved her. He also wanted so badly to save everyone, and be a hero. He showed us the text. It read:
Ok. We have pegasi now and we will see if they can carry us over. We will take a few of the runaways to help. They have some awesome power. Love you. Stay alive.
He hit the send button. It went to Maxie's phone. No reply. We waited. Still no reply.
“REPLY!” He yelled. The others were up now.
“I have a plan.” Emerald and Sapphire said at the same time.
“Here we’ll vote on the plan. Give us both of them.” TJ said.
“Well my plan is we go underground. From here. It’s always quicker to go underground and we could possibly stumble upon them from there. Then we kill Optio and -” Emerald was saying but Sapphire cut her off.
“Or we could fight them?” She suggested and pointed behind all of us. Everyone turned. There stood 2 foot giants ready to kill.
Chapter 11
Amour
Capturing
“These are the little magicals that boss sent for.” The uglier one said. Though they were both ugly.
“Shut up Bardis.” The other one said. Bardis meant ‘Stupid.’ was about correct.
“Sorry Mutum.” Bardis said. Mutum, dumb. Wow.
"Hi Dumb and Dumber!" Sapphire joked. That made them mad. Her battle mode kicked into gear. Emerald's war mode did too. The nodded in sync. We all grabbed our weapons. Emerald had her bow and arrow. Sapphire had her knife and I moved my hand over the area of my vision. Now everyone saw us as bushes. I couldn't help but laugh. We charged. I backed up and looked around. I saw Emerald notch an arrow and point it at the sky. She shot it in the clouds. A bunch of cloud storms gathered near her a bunch of storm winds started up and she screamed something and then lightning came down and struck another arrow that was black. The arrow seemed to suck it up and the arrow became black and gold she shot it at Brudis and it shot him. He was electrocuted then passed out. That made Mutum mad. It all happened at once. Sapphire went in for the kill, Mutm noticed and swung his hand it hit her chest and knocked her against a boulder. Adam went in behind him. He got on the back and rode him while TJ was grabbed and locked in a fist. Emerald tried to call down more lightning but Mutm punched her. I tried to grab him. But he caught me and squeezed me, everything went black.
“Good job, Mutm.” A voice said. I opened my eyes. I knew him immediately. We were all in cages.
“Arthur?” I asked. It wasn’t possible, Arthur died 5 years ago in a car accident.
“It’s Optio now, my dear Amour.” He said. Arthur and I were best friends at 13 and started to get closer but then we were in his mom car and there was an 18 wheeler and the driver was drunk so it was driving on the opposite side. His mom tried to swerve but she ran into a tree and the 18 wheeler flipped trying to turn quickly at the same time and it landed on top of us. Right before though he used his powers to save me. But I still got a scar on my bicep. It killed him and his mom.
“Arthur - er - Optio. What has happened to you?” I asked. TJ was waking up now. ALong with Emerald.
“ Bitterness in death. I was there at my funeral listening to your speech. I remember what you said. You said: ‘Arthur was my best friend. I can’t believe he was the one taken. You know most people don’t know this but he threw himself in front of me to save me. He was my hero. I will miss him. Goodbye Arthur.’ and before the truck hit us I told you something. I thought you heard! But you didn’t even say it back!” He said.
“What did you say?” I asked.
“I said this : ‘Amour, I love you.’ and you didn’t say anything.” He said.
“I didn’t hear that.” I said.
“Well even if you did tell me ‘ I love you.’ it wouldn’t of made a difference. I’ve had to work for this guy for years! He’s thrown me into the lobby of death! Made me clean up dead people’s stuff. And made me sleep in a small dungeon with no thanks whatsoever! HE FORCED ME TO DO THINGS I’VE NEVER WANTED!” He said.
“Amour? You know him?” TJ asked.
"Yes." I squeaked I realized I knew the man who trapped innocent people. He trapped people dear to my rescuers, threatening death upon them. Adam started to moan. I saw him start to sit up. He saw his cage. All I saw was a roaring fire instead of a body. The fire died. Adam sat there. Shaking the cage. I sat inside my cage. I traced my finger over the cold steel bars. Optio walked over to me. He grabbed my hand.
"Maybe you can be Queen." He said. He kissed my hand then walked away. I couldn't help but blush. Sapphire was awake by now.
"Really? You are blushing because the evil guy kissed you. "She grumbled.
"I'm still not into him." I said. Sapphire rolled her eyes.
“Okay?” She asked.
“And anyway I don’t want to be your queen.” I said.
“Your loss.” He said. He flicked his hand and the cages got a little smaller.
“Bardis. Watch them.” He said. Bardis nodded and he walked out, Mutum following after. We sat there for about 10 minutes. I looked at the others. I was goddess of love and trickery so I had a plan.
“Bardis.” I said in a soothing voice. He walked over.
“Y-e-a-s.” He said.
“I can see your future.” I said. He looked at me.
“Please tell me!” He said. He held out his palm. I did a stupid fake psychic move. I ran my finger over his palm.
“Hmm. I see greatness in your future. You will be a king!” I said, lying.
“Tell mine!” Sapphire shouted. She was helping. Bardis went and unlocked her cage. She walked over. She caught a glimpse of the ring of keys.
“Sure.” I said. I looked at her palm.
“Oh no!” I shouted.
“What?” She was sweating to help out with the trick.
“A very very bad thing is about to happen!” I gasped. She fell and rolled and grabbed the keys. She moaned and stood up. Bardis was scared.
“What's wrong with her?” He asked, confused. He rubbed his head. A wild sneaker hit him.
“That is what is wrong with me. Nothing.” Sapphire said. Bardis stood in shock as she unlocked my cage. I punched him. Sapphire unlocked Adam’s cage. She ran and kicked Bardis in the jaw.
“Unlock everyone else!” She yelled as she threw the keys to Adam. Bardis fell as we beat him.
“Hello. Good.” I heard Optio say. I saw him leaning on a tree. He walked over and he stuck a needle in me. I fell. I heard Sapphire screaming. Man, she is so emotional. She was muffled. Everything went black.
Chapter 12
Emerald
Waking up in a ditch
I woke up in another cage. Wonderful. I sat up and rubbed my head. This one had more locks on it. But it the metal wasn’t as hard. I looked around. My friends were already up. No one was watching us. Huh, must of thought we couldn’t make it out. Or there were guards at the door on the other side. I felt something in my pocket. I pulled it out and it grew. It was my latin spear. I had left it at home though.
“Everyone check your pockets.” I heard Sapphire say. She was holding a mirror. It was black. Weird.
“I have my vial of poison.” TJ said.
“I have my sword.” Adam said.
“I have my sleeping powder.” Amour said.
“And I have my latin spear.” I said.
“I have my mirror.” Sapphire said.
“What good will that do?” Adam asked.
“It can transport me wherever I want in the place I am in.” She said.
“Can it get you out of a cage?” Amour asked.
“No. The magic can’t work if the holder is locked up.” She said. Everyone moaned. I looked at the tag on my spear.
You know what to do with it. I gave everyone a useful gift. You will all find ways to use it with. Dad.
I did know what to do with it. I looked around everyone was sitting down with their head down. I looked at the landscape around us. Still underground. But mostly everything was gold , silver or some type of metal.
“I wonder. . .” I started. I let my storm powers surge through me and into the spear. It shot out and all the metals reflected the lightning and hit the cages. I felt falling. I hit the ground and my cage bust open. All my friends were on the ground as well. We rubbed our heads.
“Take us to the realm of the dead.” TJ said.
“What? How do you know where it is?” I asked.
“This map. I have a feeling to go to the realm of the dead.” He said. Sapphire looked at her mirror.
“I want the mirror to be black and purple.” She said. I rolled my eyes. Everything went light then dark again
I opened my eyes and we were in the realm of the dead. All the ghosts and skeletons looked at us. Some were in warrior outfits. Those ones ran off. I chased after them. They looked like the ones that Athryst, I think was her name, was commanding. The others followed. The skeletons slipped through a hole underneath a tree. I followed. The others hesitated at first but then jumped. We fell for a while then hit the ground. I looked around then stood up. It was dim and there were a bunch of papers and dead squirrels and rabbits. There were 3 beds and people sitting at the table with weapons. I pulled out my spear but TJ and Adam ran forward. Two of the girls dropped their weapons. TJ picked up the one with awesome blue hair. He kissed her. Adam picked up and spun around the girl with auburn hair and kissed her too.
“So I’m taking your Rose and Maxie?” Amour asked.
“Yes. Hi. I’m Rose.” She said.
“I’m Amour.” She said.
“I’m Athryst.” The one with black hair said.
“Denny.” The only boy in that group told me.
“Aura.” The girl with blonde hair said.
“And I’m Lucy.” She said.
“Amour.”
“Emerald.”
“Sapphire.”
“TJ.”
“Adam. The boyfriend of the most awesome girlfriend ever!” Adam said. We all laughed.
“Well we have been hiding out here.” Rose said.
“Uh, Rose are -” I started to say.
“Yes. You are my little sister. When I was 3 you were 1 and mom gave you up for adoption.” She said.
“And you’re my sister as well.” Maxie said, to Sapphire. I couldn't help but run over to Rose and hug her. It felt like a reunion with a long lost best friend.
"I know it's great and all that you are together now, but we need to kill Optio. " Athryst reminded us. I had to admit she kinda scared me. Being the goddess of death and all. I nodded. Looking down.
“You don’t have to be afraid of me.” She said, smiling. She did seem nice. I smiled and nodded. They made us sit down and gave us some food. TJ was holding on to Rose like she was going to disappear. Same with Adam holding on to Maxie.
“So we all know we need to plan for killing Optio and getting out of here.” Maxie said. Everyone in my group looked at me and Sapphire.
“Uh sure I guess me and Sapphire could work something out.” I said. The other group looked confused.
“Oh uh. I guess we should do power introductions.” Sapphire said.
“I have power over war, storms, invisibility and dreams.” I said. Maxie nodded.
“I’m battle, flying, water and wisdom goddess.” Sapphire said.
“Beauty, sight, trickery and wings.” Amour said.
“Mixie and ice and water goddess.” Rose said.
“Mixie and earth goddess.” Maxie said.
“Air goddess.” Aura said.
“Wizard.” Denny said.
“Light and life goddess.” Lucy said.
“Death and dark goddess.” Athryst said.
“Air.” TJ said.
“Lightning and fire.” Adam said. I looked at Sapphire. We instantly knew what to do.
“Attack and Distract.” We said at the same time.
“What’s that?” Lucy asked.
“Well one distracts the guards and then the other kills.” I explained.
“Paper?” Sapphire asked. We found some paper and a working pen then she started drawing. Athryst explained the pathways as Sapphire drew a diagram of them. Sapphire got the map right. She drew us and labeled. There were guards, Denny was distracting.
“Awh why do I always have to distract?!” He complained. I was confused. They told us the story of how Denny had to go into the cave to distract the big giant dude and he got captured and a concussion from it. I laughed then realized Denny was not happy with me laughing at him. I calmed down. I looked at the map again. So after the guards were distracted Rose and I would sneak in to check for others then signal the others to enter then we’d split up. Rose and I would go check the west wing. Maxie and Sapphire would go to the east wing. TJ and Adam would take the northern wing while Athryst and Amour would take the south. Aura and Lucy would go check the outside area on the attic. We headed out.
Chapter 13
Emerald
The Final Fight
I grabbed my sword of the table then we burst through the doors. We walked into a dirt road. I went with Rose and went off together. And Maxie and Sapphire went off together. As Rosé and I walked through the corridors of the underground lair, we talked a lot.
"I know this sing the ideal way to see my sister again, but I missed you!" She said. I couldn't help but smile.
"Then again, wouldn't you like to fight side-by-side with your sister?" I laughed. I got three lint we need to find a door so I felt around the wall. I stopped as I felt a smoother surface. I found a round shape. I brushed it off. It was a doorknob! I shook it violently and then it clicked sideways, it opened. I rammed my entire body weight onto the door. It burst open to a bedroom. There was a man inside. Optio. I don't know what I was thinking, but I ran towards him. I threw myself to him, forcing my fist into his face.
"Why are you here!" He groaned as i pounded his head. He fell onto the floor.
“To kill you!” I said. Rose put ice on top of his hands icing them to the floor.
“Fine! We’ll fight!” He said. He broke free and pushed me against the wall. He punched my face. My lip was bleeding and a tooth was loose. Rose went up behind him and snapped his arm. It broke. He fell on his knees in pain when she broke his kneecap. I brought out my bow ’n’ arrow and put it against his temple. Rose stuck her blade on his throat.
“Kill me! I don’t care. I’m not the one in charge here. Neither is Zach! We are all puppets! PUPPETS IN THIS GAME!” He said. I released my bow before I could understand the meaning of it. When I did I regretted it. I looked up. Rose was staring at me.
“Rose-” I started.
“It’s fine. You didn’t process before you released. We need to find the others.” She said. I nodded. We sounded the horn that meant “He’s dead.” We then went to go unleash the god of death.
Chapter 14
Sapphire
The last chapter.
After a battle you’re usually weak and tired. Not Rose and Emerald. They ran towards us like their life depended on it. When they told us the story it wasn’t just their life. But every single Magic person alives life.
“It’s true. They are just puppets.” Said a voice. I looked around. The god of death was chained to a wall about 15 feet away. Athryst ran forwards to him and undid the chains. He walked forwards. He snapped and a hole appeared.
“This will get you to town square. Hurry.” He said.
“But dad” Athryst started.
“It’s fine! GO!” He commanded her and she disappeared. We all looked at him. We walked to the hole and it sucked us in. We appeared right next to Athryst in town square. A huge crowd was gathered. Athryst looked stunned and scared. We all pushed through the crowds. I saw the head council lady standing there. She was saying something but I couldn’t hear her. We climbed onto the stage.
“Rose! Maxie!” She said. Silver came forward and grabbed them in a big hug.
“What’s wrong?” Maxie asked. She looked at us.
“The humans have found us. We are going to war. And this time we might not make it alive."