Several months had passed since Wyrmroost, gavin's betrayel, and the closing of Zyzxx. I didn't know how the others could go on as though none of it had happened, to me it feels like some ripped my very heart out and smashed it to oblivion and I couldn't fix it. But I tried to forget but my mind refused to let him go for everynight I dreamt of that day and felt the pain no one else knew of but I was getting better each day and the dreams came less frequent but I still silently wanted him to return and turn out that he was under some influence or something and he was just Gavin and not Navarog but I knew that I was only fooling myself with such a thought. But I was glad that we had managed to stop the demon hoard from takeing over the world and now all we had to do was worry about destroying the Society once and for all, which wouldn't be easy at all but at least we had some leads on where they were hiding, which was good.

However the Sphinx hasn't been much help in takeing down his old group and sometimes I wondered if he was still playing the game and tricking us to believe that he wanted to help us was just another trick to gain immortality and now the real game is just about to start and then there was the dissapearnce of my sister Katie. We had recieved a letter saying that she was ok and was at a wizarding school to finish up her last year of schooling which was interuppted by the past missions and the demon war. But I didn't believe that because she had told me that the headmaster had told her that if she wanted she could skip the last year of schooling because of her grades adn that she had passed every high test that the ministry had sent her. She had also clearly stated that she was going to skip the last year to help out at Fablehaven, so for her to suddenly leave without saying anything to go to school was not like her and only I had noticed her strange behavior before the night she left but I had thought nothing of it at the time but now I wasn't so sure that everything was what we thought it was.

Like many days before I was currently siting on the porch bench watching Seth, Newl, Doren, Verl, and Hugo play football as I gathered my thoughts and read letters that were from Gav... I mean Navarog and the letters he had sent to Katie. It hurt to read the letters he sent her because there was so much care in them, they were longer, and I could feel that there was much more passion written in the words, and that he had taken his time to write them. I guess when he told Seth that he wanted to get to know me better he meant as a friend, and I thought back to the missions I went on with him and Katie and I saw the clear evidence that I had missed the first time, and it made me hurt even more inside and feel even worse for Katie and yet I wondered what she was doing at this very moment. It seemed strange to think about the past and about my sister who I had never really paid any attention to for her "strange ways" but now that she was gone I wondered more and more about her and what she was really up to all those years ago, when she would spend so much time in the dungeon. Grandpa told me that she had always had an interest in the dark aspect of life and magic and had wanted to study some of the "dark's ways" and the only way she could do that was to study the creatures that were confind and my Grandma agreed. Warren told me that she learned her magic from not only the school that sent her lessons and quizzes for her to take since she lived so far away from the school, but she learned a great deal of it from the creatures of the dark who treated her like their own so that was why she went into the dungeon and was never effected by the hall of dread. Whatever the story was I didn't believe it. I didn't believe them because one day I went down and found her with her eyes closed and a hand upon the quiet box, but when we released the prisoner she seemed upset and had come back from escorting him with a necklaces that she didn't have before, after that I never saw her in the dungeon again and I saw her go deep within the forest to where the darker domeins were and come back without a single scratch so I knew that there was something up with her, I just didn't know what and now this!

I went to find Grandpa, I had to know more about her. I went up to his office and nocked on the door before entering.

"Hello Kendra what can I do for you?"
"I was wondering if you could tell me more about Katie?"
He looked up and took his glasses off for a moment before straigting and put them back on.

"She's my sister is all and well I just.."
"I understand please sit I was done anyways."

I walked over to the desk and sat down just as Seth came into the room.

"I saw you leave Kendra, you alright you didn't look to good outside?"
"Yeah I'm fine I was just asking Grandpa more about Katie."
"Can I join?"
"Sure."

My brother came over to the desk and took the seat next to mine

"So did you have anything in mind that you wished to know?"
"Well why was she so interested in the dungeon and this time please tell us the truth."

"You must understand first that Katie was a bright girl with an uncontrolable curiosity, that started when she was seven or eight. The reason your grandmother and I adopted Katie was because we knew she was a wizard and there was no better place to raise a wizard then on a magical preserve and we thought nothing bad would happen which was our first mistake."

"What do you mean?" Seth asked

"Well we had hoped that the fairies would have interested her enough to stay within the yard but when she grew tired of them we tried to put up protection to keep her from going out of the yard which was another mistake for we didn't know that she was already learning spells and had gotten out. Her curiosity grew and grew and soon so did her need to break our rules." Grandpa glared at Seth "Soon she went into the dungeon where the creatures we keep confind had also sensed her powers as well. The main reason she was so interested in the dungeon was because the creatures there could giver her what we couldn't."

We thought about this for awhile before Seth spoke up.

" Why did she like the quite box?"

I looked at grandpa who seemed to be thinking or ignoring the question.

"That is something that only Katie could tell you."
"You're lying."
I looked at Seth in shook.

"That's quite an acusation there Seth. But I assure you that I am not lying."
"Yes you are. Katie once tough me a trick to see if people are lying based on their aouras. When a person lye's their aoura color darkens when they tell the truth it doesn't change. Your's got darker, tell us the truth."
"I would but I swore a wizards oath not to tell."

I looked at Seth who nooded.

"What's a wizards oath?" I asked

"A wizards oath is like a pinky swear for wizards only it's much more complicated. Obviusly there must be at least one wizard to do the oath, he or she takes their wand and binds the other persons wrist to their's with magic as the person who has been asked to take the oath swears not to tell any living soul, ounce the oath has been said the magic forever binds that person's wrist until the oath is either lifted or broken."

He pulled up his left sleave and we saw what looked like rings of red around his wrist which looked to be vibrating.

" Katie once told me that there was an oath called the unbreakable promise."

"That is much more severe Seth. If one should break such a promise then they die unlike a wizards oath, when broken the person suffers sever pain for a weak, the pain felt depends on how sever the promise meant to the person who the secreat belonged to."

"What I want to know is why Katie told you so much about magic and not anyone else." I said looking at my brother.

"YEs Seth why did Katie tell you these things?"
"Well when I became a shadow charmer Katie knew much more about the dark and so I asked her if I could ask her anything about the dark or about my powers and she told me that I could ask her anything. But why do the dark creatures like KAtie so much?"
"Well that I can answer, you see as Katie's curiosity grew she went deeper and deeper into the forest and eventually ended up meeting many of the darker creatures on the preserve and well she must have connected to them or something, honestly that's all I know she didn't really say much about anyone of anything."
"Why?" me and Seth asked at the same time

"Probably because she didn't want anyone to find out more about her powers or she just didn't want to be around anyone, she was always kind of secreative. Is there anything else?"

"No." I said and Seth just shook his head. We got up and headed out the door closing it as we exited. I pulled my brother up the stairs and into our room closing the door behind us.

"What was that for?" he said rubbing his arm where there were finger nail marks from my fingers.

"Look at these." I said laying the letters on the bed.

"These are your letters from gavin I've already read these."
"No these are the letters he sent to Katie."

He looked at me confused as he picked the first one up.

"Don't ask just read them."
I sat down on his bed as I watched my brother's confused look deepen at each letter he read. When he finished he came over and sat next to me handing me the letters back and we both looked at KAtie's door which has always been locked with a spell of her own design.

"I don't get it?" he said "I thought Gavin always liked you a lot."
"That's what I thought too until I compared the letters. I think we have to get into her room to learn what actually happened to Katie."
"But how? It's always locked I've even tried to pick the lock with a pin and not even that worked."
"That's because it's locked with magic."

I picked up a spell book from the library and went to the door and put a hand in front of it and said the I finished the incantation the door outlined itself in black strands of magic that came from within the book before opening the door and wrapping itself around the room, reveling what only Katie knew was there.
"What did you say?"
"A spell in draconic. Remember Katie was intriueged with dragons so much that she trained herself to be a dragon-brother so it only makes sense that the spell would be in draconic."
"Yeah, well her rooms kind of creepy."
"Well she's a creepy person."

"Good point."
We entered her room and looked around at everything that was to be seen. She had a black day bed, a huge bookcase filled with books upon books, there were books everywhere for that matter, she had a desk with melting candles on it, a cabinet full of potion bottles that made Tanu look like an amiture. On the walls (which were also black) there were framed certificets from the school she attended for specile cervices that she did do when she did go a few times, but most of the documents were from a ministry (A/N the ministry belongs to J.K as well but I had to add them just to make my character (Katie) seem really smart because she is.) from different departments within the ministry for high remarks on several quizes that she seemd to have taken and there was a framed collection of newspaper clippings with a moveing picture of her self with a headline beneath it.

"Wow she must have been really smart look at all these test scores."

"Yeah so why was she bad in school when came to stay with us?" Seth asked

"She didn't go to our school remember? She stayed home with her creepy books to study her magic."
"Oh yeah. What I don't get is why didn't she use magic to escape Torinna when she kidnapped you two?"
"I don't know."

When Torinna had captured us Katie never once used magic to escape, was she playing at something that we didn't know about.

"So what are we looking for?"
"Anything that could explain why she's gone and where she might be." I answered him

We looked everywhere but found no such clue until I saw something hidden between two of the books on her bookcase and I pulled on one but it came half-way out before there was a click and the bookcase moved sidways revealing a door.

"Cool a secret passage."

I followed my brother down some stairs, once at the bottom we saw another door and we entered it and lanterns light themselves as we entered the room. Once inside we saw all sorts of things, books, potions, a couldren, a snake, a desk, and filing cabinets. I went to the cabinets as Seth went to the desk and we searched for some clues. But as I went to the seventh drawer it was locked. I tired to pull on it incase it was stuck until Seth came over with a red key with a number seven on it. We put the key in and found what we were looking for, inside there were letters from the society, the kinghts, Navarog, the Sphinx, different dragon preserves, and anominuse people.

"We have to bring the others down here." Seth said

"No, we should go through these files. Maybe they'll tell us more about Katie and where she really is."

We pulled out all the files and began to read the papers. It seemed that the society was asking Katie to join them and some had attached missions that were used for examples of what she would do if she joined, we found a few knight offers, but the file that Seth was going through were strange orders. We looked on the back of the file and saw that it was labeled "wizard black market".

"She was a dealer in dark magic at a black market?" Seth asked
"I guess so."
We went through every file but there was nothing until I went to her desk for a candle when I saw a letter sitting there. I took the letter out of the envelop and read it.

Dear Katie Sorenson,

I know that the others believe me to be dead but I know that you know better then that and once again I must thank you for informing me about the fairy boy and providing me with a stingbulb. I do not wish to divuldge more information in case this letter is intersected by another fellow wizard or is read by someone else within your household, for I know how bad it would be for you if they found out. I know that I do not have to say much for you probably already know why I have sent you this letter, it is time.

Sincerly your's forever

Gavin Rose

Navarog

I showed the letter to Seth who looked at me concerned.

"What does "it's time" mean?"

"I don't know, but we have to show Grandpa maybe he'll know what this means." I said
"Wait grab the other folders, he needs to know the whole story."
We grabbed all the folders and walked out of the secrete room, put the bookcase back in position, and walked out of her room repositioning the spell and walked out of our room before we ran downstairs and rushed into Grandpa's office putting the files in front of him.

"You have to see these."
"What is going on?"
"WE unlocked Katie's room, found a secrete room, and found these files in which you must see."

Hearing the importence in our voices he set aside what he was doing and skimmed through all the files and looked at us in horror.

"Now read this." I handed him the letter and he read it and became even more horrified.

"What has become of Katie?" he asked solemnly
"I think we were betrayed by her."
"This can't be right. I know Katie and she would never do this not at all." we thought that

"Grandpa she was always with them, she wasn't curious about the dark she was the dark, that was why they respected her was because of her power. She played us all."

'Then why did she help us fight off the demons when she could have joined them?" he asked
"It was all apart of her plan and so was the sphinx. They both played us and Navarog isn't dead."
"What do we do?" Seth asked

"We contact the knights, for it's time for us to act."
"What do you mean?"
"The society doesn't know that we already know about their final plan and we have kept ready I just wasn't expecting KAtie to be working with them."
Grandpa rushed out of the room and called for everyone to come to his office immeditely. WE waited for everyone to cram into grandpa's office.

"What is going on?" Warren asked
"IT seems that the society is going to carry out their final plan, Navarog's not dead, and KAtie has betrayed us all." Grandpa answered
Everyone gasped.

"How do you know?" Grandma asked concernly
"Because Kendra and Seth discovered a secrete room in Katie's room with all the evidence."

Everyone looked through the files before looking completly horrified and it didn't get better when grandpa read out the letter that we found either.

"All this time she was against us."
"The whole time it was always a plan and we were the pawns on her side of the playing board as she and the Sphinx made their moves. We must contacke the knights at once, the final battle has begun."

At the society

I knocked on the Sphinx's office door before entering in on him and Navarog.
"Katie, please come in."
"They know."
"What, how I thought you had your room secured." Gavin asked
"I did until they figured out that the spell I used was in draconic and then Seth figured to check my bookcase and they found the files."
"Everyone?" the Sphinx asked
"Yes every file, our passed plans, our conversations and the previouse letter. Their contacking the kinghts right now."
"THank you Katie." the Sphinx said as I stood there. Luckily for me they didn't know that I could do astrel projections and that my grandpa was right, it was my curiosity that lead me to finding my true nature and explaining my love of the darkness. I knew that I should feel bad about having to finally confront them and having to destroy everything that they had worked for but I had chosen my side in this battle and I had played my part well and now it was time I betrayed them all. Navarog got up from where he was sitting and came up to me as the Sphinx left the room leaving us alone, he pulled a strand of hair out off of my face and smiled sweetly.

"You ready?"he asked
"I guess so, never thought it would come so soon."
"Hey it will be ok, we've played our roles perfectly and now it's time to end this war and gain what rightfully belongs to us."

He placed his charm next to mine and they glowed powerfully. What the Sphinx didn't know was that he had a major flaw in his plan by allowing the Himalaya dragons to help fight in the war that was going to commince, if we won the war on the day it was meant to happen then Navarog's dad would be stepping down from the throne and giving it him. We had tricked the Sphinx into planning the war to happen on the day because it wouldn't make him the ruler but it would make me and Navarog the rulers of what he was aiming for since we would have more power over him and his army. THe charms that me and Navarog had made up a charm that was passed down to the crowned king of each dragon family but Navarog's family was the last ruling dragon family alive and he was the crowned prince and since he split the neckalces and gave half of it to me that made me the first dragon princess in eons.

I didn't care about betraying my family or even the sphinx who had provided me with the books that gave me my powers I only cared about Navarog and standing besides him as we would finish the war once and for all, if the sphinx's plan played out correctly.

"After all these years of planning and finally it's going to end." I said
"Yes, and from the ashes of the warzone will rise a beautiful dragon queen."
"As will a strong dragon king."

He kissed me gently for a second which always felt longer to me, I have to admit I had always loved him and on that day that I had escorted him off of the preserve with the sphinx was when I had agreed to join the society, I didn't join because I like the sphinx or his plan, I didn't join for the power it would give me or to prove a point to my family, I joined souly for Navarog's plan of action in which I agreed with greatly. The sphinx would still get his way but we would rule instead of him, but either then that everything else that he wanted to gain from his plan he would get.

"Is this going to work? What if something happens?"

"Don't worry Katie, it will work."
I noded knowing that he was right, he was always right and besides I knew it would work, it wis genious. We left the room hand in hand as we went to the conference room where we took our seats next to each other as everyone came in and took their seats at the long table as the Sphinx took the head seat.

"As you all know I have been planing to take down the Knights once and for all and have planned out a series of events to take place which have been done already, now that the knights know about our plan it is time for our finale stand to take place before we rule the world."
"Sir what do we do about those who can not see the magical creatures that we can?"
"Do not worry, Katie has found a spell that will break the charm that has kept mortals from seeing what we know of."
Everyone looked at me but I paid them no attention.

"When will we attack sir?"
"Within the second of the cycle."

Everyone looked very confused

"He means we attack when the full moon shows in the sky." I said mater of factly
"But why then?"
"A full moon has certain magical powers that give wizards extrodinary power and it makes it very difficult to defeat them. The full of the moon will give our army the strength and power that they need in order to defeat the knight's."

"Thank you KAtie for explaining that. It has also come to my attention that there is yet another reason why we attack on the full moon, it seems that that is when NAvarog takes over the throne and he has chosen KAtie as his queen so I shall not be ruleing but but never the less I'm confident that they will make two fine rulers."
"You told him?" I whispered

"Yeah."

Our hands found each other again as we listined to the Sphinx explain our final movements before we attack and our plan of how we will attack with few interuptions on my behalf as I helped to fully improve the plan to where it would not fail. After the meeting was over me and Navarog vanished and reapeared in my room back at Fablehaven, just as everyone would be falling asleep for the night.

"This seems a bit risky, shouldn't we be working on the plan?" Gavin asked
"We'll be fine and why are you nervouse about breaking into my room for things that I need for the plan?"
I grabbed what I needed and put a new spell on the door so that no one could enter again incase they wanted more information. WE then vanished back to our shared room back at headquarters where we found our assighnment waiting for us on our desk and we set to work.

Knight's of the Dawn headquarters

The next morning we found that the spell no longer worked for a new one had been placed on Katie's door and we knew that the Sphinx was prepairing to make a final move. Grandpa had brought everyone to headquarters even if we weren't actually part of the knighthood we needed everyone that was willing to help end this once and for all and I found myself as did everyone quite surprised when Newl and Doren had offered to help end the battle and take down the society once and for all, turns out that the last adventure they had with us as we stopped the demon hoard had given them their adventuers spirit once more and they had developed the same hatred for the society as we did. We had to hold the meeting outside because everyone that was in the knighthood as well as some of their friends who knew what the knights did and wanted to help end the society had all come and the meeting room wasn't big enough for everyone to be there.

"Good morning knights and friends of knights." my grandfather started "It has come to our attention that the societies plan of opening Zyzzxx was not their final move but one small part of the bigger picture. Now many of you might notice that some knights are not here, the reason is because they are part of the society as well or have informed me that they do not wish to take part of this fight. For example Gavin Rose who had ended up being Navarog and who we all thought had died at Wymroost actually is still alive, my dear grand daughter, and it breaks my heart to know this, also is apart of the society."

Everyone gasped and small talk arose.

"Yes I know that many if not all of you know my grand daughter Katie Sorenson and all the magnificent things she has done for us all, but it was Kendra who had found the truth yesterday about Katie, there are many others but I used those two for an example because they are the most dangerous and most heartbreaking to know about. Navarog is a deadly demonic dragon who will do anything to not only protect Katie but he will kill anyone that stands in his path. Katie is a very powerful Sorcerress with many speacilties, such as being a dragon-brother, a necromancer, and she has the power of gods as well and is not afraid to kill to get a job done. However as the societies army grows they will not be able to match our numbers and we know of their final plan as well and have made a plan to destroy them once and for all."

Many people cheered as my grandfather continued but I couldn't stand the pain of how he used Katie as an example striking fear into many of the people and to think that she was my sister. Grandpa explain our plan and gave positions to everyone and we all set to work to create the plan that was shown to us.
"Kendra, Seth may I speak to you two privietly?"
"Sure grandpa."

We followed him to his office and sat down in front of hid desk.

"I want to know what you think about the plan."
"Well I think it's brillient and we can definetly take down the society using it but can we really match their army?" I asked
"Yeah, if Navarog is still alive then wont we have to fight off dragons as well?" Seth asked as well
"You two make a very good point but we have many dragon experts within our army and they will take care of the dragons, I just need you two and the others to help me capture their headquarters, capture the Sphinx and his army."
"If we do manage to defeat the Sphinx and capture the society, what will happen to Katie?"

I agreed with my brother and looked at my grandpa for an answer.

"As much as it breaks my heart to have to say this, but we will imprison her with the others. If only this was all a trick and she was under their control, but sadly she is genuily against us this time and it wont be easy to defeat her or Navarog and it will be almost impossible to defeat them when they're together."
"But they're never seperated." I added
"If our plan works they will no longer be of an issue to us."
"What will become of Navarog?" I asked
"If matters come to worse then we will.."
He didn't need to finish for I knew perfectly well what he meant.

"You can't!"