Isolated Flame
Nowhere Boys
Felix is thrown into another world, alone and powerless without the other boys at his side. He tries his best to survive in a world where he was never born, this time he was alone and the other three in this world are different so getting home may be a problem. Meanwhile Jake, Sam and Andy are trying their best to use magic to save Felix, easier said than done.
Timeline: AU after Season 1, so Andy doesn't disappear and Ellen has no idea about magic and the like.
Disclaimer: I do not own Nowhere Boys
Chapter Two
"This is useless, we can't do this. Felix is the only one who can actually do anything with these spells." Sam threw his arms up in defeat before he dragged his hands down his face.
"We have potential Sam, we have to keep trying!" Andy insisted from his place across from Sam in the tent Mr. Conte gave them.
"We have to get him back before the weekend is over or else we'll all be in real trouble." Jake swallowed as he checked his phone seeing text messages from Oscar and Ellen.
"I still can't believe Felix is a true witch and we can't even manage to figure this spell out." Andy rubbed his hand through his hair.
"Yeah he's just a bundle of powerful magic and poor judgment." Jake said fondly.
"Hey what about this spell?" Andy spoke up as he turned the book towards the other two.
"This could work." Sam muttered as he read the spell.
"If we work together we might be able to pull this off, first we need something important to Felix to sacrifice." Jake said remembering what Felix told them when they were trying to save their other mom's.
"Yeah but what? We can't sacrifice his Book of Shadows!" Andy looked at the book in worry.
"We might have to tell Oscar what happened, he should be able to help us." Jake pulled out his phone, dialing Oscar's number.
"Worth a shot." Andy nodded his head as Jake explained what was really happening to their friend's younger brother.
"Ok…Ok… I'll be over soon, yeah, ok, bye." Jake nodded his head.
"I'll be back with what we need, maybe Oscar will have a vision of where Felix is." Jake stood up, dusting his jeans off.
"Good luck dude." Sam nodded at the blond. Jake nodded back and slipped out of the tent and back towards town.
It didn't take long for Jake to reach the Ferne house via a bike Sam had found for them and he quietly slid into Felix's place where Oscar was waiting for him.
"I think I have something that could work." Oscar wheeled himself over to a guitar case. He rummaged for a moment before he pulled out a light blue guitar pick.
"Why is this important to him?" Jake questioned as he inspected the pick, but froze when he saw Oscar's eyes glowing blue, Oscar blinked and reached for his sketchpad and his hand started to move quickly as he sketched.
"What did you see Oscar?" Jake knelt next to the wheelchair and watched as he finished drawing.
"Felix, he's running, he's scared. Something is trying to hurt him, we have to find him Jake!" Oscar said, voice rising up as he showed Jake the drawing of the Bremin High football field, Felix running across it with a mob of scribbles following him.
"We'll save him Oscar, we will I swear we will. Now why is this important to Felix?" Jake soothed Oscar and brought back him back to the problem at hand.
"Oh, uh it's important because mom and dad gave it to him when he first got his guitar back before well…" Oscar trailed off gesturing to his legs. "They gave it to him when they supported him playing music, now they just tell him to knock it off."
"I understand Oscar, with this we might be able to get him back." Jake promised forcing himself to keep calm so the earth wouldn't shake.
"Jake… Just bring him back ok?" Oscar asked quietly.
"We will Oscar, we won't leave him alone wherever he is." Jake swore clapping Oscar on the shoulder before he headed back to the forest and the others with renewed hope.
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"This was a horrible idea, like a really horrible idea." Felix muttered as he walked to Mr. Bates classroom for his first, first day at this high school.
"Everyone, we have a new student, meet Felix Hartley." Bates waved Felix in, Felix noted the differences in the room as he kept his face neutral.
Jake and Andy were sitting next to Trent and Dylan tossing a football around between them. Ellen (who was prepped out again) was sitting next to Mia who was leaning into Sam's arm. Sam smiled at Felix when they made eye contact and Felix looked away and walked to the back of the room and slid into an empty seat there when Bates told him to take a seat.
Felix gripped the talisman as it glowed, as all the elements were in the room and he wish he knew the spell to get him home because he could use it right now. Felix was so in thought so when a balled up piece of paper hit him in the head he jerked and almost fell out of his seat. He looked around and saw Andy smirking at him before he looked back at Bates.
Felix sighed as he smoothed out the piece of paper and really wished he hadn't when the word 'freak' stood out amongst the rest of the usual insults. He breathed out quietly; rather glad he didn't have his fire because he was sure he would be burning something down right now. He crumbled the paper back up and stuffed it into his bag and leaned back in his chair and kept his face blank as the lesson went on.
Finally the bell rang and Felix stood up grabbing his bag, he quickly left the classroom and headed towards the library, it was safe zone from bullies and he needed to be someplace quiet to try to remember what exactly the words of his revised Unmaking Spell was. He pulled out a notebook Phoebe gave him and he started to absently doodle on the page, too in thought so when someone slid into the seat across from him, he jerked back startled.
"What are you doing here?" Felix looked into the face of Jake Riles, who surprisingly was alone.
"I came to talk to you about Andy." Jake said resting his elbows on the table.
"The one who hit me in the head with a football and sent me a note calling me freak, why should I care about him?" Felix shook his head, forcing his face to stay blank and locked his emotions down.
"I know he won't say it ever, but I will. Sorry about before, you know Andy isn't a bad guy, he just takes his anger out on other people." Jake tried to explain.
"Let me guess, he's actually a genius whose family puts too much pressure on him?" Felix suggested, knowing that was what his Andy's situation was.
"Actually yes, how did you know that?" Jake looked at him surprised and Felix winced, not having expected his suggestion to be right in this world.
"I'm psychic." Felix deadpanned as he looked back down at his notebook.
"Yeah? What can you tell about me then?" Jake laughed, leaning back as he crossed his arms. Felix glanced up at the blond and took in what he was wearing and how was acting.
"Happy parents, so happy home life. You're good at sports and that is all you think you can be good at so you don't push yourself." Felix guessed.
"How did you know that?" Jake frowned confused and a bit startled.
"Like I said, psychic." Felix waggled the fingers on his right hand at Jake.
"Very funny, listen just try to steer clear of Andy because for some reason he has it out for you." Jake got up giving Felix one last piece of advice.
"I'll try, thanks for the advice Jake Riles." Felix said honestly, again locking his feelings back into himself as he felt a warmth build up inside of him as he realized that even this Jake was trying to look out for him.
"How did you?" Jake looked at him startled.
"Psychic." Felix smirked at him and Jake rolled his eyes before he left the library.
"If I can use Phoebe's Books of Shadows maybe I can find a communication spell to talk with the guys and see if I can get them to tell me the revised spell." Felix muttered to himself as the bell rang signaling the free period was over. He shoved his notebook full of random symbols into his bag and left the library, dreading to go to his next class.
Well he was right to dread as he was stuck with Andy in the next class and had to sit silently as Andy threw every insult at him he could think of, he also was purposely elbowed every time Andy moved and had to force himself not to react when he felt Andy's glare burning into the side of his head. Felix never thought he would be so glad for class to be over, and he had to slow down his stride so it didn't look like he was running away from Andy.
"That looked brutal." Sam spoke up as he leaned next to the locker (his own back in his world) that was assigned to the Goth teen.
"You don't know the half of it." Felix sighed, running his hands down his face.
"He wasn't always like this." Mia spoke up as she and Ellen (who Felix forced himself not to look at because she wasn't his Gothed out Ellen) stopped by the two boys.
"I know, Jake told me." Felix cut the girls off before he had to listen to the same explanation twice.
"Jake did?" Ellen asked in surprise as she and Mia exchanged looks.
"Yeah, he's a good guy." Felix said honestly.
"Not a lot of people see that in him." Sam beamed at Felix, pleased at what he said about Jake.
"Hey, how about we go get some lunch together?" Mia suggested and Ellen nodded her agreement.
"I guess so…" Felix turned around to look at the others and swallowed hard when he saw Ellen and Mia start to convulse in a far too familiar way.
"Mia? Ellen?" Sam stepped towards his girlfriend her friend.
"Sam, don't get close to them!" Felix automatically latched his hand onto Sam's arm pulling him back as Mia and Ellen straightened up, eyes bright red thanks to the Restoring Demon.
"What is happening to them?" Sam shouted.
"Run!" Felix urged as he tugged at Sam's arm urgently. Thankfully the skater took the hint and together they started to run down towards the doors at the end of the school corridor.
"What is happening Felix?" Sam asked as he looked over his shoulder to see Mia and Ellen stalking towards them.
"I'll explain later, just run!" Felix brushed it off as the two threw the doors open slamming into both Andy and Jake.
"Oi, get off me freak!" Andy snapped as he harshly shoved Felix off him onto the pavement.
"What are you doing?" Jake asked as Sam helped Felix to his feet.
"Something is wrong with Mia and Ellen!" Sam grabbed Jake by the shoulders and shook him in worry.
"Order must be restored." Mia and Ellen said in unison.
"Run! Get out of here!" Felix shoved Jake and Sam in the opposite direction of the football field.
"Let's do what the freak says." Andy agreed without hesitation.
"If I had feelings you would have hurt them." Felix said sarcastically as he looked at the closing forms of Mia and Ellen.
"I won't just leave you here!" Sam protested.
"You don't even know me! Just go Sam! It's me they want!" Felix shoved Sam away from him before he looked back at Mia and Ellen. He gripped his bag's strap in his hand and took off running towards the football field. Mia and Ellen's heads jerked to the side and took off towards Felix leaving the other three boys alone.
Felix looked behind him and swallowed hard when the entire football team all jerked and their eyes bled red.
"Oh come on!" Felix cried out as he picked up the pace of his strides, he spotted the talisman glowing against his chest and he wrapped his right hand around the talisman.
"Order must be restored." The group chanted.
"I know, I know!" Felix groaned annoyed, letting his emotions bleed out. Fear, worry and he could really feel the loss of his elements at the moment.
"Felix over here!" Sam waved his arms at Felix from where he was standing by the parking lot with Jake and surprisingly Andy.
"They're here, this may actually work." Felix spun around to face the on coming possessed demons.
"Divinity of the elements, I summon thee. Earth, Water, Fire, Air. Elements that we all share!"Felix chanted under his breath as he tore the talisman off his neck and held the glowing talisman up in front of him and it gave off a bright flash of light and when it faded the entire team, Mia and Ellen where all looking around confused wondering what they were doing.
Felix breathed out in relief that it had actually worked as he pulled the talisman back over his head and leapt back when a hand came down on his shoulder.
"What, what just happened?" Sam asked confused, dropping his hand.
"Nothing just go make sure Mia is ok." Felix brushed the question off and he glanced to the side and took a deep breath. He looked back at the three boys and he knew the looks they got when they were being stubborn about something.
"That was not nothing." Jake insisted.
"Just leave it alone Jake, it has nothing to do with you." Felix insisted right back, slamming a wall down over his emotions again. "Just leave it and me alone."
With that said, Felix walked off in the direction of the road, he had to get back to Phoebe's and figure out a way to get in touch with his elements and fast.
Felix glanced over his shoulder and breathed out in relief when he noticed they were doing nothing, but glancing at him every so often as they checked on the possessed students.
It didn't take long before he arrived at Phoebe's shop and he entered the back door, he didn't see Phoebe anywhere and he fell onto his chaise lounge. He ran his hand down his face and sighed loudly before he dragged the Book of Shadows he had left on the end of the chaise lounge towards him and started to flip around to look for a communication spell.
"This might work… Maybe if I had the others, Damnit." Felix groaned annoyed shoving the book back onto the end of the lounge.
"I'm also pretty sure I lost all three of my friends in a day, and now I'm talking to myself." Felix rubbed his forehead as he muttered to himself.
Felix groaned as he felt pain suddenly flare in his chest and from his feet. He bent over as he coughed harshly, left hand gripping his shirt as he tried to breathe and his right hand covered his lips. When he finally got his breath back, he pulled his hand back and stared at a small pile of ash in the palm of his hand.
He let the ash fall to the ground as he kicked his combat boots and socks off and he stared in horror at the sight of his skin turning to a solid form of ash.
"This is not good." Felix swallowed as he gingerly touched the ash on his feet and winced at the pain he felt from it. He sighed and pulled his socks and boots back on not wanting to deal with this right now.
Suddenly the air in front of him started to twist and warp, he quickly leaned up and stared at the air as it swirled into a form of a circle outlined in blue energy.
"Felix! Can you hear us?" Andy's voice came through the portal as he, Sam and Jake appeared in the middle of the portal.
"Jake? Sam? Andy? Is it really you guys?" Felix stared at them in hope.
"It's us! We had no idea if this would even work!" Sam sounded and looked relieved.
"Do you have my Book of Shadows?" Felix asked and breathed out in relief when Andy held up his black book.
"Finally, ok look for the Unmaking Spell, I modified it so in theory it should get me out of his universe." Felix explained and Andy flipped a few times before he held up the book so Felix could see.
"That's it!" Felix quickly copied it down just in case.
"Say it with me, maybe it will work long distance." Felix asked as he pulled the talisman off his neck and held it up.
"Divinity of the elements, I summon thee. Through this world, we can see. Another place where we can be. Take the fire make it burn, take the air and make it turn. Take this water and this earth, and to another world call us forth. Earth, Water, Fire, Air. Earth, Water, Fire, Air." Felix chanted along side the other three, the talisman glowed for a bit before it faded back to darkness.
"Guess it doesn't work long distance huh?" Sam said, shoulders dropping in disappointment.
"Is there a version of us in that world that might help you?" Jake asked hopefully.
"Well…" Felix trailed off as he put the talisman back on. "It's not the best option to use at the moment."
"Has the Restoring Demon tried to you know… Kill you yet?" Andy asked worried.
"Yeah it tried, that was load's of fun. Luckily this world's versions of you were nearby and I managed to get away, but I don't know how long it will hold the demon back this time. The talisman doesn't feel as strong as it used to." Felix ran a hand through his hair as he gently stretched his feet out in front of him and hid his wince as the pain moved up his shins.
The portal started to waver and the images of the other three boys started to fizzle out like it was being interrupted.
"The spell is wearing off!" Andy cried in dismay.
"Or something is disturbing it, the same thing that sent me here. Guy's be careful! I'll figure out how to get home I swear" Felix warned.
"You better Felix!" Jake threatened and Felix nodded his head quickly as the connected wavered and the portal disappeared.
Felix breathed out and leaned back on the chaise lounge and winced as his knees started to hurt. This was moving quickly and he had no idea what he had to do to stop it or why it was happening.