Vita was completely still in the trunk of the car as the footsteps came around the back of the car. Her only wish at this point was to not be discovered by anyone. Through the suitcases, she could see the man come around the back of the car and throw some bags into the back. She felt slightly more at ease seeing the man there instead of Quincy. The man quickly closed the trunk door and got into the car.
After the door was closed, Vita was engulfed in darkness. She panicked for a moment because she had not thought about what she would do after she was safely hidden in the trunk. She felt the car moving. She realized she was still clenching the flashlight she had been laying on and she turned it on. After moving some bags, she looked at the trunk door. Literally, she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw there was a safety release on the inside of the trunk for it to be opened from the inside.
The car stopped and in a panic, Vita shut off the flashlight quickly. She heard some muffled voices and realized the man had stopped to pick up the woman from the front of the hotel. She relaxed when the car started moving again. As she lay in the back, she began to formulate what she would do when the couple stopped at the mall. She would have to wait for a little bit to make sure the people did not come back and see her getting out of their trunk, and then, she would run into the mall and find a mall cop station. Vita figured the cops there would be able to help her.
As she thought this, she realized the cops, and everyone for that matter, were going to look at her like she was crazy because of the revealing, crazy outfit she was wearing. She looked at the suitcases in the trunk with her. She hated to steal from the people who were already unknowingly helping her so much, but she knew she did not have much choice.
She began rummaging through some bags with the flashlight as a guide. She found the woman's bag and found a beat up, plain red shirt. She figured the woman would not miss the shirt too much since it looked so old. After she found it, she quickly put on the shirt because she knew she did not have much time before the car arrived at the mall. She put the shirt right over top of the top she was wearing since it was basically a bra. She continued searching for something to wear as pants. She found a few pairs of jeans but when she tried to put the jeans on, it proved to be impossible given the confined space she was in. She knew she was not going to be able to put them on outside without looking peculiar.
'It is already going to be strange enough that I am crawling out of someone's trunk.' She thought to herself with a worried sigh.
She continued to rummage through the bags and happened upon a pair of black athletic shorts. They were stretchy enough that she could put them on in the trunk without much difficulty. She breathed a sigh of relief as she ripped the skirt part of her bottoms off and tucked it into a corner of the trunk, but then, she realized she had forgot something, shoes.
The idea of borrowing someone's shoes slightly bothered Vita as it was, but if the shoes were the wrong size, she wouldn't be able to wear them anyways. Worriedly, she picked through the bags to find some shoes. To her dismay, the woman's shoes were way too small for her. She bit her lower lip as she tried to think of what to do. She knew she would not be able to run around the mall without shoes on. Suddenly, she found a pair of plain, black sandals which she assumed must belong to the man. They were big, but she would be able to fit her feet in them and run into the mall without looking too strange or getting into trouble before she could get help.
As she grabbed the sandals out of the bag, she felt the car lurch slightly and stop. Vita realized they must have arrived at the mall when she heard the engine die down. Again, she heard the muffled sound of voices. She heard the two car doors open and close. Vita wondered how long she should wait before she tried to get out of the trunk. Her heart was racing quickly again. She was so close to getting help, but she just had to overcome this one obstacle and she was home free. She decided to count to 60 ten times. She figured that would be about five to ten minutes and would be enough time for the couple to get away from their car so Vita could sneak out.
"One…two…three…" She whispered to herself in the trunk.
As she counted, it felt like ages had passed. Finally, she had counted through 60 ten times. She turned on the flashlight and moved herself in front of the suitcases. She took a deep breath as she tried to calm down. Slowly, Vita moved to open the trunk. She pulled the switch and the trunk popped open an inch letting in some light from outside. She hoped that no one would be around as she hopped out of the car.
After taking another deep breath, she quickly opened the trunk and jumped out onto the pavement. Breathing heavily and heart racing, she looked wildly around and found there was no one. She was relieved. She closed the trunk and quickly headed for the giant mall. The couple had parked at a restaurant near the mall, so the mall was still pretty far away. Careful to avoid cars, Vita sprinted over to the mall.
She reached the doors and leaned against them for a second to catch her breath. As she stood there, she realized she probably should not sprint in the mall. It would be best if she tried to blend in as much as possible. She walked into the mall and scanned for a map. Towards the middle of the room, there were three big maps in a triangle shape. There were a few people around it, but they found what they were looking for and headed off.
Vita stood in front of the map. She was still breathing heavily even though she tried to suppress it. She scanned over the key chart to find the police icon. She found it and she was looking for its position on the map when she felt like she was being stared at. She panicked a little and looked around trying to appear nonchalant. She looked around quickly to make sure Quincy was not looking at her from somewhere, but to her relief, she did not see him. However, as she turned her eyes back to the map, she noticed a boy was staring at her as he sat at a nearby table.
Vita's green eyes locked onto his brown eyes for a moment. His expression reminded her of a dog watching someone curiously. It did not help that his shaggy brown hair gave him more animalistic characteristics. Looking at him, she estimated he could not be more than thirteen years old. Realizing she was staring, she blushed slightly and looked quickly back to the map.
She located the police station on the map and figured out where she needed to go to get there. Before she left, she looked back at the boy who had been staring at her. He was still there, but he was smiling playfully at her. His smile made her think of a dog wagging its tail.
She realized she did not have time to dwell on these things, and she quickly headed to the police station. Though she knew she should not sprint, she still speed-walked to the police station. It took her what seemed like ages to get there and her heart was racing as she got closer. She began to feel a sense of security.
She walked up to the station and there was only one lady ahead of her who was complaining about some kids who were skateboarding in one of the other sections of the mall. Vita waited as patiently as possible behind the lady as the cop wrote down her complaint and thanked her. The woman walked away with a look of self-righteousness on her features and Vita approached the counter.
"Can I help you, miss?" The cop asked and greeted her with a tired smile.
He was an older cop with a graying moustache. Vita could not tell if he was just really tired or if he just did not care.
"Yes! Yes." Vita started, calming herself a little. "I am in trouble and I need help. There was another girl too. She needs some help."
Vita knew she was talking quickly despite her best efforts to remain calm. She could not help but wonder how Yvette had made out and if she was even okay.
"Whoa, calm down miss. What is going on?" The cop said as he turned to the computer on the counter.
Vita watched as he began to type up the other woman's complaint in the computer system.
"This is going to sound kind of crazy, but this guy, he kidnapped this girl and I and he used-" Vita stopped herself short.
She stood there and watched the man slowly typing in the other complaint. His eyes shifted to her for a second as she paused, but then, he went back to typing up the complaint. Vita knew she could not bring up the magic aspect of the kidnap. The cop would not believe her. She did not even believe her.
"He must have used a sleeping pill on us or something." Vita covered. "I need your help. I need to get away from here before he finds me. And, I need to help the other girl. We split up because I figured it would be our best bet, but I have no idea what happened to her after we split up."
Vita rambled on for a while. She was not even sure she was making sense. She looked at the cop behind the counter. He was just staring at the computer now. She waited for a little bit and thought maybe he was processing what she was saying or he was thinking about what he was typing. She was infuriated that he was not taking her situation seriously.
She was just about to say something to the man when she stopped short. She realized the mall had gotten eerily quiet. She was going to turn around to look when she felt two palms almost touching the sides of her neck.
"Well, you made it pretty far, didn't you?" Quincy's voice said from behind her.
Vita's heart was racing furiously. She was caught. She looked at the cop behind the counter and he was not moving. Out of the corner of her eyes, she saw that no one in the mall was moving. Suddenly, she realized Quincy must have frozen time for the people in the mall except for himself and her.
"It is such a pity." Quincy said with a sigh. "I did not even get to play with you. Oh well, we can't have you running around, so it looks like this is your end."
Vita knew Quincy was going to try to harm her or worse, kill her, in the next moment, so she quickly swung her hand around and slapped Quincy's hands away from her. As she did this, she turned her body and her eyes met Quincy's shocked blue eyes as she turned.
"Don't you touch me!" Vita shouted at Quincy as she stood in front of him clenching her fists.
Vita watched as Quincy looked around the room and back to her in amazement. She could not understand the obvious confusion that he was showing on his features. He continued to stare at her in amazement for a while, and then, he smiled and put his hand to his chin thoughtfully.
"Who would have thought I would stumble upon such a treasure out of the blue?" He said to himself happily.
Vita watched him carefully. She was not sure if she should try to run or try to stay and fight him. She assumed either option was risky and would ultimately come down to trying to fight him off. She kept her fists clenched as he stood smiling and looking at her appraisingly.
"Well, I guess this explains a lot, too." He commented to himself out loud. "I had wondered how you two had managed to get away so easily. And to think I was going to kill you just now!"
"What are you talking about?" Vita shouted at Quincy. "Why won't you leave me alone?"
"You mean you don't know?" Quincy asked and looked at her in confusion.
"Know what?" Vita asked furiously.
"Wow…" Quincy said and whistled. "Well, I was beginning to wonder how I had captured you in the first place, but it appears you do not even know. I guess that explains a lot too."
Vita watched in agitation as Quincy was practically talking to himself in front of her.
"Would you explain what you are talking about!" Vita growled at him.
Quincy just smiled and shook his head. His calm and playful attitude annoyed Vita even further.
"Well, how about this," Quincy started and motioned towards the surrounding area. "Why do you think all of the humans in this room are frozen and you are not?"
"How should I know?" Vita growled back at Quincy. "You used….your magic to freeze everyone except for us or something."
"Hmm, and yet, you had to have noticed how confused I was when you moved?" Quincy said baiting her on.
Vita stood in confusion for a moment. She knew Quincy was trying to point something out to her. She looked around at everyone in the room. They were all frozen and the two of them were not.
"Are you trying to say you meant to freeze me too…but it didn't work?" Vita asked in confusion as she looked around.
"Bingo!" Quincy said in a playful manner.
"Don't act cute!" Vita shouted at Quincy. "I still have no idea what is going on or why you kidnapped me!"
"There, there." Quincy said and moved towards her. "Just come with me and I will explain everything to you."
"You stay away from me!" Vita growled and moved away from him while pointing at him.
Vita noticed that Quincy flinched slightly in anticipation when she pointed at him. She wondered what he was expecting to happen. Her annoyance and confusion were at their breaking points. She could not handle having no idea what was going on.
"Tell me what is going on here!" Vita shouted at Quincy.
"Alright, look," Quincy began, still nonchalant. "Let me put it this way. Humans can be frozen using magic spells, but no matter how hard anyone tries, wizards and witches cannot be frozen by other wizards and witches."
After hearing those words, Vita froze. She stared at Quincy in utter disbelief. She was not sure how to react and she felt as though she might faint.
"I…I'm a witch?" Vita whispered to herself.
"B-I-N-G-O!" Quincy said and stepped closer to Vita. "But, everything is okay! I will be sure to take care of you, my dear!"
Vita tried to back away from Quincy, but the police station counter was behind her and prevented her from moving back. She looked behind her for a moment and turned back to find Quincy standing square in front of her.
"Don't worry." Quincy replied in a soothing manner. "I will take really great care of you."
After everything that had happened, Vita was not sure what to think. Her heart was racing a mile a minute and her mind was going in a million directions at once. However, her thoughts were broken when she saw a flash of light come from behind Quincy.
"Look out!" She said and instinctively pushed Quincy aside.
Everything around her seemed to go in slow motion. She watched Quincy's shocked and horrified face as he went flying to the side. In front of her, she saw the yellow flash heading straight for her. She closed her eyes tightly and braced herself for whatever was going to hit her.
Upon impact, she felt a shattering sensation on her skin and gasped in pain. The attack had hit her upper left arm and caused her fall to the ground in pain. She could feel that there was something strange about the attack. It did not hurt nearly as much as she had expected, but she had expected it to kill her. She could feel a strange feeling like a liquid slowing pulsing from the wound but from the inside. She looked at her left arm and saw where the point of impact was. The attack had left a small star shape wound on her arm. She watched the wound and realized there were small bits of liquid coming from the point of impact and slowly trying to spread itself in her body. She was starting to feel a little dizzy and grabbed her head with her hand.
"What the hell have you done, you moron?" Quincy's voice resounded angrily in the background.
Vita lifted her gaze to Quincy who was kneeling on the floor and looked ready to attack. She followed his gaze to the person who had attacked her. She wanted to scream. She looked at Quincy and looked at the person who had attacked. Their facial features were identical. She rubbed her eyes with her right hand and blinked. It was almost like déjà vu except this Quincy look alike had light shaggy brown hair instead of Quincy's short yellow hair. This man stood there staring at her in amazement just like Quincy did when he first found her at the mall.
"Kael, you moron!" Quincy shouted and got up on his feet.
"Well, look at this treasure." Kael said calmly to himself while he ignored Quincy and looked at Vita with his hand on his chin like Quincy had.
Vita felt sick to her stomach. She could not even handle one Quincy, let alone two. She looked at the two of them back and forth. She assumed they must be twin brothers. The resemblance and the piercing blues eyes were too much.
"I am talking to you! Pay attention you buffoon!" Quincy said in a tantrum like manner and fired a red blaze of light at Quincy after motioning his hands strangely.
Vita watched the red blaze fly towards Kael who was still looking at her. At the last moment, Kael moved an inch to the left and avoided the attack. He acted as though it had never even occurred as he continued to stare at Vita.
"Alright, that is it, show off! I am going to kill you and take my woman and live happily ever after!" Quincy hissed at Kael in annoyance.
Vita had wanted to rebut Quincy's apparent claim of her, but the hit she took was taking its toll on her. She was starting to feel more and more dizzy and nauseous and her breathing was starting to become labored. Her body felt strangely tired like she had run a marathon, but the marathon had run her over.
"I think you had better reconsider that." Kael said as he smirked at Quincy.
"What game are you playing?" Quincy replied.
"I was aiming my attack at killing you off." Kael replied and pointed to Vita. "That was not just any attack, brother."
Quincy turned to look at Vita for a moment and his eyes widened. Vita looked at her own wound and noticed the liquid from the attack was still trying to spread itself on her arm slowly.
"You hit her with a poisonous attack?" Quincy replied in dismay.
"Well, I was trying to hit you." Kael replied calmly. "Of course, I have the antidote for the attack since I made it, but if you took her, you would not have enough time to research the poison and cure it before she died."
"You bastard…" Quincy hissed and clenched his fists.
"If you leave peacefully now, I may just let you live since I will be distracted by taking 'your' woman." Kael responded mockingly.
"That is enough!" Vita interjected into their squabble. "I would like to point it out right now that I belong to no one, you pompous, magical jerks!"
The two looked at Vita in surprise. There was a moment of stunned silence as the two brothers stared at Vita again in unison. Vita felt as though she was the only one who had not noticed the elephant in the room. She looked back and forth between the two of them. It seemed like they were looking at her arm. Suddenly, she realized she was not feeling as sick as she had been earlier, though she was still fairly tired. She looked at the wound on her arm. Where the spindles of the liquid had been from the attack, there were now golden layers of light shining through and eliminating the wound. She watched in surprise as the golden light worked its way towards the source of the attack.
"It is…healing me?" Vita whispered out loud in disbelief.
"Ha! Where is your trump card now, brother." Quincy said mockingly to Kael.
"How was I supposed to know she could heal herself, you idiot!" Kael hissed back at Quincy's mocking gestures. "You were just as surprised as I was, you idiot."
"How dare you call me an idiot!" Quincy replied angrily.
"Well, a fool is a fool is a fool, fool!" Kael said mockingly.
Vita watched in awkward confusion as the two of them spat insults and witty retorts back and forth. Even though they were fighting and mocking each other, she felt a strange playful subtext which confused her. Suddenly, she realized that now would be her chance to try to run away. Vita looked at her arm and saw it was completely healed. She was not sure how it happened, but she felt back to normal aside from her slight fatigue. She looked around her and noticed there was a set of doors to the outside nearby. She hoped the two would be too distracted to notice her trying to make a break for it.
She got up quickly and ran towards the doors, but she did not have a chance in the world of escaping. In an instant, Quincy and Kael had both sent attacks in her direction. She thought they were aiming for her and missed. She realized both attacks were meant for the doors when she grabbed the door handles. Not only were the doors suddenly locked, but the doors also shocked Vita when she tried to open them. The shock was not too painful, but the surprise caused her to fall backwards onto her butt.
"Ooo a slight electric shock? Nice addition…" Quincy commented on the shock spell which Kael had sent to put on the door.
"Oh well, thank you." Kael responded. "I thought that way it would prevent her from trying to open other doors as well for fear of getting shocked."
"Ooooo, very well thought out!" Quincy praised and nodded.
Vita looked at the two in utter disbelief.
"What the heck is wrong with you two?" Vita shouted at them. "You can't just go around zapping people through doors! And how can you go from fighting and throwing insults at each other to praising each other? And weren't you trying to kill him to start with?"
Vita watched in annoyance as the two of them looked at each for a moment and then smiled at her.
"One can always appreciate a good idea!" Quincy responded in a matter of fact way which avoided most of the major questions.
"And we don't really want to kill each other. We have to kill each other." Kael commented.
"You have to kill each other?" Vita asked in confusion.
"That is neither here nor there. What is going on right now is one of us is going to kill the other and take you!" Quincy replied with a cheerful smile.
"How can you be so cheerful about this? You really want to kill your brother?" Vita asked in sad confusion, her green eyes looking sympathetically at the two brothers.
The two brothers looked at each other seriously and there was a long pause before anyone said anything.
"No, we really don't want to." Quincy responded seriously. "But, we have to do it."
Vita was surprised at Quincy's serious response, but she was annoyed with their nonchalant way of dealing with this issue. She was annoyed and confused with everything which had been going on around her for the past few hours. Vita got up quickly and walked towards the both of them in annoyance. She stood halfway in between the two of them.
"I really do not get you two. He just said he didn't want to kill you and you just said you didn't want to kill him, then don't!" Vita said, annoyed.
The two brothers stared at each other in serious silence. Vita had no idea what was going on. She was so tired of all of this nonsense.
"It is because they are cursed." A matter of fact voice responded from behind her.
She turned around to see the shaggy haired boy who had been staring at her earlier standing behind her. Instantly, she realized he was moving while everyone else was frozen.
"You're a wizard too?" Vita asked tiredly.
"Yep!" The boy replied cheerfully. "Name's Hyle! I thought there was something strange about you earlier and boy was I spot on!"
"Hm? What do you mean?" Vita asked in confusion.
"Well, you're a witch." Hyle replied with happy and matter of fact tone.
"Y-yeah…" Vita responded hesitantly. She still was not sure what she thought of the whole situation.
"You still don't get it?" Hyle asked in confusion. "You have to know?"
"Know what?" Vita asked in even more confusion.
"Hyle, she doesn't know." Quincy cut in. "She doesn't know anything about the magical world. She was raised completely engulfed in the human world."
Vita looked at Quincy while he was talking and then back to Hyle, who was staring at her in playful surprise. Vita was slightly surprised the three guys appeared to know each other, but she assumed it was due to the fact they were all magical.
"Wooowww, you were raised completely by humans?" Hyle responded with curiosity.
Hyle started to come closer to Vita, but Quincy and Kael both made menacing motions which caused him to stop in his tracks. Awkward tensions filled the room at the three-way standoff.
"Wait, so Hyle was it?" Vita interjected into the awkward tension.
"Yep! That's my name!" Hyle responded with a playful grin.
Vita appraised Hyle's nonchalant playfulness as genuine which created a slight sense of trust.
"Hyle, what is it I should know?" Vita asked.
"Hmm, well…" Hyle began playfully. "I will only tell you if you tell me your name."
"Oh, I'm sorry." Vita said surprised. "My name is Vita."
She realized she had been so absorbed in everything she forgot to introduce herself.
'Though, given the circumstances, I don't even know that common courtesies apply.' Vita thought to herself through her massive confusion.
"Wow! That's such a pretty name!" Hyle exclaimed with a big smile.
"Thank you." Vita replied with a slight laugh at Hyle's response.
"Stop flirting with her, boy." Quincy interjected degradingly.
"You're just jealous you did not get her to laugh first." Kael interrupted mockingly.
"Why are siding with him?" Quincy replied to Kael.
"Well, it is true." Kael said calmly.
"I could get her to laugh if I wanted to." Quincy responded.
"Well, I suppose." Kael responded with a smirk. "You are a clown after all."
"Ooo, why you!" Quincy shouted at Kael.
"Anyways…" Hyle said breaking into the fight. "Vita, so you don't know anything about the magical world?"
"No…Until a few hours ago, I had no idea one even existed…" Vita said with an exasperated sigh. "Is there something I need to know in particular?"
"Well, it probably would have helped if you had known from the beginning." Hyle said sympathetically. "You see, there are not many females in our world."
Vita looked around the mall confusedly.
"There are a lot of women in just this mall though…" Vita commented.
There was a collective laugh from the three wizards.
"A wizard and a human? That doesn't raise any red flags for you just thinking about it?" Kael commented and raised an eyebrow.
"Is that not allowed or something?" Vita asked in confusion and annoyance.
She was annoyed that they treated her like she was a moron or a child because she did not know anything about the magical world.
"Well, it is allowed, but it is dumb on the part of a wizard." Quincy responded. "You see, a human-wizard hybrid dilutes the magic abilities of the children."
"Oh? So wizards can't be with humans because it will create weak children…" Vita started confused. "Well, why is there a shortage of witches?..."
Vita looked from each of the three guys waiting for an answer. She watched as the three of them looked at her for a long time without answering.
"No one knows the answer to that question." A deep voice responded suddenly.
An intense chill swept the room. The hair on Vita's arms stood on end upon the entrance of this unknown person. She turned to face where the voice had come from, between the positions of Quincy and Kael. Upon seeing the person, Vita felt an unreasonable fear rise in her. Her eyes widened as she took in the sight of this person.
From what Vita could tell, this dark person was a male. He was covered in a dark gray armor with various spirals and markings engraved into the hard metal. His face was covered by a frightening helmet which was made of the same dark gray metal as the rest of the suit. At the top of the helmet, there was a tail of long, dark black hair trailing down to the upper back of the person. Vita assumed the hair was a decorative ornament like those seen on Roman generals' helmets to indicate a high position. Vita could not make out any discernable features about this man except his dark piercing eyes which peered through the eyelets of the helmet. The whole body of this man was encompassed in clouds of darkness which induced fear in all of the on lookers.
"The Black Knight!" Quincy, Kael and Hyle resounded in unison.
Vita could tell by the expression on the three guys that this Black Knight was serious trouble. She wanted to scream out of pure helplessness. Each time she thought things could not get worse, they did. Part of her wanted to just give up but the other part wanted to fight off this horrible nightmare.
Two flashes quickly maneuvered in front her and she panicked. She was slightly relieved when she saw Quincy and Kael standing in front of her in protective positions. The two glared at each other for a moment and were afraid of what the other would do, but this passed quickly.
"Well, I guess we should put our differences aside for now and get rid of this party crasher." Quincy said in good cheer.
"Pfft, like I would need your help to take someone down." Kael responded with a smirk. "But since you're here…"
"Tsh, jerk." Quincy said with his own smirk in response.
"Wait a minute!" Vita said impulsively and grabbed each of their arms with her hands to stop them. "Y-you can't fight him."
She was scared. It was uncontrollable. No matter how much she tried, she only felt this immobilizing sensation holding her body. She knew the others could see her fear. Though, she could tell the others were scared as well.
Quincy and Kael looked at Vita in surprise and then, they looked at each other in surprise. Vita had no idea what was going on. It seemed as though she had committed some sort of social oddity.
"Don't worry!" Quincy said in his overly flamboyant way. "I will take this guy out and then, we can leave and live happily ever after!"
"Except, he's telling my story." Kael interjected smugly.
"Yea, you wish!" Quincy said and shook his fist at Kael.
Watching the two brothers put Vita more at ease for some reason. She felt they would be able to protect her from this engulfing darkness.
"You two certainly are brothers." Vita said with a laugh.
The two stopped and stared at her again like she had done something odd. She figured they thought it was weird she was laughing in the middle of this dire situation. She blushed slightly as the two kept staring at her. In response the two, smiled at her with the same playful grin.
"Move out of the way and let me take the girl." The Black Knight interrupted.
"Yea, like that is going to happen!" Quincy and Kael shouted.
Quincy's response was more flamboyant than Kael's calm response, but it amused Vita that they said the same thing.
"Well," The Black Knight responded. "The cursed brothers are going to die together then? Hm, I suppose that is one way to end a curse."
"Oh, what do you know!" Quincy shouted at the Black Knight.
"We'll take you out and get right back to where we left off." Kael replied.
The two broke away from Vita's grasp and ran over to attack the Black Knight. In the next moment, Vita could only observe flashes of light intertwined with clouds of darkness. She had no idea what to do. Suddenly, she realized she had not seen Hyle jump into the fight. She looked around the mall quickly and did not see him anywhere. She assumed he must have gotten frightened and ran off. She could not blame him. Vita turned her attention back to the current fight. She was surprised Quincy and Kael were working so well together. Everything seemed to be in equal balance between the three parties fighting each other.
'It is a shame they have to fight each other.' She thought to herself. 'They seem like they love each other. I…I wish they weren't cursed.'
For a moment, there was a slight lull in the battle. It seemed as though the battle stopped for an instant but it resumed just as quickly as it had stopped. Vita wondered how things were. She knew that no matter who won, she was going to be in the same predicament, but she did not want to end up engulfed in that maddening darkness.
'I wish I could just go home.' Vita thought to herself and a tear ran down her face.
More than anything, Vita wished she could get away from all of this magical nonsense and go back to her normal life. She could not help but feel helpless and lost.
Above her, a light flash appeared suddenly and vanished. She watched as a little piece of paper wafted down from above her. She was slightly afraid to touch it, but she caught as it fell into her hands. She simply held the paper for a second. She was afraid of what it was or what it could do.
She lifted her gaze and watched the fight. There had not been another lull since the one time earlier in the fight. She looked back at the paper in her hands. Slowly, she unfolded the small piece of paper. She was surprised when she read it.
Read Aloud:
Sed per argentea pennis ageless tempus derivare mihi volo ut ubi.
She did not know what was going on. She stared at the paper in confusion.
'Who would send me this?' She thought to herself as she stood in the mall. 'What does it even mean?...'
As she thought this and stared at the paper, she felt the words shift in her mind and she understood what the words meant.
'On the silver wings through ageless time, shift me to where I want to be?' She thought to herself.
She felt a slight headache as she read the words. She grabbed her head and felt her pulse thumping behind her temple. She was not sure what was going on, but from what she could tell from the words, she could use this piece of paper to go where she wanted to go.
'This must be some sort of spell?' She thought to herself.
Again, she wondered who would send her this piece of paper to help her get away. She wondered if the boy Hyle could have sent it.
'He seemed nice enough and maybe he felt bad for leaving?' She wondered.
She looked back up to the battle in front of her. She felt an overwhelming sense of happiness knowing she could leave all of this behind her. Though, she was still slightly weary of the paper which fell from the sky. Weighing the options quickly, she decided to try her luck with the piece of paper. She took a deep breath and prepared to say the words.
"S-Sed per argentea pennies ageless tempus derivare mihi volo ut ubi." She said aloud slowly.
While she was reading the incantation, a golden light appeared on the floor and above her and quick white flashes started to circle around her. She was slightly afraid, but she continued reading the words aloud. By the end of the chant, she noticed the fighting had ceased and the three fighters were staring in her direction.
In slow motion, she watched as Quincy tried to make a mad dash towards her, but was stopped by the Black Knight who was attacked by Kael in return. She felt extremely tired suddenly and her eyes began to droop. As she closed her eyes, she was engulfed in the golden and white lights. The only thing she could think of was home, but the last images she saw were Quincy and Kael hurrying towards her.