All At Once

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Chapter Two: My Oh My (2)

Somewhere in Magix

"It's about time you got back here; Serafina's been looking for you." A girl with platinum blonde hair and icy blue eyes commented, watching as a tall black haired young man entered the small room where she had been sitting, reading a book while her older sister sat filing her nails. "Where have you been Lantis?"

"That's really none of your business now is it?" Lantis snapped. He sat down on one of the couches littering the room and pointedly ignored the brunette.

"Harsh much?"

The older girl, this one with short sandy brown hair and green-gold eyes looked up from her nails and sighed. "Lantis is just upset because he went skirt chasing on Earth and came back empty handed." She explained flippantly before going back to her manicure.

Lantis demanded looking pissed but also a little embarrassed. "How did you find out?"

"Selia told me." the sandy haired girl replied calmly as she went back to more pressing matters.

"And how did she find out"

"I followed you of course." The blonde answered flippantly

"Selia, would it kill you to mind your own business just once?" Lantis sighed. "In any case, if you followed me then you should know that I was outnumbered."

"You were beat by two girls." Selia baited.

"Do tell." Serafina commented abandoning her manicure. "Who were you chasing Lantis?"

"A red haired specialist by the name of Samara (3) I thought she might have that sword we're looking for." Lantis explained.

"And the other girl?"

"I ended up on Earth with a few of my minions and that's when she showed up. I have no idea who she is."

"So, you were beaten by two girls without magical powers?" Serafina's voice was shrill. "You're one of the most powerful wizards in the magical dimension, how could you let that happen?"

"Both of those girls had magic." Lantis protested, glaring at Selia

Serafina nodded. "Go on."

"The specialist seems to possess some sort of fire magic and the Earth girl shot spores at my minions… and she had a necklace with a green stone. The stone glowed and blinded me."

"That hardly makes it better." Selia snickered. "One of the most powerful wizards, the most powerful one at Cloud Tower blinded by a stone. Honestly Lantis you're pathetic."

Lantis ignored Selia's jab and looked over at Serafina. "Do you think that the stone is the one we need?"

"Let's just concentrate on finding the sword and getting more information on these girls." Serafina replied getting up and pacing about the room. "You say that these girls are still on Earth?"

"They should be."

"Then maybe one of us should pay them a visit." Selia suggested.

"I'm already ahead of you on that, as usual. Delia is already scouting the area with one of her pets."

"Delia! But she's just a freshman." Serafina protested instantly worried about the younger of her twin sisters. "Why not just turn ourselves over to the authorities right now?"

"Relax Fina; I'm going back up there to extra support."

"Yeah, that's so reassuring Lantis." Selia commented rolling her eyes. "My twin sister with her little animals against two girls who brought you down."

"Enough bickering!" Serafina ordered. "Lantis, you may leave now. But I don't want to even catch a scent of you until you've obtained some sort of information about those girls."

"Got it Fina." Lantis replied. Then with a slight bow, the onyx haired young man created a portal and headed back to earth to catch up with Delia.

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Back on Earth Felicity had no idea how she'd managed to get that girl to her house on her bike without dropping everything into the street. Nor did she have any idea why her mother's face paled and her green eyes threatened to bulge from their sockets when she examined the face of the unconscious girl and the insignia on her black leather jacket. All Felicity knew was that for the first time in the sixteen years she'd been alive there was no logical explanation for what she had just witnessed.

"So, what exactly happened to you in the park?" Flora asked her daughter? The two of them were relaxing in the front room preparing to tackle some school work and waiting for their guest to wake up. Felicity was lounging in her favorite chair by the window taking bites of a sandwich while trying to finish up her biology paper and Flora was getting ready to grade some tests an unopened answer book sat on the coffee table between her and the couch where their guest was napping.

"I already told you mom." Felicity replied tersely.

"I know, but you were talking so fast that it was hard to understand everything." Flora answered apologetically.

Felicity blew a stray piece of brunette hair off of her forehead. "Fine. Like I said I was trying to get some down time in before coming back here to finish up my paper and I saw a flash of light and some noises coming from a few feet away." She paused and took a bite of her sandwich. "So even though the logical side of my brain said to just ignore it, I went to investigate and I saw that girl battling with a few monsters."

"What was she fighting?"

"You heard me, a few little red beastie things." Felicity raised her grey eyes to meet her mother's emerald ones. "I know it sounds totally off the wall and you'll think that school is finally getting to me, but she was fighting them off with a blue broadsword along with the occasional fireball."

Flora dropped her grading pen where it fell to the hardwood floor with a plunk. "What was she using?" she asked hoping she'd heard wrong, but knowing in her heart that she hadn't.

"A shimmering blue broadsword and fire. And then this necklace that Vanessa gave me decided to glow and blinded this guy who'd grabbed me for interfering. Oh and I shot pollen spores at some of the beasties." Felicity finished dully before slumping back in her chair. "Please tell me I'm going mad (4) by degrees."

Instead of confirming her daughter's beliefs, Flora decided to tell her something completely different. "Lissie, I don't think you're going crazy. Sweetie I believe that there's something very important that I have to tell you."

"About what?" Felicity asked suspiciously.

"About who you really are."

"What do you mean, 'Who I really am', I'm Felicity."

"And you're a fairy, just like me."

"What?! Mom that's not even remotely funny!" Felicity shouted standing up.

"Lissie, calm down." Flora soothed.

"I will not calm down!"

"At the very least lower your voice."

"Absolutely not!"

Amid all the commotion, the other girl woke up and looked from Felicity to Flora. "Where am I?"

Flora and Felicity stopped their argument to look over at the red haired girl who was sitting up and staring at both of them curiously. "Hello." Flora greeted as her daughter glared silver daggers at her head.

"Hi," the girl replied politely. "Where am I? And what happened."

"You collapsed after that incident in the park, so I took you back here to my house." Felicity explained her voice still friendly even while she was glaring at her mother with a look that should have felled her on the spot.

"Oh, that was nice of you. Thanks for helping me by the way."

"Eh, yeah you're welcome. I'm Felicity Di Fiore by the way and this is my mom, Flora." Felicity gestured to her mom. "Who are you?"

"I'm Samara Daphne Giamarco princess of Domino. But everyone just calls me Sama."

"Nice to meet you. " Flora said shaking Samara's hand. "How did Lissie help you out?"

"I was on my way to Magix to attend Red Fountain when those creatures came along and attacked me forcing me to land here." Samara began. "I was over powered and this young black haired man took my sword and I thought I was done for. But then Felicity showed up and took care of them. It was really something to see all that pollen all over the place and then that stone."

"Felicity, I'm impressed." Flora commented smiling at her daughter.

Felicity's voice was icy when she replied. "Well, I'm not. I'm freaked out. I'm supposed to be filling out college applications not becoming a human plant."

"But Lissie it's like I told you before. You're not a normal human girl, you're a fairy." Flora argued.

"I wish you'd stop saying that, it's not funny."

"But it's the truth."

"No it's not mom!" Felicity shouted standing up and glaring at her mother. "The truth is that my father abandoned you when you were pregnant with me and you found work with the mother of a friend of yours and then worked your way through college. The truth is that you've been raising me for the past sixteen years on your own. The truth is not that I'm a fairy or any other type of mythical creature because they don't exist." At this last comment she looked straight at Samara daring the red haired girl to contradict her. "Now if you'll both excuse me, I'm going to my room to finish my homework."

"Oh dear," Flora muttered sinking down into her chair after Felicity had stormed up the stairs. "That didn't come out how I had planned."

Samara laid a comforting hand on Flora's shoulder. "Some things never do."

Meanwhile down the street from where Felicity was now working out her anger on her calculus homework, a black eyed young woman with her pale blonde hair in a ponytail and an athletic build was strolling along the sidewalk with a rather large dog that to the untrained eye looked like an over grown Siberian husky. However, this was no ordinary dog and its handler was no ordinary woman. The dog was a tracker, much less conspicuous than hunter trolls, these dogs were coveted by magical beings, and this one belonged to Delia Foxglove. Delia was on a mission to find two girls who'd ruined her friend's plan. One yip and a howl from her dog brought a light to Delia's coal black eyes, her prey was just two houses down.

"Good work, Lugh (5)" She said stroking her pet's head. "Lantis will be thrilled, let's get going."

Well, finally another chapter done. I'm sorry for the wait and the way the ending of this chapter is. Now please review. I'll do some more work tomorrow.

1.)Big Casino by Jimmy Eat World

2.)Song by the Wreckers

3.)According to season 3 of the RAI version, Samara is Sky's mother's name

4.)Another way to say crazy or insane. Yes I'm American, but I enjoy using UK English when I can

5.)Pronounced Lou, he's a trickster and the Celtic god of Light.