Ch 4

They flew across fields and rivers, hills and valley, towns and outpost, with such speed they passed over them that the landscape beneath them was nothing but a blur, even so the coven of Greendale was quickly catching up to them.

"Hold your breath!" Harvey said to her, Sabrina did just that and as soon as that happened, Harvey turned his head back to their pursuers and he blew at them the breath in his lungs, which came out as a mighty gust of wind that struck and derailed the flight path of about a quarter of the coven, making them loose their balance and forcing the rest to correct their course.

Acting on instinct, Sabrina quickly mumbled a spell, all the while still held her mouth shut and immediately the gust of wind curled up and turned into a vortex that gave birth to a small twister in the middle of the sky.

Surprise was on both Harvey's and Sabrina's minds as they saw the devastating effect that combining her magic and his alien strength brought them.

"Could you"" Already on it!" Sabrina said and started on an incantation, awhile Harvey maneuvered her in a way that his head, now stood protectively over her own in order to shield her from the extreme air resistance that they were about to experience.

The Greendale coven was starting to recover from the small vortex.

"The bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame. But not on this dark night, give my flight lightening's swift might!" Sabrina cast her spell on Harvey, just as the coven was now close enough that several spells were launched at them.
They exploded around the witch and the kryptonian, Sabrina felt her whole body tremble from the impact as pain soared trough her.

"Just how bad was Harvey hit? He shielded me from most of the explosions." Sabrina thought as guilt overtook her. Her plan was not going as she expected it too.

Just then her spell kicked in and she felt herself bee squeeze tightly against Harvey's chest from the force of the acceleration.

They were quickly loosing their pursuers who disappeared over the horizon behind them.

She let out a breath of relief and closed her eyes, managing a moment's respite from danger.

Then and there a beam of light struck her eyes, she opened them to see that in front of them the sun was beginning to rise over the horizon!

"Harvey, you can slow down now!"

"I am slowing down!" Harvey said in despair as they were now moving so fast that Sabrina could see how the sun was moving from now over the ocean's zenith.

They were traveling so fast that now they where over the Atlantic!

And as soon as they realized that they were over a great vastness of blue, just as quickly they were over land.

"Rabbit, rabbit, don't you dare! That's enough speed you mangy hare! I take from you the gift of speed, so go be myrtle. Be at your own pace, you slow turtle!" Sabrina said the moment they were over land and Harvey started decelerating.

It took a while, since the inertia was so great that not even superboy could stop suddenly.

By the time they where slow enough to safely land, they spotted a very interesting sight that told them just where exactly where they.

"Is that….the Eiffel Tower?"
"Yeah…by Raoh it is! " Harvey said as they flew over Paris and landed just behind Notre Dame.

"Won't it be a problem is people see you land here?" Sabrina said as Harvey put her down.

"It's still early, no one's out in the street. Besides what are they going to say? That two angels descended on Notre Dame? I doubt anyone will believe them." Harvey said and they both shared a chuckle at that.

They started walking down the street till they found the first cafe that was open for business and sat down in it's chair.

The waitress came to them and without even asking put down two baskets of croissants and two mugs of hot chocolate.

The waitress said something that made Sabrina's face go red like crazy.
"What?"

"She said congratulations to us." Sabrina told him and it was Harvey's turn to blush red.

"That was one hell of a boost that you gave me Brina!"

"Tell me about it! I did those spells before, but they never came out like this. The synergy between us is crazy!"

"Well I always knew you where the only one for me."
"That's so cheesy! Are you going to declare your undying and eternal devotion to me Harv?"

"Well, we are in Paris." Harvey said as they continued to enjoy their snack.
When the bill came Harvey gave two 100 dollar ones to the waitress before they departed.

"Do you always carry that much money on you?"

"Yeah, it's easier then credit cards. I mean when you can fly like me you end up in places with no ATM from time to time, I'm just glad that she took it, I don't have an euros on me." Harvey said as they made their way down the Champse Elyse and took pictures with several of the most important landmarks in Paris. But even that could not distract them long from their current situation.

"We're going to have to go back soon." Harvey said as they looked over Paris from atop the roof of the Eifel Tower. Sabrina did an invisibility spell on them and Harvey flew them up there.

"I wish we didn't have to."

"If that's what you want….we could." Harvey said with hesitation in his voice. Sabrina, who had been leaning on his shoulder raised her head from there and looked into his eyes.
Harvey stared back.

"If you want, we could stay here."

"But…..but how?" She asked, and at that Harvey put his hand inside his jacket and pulled out. Much to Sabrina's shock and surprise, a great wad of hundred dollar bills.

"Money is not an issue…when you got all my powers it easy for me to make a lot of it. I mean, you should see what's inside our basement, that we mine when the rest of the miners go home. If you want we could stay here, buy a house or an apartment." Harvey said in earnest.

"Stay with you in Paris? We….we can actually do that?"

"Yeah. We could go each day to the cafes. There you could fight the good fight against all society's injustices, start organizations that could change the world."

"And you could paint and draw us as I give speeches and sell your painting's on the shore of the Seine…We could actually do it…..have a good life here in Paris…" Sabrina said as a smile edged on her face for a moment.

"But that's not what you want, is it?"

But only for a moment, for Harvey's words and knowing gaze quickly made her smile go away.

"No…..I don't. I can't…not fight them Harvey…..Every one back home, from my aunts, to Ambrose, to the High Priest, to what few witches I know said that I can't have it both ways. Either night or light, but I want both. And every time the whole world seems to be telling me I'm wrong. I want to prove that I'm right. I can't stop, I don't want to stop. I want to go back and charge head first, and damn whatever it standing in my way, especially those pisscared of angel assholes that makes up the Greendale coven. " Sabrina said, her voice laden with guilt and regret.

To that Harvey hugged her tightly and gave her forehead a kiss as they both gave each other a bitter smile.

"Paris ain't going anywhere."

"We'll always have Paris." Sabrina said as the couple shared a bitter-sweet smile and kiss.

They stayed there for about another half hour, before they decided to redo their stunt and by the time they returned to the Greendale, it was still nighttime, but very early morning.
Harvey and Sabrina gave each other a parting kiss and hug and Sabrina walked up to her house.

Just as she entered the yard, from the woods came the Greendale coven.

"I will not sign the Book of the Beast!"

"Though must!" High Priest Blackwood said as they made their way towards her.

"This house is protected by an enchanted ring, any witch who enters it without permission will be burned in hellfire!" Ambrose's voice was heard coming from the doorway where he, Zelda and Hilda stood.

At that the coven stopped in their tracks.

"This is not over!" Blackwood said as they withdrew from there.

Harvey had been hiding in what was left of the darkness, ready in a moment's notice to fly headfirst in and help Sabrina and her family.

After he saw the coven retreat and Sabrina go back inside her home. Harvey walked, not flew, towards his house. He now knew what needed to be done.

Or rather what measure he had to pre-prepare, just in case things escalated further.

He got back to his house, and in the back of his house was his covered swimming pool.

He kneeled down and lifted the pool straight out of the ground, for beneath it lay a door, one that was hidden in such a way and was such a massive block of stone that you needed to have kryptonian blood inside you in order to access it.

There, was the one room he was shown into when he was still a boy. A room that he hoped he would never have to visit again in his lifetime, except to pass down it's existence to his children.

It was the one coming thing that his human ancestry and his kryptonian ancestry had in coven.

It was the room filled with weapons.

It was the war room.

"Here's looking at you kid." Harvey said as he entered the room.

He hoped that nothing of what was inside was needed.

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''Keeps the reader turning the pages''- Pennie Mae Cartawick, author of 'Sherlock Holmes: The Gaslight Collection'

"Think of Lovecraft and Poe, and then put on 3D glasses." -Howard Lipman- Author of the 'Delphic Oracle' and Tesla's Tower'

What if in the struggle between magic and science, magic was the victor?

What if technology disappeared and magic became what was used to colonize the galaxy?

What if now magic is used to wage war across the stars?

The imperial fleet's only hope for victory is the 'Hero of the Empire' Metternich. Too bad that the man many consider to be their greatest hero, is in fact their greatest coward.

Metty once more finds himself in a desperate situation on the Planet of Volun 4. Newly promoted to the rank of Commodore, he must take command of the defeated 378th fleet cops and lead it to victory against a superior foe, and he must do that before the arrival of an even greater enemy force, while also keeping his secret cowardice hidden from his own troops, lest they turn on him.

Meanwhile rebellion stirs in the Occupied Territories, as a mysterious figure called 'Nobody' emerges to rally the rebels and lead them to victory against the Empire. But is he truly their salvation?

Enemies to his front, vengeful rebels to his rear and surrounding him are allies that may betray him at any moment.

Just another weekday for poor ol' Metty.

-Riddle of Ruin-by RMSolea

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