"Is there anything I can do to help?" I asked my grandma as she began typing on a computer.
My grandma looked at me and smiled. "At the moment: no," she said. She had this look in her eyes that told me something was up. "But don't worry, you'll be needed real soon."
So, for the next hour I sat around and watch the others prepare for the ritual which would transfer the Animal Spirits back into the Crystals. They brought out three pedestals. Each pedestal had a hole cut out of it, where the Crystal would sit. Then, they began writing on the floor, going from the three pedestals to the center of the room where they had drawn a circle that was about five feet wide.
At two o'clock my grandma called everyone to come to her. "I am almost finished with the preparations. Have you set up the pedestals?" she asked, not turning away from the computer.
"We have," Casey said.
"Good. Now then, I want Case, Mai, and Thomas to get themselves in position and begin meditating. We'll start the final process in about fifteen minutes," she said. And, with that Case, Mai, and Thomas went and sat down in the circle. Each of them were facing one of the pedestals.
Ten minutes passed before my grandma said anything. "Alright, Caleb. I need you to place each of the Crystals into the pedestals," she said, turning her attention away from the computer for the first time in hours. "You'll notice that the pedestals will match the center color of the Crystals."
I walked over to the pedestal in front of Case and placed the Crystal with the red center in the cutout on the pedestal. Then I placed the blue and yellow Crystals in their rightful place in front of Thomas and Mai respectively.
My grandma clapped her hands together. "Alright then. Casey, Lily, Theo: get into position."
Casey walked over to the red pedestal, Lily to the yellow, and Theo to the blue. Then, they put their hands over the Crystals and held them there. Their hands stood in place, completely and perfectly still.
"Well then, shall we begin?" she asked. Casey, Lily, and Theo nodded. And, with that, my grandma pressed a button on the computer that opened a door just above the three in the circle. It was shaped like a telescope, with the big eye piece closed. With a press of a second button, the cap came off and a light began to fill the room. Then, Case and Casey began to glow red. "What you're seeing now, Caleb, is their spirit. Soon, their spirits will link," my grandma said. And she was right. Not long after she told me, the two spirits linked up. It looked as if Case was giving his grandpa energy. Then Lily and Mai began to glow yellow as Theo and Thomas began to glow blue. Soon, their spirits linked up. They all had calm facial expressions, but I could tell that something big was about to begin.
Then, Lily began to scream as if she was in pain. But, the screaming didn't last long as a brown spirit came out of her body and took the shape of a bear. Then, the bear spirit transferred itself into the Crystal. The Crystal then changed into a light brown color with a small figure in the middle of it.
Theo soon followed as a dark green spirit came out of his body and took the shape of a crocodile. Like the bear spirit, it transferred itself into the Crystal, turning the Crystal a green color with a small figure within it.
Several minutes passed and still Casey had not budged. Then, he began to howl. Slowly, a gray spirit began to form around him. However, the spirit kept trying to return to Casey. Casey began to howl even louder, screaming as loud as he could. The spirit did not want to leave him.
"They can't hold out much longer," my grandma said. "Case is giving as much energy to Casey as he can spare without killing himself and Casey is giving all he as to get that spirit out." She and I watched in despair. I didn't know how to help him. Then, my grandma got up and walked past Casey and into the circle, right behind Case. Then, she formed a hand sign and her spirit began to for. From there, she transferred it to Case, so he could, then, convert it and transfer it to Casey, or so I thought.
Ten minutes passed and Casey still continued to yell and scream. I felt useless and pathetic. I clench my fist in anger. If only I could help them, I said to myself. I looked at Thomas and Mai, then to Lily and Theo and wondered why they couldn't help. As another minute passed Casey's yelling got even louder. And, buy this time, I was getting angry. I couldn't understand why the gray spirit would not leave.
People always told me that if you got mad enough, you would see red. Well, I don't know if it was because I was mad, or if it was because I had this guilt within me because I could help, but there was a sudden flash of purple and silver. Then, out of no where, my body began to glow a light blue. I knew then what it was that I had to do. I walked over to Casey and placed my hands on top of his. I could feel myself giving him power. I began to feel weak and, as I was about to collapse, the gray spirit completely emerged from Casey's body and formed into a coyote. Then, just like the other two spirits, the coyote spirit transferred itself into the Crystal, changing it into a gray color with a small figure with in the middle.
Casey and I both fell on the ground as the link between him and Case ended. "Well, that was fun," Casey said sarcastically.
I looked at my grandma. "Well, what next?"