Chapter 7

Princess Amentia screamed in pain as the knives entered her chest. She tried to struggle for a few seconds before her head slouched forward. The three witches removed the knives before taking a step back with a smile on their faces.

"Now we have the power of the Shadowfire." Icy said as she looked at the other witches.

"Let's try out our new powers." Darcy said as she turned to look at the door.

Each witch raised their hands at the people in the hallway. As they watched the three witches began to build dark energy in their hands. The black balls of energy continued to grow as everyone began to dive in different directions to avoid the attacks. The blasts hit the wall behind everyone leaving a hole large enough to walk through.

"We need to get out of here." Helia said as he looked at the hole in the wall.

Everyone stood up as fast as they could and took off running down the hallway that they where in. Raquel was the last to turn around a corner just before a blast of dark energy hit the wall. One of the small pieces of the wall that was blasted flew off hitting Raquel in the top of her right shoulder.

Brandon turned to see Raquel running still but she was covering her right shoulder with her left hand, he could also see the pain in her face. As they continued to run he could see blood slowly trickle down her arm. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw another blast of dark magic heading right at Raquel's head.

Brandon turned quickly and pushed Raquel sending both of them through a door into one of the side rooms. He quickly stood up and pulled Raquel to a spot where no one could see them. As they sat there they could see Stormy look inside the room quickly before continuing on.

"Let me see how bad it is." Brandon said as he started to remove Raquel's hand from her shoulder.

After she removed her hand Brandon could see the wound, it was small but the blood was flowing from it with no signs of stopping any time soon. Brandon grabbed the end of his cape and tore part of it off. He then tied it around Raquel's shoulder over the wound.

"That should help stop the bleeding." Brandon said with a smile on his face, "I sorry but it looks like there will be a scar though."

"That's fine." Raquel said as she stood up.

Brandon peeked out of the door before he waved for Raquel to follow. They both ran down the hall that everyone had been going down just before they had to dive into the room. At the end of the hallway there were two different halls they could go down.

"Which way did they go?" Raquel asked.

"I don't know." Brandon said as he looked down the same hall Raquel was looking at.

A few seconds and they heard a crash coming from one of the hallways. Rushing toward the sound Brandon and Raquel neared the door that they could hear sounds from within. As Brandon reached to open the door they could hear giggling coming from inside. Brandon looked at Raquel before he open the door. After opening the door they both rushed into the room and after a few steps they could feel a force placed on their bodies causing them to fly into different walls in the room that they had just entered. Both Raquel and Brandon looked around seeing everyone else in the same predicament.

"I see that someone is missing." Darcy said as she looked at everyone.

"No matter when we finish destroying them will go and find Riven and then it will be his turn." Stormy said with a smirk on her face as she looked at Musa.

"Now who should be first?" Icy asked from the chair that she was sitting at.

Icy stood up and walked from person to person looking at the closely. When she reached Mirta she looked at the fairy that was stuck to the wall in front of her. Icy's smile grew as she looked into Mirta's eyes. With a quick hand motion Mirta dropped to the ground.

"We might as well start with the failed witch." Icy said as she looked at Mirta.

"Fine but let's have some fun first." Stormy said as she walked over and lifted Mirta off of the ground by her hair.

Stormy held on to the hair as she punched Mirta in the gut causing her to start to gasp for air. After a few more punches in the same area Stormy let go of Mirta's hair letting her fall to the ground. Darcy walked over and looked down at the girl that was still trying to fill her lungs with air before she placed the heel of her indigo boots on Mirta's back. Darcy then pressed the down as hard as she could until she heard a small cracking sound coming from the area around her boot.

Darcy began to laugh as she walked away from Mirta. Icy kneeled down to lift Mirta's head up off of the ground by grabbing her hair and lifting up to make Mirta look directly at her. As she looked at Mirta a small smile grew on Icy's face before she started to punch her in the face. Each time she brought her hand back everyone else in the room could see more blood on Icy's hand then the previous time they had just seen it.

After a few moments Icy slammed Mirta's face down into the floor before she stood up with the same smile she had when she had started to punch Mirta. She looked at Bloom and then at the other two witches. Darcy and Stormy moved to stand near Icy before they all extended their right arms in front of them. Their hands where pointed at Mirta as the three witches began to build magical powers into their hands.

As the black magic began to grow in size the smiles one all three witches began to grow. Just before they where about to release the energy into Mirta a giggle was heard coming from somewhere in the room. The three witches let the energy in their hands dissipate quickly as the looked around the room.

As they continued to look around the room the giggling became a small laugh. The witches started to get angry when they could not find out where the laughing was coming from. While the continued to check the dark corners of the room the laughter continued to grow louder.

"Show your self, before you make me madder then I already am!" Icy yelled out.

Out of nowhere a shadowy figure came into view. The person was wearing a blood red cloak to cover who ever it was. When this mysterious person looked at Icy she could see that the cloaked person had glowing white eyes. She then saw a wicked smile grow on the face of the unknown man.

"I have had enough of watching you make fools of yourselves." The cloaked man said as he giggled.

"Who are you?" Darcy asked.

"The name is D." The man said as he turned his vision toward Darcy.

"I don't care who you are." Stormy said as she raised her hands toward the new person, "You ruined my fun and will feel the Shadowfire now."

"I am sorry my dear but you do not have the Shadowfire." D said as he turned to look at Stormy.

"What do you mean?" Darcy asked, "We went through the ritual to gain the power."

"I am sorry but the Shadowfire chooses its master and that is not you." D said with a smile on his face, "When you performed that ritual you released me from my prison."

"What you are trying to say is that you are the one that possess the Shadowfire?" Icy asked with confusion in her voice.

"Yes my dear." D said as he turned to look back at Icy.

"I don't believe you!" Stormy yelled.

Stormy began to gather her magic into her hands. A black glow overtook Stormy's body as she continued to gather all of her magic. As she sent it out in a single powerful blast Stormy dropped to the ground with a smile on her face. The force of the blast hitting the man standing in front of her caused an explosion. As the smoke began to fade a laughing could be heard.

Stormy looked at the now clearing smoke to see D still standing where he was before she had blasted him. He turned to look directly at Stormy and grinned at her.

"Why are you still standing?" Stormy asked, "I hit you with all the Shadowfire power that I had."

"I said that you did not have the Shadowfire." D said as his grin faded.

D raised his left hand toward Stormy. After it was leveled at her a blast of black fire flew from the hand directed at Stormy. All anyone could hear was screams of pain as Stormy was engulfed by the fire. When the flames died down Icy and Darcy where shocked to only see a few ashes where Stormy had been.

"Did that just happen?" Stella asked.

"Yeah Stormy is gone." Brandon said.

Darcy began to shoot blast after blast at the cloaked man hitting him with each blast as she flew up toward the ceiling of the room they where in. D turned to look right at her with his glowing white eyes. He then started to float up off of the floor. Before Darcy could send any more blasts at D, she dropped down to the floor crying out in pain. When Icy looked up D was holding Darcy's left arm from just below the elbow to the hand.

D dropped the arm next to where Darcy was laying. He turned to look at Icy before floating down slowly to the floor. After he had landed D walked over to where Icy was standing looking right at him in the eyes.

"So are you going to make the same mistake that those two did?" D asked as he looked directly into Icy's eyes.

Icy jumped back away from D. As she was flying back away from him Icy raised her hands at the cloaked person.

"Arctic Blast." Icy shouted as she flew backwards.

A blast of white energy was released from her hands. She was shocked to see that D had raised a single hand to block the attack. After landing from her jump Icy began to feed more energy into her attack. A few moments later Icy stopped her attack before she dropped to her knees. D walked casually over to where Icy was breathing heavily.

"I was hopping that you were smarter then those other two." D said as he placed his right hand on Icy's forehead, "Internal Dark Fire."

A look of pain grew on Icy's face. After a few seconds she slouched to the ground with smoke coming out of her mouth and nose. D just laughed as he watched Icy fall to the floor. He then turned to see Mirta laying on the floor looking directly at D.

"Now let's see what to do about the rest of you?" D asked out loud.

He began to walk toward Mirta as she tried to pull herself away from the man walking toward her. She pulled herself a few feet before D had caught up to her. He bent down to look directly in her eyes and smiled a wicked smile.

"You know he is going to kill her." Someone said to Bloom quietly.

Bloom turned her head and saw a shadowy figure right beside her. The shadow turned her head toward Bloom and she could see glowing red eyes looking back at her. The shadow then turned to look back a D who had just lifted Mirta up off of the floor by her hair.

"Who are you?" Bloom asked.

"Oh you don't remember me I am hurt." The shadowy figure said turning her face back toward Bloom, "We meet one time before."

"I would remember if I ever meet someone like you." Bloom said.

"Hay Bloom who are you talking to?" Musa asked.

"Can't you see her?" Bloom asked.

"No they can't see me or hear me." B said, "Only you can."

"Then what do you want?" Bloom asked.

"I came to give you the last chance to except the other half of your power." B said.

"The other half of my power?" Bloom asked.

"Yes the power that you have not been using is your evil half." B said with a smile on her face.

"I don't have any evil powers." Bloom said as quietly as she could.

"Yes you do, even though they turned you back a small part still remains from when Darkar turned you evil." B said, "And in my opinion that power is more beautiful then the powers you are using right now."

A cry of pain caused Bloom to look at Mirta. She was sliding down the wall on the other side of the room. When she had reached the bottom of the wall Mirta looked up at Bloom. She had blood slowly flowing from her nose which was deformed from all of the punches that Icy had delivered to her face. Mirta began to cough and some blood slowly dripped out of her mouth.

D walked over and punched Mirta in the gut again causing her to cough up more blood.

"Well are you just going to hang around here and let him kill her?" B asked as she watched D punch Mirta again. "Or are you going to trust your evil side to help out?"

Bloom had clinched her hands together into such tight fists that little drops of blood where falling to the floor beneath her. She turned her vision back toward B who backed away from her.

"If that is the only way to save Mirta then there is no other choice." Bloom said, "What do I need to do?"

"Nothing I will do everything." B said.

B flew up to Bloom until she was only a few inches from her. A smile grew on B's face as she wrapped her arms around Bloom's neck. She then placed both of their foreheads together. A flash of light caused Bloom to close her eyes.

Bloom could feel magical powers she had never felt before when she opened her eyes. She looked down at her hand and moved it causing whatever magic was holding her against the wall to release her. She took a few steps forward till she was standing near Darcy.

Darcy looked up at Bloom with weak eyes. She could not believe what happened next. Bloom bent down near the missing arm and placed her hands over the bleeding area. She focused her magic causing the wound to burn to a point that it was not bleeding any longer.

Bloom then stood back up and snapped her fingers. Everyone else in the room was released and fell to the ground. Sky slowly stood up and looked at Bloom; he had never seen so much anger in her face.

"Get away from her Darkar!" Bloom yelled out.

"Did you just say Darkar?" Darcy said weakly.

The cloaked man turned around to look directly at Bloom. A smile grew on his face when he saw her.

"So you finally figured out who I was." Darkar said as he removed the hood from his cloak.

"Get Darcy and Mirta out of here." Bloom said as she stared into Darkar's eyes.

Brandon moved over to where Darcy was laying and slowly lifted her up off of the floor. Helia moved over to Mirta who had fallen back to the floor after Darkar had released her. He lifted her gently off of the ground and made his way over to the door.

"So you have become mine again." Darkar said with a grin on his face.

Bloom shot a blast of energy at Darkar causing him to dodge the attack.

"I will never be yours again." Bloom said.

"Not now but you will be." Darkar said before he laughed, "You are now using the power of the Shadowfire." Darkar looked directly into Bloom's eyes and smiled, "You are trying not to fully except the powers but in the end they will over power you."

"Never!" Bloom yelled.

"Then show me that you can control the powers." Darkar said as he shot a power blast at Bloom.

The blast hit Bloom knocking her into the wall behind her. After she had gotten back to her feet from the attack she looked back at Darkar.

"Crimson Fire Dart!" Bloom yelled as she punched the air with her left arm.

Four small fireballs flew from her left fist in succession. Darkar jumped to his left to avoid the attack but did not see the fireballs change directions hitting him in the back. The hit from the attack sent Darkar flying to the ground. He looked up at Bloom who had moved over to where Darkar was starting to get off of the floor.

"Is that the best you can do?" Darkar asked.

"You have not seen the depths of my powers." Bloom said with a stern voice.

"I am not scared of you." Darkar said.

Bloom turned her head to look at Sky. He could see tears starting to form in the corner of her eyes.

"Sky get out of here and make sure that everyone else makes it out." Bloom said as she looked at Sky.

"I'm not going to leave you alone." Sky said as he took a step toward Bloom.

"Go!" Bloom yelled as she shot some fire at his feet, "I can feel the powers taking me over and I don't want to hurt anyone."

"Just come back to us." Sky said before he made a sign for the specialists to retreat.

"Girls you go too." Bloom said as she turned toward Stella.

"Be careful." Stella said as the girls made their way out of the room.

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