Light in the Darkness

Ch 8

Morgan cackled as she brewed a potion.

It was to make Leah's little friend her slave.

"This'll be sweet watching her brtray her little friend!

I can bend anyone to my will!" she thought as he poured it into a vial.

Leah was nervous as she and Carley were in the cell.

She saw her friend meditating.

"You've got to get out of here! If you stay…. Morgan will turn you evil and I couldn't bear that.

Forget about me." She told her.

"No way I'm abandoning you! You're my friend and most precious thing to me besides Shrek.

Besides I have a way of taking care of Morgan." Carley replied to her.

Leah smiled at her.

"Thanks. I never…. Knew how much you cared about me." He replied.

"I've never seen her like this. It must be her Love for me." She thought as Morgan showed up.

"Drink this." She said giving Carley the vial.

"What's in it?" Carley asked coldly.

"Nothing. It's safe." Morgan told her.

Leah was nervous at that. "Don't do it!" she yelled but watched as Carley smashed it.

"Sorry Morgan but I'm not like you. You wanna destroy the kingdom and everything I care about so much." she told her.

"You shouldn't have done that!

Now you'll pay freak!" she yelled as she charged at her but the teen held her ground.

Leah watched as shimmering magic surrounded her.

A it vanished, Carley had transformed. Her skin was pale, had long black hair with violet dtraks running through it.

Sge was also slender. There were markings over her body and a purple pentagram marking on her fore head.

Morgan's eyes shrank in fear.

"H-How did you do that? You're a loser, a bug!" she asked confused.

"Take a good long look at me Morgan.

Thi is my Saboi form." Carley said as she made a protective shield in front of Leah.

"What's Saboi?" Leah asked her curiously.

"It's a very powerful form of magic that only the mot gifted wizards in Aria can control." Carley answered.

She smirked at the look on Morgan's face at that.

She then heard Leah scream as Morgan grabbed her.

"Let her go Morgan. It's me you're angry at." Carley told the sorceroress.

"Ye but it'll be more fin to see you squirm as I destroy your little friend!" Morgan cackled as she summoned all the magic in her body to cast one big spell.

"No!" Carley yelled as she knocked Leah out of the spell's path. She felt the place begin to fall apart and got out of there.

She was nervous as she watched Morgan's lair vecome rubble.

But in the debris Carley was lying there, her eyes open but badly hurt.

"You're okay! But why risk getting killed for me?" Leah said a she knelt beside her.

"I... did it... because I... I... love you.

I have from the start. I made a promise that I wouldn't let anything happen to you so when Morgan threw that spell, I took it becayse of this vow to myself." she answered her softly as her eyes closed.

At the swamp Shrek wa anxious. He hoped Leah and Carley were okay.

His anxiety turned to relief when he saw Leah but the fear came back when he saw Carley badly wounded and in Leah's arm.

"Where's Merlin? I need his help right now!" Leah asked. There was a tone of urgency in her voice as Merlin approached.

Carley was lying on the floor. Shrek and the others wondered what had happened.

"Leah I'm not sure if I... can do this." the wizard said quietly.

"You have to try! Carley risked her life for me so this wouldn't happen, so I wouldn't be the one lying there.

If you don't hurry, a good person will die! Do you want that to happen?" Leah snapped.

Merlin then began reciting a spell. Leah watched as the magic surrounded Carley but went into her.

She was herelf again but not in her Saboi form.

"Did it work?" Leah asked him gently.

He nodded.

"Yes but we have to wait and see, okay? The spell Morgan used to hurt her was powerful and it might take a while for my spell to work." Merlin answered.

Shrek looked nervous.

"What happened when Morgan took you guys?" he asked her.

"She tried to make Carley drink a potion but she mashed the vial.

Carley then fought her but she used me to get to her.

She almost killed me with a very powerful spell but Carley knocked me out of the way but she was badly hurt." Leah explained to him.

They hoped Carley would heal or they don't know what Leah would do...