Chapter 8:
Into The Mountains
"I wonder who would want to take Gem," Cosmo said as the three fairies set off into the mountains.
"I don't know but as soon as I see them I'm going to rip their face off," Dustee said smashing his fist into his hand.
Wanda noticed dark clouds approaching them. "Guys...what's that?"
The sky was getting dark, the clouds were getting closer.
"We have to get out of here!" Dustee exclaimed.
They all raised their wands but just as quickly they were surrounded, shrouded in darkness, bolts of lightning raining down on them.
They blasted the lightning away with their wands. Cosmo was no good at magic on a normal day, let alone defending himself from being fried by an unknown source of lightning. He saw glowing red eyes in front of his face and panicked sending a blast from his wand in the wrong direction. He covered his face waiting to be hit but the lightning was knocked out of the way by Wanda, or maybe it was Dustee, he couldn't tell through the dark clouds.
The darkness disintegrated as fast as it had come. It was like nothing had happened. Except something was missing: Wanda!
Cosmo was sent into a full blown panic. "Where's Wanda?!"
"She was taken," Dustee said. "This is exactly what happened to Gem."
"Well what are we going to do?!" Cosmo exclaimed, near hysterics. "How are we ever going to find her?!"
"We're going to track down whatever the hell this darkness is, destroy it, and make them pay for taking our girls away," Dustee said with determination.
"I can't fight that! Are you kidding me?!"
"Why not?!"
"I just can't! Wanda is the brave one! Wanda is the strong one! She came up with the idea to go into the mountains! What are we gonna do without her?! What am I gonna do without her?! All is lost…!"
Dustee grabbed the front of his shirt. "Pull yourself together Cosmo!" he exclaimed. "We're going to find them! You think I'm not afraid?! You think I really want to face whatever that is for a third time?! No! But I want Gem back and god damn it that's what I'm going to do and I dare anyone to stop me! Be a man! Are you with me or not?!"
Cosmo was terrified, petrified really. But wherever Wanda was, she was probably feeling one thousand times worse. She needed him and he would find her no matter what.
"I'm in," he said with a renewed sense of bravery.
