Chapter 10
They are feeling extreme fear as Index's glowing eyes turn to them.
They are in such shock that Hikari can only figure out her saying "Saint George Sanctuary activate!" before charges at them flying at incredible speed.
They are thrown back into the wall behind them,buried slightly under broken furniture.
Hearing the commotion,the magicians burst into the room and receive the shock of their lives.
"What's happening!How is she using magic?"Stiyl says with astonishment.
Kaori is also shocked by what she is seeing in front of her.
They had known their entire lives that Index can't use magic.
"Isn't it obvious?"They turn to look at Hikari who groans slightly while removing broken furniture off of her.
'Touma's bad luck has stuck yet again'she thought to herself.
"Your Church has been lying to you all this time.
They probably made that up that story about her memory needing to be erased so that you would keep her under watch.
They made her suffer so that they wouldn't worry about her turning against them"
She then notices Index,who now seems possesed,saying something again.
A large pattern forms across the room as her lifeless glowing eyes stare right at Hikari,causing a shiver in the latter to go down her spine.
She then hears noise beside her as Touma slowly picks himself up from the rubble.
Her gaze goes towards Index again as a bright light begins to materialize in front of her.
Her eyes widen in realization and starts to panic.
'Crap!She is about to strike hard'
She quickly lands her hand on her brother's arm as they are struck by a powerful magic blast.
"Damn it,it hurts!"she yells as cuts begin to form on her face and arms and blood begins to appear.
She feels like that her whole body is burning.
Blood starts to come out of her cuts.
"Don't let go!"Touma yells while trying to figure out a plan to stop Index.
'Damn!I can't charge at her while Hikari is with me.
If she let go of me she will die...'
He quickly stamps out this terrifying thought.
He himself feels tired and unable to hold of her magic attack.
Then suddenly
"Fortis931"Stiyl shouts and throws magic cards which quickly spread around the room,forming a barrier of sorts.
The fire creature,Innocentious appears in front of Index,blocking her attack and finally giving the siblings some respite
Hikari collapses on the floor hissing in pain while Touma is on his knees exhausted.
Index starts to move towards Stiyl to attack him.
"Salvare000!" Kaori proclaims and several wires come out of her katana which raises the floor under Index causing her to lose balance.
Her magic in form of a bright light tears through the roof of the house and goes into the night sky.
"My house!"says Komoe who is on verge of tears,surprising the magician who didn't notice her entering.
Index starts to get up and prepare to launch another attack.
While feathers start falling through the opening in the roof which Kaori recognises asDragon's breath,even being touched by one of them is extremely dangerous.
Kaori tries to warn her"Ma'am!You must leave..."
Komoe doesn't seem to hear her as she walks towards Index with a determined face"Sister,I don't know what's going on but you must snap out of this!"
Index simply stares at her for a moment before saying
"Must destroy all the intruders.
Proceeding to stage 2"
She then starts to glow reddish yellow like a flame as Touma charges towards her.
She launches another attack at him,same color as she is glowing and stops him just a feet away from him.
Touma feels this attack as stronger than previous one and struggles to hold it back with his right struggles goes on for nearly a minute and he seems to be losing.
'Crack'
Index is struck by the back of head by a ceramic teapot.
While she is focusing on Touma,somehow Hikari manages to crawl behind her and reflexively tossed the teapot at her which miraculously is still intact during the battle.
Index stops her attack which gives Touma an opening.
"Touma,do it now!"yells Hikari and Touma charges again,this time succeding in neutralizing Index's magic with his right hand.
Index stops glowing and Touma catches her while she falls to the floor.
But Hikari sees Kaori yelling and raising her hand towards Touma.
She doesn't understand what she is saying but on noticing the feathers falling down felt something is very wrong.
She sees a feather about to fall on her brother's head while he is focusing on Index.
On pure instinct,she runs up to him and pushes him away.
Then suddenly,everything around her freezes still as she feels something hitting her head like a sledgehammer.
She falls to the ground unconcious,last thing she hears someone screaming.
A/N : Poor Hikari,I don't enjoy making my OCs suffer.
She just got struck by Touma's bad luck.
The epilogue of this arc will be in next chapter.