Tecna lay in her bed, tossing and turning. Her body felt as if it was on fire. She was having a nightmare in which her powers had been stripped away from her and her memories were vanishing. She could feel all of her happy memories being torn from her mind and she could see those memories as they disappeared into the darkness that surrounded her. Then, in an instant, she saw all of her friends standing around her in a circle, and then, as quickly as they appeared, they disappeared again. She couldn't move to try and stop them because of the pain she was in and she had no powers to help her. She could feel the tears in her eyes flow over her cheeks as the pain grew stronger and the mental pain intensified. Then, the last person who stood in front of her was Timmy. He was standing and looking blankly into the dark. Tecna struggled to stand up but eventually, she managed it.
"Please Timmy! Don't leave me as well! Please! Stay with me! I'm begging you! Don't go!"
And with these words, his body became more and more transparent until soon, she could see him no more.
"TIMMY!" She screamed as she woke up in a cold sweat. She was breathing heavily as she saw Musa sat beside her on her bed having tried to comfort her. "Tecna? Are you alright?"
Tecna was gasping for breath from the horrors of her dream. She sat up and clicked both of her fingers. A large green glow above her hand grew into two large orbs of electricity. Tecna breathed huge sigh of relief as she allowed the orbs to disappear and realised she still had her powers.
"Yeah, I'm, um, ok," she panted.
"That dream sounded pretty intense! What on Magix were you dreaming about?" said Musa who was very worried. Before Tecna could answer, Bloom, Flora and Layla came into the room.
"Tecna, are you alright? We heard a scream," said Layla as she sat at the foot of Tecna's bed.
"Yeah, I'm ok. Bad dream, that's all."
"You were saying Tecna?" asked Musa.
"Oh yeah. Well I had no powers and I was in a lot of pain. My memories started disappearing and then I saw all of you, and you all disappeared. The only person left was Timmy, and soon, he'd gone as well. It's totally illogical that I would have such an intense dream. You guys all know I'm a Zenithian, I struggle to show my emotion to you guys, let alone manage to create such intense ones in a dream. The worst bit was that everything felt so real, even the pain."
"Don't worry Tecna, we're all here for you whatever happens. Come on, you've had a really rough day, you need some sleep," said Flora reassuringly.
"I'll try, goodnight you guys," Tecna smiled as her friends went back to bed. "Musa, if I start acting like that again, promise you'll try and wake me up."
"Of course I will. Goodnight."
"Goodnight." She turned over in her bed and managed to sleep soundly for the rest of the night.
The next morning, Stella woke up earlier than normal. It was Sunday, so she didn't have any lessons with the rest of her friends, and after yesterday, she wanted to keep her distance. Stella was woken up in the night by a scream, but when she realised whose it was, she decided it was better if she didn't go. She dressed herself and went down to the library. The library was very alien to Stella; she wasn't a very hard worker when it came to school work. But since she had nothing better to do, she decided to do some work to take her mind off things. She decided to do her essay on the use of plants in magical medicines. She scanned the bookshelves until she found the M's. As she looked, a particular book caught her eye. It began to glow as her hand hovered closer to it. It was called Magical Medicines. She reached out and pulled off of the shelf and brought it close to her chest. She flicked through the pages in search of the use of plants. Then, a page title labelled Normalisation Potion caught her eye. She looked around her to check that no one was watching her and began to read the information.
Normalisation Potion
Normalisation potions can be used to change an individual's personality if an onlooker doesn't approve. This potion allows them to change the person to their own idea of normal, or to make the person more like themselves. The change should become apparent within a couple of days of being ingested. The potion forms a liquid which will dissolve in any drink.
Ingredients:
An object to represent the person in need of change
A hair from the person in need of change
50ml of Water
The performing of the following spell:
Change this person, strip them bare,
Remove from them what once was there.
Instructions
Pour 50ml of water into a bowl
Perform the spell, this will cause the water to absorb the following objects and perform the task it was created to do
Add the hair
Add the representative object
Add to another drink for the person to ingest
As Stella read the page, she had a genius idea. She shut up the book and signed the book out of the library quickly. Just as she finished writing the name of the book into the Signing Out Book, she left quickly so no one saw her, but unbeknown to her, the message that appeared next to the name of the book she had just written said: No such book recorded in this library.
Can you guess what Stella's genius idea is, well, it's kind of obvious, but if you can't work it out, you'll have to wait for the next chapter x