Chapter 11: A Year Without Rain
Title: It's Like Magic
Genre: Supernatural / Adventure
Rating: M
Summary: PRE-SEASON 2. Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily find themselves visited by Allison who has a greater secret than any of them could have ever imagined-a secret that 'A' could not even fathom...
Written: August 2011
Word Count: 1,003 words.
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It was a fight that would forever leave them with the burns of battle.
Emily immediately shot out a barrage of beams of water at Lucas, concentrating. She truly felt empowered with her emotions to attack Lucas. He had betrayed their trust, although it made her wonder how did one become a Knight? Were they fated? Did this mean that the girls were always fated to have met each other? It made Emily curious, but somehow it truly powered her own latent magical abilities. Before, when she could shoot only bubbles, she found herself capable of consolidating a lot more of the humidity in the air and using it against Lucas. While some of it sharply hit Lucas, for the most part, a lot of it dissipated into steam from his fiery spells. Noel had not utilized the air as much, preferring to focus on his physical abilities. But what was Lucas's weakness?
Spencer, on the other hand, was finding her powers strangely off-balance as well. She was used to throwing pebbles, thorns, and other earthly objects at the Knight, but because of the fact that she was used to this danger, and the adrenaline within her was pumping her powers, she found it much easier to levitate larger objects with her magical telekinesis. Throwing them at Lucas, however, posed to be a bit of the problem. Like how she would throw heavy objects if she was physically throwing them, Spencer's throws were still slow and clumsy, and Lucas either side-stepped the objects or burned them to a crisp.
Aria was having an interesting time. Her wind was accelerating rapidly, as if to protect her and the fellow Princesses from the danger in the forum of Lucas. She shot a few concentrated balls of air at Lucas, which did hurt him, but he seemed to be able to full of regenerative abilities. It reminded Aria of a phoenix; it was able to regenerate himself.
"Hanna, get your act together!" Spencer yelled, harsher than she intended to come across to Hanna. She brushed back some of her sweaty bangs, as she tried to trap Lucas from under the ground, but the blaze from the incessant fireballs was slowly wiping her out. Emily knew some of her powers stemmed from her own hydration, and from the dryness in the air that she was causing by her powers and the excessive heat caused by Lucas, she was slowly losing touch with her powers. Even Aria was getting tired and lethargic and finding it harder to fight, despite the spike in powers.
Hanna was still in shock. This was the same boy who she had danced with, laughed with, smiled with, cried with, talked with, and enjoyed time with. It was impossible that she would have to be the one to hurt him, and destroy his life. He wanted to go to an Ivy League school, and do something with his life. He had so much potential, and to kill him would be destroying everything he had invested himself into for the past few years. It almost felt like she would have to kill Spencer, Emily, or Aria in this case; the pain was that great. She grabbed some of the dry soil, warm tears trailing down her beautiful face. She could not find it within herself to hurt Lucas, after she had gone through hell as Hefty Hanna. Why was she forced to do this? She hated being a Princess.
Suddenly, she heard a blood-curling scream. Aria's face was covered in blood, but the most horrific aspect of it was that Emily's blood was the one splattered across Aria's face. It made Hanna want to throw up, upon seeing such a gruesome scene. Lucas had concentrated so much latent heat and potential energy within the first of his hand that he meant to stab Aria with, but Emily had came in the way to protect the girl.
"EMILY!" Spencer screamed, as Aria fell to her knees in shock. Emily's limp body cascaded onto the ground, her tears barely reaching the ground. It seemed as if her body was lifeless, as blood continued to seep out of her body. It was a terrible image, and it was something Hanna immediately began hurling. The heat inside of her body was leaving her in the form of her food that she had digested earlier. But she couldn't believe it...Emily was dead.
Emily Fields was dead. Spencer, Aria, and Hanna had failed to protect a fellow princess. Aria was the one in the most shock. She was meant to die, but Emily had ran with her athletic strength to protect Aria, unknowingly coming the way of Lucas's deadly attack.
It hurt Hanna to see this. It was as if her two sides were fighting for her. She wanted to be there for Lucas, but she wanted to be there for her sisters. She wanted to be popular, but she wanted to be who she was. She wanted to be real; She wanted to be fake. Hanna was in a flame of confusion and mixed feelings, becoming numb to Spencer's sobs. The battle had entered a ceasefire, as Lucas heavily breathed. Aria and Spencer were crying over Emily's lifeless body, and it was like time had truly stopped for them. The beautiful Emily fields was sprawled across the ground, her body losing its heat. The air had become dry and uncomfortable, it's stifling presence even hurting the Princess of Air.
Finally, as if the sun had risen, Hanna mustered the courage to look at Lucas. The sweet and sarcastic nerd she had befriended was no longer there. She saw a murderer. She saw a Knight. She saw an evil villain cackling over the death of a hero. She finally knew what she had to do. It pained her to do this, but she knew she had to avenge Emily Fields.
This is for you Emily... Hanna whispered under her breath as she trembled to get up. The battle was now between her and the Knight of Fire, Lucas. It was a battle till the end.