Chapter 14!
After Lunch had ended I sprinted back to my dorm along with a few of the other more violent students to prepare for the upcoming anti-invasion attack! Maybe I d=should come up with a better name for it…. Eh heh…. Shadow my newly obtained black cat followed closely at my heals which I honestly found very, very impressive considering how fast I could sprint at times…. I was starting to like this cat more and more, considering he was a gift from my now evil but still much beloved father and not so evil mother. Shadow was actually a very good companion in class for he served as a first class foot warmer! I raced through the girl dorms front door and up the stairs to the fourth flight, then making a sharp left I came to my own little dorm, Room 459. Fumbling with the key in my pocket I finally pulled it out and unlocked my room's door. It was just as I was stumbling through the door that Madison bumped into me the second time that day.
"Oh hi Emily! Didn't see you there!" She said cheerily.
I quickly skimmed down and up the empty hallway, "How could you of not seen me? There's no one else in here!"
She blushed quickly at her blunder highlighting her dark blue eyes that were the most distinguishing feature of the Drake family, a trait that I did not inherit. My eyes were a dark brown, like my Mothers side of the Family. A side I hadn't seen in a long time. I, along with my siblings, were always the odd ones out at family reunions. Everyone was blonde with blue eyes while we on the other hand, were the polar opposites. And to make matters worse my dad had to go ahead and turn evil, so that didn't help my oddball social status very much…. My own grandparents could hardly look at me without cringing in distaste. Do they have any idea how that would affect a child's psychic?, "Oh… um sorry! I just wanted to know if you were still coming to hang out with me tomorrow?"
I remembered my mother's warning about not going with Madison. If My dad wanted to capture me and bring me in he would be doing just that tomorrow. Was there really an upside to this? According to my mom Madison was evil, like I needed any convincing of that… But this would be a good chance t o check on what was going on with her… maybe she would lead me to some sort of evil bad guy hangout where all the invading monsters were coming from. Think of that! The headmaster will trust me so indefinitely that I could stick a whoopee cushion on his chair everyday instead of every other day! He would never suspect it was me! I laughed wickedly under my breath.
"Emily? You okay?" She asked me with a look of genuine concern on her face, I swear if I had cat ears they would of drooped and I would of sweat dropped making a weird face simultaneously. I was reading too much manga…
'Fine! Just fine!' I made a warding off gesture with my hands "Sure I'll come! Just let me get ready for t he invasion tomorrow and I'll meet you at the fountain!"
"Cool! You'll come? Thanks! See yah then!' And with that almost incomparable jumble of words she sprinted off…
Wow I had a weird family…. I thought as I shook my head and headed into my dorm…. It didn't look any different then when I had left it… no mysterious boxes, the walls and floors were still boring and the only real four pieces of non-built-in furniture accessories was a boring red bed , a small nightstand, an old desk, and a small (sort of uncomfortable) red cushioned chair. All of which were courtesy of the school. Except for the chair, I had gotten that from a nice, and rather masqueline sounding old lady from a dark alley. Actually I had to agree with Taylor, I think the nice old lady was Private Conelly guy from unicorn way dressed up as an old lady. Sometimes I just dont get crossdressers... actually I have never gotten them... Oh well, cant understand everybody right? I threw down my school bag onto my desk and walked over to my rather dull closet, and pulled out my best gear, which i had actually gotten from a (real) nice old lady in Olde Town by the bazaar. I wondered if the invading monsters had reached there yet... I shook my head overwhelmed... Sighing I pulled out an old brown leather back pack from my bank, on it was embroidered a green leaf, the symbol of the life school. I admired it for a moment, my mother had given it to me as my fifth birthday present, next to Lily my flower it was my most prized gift from my mother. I set it down on my bed and began packing up all the neccesary equiptment I would presumably need, My Dagger of Absolution (which I felt was useful for stabbing things and cutting rope), my Ring of Insight (which I needed to boost my health), My spellbook (for learning more advanced tactics in the fields), and Shadow's neccesitys. At a last minute decision I through in my 'Come to the Dark Side we Have Cookies' pajamas. I needed my best health boosting clothes as well so I pulled out my soft robes (that boosted my health by 50), and my Cowl of Excitement (which boosted my health by 42). Okay now i'm ready to go, i just needed to stop by the Bazaar and stock up on some treasure cards and i'd be good to go... And so with having gathered everything that I needed I headed on out the door...
I made it to Triton avenue t o find the sides of the streets covered with white tents and some of the earlier arrivals. Fire's were burning warming up some water to warm up some baked bean filling the air with a wonderful aroma of burning wood. Merle Ambrose was nowhere to be found so i breathed a sigh of relief, no more eye searing pink hippie bunny slippers with squiggles for me! Or at least that was how it appeared at current... just then I felt a finger tap me on my back and I spun around, it was Quinn! My supposed cousin who I just found out was my cousin yesterday! The person who my Mom wanted me to listen to...
"Hey Emily..." he said with a confused expression on his face "what are you... um... doing here?"
"What do you mean "What am I dong here?' I'm here to kick some fodders butt." I snapped back at him with a calculated and sarcastic coolness to my voice, he flinched, sometimes I could be pretty harsh sounding. I guess I may of gotten the trait from my father... sighing I rolled my eyes, I didnt want to be like my dad!
"Well... this is the base camp for..."
"You know what? I'm level 12 buddy! i am not the level one noob you met back at the waterfall!"
"Well still your a healer!"
"No, not just a healer. A storm student as well."
"Really? Little Sylvia's favorite daughter a storm student as well? Not likely..." ok so he had said he was my cousin so obviously he knew about my particular family issues... but still i flinched when he said her name.
"Wanna bet?" And just like that I sprinted out onto the streets into a battle
"Emily! What are you doing!" Quinn shouted out genuinly shocked
"Showing you that I can kick butt!" The fodder that I had approached suddenly appeared before me and threw its shovel at me causing some seventy damage. i didnt even recoil in shock and cast a convertion spell changing storm to Myth.
"Emily! Your not strong enough!"
Well watch this Quinn... I thought and cast a storm trap at the fodders feet. The rodding Fodder drew a storm symbol and A storm snake suddenly appeared in the circle and attacked me doing 100 damage.
"Emily... Your being reckless..." Quinn warned
I cast a storm blade and it swirled around my head. The rotting fodder appeared in the circle and through his shovel at me again. I had only lost 200 health I still had 600 backing me up.
"Emily... i'm warning you..." Quinn began but just then I cast my storm sharks, the arena filled with water and the converter and trap broke from around the fodders feet, then the purple and yellow blade that was floating around my head broke and the shark lept out of the water and bit the fodder causing 800 damage. The water and the dueling circle dissapeared and I turned around to see not only Quinn's jaw but about ten other people's jaws dropping. Instantly I blushed a bright red.
"Um..."
"Emily... that was pretty wicked..." Quinn stuttered
"Told ya I could kick butt! I've been practicing!"
Just about then an adept looking fire wizard walked out from the crowd,"That was... excellent!" He was a rather short kid with red/orange hair and blue eyes.
"Um.. thank you..." I muttered
"No problem! That was excellent dueling! i have never seen such a beginner do so much damage! Something's telling me your gonna be a real dangerous person one day! I better watch my back!"
"Oh thanks!" I smiled happily at him as I walked onto the sidewalk. "Whats your name anyway?"
"Alex, Alex Fireblade."
"Emily, just Emily."
He laughed quietly and I saw Quinn grin out of the corner of my eye. (no rhyme intended)
"And your a healer to? You'd make a pretty decent team member! I vote she stays here and attacks along with the rest of us! She would be good on the field not at a camp!"
"Yah... I guess I have to second that... she is pretty good at attacking things..." Quinn shrugged uncomfortable
"Gee thanks Quinn..." I laughed, yah I was good at attacking things...
"Hey can you be on my team!" A random person ran out of the crowd i looked over at them and rolled my eyes I didnt even know them... that started the rest of them asking me just the same question... Oh great...
"I dont even know most of you!" But none of them had shut their mouths, they kept on talking and yelling incomprehendable things.
Just then some one came to my rescue,"WILL YOU PEOPLE SHUT UP!" A girl walked out from the crowd and everyone instantly went quiet, but not because they had done so of thier own free will, Their mouths were frozen shut. And I mean frozen. At the lips. My eyes bugged as I looked over at the new comer. She smiled at me. She had on dark blue robes with a very bright white trim, because of her wonderful and hilarious display of freezing everybody's lips together I could make a pretty good asumption that she was a Thaugmature...
"Well that was... interesting." I looked back at the frozen people and started laughing, their faces were outraged looking. They were litterally red in the face.
The girl just stood there smiling proudly. "Thank you! But im gonna have to unfreeze them, I dont like intentionally hurting others..."
"Can you?"
She stood there in shock"Um... no actually I cant..." she blushed "I'm uh... sorry guys?" They did not look happy.
Alex shook my shoulder and started mumbling,"UMPH! UMMMPH! UMMMPPPH! UUUUMPH!"
That did not mean I wanted waffles... buut I decided to torment him anyway,"You want waffles?" i joked
"UUUMPH! UMPH!" He was pointing at his mouth
I raised an eyebrow at his gesture and then finally got it,"Well melt the ice off then ! Melt off the ice! You dont need to get my attention!"
The ice started to melt off of his face,"That was so cruel of you Elizabeth!"
The girl, Elizabeth, just shrugged her shoulders in defeat,"I cant control it Alex! I'm sorry! It just happens!"
"Oh this is Elizabeth by the way Emily..." Alex began but Elizabeth interupted him,"I can handle introducing my self Alex! Why dont you go un-freeze everyone else okay!" She cleared her throat and introduced herself,"My name is Elizabeth, Elizabeth Seacoin! I'm from Earth, where are you from?"
Okay so it's not everyday someone gives their name and place of birth but I guess she was an over achiever... "I'm Emily, just Emily... and I'm from... Wizard city I guess?"
"Cool! Native wizard protecting her home turf! What an awesome story plot! They should write a book on it!"
"Uh-huh."
"Well come on! We cant have you standing on a sidewalk! Why dont you come over here and pick out your tent!" She dragged me off the sidewalk and over towards the camp.
"NO WAY! LET ME TAKE MY COUSIN!" Quinn shouted grabbing my other arm and started pulling away and in the opposite direction from Elizabeth, ouch that hurt.
"She's coming with me!"
"Yah well she's my cousin!"
"And I would know that how?" She pulled harder on my arm and Quinn matched her on my other arm.
"Guys... kinda in pain here..." I winced, apparently they didnt hear me
"SHE"S COMING WITH ME!"
"NO WITH ME!"
"ME!"
"ME!"
I groaned and then my second savior walked in,"Actually she's coming with me!" it was Kyle... Oh joy...
"Why would she go with you!" Quinn snapped tightening his grip on my wrist
"Because your killing her..." Kyle answered back smoothly,"And I have her sisters with me."
Quinn and Elizabeth looked down at their hands and let go,"Oh emily! I'm so sorry!" Elizabeth gasped i didnt mean to um... hurt your wrist!"
Quinn looked defeated and didnt say anything, just then Julia walked up behind him and slapped his back a shock must of gone through him because his hair stood up on end and he jumped a good two feet of the ground..."GEEZ JULIA!"
"Hey, Emily told me your our cousin... is it true?"
"Um.. yah." His hair looked funny...
"cool..." She looked off into the distance
Taylor popped up from behind me,"Cool! I have a new cousin!"
"Excellent... oh hey Elizabeth!" Ellie waved over
"Oh hi Ellie!" She waved back
A little later...
"Okay so time to pick out a tent!" Taylor exclaimed enthusiastically "This one can fit five!" She pointed at a vacant tent
"Okay then we camp here..." I mumbled
"Mind if I bunk with you?" Elizabeth asked suddenly appearing from behind my shoulder
"Um..." I began but Ellie interrupted "Sure Elizabeth! We have one more vacancy!"
"Cool!" She smiled and she and Ellie began babbling furiously...
'Ok then..." I threw my stuff down on the sleeping bag near the left side of the tent and I began searching for Shadows food bowl and began to fill it up...
"Dinner is in an hour! A real camp out! Can you believe it!" Taylor fist pumped the air
"Yah and tomorrow we are kicking some monster butt..." I groaned
"Right! Hey.. Emily... Whats wrong with you?" Taylor asked suddenly deflated
" Oh! Um... uh nothing Taylor.. Just nothing... nothing is wrong with me!" I was kind of tired, this had been a long and confusing day...
"Uh huh. Well then lets get ready! We should get unpacked!" I knew Taylor was worried about me I was just so tired...
"Yah... lets get unpacked Taylor..."
-Later-
It was after dinner that night and I was snuggled inside my sleeping bag when Taylor shook my arm in a pathetic attempt to wake me up. "Emily!" she hissed under her breath "Emily! Emily wake up!"
"I'm already awake Taylor..."
"Oh... well I have something I need to ask you!"
"What, Taylor..." I mumbled under my breath
"well i've been wondering lately... whats been bothering you lately? You dont seem as funny and carefree as you used to be..."
"Taylor..."
'I mean, you used to smile so much! But now you always seem to be frowning! You used to always..."
'Taylor i'm just tired okay? It's nothing... now can you please let me fall asleep? I'm exhausted..." I mumbled truthfully
I knew she was wanted to interigate me more but she shut up... i guess she kind of understood what was going on. Kind of but not 100%...
-The Next Day-
I woke up looking at the roof of the tent. I was so tired... But today was the day that... Oh my gosh! I jumped up shaking the tent, Today's the day I kick some Rodding Fodders butt! Julia shifted from across the tent and looked over at me with a disoriented, tired face. Her brown hair was covering her face messily, it was really funny looking...'E..mly wh... are y...u doing ...p so e...rly?" She mumbled incoherantly
"Julia! Today we fight for triton avenue! What do you mean what are you doing up so early!"
Instantly she bolted up and out of bed, rudely pushing everyone out of the tent hissing about killing something... soon enough we were all awake thanks to the cool fresh blast of Autum air that greeted us... that sure woke everybody up as we lay disoriented on the grass, in our pajamas, in the middle of a crowded camp... that was very much awake...
Quinn, who just so happened to be walking by with Toby and Kyle stopped in his tracks as he looked at us sprawled in a hilarious pile on the floor...
"Wow... what happened to you guys...?" he asked with a poorly restrained smile on his face, Kyle and Toby's faces matched his...
"Emily... what are you doing in the middle of camp in your pajamas?" Kyle laughed, I looked down at My 'come to the darkside we have cookies pajamas'...
'Why? whats wrong with them? I think their fine!" I stood up defiantly
"Yah! Our pajamas rock!" Ellie stood up to second my opinion only her pajams had unicorns and pie on them...
"Uh... huh..." Kyle had on a confused face "Yah, your pajamas 'rock'" He made quotation marks in the air with his fingers "Well your's do anyways Emily!" I blushed a dark red
'Right... Now why are my sisters outside in the middle of camp in their pajams! that's what I would like to know..."
"Julia kicked us out..." I mumbled
"Oh..." Toby trailed off
"Yah..." I sassed back
The camp was alive with activity, boys were throwing ice down eachothers backs, Storm wizards kept running around shocking everybody they saw, death students were sitting around t he outsides of the camps talking in muffled voices, and the fire students were running around with torches pretending to be prehistoric cave-men from earth... you know the usual theres no teacher around time to party attitude you got when a teacher left the classroom to get another thing of cookie dough...
"Cool huh?" Quinn smiled "I love this camp it is so awesome!"
"yah... and out of control..." I smiled as someone ran by yelling 'TP!' No one knew that it had been me and my friends who had caused the mass destuction on the Headmasters House but still it felt good every time they brought it up...
"So Quinn what do you think about the TPing of the Headmasters house?" Kyle brought up non-chalantly
"I thoughty it was brilliant! Whoever made that plan up had a lot of gut's!" Quinn answered back automatically
"I think a rogue death student did it." Taylor said without a waver in her voice
"Or you know... maybe malistare... I heard he was great at decorating things on halloween..." Quinn was trying to keep his voice even in front of Kyle
'Why would Malistare waste his time vandalizing someones house? and why would he knw that his fake teeth were called sarah lu?" I brought up
'Why would anyone know that?"
"Well remember back when we were being sorted in to our schools by the book of secrets? Well Merle Ambrose kept sticking and unsticking his teeth from the roof of his mouth and talking to them like 'Sarah Lu, why cant I get a non-sticky thing to stick you to the roof of my mouth!' To tell you the truth it was very distracting..." Taylor smiled in response to Quinn
Okay... he talked to his retainer? Even though I had heard the story before along with everybody else in our year I had to laugh a little bit... Everyone did, Quinn laughed the hardest in particular... this was new information for him...
After that the morning went pretty smoothly, we got into our best stat boosting clothes equipted everything we needed, ate breakfast and soon enough we were off in our own seprate groups, I was paired with My siblings and Kyle. Alex was paired with Quinn and Elizabeth (who even though she was level twelve like myself had pretty decent health and could do some serious damage myth spells when she used blades and such...)
And Aedan my very off topic friend from in front of Headmaster Ambrose's House was nowhere to be found... I wondered if I would bump into him today... well anyways our group together had defeated mybe twenty Rodding Fodder in the first half hour alone... their numbers were severly being lowered with the help from the other groups... but they just kept coming! I wish I knew how to stop them from coming back completely... they must be filtering in through some cave or something like that...
"Emily! What do you think were supposed to do anyways? These fodders just wont go away!" Ellie called over from a dueling circle, we were taking turns in groups of three. If any of them needed my help I would step in, meanwhile the others would sit back on the sidelines to recover their health and drink some water...
Ellie had copied my thoughts almost exactly..."I dont know Ellie..." I called back over to her
"Geez! Emily can you get over here! My health is only about three hundred left and I dont have a fairy in my hand!" Julia called over to me
"Sure coming..." I ran out into the circle and almost instantly another fodder joined, and Toby groaned... well thats just what happens when you had an extra person join... I cast a storm blade on Julia.
"Thanks Em!" She cheered
The Fodders all passed and I knew they were saving up for a lightning bats... hey what other two pip storm move did they have?
The arrow thing in the middle of the arena pointed to julia who cast a lightning bats... yah yah I dont care a lot of bats, and your point is? The Storm blade boosted the attack power and the new fodder was defeated, Toby cast a Ghoul which sucked up the rest of a Fodders energy, Ellie cast a snow serpent defeating another leaving only one left, Yah I know I was supposed to cast a fairy to heal Julia but if i didn't it would cast lightning bats and just hurt her more anyway waiting at least 245 more of her health! so to save myself from more work I cast the card that came on my chocker, I cast a fire elf. The ground covered itself with leaves and a big tree suddenly appeared out in the middle of the circle. Mushrooms sprouted from the ground and just then a little yellow and red fireelf jumped up into the air shooting arrows down towards the Fodder,sixty damage was done leaving the fodder with a remaining 100 health. My siblings looked at me like I was insane but then when it came time for the fodder to cast another spell he was consumed with fire and defeated.
"What were you thinking!" Julia snapped at me once we were on the sidewalk again
"What I killed the fodder didn't I?" I shrugged keeping a calm expression on my face
"Yah so? What if it had fizzled?"
'Then what ever i could revive you. It wasnt like you were going to be defeated by the lightning bats spell, youd still have twenty health left."
"How did you know it would do lightning bats Emily? Huh? Huh!"
"well, what other two pip storm spell is there?"
Her eyes bugged out of her head with confusion, I had lead her straight into a dead end. Sighing I cast a fairy that healed her and she regained 420 health points.
"Besides Julia, if you think about it your health would only of reached about five hundred after you counted the damage loss. It saved mana to work that way." I sped away walking quickly in the opposite direction I was supposed to be going.
"Hey Emily?" Kyle called catching up to me
'What is it Kyle?" I sighed rolling my eyes and turning to look at him in his red and orange raven hood and matching robes.
"Where are you going? Were only supposed to saty in this area!"
"Well staying here isn't going to fix anything now is it Kyle?" I snapped back heading oer the bridge that looked down on an Empty arena that was surrounded by water falls. I looked ahead of my self to see a depressed looking mill guy. I walked towards him with even more speed. No one was there helping him. "excuse me sir!" I ran over to him "Is something wrong?"
"Yes! My Lumina crystals are all gone!"
"Wait a minute... The Lumina Crystals?" Kyle asked with his mouth wide open in shock
"Yes young wizard, the lumina crystals that run the mill and keep it working! Without it we dont have energy on any of the streets!"
'Well when did they go missing?" I asked concerned, the lumina crystals were extremely important and rare. You could only get them here, on triton avenue.
"Just last night! I heard these feet scuffling around the shed but by the time I had gotten up and run over to check on the sounds, the thieves along with the crystals were gone!"
My eyes widened,"What were the crystals in?"
"Barrels."
I looked down the street, just off in the distance I could barely male out exactly what he had described,"You do realize that on eof the barrels are right down there?"
'I know! But I cant reach them! I'm afraid of being attacked by one of those Rodding Fodders! Or worse, Scarlet screamers!"
I rolled my eyes,"So what do you expect me to do about it? I'm, supposed to be in an intense battle!"
"Well could you send someone down to get them for me?" The miller guy cowered behind his hands...
"Yah, yah sure whatever!" I rolled my eyes again even though getting the lumina crystals back was important to all of Wizard city I couldn't help but keep calling the dude a loser... I mean how much more wimpy can you get?
"Kyle, I need you to go tell the others who are not fighting to gather as many barrels as they can and bring them back here to the Mill. Its important that these don't get lost okay? We dont want them to get into the wrong hands..."
"If I havent already realized that..."
"Get everybody you can okay? This is extremely important."
"And I have qualification to make this an official quest by...?"
"Me!" Said the miller signing a piece of paper with some directions scribbled on it,"Show this to everyone you can find!" He handed it to Kyle ,l"Now get moving before all of wizard city is on a power outage!"
"Yes sir! But Emily where are you going?"
'None of your business Kyle... now get moving!" I snapped as he spun around and ran off towards the others I called ,"and once you get them make a u turn and come back around here!"
"Okay!" He called back his voice getting more and more distant as he ran farther and farther away, now it was the time to look for any clues...
After gaining the permission from the Miller guy I was free to look around the shed where the Crystals were usually kept, lucky for me I actually found a small crystal under a shelf thing, picking it up in my hand I felt the light blue stone glow in my palm. It wasn't enough to power wizard city at all, but I could use it to my advantage... I rushed out of the shed and over to the now dead blue teleportation device, it was worth a shot. If I got this correct then my Project on lumina crystals would be an 'A'. I held out the crystal in my palm and it began to glow even brighter and then just like that The portal began to shine, stepping on it celebrating in my head I was transported to the edge of a cliff, next to me was another two dead portals and another creepy mill guy who just so happened to jump up in shock at my sudden appearance.
"Who are you! What are you doing here? How did you get the portals to work!" He stuttered out
I just looked at him and jumped onto another portal which started to glow and I reappeared on the final part of triton avenue. Looking down on my now updated map I saw a place called the dark cave down at the end of the street, a place if I remembered correctly was the location where all the undead used to exist... if that was broken then I would of found the cause of our problem. There was no time to waste so I sprinted off in the direction of the cave...
A/N you know what? I was writing this chapter and ideas just kept coming to my head and the more and more I thought of the more i began to write and add in. The battle of Triton avenue was only supposed to take up one chapter but now it's going on two! This chapter has not including the authors note some 5,348 words in it! My longest ever! Sorry about this guys... but i just cant fit anything else in without feeling as if it's to much If you know what I mean! So you'll just have to wait and see what happens next! Because I am leaving you at an epic cliffy*! *(Cliffhanger) Any ways hope you people review! I.I Aimed at Kittylover66... oh and Elizabeth? you didnt say what your character looked like XD so I did my best to not describe you until later notice :) (loves the idea of freezing people in place :D that was fun to write :) if you want to give me anymore info just review with the information!)
Quinn-yah wait until maybe chapter for twenty for the big unvieling... XD eh heh...
Anyways... I tried to add humor despite the up most seriousness this chapter is supposed to show! I honestly cant help it :) so until the next chapter!
-chow :D
Emily Drake: NO! I DONT WANT TO SPEND ANYMORE TIME OUT HERE! I WANT TO GO PUT A WHOOPIE CUSHION ON THE HEADMASTERS CHAIR! D;
Ambrose: WHAT! THAT WAS YOU! GRR! x headmaster ambrose begins chasing Emily Around with a cane... x
Emily Drake: Hey Headmaster! Wanna coke?
Ambrose: x gets puppy dog eyes and starts to beg Emily for the coke x Y-y-yes please!
Emily Drake: Go fetch boy! x throws can x
Ambose: x chases after can and opens it to be greeted by a fresh spray of soda right in the face x AHHHHH!
Emily Drake: x starts to monkey dance x