Chapter 14: The spark of the goddess

Jason woke up before sunrise. He couldn't sleep, not with what was happening.

He was worried for Liz and Malika, he wondered where they were.

"I really hope that they are safe.." he thought, while silently crawling out of bed. He turned his head towards Toby, "Good thing, that they didn't send you away.." he whispered. Toby looked so peaceful, while a sleep. Jason got up and went to the balcony, he looked up into the sky. It was a full moon, and thousands of stars were shining.

"So beautiful.." Jason said to himself. "What am I supposed to do now?" he asked to himself, he could feel tears coming again. "I don't know what to do.." he sobbed. Tears started to roll down over his cheeks. He hid his face in his hands. "I-I-I really don't know what to do.." he cried softly.

"It's simple, what we do next.." Jason startled and turned around. Toby was standing behind him. "We train your powers, we teach you magic that no one mastered before, and then we prepare for the war.." Toby said with a determined look in his eyes.

"I don't know, if I can do this.." Jason sobbed. "I know you have it in you!" Toby said.

Jason walked up to Toby, and threw his arms around him. Resting his head on Toby's shoulder. "Thank you…" he softly whispered to Toby.

"You don't have to thank me for anything" Toby said, laying his arms around Jason. "Let's get back to bed, you will need your rest." Toby said.

Jason and Toby got back in bed. Toby fell asleep immediately. Jason just lay there, staring at the ceiling. Hoping that he would be alright. Then he closed his eyes and drifted off.

The next morning, Jason and Toby went to the office of Miss. Faragonda.

They had a seat before her desk.

"Good morning, Jason" she said. "I understand that Toby already filled you in on what's going on?" Jason nodded and said "Yes, he told me about it…"

"Jason, I am going to teach you about your powers, about their origin, about your potential." She continued.
"First of all, you are the fairy of the heavenly stars, so your power is called the SPARK OF THE GODDESS.
That's a kind of magic, just as legendary as the dragon flame. In fact the two are related.
The dragon that created this magical universe, was created out of the spark of a goddess.
This goddess was believed to be the goddess of magic."

"After being born, the dragon created this realm first and hid the spark away here." Faragonda explained, she got up and walked towards her window facing the grounds of Alfea, then she continued
"After the creation of domino, many years passed, then the princes of domino, became guardian of the dragon flame, on that day another guardian was born, her name was.. Valkyria!"
Jason looked at Toby, Faragonda who just turned her head noticed and said
"Yes, the same Valkyria that we believe is your ancestor,
Valkyria became the guardian of the spark of the goddess.
She used her power to guard over the welfare of the entire magical universe.
People called her the guardian of magic. No matter how much evil she banished from this realm, people still wanted her to do more for them,
it became so bad, that an entire village stormed her castle, trying to force her to help them get rid of the evil demon that attacked them."

"But Valkyria was angered by the way that they treated her. So she said to the villagers that she would leave this realm forever.
One day her descendant would come back, with the power of the spark of the goddess, when that day came, Magix would never have seen the spark so powerful, having said that she vanished and people thought she died."
Faragonda came over to Jason laying her hand on his shoulder, looking him right in the eyes.
"During the tournament you used the blast of the heavenly stars, that spell was only used by one fairy before…
It was one of Valkyria's most powerful spells, this is the proof we needed to know that you are indeed the new guardian of magic,
you Jason, you are the protector of worlds, you hold the spark of the goddess, placing you on a shared first place with Bloom, the fairy of the dragon fire. You two are the most powerful fairies alive..
Toby and I are going to train you for the next two months, we start tomorrow, come here just before sunrise" Faragonda said with a strong look in her eyes.
Jason got up and said "Okay, I will be here."
He shook Faragonda's hand, then he and Toby left.

The next day, Jason and Toby got up an hour before sunrise, and left for Faragonda's office.
She was already waiting for them, when she saw them coming she walked in their direction and said "We are going to deep into the forest, where no one will disturb us, follow me.."
Jason and Toby followed her deep into the forest, until Faragonda suddenly stopped.

"This is the place, here we will train you Jason"

Jason trained with Toby and Faragonda. They returned to this place in the forest, before sunrise, for a month. And each day Jason grew stronger. Jason learned loads of new spells from Faragonda, while Toby thought him some evasive flying moves.

Then the day came that Jason, summoned the power of the spark again, he was glowing in bright light, and the fiery aura surrounded him once again, only this time he knew what he was doing. He was in control. "Jason, shatter that tree, quickly! " Faragonda yelled pointing to a random tree.
Jason looked at the tree and threw his arms in the direction of the tree, a magnificent ray of light shot out of his hands, towards the tree.
When it hit the tree, it became cloaked in the same fiery aura as Jason, then Jason divided his arms, both to one side of his body.
The moment he did that, the tree shone more brightly and started to disintegrate into small light orbs, until the entire tree disappeared.

Faragonda congratulated Jason on the accomplishment of controlling the spark of the goddess. Jason took a bow, and the aura faded away. "Can you summon it, when you want?" Faragonda asked him. "I think so" Jason said, and as he closed his eyes, the aura engulfed him again, he opened his eyes. "Yes, I fully master it now."

"Good, then let's return to Alfea" Faragonda said "It's getting late."

They returned to Alfea.
Jason and Toby had diner at Jason's apartment and went to bed. Not knowing about the coming of darkness..