Quest of the Seekers: The Timeless Conflict
Year Four at Hogwarts
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Chapter 21: A Resistance
Treefox had a sinister smile that made everyone think their stomachs dropped out of their guts and ran for the hills. The Seekers were all on the ground, groaning from the attack that Treefox launched. It felt like they were whacked by a troll's club.
Jacke picked himself up and dusted his front off. "That...was painful."
Tyler rose up with a groan. "Really...didn't know that."
"Now's not the time guys." Reggie said shaking off the blurriness in his head.
"Yeah, we have a foxlore to beat." Brad said getting his fists out for a defensive posture.
Treefox was staring at the four of them with amusement. "You know...it's been a while that I've had humans in my company that weren't scared every second in my company. This should be real amusing in deed. You're such willing playmates and I'm in the mood for some fun."
"Let's see you have fun when you get to share Timefox's fate Treefox." Tyler said forming his own posture that Orichai taught them.
"Timefox was a weak fool that deserved his fate. Don't think I'll fall as easily as he."
"Jennifer," Jacke said calling back to his friend. "You'd better stay back and stay with Max okay."
"Okay," she called to him.
"Regulus, could you possibly..."
"Tyler, don't worry. I'll make sure everyone's okay. Your friends too."
"Thanks," all of the seekers said one at a time.
Regulus moved everybody some distance away behind some boulder rocks. Max and Hawkster didn't seem to want to listen to him but they did anyway out of respect that he was the oldest out of all of them and he did promise to watch out for them to their friends. When the Seekers saw that, they thought that there might be hope for coexistance yet...if they survived the day of course.
"How touching," Treefox said in a little girly voice drawing their vision back to him. "You want to keep your friends out of harms way. I'm afraid you're wasting your time. You will all meet the end of my claws before the day is through." He jumped and started to glide quickly towards the four of them like he was shot from a cannon. "Let your pain begin!"
At the level he was coming for them, he would make them make Nearly Headless Nick jealous because they would have their heads clean off, so they did what they could to avoid Treefox's attack, they transformed. To Treefox, it seemed they just vanished right there but when he looked back, there were just four little animals where the Seekers stood right before they took their human shapes again. Tyler immediately launched an elemental attack that he created to look like a spear of lightning. Treefox merely stepped a bit to the left and leaned back a little to dodge it.
"Damn it!" he cried out.
Treefox cracked a smile and then let out more of the same blossoms as before, around himself. He pointed to the Seekers and the blossoms emitted magic energy beams as before right to them. Reggie concentrated as hard as he could and suddenly, the air around the blosssoms started to go crazy like mini tornados and the beams all scattered to the sky when the blossoms were made to face that way.
"Lucky move." Treefox said brushing off some invisible dust of his sleeve. "Don't let it go to your heads. But," he said really slowly before a good club of wood appeared in his hand. "I'd be okay if you let this go in your chests," he flung the wood like a harpoon at them and the Seekers all jumped out of the way and saw the club hit a rock and shatter it to pieces. "Shoot...I missed," Treefox said snapping his fingers like someone missing in a game of darts.
"That was too close," Reggie said as he looked back at the shattered rock.
"If that had hit one of us then it would've made a clean hole right in us." Brad shuddered as he collected himself from the ground.
"Worse thing is...he's making pummeling us to the ground look like a walk in the park." Jacke said as he saw how calm and collected Treefox was being.
He was visibly chuckling and seemed to be fighting to keep his snout closed and not laugh out loud. "Don't tell me you're not enjoying yourselves. I sure am."
"That, bloody, damn, throw rug," Tyler said getting madder with every word he said. "When I get my hands that foxlore, I'll make sure I squeeze his blood out through his eyesockets."
"Tyler, we can't just rush into this. We have to keep cool and remember what Orichai taught us." Reggie said as he went into another stance. "We lose focus, then we'll lose to Treefox."
Treefox stepped towards them and he held out his arm and a thick, long staff appeared in his hand and he started to charge towards them. Jacke unleashed a good fireball and threw it with as much force as he could muster. Treefox took the staff he made and swung at it like a beater meeting a bludger. He knocked it away and they all saw as it slammed to the ground and made a mini explosion.
"Not bad human, of course, it would've been better if it could've actually got to me." After the taunt, Treefox didn't waste another second as he went for them.
He met Jacke's face and caused him to freeze up at him. Treefox swung the staff and Jacke flew off and hit the ground hard. Jennifer, Max and the others all winced when they saw Jacke hit the ground from that hit. Reggie came from Treefox's left with a wind backed punch ready but it was blocked with Treefox's right hand.
"What?" Reggie said as he looked in shock at his blocked punch.
"Nice try."
Treefox elbowed Reggie in the gut and made him squeal silently in pain. He then grabbed him by the collar of his robes and threw him off in the opposite direction making him roll off the floor.
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At the sight of Reggie lying battered on the floor, Laura shed a few tears and covered her mouth in shock.
"I can't believe this." she said with her voice cracking.
"The powers that the Seekers have is incredible and yet...this fox thing is defeating them one by one." Lutz said as he shivered from the cold feeling in his spine.
"That sick creature is actually enjoying all of this. It's nothing more than an afternoon game to him." Hawkster growled. "I really want to give this guy a good hex he'll never forget but our wands are useless now."
"They're getting pummeled out there and all we could do is just watch." Max said, threatening to break his own hand with his clenched fist. Seeing Jacke and then Reggie get beat and tossed around disturbed him to no end.
Regulus felt like ripping his hair out in frustration. "We have no choice but to. I can't believe I'm going to say this but...we're completely useless here. The only ones that even have a chance are those four. We'd...just get in the way. We can't help."
"There must be something," Morgan said as she glared right at the figure that was destroying Tyler and his friends.
Matt looked on and saw that Treefox was now advancing to where Tyler his friend Brad were standing. "There isn't."
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"Now...it's your turn." Treefox said advancing towards Tyler and Brad.
Tyler looked to where Jacke and Reggie lay. He was moving a little bit but seemed to be to hurt to really pick himself up in a hurry. Reggie had his head in the ground but his hands were moving a little so he was still conscious.
"This isn't good." he mumbled to his friends ear.
"I know, I know. What more can we do?"
"Keep fighting?" Tyler said as he looked sheepishly at Treefox as he approached them.
"Now...let's see...I took down a raider and a knight. What next? Hmm...maybe the soldier and then I'll move to the honorguard."
"What in the bloody hell is he talking about?" Brad said as they stepped back a little.
"You expect me to know? Right now, the only thing that I know that makes sense is that Treefox has to be destroyed."
"Good thinking."
"Follow my lead. We can't make the same mistakes Jacke and Reggie made. We'll get him together and divide his attention." Tyler shot a good lightning beam at Treefox with a good shout to match.
Treefox looked at the approaching attack without fear. In fact, he looked bored. "Please." He brought out his hands and stopped the attack in it's tracks but not before getting dragged back a little.
Tyler didn't stop his beam and was trying to push Treefox back as hard as he could. He looked at Brad with urgency. "Go."
Brad transformed into his badger form and made himself extra smaller to better sneak by. Treefox looked like he was struggling a bit and was even starting to sweat a little. "I must say...impressive. You're not hesistating in trying to destroy me like those pitiful friends of yours."
"Good, then you'll be proud of this!" Brad shouted before he released a jet of water that was in the form of energy instead of actual water. He hadn't used energy like that after his powers were unshackled by the Lady Earth Spirit but he thought that this was called for.
Treefox looked at the oncoming attack and actually showed a bit of fear right before it hit him. Tyler's attack, finally reached Treefox and with the force of Brad's attack there too, an explosion took place and consumed the spot where Treefox stood. Tyler and Brad looked at the spot and were breathing very roughly, partly from exhaustion and the other part from relief. Jacke and Reggie looked at the scene from where they laid and let out a puff of relief as well. All their friends were looking at the spot with awe.
"Did...did they win?" Bruce said as he tried to see through the smoke.
"I hope so." Jennifer said looking at the smoke too.
"Of course they did. Do you really think anything could take that kind of power and still be standing. I doubt the Dark Lord himself would be alive after an attack like that." Matt said smiling at his friend's victory.
"Yeah...I mean...did you see that?" Regulus said while shaking his head in awe. "I mean, we knew that they had these powers but to actually see the Seekers use them like that. That was incredible."
"Let's just hope that...creature is gone," Laura was clutching her chest as if it would burst out if she took her hand away otherwise.
The smoke was starting to condense and Brad felt his head to make sure that he didn't overheat. 'I really put as much as I could into that.' he thought wiping his brow. 'My blast looks like it's stronger but now I feel a bit weary and tired. I guess when our powers got unshackled, we had our powers draw from our natural strength so they could get stronger. Of course, now, I feel like falling head first into a bed and sleep for a week.' he thought as he blissfully visionized his bed back at Hogwarts.
Tyler was looking at the smoke with suspensful dread. Was Treefox done or not? When he battled Timefox, there were many times that it looked like it was over but he kept on getting up so Tyler knew that he shouldn't make the same mistake twice and, unfortunately, he was right. Something shot out of the smoke making it look like the smoke was being sucked into the air before Treefox's appearance broke free. He wasn't looking too worse for the wear. His...well armor...was a little scratched up and he did have a few sooted spots on him but otherwise he looked unharmed. He was looking upon Tyler, Brad and everyone else with a smile.
"HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, WOW, THAT WAS REALLY GOOD. I THINK I MAY HAVE A FEW SMALL BRUISES IN THE MORNING. CARE TO TRY AGAIN?" His voice was booming and it seemed like they could actually feel the vibrations from his voice in the air. "C'MON, I HAVEN'T HAD THIS MUCH AMUSEMENT FROM INDIVIDUAL WIZARDS FOR WHAT SEEMS LIKE CENTURIES. THE FOUR OF YOU ARE INDEED SOMETHING ELSE. HA HA HA!"
"I can't believe this," Brad said as he went over to Tyler again.
"I can," he said simply. Tyler remembered how Timefox seemed invincible whenever he was attacked. How he just kept coming back for more. The only difference was that they had the advantage because Treefox couldn't increase his power because he didn't go for his blood. "Let's not stop now. We did hurt him and that means that we could do more to him if we keep it up."
Treefox brought himself in a slant position in the sky and dived himself straight for the two of them while he was laughing. Tyler and Brad were so busy talking that they hadn't noticed. When they finally looked up again, they saw Treefox was about 30 feet from them and there was no time to move out of the way. Treefox was aiming for Tyler and he watched in horror as his vision of Treefox grew larger and closer. Brad was stuck to his spot as well from fear as he saw the thing go closer to his friend. If he was thinking properly, he would've launched another attack to stop his but it was too scary to watch Treefox's twisted face coming that close, that fast. All of their friends were yelling or screaming as they saw the foxlore draw closer to kill Tyler. At that rate, he would go right through him and he would've have if something hadn't jumped out of Tyler's sleeve. It was long and green and it bit into Treefox's hairy arm with as much force at it could muster.
"AAHH!" Treefox yelled as he shook his arm to make the creature let go. "Filthy beast! Release me!"
"Wait," Brad said as he uncovered his eyes. "Is that...?"
"Yeah, it's Chaos." In all the excitement and consfusion of being in the parallel world, Tyler must've forgotten that Chaos came with them. He had been in Tyler's sleeve the entire time but since he was so used to that, he hadn't noticed anything different.
Treefox shook his arm and then gripped Chaos by his throat, or the area next to his head in his case, and squeezed. "You filthy serpent. I'll squeeze the very life out of you."
Tyler caught Chaos' eyes as he was in pain from Treefox's grip. Tyler brought his hands up and then brought them back down with tremendous force and two streams of lightning, brighter than any attack he'd ever used, shot out for Treefox as he shouted a good cry of "NO!"
Treefox saw his arm glowing and turned to his left to see that Tyler's attack was the cause for the light. Treefox let the snake go and tried to bring his hands up to block the attack but it came to fast and soon, he was enveloped in it. Everyone could see Treefox on the opposite end, getting dragged off by the attack struggling and screaming in pain until it caused an explosion. Everyone covered their eyes and stood up to the force of the aftermath. Tyler was still in the same postion he was when he launched the attack and hadn't moved a muscle. Jacke and Reggie were massaging their sore spots but still couldn't get up yet. Brad was just standing there and watching the smoke from the attack float away, speechless at what Tyler had just done.
"Tyler." Chaos slithered over to Tyler and he bent down and picked him up. "Hi."
"Chaos, you damn fool. What were you thinking? No, I'll tell you. You weren't thinking at all. Just what were doing striking a foxlore like that? You're not even in your transformed state and you rushed at him like a madserpent. Didn't you learn your lesson the last time with Timefox? What were you doing?" He stopped raving right after that last word and was looking at himself, shocked. Tyler couldn't believe it. He was sounding like his father when he was raving about him.
"Saving my familiar/best friend." Chaos hissed sticking his tongue and getting Tyler's face. Chaos then had his head dropped down lifelessly. He was still breathing so Tyler knew he was just sleeping.
Tyler felt like crying right there but he didn't want to let his friends see him do that because it'll look like he's doing it out of nowhere since they couldn't understand what they were just talking about so he willed himself not to be overcome. Everyone was starting to walk towards him but stopped when they heard chuckling and it wasn't coming from them.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?"
Everyone ran back to their hiding spots and Brad looked at the new mini crater, shaking his head in disbelief. "No...no."
Treefox emerged from the fading smoke and was smiling very evilly at everyone but particularly at Tyler. Tyler's attack had made a few cuts with blood rushing from them and his nose seemed to have been busted but he didn't seem bothered by it. "You," he said pointing to Tyler making him swallow nervously. "Yes, you...speaking to that snake huh? I wonder how, why you could? Could it be...I don't know, that you're a parselmouth." He stopped walking and his ears and claws went straight up and sharp like an animal waiting to pounce. "So...my lord's plan didn't work out too well. Never send humans to do a fox's job, not that I'm complaining, I would love to have parselmouth blood. The best thing is, now, the blood will be easy to get from a weakling child instead of difficult from those powerful warriors. With just a chalice full of your blood, I can double my power!" Treefox's charged at Tyler like a madman with hunger and lust written on his face.
Treefox was licking his chops like he was about to dig in for a buffet and drool was actually escaping him. All he needed was a fork, knife and bib and he wouldn't look out of place in an all you could eat feast. Tyler was afraid and he had the same feeling that Timefox had when he was going for that final killing dive. Tyler felt so weary and tired that he didn't think he could outrun him even if his legs could remember how to move. He just wanted Treefox to hurry and kill him to end the cold feeling in his body.
Brad saw Treefox going for his friend and wondered what was he waiting for, move. Brad saw Tyler's knees buckling but not moving. 'He's frozen,' he thought as he saw Tyler's face frozen in fright as he held on to Chaos tightly. Brad couldn't take it as he charged into Tyler, knocking him down to the ground and then shot another wave of energy which hit Treefox straight in the face.
"Take that sicko!" he said over the cries of Treefox as he touched his face.
Treefox's eyes looked like they were crying blood as he looked back at Brad. "Why you..." he said it in a low voice but it Brad instantly think that doing that was more dumb than smart. "You want to protect my meal...fine, I'll make him watch you die to make the blood have a chill of terror to it."
Treefox swiped at Brad with his hand's claws but Brad back flipped out of the way and his feet slammed Treefox's head. He landed a but Treefox blocked it with his arm and went for Brad's face which he moved back from. Both Treefox and Brad went into a barrage of physical attacks, both forgetting about energy or elemental attacks. Reggie saw their movements and if he didn't know better than he would swear he was watching an action movie scene from the way they fought. Brad's martial arts skills that he had spent his whole youth studying were making it possible for him to avoid fatal blows and land a few lucky hits himself. Treefox was relentless in his attacks and the Seekers realized that, until then, he was just playing. Now, he was all business and Brad was starting to swagger. When they pulled away from each other, Brad was breathing very heavily while Treefox seemed more collected.
"I must say...I'm impressed. I haven't fought a single human being like this since the old conquest days millenia ago in the other world. To think that you, a wizard from the parallel world and from Hogwarts at that, could fight me like this. I would take it that you're a mudblood."
At that word, everyone opened their eyes in shock. Not to the fact that he just said that insult to Brad, but to the fact that he knew that insult existed. Brad was staring at Treefox with narrowed eyes. "What's wrong? Got a problem with that?" The way Brad said that was surprising. Tyler, Jacke and even Reggie had never heard Brad talk like that. His voice was as quiet and threatening like Treefox's was moments before. Brad always was the most peaceful and openly nicest one of the four of them as he was the Hufflepuff Seeker member but now...he was the most menacing.
"As a matter a fact," he said as if he wasn't just threatened. "Yeah, it's one thing to be defeated by wizards but to be defeated by muggle type wizards...that's too much to bear." Treefox opened his arms furiously and the flower blossoms from before appeared and shot energy beams which all struck Brad one at a time bringing him down. Everyone screamed but Treefox ignored it. "Now then, no more games. I have a thirst problem to be taken cared of and I won't be delayed any longer." He turned towards Tyler and bent down. He ripped out some grass that was there and held it in his palm. They started to glow and then went right for where Tyler was still on the ground. It made Tyler confused and flabbergasted as why was was throwing grass at him. The grass passed him by but one made contact with the back of his hand and it cut him like it was a pocket knife. He looked back and saw that the grass that hit him landed on the ground facing straight up from where the pointed ends struck the ground. "Darn..." Treefox said as he snapped his fingers. "Oh well, when you miss...try again." This time, Treefox went for a nearby tree that seemed to be drying away and broke a branch off making bundles of wood and bark scatter off. He was looking at them obsessively and soon they started to glow like the grass grains did.
Tyler broke in a run towards their friends' hiding place behind the giant rock as the broken branches from the tree were levitated. He just kept running and when he looked back, he saw that Treefox made a throwing movement with his raised hand and they went for Tyler. He didn't think looking back was smart but did it anyway and saw they were in arms length away. He threw himself to the ground and they flew off above him. Tyler got up and smiled as they kept going but dropped his jaw when they made a U turn and headed for him again. They were coming at him even faster and it looked like he wasn't going to outrun them this time even if he did duck because they were in different levels and not following one after another. Tyler ran for Treefox, hoping to let them get him but tripped on a stone and fell to the ground. He covered his eyes with his shoulder, preparing for the impact but it never came. When he braved the action to look, he saw that the branches were falling to the ground as dust. He didn't understand what happened but got his answer when he caught Jacke and Reggie's hands up and pointed to where he was.
"Thanks." He said catching his breath.
"Anytime." Jacke stated as he shrugged his shoulders.
"Someone had to watch your back," Reggie was trying to get back to his feet but had only managed halfway now.
The three of them started to make progress getting up but where knocked away when energy blasts hit all three of them in the sides and ricocheted them each five yards from where they were. Everyone looked in the direction the blasts came from to see Treefox's blossoms open again.
"You miserable human swines. How dare you interfere. It's noble that you want to save your friend but human nobility makes me sick to my stomach. But if you like noble then I'll have the curtesy to finish you all of together, that way, there won't be so much time for you to wait for everyone to be together on the other side. The four of you fighting brats and your bystanding friends."
At that, Regulus yelled run but the others couldn't get away. Giant roots popped out of the ground and wrapped around every single one of them and gripped them tight. Tyler, Jacke and Reggie watched with weary eyes as their friends struggled and screamed in Treefox's grip.
"No..." they whispered.
"Yes..." Treefox said smiling at their discomfort. "Your nightmare ends but sadly...you won't wake up when it does. Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!" This was the end. They could feel it. Treefox had them beat. He brandished his claws with a twisted look of amusement before he looked to his victims. He walked towards Tyler first and aimed his clawed hand at his heart. He brought his hand up and smiled. "Bye."
He began to bring his hand down and that's when Tyler lost consciousness from his earlier pain and weariness. Everyone let out a scream at what was seconds from happening but stopped when something bright hit Treefox and sprung him away. From the look of it, it looked like a fire elemental type attack but Jacke didn't launch it, couldn't since he was to tired to muster another one let alone one that strong.
Jacke didn't get it. "What?" was all he managed to say before Treefox got back up and he wasn't happy.
"Who dares!"
"Leave!" a voice that sounded both heroic and demanding.
Everyone turned to see that there were about a dozen new people, human beings, and they were flying in mid-air...without brooms or wings. There were also about half a dozen more approaching them on foot and they had long spears, swords and bows on hand. All of these people had strange colored robes on with armor plates on their knees and shoulders giving them the look of olden warriors. One of the warriors, who had a blue colored robe on, from the air landed and looked Treefox in the eye. "Leave or face destruction Treefox." This guy seemed to be in his early twenties and had a strong air around him, reinforced with his hard blue eyes and spiked, dirty blond hair.
Treefox had a look of loathing on his face. "Sargeant Nelson." he said with a glare. "What makes you think I'll fall from you and your little...squad," he said taking in all of the people pointing weapons at them.
"Because...you look battered, don't see you with any reinforcements and you are a coward by nature." He pulled out his own sword from a sheath under his robes. "Unless you want to face some warriors while you're weakened and take it like a man."
Treefox growled and then his body glowed a bright orange. "Mark my words, we're not finished here!" Then his body was enveloped by the orange light and it shot out into the distance like a racing comet.
This...Sargeant Nelson then turned to his comrades. "Get these people to the village and give them any medical help. Oh," he said stopping to look at them. "Don't let them leave. I have questions for them all."
Jacke and Reggie were picked up and they felt themselves being levitated like someone put the Levitation Charm on them. None of these...warriors...had a wand but one with a yellow garmet was pointing his spear at them and they seemed to be following his pull as he walked to the town they had been originally heading to. Tyler and Brad had their bodies levitated as well by another one of the unknown people while all their friends were being told to follow. All of them felt like protesting but didn't want to risk it since they had their weapons pointed at them. Jacke and Reggie looked in the distance and saw the buildings of the village grow bigger as they got closer but all of the exhaustion from the fight was taking them over and they sank into unconsciousness.
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Tyler was muttering and shaking where he lay sleeping. In his mind he kept seeing horrible images that were devastating his head. He saw explosion in random places and saw people screaming as they ran away from them as the sequence of them were moving closer to them. He then saw a person looking out in the distance to see the rumble and dust from many approaching on horseback before the sound of screaming and angry shouting ushered from them. He saw blood flowing through the dirt covered ground like a river, stopping cold at clawed feet. He saw a person in a hooded cloak standing in the middle of a group of burned buildings lifting his hood and snarling with fangs and a snout and that was the thing that got him to wake up.
Tyler was breathing very quickly and desperately from having that terrible nightmare and wiped the sweat on his head with his sleeve before he took in his surroundings. The room didn't look too different from the hospital wing back at Hogwarts. The only difference was that there weren't windows that held the scenery of the grounds but windows showing a town's buildings with some crazy noises outside. He picked himself up from the bed to see that the other Seekers were with him in the beds to his left.
"Hey," he said as he picked himself up. His body's limbs felt like they were being held down by metal beams with a Permanent Sticking Charm.
"Good, you're awake." Jacke said letting out a yawn.
"How long was I out?"
"Don't know," Reggie said dusting off his robes.
"We just woke up ourselves only a few minutes ago."
"Brad," Tyler said with relief when he saw him looking a little refreshed. "You alright?"
"Yeah...I'm okay. I would be more okay though if we could know what happened to Hawkster, Regulus, Laura and the others."
Tyler looked around and saw that there weren't in any of the other beds. In fact, the four of them were completely alone in the room and the doors which were big and made of iron were sealed shut. "Are they here? You know...wherever we are?"
"Don't know." Reggie said laying his head back to his pillow. "I tried to get out of here to see because I was the first one up but there's a guard at the door and he has a pretty sharp looking sword so I didn't want to make him angry."
"Me neither." Tyler said imagining being on the other end of a sword as it was pointed closely to your face.
They lay there, feeling the tired weight of their bodies lessen very slowly and just joined together in each other's silence. No one felt like talking but everyone knew that everyone's thoughts were on the battle with Treefox and where they were now. Jacke explained to Tyler and Brad about those other strange people chase Treefox away and how they heard that they were being taken to the town they were originally heading for before he and Reggie passed out. Reggie had a theory that the people who saved them were some probably part of some resistance against the foxlores, judging on how Treefox reacted to their arrival.
"So...do you think they're on our side?"
Reggie felt a little off guard at that question. "Jacke...I don't know. Maybe they are, but it could be that they might be wondering about us just as much as we are about them."
"Let's be careful though, we don't know if these people know about our seperate world or even about wizards." Tyler warned.
"I don't think we have to worry about that part Tyler."
"Why not Reggie?"
"Because, from the way they battled, I guess they are wizards themselves. They were flying without brooms and I remember reading that this is possible for elemental of fire, water, wind and lightning meaning that they must be wizards if they're elementals."
Once again, both to everyone's annoyance and pleasure, Reggie could be right. They didn't have to wait for answers for too long because, just then, the doors slammed open and the one that was yelling at Treefox came in followed by their friends. They seemed okay...a little shaken and confused but they didn't know what they've been through or for how long so there was no real way to be sure.
The stranger, Sargeant Nelson if Jacke and Reggie remember correctly, went right to the foot of their beds. "Ahh, good, You're awake."
"How long have we been out?" Tyler found himself saying though he was eyeing the man's sword.
"You've been out for nearly a whole day. We took you to our medical personnel to have you fixed up after your battle yesterday. I must admit, I'm surprised that four people alone were able to stand against Treefox. Usually, it takes a good batallion just to drive him and his demon soldiers away."
"Demon soldiers?" Tyler said a little confused before he remembered the creatures that Treefox summoned to do battle.
"You're Sargeant Nelson, right?" Reggie said taking up the questions now. "We heard Treefox say your name during the fight."
"Yes, I'm Sargeant Nelson, a honorary officer to our resistance forces in defeating the tyrannical foxlores."
"Great, if you're all against the foxlores like this then you're okay in my book," Jacke said with a smile.
"Alright, now that's enough." Nelson said with a clap with his hands. "I get to ask the questions now. Just who are the lot of ya? I respected the fact that you're four friends were injured to not question you," he said pointing to all of their friends. "But now, no more stalls. Tell me just who you are and why are you wearing those black robes with our race's four placements?"
The Seekers and their friends were looking at Nelson and as one they uttered something that, at the moment, were all thinking about despite their differences, "Huh?"
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End of Chapter 21
Hey, I hope you loved the battle that I portrayed with Treefox. The training that they recieved really paid off for everyone but most importantly, Brad. It was great seeing or reading in our case, pulling all those moves against Treefox huh? There's more to come in the line of battles, remember, there still a lot more of those foxlores out here in this world.
I can see that our group of Hogwarts students are going to have their hands full explaining that huh? And what was Nelson talking about? And above all else, will they get the hang of this world and figure out how to use the key to get home? You'll have to wait for more answers since all you're able to do now is guess. Review
Oh, there was something shocking that I discovered. It seems that doesn't want us to answer our reviewers reviews any more in our stories. That is why I didn't right now because a few people got in trouble with the site over that. I know that Chibi-NarutoKawaii is making a petition to override that decision so lend some support huh.
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