The Necromancer's Matter, Part 11; The Beginning of the End, Part 1; Ancestry (Part 1)

"Put your hand on the rock Destiny," Ryan encouraged. "That's how you did it last time, wasn't it?"

Destiny nodded affirmation to Ryan and the rest of the Order of the Spiral. She wanted to get her mind fiercely off of her set fate-

The girl of Death and Fire who's life will be reaped…

Destiny shook her head rapidly, trying to prevent tears from streaking down. Her fate was horrible! And the Girl of Death and Fire… who else would that be pointing to, honestly?

Well, at least everyone else had a better fate, even if most of the final lines didn't sound good. Blood and Carnage… Thorn's Burden… Death fully claiming…

At least we also now have all the shards of the Blade of Seven, Destiny reminded herself. That's good- very good.

Destiny placed her hand firmly on the smooth stone as she closed her eyes again, remembering what had happened almost right after she had read the complete Prophecy of Fire.

"That's rather morbid," Cody had chuckled as Destiny was still in shock. "But look on the bright side- since you've let me join, I have these to give to you!"
After he said that he drew two things from his pouch. One was as black as night, sending chills up everyone's spine. Black, mysterious mist seemed to swirl in the big shard, inviting, alluring, but at the same time you knew that nothing good would come out of it in the end.

The Death Shard.

The second thing was small, the edges heavily jagged. Sand swirled and twisted, churning, as if you were looking at a desert through a glass, forming a broad field of tan.

The Balance Shard.

Jason gasped and slowly dared to walk up to Cody, rewarded by earning both the Death Shard and the Balance Shard. He was very careful not to bring the Shards close together- they had all learned their lesson when Ryan accidentally brought the Storm and Life Shards together.

And from what Taryn/Time had told them, that was nice.

Chris smiled broadly, a rare thing. "So- we have all pieces to the Blade of Seven! We… we can go down to the Forge and piece the Blade together and stop Vladimir Thorn!"

Cody nodded rapidly. "Exactly! Common- remember that cavern we fought in in Mooshu? Now remember that door with the Myth symbol? That's the entrance to the Forge, in case you don't know! Now let's go- Vladimir will probably be at Dragonspyre at any moment!"

So here the Order was, right there and then, ready to piece together the most powerful weapon ever created.

Finally Destiny decided it was time to push the rock away, so she gritted her teeth as she felt her arm surging forward with strength. Soon it was no longer in contact with the huge, circular rock- it was in contact with thin air.

Once again, she had succeeded in pushing it.

Natalie nodded briefly. "Let's go!"

All together, the Thirteen members of the Order of the Spiral raced down the thin, tan slope down to the Mooshu cavern, single file since the path down was so narrow, not even wide enough for two people to walk through shoulder-to-shoulder. Sweat beaded on all of their foreheads, eyebrows creasing together in utmost concentration and focus. This was it, the final battle… they had to stop him at all costs…

Once they arrived at their destination, they all skidded, barely able to keep from shoving themselves into each other in an intense flurry of excitement. Quickly they all regained their balance, knowing they had to quickly get inside the Forge.

Destiny was the first to turn her head around. Upon doing so, pools of emeralds shrunk as white grew large in horror. She felt as if she had just gotten punched in the stomach- that's how shocked she was.

"No…" Destiny dared to breathe.

Sure enough, there was the door alright, with the chipping bright yellow pain and the dark blue Myth symbol etched onto the top.

Only unlike last time- it was burned down.

Their chance to create the Blade of Seven, their one shot- was instantly destroyed.

"Guys!" Destiny yelled. First she found out she was supposed to die, now their shot of putting the Shards together was shattered. What next? How about Vladimir actually fulfilling his goal, whatever that was?

Once Destiny thought of it, with her luck… that's probably what would happen.

Ryan's angry yell cut off her thoughts. "No! Come ON!" His cheeks looked as if it had been cooked in the oven, hands shaking in utmost fury. "Vladimir!"

Esmee was almost crying. "No, no, no, no! This can't be happening!"

Emma tilted her head in confusion. No one blamed her, really- after all, she was nine. Garrett and Connor placed themselves in front of her, as if they expected the door to charge straight towards them any moment.

Amid all the chaos, Chris seemed to be the only one still swimming in reason. He thought hard for a moment, clearing away all screams and tears of defeat. There had to be another way… after all, Myth wouldn't just create one entry, would he?

Chris suddenly remembered his Aura, how it had come to use when battling Vladimir in Thorn Manor in Natalie's rescue mission. He had been able to make objects pretty much pop out of thin air- being a Descendant of Myth, he could bring objects to life.

Chris closed his dark eyes and scrunched his eyebrows in pure concentration. He focused on the blueprints of Myth's Forge… there had to be another entrance…

Suddenly he felt something drop into his hands. Chris hesitated- what if it failed? What if he opened his eyes to nothing but disappointment?

But if he didn't open his eyes, he also wouldn't know if he had succeeded.

Chris willed himself to open them, and smiled brightly as his camouflaged pupils rested on a thin, blue paper, taking the shape in the form of a scroll. It worked!

"Guys!" Chris called, and soon all eyes swerved to him, confused. After all, their chance at putting the Blade of Seven was ruined and he was smiling?

But Chris was quickly able to explain why to them. "I've got a blueprint of the Forge! Perhaps there's another entrance! After all- Legendaries aren't exactly dumb."

Murmers awakened in agreement. The Order began to crowd around Chris as his fingers slowly unfurled the blue blueprints.

Several pairs of eyes slid across the blueprints, a diagram of crisscrossing lines and neat handwriting spread out all over the page, numerous loops and twists and sketches nicely filling out the thin blue paper.

Chris's forefinger traced over the blueprint. He began at a darker shaded part that was meant to represent the doorway from Myth's Cavern, and it traced around the exterior lines until it stumbled across another part that was shaded darker- one that represented another entry.

"Haha!" Chris pumped his fist in the air. "I knew it! There's another entrance!"

Everyone was grinning broadly. "So where is it?" Ryan asked, excitement urging Chris to quickly reveal what he found.

Chris squinted as his smile slowly died. He brought the blueprint closer to him to take a better look at it-

"Ah, so that's where it is," Chris mumbled. "I think we can get there- it will be a little tough, but I think we can manage."

Destiny tilted her head quizzically, the joy at finding another entrance to Myth's Forge overcoming her prophesied death- that is, if she was a Pure Descendant. "Where is it?" she asked earnestly.

Chris brought his head up. "It's located at Dragonspyre. Dragonspyre Academy, to be precise. I'm guessing it would be in the Myth School."

Ryan shrugged. "That's good, good! We can get there easily!"

But only Jason seemed to see the sense in Chris's reluctance. "Actually, not really easy Ryan," he replied slowly as he scrunched his eyebrows in thought.

Ryan groaned in annoyance. "Tell me- how is it not easy?"

"Well, for one, none of us are enrolled in Dragonspyre Academy. And that's the only way we're going to be able to access the entrance. And second- we don't have time to enroll."

Destiny grit her teeth in thought. "But we need to get to that entrance," she pointed out.

Jason nodded. "Yes, we all know that," he replied a little angrily. "But the thing is, we need to find the entrance and stop Vladimir- at the same time! And not to mention, there's Alexis looking after Noah back in the Commons!"

All the members went silent. Finally Esmee suggested, "We split up."

Jason swiveled around to stare at the Descendant of Ice. "Again?" he almost shrieked. "You know what happened last time we were split up!"

But no one listened to Jason- instead they praised Esmee for her idea. "Jason- Esmee's right," Garrett pointed out. "We will have to split up- after all, we don't have to sign up thirteen people for Dragonspyre Academy, do we?"

Jason opened his mouth to argue, but then logic slowly reasoned with him and the Commander shut his mouth.

Then he sighed in defeat. "You're right Esmee," Jason admitted. "In order to get this accomplished, we will need to split up."

Jessica nodded. "How?"

Jason thought for a moment, then finally agreed with himself on a solution. "We need two groups- one to go to the Myth School at Dragonspyre Academy and try to find the alternate entry to Myth's Forge, and the other one…"

Jason's unfinished sentence mysteriously hung in the air, desperate to be finished yet no one stepping up to do the job.

Finally Garrett broke the silence. "What would the other group be for?"

Jason sighed, tilting his head back and forth, at war with himself on whether or not to do this. Then he seemed to agree on his idea.

"We need to rally wizards," Jason wanted to whisper the idea, have it not really be true, but as the Commander- he couldn't exactly do that. "We need a large amount of people to combat Vladimir- as a rich kid, I think that he could have a few troop or bodyguards to his disposal."

Jessica groaned. "Do we really need to tell a bunch of other people about the Legendaries?"

"And we would just be sending a bunch of people to their deaths," Connor added. "We really don't want another Nicholas." Instantly Connor clamped his hands over his mouth, as if to take back the added statement.

The members that had gotten to know Nicholas hung their heads down in part respect for Nicholas, part ashamed at the idea of having a repeat of his death. No one spoke for a while, unsure of what to say- if they said anything, who knew what kinds of fights it could bring up? More horrific ideas?

Jason once again took charge. "That's why we need to gather wizards for our cause," he replied in opposition to the silence, earning all the members' attention. As twelve pairs of eyes bored into him, Jason quickly added, "So we don't have a lot more Nicholas'. Because Cody did promise that doom would come to the Spiral should Vladimir not be stopped in time."

Shrugs of agreement responded, along with an unsurprising scowl of disapproval from Jessica.

Jason quickly took this as approval from the Order before they could change their minds. Rapidly he organized the members into the groups. "Okay, so Chris, Cody, Destiny, Jessica and I will go on down to the Myth School, enroll as students for a time or take a little tour, and find the entrance. Alexis is looking after Noah while he's out, so they're unavailable. Esmee, Garrett, Connor, Emma, Ryan, and Natalie will all go down and rally a few more wizards to form a kind of army."

"Why do I have to go rally?" Ryan complained in a somewhat whiney tone. "I'm an experienced fighter, the seargent of the Order of the Spiral- I want to go to Dragonspyre and help find Myth's Forge!"

"Because!" Jason practically hissed, "You're probably the best speaker out of every single one of us!"

Ryan opened his mouth to argue, but quickly closed it.

Jason nodded slightly. "So it's decided. Come on- we need to quickly get to work, all of you."

"Dragonspyre looks… nice," Destiny commented as she looked around. There was the sleek, crimson-and-violet-tiled ground, the looming purple arches in the Bascilla that bordered the swirling aqua portals, and stale air swirled, as if adding a final touch to the menacing sight. The clear blue sky really contrasted with the more… horror look that Dragonspyre held.

Jason chuckled. "Believe it or not, you really get used to it," the Grandmaster shrugged as he began descending the swirling stairs.

"Well, there are just some things in life you just can't get used to, you know?" Destiny replied as she and Jessica followed. "Like the dogs in Marleybone," she added, her eyes bulging again at the memory. "Dogs… on their hind legs…" the Magus shivered.

Cody rolled his eyes. "Let me get this straight," he said, disbelieving. "The dogs in Marleybone give you goosebumps?" He looked at Destiny strangely, as she had told him that she was a purple unicorn with a heckhound tail.

"YES!" Destiny shrieked right in Cody's ear.

Alarmed, Cody jerked away from Destiny as Jessica chuckled at the scene, amused. "Geez, girl!" Cody almost yelled. "Okay- so you don't like dogs! What're you gonna do now, tell me that we're related?"

This struck Destiny like a stake, her blood instantly freezing to ice. She just stood there, mouth hanging open slightly, not moving a muscle as if she were some ice sculpture. Finally she tore her eyes away from Cody's. Now was the big confrontation.

"Actually… yes."

Cody squinted in disbelief. "What?" he asked as if he hadn't heard her.

"You heard me," Destiny persisted as the other three decided to stay out of this confrontation. "Your parents… Alex Deathcrafter… and your mom-"

Cody jerked back again. "Okay, how you know that my Dad's name is Alex Deathcrafter, I don't know," Cody began, "but no one knows my Mom! Don't even-"

"Actually, I do know your Mom," Destiny quickly cut in. "Her name is Cassandra Rubytail. She is a Grandmaster conjurer, married to Jared Lifegrove, formerly Alex Deathcrafter until he abused her. She left her child with him in her rush- that child is you. Once she married Jared, she had five children- Samantha Firetalon, Scarlet Lotuspetal, twins Thomas and Hunter Emeraldshard… and me."

Cody didn't say anything for a while, just staring at her, unsure of what to say. Did he believe her? He knew he shouldn't… but Destiny seemed so sure of herself that this Cassandra Rubytail was his Mom.

"We're half-siblings, Cody," Destiny struggled to continue when Cody didn't respond. She drew in a deep breath as emerald locked with dark. "Cassandra Rubytail is the mother of both of us."

Cody held the lock for a second, speechless, then he finally broke the sad gaze away.

Jason quickly cleared a silence before it could come. "Come on- all of you," Jason announced after clearing his throat. "We have an Academy to take a tour of."

Everyone simply nodded as they followed Jason down the staircase. Once arriving at the portals, they all glanced around for a bit before Jason pointed to one and directed, "Over there."

Sure enough, there was a clear, defining image of a towering school with multiple doors with the school symbols spread out evenly on different levels. The image was a little blurry, rippling back and forth like water.

Then, one by one, the members plunged themselves into the rippling image, first Jason, then Chris, then Destiny, then Jessica and Cody.

Time to find the entrance.

"Why do we get assigned the boring job?" Esmee groaned as she shut the Wizard City Spiral Chamber door behind her. "Well, at least, I always do, at least. Just because I'm a Descendant of Ice doesn't mean I'm not capable! After all, I can freeze things!"

"And I can shoot out lightning and Jason sends me out too," Ryan grumbled along. "But yet again- it's like Jason said. I am a good speaker- we all have reasons why we're here."

"Well, yeah, that explains it for you, but not for-"

Garrett quickly spun around to face Esmee. "A good leader puts people where they want to be. A great leader places people where they need to be."

Esmee stared at Garrett for a moment, then he blushed. "Just… repeating something that Nicholas would often say," he muttered.

Yet again no one said anything as they exited the Spiral Chamber.

Natalie seemed to be the only one to relish the fresh air once they went out. "It's a really nice day out," Natalie remarked once they exited Ravenwood with the provided tunnel and entered the Commons. "And really, that's saying a lot, because it's always nice in the Commons."

"How do you know it's not just another one of those days?" Connor looked at Natalie quizzically.

Natalie shrugged. "I just know."

Quickly they were cut off by two girls- one of them was clearly a master necromancer, with long auburn hair and twinkling yet concerned violet eyes with a commander's uniform. Her arm was draped around a younger girl, who looked about fourteen. The younger girl was nervous, dressed in a fancy green and tan Marleybonian carnival dress. Her hands twirled around each other nervously, jet-black hair somewhat matted in the essence of stress.

"I- I just don't know what to do!" the girl, looking to be a theurgist, wailed to the older necromancer. "He-he… I shouldn't have run off like that! What was I thinking?! I had found my true family in years- and I run away just because he had originally had bad intentions! I want to go back! I really want to, but I just can't!"

The necromancer attempted to soothe the younger one as Ryan, Natalie, Esmee, Garrett, Connor, and Emma all exchanged worried glances.

Finally Emma said in a small voice, "What's wrong with her?"

Garrett shrugged. "I don't know- but she seems really miserable."

Before anyone could say anything more, Emma's head darted around back and forth before running straight towards the theurgist.

Connor groaned. "Oh geez," he muttered briefly to himself. Then he composed himself and yelled, "Emma!" as he began to give chase to the nine-year-old.

Emma's auburn hair bounced in the air as she ran to the theurgist eagerly, one leg dashing in front of the other in an excited pattern. Emma skidded on her heels, making a small squeak on the cobblestone as she reached her destination.

Emma laid a hand on the theurgist, startling her as the other members caught up to her. "What's wrong?" the Balance Novice asked in her voice that showed off innocence.

The girl turned her head to look at Emma- with startling blue eyes. Blue eyes… aqua eyes… that seemed so, so familiar…

The girl smiled weakly- the best she could manage for now. "Nothing for you to worry about," she croaked.

Emma just kept looking at the theurgist with sad eyes as she wrapped her arms around the theurgist's waist. The theurgist was taken aback by this surprising gesture of love, but eventually gave in to the warmth.

Natalie smiled hugely. "So sweet!" she half-whispered to herself.

Ryan smiled a little, but that quickly ceased into a frown as he remembered something that the theurgist had said… something about bad intentions.

Ryan cleared his throat, somewhat reluctant to break up the sweet moment, but when the theurgist looked up, Ryan couldn't take it back. So he might as well proceed.

"If you'd excuse me," Ryan began, "but… what exactly happened?"

The girl once again returned to her depressed state of mind. "I don't know if-"

"Something about bad intentions?" Ryan quickly got down to the point.

Slowly the theurgist nodded. "I just arrived here in Wizard City, a little more than twenty-four hours ago," she began to explain. "I found out that I'm actually a wizard- one in Life, to be exact. Then, after that… I met a guy in Ravenwood. About sixteen, seventeen, somewhere around there- shoulder-length black hair that I recommended he should cut, same eyes as mine. I found out that he was actually my older brother! Then, on top of that, I found out that we were the richest family in this world where dogs are people!"

Ryan and Natalie exchanged worried looks at the girl's familiar description.

"I… I should have been happy," the girl's voice toned down to a whisper, barely audible. "Right then and there- I had it all, really. But then I found out that he had thought I was dead, and what he planned to do to get me back… it was horrible. Awful. My brother didn't have any more intentions to do this now that I had returned- but I was still downright horrified. So horrified that in the rush of the moment- I ran away."

The girl winced at the memories, and tears began to prick at the bottom of her eyelids. Shortly they cascaded down her face in straight lines.

Ryan didn't know what to say. He didn't want to begin interrogating her about whether or not her brother was indeed Vladimir Thorn- he hadn't known that Vladimir had a younger sister.

"What's your name?" Ryan asked softly. There. When she revealed her last name, there was a chance that she could reveal if her brother was Vladimir.

The girl looked up, opening her mouth with full intentions to respond, but quickly burst into tears again.

The older necromancer girl, who Ryan had almost forgotten was there, finally made herself known. "Her name's Llewella," she explained. "On Earth it was Llewella Carson- here it's apparently Llewella Thorn."

Ryan was barely able to stifle a gasp of shock at the resolution. However, he did think that a flash of surprise escaped his violet irises.

"Mine's Destiny, Destiny Deathflame," she explained. Ryan tilted his head in confusion. Another Destiny. Huh. But yet again, there were a lot of Destinys in the Spiral- one of the most common girl names.

Ryan ran multiple lines and expressions through his head, carefully picking out what to say to Llewella and Destiny D. In the end, he carefully resolved to say to

Llewella as he took her hand assuringly, "Llewella- do you want me to help you get your brother back?"

Ryan thought he saw a spark of hope ignite in Llewella's eyes.

"Names?"

Chris smiled, giving the registrar a smile that seemed to charm most teachers. He tilted his head slightly for more effect. "Chris Soulhunter, Grandmaster Conjurer."

The registrar rolled her spectacles up the bridge of her nose as she jotted Chris's name down with black cursive handwriting on the paper. Her bored gray eyes raised to look at Chris once she was done. "So you're not a confirmed attendant of Dragonspyre Academy, correct?"

Chris nodded. "None of us are, really," he gestured to Jason, Cody, Jessica and Destiny. "We just don't know if, Dragonspyre Academy is really, you know," Chris flipped his hands around for extra effect, "right for us. Perhaps we can take a tour?"

The registrar thought about this for a brief moment, then sighed. "I suppose," she agreed reluctantly in a monotone voice. She stood up as she waved her hand, signaling them to follow her.

Most of the members barely even paid attention to what the registrar even had to say- besides, she seemed more bored of Dragonspyre Academy than enthusiastic.

The tour was somewhat tedious, most of them just itching to get inside the Myth School.

After what seemed like forever, a sudden gong rung, it's sound vibration ringing throughout the red, structured Academy and sending most of the members' hands flying to their ears. When it ceased, they noticed the students pouring out of the schools.

The registrar shrugged. "So there you have it," she concluded as she began walking away. "If you'd like to explore more on your own, feel free to do so."

Chris nodded. "Thank you!"

As soon as the registrar's back was turned, Jason and Chris nodded to the other three members. "Let's go, now! This is the only chance we have!" Jason urged.

"Right!" Destiny chorused.

They ran almost headfirst into the Myth School, overly desperate to find the entry to Myth's Forge. The group sparrowed through even more students who came out, anxious to go to their next class.

The interior of the Myth School was quite a sight. Long desk-benches stretched in two rows, numerous books topping them off. The desks were placed in front of the other, slightly lower than it's predecessor, therefore there was a desk on either side of a step. Chalk flew and wrote on the board, as if an invisible teacher were righting. Myth school banners flanked either side of the chalkboard.

"Okay, so we don't have much time," Jason pointed out. "We need to move and we need to move fast. The door to the Forge is hidden here somewhere- I can feel it and I'm sure all of you can do the same."

Cody, Destiny, Jessica and Chris nodded, confirming Jason's statement as Jason finished. "Let's go!"

Immediately the members spread out as if they were the edges of an explosion. Cody's hands felt around the smooth walls to the right and Jessica felt the left all. Jason felt around the floor, looking to see if there were a kind of trapdoor.

Destiny and Chris however, weren't as quick as the two necromancers and pyromancer. Destiny mainly looked around, narrowing her eyes into almost thin slits, looking for even the most faint of signs…

And eventually a glowing, little white rectangle suddenly showed up on the chalkboard. But as quick as it showed up, it quickly disappeared, as if it were a faint border around an object.

Chris also seemed very focus, just staring at the chalkboard. Thinking that Chris might have also sensed it, Destiny quickly nudged him. As a result, Chris jumped as if he were electrocuted and quickly turned his attention to Destiny.

Destiny accused a finger at the chalkboard. "Did… did you see that?"

Chris hastily nodded. "You bet I did."

Excitement quickly worked its way into Destiny's veins. "C'mon," she quickly muttered after a deep breath. "Myth School, Myth's Forge, line on the chalkboard- can't be a coincidence."

Destiny and the Descendant of Myth sped down the steps to the suspicious chalkboard, both placing their palms on it as if on cue. They stared at the chalkboard intently…

There it was again.

Only this time the white boarder burned brighter, thicker, and kept zooming in and out, appearing and disappearing constantly. After looking at it for a while, they soon also saw a faint, yellow assortment of lines burn in the middle- a shape that was all too familiar.

The Myth Symbol.

Chris seemed to awaken out of a kind of trance before smacking his palm on the chalkboard, awakening the other three. "We found it!" Chris proclaimed.

Immediately Cody, Jessica and Jason all dropped what they were doing and eagerly joined them. "Where is it?" Jason questioned while he ran down. "I sure don't see anything."

Destiny and Chris both looked back to the chalkboard- sure enough, the boarder and the Myth Symbol were still burning on and off, like a holographic image.

"Y-you can't see it?" Destiny knitted her eyebrows together in concern.

"See what?" Jessica asked. "I don't see anything but a chalkboard. That's all you're pointing to, really."

Destiny and Chris gave each other worried looks. They were the only two who could see it. It made sense why only Chris would be able to see the aura of the door to Myth's Forge… but why Destiny?

Destiny gulped. If this was a sign that she was any kind of Pure Descendant- because at this point, there seemed to be a pretty high chance- if she was a Pure Descendant, she would die. It was as simple as that.

While the other members weren't looking, Destiny quickly swiped a hand over her forehead to stop all possible beads of sweat from forming.

Chris began to study the chalkboard again. "Well, if you see it or not, I know for a fact that somehow, this chalkboard leads to Myth's Forge," Chris stated as-a-matter-of-factly. "We just gotta find out how it leads there."

Jason nodded. "Well- I'll take your word for it."

Chris started feeling around the dusty chalkboard, leaving small hand imprints as he did. Once he even put an ear to the chalkboard, as if trying to detect whether or not it was hollow.

Jason though checked the edges of the chalkboard, and then peered in closer when he found that the chalkboard seemed to be just faintly apart from the wall.

Jason tore his eyes away from it for a second to half-shout, "Stand back guys! I think I've got it!"

Once everyone else backed away from it, Jason bit down on his bottom lip as his arms made an effort to push the chalkboard to the other side- and in response, the chalkboard slid to the other side.

Destiny then grinned madly at what she saw- a door planted right on the wall, rather simple, with thin brass hinges… and a faint Myth symbol on it in the exact shape that she and Chris had seen.

Destiny laughed in relief. "We found it!"

Jason hooted in joy, Chris smiled so big that Destiny thought for a second that it would outgrow it's face, Cody gave a distinct nod of approval and Jessica pumped her fist in the air. "We did it!"

Cody nodded. "Yeah yeah, we did it, all that jazz- now let's actually get in and actually do the fun stuff!" Cody quickly half-snapped half-cheered.

Jason was the first one to respond to Cody's suggestion, quickly swinging the door open, not caring about the leftover chalkboard. The entire Spiral would know about the Legendaries and Descendants sooner or later today. "Quickly, get in! This is it!"

He took a deep breath as he hoisted himself up into the entryway engraved in the wall.

Instantly the somewhat repulsive smell of burning metal fled to him, and his eyes swept around Myth's Forge as the other Descendants and Destiny climbed in after him. Hammers, thongs and other metalworking equipment hung anciently on the wall, watching a large wooden tub of water below them. An anvil stood proudly across it, the polished metal trying to stretch from one end to another. Finally, smoke bellowed out of a large stove, a fire already dancing inside its body.

Jessica squinted in suspicion. "Wait… it looks as if it's been used… quite recently, actually."

"That's because it was, Descendant of Death."

A sharp, hissing voice cut through the Order, swinging their attention right over to her. They all gasped when they saw her, easily recognizing her with her ponytailed jet-black hair and black and red Valkyrie armor, a triumphant smirk colored across her face and eyebrows scrunched evilly.

"Miss me?" Neela sneered.

A/N: Ah, this is a longer chapter that's like, what? Twice as long as the ones I've been posting lately? Eh, whatever. That'll just satisfy you guys. :P

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