"Why would she be singing in a nasty place like this?"I wondered.
"The same reason you would on a boat." Kane replied.
I turned around, smacking him hard, and then tuned in to hear the song. It was more melody than words.
"That way.." I pointed to the next room, which had a white and black tile floor and a large staircase. At the end of the room was a mirror, and Sabrina. She was wearing a hot pink dress that sparkled and went down to her ankles. On her feet were highheels the same shade of pink that had a strap. Her hair was curled and in a side ponytail, and she was staring in the mirror while putting on pearl earrings, a matching bracelett on her wrist, while humming the melody.
She paused in the middle of the song and grinned at the mirror, her eyes flashing red.
I covered my mouth.
"Did you see that?" I whispered as quietly as possible.
"Did she see us?" Quinn wondered.
She turned around and began walking towards us. We squished in the corner as best we could. She turned and began walking up the staircase.
"Come on, let's follow her." Alex suggested when she had reached the top of the stairs. We crawled up on our hands and knees. At the top we saw her go into a room that was a bit smaller. We crawled quietly but with agility and squeezed into the corners. Hunter and Kane on the left, Quinn, Alex and me on the right.
We looked into the room to see a boy with black hair in a tuxedo bow to her and then straighten up, getting into a dancing position with her. They began dancing what seemed like the tango, and when they were close enough, I could tell that it was Oran dancing with her.
It took Quinn to clamp a hand over Alex and I's mouths, and Kane on his step-brothers to keep us from screaming bloody murder, but I could tell that Quinn was hurting, too. He has more self-control than any of us.
Oran took Sabrina into a dip, and she smiled. He took her back up and they got out of danco-mode, beginning to exit that room.
We stood up and speed-walked into the center of the room. Oran and Sabrina stopped, but it was Sabrina that turned around, grinning evilly, eyes red. She snapped and a largecage fell down on us. Suddenly, both Oran and Sabrina poofed into dust.
"Sabrina!" Hunter reached out, screaming.
"Dipwad, that wasn't Sabrina!" Alex hit him upside the head. "She would never wear something like that crap OR dance with that nasty pool smelling mudmonkey!"
"I-I know that!" Hunter cried. "I wish she'd wear that for me-"
"Enough! We need to figure out how to get out of here!" Quinn said, pushing them apart.
"We've done it before, we can do it again." Hunter said.
"It won't work the same," Quinn said. "This cage is made of shadows."
"What?" Hunter jumped up. "Can't you just.. Airbend them away?"
"It's doesn't work like that, Moron!" Quinn said fiercly. "Death is a very complicated school!"
"Everytime you argue.." I interuppted. Me, leaning against the right side of the cage and mostly staring blankly. "A little part of me dies.." I said, putting my hair back in pigtails.
"I don't know what the hell that means," Kane started, who was leaning in the corner farthest from the others. "But it sounds like you all need to shut up and find a way out of here before princess pisses her pants."
"Oh, hey! I know! Since this cage is made of shadows, a death element, all we gotta do is use Life spells on it!" Hunter explained.
"Oh yeah! Good idea!" Alex said excitedly. "Now show me who the Life wizard in here is!"
Hunter crossed his arms. "You didn't need to be nasty."
I coughed into my arm. "There's a Centaur treasure card in my spelldeck.." I sunk closer to the ground.
Alex reached into my backpack and pulled out my spelldeck, pulling out the gold card. "This one?" I nodded, taking it from him.
Quickly, I drew the Life insignia with my wand, casting the spell. The Centaur appeared in the middle of the cage, which scared Hunter and Quinn, so they jumped back.
I quickly stood up and ran to it, snatching the bow and arrow from the centaur. Taking it into my own hands and aiming for the part of the lock that was sitting out from the rest of the catch. I let go of the arrow.
It hit the lock and purified it, shattering the cage.
The centaur grumbled and disapeared.
Not caring, I picked up my bag and began walking towards the hallway the pretend Oran and Sabrina had been going down. Not hearing the foot steps of the others, I turned around and saw them staring at me.
"What?" I asked, annoyed.
"I can do that, too." Kane said, scowling at me as he passed me. I rolled my eyes and kept walking behind me, knowing that the other boys were following now.
The hallway was narrow and small, and at the end there was a metal door that felt very cold from where I was. Kane opened it anyway, and outside there was a lawn of deadgrass and graves, and the huge, dead dragon. He was curled up, sleeping, and there was Sabrina, leaning against him while stroking Zoey.
"SABRINA!" Alex cried out, getting Sabrina's attention, but also waking up the dragon. He got up, roaring, and so did Sabrina, who held Zoey like a doll.
"Sabrina Legendbreaker, get over here!" Alex demanded.
Sabrina stared at us; Wanting to say something, but not being able to find the words.
Evil laughter suddenly errupted from the sky, and a man with some really cool clothes appeared on the ground, shadows circling around him.
"Dude I could pwn that guy like this!"
Kane charged towards him, only to be struck down by a shadowman that had appeared near the man. He chuckled.
"So, Aleksandr, you've finally come to rescue your sister."
"Who are you and how do you know my name?" Alex asked, creeped out.
"You don't remember? Well, then. I'll just have to tell you."
"Well, I don't know what else you would do!" Alex snapped.
"Don't use that tone with me, young man!" This guy was getting pretty pissed.
Alex looked horrifed. "No way..."
He laughed. "It's true! I'm Maxim Demichev, and you're my son!"
"No way! I'm Alex Lion, and you're going to hand over my sister!" He ran up to Maxim, forming a fire ball in his hand, throwing it at the figure.
One of the shadows jumped in the way, reflecting it back towards Alex knocking him on the ground.
Sabrina looked horrified, but still could not find the words to speak.
"I'll make a little deal with you, Flame Boy. In exchange for killing Morte Draco's buddy," He pointed to the dead dragon. "I'll boost Sabrina's dark powers to the fullest, until her powers completely surpass everyone else's."
"No!" Alex cried, getting back up. "I'll fight with my life if it means saving her!"
"Alex, you can't do this by yourself! Let us help!" I shouted from the doorway.
"Ahh, Lady Soulblood." Maxim grinned, sending shadow people over to drag me forward. No matter how hard I dug the heels of my shoes into the dirt, I wouldn't stop. They brought me up close to his face.
"Your skills aren't too shabby either. Although you won't be as nearly as good as my daughter... I'll leave you to be my dark slave with her, too!"
The shadows flung me over into the dead dragon.
"Jasmine!" Alex shouted, growing angry with Maxim. "I don't know why people keep calling her Lady Soulblood, but you can't have her, either!" He formed a fireball in his hand again, throwing it at Maxim's feet. He jumped up and dodged it.
"Think on it for a minute!" He formed a shadowball in his hand, throwing it at Alex, who dodged that. "And think twice about getting help from your comrades, boy. You're gonna need them now.."
He turned his attention to Sabrina, Zoey and me. I suddenly felt light as air, and had an undying wish to kill. I looked at Sabrina, who grinned at me, and Zoey, too. Our eyes were glowing white, like how they look when I wear my Lady Soulblood mask.
I jumped and landed on Alex, knocking him the ground and sliding a few feet, tearing up the dead earth.
Sabrina ran towards the doorway where Quinn and Hunter were still standing, and roundhouse kicked her boyfriend down.
"I think that maybe if I adjust their shadow level just right, we can snap them out of it!" Quinn said quickly, pulling a rosary out of his sleeve, and holding it with his wand, his hands positioned in a triange shape. "Gardez ces jeunes filles à l'abri des méfaits, alors que nous essayons de soulever ce charme..."
"I got this!" Kane shouted, ignoring the fact that Zoey was bitting his leg. "Tempest!"
"Kane, wait!" Alex pushed me off him like a twig and got out of the way as the big tsunami hit me.
I laughed, ringing my violet pigtails out, remembering the day I first met these guys.
"Kane, you fail! You missed Sabrina!" Quinn said, shaking. "Ugh.." He finally dropped the rosary and his wand, sinking against the outside wall, his bangs hiding his eyes.
Sabrina laughed evilly as chains and a metal clock wrapped themselves around Hunter.
"Sabrina, stop!" Alex cried. "..On second thought, keep doing what your doing to Hunter. But snap out of it!"
"Baby, please don't do this." Hunter begged. "I'm sorry about that one time when I poured the bag of "adult" candy hearts into your spelldeck and onto your essay.. And that time I forgot to put on a..-"
"WHAT?" Alex screamed, flames burning in his eyes. "I hope this kills you, too, Hunter!" Alex screamed, reaching for his wand.
"Wait, Alex!" I casted a Balance Blade spell for him. "Try now." I smiled sweetly.
He drew the Fire insignia and hit it with his wand, casting the spell.
A giant gravy boat- UH I MEAN Genie Lamp appeared between Alex's dad and Alex. Okay that sounded weird. Alex's dad and Alex. Alex's dad and Alex. Alex's dad and- And then the giant efreet came out and swung his sword at him. (*sing song*MAGICAL EFREEEEEEET) Pinkish smoke surrounded Maxim when that happened, and when it cleared, he was gone. Either he got hit or he disapeared I'm not really sure..
"Shirt.." Hunter sighed. "ALEX YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO OVERACT LIKE-"
Then Alex fainted onto the ground. Sabrina and I ran over to him. "Looks like it happened again." I whispered.
"I missed you, Alex." Sabrina said, hugging her unconcious brother, a tear rolling down her face.
I stood up. "Quinn, you okay?"
".."
"Quinn?" I ran over to him.
"I'm fine.." He managed to say. "I just don't have any power left."
"You sacraficed all your mana for me?" Sabrina asked, turning around to face him.
"YEAH AND HUNTER DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" I cheered really loudly. "AT ALL!"
Quinn snorted. "It was nothing." He said, getting up.
"We can ride Morte Draco out of here," Sabrina suggested. "But we have to bring Lester, too."
Before I could ask who Lester was, that ghost from earlier floated outside. "SHIT! I leave for fourty-five minutes and the lawn is SCORCHED WORSE THAN THAT DEAD KID! Bastard children. Why I oughta,-"
"Let's go, Lester." Sabrina said as she and Quinn began lifting up Alex to put him on the dragon. "Can I help?" I asked.
"Sorry, Jasmine." Quinn said. "Your too small. But maybe you can help Kane." They continued to carry the fainted Alex onto Morte Draco.
"Kane?" I walked up to him and Zoey raced back over to my side.
"No." He scowled at me, limping to board Morte Draco.
"H-Hunter?" I sniffed.
"I don't need help, mom" He said, walking after his step-brother.
My pigtails drooped and I sadly boarded Morte Draco.
•°•
We're finally home, back in Wizard City. Morte Draco landed right in front of the Storm School for us. We're welcomed by worried teachers, townsfolk, and the Headmaster. Not to mention, my family.
While Moolinda cleared out her classroom to treat Alex, I sat in the background as Granny Stephanie told me a story of what happened while we were gone.
"...So now you get to meet three, wonderful people."
"Who, Granny Stephanie?" I asked with curiosity.
The classroom door opened and three people stepped in. A man with a kind face about my mom's age, a boy about my age with royal attire, a white hair, and a serious face like Alex, and a girl half my age with Granny Stephanie's eyes and skin darker than mine that she was basically an African American with light skin.
"Jasmine," Granny Stephanie said, walking towards the boy and putting a hand on his shoulder. "This is Prince Blake Stormhunter of Dragonspyre. He is your cousin on your mom's side and is a Diviner.."
I took a deep breathe. "DID YOU HEAR THAT, GUYS? I HAVE A COUSIN! AND HE'S A PRINCE!"
"That's really cool, Jasmine." Quinn told me, not taking his eyes off Alex while Moolinda worked on him.
"And this is your father. His name is Blaze Sparklestone and he is a kind Life Wizard like myself. He had to leave before you were born because he was called to battle in Grizzleheim."
"I'm princess there now!" I told my daddy, excitedly. "The King is my blood Grandfather!"
Blaze smiled. "And I'm his blood son."
"DID YOU HEAR THAT, GUYS? MY DAD IS MY GRANDFATHER'S BLOOD SON!"
"Beautiful, Jasmine." Sabrina said.
"...And this is Alyssa Unicornblade. She too, is a Life wizard and was born after..." She searched for the words and chose them carefully. " "That pact that was made...She's... Your little sister."
My eyes widened and I stuttered. "L-...L-.."
"DID YOU HEAR THAT GUYS?" I screamed, louder than the first too times. "I HAVE A LITTLE FUCKING SISTER!
Everyone looked in horror as I said the word. Especially because this is a classroom, and because I have family I have to make an impression on, including a six-year-old.
Alex suddenly woke up and sat up, a bit confused, but smiling. "Congratulations, Jasmine."
•°•
That night I visited Uncle Malistaire again.
"Where have you been?" He demanded.
"Well.. Sabrina got taken away and-"
"You found her? Messing up our plans.." He mumbled.
"Sorry..." I had quietly.
"It doesn't matter anymore. There's a very special event coming up, and I need you to enter it: The Spiral Cup, which is being held in the world of Wysteria. Now, if you wanna win you have to defeat Pigswick Academy's best student: Randolf Spellshine.
"O-Okay!" I said, a little confused. "Whatever that means.. Spellshine.. That's an interesting name."
"And while I have you here, I need you to meet someone." He told me. "Meet your newest comrade... The StormHunter!"
A boy with Snow white hair, my hat-and-mask, bat wings, etc appeared.
"Blake?" I cried.