In a dark room, sat the new wizard council in their hidden location. With the help of their masters the dark ones, the wizards had taken control of the wizard world and were steadily pushing their enemies back for the past month and a half. Only the Druids, Magi, and Chen nations were holding back their forces. As the dark council discussed other matters, a wizard walked in and bowed to the council in hiding.
"Great council, I bring news of our retaliation against the mortals for their interference in the escape of Alex Russo and Harper Finkle. We tracked down their location and destroyed the base, killing the marines that were responsible. Though the Russos still remain hidden and we still have no clue at what took out the wizards sent to kill them." said the wizard as he bowed.
Dennis Pimpernil, the head councilor, looked over the council before him. "We must assume that whoever did this and those that are aiding our enemies must be mortals working in secret. I think we all can agree that the mortals should keep their noses in their own business, at least until we consolidate our power in the wizard world and take over the mortals as well." said Dennis as the others nodded in agreement.
"What should we do?" asked one of the councilors.
As Pimpernil was getting ready to answer, a cold chill moved throughout the room as several dark ones appeared. The lead dark one stepped out of the shadows and looked at the council. "Put the mortals in line. Destroy their leaders and instill fear in them. They will quickly get in line." said the dark one.
Dennis looked at the other councilors as one dared to speak, "But the mortals number more than we do. If they learn of magic, they could turn..." said the hapless councilor as the dark one turned his body to dust.
"The mortals are weak and fearful. Demonstrate your powers and they will fall in line. I command this, or I will get another set of councilors." ordered the dark one.
Dennis bowed in agreement as he summoned an aid. Whispering into the aids ear, the aid's eyes grew wide as he hurried out to relay the orders to the wizard forces.
Alex and Justin were sitting on the couch in John's lair, as Theresa and Harper were making dinner. The Russos were suffering from cabin fever as their stay in John's lair had reached its sixth week. They had heard from Max that he was well and they were holding the wizard forces back. Jerry was busy reading the paper as the incidents of terrorist attacks were sky rocketing.
Jerry shook his head, "Mortals. I swear if they only knew." he commented to himself.
Alex and Justin nodded as Theresa called them into the small kitchen for dinner. They all sat down and ate as the TV was on CNN.
As they ate, the TV blared an emergency warning as the Russos turned to the TV to see Lou Dobbs in shock.
"Breaking news has happened in Washington as reports are coming in from our Washington Bureau. We are taking you live to Washington." he said as the screen changed to an unsteady picture of the Capital Building with a reporter hunkering down beside a wall.
"Thank you Lou, we are live outside the Capital Building as, what I can only state as monstrous rock creatures and humans dressed as wizards are attacking anything that moves." said the reporter as the camera caught a shot of several golems with a wizard destroying a police car in the middle of a street.
The Russo's quickly ran to the TV and watched intently as the camera showed the Capital police and several military personal vainly fighting off the attacking wizard forces. The camera came back to the reporter as the news team got up and ran for the capital building. The camera showed the approaching golems and wizards behind them taking shots at the capital building while several police and soldiers were behind cover trying in vain to stop the approaching tide.
As the camera went inside, it swung over to the reporter, "We have made it inside the capital building. It is chaos in the streets here as these unknown things are attacking the city. Though from what I have seen, it looks like the attacking forces are focusing on government areas of the city." said the reporter as he ducked as a lightening bolt shot through a nearby window.
"I can only describe what is happening as a nightmare, one can not wake up from." said the reporter as he looked out a window. "They are getting closer to us now, the defenders are doing their best, but we all expect that we won't make it out of here alive." said the reporter as one of the soldiers fell over from a magic bolt leaving a hole in his head.
"As you can see, we won't go down without a fight." said the reporter as a soldier handed him a gun and pushed him to a window. The camera man stayed on the reporter and other defenders as the congressmen and their people began to pick up the weapons of the fallen and trying to defend themselves.
The camera man kept recording as the golems made it up the long stairs of the Capital building and began ripping through the defenders. After a few moments, the large front doors began to dent as the golems began to pound the doors with their great strength. The defenders huddled in the rotunda as they took cover where they could. The camera showing the tired and weary faces of the defenders as the sound of the door failing ripped through the Capital building.
Jumping in reaction, Alex and Harper looked at each other as Jerry mumbled, "This can't be happening."
Justin still glued on the TV was first to catch the golems starting to rush into the capital rotunda. As several defenders were falling to the golems, the sounds of approaching aircraft were heard in the background.
Alex elbowed Justin, "20 bucks, that's the Calvary." she remarked. It was mere moments before a hole was blown in the rotunda dome, as a rain of bright orange metal was sent down upon the attacking golems obliterating them into dust. As the rain stopped, the camera man focused on the breach in the dome as a group of armored soldiers, with red crosses on their breast plates jumped down and landed in the rotunda taking up defensive positions. The camera man ran to a nearby window, recording at least 30 of strange jet aircraft dropping armored men onto the city. It was a massacre for the wizard forces as the aircraft quickly ripped through the golems and other constructs as the armored soldiers began taking out the wizards with ease. As the wizard forces were thrown back, the camera caught, several groups of them, wave sticks in the air and disappear before him. The camera turned around to catch the reporter walking back into the shot.
"Lou, the fighting is almost over here. I can honestly say, I have never seen such a display in my life. I have Senator Lockheart here, to answer a few of questions." as he turned to the senator.
"Senator Lockheart. What is going on?" asked the reporter.
The senator had an ear piece in as he listened to whoever it was on the other end.
Looking at the camera, the senator straightened his tie. "The US was attacked this evening by, believe it or not, wizards and their magical constructs." the senator remarked letting the reporter take it all in.
"You mean there is magic?" asked the reporter in disbelief.
The senator stood straight, not even bearing a smile. "Yes, magic is real, and we were just attacked by those that use magic. Many have died in the defense of our nation's capital, but we have persevered and the president will address the nation shortly concerning what is going on." said the senator as several soldiers walked up to him and escorted him back inside.
The camera man panned out his shot, showing the armored men orderly walking towards their aircraft and loading several prisoners along with themselves. As the aircraft began to take off, the camera man panned out and showed the damaged buildings as smoke rose from several areas across the city.
Jerry turned to the rest of his family. "Magic is out." he exclaimed in disbelief.
"So what." said Alex as she sat back and watch the news broadcast.
"So what? With magic out..." Jerry trailed off in thought. "Actually I can't really see why magic couldn't be known by mortals. I mean this isn't the inquisition days or anything." Jerry remarked.
"Maybe this is a good thing." remarked Harper as Alex gave her a suspicious look.
"Only time will tell." added Justin as they sat back and watched the president's address to the nation and world.