Author's Note: Hey guys, I know I said I post on Sunday, but things came up with Thanksgiving around the corner and my niece and nephew decided to stay over for a couple of days, so I had to entertain them for a good amount of time, so now I've found the time to finish the rest of this chapter and you'll find this a bit interesting, I promise. So enjoy a good reading and Happy Thanksgiving!
Chapter 45: Out with the Light and In with the Dark!
Auradon Convention Center
Back at the Convention Center, a portal was open at the roof and Mordo comes out in midair while standing on a green disk. The AKs were also there still unconscious while CJ, The Mindless Ones, Mal and the others just appeared out of the portals. The VKs and Eliza looked around to see where they are until Mal spots her boyfriend lying on the ground with everyone else.
"Ben!" Mal yelled. "What have you done to them?!"
"They gave me quite a workout, so I thought I return them a favor." Mordo said.
"Imma bout to give you one in a minute!" Quincy said raising his fist with fiery eyes.
"Oh, just the boy I was looking for." Mordo said.
"Still trying to recruit me? I'm already part of a team, Snake Face." Quincy said.
"Always the jokester, you are. No wonder you're mother doesn't love you." Mordo said.
"What you say?!" Quincy was gripping his fists tightly.
"Growing up in a place where you never received any type of love from her hasn't really brought out the best version of yourself."
"Are you trying to get barbecued?!" Quincy's hands starts flaming.
"But now here you are, strong, powerful and have so much potential, to do my bidding that is. When we're done conquering this land, everyone will know your name as the Fire of Chaos!" Mordo said.
"Ok, I'm done listening to you, and I'm not about to be the reason why Auradon's up in flames!" Quincy said.
"But you'll be serving a purpose, my purpose, which will be known to everyone who will know the name of Baron Mordo!"
"Seriously? You're like saying the same thing but different wording." Quincy said.
"You're not taking him anywhere and you're not convincing us otherwise." Mal said.
The other VKs and Eliza walked up behind them preparing for another fight.
"Is that so?" Mordo said.
Mordo pulls out a white jewel, but it was glowing all over. Quincy begins staring at it, longer than he wanted to. But suddenly, Quincy's arms felt heavy and his eyelids were lowered.
"What is that?" Jay said.
"Oh this? I happened to found this back in Auradon Prep, along with other jewel with the words "Birthright Jewels" written on the box." Mordo said.
Mal gasps.
"That's Queen of Hearts' Jewel!" She says.
"Is that what this is? Now I remember, my partner did mention before that y'all did have this Jewel-Bilee celebration. But then I also realized that Quincy never did get to attend or received his jewel, so I thought I should get it for him. After that, I put in a little something extra." Mordo.
"And what would that be?" Eliza asked.
"Why don't you show, my Inferno?" Mordo said grinning.
"Huh?" They asked.
Suddenly, Jay was hit in the face and got himself flown onto a wall. Mal and the others gasped when they saw him and turn around to Quincy, who's fist was on fire and his eyes were pure white.
"Quincy, what was that for?" Freddie asked.
"Because I wanted to." Quincy answered. "And I want to do this."
He extends his hands forward and blasts Freddie with a full flamethrower attack. But Freddie manages to fly out of the way just in time. Quincy decided to take the fight in the air as he jets himself rocket-style. He then does more fire blast with Freddie blocking it with her hex bolts.
"Quincy, stop! What are you doing?!" Mal said.
That got Quincy's attention and he blasts Mal and the others next. But Mal stood her ground and uses her psychic knife to cut his flames in half. Carlos got out the way and uses his gun to shoot a blue ray to freeze him, but Quincy manages to break out of it. He then hit Carlos with a fireball, making him hit the ground.
"Carlos!" The girls said.
Freddie uses her powers to try to get a hold of him and make him grounded, but he shoots fire out of his mouth to soften his landing and shoots Freddie. The fire makes contact and she starts to fall, but Jay who finally got up, jumps up to catch her. When he did, they both hit the ground with Freddie on top.
"Are you out of your mind?!" Mal said.
"Mal, wait a second. Look at his eyes." Evie pointed out.
Mal saw that Quincy's eyes were glowing white, she can't even see his pupils.
"What the...?" Mal said.
"And look at the jewel." Evie said.
Mal also looks at the white jewel that is still glowing like how Quincy's eyes were, putting two and two together.
"He cursed the jewel just like my mom did with mine." Mal said.
"We gotta snap him out of it!" Eliza said.
Eliza then tries to use her mind to reach into Quincy's mind. As she uses telepathy, she was trying to talk to him.
"Quincy!" Eliza said. "Quincy! Are you there?!"
She was in his mind and while she looks around, she spots him with his back facing her.
"Quincy, you need to wake up." Eliza said.
As she walks closer to try to touch him, he turns around with fiery eyes and he blasts her full force of flames.
"Ahhh!" Eliza screams.
Her head was hurting so much, she fell on her knees.
"Eliza!" Mal said holding her shoulders.
"What happened?" Evie said.
"I couldn't reach him, his mind is completely taken over. He kicked me out of his head." Eliza explained.
"It's no use, no mere child can undo my spells. Inferno is mine!" Mordo said.
Quincy floats next to him and gives his friends a evil smirk on his face. CJ, enjoying the show, walks up to her partner and mind-controlled ally.
"Join us or burn!" Quincy said.
"Quincy, this isn't you!" Chad said standing up.
That got everyone to turn to the AKs who finally gain consciousness and one by one are slowly getting up.
"Don't let him boss you around like this." Chad said. "Fight it!"
Quincy was unfazed by Chad's pleads.
"I'll fight someone alright." Quincy said.
He dashed forward at full speed, but Chad speeds off before Quincy could hit him. He throws fireballs at Chad, but Chad dodges every last one of them. Trevor and Aziz grabbed both Quincy's arms and held him down.
"Quincy, calm down!" Aziz said.
This made him angry as he growls struggling to get free. So he flew up with them and spin cycles in the air until they both let go and fell hard.
"Yaaah!" Jordan said she jumps up and grabs Quincy from behind.
"Quincy, it's me, don't make hurt you!"
After struggling for a bit, Quincy was able to grab her arms and burns them.
"Aaah!" Jordan screams.
"Enough of this." Ally said.
She creates a force field disk under her feet and flew up just when Quincy manages to throw her away. Ally catches her with a force field and gets her on the ground safely.
"I don't wanna have to do this, but you left me no choice."
Ally creates a force field around Quincy and he tries to burn it down, but Ally keeps on shrinking it.
"Ally, what are you doing?!" Jane asked.
"I figured fire takes oxygen, so I'm giving him less room to attack, he'll get tired out and I'll let him go when he stops." Ally said.
"Just don't kill him." Mal said.
"I know, I wouldn't do that to a dear friend." Ally said.
Ally stops shrinking it when it was about to reach him. As she does while still holding the field, Quincy never stops and keeps at it like it's not affecting him in a way. Then suddenly, something rocky was forming around Quincy. He was being covered in molten rock and his flames were getting stronger.
"Rrgh." Ally groans.
"What's the matter? Can't take the heat?" Quincy said.
"What's going on here? How's he stronger than he was before?" Lonnie asked.
"You thought I need oxygen to use my powers? Think again!" Quincy said. "Aahhh!"
Quincy powers up increasing his fire, which was proving too much for Ally.
"Oh no, Ally!" Herkie said.
She couldn't hold on, so the disk was on disappears and she begins to fall. The force field was down and Quincy's fire was let out everywhere. Herkie held his arms out and catches her before she even hits the ground.
"You alright?" Herkie said.
"Yes, but he's tougher than I thought." Ally said.
"So much for less oxygen." Jay said.
"Guess his powers are more different than we thought." Ben said.
"Which is why he's potential the strongest out of all of you children." Mordo said.
"Doug strongest there is!" Doug said.
He then jumps in the to land a punch on Quincy.
"Doug, wait!" Evie said.
Before Doug can hit him, Quincy still in rock form delivers a powerful jet of flames from his hit Doug and he was sent down to the ground while the fire still kept going. He stopped to go in for a dive punch but Doug stopped his punch as he got up quickly with one hand.
"Don't make me smash you!" Doug said.
"Now that's cute, you think you can smash me." Quincy said still in position.
"Doug strongest there is, I can break you if you don't stop!" Doug said.
"Oh, finally you talk in complete sentence. Also, I just remember our argument, about who's strongest, Hulk or Inferno? Well I have the answer!"
With one free hand, he blasts Doug with a powerful flamethrower and it made Doug fly backwards until he flew off the building.
"Doug!" Evie said.
"He'll be ok, he takes worst falls then that." Trevor said.
"What are we supposed to do? He's too strong!" Evie said.
"Then we'll strategize!" Ben said. "Get him off balance."
"What's the plan?" Carlos asked.
"Not aloud! We can't let them hear us!" Eliza said.
Eliza linked everyone around her so Mordo, CJ and Quincy can't hear.
"Good idea." Mal said.
"So far." Audrey said.
"Audrey, not now." Mal said.
"So how are we gonna put out Quincy's flames?" Jordan asked.
"Quincy's jewel is what's making him do this, so we need to get it away from Mordo somehow and undo the curse." Ben said.
"I can get to him unnoticed." Ally said.
"That's what we're counting on. But we need to at least try to slow Quincy down." Ben said.
"How? We don't get water powers or even a hose!" Chad said.
"Audrey could do it." Eliza said.
"Huh?" Everyone said.
"Have you lost you mind? I can do water!" Audrey said.
"No, I mean your powers can stop his fire, I read it somewhere that sound can take the oxygen out of fire." Eliza said.
"How dumb do you think I am? I'm not falling for this, you're trying to get me killed out here!" Audrey said.
"Audrey, I think she's right, we have to try something." Audrey said.
"Of course you take her side!" Audrey said.
"No, I'm trying to get my friend back, and I remember something about sound breaking down fire from science class. Please, do it for me at least." Jay said.
"Ugh, fine!" Audrey said while she blushed.
"Good, we got give Ally some cover so she can turn invisible." Ben said.
"I've got this." Chad said.
"Are y'all about to give up? Cause we don't mind, ahaha!" CJ said.
"Hmm." Mordo said.
Chad speeds off in front of the trio and circles his arms at them, creating hurricanes at them.
"Ahhh!" CJ said covering her face with her right arm. "You maniac! Stop that!"
Mordo extends his arm after a minute to use his magic to stop the tornadoes while Quincy fires his attack at Chad who ran off and grabs Quincy be the arm and spins him around.
"Let go, you silver lunatic!" Quincy said.
"I knew you're still in there, only I can annoy you this much!"
Chad let's go and as he was about to fall at the edge he stops himself with his hands blasts fire as a brake and shoots fire from his feet to levitate.
"You thought that was gonna stop me?" Quincy said.
"No, but that's only the beginning." Chad said.
A shield and blue ray was being shot at Quincy and he took both hits. Quincy launches himself at Ben and Carlos, but was immediately knocked over by Herkie.
"Sorry buddy, but it was for your own good." Herkie said.
"I'll show you what's good!" Quincy said.
Quincy does another flying tackle, but Aziz grabs his arm and falls on his back while he kicks Quincy from under his stomach and he flies over Aziz's head. As he flys off, he's got tag with some webbing and got pulled, only to be hit a punch from Lonnie and then he got flew into getting punched by Jay. As he gets these punches, pieces of his molten rock armor is being chipped away. Mal uses a psychic whip to hit Quincy straight across his stomach and more pieces get chipped off before he hit the ground.
"What are you for? Get in there!" Mordo tells CJ.
"You don't have to tell me twice." CJ said.
She pulls her sais and she runs towards the action. CJ makes a jump at Mal, but we met with a flying tackle from Jane.
"That was for my mother, matey!" Jane said.
CJ gets up with an annoyed anger look on her face.
"I'm so tired of having to deal with you! Now I'm gonna end you for good, Teen Fairy!" She said.
She comes at her was another attack, but Jane flew up and dives at her with a kick, making CJ tumble on the ground. Quincy gets up with an mad look and the remaining armor has chipped all the way off.
"That's it!"
Quincy raises his fists and fire was surrounding him and spreading wildly large. The only things they can see in that fire is a black silhouette and angry orange eyes.
"Get ready, Audrey. Here it comes!" Ben said.
"Ok." Audrey said.
She was still unsure about her part, mostly because she doesn't trust Eliza. As she sees Quincy about to do an attack, she sees Mordo was behind him just watching.
"Hmm, maybe if I dodge it, I can fly right at him and give him a sonic boom right where it hurts and Ally can get the jewel!" Audrey said. "Yeah, it'll work."
Realizing the look on her face, Eliza was sure Audrey got something else going on in her head.
"You remember the plan, right?" Eliza asked.
"I know what I'm doing! I can stop this with the way I know how! So don't tell me what to do!" Audrey said.
"Wait, Audrey!" Eliza said.
Quincy shoots the largest fireball he ever made and launches it at Audrey, who then at the last minute do her own plan. She flew over him and uses her sonic scream to hit Mordo, though along the way, her screams manage to disrupt at least half of that fireball. The rest of that fire was coming at at Eliza.
"Ahhh!" Eliza shouted.
Freddie manages to catch the fire in place with her magic just in time and disperse it in thin air.
Audrey's sonic attack was about to hit Mordo, but he just uses his magic to block it with a green disk and reflect it at Ally, who was invisible as she was about to reach his hand with the jewel. Ally got knocked back and fell to the ground.
"Ally!" Jordan said.
Audrey stops and gasps when she saw that her plan failed.
"Oh no." Audrey said.
"Oh yes. I admit it, I almost didn't see that coming, but we you decided to go rogue, it helped me see stopped you're friend from stealing my greatest weapon." Mordo said holding the glowing white jewel.
"Shoot." Audrey said.
"Now that I've seen what your friend is made of, I think we'll take our leave. We've got a world to conquer, in the name of Baron Mordo!" Mordo said.
He opens a portal for him, CJ and Quincy to go through. CJ got up and makes her way.
"No you don't!" Lonnie said.
She makes a jump at Mordo and punches him in the face. His Blood Gem fell out of his pocket, giving Lonnie the opportunity to take it when she did.
"I'm sure you won't be needing this!" Lonnie said.
"Impudent child, give it back!" Mordo said.
He holds his hand out and he pulls Lonnie in with his magic. While holding it, the Blood Gem glows and Lonnie was glowing red from it while she struggles to get free. Mordo magic was also messing with her web shooters, making them malfunction.
"Lonnie! Hold on!" Aziz sai as he runs to her.
Aziz grabs hold of her and the gem, but he also glows red all over.
"No, you can't have this power, it's mine!" Mordo said.
CJ does a flying kick at them, making them both let go and tumble around each other until Lonnie was on top of Aziz. Mordo pulls the Blood Gem until it went to his hand.
"That's more like it." Mordo said. "Come, my allies."
"Don't mind if I do." CJ said as she enters the portal.
A roar is heard and something was jump towards the roof, something big a green. It was Doug, who was about to land on Mordo, but Mordo freeze him in midair and slams him down. As Mordo was about to enter, he uses another portal under his defeated Mindless Ones to get them as well. So he's enters the portal, making Quincy the last one.
"Don't go Quincy." Chad said.
He was already grabbing Quincy's wrist.
"You're my best friend, I can't let you do this. Come back to me!" Chad said.
"Best friend? With someone as pathetic as you? Embarrassing!"
Those were his last words before Quincy hit Chad with a fire blast, making him fly backwards to Ben and Trevor, who fell down with him. Quincy enters the portal then it disappears right before everyone's eyes.
"No…." Jordan said who then fell on her knees.
"Oh…." Ally said before bursting into tears in her hands.
Herkie had one of the saddest looks on his face, Lonnie and Aziz just looked on at the space where they last saw Quincy, Freddie, Evie, Eliza and the other girls ether looked sad or had their hand over their mouths. The rest of the boys just no words to say. Carlos held Jane, Ben held on to Mal, Trevor held Freddie's hand and Herkie just hugged Ally.
"He's gone." Freddie said.
"We lost him." Jane said with a tear falling down her face.
"Now what?" Mal said to Ben.
"I don't know." Ben answers her.
Author's Note: Sad indeed, The True Believers lost one of their own to the dark side and he may never come back. Mordo's team just got stronger than ever, so what will be the fate of Auradon? Can he be stopped? Or will everyone have to live under his rule? Stay tuned for the final five chapters as the story continues and Have a Wicked Day!
