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Seeing Kit's problem, Nita snapped the shield charm off her bracelet and threw it to Kit, never pausing in her reading. Kit activated it just in time, sending the bolt back at the Lone Power.
"Fools!" snarled the Lone Power, absorbing the bolt, "Did you really think you could defeat me?!" Nita and Kit felt him preparing another killing spell.
Come on Kit, hang on a little longer!
What's the point, Nita? We're not going to make it! There's no way we can do this!
Yes there is! It'll be tricky, but I can do it!
Do what?
There's no time to tell you now, just stall him!
Sincerely hoping Nita was right, Kit turned around and faced the Lone power, preparing the spell Nita had used on the millipedes. The perytons leaped towards him, bared teeth prepared to rip out his throat. Kit released the spell, shielding his face as the perytons in front of him exploded. Feeling somewhat sick, Kit turned to face the next danger.
Finished! Nita cried, releasing a spell and blasting a hole in the stone wall, freeing the Seniors from their prison. Wizards of all species flooded through the hole, murmuring thanks and turning to face the Lone Power. Nita turned back to the wall, hurriedly talking the chunks of concrete back into the wall, once again sealing the chamber.
Nita! Hurry!
Nita hurriedly aborted the reading from The Book of Night with Moon, and the Lone Power's spell returning to the chamber. A missile came into view, about to crash through the roof of the chamber where the Seniors had been kept. Instead of crashing, however, it simply phased through the roof, and all they could hear when it detonated was a muffled "boom."
Suddenly, their surroundings faded out and Nita and Kit were left standing outside the worldgate in the Grand Central.
"Um, what was that all about?" Kit said, confused.
"Congratulations," came a voice from around their knees. Nita and Kit looked down.
"Chao! What are you doing here? In fact, what are we doing here? Weren't we just at the school?" Nita asked, even more confused.
"You guys are now officially Seniors, once again congratulations," the Transcendent Pig said. "All rising Seniors have to go through what you just did. It wasn't actually real. You were in a practice universe."
"Oh! Like the ones I practiced with Kernels!" Nita said, astounded.
"Exactly. The "missions" we give as something as an Ordeal to rising Seniors are too risky for inhabited universes. We couldn't risk your world getting blown up if you failed."
"Wow, I'm glad you had so much faith in us," Kit said wryly.
"It's not a matter of faith; it's a matter of caution," the Pig retorted, "Tom and Carl had to do the same thing. Well, not exactly the same thing, but they were in a "practice universe" too."
"So that's why the Lone Power was able to get into our manuals; it wasn't the Lone Power after all!" Nita exclaimed.
"Actually, it was," Chao responded. "The other Powers that Be adjusted your manual for the Senior Ordeal. They had to get you to the universe somehow! Anyway," he continued, "You two are now Seniors, and will be on active duty tomorrow. You have tonight to take care of any business you might want to do first." Chao shot Kit an amused look. "See you around!" and he vanished.
"So, do you want to give the reunion another try?" Kit asked Nita.
"Why don't we go out to dinner instead?" said Nita exhaustedly. "I don't think I want to see that school again for a long time."
Kit smiled to himself and put his hand in his pocket, relieved to find the velvet box where he had left it. This was going to be a night to remember.
A.N. So there it is! Hope you liked it. Now I can work on other stories! Woohoo!