Okay, this is the last chapter of the Enchanted Ones that will change everything. Now there will be a sequel, and maybe another parallel story that goes with that one. We'll just have to see. So, as always, especially for this chapter, PLEASE REVIEW!
Home School was fine and all, but add that work to becoming a whitelighter, and add that to chores and cooking and that was Greg's life.
His day started out, wake up early, start breakfast, and finish his homework. Then, after assigning someone dish-duty, he went to do whatever chores he had for the day, then got ready for home-school. He'd take about three classes worth, and by noon, everyone took a lunch break, and everybody made their own lunch. Then, two more classes from Mr. Engello, the home-school teacher and private tutor, then he was off towards charity work. He'd help deliver sack lunches, and heal those injured by magic, until five-thirty, then he came home and started dinner. After that, he'd watch television, do a little bit of his "home" work, and work on his book that he was writing to earn some extra money for the household. It was a fantasy/mystery novel, his personal favorite, and qualified as his "job" that he had, as the other Enchanted Ones had too.
And, on occasion, Greg babysat the twins, Alex and Kelly, when Linda wouldn't be home for a while. Once in a great while, he would have lunch with Daniel on the weekends, since Daniel went to public High School.
One Saturday the teens decided to go on a picnic, obviously it was the girl's idea. They chose an empty park and decided to play hide and seek, using powers. Turq was it first and orbed into a tree to watch over the base. Sapphire and Gem shimmered and orbed near the base, but the rules only permitted them to teleport to within at least five feet of it. They both made a run for it, but got tagged seconds later by a orbing Turq. Star snuck up behind the tree and levitated into it, hoping to hide, but soon was tagged by Turq who was already, unknown to her, hiding there. Destiny telekinetically threw Turq ten feet away from the base, and got herself orbed into Turq's tagging hands. Greg quickly said a little rhyme from the bush he was hiding in, and a rope appeared around Turq's ankle, trapping him. Greg was about to make it to base when Destiny yelled to stop, and announced:
"It's Mark, he sent me a text message saying he's being held hostage by a demon!"
They all immediately jumped in the two different cars that they brought, as Destiny reread over Mark's message to find out where he was, in this case, the docks. They sped to the warehouse at the warf labeled G-17. When they got inside, the room was dark and barely anything could be seen except shadowy outlines. And then, the torches on the walls lit up to show Mark and a certain ugly-looking horned demon standing in front of a gagged figure that looked sort of likeā¦
"Daniel!" Greg yelled and the horned demon shot out a few of his spikes at them, as truq grabbed him and orbed Greg safely to the other side of the room. Each of the others got out of the way too, and then all of them hid behind the many, many crates in the room.
"Fine!" they heard Mark yell, "If you won't come out on your own, I'll force you out." And then, as Greg peeked out, he saw Mark pull out a dagger and stab Daniel in the heart. One of the girls screamed and Greg almost fainted there on the spot, but Turq grabbed his wrist and yelled something about running away, but Greg was listening any more. And as Daniel died, Turq orbed them back to the house
When the orbs disappeared, Greg saw the others standing there, in shock, but unharmed. And then, the demon and Mark appeared I the middle of them.
It started shooting it's spikes again, and one hit a dresser that knocked Greg through the wall and out onto the grass outside. He froze the debris in mid-air, and fell onto the grass, almost unhurt. He could tell that he was somewhat injured, and then he saw a girl, about seventeen, that was hit by some of the attic wall that Greg was not able to freeze. He limped over to her and got the rubbish off, then he healed her. After that, he tried to run back in to the house, but could only jog. He opened the attic door to see mayhem
Destiny was throwing whatever she could at the demon and deflecting what he sent back. Star was kick boxing with Mark, and almost losing too. Gem couldn't be seen and Sapphire was laying on the ground unconscious, or worse. In addition, Turq was orbing around the demon hitting it with whatever he could lift.
Greg spotted the book on the ground near him and picked it up. He tried to freeze everyone, but the demon just shrugged it off, but Mark froze. He already knew what he was looking for when he flipped through the book and found the page, and seeing no other way, begain to read:
"Shades of Blue, now come together,
Now forming something to which nothing is better.
Take our halves and make them whole,
Bring together mine and Turq's soul."
Both boys started to glow and Turq's body flew towards Greg's to merge with it. When he stopped glowing it looked just like Greg, but with tons mor magic than before. He simply raised his hands and blew up the horned demon in an explosion that literally shook the whole block.Greg took the frozen Judas alive to the confines of hell, to which he would never return, and Greg and Turq, or just Turq were permanently combined. It turned out that Sapphire and Gem had been hit by the demons spikes and not been so lucky.
The funerals for the girls were small, private, and shook to foundations of the remaining teen's sanity. Daniel's was two days later. Turq was especially shaken. He spent days in his room just staring at the window, and at things that held memories of those lost. It was a month before he left the house at all. And the day he did, he talked to Leo first.
"You knew this would happen" the boy said.
"I knew of Mark, but I didn't think that it would end up like this"
"Why didn't you tell us?"
"The elders wanted to test your strength."
"And if I failed, they were going to let all of us die?"
"They thought you would face Mark only, not the demon too."
"They had not right to gamble with those lives"
"We both know that the four girls didn't exist before you read that spell. Sapphire and Gem were just created, but Destiny and Star were reincarnated spirits, though they don't know that."
"I know" the boy said" "But what about Daniel? He was born, he had parents!"
"And for that we're truly sorry"
"What will happen to The Enchanted Ones now?"
"Since you didn't die, two more will be chosen to make five."
"Who?"
"The last human you used your powers on, who in this case ironically is related to you."
"You mean that dark haired girl that I saved from the wreckage?"
"Her name is Lily and she is Phoebe's great-granddaughter much like you're piper's. Her and her brother Kurt will be the new Enchanted Ones."
"That's great, but I quit"
"You can't quit, its your destiny."
"No. The blonde girl in the living room who lost two friends and had another betray her is my Destiny. I quit, and now that I have Turq's power to orb, I'm gone"
And with that he left, without a word to the others.
"He'll be back" Leo said to himself "Sooner of Later"
The End
