Chapter 36

Harry was wondering what he could give his Dad for a gift. His Mum was so happy with everything she got for Mother's Day. His Dad had been happy too. Every day was so great with them. He remembered once thinking that having a good meal once a week would be his idea of heaven. Now he ate wonderful and tasty variety every day, and everyone loved his cooking and appreciated it; he didn't have to work hard; his Dad and Mum loved him so much and were proud of him. No one hurt him. It was wonderful. He thought about what he could make for his Dad. He had loved the photo album. Maybe he could make him a memory film from the pensieve. He knew his Dad was making a film of his memories making stars to show the children. He could make his memories of how neat his Dad was and give them to his Dad as a gift.

He started planning

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Chloe was singing while she took her newest babies down to the greenhouse. It was one of her favorite things. They were going to pick flowers to set the table and talk about Japanese Flower Arranging. She had a bunch of films to show them. Yesterday had been so precious. She hoped she'd never forget one moment of how wonderful her family was.

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Daffodil held her Mother's hand tightly. She looked up at her in the elevator and said, "I always feel safe with you," she said, and Chloe gave her a spectacular smile.

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Ron had liked Mother's day, which wasn't practiced by the magical world in Britain. He wondered if his Mom would like breakfast in bed or him just making her breakfast. And having it be as good as one of Harry or Lucifer's breakfasts. He was learning a lot about cooking and baking , as well as helping in the Magical Meals restaurant. He sat on the balcony and thought about wards and what they had learned today.

He had been excited when he could feel the wards, and even more excited when he started to be able to see them. Lucifer was making them a spell to make the ward map for them.

He had asked him, "Why is it you make wards differently than we magicals do? We usually power up stones to hold the wards in place, and it takes a lot of work to power up the stones."

"Excellent question Ronald," said Lucifer, "I think it is a matter of power. It was very clever of the magicals to power up stones as wards, and then check them on a regular basis to see if the power is working well. I invented magic, and my power is celestial in nature, so my magic lasts much longer. That is why I do wards the way I do and that is why I am teaching you both ways. Warding can be dangerous if you give all your power to a ward stone by mistake, so I will teach you to do different things. Besides using your own power to keep wards going, you can use natural power lines of nature, which are sometimes called ley lines."

Ron had been so proud when Lucifer told him his questions were excellent. So he thought a lot more than he ever had about how magical things worked. At first he did this because he loved it when Lucifer would say, "Ronald, that is a great question," but now he did it because it was interesting too.

So Ron had put himself into a partial trance state, which KynKyn had taught them, and was looking down on Los Angeles and identifying magic and energy. He was drawing a map and had identified lines of power in different spots, and also lines of other power, that he was sure was electricity, and finally, he found spots where power that he didn't like at all were located.

He finished his map and heard steps behind him. A familiar hand with a black ring touched his shoulder gently, "Having fun?" asked Lucifer Morningstar.

"I'm trying to see ley lines, and power sources," said Ron happily, "Then I noticed things of power that are, I don't know how to say it, I don't think they are dark, but they are Bad."

Lucifer sat next to him and took the map. Suddenly he looked out in the direction of the bad spots Ron had seen. A look of fury came over his face, "LOCK DOWN," he yelled at the top of his lungs.

And the entire Lux building jerked like an earthquake had hit. Lucifer picked up Ron and ran into the penthouse and put him on his own bed. All the children raced after them and Lucifer had them all scramble up on the bed. He began to cast power magic. Ron thought he had seen it before, but this was incredible. The encased all the older children in a large oval power shield that they could see.

"I love you, my Darlings. Where are the little's and Chloe?"

Lightning suddenly struck.

"They are in the greenhouse," yelled Harry.

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Daffodil was laughing at Mr. Fred's story about the desert plant, Creosote, when lightning struck the building, and the lights went out.

"Mommy," she screamed, knowing that the bad thing had come.

Darkness began to swirl around the windows, and there was a violent crash. And they all heard Lucifer scream.

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Someone, a celestial, was attacking his family. Lucifer was flying outside of the Lux and attempting to make new wards, wards against celestials, when a spear went through his lungs, and he felt his little ones torn away. He screamed. And someone laughed, a voice he hadn't heard in a long time. A voice he never thought he would hear again.

He fell, and fell, through the earth, though dimensions, through everything and the voice laughed as he fell in torment.

"Don't hurt my family," he prayed, desperate.

"Oh I won't," the familiar voice hissed in satisfaction, "I'll simply wipe away every memory of you and your every memory of them. You won't remember ever being happy."

And Lucifer screamed again. A scream of terror, a scream of loss, and then he fell into liquid flame.