Chapter 4: An Unwanted Reward
"Can I have a cup of coffee?" a man asked Charles at the diner.
"Sure, be with you in a minute," Charles said. He walked over to get the coffee. He picked it up and as he reached for a coffee cup, three of them started floating in the air. "Ah!" He dropped the pitcher on the ground, shattering it and spreading hot coffee on his leg. He let out a small yell and grabbed his leg. As he did that, a plate went flying across the room and shattered.
"Charles, what's going on?" his boss, Rhonda asked.
"The coffee pitcher slipped," Charles said, looking around to make sure that no one had seen the flying plate or the floating cups. "I'll clean it up."
"Okay," she said. "Try to be a bit more careful though."
"I will," he said, as she walked away. He started mopping up the mess and picking up pieces of glass. He wondered what had just happened. "I'm gonna take my break now," he said to one of the other employees. He walked in the back room and sat at the small table they had in there.
What the hell happened out there? he asked himself. He took out his cell phone and made sure that no one was coming. He called Sabrina, but got no answer.
"That's strange," he said. He called each one of the others next, but like Sabrina, got no answer. "I never should have left them. And now I have no way to get back to help them."
A ball of fire fell down from the sky and hit the ground between Millie, David, and Annie. The force of it pushed them backwards. Millie saw the dragon flying down at her. She held her hands out and sent a spiral of wind to disrupt the dragon's path. It fell down into some trees.
"Mom, behind you!" David yelled. She spun around in time to see Draco running at her with his sword above his head. She sent another spiral of wind at him. He flew back and smacked into a tree.
"Robert!" Millie yelled. He orbed back. "New plan, orb us back to the house. The gym in particular." Robert orbed them to the gym.
"What are we gonna do here?" Annie asked. "Better not be what I think you're wanting us to do."
"It's the only thing we can do," Millie said.
"What?" David asked.
"Sword fight," Millie said, grabbing a few swords.
"We should get Charles," Jordan suggested.
"What, why?" Sabrina asked.
"Well, he could see a vision of where Draco was imprisoned."
"Actually, we could do better than that," Sabrina said.
"What do you mean?" Jordan asked.
"You'll see," she said. "Come on." She orbed to an alleyway behind the diner. "Wait here, I'll go get him." She went into the diner and saw Charles working. He seemed to be doing things extra slowly and carefully though.
"Sabrina!" he said. He put down a plate and walked over to her. "I tried to call you and the others, no one answered."
"We're having problems," she said.
"Why, what happened?"
"Draco is giving us problems."
"Who's Draco?" Charles asked.
"Oh, he'd be the Dragon Rider. Can you get off work to help us?"
"Yeah, just a second." He went into his boss's office and came back a few minutes later. "Let's go." She took him back to the alley and orbed him and Jordan to the Altar Room. She walked over to the Book of Shadows and started flipping through it.
"There's a certain potion in here…" she said. "And ah-ha, here it is." She flipped the podium's top around.
"A potion to incite a vision," Charles read. "Wait, what?"
"We need you to have a vision," Sabrina said.
"Of what?" Charles asked.
"Of where it is that Draco was imprisoned."
"Do we have to?" he asked.
"Yep," Sabrina said, grabbing some ingredients. Jordan got out a pot and put it over a flame. They continued mixing ingredients for a few minutes. They then heard a crash down stairs.
"Sounds like the fight's closer than we though," Jordan said. Sabrina filled a vial up with some of the potion.
"We need to hurry," Sabrina said. "Here, take this, Charles."
David held up his sword to block an attack from Draco. Annie swung hers' to hit Draco, but he easily blocked it. Millie was busy trying to fend of the dragon.
"You two are fools," Draco said. "Trying to beat me at my own game."
"Maybe," David said, almost out of breath. "But you haven't killed us yet."
"Don't excite me." He blocked another feeble blow from Annie. David and his clone both swung their swords at the same time. Draco blocked the clone's strike that was aimed for his head, but David's sword hit the armor. Draco laughed. "My armor is stronger and thicker than that blade, witch."
"You're skull is thicker than my blade too," David said, taking another swing.
"Millie, we can't keep this up," Annie said.
"I know," Millie answered. She was exhausted herself. Suddenly, the door at the top of the stairs opened. Sabrina, Charles, and Jordan came running down.
"What can we do?" Sabrina asked, sending a beam of light at Draco. It knocked him to his knees, but did nothing more.
"Nothing," Millie said. "Get us out of here!" Sabrina grabbed Millie, Jordan, and Charles and orbed to the Altar Room. Robert grabbed David and Annie, and did the same.
"I'm sick of running from fights all the time," David complained. "I feel like a coward. Demons in the Underworld probably laugh at the mention of our names. They should be quivering in fear."
"Did you find anything out, Sabrina?" Millie asked, ignoring David.
"No," she answered. "But we made a potion for Charles to see a vision."
"But I thought you couldn't see visions of Draco?"
"We can't see visions of his attacks, but we can see visions of his past."
"How can we make it work?" Millie asked.
"We need something of Draco's to cause the vision," Sabrina explained.
"I have an idea," Charles said. He explained what had happened at the diner today.
"I think someone has gained the power of telekinesis," Millie said, smiling.
"How?" Sabrina asked. "Powers usually grow and evolve from your original power. Like my ability to form a force field built on from my manipulation of light particles. Telekinesis has nothing to do with divination."
"You're forgetting something," Millie said. "Often, powers are given as rewards for a great act, such as avenging the deaths of several witches. Charles had been the one who killed Nexell. He gained that power from Nexell."
"Unfair!" David yelled.
"I'd gladly give it to you," Charles said. "I don't want another power. Seeing visions was bad enough, but now I have to worry about things flying around."
"Just shut up, both of you," Sabrina said. "How can we use telekinesis on Draco though? He's immune to it."
"He doesn't need to use the power on Draco himself, he needs to use it on the sword."
"How will that help?" Charles asked.
"If we can get him to drop his sword, you can summon it to you, and it'll trigger a vision."