Chapter 7: Put Where He Belongs
"I'm ready this time," Charles said, pumped and ready to go. The group had rushed to the house when they heard the dragon screech.
"Good," Millie said, smiling. Charles took a deep breath and got ready.
"Incoming," Sabrina yelled, pointing at the window as a dragon crashed through.
"Oh, please!" Millie yelled. "Can't you use the same hole when you come?" Draco ignored her comment and jumped off his dragon. Charles wasted no moment, but used his aggression and frustration to hurl a coffee table at Draco. He then threw a chair. Millie helped by sending a steady stream of wind at him, trying to make him drop his sword. Sabrina was trying to hold off Rosemary with beams of light and a random force field.
"He dropped it!" Jordan yelled as the sword fell from Draco's hand. Charles focused on the sword. Draco, realizing his plan, focused on the sword as well. The natural bond between the sword and its owner was beaten by the power of telekinesis. Charles quickly got the potion out of his pocket and drank it. He was instantly sucked into a vision.
The Guild was standing around in a large room. In the middle of the room, was Draco. His dragon, Rosemary, was at the edge of the room, doing what seemed like weeping for her master. The Guild members started to chant in some incomprehensible language. The vision started to back out. It showed a cave in some mountain. The vision slowly faded into a map showing a range of mountains and where exactly the vision had taken place.
"Found it," Charles said. He hadn't noticed it, but during his vision, Draco had gotten his sword back and everyone was trying to hold him back.
"Where at?" Sabrina asked, dodging a blow from Draco's sword.
"Some mountains!" he shouted to her.
"That doesn't narrow it down much," David said.
"Doesn't matter," Millie said. "Let's go! Robert orb us. Sabrina, you orb the rest." Robert orbed Millie, David, and Charles, while Sabrina orbed Annie and Jordan. They reappeared in a small village. "We must hurry, he'll be following."
"Where are we?" Jordan asked.
"A village," Millie said. "And those must be the mountains." They looked up at the large formation of mountains.
"How do we know which mountain?" Annie asked.
"I saw it on a map…" Charles said.
"Focus on that map," Robert said. "Get the image in your head. Sabrina, follow my orbs." Robert grabbed his original passengers and orbed to a cave. Charles' thought of the map had guided them to it.Sabrina, Jordan, and Annie appeared a moment later.
"How do we crystallize him?" David asked.
"That could be a problem," Charles said. "They were chanting in some strange language. I couldn't understand, and I know I'll never be able to memorize it."
"How about another vision?" David asked.
"Won't work," Millie said. "If he didn't remember it before, he won't be able to this time."
"Well, we have to think fast," Sabrina said. "He'll be here in a few minutes."
"I have an idea," Annie said. "I don't know if this would actually work though."
"What is it, dear?" Millie asked.
"Well, if there was a spell or something that could help this, I could somehow make the illusion of the chant being said as Charles envisions it."
"Brilliant, Annie, brilliant."
"How can you do that?" Robert asked.
"Mind linking spell," Sabrina and Millie both said.
"What's that?" Jordan asked.
"A spell that Charles and Annie can use to see the same images that the other sees," Millie said. "Feel the same that the other one feels."
"What is it?" Charles asked.
"Life to life and mind to mind." She took a pause to make sure that the spell wasn't going to do anything once she said it. "Our spirits now will intertwine. We meld our souls and journey to. The one whose thoughts we wish we knew." Charles and Annie then repeated the spell.
Life to life and mind to mind,
Our spirits now will intertwine,
We meld our souls and journey to,
The one whose thoughts we wish we knew
They were both put under some sort of trance. Charles had shut his eyes and started shaking a little. He was seeing a vision. Draco, having just arrived, walked over to try and stop them. Millie blew him back to the middle of the room. Annie formed the image of Charles's vision. Members of the Guild appeared around Draco. They started to chant.
"No!" both Draco and his holographic self yelled. After the chanting was over, they both had turned to crystal. Rosemary and her holographic self both let out a cry that could be heard from miles around. They then took flight and flew away.
"It's over," Millie said. "It's done."