New Jersey || August 15, 21:30 EDT ||
Aaliyah is starting to get worried about Kent Nelson. She's helping Caleb and Arthur to search him but they have no leads so far. Kent is been missing for 2 weeks and everyone is starting to get worried about him.
"Anything?" Caleb asks them worriedly.
"Nothing, you?"
"Same as well." Aaliyah answered sadly and Caleb sighs heavily.
"Why don't you two get some rest? I need to go somewhere." Caleb informed them.
"We can still-"
"Arthur, I insist. You two are already tired." He noticed their tiredness and blaming himself for not seeing it. "You two need to meet up the others tomorrow."
"Are you sure, Caleb?" Aaliyah questioned him.
"Yeah. I'm going to inform Red Tornado and brief you guys about it." He sighs and getting worried about his great-grandfather. "Ruby and Zara need you two."
"Okay." Arthur reluctantly agreed since it is his job as an older brother to look after his siblings. "Let's go, Aaliyah."
"Hai. (yes)" She answered and the two of them left Caleb alone.
Caleb sighs and hoping his great-grandfather is alright.
Mount Justice || August 19, 19:39 EDT ||
Kaldur and Superboy are sparring while Artemis, M'gann, Ruby and Zara are watching.
"Are we on time?" Arthur and Aaliyah showed up at last. "Are they going to start a match?" Arthur asks Wally who's busy eating his hotdog.
"Yup!" Wally answered while Aaliyah greets the girls.
"Sorry for the late." Aaliyah apologizes to them.
"It's quite alright, Aaliyah." Ruby assured her. "Robin is on a mission with Batman so he couldn't come."
"I see..." She nodded her head in understanding and watching Kaldur and Superboy are sparring each other.
"Kaldur's, uh, nice, don't you think?" Artemis questioned M'gann. "Handsome. Commanding. You should totally ask him out."
"He's like a big brother to me." M'gann assured her. "But you know who would make the cutest couple? Kaldur and Aaliyah, Ruby and Robin."
"Wha-what!?" Ruby stuttered and blushed furiously while Zara snickered at the scarlet-haired girl's reaction. "Ro-Ro-Ro-Robin an-an-an-and I? That's impossible."
"How come?" Artemis raises her right eyebrow while Aaliyah remained blank expression but, her heart is raising the idea of her dating an Atlantean. "We all know Robin cares for you and looking at you, like you're the star that brightens his day."
"Not to mention he's overprotective and jealous of how Lu Bu flirts you." Zara commented and snickering behind her paw. "Face it, Ruby. You like him."
"What about Aaliyah and Kaldur? What makes them the cutest couple?" Ruby changing the subject but her cheeks are still warm.
"Aaliyah is a mysterious girl who catches Kaldur's attention." Aaliyah sweatdropped at that statement. "She's pretty, strong, caring and a big softie when it comes an-"
"Artemis and Wally are going to be a great couple as well." Aaliyah intervened and forcing herself not to blush.
"She's right!" M'gann completely agreed with her. "You're so full of passion, and he's so full of, uh-of-."
"It?" Artemis finished the sentence.
"It was more like terrible flirting, brainiac, clumsy and bottomless stomach." Zara commented and the five girls laugh.
"Fail- Aqualad." Seeing Superboy manage to knock Atlantean down.
"Black Canary taught me that." Superboy spoke up in a proud tone.
"Can Aaliyah and I have a go?" Arthur asks Superboy and Kaldur. "I have a score to settle with her."
"We all know you're never going to knock Aaliyah down, Arthur." Zara spoke up bluntly knowing she can take him down in less than 5 minutes.
"You really have no faith in me, do you, Zara?" Arthus laughs nervously and she shrugged. "Ruby? A little help from your brother?"
"Um... we both know how Aaliyah is, Arthur." Ruby spoke up and smiled nervously. "Good luck?"
"It seems like you knew the results going to happen." He sighs as he and Aaliyah are on the platform. "Hand-to-hand combat or swords?"
"Both?" Aaliyah suggested and summoning her water sword. "I want you to improve both of them rather than relying on swords at all times."
"Jeez, Knight wasn't kidding about you teaching us about it." He sweatdropped and gripping his sword.
"How strong is Aaliyah?" Superboy questioned Ruby and Zara.
"She holds back a lot." Ruby spoke up and remembering how she managed to pass her first trial, battling Aaliyah. "Aaliyah never shows her true strength until someone snaps her."
"How dangerous is she? When she snapped?" Artemis questioned her.
"Dangerous enough to destroy the entire Mount Justice." Zara spoke up bluntly and everyone excluding Arthur and Aaliyah, looked surprised at her raw strength. "Better not anger the Dragon child."
"Especially someone would think it's fun to poke her." She gives Wally a look and he smiled sheepishly.
Red Tornado shows up making Arthur and Aaliyah stopped. Aaliyah and Arthur could guess it has something to do with Kent as he probably asks them to search him.
"Do you have a mission for us?" Wally asks the red android.
"Mission assignments are Batman's responsibility." Red Tornado answered.
"Yeah. Well, the Batman's with the Robin, doing the dynamic duo thing in Gotham, but you're headed somewhere, right?" He teased Red Tornado. "Hot date or a-a misión?"
"If we can be of help..." Kaldur was interrupted by Arthur.
"In fact we do." Arthur spoke up and glancing behind Red Tornado to let himself and Aaliyah to brief them.
"Aaliyah and Arthur?" Ruby called them worriedly why they're being secretive all of a sudden.
"We can explain, Ruby." He assured her and showing them the picture of his great-grandfather. "This is Kent Nelson, mine and Knight's great-grandfather. He is 106 years old..."
"Guy doesn't look a day over 90." Wally whispered and earning a jab from Zara. "Ow!"
"He has been missing for 3 weeks and 2 days." Aaliyah spoke up. "Kent was a charter member of the Justice Society, the precursor to your mentor's Justice League."
"Of course. Nelson was Earth's sorcerer supreme." Kaldur realizes who Kent Nelson is. "He was Doctor Fate."
Wally scoffs. "More like Doctor Fake. Guy knows a little advanced Science and 'Dumbledores' it up. To scare the bad guys and impress babes." He muttered towards Artemis and Zara slaps his head using a paper fan. "Will you stop that! You brat!"
"Hmph!" She looks away but still flying higher in case Wally catches her.
"My grandad may simple be on one of his walkabouts, but he is caretaker to the helmet of Fate, the source of the Doctor's mystic might, and it is unwise to leave such power unguarded." Arthur explained and ignoring Wally and Zara's bickering.
"He's like the great Sorcerer Priests and Priestesses of Mars." M'gann spoke up. "I would be honored to help find him."
"Me too!" Wally lied. "So honored I can barely stand it. Magic rocks."
"Wow, he immediately changes his mind just to impress, M'gann." Zara spoke up sarcastically and sits on Artemis' shoulder which she didn't mind. "Why am I not surprised?" Artemis smirked and liking the cat even more.
"Why you didn't tell us about grandpa Kent, Aaliyah and Arthur?" Ruby asks in a hurtful tone.
"Knight told us not to get you guys to involve to have a search party." Aaliyah spoke up. "You know how Knight is worried about you guys."
"But still!" Ruby exclaimed and looked down on the floor sadly. "Am I... not good enough to help?" She muttered in Japanese sadly.
"Ru-chan..." Aaliyah approaches her and patted her head. "You and Zara-chan are busy with saving people's lives. We didn't want you and Zara-chan to stress yourselves, okay?" She smiled while Kaldur couldn't take off his eyes at the certain Water Dragon Slayer.
"Okay..." She smiled lightly and knowing they're trying their best to find Kent.
"Ahem.." Arthur cleared his throat to gain back their attention. "I have the key. A key to the tower of Fate." He showed them the key.
"What are the chances we both so admire the mystic arts?" Wally questioned M'gann.
"Chances enough to get a good whack by my paper fan." Zara muttered and Superboy smirked.
Salem || August 19, 20:22 EDT ||
"So, Wally... when did you first realize your honest affinity for sorcery?" Artemis asks the yellow speedster curiously.
"Well, I-I don't like to brag, but, uh, before I became Kid Flash, I seriously considered becoming a wizard myself." Wally lied and Aaliyah stared at him with a deadpanned expression.
"Liar. You called Doctor Fate as Doctor Fake and didn't believe magic at all." Aaliyah spoke up bluntly.
"Who said that I don't believe magic?" He scoffs and chuckled nervously. "You're joking, Liyah."
"Why bother lying when you don't believe in magic?" Ruby questioned him innocently. "Each one of us has a different perspective." Not knowing the question is hitting him that hard and Artemis smirked.
"He just forces himself-" Zara immediately points the sword at Wally's face before he could even grab her. "Try it and you'll be headless." She smiled coldly and Wally gulped in fear. He didn't expect she has fast reflexes than him.
"We've reached Tornado's coordinates, but- nothing's there." M'gann informed them.
"Take us down." Arthur ordered the Martian girl.
"Arthur?" Aaliyah called the brunette boy worriedly.
"Huh?" Snapping out his thoughts to see cerulean blue eyes stares at him worriedly. "I'm fine, Aaliyah."
"If you say so..." She is worried about Arthur but decided not to push it. Aaliyah turned around to see an orange striped cat walking towards the abandoned theatre. "That cat... could it be-"
"Aaliyah, is everything okay?" Kaldur asks noticing she didn't follow them.
"Eh?" She turned around to see Kaldur is waiting for her. "Sorry... it's just that.." Aaliyah is looking for the cat again to see it again but disappeared.
"Are you looking for something?" He questioned her.
"Nothing at all." Aaliyah walked ahead.
She couldn't help but feel suspicious of that cat. Aaliyah could sense a darkness within that cat and vowed herself to be aware of her surroundings.
"Nothing. This isn't simple camouflage." Wally informed Artemis just as Kaldur and Aaliyah joined them.
"Where have you been, Aaliyah?" Arthur asks the Water Dragon Slayer curiously.
"I was distracted and forgot that we're here to check on Kent-san." Aaliyah answered and Arthur nodded his head in understanding.
"So what do you think, adaptive micro-opto-electronics combined with phase shifting?" Artemis questioned Wally and Zara blinks her eyes.
"Wow, she's smart too. I love her even more than that dweeb." Zara commented with an awestruck on her face while Artemis smirking at her.
"Absolutely... not." Wally lied seeing M'gann stands right next to him. "Clearly mystic powers are at work here."
Aaliyah sighs heavily and only herself could see the tower. "Aaliyah, can you lead us where the tower is? You're the only one who can see it." Arthur asks his foster sister politely.
The Nelson family knew Aaliyah's eyes are artificial. She was blind before and Makarov helped Aaliyah to get her eyesight back. Makarov, asks one of his old friend, Porlyusica, to give her an artificial eye to let Aaliyah see again.
"Sure, may I have the key, Kaldur-san?" Kaldur handed Aaliyah the key. "Thank you."
"How come she could see it while we don't?" Superboy asks Arthur curiously.
"I'll let Aaliyah explain her conditions." He answered.
Aaliyah raises her hand with a key on her right arm. She unlocked the door to reveal the tower itself. Everyone excluding Arthur, Ruby and Zara are surprised to see it and Aaliyah opened the door to let themselves come in. The door disappeared by itself.
"Uh, where'd the door go?" Superboy questioned them.
A hologram of Kent Nelson showed in front of everyone. "Greetings Arthur, Ruby, Aaliyah, Zara and great-grandchildren friends. You have entered with a key, but the tower does not recognize you only them." He referred Arthur, Ruby, Aaliyah and Zara. "Please state your purpose and intent."
Just as Ruby opened her mouth, Wally beat her to it. "We are true believers, here to find Doctor Fate." He told hologram Kent.
"YOU IDIOT!" Zara screamed angrily and the hologram disappeared.
They are falling down except for Arthur, Ruby, Aaliyah and Zara. The floor closed itself before they could save them.
"We have to save them." Arthur told them. "Kaldur and M'gann couldn't stand the heat especially none of them could be able to fly."
"Brace yourself." Aaliyah warned them as she uses her magic power. "Mizu ryū tekken! (Water dragon iron fist!)" The floor creates a huge crack to make them fall down.
"Ruby now!" Arthur yelled the scarlet-haired girl.
"I haven't done this much before..." Ruby muttered and Zara goes closer to them to save. "Kurisutarumeiku: Purattofōmu! (Crystal make: platform!)" She creates a huge crystal platform to save them from falling.
"I'm so hot." M'gann spoke up weakly and wiping of her sweat.
"You certainly are." Wally commented.
"Wally!" Artemis cried out his name angrily.
"Hey, inches above sizzling death, I'm entitled to speak my mind." Wally defended himself and Arthur gives him a disapproving look.
"Despite Ruby's magic... it's hot, Aliyah." Zara glances at Aaliyah.
"Got it, we need to do act it fast to stop this. I don't think Ru-chan can hold us off for long." She stared down at Ruby, trying her best to maintain her crystals. "Doragonsureiyā no himitsu no geijutsu: Kiri no uwagusuri! (Dragon slayer secret art: glaze of mist!)" Aaliyah uses her magic to cool them off but not cold enough to make them freeze.
"I... can't... hold on... much... longer." Ruby muttered weakly especially the heat is melting her crystals rapidly while she fixes it.
"It'll be okay, Ruby." Arthur assured her. "My friends and I need to see gramps and the helmet were safe." He told the hologram about their purpose.
It closes the lava and Ruby shattered her crystal while Aaliyah stops using her magic. Everyone landed safely on the ground and Ruby panted heavily. Kaldur touches the platform lightly. "This platform, it should be red-hot, but it is cool to the touch."
"Don't worry, megalicious. I got you." Wally assured the Martian girl.
"ENOUGH YOU IMBECILE!" Zara screamed angrily and slaps Wally using the paper fan.
"Your little 'impress M'gann at all costs' game. Nearly got us all barbecued if it wasn't for them!" Artemis yelled Wally angrily and being fed up of his flirt.
"When did this become my fault? Can you stop that, Zara!" Wally growled angrily at the cat.
"When you-"
"Ru-chan!" Aaliyah stared at her with a horrified expression. She kneels down seeing Ruby is coughing in blood. "Ru-chan, you're coughing in blood."
"Ruby!" Arthur immediately kneels down and held Ruby. "Here, inhale this." Giving her the small jar. "This will give your strength back."
"Tha-thank you." Ruby stuttered weakly and inhale slowly of the herb scent.
"When Ruby used a lot of crystal magic, she ends up coughing in blood." Zara explained with a solemn look of her face. "Using crystals are very rare and complicated magic. Ruby, however, manage to master all the spells. Now you know why she often uses crystals and uses the keys instead." Everyone looked shocked hearing the news.
"Wally, you could have told everyone the truth of you not believing in magic." Arthur lectured Wally. "If you let us handle it, this wouldn't happen to Ruby at all!" Glaring at the ginger-haired boy while he flinches of Arthur's rare anger.
"You don't... believe magic?" M'gann asks with a hurtful look on her face.
"Fine! Fine! I lied about believing in magic." Wally told them the truth. "But magic is the real lie, a major load." He crosses his arms angrily and feels guilty for almost harming Ruby's life.
"Wally, I studied for a year at the conservatory of sorcery in Atlantis." Kaldur explained to his friend. "The mystic arts created the skin icons that power my water bearers."
"Dude, you ever hear of bioelectricity?" He questioned Kaldur. "Hey, in primitive culture, fire was considered magical, too. Today it's all just a bunch of tricks."
"I'm not even surprised how you're so close-minded, Speedy Gonzales." Zara spoke up bluntly. "For a guy who can break the sound barrier in his sneakers."
"That's Science." Wally informed Zara. "I recreated Flash's laboratory experiment, and here I am. Everything can be explained by Science."
"Flash is more faster than you." He glared at her and she ignored it. "You okay, Ruby?" She asks her worriedly.
"Yeah." Ruby answered weakly and wiping off her blood using Aaliyah's handkerchief she lends for her. "Sorry that I frightened you guys."
"It's alright, Ruby." Kaldur waved it off her apologize. "Why didn't you use Sora? To save us?"
"This place is small for Sora, especially his body is big like the size of the dinosaur." She answered and grabbing the edge of the platform. "Wally, you need to broaden your mind. Not all of them can be explained by Science."
"Wait! The back-draft from the lava will roast us alive!" Wally exclaimed and Ruby ignored it.
"I know what I'm doing." She assured him with Arthur's help, they opened the platform to reveal snow.
"It's snow." M'gann commented and touching the snowflakes.
"Do you ever get tired of being wrong?" Artemis asks Wally curiously. Everyone went another dimension of snow. "Well?"
"Ever hear of string theory? We're in a pocket dimension." Wally answered.
"Ahh!" She growled angrily and hates Wally even more.
"His pride never cease to amaze me. Why am I not surprised?" Zara asks sarcastically and Artemis shakes her head.
"What's that?" M'gann asks and pointing out of Kent's cane.
"Ooh. Maybe it's Nelson's magic wand." Wally answered sarcastically.
"Wally." Arthur spoke up in a stern tone while holding Ruby in a piggy bank style. "Look, I don't care if you don't believe in magic. You insult my family, we're having some real problems here." Wally flinches in fear knowing Arthur's threats are true.
Artemis, Aaliyah and Wally hold the cane together. They stared at each other surprised.
"I got it." Both Artemis and Wally said it together. "Ahh. I can't let go!" They yelled excluding Aaliyah are they sent another place.
"They're... gone..." Zara commented and blinking her eyes.
Arthur, Zara, Superboy, Kaldur and Ruby are going to find a way to get their team back.
"I don't understand Wally. It's almost like he needs to believe the impossible can't happen." M'gann informed them and Zara sighs heavily.
"I don't know him for long..." Zara spoke up and crossing her arms while flying using aera magic. "He uses his understanding of Science to control what he cannot comprehend."
"Zara is right." Kaldur agrees with her. "Acknowledging the existence of magic would be to relinquish the last vestige of that control."
"Wally needs to acknowledge it." Ruby spoke up and hugging Arthur's neck gently. "It doesn't matter if he believes in magic or not, as long as he's open-minded."
"How are you feeling, Ruby?" M'gann asks the scarlet-haired girl curiously. "You used a lot of crystal magic."
"Much better." Ruby assured her. "There's our exit." She pointed out where the door exit is.
"Let's go. I hope gramps is with them." Arthur spoke up as they headed towards the door exist.
"Abra Kadabra." Wally muttered the name of the fake magician.
Aaliyah is relief to see Kent again but frowned of their unknown company. She sees the same cat again back at the abandoned theatre.
"Well, would you look at that." Kent spoke up with a smirk on his face seeing his cane, approaching the three teenagers. They let go of the cane as Kent immediately grabs it. "In here." He urged them to get inside of the hidden elevator.
"No! No! No!" The witch boy whined and glaring at them. "I want a helmet! I want it! I want-"
"U~ōtādoragon: Wārupūru! (Water Dragon: Whirlpool!)" Aaliyah cast a spell towards them as the door close.
"Kent-san..." Aaliyah sighs in relief and hugging the elder Nelson. "You made us worry about you."
"I'm sorry for making you guys worried." Kent smiled and returning the gestures. "I guess Knight forces you and Arthur to look for me."
"Yeah." She nodded her head and pull away. "We're glad you're okay."
"I'm Kent Nelson, by the way." He introduces himself in front of the two people he didn't meet.
"No duh." Wally muttered and Artemis elbowed him. "Ow!"
"I'm Artemis. Miss manners here is Wally. You already knew Aaliyah." Artemis spoke up.
"Well, Artemis, we're up against an opponent with tremendous mystic power." Kent informed them with a grim expression.
"Abra Kadabra?" Wally asks Kent and scoffs. "Flash proved he uses futuristic technology to simulate magic. Guy's all show and no biz."
"Right you are." He agreed with him and Wally send a smug face at Artemis.
"He is?" Artmis asks with a shocked look on her face.
"You referred the other boy right?" Aaliyah asks Kent with a serious look on her face and Kent nodded his head. "I sense a darkness within him and the orange cat... he happens to be his Familiar right?"
"Right you are, Aaliyah." Kent spoke up and patted her head. "His name is Klarion, the witch boy, the kid with a cat. He's an actual Lord of Chaos, the ultimate enemy of a Lord of Order like Doctor Fate."
"Looks can be deceiving..." She muttered and crossing her arms.
"Yes, but he can control darkness, Aaliyah."
"Even if you're not the Lord of Order and former host of Doctor Fate..." Aaliyah trailed off. "It's hard to stop him, isn't it? Even if I help, we're still no match for him."
"You still have a chance, Aaliyah." He assured her.
"She is?" Wally asks Kent curiously.
"Yeah, Aaliyah just needs to train harder. In her current state... she's not ready enough." He analyzes her and Aaliyah didn't say anything but remained blank expression. "I'm just an old coot fate used to put on until my wife, Inza, convinced me there could be more to life." Kent explained and opening his pocket watch to see the picture of his wife. "Ah, she was a real pistol, that Inza."
"Why is Klarion after the helmet, Kent-san?" Aaliyah changes the subject.
"If he gets his sticky little mitts on it, he'll turn the planet into his own personal playground of Pandemonium." He explained it to them with a grim expression.
DING!
The elevator opens as they approached the bell. They looked up to see another visible door open to reveal Kaldur, Superboy, M'gann, Zara, Ruby and Arthur.
"Gramps!" Arthur yelled happily and hugging the elder Nelson.
"Ah, Arthur." Kent returns the gesture then pulls away. "Friends of yours?" He asks his great-grandson.
They dodged the electricity. However, Aaliyah eats it and everyone, excluding the mages and the Nelson's, are shocked to see it.
"Friends of yours?" Wally asks Nelson.
"Wally-san and Arthur-san, you two go Kent-san." Aaliyah orders them. "We'll stop them."
Klarion chases them together with his cat and Aaliyah curses as Kent taking them where the helmet is.
"Ru-chan!" Aaliyah cried out Ruby's name seeing she's still recovering her magic.
Ruby closes her eyes and waiting for the pain.
"Denki kabe! (Electric Wall!)" A green-haired lady wearing green dynasty robes is protecting her. "Tch, you're a troublesome man who attacks the children first."
"Oichi!" Ruby smiled in happy to see her Chinese snake spirit. She couldn't believe Oichi summons herself on her own will.
"Shall we finish this quickly, Aaliyah?" Oichi cracked her knuckles as her snake eyes narrowed at the fake wizard. "He is harming my Ruby here."
"Umm... I hate to say this but we should step back from this." Zara whispered the others. "Abra Kadabra will be finished in less than a minute."
"Are you sure, Zara?" Kaldur questioned the boy.
"I trust Oichi and Aaliyah." Ruby answered and watching them. "Oichi was saved by Aaliyah before I met them. Despite Oichi is one of my spirits, she always has Aaliyah's back."
"Defense or offense?" Oichi questioned Aaliyah.
"Offense because he is disrespecting our magic." A blue magic circle showed of her right and left arms.
"As if you can handle me!" Abra Kadabra shoots electricity at them.
"Think again, old man!" Oichi sends the electricity the other direction.
"U~ōtādoragon'u~ingu kōgeki! (Water dragon wing attack!)" Aaliyah went full speed ahead and rotating her arms to attack Abra Kadabra.
Abra Kadabra failed to dodge the attack as he gets a direct hit from Aaliyah's attack. Oichi and Aaliyah smiled at each other then giving each other a high-five.
"Nice!" Zara compliments them giving a paw up.
Arthur and Aaliyah froze as they sense something. The brunette stared at Aaliyah, hoping it wasn't what they're thinking right now. Wally came back with a helmet on his hand.
"Guys..." Wally spoke up with a solemn look on his face. "Kent is..." He didn't dare to look at Arthur's eye.
"No..." Ruby whispered and tears fill up her eyes. "You're lying, right? grandpa is not... dead." Whimpering while clasping her hands together.
"He's not... Ru-chan." Aaliyah looked down on the floor as her fringe covers her eyes. "Kent-san is dead."
Zara cried and hugging Artemis while she comforts the cat. Ruby didn't hesitate to cry on Aaliyah's arm while the Water Dragon Slayer silently cried. Kaldur patted Arthur's shoulder and feels sorry for his loss.
Kent Nelson had done a lot everything to Zara, Aaliyah and Ruby. He had taught them some things on how to adapt to this world while Arthur and Caleb are busy. Now he's in heaven to be with his wife, Inza.
Mount Justice || August 20, 03:48 EDT ||
Ruby is sitting on the couch while stroking the magic spell book that relates to her crystal magic. It was given by Kent Nelson before her mentor, Lola Mendez, the crystal mage, taught her the history of crystals and saved Ruby's life.
Only the Mendez family could have crystal mage uses in their bloodline, not from other people. It was their ancestor, Hailee Mendez, the first female who gained the lost magic of crystals. Crystal mages are rare it could be a blessing or a curse. Whoever inherits the crystal user who is not from their family, he or she could be dead of using a lot of magic crystals.
Ruby's life was in critical condition when she got stabbed by a sword near her heart. Ruby was not a celestial mage at that time and she was helpless as Lola tried her best to defeat the rogue mages. They were 20 of them and completely outnumbered. Lola managed to defeat them and was horrified seeing Ruby was seriously injured.
"I want you to live, Ruby. I'm always here, in your heart. Don't lose hope for searching your sister." It was Lola's last word right after she transferred her magic and life force to Ruby.
"Ruby?" Ruby jumps in surprised to see Robin is staring at her worriedly. "It's getting late and Aaliyah is worried about you."
"I'll be going-"
"Want to talk about it?" He cuts her off. "I heard about what happened." Robin sits down right next to her.
"Kent... he was like a grandfather to me." She smiled sadly while staring down at the book. "Whenever I'm struggling using crystals... Kent always gives me a piece of advice on how to control some spells patiently."
"I thought you mastered it?"
"Not really... it's complicated." She sighs sadly especially not part of the Mendez bloodline. Ruby is a but struggling of using crystals.
"Uncomplicated it, my young maiden." Ruby blushed that matches her hair and Robin smirked. "Embarrassed much?"
"I don't know where to begin with... all you need to know the crystal is a blessing." She smiled sadly. "It saved my life, however... it's also a curse for relying too much of it."
"Arthur told me that..." He spoke up sadly. "Promise me that you won't use it all the time?"
"I promise." She vowed towards the boy wonder.
Aaliyah silently watching them behind and smiled. She didn't need to be worried about Ruby for there is someone to look after her.