Chapter fifteen:
"A pair of students were taken and we came out to try to find them." Geoff informs her as she listens. "We found Angel who asked us for help. Turns out it was the same Angel who was the familiar of the witch Darcy." He continues as Gaving tries some lemonade only to drink more as its good. He keeps his focus on Cassandra who looks a bit worried about what shes hearing. "Yup. That Darcy. She is kidnapping others and I am very worried about all of this. We couldn't get anything to help Angel. We only got the information of who we are facing against." He closes his eyes softly with a heavy sigh. "And it sounds like she is targeting familiars though she is taking witches as well. Using especially the familiars like tools. She actually called them tools to be used as a witch pleases."
Cassandra's sweetness seems to disappear into a look of sadness and rage. "How dare she!" She snarls with anger not directed to anyone in the room. She turns to glance to one of her photos of Jolene. She is quiet for a moment before turning to look back to Geoff. "Geoff. Consider me as someone who will definitely help out with this. That bitch had better watch her back. I am ready to fight alongside you all to save those familiars. They do not deserve to be treated like that. I couldn't save Jolene from that car bomb. But maybe I can save these familiars who need someone to rescue them."
"Well for starters you know the countryside better than us." Jack is the one that speaks up this time though Geoff doesn't mind it at all. "Do you know of any suspicious places around here? Or perhaps a place that might be big enough to hold familiars?"
"There is a few places like that." Cassandra admits to them. "There is a lot of space in the countryside." She slightly turns and places a hand on her chin in thought. "Now that I think about it. There is one place that stands out to me for what you are describing to me."
"Go on." Geoff leans a little closer upon hearing this.
"There is this farm. They have a place that may be where they may be keeping them. I always wondered what they needed that big thing for. They didn't have any farm animals after all. I just couldn't get close as it is protected by a magical barrier and alarm system. I recognized the signs and knew not to get too close. I guess I shrugged it off as possibly a place for the familiar or something. And that they didn't want to be disturbed. Though now I think I know the real reason why they have all that in place."
"That sounds like it." Geoff nods in agreement as Cassandra lowers her hand to her lap to turn to listen to the other. "So now we will need a plan of how we can do this. We might also need to watch that place if we can. Though if she is using familiars as tools she must be using dark magic however…."
"However?" Cassandra raises an eyebrow at Geoff who sighs and slightly lowers his head.
"She took the source of information and the scrolls about them. So we don't have the information on how to get them back to normal." Geoff moves his head to look when he feels a hand come to rest upon his shoulder. His eyes meet with that of Jacks own eyes looking back at him.
"Come on Geoff. We may have lost that. However we must remember that there is always a way. We will find it. We will help those that they have kidnapped before it is too late. You think not knowing something stopped us in the past? We had to go to the library in the city we grew up in to try to fix some things. I think the librarians even made a little game between them to guess what we'll need to go in to research how to fix next."
Geoff blinks as a lightbulb goes off in his head. "You're right." He confirms and turns to look to Michael and Gavin. He doesn't pay much mind to the fact that Michael and Gavin are enjoying the lemonade now. "You two are the fastest fliers. It'll be dangerous though you two will need to fly to the castle. We'll need help and there is a chance that if anyplace would have answers it would be the castle. The royal family has a special spell that will reach them to keep pranks and such from making it to them. So they can focus on what they have to do. I don't want to risk the guards not taking this seriously. Not to mention we don't know if we can even get any message spells to work to go past the enemies area. Who knows what they've disabled in the area that we don't know about. So We'll have to send a message in person. By sending you two."
"We'll do it." Michael agrees looking to Geoff, after looking to Gavin who nodded to him.
"That's quite the journey." Cassandra points out in which everyone turns to her. "A few days at the minimum. I must agree that Geoff might be right. That there might be answers in the castle especially if the dark magic was used once on a familiar. If she is doing the same thing then they might be able to help. Plus we might get soldiers sent to aid in our fight." She gets up to her feet. "I will gather stuff for the two of you to take on your trip." She heads off elsewhere in the home with that.
Meanwhile Burnie and Ray are still in their cages.
"Okay Ray. Lay down. This is something that is not often taught even though it is legal to be taught. It's not usually needed. Unless it is a situation like this or if a familiar is struggling too much for control, well more than usual. Right now it might be the only way to reach someone else because Ryan is inexperienced. He has times that he can't control his familiar form. Which will create a possible gateway that we can use from here. Inexperience helps weaking the control a bit in these types of spells. Right now only you and Ryan can get through to each other from the gaps in the control. But it won't be noticeable unless we do it this way. No magical lock can stop this because it is your bond not magic. That's why it'll work." Burnie instructs while the other listens to what he has to do.
Ray is still a little uncertain though he trusts Burnie which is why he agreed to this. He wants to be able to help Ryan out after all. He doesn't want the other stuck in such a place like this.
"Close your eyes and concentrate on your familiar. Can you sense him? Reach out with your being."
"How do I do that?" Ray cracks open an eye to look at Burnie a bit confused after having heard this.
"Think of it like finding your wand. Let your soul connect to Ryan instead of the wand this time around. You need to focus." Burnie explains to Ray who closes his eye. "Keep your focus on Ryan. Let him inside and hold him close. You should be able to reach within his soul. You'll think it's a hallucination or dream at first." He falls quiet to allow Ray to concentrate. He just hopes that this does indeed end up working in the end. He can't think of anything else that will help them right now.
Ray focuses hard on Ryan doing as it was explained to him. He does feel a warmth that the feeling like he knows it so well washes over himself. He welcomes it and mentally holds it close. He feels like he suddenly fell down and his eye blink open when he ends up standing somewhere. He sees a place with dark red air all round him with a floor that looks like he is standing on an invisible floor. He can see chains heading towards a specific area so he heads that way following the chains.
Burnie notices Ray's body go slack, the ravens eyes are still closed as he is still where he had laid down, and he lets out a breath of relief. "He's in."