Chapter 15: Enchantix Power
Femke's POV
The next morning early we all had to train again. This time Mogui made sure no one could escape by having our foreheads covered until it was our turn to try and run the course. Anyone who objected or refused didn't get diner and since I knew we needed our strength to try and escape once we found a way out I just tried to do as he told me to do. It was very hard and my powers were very weak, as I fainted after four blasts.
"Useless girl. You should try and focus better." Mogui yelled at me countless times. I was most certainly trying my very best to do as he told me to do while keeping an eye out for any way to escape.
In a few days my body got quite the beating and we didn't got much food. I did find a way to escape; a portal that was locked in corner of the back of the mansion. It was small and looked rather weak but if we could reach it we could get out of here.
"How are we going to get there?" P'li asked when I told her about the portal after a training session.
"Tomorrow before training we escape. I found out how to use my powers. We get out of here at dawn." I said as I smiled at P'li.
"What about the children?" P'li asked as she gave me a worried glance.
"I didn't forget. We take them along through the portal. Wherever it leads it will be better then here." I said as I took P'li's hands in mine and looked at her with a smile on my face.
"Let's hope it leads back home." P'li said as she gave me a hug, which I returned.
"Me too. I really miss the others." I said, trying to make it sound like I meant all the others. And I did, but Zaheer in particular. I couldn't help but think of him.
"I miss them as well but be fair with me, do you all miss them equally?" P'li asked me, which made me snap up my head, feeling like she had just read my mind.
"Why do you ask?" I asked with a confused look on my face, trying to hide the color in my cheeks.
"Because I've noticed you and Zaheer keep looking at each other, then look away blushing. You're attracted to him, don't you?" P'li asked me as she looked at me firmly.
"No. I don't feel about him like that." I said as I looked at her with widened eyes.
"I'm not mad Femke. I'm happy for you. Zaheer might feel the same about you. So do me a favor Femke and be honest with him and with yourself." She said as she looked at me sternly.
"I know I should but I don't want to upset anyone if it was true. Especially not you." I said with my head down, still trying to pretend it was nothing despite the many butterflies i had felt in my stomach whenever our eyes had a chance to meet.
"You won't. Believe me. You should tell him the truth if you have any special feelings for him." P'li assured me before she got some pieces of hay and started to lay them in a pattern of a star.
"I'll think about it. For now we have to find a way to get out of here." I said as I did the same as her. I made a layout of the grounds.
"Okay, we're always lined up here." I said as I placed a mark on the map at the place we always stand lined up for the assignments. "We have to reach the portal which I have seen somewhere around here." I continued as I marked the place I had seen a small portal when I had attempted to get out.
"So we have to make sure we get there without either Mogui or his father spotting us." I said as I looked at the map.
"We could Combustion Bend the first part, then try and see if we could bend another element afterwards to catch him off guard." P'li said as she moved some of the hay and shaped it into the form of a small human.
"One problem; you haven't mastered a second element yet." I said as I looked at my best friend sadly.
"It's about time I learned." P'li said as she got up and dusted herself off.
"Not really. We could take him off guard another way. By transforming." I said with a smirk on my face.
"Would that work? Our magic is weak in here." P'li asked with a worried look on her face.
"I noticed. But I also noticed my powers got stronger when I was close to the portal. Like my powers felt the way out of this place." I said as I gave P'li a stern look.
"We will try and transform. If it takes him off guard we can fly up through the portal, out of the reach of Mogui and his father." P'li said before she let out a short yawn.
"I'll stay up a little more to meditate. You get some rest." I said with a smile on my face after which I closed my eyes and started to meditate again.
P'li's POV
"I'll stay up a little more to meditate. You get some rest." Femke said with a smile on her face after which she closed her eyes and started to meditate again. Meanwhile I tended to the children, the same loving way miss Ti had always tended to me. Putting them all under something before I went to sit with Femke and meditated as well, not feeling the need to go to sleep either. I wanted to help out, do as much as I could to help and get out of this miserable place. As I did so I felt a strange strength flowing through my body as I felt Femke's magic trace appear next to mine once again as well as the barrier around us.
"P'li you have always been special in your own way and I will always be there for you when you need me." I heard the voice of miss Ti suddenly call out next to me. "I love you Zaheer. I love you too." I heard my own voice call as images appeared around me of that one time. The last time in the air temple when we had bid each other farewell.
'P'li is my very best friend! I would rather die then abandon her." Femke's voice called out, which made me smile at her loyalty to me.
"She is amazing. She gave all that up because she wanted true love and lost it twice. Yet despite that she stays strong.' I thought with a smile as I looked at a few of my memories of Femke and my other friends. Memories of the time we were the Red Lotus. As I did so I suddenly saw a bright flash and suddenly… a man stood before me. Looking at me calmly.
"Who are you?" I asked as I looked at the man. I had no idea who he was.
"My name is Laniban." The man told me with sign language.
"Why hello, nice to meet you. My name is…" I started, but stopped as he raised his one arm.
"I know who you are, P'li. You're a friend of Femke whom I met in the air temple. She told me a lot about you." He signed to me as he looked at the place Femke was sitting in the real world.
"If I may ask, Laniban. What are you doing in my dream?" I asked him which made him look at me with a smile as he walked to the barrier and placed his one hand on it.
"You want to get out, don't you?" He signed to me as he gave a small tap on the barrier.
"Femke said that portal will get us out of here." I asked.
"It will but it can only take one person out. Then it will lock itself for at least forty years." The man signed.
"Isn't there anything we can do to prevent that so we can both get out" I asked as I looked at the man, shocked.
"I'm sorry, P'li. The only way would be if it would receive a double dose of magic. Which is impossible since magic like that only exists in stories." Laniban signed, before he looked to the side sadly.
"It does exist. Within me. Within Femke. We're fairies. We can blast open the portal long enough to get out." I said firmly as I balled my fists.
"In that case, concentrate on your own magic. Your happy memories. You can break the barrier with happy memories. It can't stand that." Laniban signed, which made me look at the barrier, unable to believe that this man had just provided me a way out of here.
'Will I have enough happy memories to break the barrier? I have so much negative memories.' I thought as I took a step towards the barrier and placed a hand on it. As soon as I did so my head was filled with bad memories. Memories of my time under Mogui.
'No. I'm not like that anymore. I'm no longer afraid of that monster.' I thought as I opened my eyes and looked at the barrier as I called upon some of the strongest and happiest memories that I had; all the times Femke and I had talked, played around. Had fun and I knew more happy times were to come once we managed to get out of here. 'Mogui. Once there was a time I shrinked at the very mention of your name. but now I have friends who stand by me and who care about me. The real me.' I thought to the shield as I fell a positive flow come from me and went into the barrier.
"I'm stronger then ever now. I am not just a fairy. I'm me!" I said out loud as I felt my whole body glow.
Normal POV
As P'li said this the barrier scattered. In the mansion Mogui woke up with a red face, as he looked at his body he saw one of his hands had turned transparent.
"Father, what is happening?" The younger man asked his father with a shocked look.
"Someone broke the barrier that kept time from moving in this realm. We have to warn our leader. We have to keep those two meddlers here." His father said as he looked at his son firmly.
Back with P'li and Laniban, P'li looked at the scattered barrier with a smile on her face, getting in the Lotus position and concentrated on the other voortrix. This time she fell another power apart from that of Femke near her, she tried to contact it and before she knew it she was standing in a room with Zaheer.
"P'li!" Zaheer smiled as he walked to her and hugged her, happy to see she was okay.
"Zaheer! I'm so glad to see you." P'li sighed as she hugged him back.
"You've been passed out for several hours. What happened?" Zaheer asked worriedly. P'li gave him a confused look.
"Several hours? We have been in here for days." She said.
"No. You've been out for almost seventeen hours. What happened? Everyone is worried sick about you two." Zaheer said as he gave P'li a worried look.
"Mogui keeps us prisoner in some sort of nightmare realm but we found a way to escape. Don't worry. We will be back soon." P'li assured him with a smile on her face.
"Mogui! If I get my hands on him the won't even get to the afterlife." Zaheer growled angrily, balling his fists in anger.
"We will deal with Mogui. Just make sure we can move out as soon as we are back. We want to leave for Ba Sing Se as soon as we're out." P'li said before she started to fade.
"I will. Take care for now, P'li." Zaheer said with a smile on his face before she started to wake up, looking straight into the eyes of Femke.
"You okay? I called a few times and you didn't answer. You got me worried." The brunette asked with a worried look on her face.
"Yes I am. I managed to contact Zaheer." P'li smiled, which made Femke look at her best friend with a gawk.
"You did? How? " Femke asked.
"I told him we're stuck here but that we have a plan to escape." P'li told Femke, who smiled in return. "He told me we should take care, and that we haven't been in here for as long as we thought. According to him we have only been in this nightmare realm for several hours, not three days." P'li said as she gave Femke a stern look.
"A clever trick. He manipulates time to make us give up hope on getting rescued." Femke said with a pondering look in her eyes. "We have to get out fast. Who knows what will happen to us if we stay in here for long." She said as she rubbed over her chin, looking up shocked when she heard the lock rattle. Quickly both girls covered up their tracks of their escape plan and lied down, pretending to be asleep as Mogui and his father came in, waking them up to go and train again since it was dawn. Yawning, they rubbed their eyes out since they hadn't gotten any sleep yet but despite that they got up and let Mogui chain them down, knowing that resisting would only lead to punishment, which was something they wanted to avoid.
"They're finally learning their place, father." Mogui said to his father, who smirked in return as he nodded.
"Even the wildest beast can be tamed. it is just depending on how you tame them." He said as they let the whole group outside to the training ground were another obstacle course was set out for today. Femke didn't look at it. Instead she concentrated on her medallion, calling upon Feria for some extra strength to be able to metal bend her chains open without Mogui noticing. Femke smiled as she looked at their moving backs, focusing her chi, which had gotten quite a lot stronger in the seventeen hours she had been here on a spot in between the man, firing as soon as she had freed herself of her chains. Quick as lightning she freed P'li as well now and before they knew it the two of them leaped backwards.
"Now, P'li! Magic Voortrix!" Femke said as she and her best friend placed their arms in the form of a V, which caused a bright light to start glowing around them and before either of the men could do anything Femke had transformed in the enchantix fairy of lightning while P'li was in her first fairy form.
P'li's POV
"Nice!" I smirked as I made my wings flap, causing me to take off.
"Like we trained!" Femke called as she gave me a wink, which made me nod and fly up in the air, crossing each other in the form of a X, and getting as high in the air as possible so no one could strike us, Femke bended the chains from the other children off and used them to tie Mogui and his father to each other, leaping away from the two of them as they crashed down.
"Let's move, everyone!" Femke called as she struck the two man with her electric force attack then flew out before the children towards the portal, who all followed her as we flew out before them towards the shield and the portal were Femke and I landed.
"We made it!" Femke cheered as she looked at the children who all looked at her. "I know this might not be easy…" I said when I saw how scared the children looked at the portal since all of them have been here for most of their lives and most likely didn't know any better. "Do you really want to stay here?"
"No. But we were never free to move on," The oldest girl said as she took a step towards me and smiled, as I suddenly saw as she slowly started to turn blue and transparent. "Now we are. Even if we are scared of what is to come. We are grateful for you giving us hope P'li. Thank you. Thank you both for everything." The girl said, before she and the others each turned transparent, before they disappeared.
"You don't have to be afraid. Not anymore." I smiled as a tear of happiness slid down my face, happiness they had been able to move on now. We were so caught into what we were doing that we didn't look at what was happening behind us, which made we got beaten onto the head, which made I managed to fall on my hands and knees, struggling to keep my vision from turning black.
"You horrible fairies! You won't escape from this realm." I heard Mogui's voice call from behind me.
'The world depends on the return of the Voortrix. I can't let this happen.' I thought as I groaned and I heard the voice of Laniban in my head again.
"Only one of you will be able to pass through the portal."
'Then this is it for me. I will stay behind here. The world needs at least one of us to be saved.' I thought as I struggled to get to my feet, letting out a loud roar to scare Mogui as I ran towards Femke and before she could do anything I pushed her through the portal.
"P'li, what are you…?" I heard Femke call out, looking at me surprised before she disappeared through the portal right before it closed after her.
'Good luck Femke. Save the world.' I thought as I felt a strange form of energy flow through me.
"You fool! Now you're doomed." Mogui laughed as I felt a light around me that got stronger and stronger, I gasped as I looked at myself with a bright smile.
'This is not yet the end.' I thought as I brought my hands together in the air after which the light turned blinding around me.
When the light cleared away my wings had gone bigger and my dress had gone from light red to an even lighter shade of red with orange ruffles and the sign of my combustion bending even more visible on my chest. "Unbelievable. I feel stronger." I said as I looked at Mogui with a smirk on my face.
"This is the part where you start running." I smirked as I made my wings flap, which made a strange dust rustle past my cheek. I looked at it taking the small bottle shaped charm in my hand, feeling there was a strong positive energy coming from them.
'Laniban. Is this it? The strong positive power you told me about?' I thought as I flapped my wings some more, concentrating on the positive magic coming from it. 'I can feel the positive magic. This has to be it.' I thought as I raised my arms in the air and called upon my fairy dust.
"What is she doing? Stop her!" I heard Mogui call, but he didn't seem to be in the position to stop me as I used my fairy dust all around me, which made the barrier fully shatter around me, making the portal appear once again.
"It's over, Mogui." I said as I looked at him firmly before I walked through the portal which re-opened when I approached the place it once had been. For one moment I saw Mogui looking at me like he was pained. It didn't matter to me. It was the right kind of punishment.
'Goodbye Mogui. I hope you will rot.' I thought as I walked through the portal, smiling as the nightmare realm melted away around me before I passed out.
Femke's POV
"You horrible fairies! You won't escape from this realm. Not alive." I heard Mogui's voice call from behind us. I wanted to get up, but it was no use. I was too weak to get up. All I could do was listen as I heard some groaning coming from next to me. Groaning I knew belonged to P'li, who was also struggling to get up.
'I have to do something. I have to make sure she at least gets out of here. She doesn't deserves to suffer here.' I thought as I tried to force myself back on my feet but before I managed to do so I felt a hard push and before I knew it I passed out.
"Femke, can you hear me?" I heard a voice call from above me when I started to wake up again.
"Stop talking so loud. My head is pounding..." I started, but stopped when I realized whose voice it was I was answering.
"Zaheer!" I called as I shot up and looked at him as he smiled brightly when he saw I had woken up.
"Femke. Thank goodness you're alright." Zaheer sighed as he gave me a hug, relieved that I was okay.
"Me too, but…" I started but stopped as I looked back at the still motionless body of P'li. "Pli is still in there. I have to get back and help her." I said as I looked at the others sternly.
"Why? What happened over there?" Zaheer asked me worriedly as he took my hands in his own.
"Mogui took us prisoner, made us into his slaves along with children. We managed to set the children free but we got injured in battle. P'li must have pushed me through the portal to save me." I said sadly.
"I have always known from the stories she told me how horrible it had been for her. But now I have experienced firsthand how it feels to be abused like that… and it was even worse then she made it sound." I said as I looked at Zaheer with a sad look in my eyes.
"Even worse? P'li must have had a truly rotten past." Ghazan said, which made Ming Hua look at him with a scowl.
"And now she might be stuck in that place forever." I said as I looked at the motionless body of P'li sadly, feeling like she should have followed me by now if she had been fine. I was feeling in my bones something was wrong with her but just as I wanted to make a move and try to get back into there a light flashed and suddenly P'li was standing on her feet before me, in her fairy form, while her wings sparkled on her back.
"P'li!" i squealed in delight as I got up to hug my best friend.
"I had a little power upgrade when you were gone." P'li replied with a smile on her face as she twirled around, which made me gasp in shock, realizing she was indeed wearing different clothes and wings from the last time I saw her transformed.
"That's amazing. Your sacrifice for me earned you your Enchantix power." I smiled.
"Enchantix?" Ghazan asked as he looked at me with a raised eyebrow.
"It's a different fairy form that comes with new powers and a new appearance." I explained as I looked at P'li with a small smile, who smiled happily in return.
"I also have this substance called fairy dust. That's how I managed to get out." P'li explained.
"When do we get that upgrade?" Ghazan asked smiling, seemingly liking this new fairy form.
"You earn it by sacrificing yourself for a relative or someone from your own world. So in your case anyone from this planet could make it happen." I explained.
"Wait. If it only works by a relative or someone from your own world, how come it worked for P'li when she sacrificed herself for you?" Zaheer asked.
"Because I'm related to all the worlds because of my Voortrix status." I smiled as I got up and headed to the door of the cell.
"How did you earn your Enchantix power?" Ghazan asked me, interested as I gave P'li a hug.
"By jumping in front of my fianceé Daniel to protect him when we first faced off against Darkar's minions." i explained with a smile on my face, remembering the first battle Daniel and I had fought against Darkar's minions all those years ago.
"Daniel? Who's that? Ghazan asked.
"The Late Daniel Sato. He was the Voortrix Guide. He was destined to find and train the new Voortrix. He's also my former fianceé and Toph's biological father." I said, admitting the last two with a slight blush on my cheek, since I still cared deeply about Daniel and I would never forget what we had.
"Ah, young love." Ghazan smirked teasingly.
"You should have seen her and Daniel back in the day." Floxy replied with a teasing smirk on his face, which earned him a small pat on the back of his head from me.
"How did he die?" P'li asked me.
"He was killed by one of Darkar's minions to protect our youngest son Dylan." I said as I looked down sadly. That memory still haunted my worst nightmares because I felt guilty. He had only been nineteen when that happened. He was still young and had a life ahead of him. I should have been the one that creature killed. Not him.
"Sounds bad. Losing your beloved. But at least your son got out in one piece." Ghazan said, as I lowered my head then shook it as a sign he hadn't which made everyone in the room fall silent.
"He didn't?" Xai Bau asked solemnly. I nodded and looked at him with tears in my eyes.
"He was murdered a few months after Daniel died. After being in the dungeon of lord Darkar's minions for months." I said with my head down, which was why I looked up surprised when everyone got around me for a big hug which made me tear up because at that moment my mind flashed back to that hug with Team Avatar that day after Aang told about Sozin and Roku, which made tears flow over my cheeks.
"Their love is still inside you and it always will be. But it is sad the boy died so very young." Xai Bau said with a smile on his face as he placed a hand on my heart. I smiled and opened my mouth to give him an answer, but before I could do so the walls started to crumble around us.
"We have to get out of this room right now." P'li said, since both of us knew what was causing this collapse. Everyone ran to the door and managed to get out of the small cell right before it totally collapsed.
"Mogui. He tried to kill us." P'li said as she looked at me sternly.
"Well thank goodness it didn't work." I smiled as I gave her a hug and looked around, seeing to my great relief everyone had indeed managed to escape the room before It had totally collapsed.
"Let's rest up here for the night and head to Ba Sing Se tommorow." Zaheer said as he looked from P'li to me with a smile on his face.
"First we might want a decent meal since I don't think they serve that in the realm they have been locked in until just now." Xai Bau said with a smile on P'li and me as our stomachs both rumbled loudly in agreement.
"I agree to that. Let's get something to eat, sleep some and tomorrow we head to Ba Sing Se." I smiled as I got up from where I had dived to in order to get out of the cell and dusted myself of, smiling at P'li as I helped me up on my feet again, before we all headed back through the small gate into the main house.
"Let's not stay here for the night. I won't get any sleep in here." P'li said as she looked around the house with a look of distrust in her eyes which I completely understood. We destroyed the nightmare realm but that didn't meant Mogui's ghost was gone. Who knew what he would be up to if we stayed in here.
"I agree, Mogui isn't gone so were not safe in here. Let's get out in the forest to eat and sleep. I think both P'li and I would rest better out there in then in here after our adventure in the nightmare realm." I said as I placed a hand on P'li's shoulder.
"Very well, were more safe out in the woods anyway. We will at least be able to flee fast in case of an emergency." Zaheer said as we all headed out of the house after which I used my magic to erase our traces and repaired the gate to cover up we were there. As we headed into the woods I saw P'li looked back at the estate one last time.
"You coming, Li?" I asked with a smile on my face as I placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Yeah." P'li smiled at me as she turned around now and gave me a hug. With that we turned to the forest and away from that place forever.
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And with that I end a relatively long chapter! I hope you all did enjoy it.
A/N:
Femke is the one that made the plan to escape but for the rest I tried to make this chapter more about P'li, since she was the one that had to deal with Mogui before.
I know P'li earned her enchantix power because she sacrificed herself for Femke who isn't a fairy of the Avatar realm, but as Femke explained she is a Voortrix, and the Voortrix power is bound to many different worlds including the Avatar world.
Of course everyone would stick with Femke and P'li in that cell and try to figure out what was going on. Yet I thought in the end it might be P'li who discovers where they are being kept and how to escape with some help since i really believe P'li helped Zaheer with the planning, just as much as the others.
That was all for now! Thanks for reading and thanks Paranoidgirl for doing such a awesome job as beta reader and advisor.
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