Chapter Four

"Oh my god!" Adriane moaned, digging her nails into Zach's back. Even though they were married and of age, they tried to limit their sexual encounters. They were legal adults, but Adriane couldn't afford to get pregnant. They had to fight the Spider Witch and the Dark Sorceress.

"Adriane." Zach moaned, thrusting.

"Zach." She moaned back. "Don't stop." She arched her hips up to meet his. They moved in perfect sync. This would be their second time ever. Zach crushed his lips against hers. She opened her mouth slightly, inviting him in. He caressed her tongue with his.

"Adriane...I'm...going...to..." He started, moaning and gasping for breath.

"Cum!" They said together. They both organsmed at the same time.

"Wow." He said, laughing.

"Wow." She replied.

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Finally getting cleaned up, Adriane and Zach were outside when Emily, Marlin, Kara, and Lorren showed up. Lorren and Marlin were once again cloaked in magic to hide their real image.

"Anything?" Adriane asked.

"Nothing." Kara replied, sitting down.

"Emily checked to see if she could find a magic aura, in case the beast was invisible, but found nothing." Marlin agreed.

"I don't know what else to try." Emily sounded defeated. "I mean, why me?"

"Well, isn't it kind of obvious?" Zach asked. Everyone looked at him, so he explained. "It couldn't come after Adriane. If it did, it would be up against two mages, plus a mistwolf and a dragon. Kara were you alone last night?"

"No. Kyle and his friends were over." Kara explained.

"You were the only one alone." Zach said to Emily.

"I was with her." Ozzie stated.

"And what could you have done?" Adriane asked, catching on to what Zach was saying.

"Exactly what I did. Nothing." The ferret hung his head.

"It came after you, because you were alone." Zach concluded.

"But I'm almost always alone." Emily pointed out. How am I supposed to defend myself when I can't even see it? Lorren and Marlin went over there last night and look at what happened to them. They're eighteen years of age and have big muscled bodies."

Kara leaned in toward Lorren. "Don't let that go to your head." She joked.

"Zach. You can manipulate time, right?" Lorren asked, suddenly getting an idea.

"Yeah."

"Is there anyway that you can rewind time to last night?"

"I've never tried. I've slowed time down and sped it up." He said, referring to the time when he sped the growing time for the seeds that Phel planted. "But i've never rewound time."

"That's because it can't be done." Ozzie stated. "At least not by one such as yourself. You've may have been using magic for five years, but you've never been actually trained. "See, it take a very powerful mage to rewind time. If someone such as yourself were to try it, you could die."

"Then he's not going to do it." Adriane stated.

"Why don't we have a sleep over?" Kara suggested. "Like last night. That way, we can search our database for anything that might fit it's description."

"What description. All we know it it cut Lorren and Marlin, and might be invisible." Adriane said, her voice getting louder.

"Got to start some where, Xena." Kara replied.

"She's right. We have nothing to go on, but this. What could it hurt?" Zach asked.

He looked into her brown eyes. Adriane sighed. She knew they were right.

"What's wrong?" Emily asked, lying a hand on the warrior. Adriane closed her thoughts so only Kara and Emily could here. My monthy friend is here, and let me tell you, I'm not having a very good time.

Maybe I could help you with that. I am a healer after all. Emily suggested.

The three young men looked at each other. "You don't want to know. Girl stuff." Kara stated. They got it, and headed into the mansion. Emily laid her hands on Adriane, her healing stone flashing. After a few seconds, Adriane felt better. No more cramps.

"Better?" Emily asked.

"Yeah, thanks." Adriane replied, flashing her a smile. They headed in to the mansion to join the men.

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"What about Threstrals?" Lorren asked.

"They're invisible to most, although can be seen by someone who has witnessed death, they are attracted to blood. They can fly and have hooves." Zach read off.

"They're certainly not it." Adriane said. "Next."

"I really don't see what it could be. There's nothing in here." Zach complained.

"Maybe it's a new creation of the Dark Sorceress or the Spider Witch." Emily suggested.

"What ever it is, it's going on here when we find out what it was." Adriane said.

Mama, Dada. Drake called, flying way over head.

"Yes?" Zach and Adriane answered.

Emily's mother is pulling in the driveway.

"Thanks, baby boy." Adriane called. "Emily, you're mother is outside." While Emily went outside, Adriane, Kara, and Zach used their magic to transform Lorren and Marlin back into human form.

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"I had fun. What about yourself?" Carolyn Fletcher asked her daughter.

"It was kind of boing being at home all alone." Emily replied. "Anyway, since I had such a lonely evening, Adriane and Kara suggested that we have a sleep over. You know, talk, do girl stuff, etc."

"I don't see why not. You didn't trash the house, you did your chores and you took over my responsibilitles." Carolyn stated.

"Thanks, mom." Emily gave her mother a hug. Even though Emily and Kara were eighteen, they were still in school and under their parents roof, so they had to ask permission before doing anything. Adriane got lucky. Gran knew about their lives. Since Zach and Adriane were both eighteen and over, they were married, and they were living in Gardner's mansion, they pretty much got to do what they wanted.

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"She said I could stay over." Emily said when her mother left and she came inside.

"Good. You can help me with Zach's studies." Adriane said.

"What do you mean?" Kara and Emily asked.

"In order for me to go to your school, I need to have the knowledge that you do. Adriane's signed me up for the computer schooling. She's been helping me learn years of knowledge, that way I can go to school with you next year." Zach explained.

"Cool, but it's only December." Emily said, sitting in Marlin's lap.

"We can get started earlier." Adraine stated.

"This is going to be fun."

"Don't you guys have cheese in a can?" Ozzie asked, walking in with crackers in his little ferret paws.

Everyone laughed. "I'll get it for you." Adriane said, heading out to the kitchen.

"Don't forget our sodas." The blazing star called.

"What sodas?" Adriane called back.

"The ones I just asked you for."

"Get it yourself, Barbie." Adriane called.