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Chapter 8: Neo's decision

Charlie Bone Lay dead in a garden of yellow grass, his blood covered a large proportion of this lawn and it was all over Tancred. The damage to Charlie face was disgusting to the strongest of stomachs; the brick which Tancred had beaten him with was jagged and still lay a few feet away from the scene.

Moments after the event sunk in and everybody realised Charlie had been killed Emma had fled Crying from the others, Benjamin sprints after her.

"You crazy bastard" Lysander shouted as he tightened his headlock on Tancred, he may of very well killed his best friend if Billy hadn't stopped him. Lysander knocked Tancred out and left him on the floor.

At this point Gabriel could be seen in an uncontrollable state of sadness, his tears would not stop and he was in physical and mental; pain, the reason for this was that he was holding Charlie's Shoe, and thanks to his powers all of the sadness stored inside was bombarding its way into his body.

Olivia was on her knees just staring blankly at Charlie, she was in mental shock and was muttering his name, and she couldn't even bring herself to touch him.

Neo had a decision to make, Charlie was her best friends Boyfriend, Olivia had been good to her, she had taken her in and comforted her in her time of sadness, and now her boyfriend was dead. The way she saw it was like this; she could leave him dead and fulfil Manfred's mission and be free to live her life debt free, or she could use the wands to restore Charlie's life, be a slave longer and eventually kill Charlie on her terms. She chose the Second option, it was selfless and even though the outcome would be the same in the end it would make her friend happy.

The process of bringing a person back to life was simple, if you had Claerwen the white wand and The Opposite Black wand of her Great-Grandfathers you could do a Simple spell, but the black wand was lost so she could not use the Yin and Yang type energies for a start, But her Red wand Cynaefwr was made from the black wand so it held some life power and would work with difficulty. But she had to do this without anybody noticing, she ran behind the Caravan and took out Cynaefwr, she was closely followed by Claerwen.

Neo began a silent concentrated chant the made her wand explode and take shape as a beautiful Phoenix. Neo changed the ferocity of her spell and the two wands began to dance around each other until they formed a Bright yellow disk.

"Bind!" Neo shouted this and the disk became a shaft of light that flew into the sky, it went on and on and eventually disappeared. "I hope this works"

Luckily for the group and the whole world really the moment Neo had her fingers crossed for arrived; the Clouds above them began to glow Yellow, Neo slipped back round the Caravan and as everybody watched the skies believing Tancred was doing this she pulled Olivia away from the body.

"Crash!" The sky threw out a huge lightning bolt and it his Charlie square in the chest sending his body across the lawn to writhe about in the road. The damage to his face began to reverse and the colour found its way back into his skin, all of the blood lost raced along the floor and into his wounds as they sealed. The group had been thrown to the floor by the lightening and they were slowly getting up.

"What on earth, did Tancred cause that?" Lysander fell back onto his arse again.

"Charlie!" Olivia had noticed that Charlie was now intact and sprinted over to check on him, he was breathing. Olivia cried tears of joy and shook him awake; he barely opened his eyes before she kissed him.

Seconds passed before Charlie's eyes shot right open and he pushed Olivia off his; "Emma, I said no!" These word cut through Olivia like steel. Emma had kissed Charlie and Tancred had killed him, it all made sense.

There were cries of 'Charlie' all round as the group jumped on him, Emma and Benjamin were still missing, Tancred was awake but lying on the floor and Gabriel was jumping for joy and kissing Charlie's shoe. Everybody was thrilled and Charlie was confused.

"Guys, back off a second... What the hell happened to me?" Charlie had to shout just to be heard and everybody shut up and began whispering answers to his question to each other, this annoyed Charlie."Fucking tell me!"

"Tancred saved your life, that's what happened" Neo was the confident person to say this, and some people gasped "He killed you for kissing his girl and then in his guild ridden rage used his endowment to restore your life"

All eyes wet on Tancred.

"It's true Charlie, I was so angry when I saw Em 'Kiss you' that I attacked without thinking, and afterwards I must have subconsciously used my endowment... I'm so sorry Charlie" Tancred finally allowed his tears to seep from his eyes "I'm so sorry"

Tancred ran off before Charlie could accept his apology in search of Emma.

"Wait a minute, how did Liv and Neo get here?" He couldn't have been dead for that long.

"Claerwen brought us here" Olivia was now wrapped around Charlie in a huge hug; Claerwen came to rest on her head.

"Thanks Claerwen" Charlie gave his warmest smile to his Companion, he didn't notice Neo staring.

Charlie bone was in possession of her grandfather's wand and it liked him more than she, this could become a big problem when she faced him in combat. She would have to eventually kill her best friend's lover and she didn't really want too, she looked at Olivia and she nodded, silently agreeing to keep her Magician secret.

Emma had ran off and had no knowledge of Charlie's resurrection, she heard the Thunder but didn't turn back, she eventually got so tired she had to stop running and take a seat on a park bench, she panted heavily for a while and when she stopped she could hear fast and loud footsteps coming towards her, she was scared that it was Tancred out to get her and jumped behind a wall.

"Emma...Emma! Where are you?" It was bens voice so she showed herself, been noticed and ran over to hug her.

"I was worried, don't run off like that" Ben was crying just like Emma, Charlie was his best friend yet he had ran to catch her up, she blushed.

They sat down and Emma fell into his arms and cried loudly, it was all her fault; she had betrayed her best friend and got her crush killed in the process.

"It's my entire fault Ben, I kissed Charlie, that's why Tancred attacked him, I'm an idiot!" Emma was distraught, not unlike Olivia was the day she found the used condom in her jacket.

"It's not your fault; Tancred was always going to attack somebody. And call yourself an idiot one more time and ill hate you for good" Ben kissed her on the head "You're the funniest, pretties, most artistically gifted person I know, and I really adore that Emma"

Benjamin couldn't believe it had taken him his best friend dying to confess his feelings towards Emma, his guilt stabbed its way through his heart when she kissed him right on the lips. Her mouth was so soft so delicate, she was his one and only crush, yet his friend had died and he couldn't stop kissing Emma. Was he a good friend to anybody?

They continued to make out and Tancred leaned on a nearby lamppost waiting for a gap in the passion, and when such gap appeared (after two minutes) he opened his mouth;

"I see you two are busy buying your ways into hell?" Ben jumped out of his skin and took a fighting pose, he was shitting bricks in fear "I'm here to tell you that I healed Charlie and he's 100% fine, now keep your clothes on and get back there"

Tancred exploded into a bolt of lightning and headed back the Express way. Emma and Benjamin were left stunned and it didn't take long for Emma's guilt to multiply and for her to burst into more tears.

Later that day-

Neo was in the back of Paton's Minivan with the others on their way back to the city, she observed Tancred and Charlie laughing and conversing together as friends again and Emma seemed fine too, she was wrapped up in bens strong arms. Cynaefwr was down her trouser leg out of everybody's sight and she could feel the comforting warmth of her magical companion. She had spoken with Olivia earlier on and she had agreed not to tell anybody about her role as a magician, a promise that would prove foolish in the coming weeks.

Charlie's uncle was told nothing about the events that had taken place but they had let him know that Claerwen had transported Olivia and Neo, Paton was currently driving very fast on the motorway, he had found a way to channel his endowment to blow up speed cameras from a good distance away. And he took advantage of it as often as he could.

Neo had returned to her room in the castle, she was given a permanent place in the dorms as she was down as being an orphan, and she needed to sleep to get her dangerous thoughts out of her head.

"I really don't want to kill Charlie Bone"

Yay, I tricked you all, he's alive and well and it turns out this Neo is actually very powerful indeed, bet you want to see much more... Than review! Look forward to next chapter.