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"Wait." S.O.L. paused for a minute "The general Agustalf Skretchenburg?"
"Yes, smart girl." said Brother Blood
Her eyes widened "The general that started the purge."
"Very smart."
"How?"
"Simple the spell states that it will not touch the caster, and foolish me thought I could control it like I thought I could control the people of Twisted Bend. But apparently the part about only the strongest surviving was true."
"Why?" Was all S.O.L. could ask eyes welling up with tears
"For the same reason I destroyed the Great Tree." He paused and Looked at S.O.L.'s disbelieving expression "Yes I burned the tree."
"Why? How could you do that to your own people?" She asked tears streaming down her face.
"Don't you see, the sages were holding back our potential with peace, I believe that whoever is strongest should grasp the reigns of power. That is why I did all this."
"What?"
"Everything that led you here. While sitting in an American prison, I read about the infamous Protector of the Provinces and his girlfriend and when I saw your photo I knew that you were the strongest. The one survivor of my purge." He walked over to her; she was to stunned to fight back. He placed his hand on her hair. "The last to bear the mark of the sorceress." A circular mark lit up on her head. He released his hand and walked back to the window "Who do you think hired Slade to bomb both those cities? My goal was never to cause world war 3, I told Slade to kill the one you love, because I knew you would come, here, to get more elixir. I now ask you to join me, together and with my other sorcerers we can rebuild what you thought was lost and we can rule this island together."
S.O.L. finally collapsed, she couldn't believe what she was hearing, the man who had destroyed her world, her love, now asked her to join him.
"Never!" She cried with a tone of defiance.
He immediately turned from the window and started to walk towards her. "Insignificant little bitch, I offer you this and you defy me?"
S.O.L. Reached for her staff, right as he was about to hit her, she used it as a spear and thrust it through his stomach.
His eyes went wide with shock, S.O.L. removed her staff and then Brother Blood put his hands over the wound and stumbled back a few steps. S.O.L. began to walk towards him causing him to back up more and more.
"You little scum bag. You destroyed your own people, you kill others to get your way, well I have news for you."
Brother Blood had finally backed up so he was against the window. S.O.L then raised her hands and pushed him as hard as she could. The fragile glass was unable to withstand the assault and shattered almost instantly and Brother Blood fell screaming into the sea below.
"You're not welcome here anymore." She said with a quiet tone.
She immediately turned to leave but then she looked at her staff and then at her hands, covered in blood then she remembered her father's words 'You think you're good, that you've left your bad days behind you. Well you're wrong. Once you acted evil it is always in you. It's a part of you. It's like a dormant volcano waiting to blow'
"God he is right the evil is beginning to consume me." She quickly dashed out of the room.
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Back in the main room Robin, Raven and Ilmatar were backed against the door, with the enemy advancing. Suddenly S.O.L. Appeared at the top of the rafters.
"Go." she said and they opened the door, as they were going in she jumped and used a spell to catapult her into the room with them.
She barred the door again and put a sealing spell on it.
"We need to get out of here." Said Raven
"We need to blow this place. Robin have you got any explosives?"
"Sure."
They put a least 10 big explosives all over the room. Then Robin pulled out the controller.
"Oh no."
"What?"
"It was damaged during the fight, now it will only work in close proximity. In other words some one will have to stay here and blow it."
Everyone was silent
"I'll do it." Said S.O.L.
"What!?" everyone gasped
"I can't leave here, besides I always knew I would die here."
"No we won't let you." Said Ilmatar.
"Yes you will now go." She raised her staff and cast a spell that sent them flying out the other side of the room. She then locked the door so that nobody could get back in. "There is a boat below the cliff." She yelled through the door.
They all dashed down the cliff and headed for the boat.
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Day 16 8:00 P.M.
The sorcerers had finally broken through the door. when they entered they looked around and saw the explosives and the controller in S.O.L.'s hand
The older one (who was S.O.L.'s father) "Mineva you wouldn't, not to your own kind, not your kin."
She laughed "No, your kin are supposed to be good to you, be kind to you, take care and protect you. You may be my kind but you are not my kin, and as far as I care you can go back to hell." She then pressed the button.
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Out side they had gotten the boat about 300 yards from the cliff, when they heard the explosion. They looked to see the entire mansion up in flames.
"So brave." Said Ilmatar.
But their mourning was interrupted when pieces of debris began to fall with the speed of bullets. they stared to row fast when, a piece fell onto their boat. It was a staff. Ilmatar picked it up. It was S.O.L.'s. They all looked at it, then Ilmatar gave it to Raven who unhooked her cloak and wrapped it around the staff. They then went back to sailing.
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Day 30 5:47 P.M.
Ilmatar, Robin and Raven had landed off the coast of France. They would have been home sooner but they were in a smaller boat and they got lost many times. They had been picked up by a farmer who took them to town where from there they got back to the DOE main base. They had to relay the painful new about S.O.L. they quickly removed the bodies of Beastboy and Levitate from the freezers they had preserved them in. They brought them to the main room where the Elixir was brought out, and then the 3 of them realized something.
"She never told us how to use it did she?" Asked Raven
"God we have it yet don't know how to use it? God!" muttered Robin
Suddenly the bottle started to glow.
"Uh Ilmatar what day is it?"
"Oh it's the-" but she was cut off
"Now I mean the day of the mission?"
"Oh, day 30."
"Well that would explain why it's glowing."
Suddenly Ilmatar leaned against the table causing the elixir bottle to tip over and spill all over the table and bodies.
All they could do was stare in shock; suddenly the monitoring system they had rigged up began to beep. This meant a heart rate.
Beastboy's arm began to twitch; Levitate's eyes began to flutter. Then Beastboy sat up. "Ugh what happened?" He asked rubbing his head, but before he could answer Raven threw her arms around him. Levitate himself sat up and all the D.O.E.'s let out a cry of joy. After a few minutes Levitate asked "Where?" Was all he had to say then the cheering stopped, and everyone suddenly looked sad. Ilmatar then brought her staff and laid it in his hand. Instantly tears began to stream down his face.
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A week later: Berlin
Levitate stared out over the city. There had been a precession that day where all of Europe had come to pay respects for their fallen heroine. Despite being deeply sadden he decided to continue the D.O.E.s. He heard footsteps behind him and then heard a voice
"You miss her already don't you?" Asked Raven
"How can I not? She was 1 in an entire race."
"You know death is merely an illusion?"
"Yes and that is what is going to keep me going is knowing I'll see her again someday."
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