SEARCH
ERAKLYON BALL ROOM…
The day after the kidnapping, all Magix kingdoms have a meeting on Eraklyon. All princes and princesses are there in the gowns with their royal parents. The royal family of Domino and Brielle stand at the front with king Erendor, Samara, and Sky. The part of their families missing right now is their daughters. Aaliyah and Daphne are still out on their own search. The ballroom is a buzz with gossip of last night.
"When are your daughters getting here?" Erendor whispers to Mya and Marion.
"We don't know" Marion says. "They won't answer their phones. They've been out all night searching."
"You don't think Callister got to them too do you?" Erendor asks.
"I doubt it." Marion says.
Marion looks around the room filled with royals. She sees Marcus and Sky with worried looks and their heads slightly hanging. She could tell they were hurt.
"Okay, okay quiet down now let's discuss this." Erendor quiets down the room.
"This is strictly illogical. This random man can't just come in and kidnap two of Magix's best fairies." Said Cryos, the King of Zenith.
"Well he just did. Let's just figure a way to get them back." Lisa said, Queen of Callisto, Marcus's mother.
"It would help to know where they are to get them back Lisa." Lea said in a sarcastic tone, Queen of Leahi, Ava's mom.
"Who is this guy anyway? I don't understand how he can walk in a party full of powerful people, kidnap two girls and leave." Caitlin's mom said, Queen Lyra of Vega.
"What's our plan anyway? The first order of business should be to find them." Niobe said, Queen of Andros.
"We don't need a repeat of past kidnappings going on again." Niobe's husband Teredor stated.
"We should have our friends track down their phones to see if they still have them." Ava stated loudly.
"Ava, honey, don't interrupt, the adults are speaking." King Aaron scolded his daughter.
"The adults are speaking?" Ava said sarcastically. "If anything you guys should be asking us the questions, I mean we are their best friends."
"Yeah. If we can't speak here, then why do we have to stay. We could be outside right now with the rest of our friends trying to figure this out." Aisha said looking at all of the royals.
"Their right. Instead of standing here doing nothing we could all be out searching for them." Stella blurted out.
"Like you guys always tell us, 'be productive' we are trying to right now." Caitlin sided with Stella.
"It's for a princess's place to have manners and- Ava cut off her father.
"And respect I know, we all know but, my best friend is out there with some old wizard and we're here discussing stuff."
"Look we know you guys are a little upset but we all have to stay calm and not do anything crazy." King Radius stated.
"It's hard to stay calm when there's a kidnapper on the loose." Stella yelled.
The whole ballroom goes in a frenzy of arguing back and forth. Kings and Queens argue with each other, princes and princesses arguing, and some just arguing with their children. In all the utter chaos going on Sky and Marcus still, seem to stay quiet and think about two people.
All of a sudden, a bright orange portal appears in the middle of the room. Everyone goes silent. All the royals circle around it, not knowing who it is. The portal shows two figures step through. Daphne and Aaliyah. They step through looking worn out. Their clothes are tattered, their hair has a few leaves in it, they have dirt marks all over, and they both have a horrible stench. All the royals cover their noses in disgust.
"Gosh, where have you guys been, you reek." Ava says while squinting her eyes and covering her face.
"Glad you guys are back but, I have never smelt anything worse than you guys before." Stella says walking away.
"Oh I'm so glad you guys are back! Yeah thanks." Aaliyah says while rolling her eyes.
"Well I'm happy you guys are back and safe. I would hug you but… you know" Marion said.
"Its fine mom we know we smell bad. We got used to it 7 hours ago."
"So did you find anything?" Oritel asks.
"All we found was Jasmin's phone outside of the Alfea gates. It must have fallen off of her when Callister was carrying them." Daphne explained.
"Where did guys look?" Thomas asked.
"We looked in Gloomy Wood Forest, Lake Roccaluce and Black Mud Swamp. That's why we smell like this. We sort of fell in." Aaliyah says. "So why is everyone arguing?"
"Nobody knows what to do" Aisha says pointing to all of the Kings and Queens.
"Also they won't let us speak just because we're their children." Ava scoffed at her parents. "They're just so ignorant," She says quietly.
"That's how they are most of the time. The only time they really pay attention is when we do something out of line." Aaliyah said knowingly. "It's happened to me plenty of times."
"Yeah, like when you got suspended from Beta 3 times for fighting." Caitlin laughed.
"You've been in that many fights." Stella said surprisingly.
"Yeah, but I've been in way more than that outside of school. It only happens when people really get on my nerves and says the wrong thing to me." Aaliyah responded.
"Don't a lot of people do that to you?" Aisha asked.
"Yeah but only when it's constant. Usually they stop." Aaliyah said. "Some people just don't learn."
Samara walks over to Daphne and Aaliyah.
"Girls, if you want you can go in to the guest bathrooms and shower up," Samara says.
"We can?" Daphne asks. Samara nods.
"Thanks"
…
After, the ballroom settles down everyone begins discussing the kidnapping.
"So what do we do now? We have no way of contacting them, and all we know is that Bloom possibly still has her phone." Marion states facing everyone.
"Man, all I want to know is if they're alive or not." Marcus says.
"Exactly. For all we know they could dead." Sky agrees.
"They're not dead." Mya states calmly but quiet. Everyone turns to face her.
"How do you know?" Ava's mom, Lea asked.
"I know because Callister did the same thing to me and Marion a long time ago. He didn't kill us." Mya says standing up from her seat.
"What makes you think he won't kill them? His plans could have easily changed over 20 years." King Lance, Marcus's dad asks.
"Yeah. What if he wants revenge on you two about what happened so he's taking it out on Bloom and Jasmin?" King Orion, Caitlin's dad, says.
"He wouldn't kill them if he needs them." Marion says.
"What does he need them for?" Queen Luna asks.
"Remember what he said at the party?" Mya asks everyone.
FLASHBACK TO LAST NIGHT…
"So then what is your plan? Marion asks.
"Not gonna give you all of the details. Therefore, I'll just tell you one little fact. I have an army that will be attacking the most powerful kingdoms in Magix until they surrender to Callister." Callister says.
END OF FLASHBACK…
"See. He said that his army is going to attack Magix's kingdoms. I bet you his little army is made up of only two people. Bloom and Jasmin." Marion states with an angered face.
"So basically everything he did to you guys he is going to do with our children." Thomas asks his wife. She nods her head.
"I'm confused. He wanted to kill you guys when you were against him. Do you think he's going to get rid of them too?" Oritel says.
"I doubt it. I think he might do something different. He learned from his mistakes before." Mya responds.
"Well we have to stop him before Bloom and Jasmin end up in you know what." Marion says looking at her husband.
"Then let's get this search started now." Oritel says to his wife.
"So we all have decided to send out our entire search teams to look for the girls." Thomas says to everyone.
"I guess that could work." King Lance says.
"Fine. We agree also." King Teredor replies.
.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
Later on that week, when all of the royals are at their castles, all Kings and Queens all over the Magic Dimension send out their best search teams. On Brielle, Thomas and Mya have just sent out their last search team to find their daughter. The sit back in their thrones as the search team leaves the throne room. The door slams shut. There is an awkward silence between the two.
Mya sits there, staring at the two large doors. Her mind wanders to what happened 20 years ago. She thinks of when Callister first kidnapped her and Marion. Her face shows a look of terror. She can feel the tears bubble in her eyes. Thomas looks over at his wife. He can see the fear in her eyes. He sees a tear fall down her face. She raises her hand and wipes it away quickly. She never wants to show any signs of a weakness. She always wants to be thought of as a strong and fearless leader. The only thing that truly breaks her is losing a loved one. Even though she knows Jasmin isn't dead, she knows that she isn't safe either.
"Mya, please. They're going to be just fine." Thomas tries to comfort Mya. She lets more tears spill out.
"No…they're not." Mya gets out as she cries harder. "They're in so much more danger than we think. Callister just barley got away with what he planned years ago. He's been locked in Obsidian for 20 years. He escaped only a year ago. Who knows how much he has planned or how much he knows about all of us."
"Okay, but we have to have some hope that he'll fail. He did last time." Thomas replies. Mya wipes away the rest of her tears. She puts on a stern faces and turns towards her husband.
"It worked last time!" Mya yells out. Thomas goes over and covers her mouth.
"Keep your voice down." Thomas whispers to Mya. She looks at him with her eyebrows arched. "We don't want anyone in the castle to hear what Callister got away with last time. It'll freak them out." Mya looks up at him.
"Thomas. I want to go to bed. It's been a really long stressful day. Wanna come. You don't have any other meetings to go to right?" Mya asks Thomas.
"Of course I'm going. I don't think there will be any meetings bigger than the one we just had. He's the next big threat to Magix." Thomas takes Mya's hand and leads them out of the throne room and up the steps.
"Where's Aaliyah? I thought she would have been cooped up in her room worrying about her sister." Thomas looks to Mya.
"She went to go spend the night at Trevor's house. She left like an hour ago." Mya replies. Thomas stops walking.
"You let her do what!" Thomas yells. Mya covers his mouth with her hand. She smirks at him.
"Keep your voice down. We don't want anyone in the castle to hear what I let Aaliyah get away with many times before." Mya says playing off his words. He takes her hand and begins walking again.
"Very funny. What do you mean you let her get away with it before?" Thomas questions Mya. She has a guilty look on her face.
"Okay so here's the thing. I've been letting Aaliyah spend the night over there sometimes. It's no big deal." Mya tells Thomas.
"Why would you not tell me this? Why didn't she come ask me?" Thomas looks back at Mya.
"You would've have said no wouldn't you?" Mya already knows he is slightly overprotective when it comes to his two girls.
"Exactly. She doesn't need to spend the night. She spends enough time with him in the day." Thomas puts on a stern look.
"Look, it's bad enough what she has to go through now, the least we can do is let her go spend the night with her boyfriend. She's 20 years old. Practically a grown up. Soon she's going to be married soon. Even though he's not royal we still approve of him. Don't you?" Mya looks at Thomas pointedly. *He better say the right answer.* Mya thought.
"Of course I approve of him. He a great young man…" Thomas stops his sentence.
"But…" Mya tells him to carry on.
"…but I don't like to think of the process of making an heir to the throne." Thomas finishes. Mya smiles at him.
"So you don't like the idea of them having sex." Mya says.
"Exactly." Thomas says. Mya laughs at him. "So how long have you been letting her go out like that?"
"Since her 18th birthday." Mya says quickly walking faster than Thomas does so he can't see her face.
"Wait, what come back." Thomas runs after Mya straight into their bedroom.
On Domino…
Marion and Ortiel lay side by side in their bed together. Talking through the night, about everything.
"Oritel?" Marion calls him.
"Yeah." He replies.
"You think the girls are gonna be okay. I bet they're terrified with him." Marion turns over on her side to face him.
"Maybe, if they're conscious. He probably still has them knocked out from whatever he injected in them. You tell me." Oritel turns over two. They stare in to each other eyes worried.
"If anything he is much stronger than he was before. We locked him up for a long time. All of that built up anger and frustration. He's gone crazy." Marion smiles at her husband.
"I hope the search teams find them quick. With Callister on the loose, the Magic dimension is in grave danger." Oritel says. Marion takes his hand from under the covers.
"We'll get through it. Together." Marion says softly. She kisses him on the cheek then turns back over to turn off the small lamp.
"Goodnight Oritel." Marion closes her eyes. Oritel wraps an arm around her waist.
"Goodnight Marion."
.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
The next chapter is most likely to be updated really soon. I have another week off from Spring Break.
See ya later…
Magixlife