Chapter 9 - The Book of Revival
The man was holding Jess from his neck and he lifted him up in the air. The man pulled out his sword and he was ready to stab Jess in the heart. Suddenly he stopped moving, dropped Jess and fell down to his knees screaming with pain. He had an arrow stuck in his back. It was one of Leslie's arrows. Leslie came running towards Jess and helped him up.
"What would you ever do without me" said Leslie.
The man pulled out the arrow from his back and he got back up to his feet.
"It won't be that easy to kill me, little Queen, for I am Melgor, the strongest creature Terabithia has ever seen!"
The man walked towards them and the moonlight revealed his face. His whole body was half demon and half human.
"What are you" said Jess.
"I am a half Demon, half Elf creature. My Father was Norgor and my little brother was Kelgor, also knows as The Dark Master."
"But I don't understand. How can you be half Elf. Last time I checked, there haven't been any elves for a least 500 years!" said Leslie.
"Well that would be my fathers doing. My mother was an Elf. She was treated very badly, because she had a dark side. One night, she ran away from the city and she met my father. He took her under his care and after a while, they gave birth to me. A few years later, the city found out what my mother had done, so they found her and killed her. My father was so furious, that he destroyed the whole city. But what he didn't know was that in the library of the city was a book, The Book of Revival. He was so sad, that he gave up all hope of having her back, so he found a new one instead. he found a demon women and the gave birth to my stupid little brother. Now they are both dead because they were very stupid and they underestimated you. Since I am half Elf and half Demon, I have great intelligence and demonic powers." said Melgor.
"But why would you look for the book if Norgor destroyed it." said Leslie.
"There was only one small building left standing after my fathers attack. It is this tree house. It holds the secret in finding The Book of Revival and I will not let you take it away from me!" Melgor dashed at Jess, but he blocked his attack with his sword. Leslie shot an arrow in his back again. He turned around to attack Leslie, but Jess slashed his back. Melgor fell to the ground, but he was still alive.
"You may have one this time little king, but believe me, I WILL BE BACK!" said Melgor and he disappeared.
Jess and Leslie looked at each other confused and shocked that the Dark Master had a much more powerful big brother. They climbed the tree house and started searching for the book.
"How can there be a book here. It was completely empty when we found it." complained Jess.
"There must be a secret and magical passage way somewhere around here." said Leslie.
She found a small round image on the upper corner side of the wall. She climbed on top of a box and touched the picture. The wall split open in to and a huge room filled with books appeared. It was the library of the elven city that Norgor had destroyed. They walked in and started searching all the books. After a while of searching, Jess found The Book of Revival. They were ready to leave, when something caught Jess eye. It was a door at the end of the library. Jess opened the door and found out that it was an armory. It was filled with weapons and armor. This must have been a secret place to train Elf warriors.
"Too bad I can't use any of these shields." said Jess and he looked down on his left side.
"Wait! Jess, look at this!" said Leslie with excitement.
"What is it" asked Jess
"Its a magic book, it's filled with spells, counterattacks and healing charms. Maybe I can find you a healing charm to restore you arm!" said Leslie. Jess was very excited, but then he yawned.
"Maybe we can do that tomorrow. I'm very tired. Let's go back home." said Jess.
They left the library. Leslie pressed the button again and the wall closed. Jess gave Leslie the two books and he started walking home. They yet again watched Jess's left arm restoring and they hid their weapons. While they were walking back home, Leslie wouldn't stop reading the book of charms she had found.
"Leslie, calm down. You don't need to rush it, take your time!" said Jess
"Well excuse me for caring about my boyfriend!" said Leslie and she started walking faster and away from Jess.
"Wait. I'm sorry. Thank you for caring so much about me" said Jess and he kissed Leslie.
"Goodnight" said Jess and he left towards his house.
The next morning, Jess and Leslie were sitting in the bus back to school. Leslie was holding the Book of Revival and the book of charms was in her bag.
"Hey, Jess, yesterday, I found out that you can only revive a person once every three years, because the spell is very complex and it takes a lot of energy from the user. For the user of the spell, to recover his energy, it will take three years." said Leslie.
"So if Melgor was to use the spell, he would have to wait three years to revive someone else, but what if he revives one of them and the revived uses the spell" said Jess
"Well, I don't think any of them can, because in the book it said only Elvish people were able to use the spell. So only Melgor can use it, since he is the only Elvish person left in Terabithia." explained Leslie.
"So we have to hide the book and not let him get his hands on it" said Jess
They arrived at school and realized that Scott and Gary were not there. They must have been on their suspension. During lunch, they both sat down and analyzed the books. Leslie was looking threw the charms book and Jess was looking threw the Book of Revival. After a while Jess closed the book and wondered why would Melgor want to revive his family if he hated them that much. He then remembered that he wasn't going to bring back his father or his brother, he was going to revive his mother, the Elf. Jess also saw in the book that you can only revive them if the person really loved the one that died. If Melgor brings back his mother, then his mother can revive Norgor. Then his mother would bring back Kelgor, because he was another son of Norgor, therefor she would love him too. Jess figured it out. He was going to bring back his whole family and destroy Terabithia with a very massive attack. But he couldn't do anything, because they had the book. Jess explained to Leslie his theory and she believed him. That was the only explanation.
"Jess, by the way, I found a Healing charm that can heal your arm. I hope it works." said Leslie.
"Ok, we'll try it out when we go to Terabithia after school." said Jess.
The rest of the day passed fast. They arrived home and headed for Terabithia. When they got there, they saw that the bridge had turned into a demontic one. Instead of "Nothing crushes us", the sign read "Welcome to hell". When they walked into Terabithia, they saw what Melgor had turned Terabithia into. The gravity had increased, which made it harder for them to move, the skies were red, and the trees were dead. Jess and Leslie were frightenned by the idea of Terabithia turning into hell. They were very frightenned and didn't know what to do. They went back got there weapons and slowly headed towards their tree house to figure out how to stop this living hell.