"Alina!" Rebecca hopped up from the ground to embrace the girl in a hug. It seemed like they hadn't seen eachother in ages.
"So, any luck on the search for your mom?" Rebeccas' tone wen't from cheerful to serious in a matter of seconds as did Alinas face which was now overcome with sorrow.
"Gosh you weren't kidding this death magic is strong. Sadly, i'm right back where I began with my search. I found the archivist in the district of stars like you suggested but even that had no clue where she might be." Her gaze finally met mine through her glasses.
She looked as if she was caught off guard since she hadn't seen me before.
"Is that him?" She whispered to Rebecca suggestively
Rebecca only smiled and shook her head
She looked back at me and stared me up and down as if she was examining me.
Her hand shot out to shake as she stiffened up with a smile.
"Hi! My name is Alina DawnHeart!" She shook my hand vigourously
"I'm Angel FrostCloud. Nice to meet yo-"
A low rumble shook the ground.
A headstone emerged from the ground with 'RIP' carved into the stone along with the name 'Rylee GhostHunter'
"Good, she's here too." Rebecca uttered
"So dramatic.." Alina grinned
From the headstone a girl emerged out of the ground as if she were a rotting fodder.
Her silky silver hair braided in a ponytail matched her olive skin, she wore black and white meaning she's most likely a necromancer. Her golden eyes scanned the room.
"Ryleeee!" Alina practically tackled the girl
"Oh, hello Alina, Rebecca, uh.." her words had practically no emotion whatsoever and when she stared at me her face remained completely blank
"Thats Angel" Rebecca finished for her
"its you..." She looked scared and almost saddened by the sight of me
"Have we met?" I asked
Rylee turned to look at Rebecca, and rebecca gave her a serious almost stern look
"Oh, my bad I mistook you forsomeone else" she shook her head
"So what now? What are they here for?" I asked looking at each of them hoping I wasnt going to be a sacrifice for some creepy ritual
"Rylee, We need to collect the death magic from the krokonomicon, it was Malistaires. Do you think you can do it?" Rebecca seemed relunctant to mention the origin of the magic
"Malistaire... he.." She gritted her teeth and clenched her teeth as her brow furrowed
"I know.. but its the only way we can collect the rituals we need, meaning its the only way to get your parents back." Rebecca was determined and her words seemed to shock Rylee
"Fine." She summoned a skull amulet
"I stole this from Malorn Ashthorn's dorm right before I left Ravenwood. It belonged to Malistaire before he sunk the death school so it should still be connected to him." She must be rogue too then.
"Great, Alina did you bring the scrolls from the krokotopia library?" Rebecca turned to alina who was already digging in her backpack
"Yup!" she pulled out a set of three ancient looking scrolls
"Those manders put up one heck of a fight!" She smiled, this whole group must be made out of rogues, but who am I to judge.
"Great, Angel hows your magic?" She and the other two girls shifted focus on me
"Well, better than it was originally ever since the trip to Ravenscar" I felt stronger than ever, especially after blocking an actual insane bolt which I never done before
"Great, do you know any protective wards against death magic?"
I thought back to defense against the death arts class with proffesor Greyrose. We learned death is the magic of chaos, and derives its power from removing order from the spiral, it also effects its targets spirit and soul.
"uh yeah, I can do that." I hoped
"Awesome, Welcome to the coven, Lets begin the ritual." Rebecca took a seat in front of the krokonomicon while Rylee and Alina sat to the left and right of it
I assumed I was to take the back of it and sat behind
Rylee wore her skull amulet and Alina began saying words of enchantment from the scrolls
"Angel, the wards." she awaited my action
"Right!" I focused my magic on Rebecca and imagined a ring of golden aura around her to protect her from any chaos or dread.
"They're up" She nodded and took a step towards the book
The krokonomicon began to glow a shadowy and misty black
The air went cold and still, the sound of dragonspyre's winds and storms went dead silent.
Rebecca took another step and the book flew open its pages flying one after another relasing a blast of death energy aimed towards Rebecca
The ward successfully guarded.
She began walking at a pace now towards the book inching closer, with every step she took more and more blasts of death came her way, and each time I guarded.
Alinas words of power were now ringing throughout and Rylees amulet began to glow and red and black.
"Its working, just a bit more!" Rebecca was now in arms reach of the book
she reached her hands out to grab for the book but it resisted her with might. The forces of death were now a constant stream of attacks aimed for Rebecca
I had to concentrate even harder now just to keep her alive, each blow felt like more and more of a close call.
Her palm was just inches from the book and the forces were now destroying everything around us, the walls began to crumble and the earth shook.
Finally Rebecca managed to touch the book
"RELEASE!" She shouted and the death magic flew from the book in the form of cloud like pitch black smoke. It howled and moaned in agony and sorrow as it was sucked into the amulet around Rylees neck.
Finally, all was calm.
"We.. did it?" Rebecca whispered in dibelief
"We did it!" she cheered as her and Alina jumped and cheered at the victory
I let out a deep sigh of relief as the ritual depleted almost a third of my mana
Rylee still sat staring at the amulet with discomfort
"You!" a familiar voice called out from the entrence
It was Dworgyn holding his lantern alongside Halston Balestrom
"You were right Halston, they were the ones who triggered your insane bolt trap and the reason I felt a disturbance in the spirals death magic"
"We must get back the krokonomicon and return Malistaires magic to Ravenwood!" Halston drew his wand
This is bad, Death and Storm are a force to be reckoned with enough, but proffesors as well? We're doomed!
"Wild bolt!" Balestrom leaped as he casted a bolt of lightning our way
"Now!" Rebecca called out
"Ice wall!" I slapped my hands to the ground summoning a wall of ice to block the bolt, but the bolt pierced my wall and still did a considerable amount of damage to the four of us
"ugh!"
"Give it up! We don't want to hurt former students of ours.." Dworgyn said staring directly at Rylee
"Yeah right, Sandstorm!" Alina twirled her wooden staff and the room filled with sandy winds obscuring the proffesors view
"Rylee!" Rebecca called out
Rylee still sat and stared at the amulet, her gaze was fixed on nothing but the skull staring back at her as if she never even noticed being under attack
"Snap out of it!" Rebecca grabbed her shoulder
"wha-?" Rylee looked around wide eyed
"We need you to use his magic, I need to regain strenght to teleport us to the base!" Rebecca looked desperately into Rylee's golden eyes
She nodded
"a little help?" Alina called out
"Darkwind" Balestrom cleared the air with storm clouds
"Doom and Gloom." Dworgyn reinforced death magic in the area
"Dworgyn, we cant kill them we have to take them back to amberose"
"Don't worry, this is just to speed things up."
"big mistake! Reanimation!" Rylee clenched the amulet using malistaire's magic to summon a small army of undead
The proffesors let out a small gasp
"i've got dworgyn" Rylee commanded her undead to attack and the proffesors sprang into action
Balestrom hopped around casting multiple wild bolts at Rylees undead army, however when defeated they'd simply reanimate
Dworgyn began reanimating a few undead as well and even sacrificed some of his health to buffen Balestrom
"Quicksand!" Alina cast a sinkhole of quicksand under Balestroms feet but it only slowed him down a little
"Frostbite!" I managed to freeze his legs partially to keep him from hopping, now we have an easier target
The undead army clashed with dworgyns field guards and wraiths
"Almost there guys, keep it up!" Rebecca called out replinishing mana
"Soul sap" Dworgyn reached out his hand and took out the entire undead army by stealing their health
"Tempest!" waves came crashing into Alina rylee and I causing even more considerable damage
"Glacial blast!" I cast a string of spiked glaciers towards halston but only damaged him a little
"Helping hand!" Alina placed her palm to my chest where my heart would be
"it's weak.. I forgot about the death enchantments" She sighed
"Thanks anyways."
"I'll finish this here and now!" Halston waved his wand forming more and more storm clouds like the trap from before
an insane bolt directly from a proffesor would take us all out and I dont know if I can guard it quick enough
This may be the end
"insane bolt!"
"BEGUILE!" Rylee inturrupted his spell
The streams of lightning were now shot towards dworgyn landing a direct hit taking him down
"Oh no!" Halston ran over to dworgyn
I couldn't believe it. I just witness two proffesors taken down by this 'coven' in one day one of them being my own and I was part of them
"Guys!" Rebecca held out her hand signaling for us to take hold
Alina and Rylee ran over and grabbed her hand
"Angel!" She called out
I looked back at halston now meditating, for moolinda most likely.
There's no turning back, i'm rogue.
I ran back to Rebecca and held hands
…
I looked around to see a wizard city styled room with stone walls and wooden floors.
Theres no way we could be in wizard city right now, so maybe a wooden cottage or royal playhouse? No, they'd have to buy that from the shopping district
"Welcome to the coven's fantasy palace" Alina smiled.
Had to revise this chapter for plot reasons.
Sorry for the wait.
New chapters coming soon!