Chapter 10: The Echo in Danger
AN: Sorry for the long wait with the cliffhanger. I had a lot of Christmas stuff to do.
Misty and her companions flew through the forest, with Jacksyn leading as he followed Lance's trail. They flew for hours, each of them silent in their fierce force of determination.
After seven long hours, they saw a enormous pillar of harrowing darkness standing not a mile from them.
"We have to see what that is," Misty said as they landed next to it. Soon it began to evaporate, and they saw the epicenter. It was Nannabelle.
She wore clothes made of darkness, wrapping around her as if it were a snake and her a grapevine.
"Nice to see you, Mistyca Marie Echo," she said, watching her as if she were an Amazonian rainbow from the sky. "I've been waiting for you, you dangerous cretin."
"Nanabelle… why would you!" Misty asked as she was the figure behind Nanabelle. Lance was lying on the ground, with the darkness lingering on the ground entering his body. He soon began to float, mumbling incoherently in a convoluted sense as he did so.
"Dark magic needs a host to manifest one's own dark powers. I was planning on using you," she said, pointing at the young girl, "But, I just happened to find this strapping young man here."
She continued her dark madness. "I need to use him to manifest my natural talent! With him I'll be able to control the world!"
Misty roared back with to her ex-friend, "I need him to manifest my love!" Misty yelled. "Without him, I won't last at Hogwarts! I have nothing there for me except for Lance Lionhart!"
"Enough of this!" Jacksyn yelled. Suddenly, his eyes changed to a dark grey, he started to grow too large for his human clothes, and his teeth extended. He soon became a wolf as the moon neared its head, and he charged at Nanabelle, with his last human words being "Get Lance out of here!"
Julie looked at Jacksyn for a second, but she soon joined Misty in putting Lance on a broom and they started to fly away. They saw Jacksyn charge her and bite her and slash her a few times, but he was soon stunned.
"Bring the man back to me," Nanabelle yelled, "Or I might just have to kill this other man here."
Misty looked at Nanabelle. "You wouldn't," she said.
She smiled. "I would."
Avada Kedavra