Don't Mess With Magic

Chapter 5

I was just about comfortable when May came back in. I suppressed a groan and sat up. She plopped onto the bed beside me and handed me a pair of shoes.

"I hope they fit," she smiled. "I'll be damned if Sol takes better care of you than we do."

"To be honest, I was only with him for about an hour, if that," I replied, wiggling my toes in the shoes. "I was dragged around by I-No most of the day, that's really how I got dirty. Sol kinda... Rescued me, I guess."

"I-No?" May's expression was dark. "No wonder Sol wanted you tucked away."

"Is she really that bad?"

"She knocked one of our crew members off the side of the ship," she pulled her knees to her chest.

"Holy shit! Really?"

"Yeah. She's OK She's got wings so there really wasn't any danger," May waved. "It was just really scary."

We sat in an awkward silence for a moment. I was going to say something when the ship lurched and threw May into me. She jumped up, told me to stay put and ran out of the room as a siren started blaring. I wanted to follow her, but I had no idea what to do, or how to do anything on an air ship! All I could do was sit in the corner and hope we land OK

After a few minutes of self loathing I gather the courage to go see what's going on. My hand barely touches the handle when it's kicked in. I fly back onto my butt and stare in disbelief and horror. Standing in the doorway is I-No, and she looked fine. Her face twisted into a horrifying smile once her eyes rested on me.

"Ah, so you are here," she chuckled, striding towards me.

A cold fear stole over my heart. Her eyes were dead and looked like they were intent to kill. They were like Sol's eyes, but different somehow. I backed away as far as I could from her until I hit the wall. I wanted to scream, to get up and run, but I was frozen in place, my voice was lost. Those emerald eyes were so, so cold.

"Where is he?" she murmured. When I didn't answer she thrust her guitar into my shoulder. "I said where is he?"

"Wh-Who?" I cringed.

"You know damn well!" she screamed at me, pulling my hair so I would look her straight in the eye. "Where is Sol Badguy?"

I winced as she shrieked at me. "I don't know!" I whimpered. She let go of my hair with a growl. Next thing I realize, she's unstrung one of the strings of her guitar and wrapped it around my neck. The metal was cold, and bit into my neck with an unforgiving ferocity. I meant to scream but all that came out was a gurgle. I clawed at my neck as my air was slowly being being cut off.

"You don't know? You honestly think I'll believe that piece of horse shit?"

"It's the truth!" I somehow managed to get out. I think my fingertips were starting to bleed. At least I hoped it was my fingertips. "He went looking for you!"

She made a disapproving sound and tightened the cord ever s slightly. "Sure he is. He left you here, kiddo. And now you're going to die."

Tears started welling up in my eyes and I felt myself starting to panic. Is this really it? I'm going to die?! I thought. My mind was racing a mile a minute. How's she going to do it? Is she going to suffocate me? Take my head off with the guitar string?

I-No smiled and pulled the string up, forcing me to my knees. "I bet you wish you had some control over that fire, don't you?" she smirked. "That's honestly too bad, you had potential.

I stared at I-No like she was crazy. My fire? My fire! I thought maniacally. I was panicking more and more, franticly willing the fire to my fingertips, maybe I could burn this cord off? Or would I just burn myself horribly? I didn't really give the latter much thought. I just wanted to breathe again.

I-No cried out and I felt the string loosen greatly. The purple flames did spark, much to my relief, and traveled up the string and onto her guitar, bursting it into flames. I tore the cord off my neck and the sprinkler system kicked in, dousing the tiny fire. I-No growled at me, I took that as my cue to get the fuck out of there.

My neck hurt, was most likely bleeding, and my shoulder hurt, but I didn't stop until I found someone – anyone. I was sure I-No was on my tail, I wasn't looking where I was going when I ran right into someone. I screamed when they grabbed my shoulders and held me straight. I opened my eyes and it was only Johnny.

"Holy shit, girl! You're a mess! What happened?" he had an incredulous look on his face.

"She-She's here! She's after me!" I pointed down the corridor behind me.

"'She' who? Slow down," he said firmly. "Whoa, where'd you get that nasty mark on your neck?"

"I-No!" I croaked out. Any mirth was wiped out instantly from Johnny's face.

"I-No?" he repeated darkly. "She's on the ship?"

I nodded vigorously and then winced. "Right, come with me, I'm taking you to the infirmary, Dizzy is there and you'll be safe with her. Where did you see her?"

"M-My room," I stammered. My neck was really starting to hurt now.

"All right. Let's get you somewhere safe."

Okie doke! It's been, what? All most forever since I've last updated? Well, here are two (short) chapters for you! Hopefully I can keep writing. I also hope that I'm not making Jessica very Mary Sue-ish. :/

So I have a direction that I want the story to go into, and I'm going to try to not throw in GG characters just for the sake of them having an appearence. If they have anything to do with the story, then they'll be in here..

And just a side note, my 'o' key likes to short out every now and then, so if it's missing, that's why. Lawl.