Chapter 8: Your family will always be by your side Pt 2 (final)
"I'm afraid we're not finished yet... we have the candle which is fifty percent, now the most important thing is missing... Mirabel must pass the magic from her body to the candle." I saw the candle in my hands which was extinguished, without magic, but which I would soon have.
"I'm ready for this" Isa helped me stand next to Uncle Bruno.
"We'll be with you" Grandma stood up and refused.
"No... this is something I must do, you must stay here, uncle I will go to the invocation center, it is the safest place" uncle bruno looked serious.
"Do you really expect us to stand here and watch everything without doing anything?" Camilo confronted me.
"Camilo, it's dangerous"
"All the more reason we must go" The family looked determined, but... I couldn't let them come, I know what's coming now and I also know they might get hurt I couldn't allow something like that.
"None will come" My voice was serious and without replies.
"Do as she says" uncle Bruno stood before me.
"Bruno, do you really expect me to sit here and do nothing?" Mama looked upset.
"There is nothing you can do Julieta, this is something that she must do by herself" uncle Bruno faced mom and she backed away.
"I'm sorry..." My voice was soft.
"You don't have to apologize, on the contrary, we should apologize for not being of more help" Luisa approached me.
"They did more than enough, they brought the candle and now it's my turn" Antonio hugged my leg.
"Mira... you're coming back, aren't you?" I crouched at his height and smiled.
"Of course I will, we still have many things to do together" Antonio hugged me and at the moment I felt how others joined the embrace.
We parted and I began to address the circle of invocation, I felt the sorrow in my heart, because although in the vision it was seen that everything would calm down once the magic passed, I would not know if my body would endure in my current state, I don't know what happened, the future can be changed and right now my future is uncertain...
I reached the invocation circle and I took a deep breath, I felt my hands tremble, I'm afraid, I don't want to have to endure this, but it's necessary, I focused and tried to activate the magic that was in my body, I soon felt the golden butterflies appear and begin to surround me, the sand around me was beginning to rise, and I could feel the warmth of magic going through my body, I looked at the candle in my hands and like all the times before I began to guide the magic to the candle, I slowly felt the magic begin to move and the candle begin to blink, the sand began to move faster making a tornado around me, when I felt the magic begin to leave my body slowly I felt my body burn, as if they were burning me from within, I fell to my knees with a cry of pain I saw how my body shone, I wanted to release the candle but my body did not respond, I could not move.
(Isabela's point of view)
I felt uneasy, as if something bad was going to happen, when Toñito asked if I would return and she replied that yes, my restlessness became stronger, I joined the family embrace and I saw Mirabel leave the circle of invocation, I wanted to run to his side Uncle Bruno by my side seems to have noticed my restlessness since he hug me and he took me away of the group.
"Isa... if things get bad, I'm counting on you." Look at uncle Bruno asking me what he meant.
The wind was beginning to be so powerful that I had to assert myself to one of the pillars of the balcony to not lose the balance, I saw how the others also tried to assert themselves.
"I can't take it anymore I have to go with her" Mom tried to move to go to the tornado.
"Mom waits I'm coming with you" Luisa also started to move.
I was going to yell for them to stop, but before I could say anything about the ground, two plants of at least three meters came out, they were two Venus flycatchers who when they saw Mom and Luisa tried to attack them, Luisa took Mama and drove her away before they could damage them. "JULIETA!" aunt Pepa ran with my mom and the others too.
"So they want to play rough" Luisa got up ready to fight, my body froze as I saw the two plants attacking my sister, quickly I made a vineyard and I took Luisa out of there.
"ARE YOU LOST YOUR MIND!" My anger made her cringe.
"Isa... we must get to Mira" Luisa tried to respond.
"Facing a carnivorous plant much bigger than you?!" Dad took me by the shoulder to calm me down, but hard little as a thunder made us look away and the former tornado was now a full-blown hurricane with lightning going through it.
"That looks worse than what you did Pepa" uncle bruno looked terrified at the image of a hurricane that filled almost half of his room and seemed to be increasing.
"Bruno... this is more than just a hurricane, it's as if we combined a cyclone with a hurricane and put magic on it." Aunt Pepa's voice sounded calm but her face was panicking, it looked paler than it would normally look.
"I don't care what it is, I won't leave Mirabel alone in the middle of a giant magical hurricane." Mom was trying to move on and the others also seemed willing to follow her I had to stop them, I looked at Uncle Bruno and he just nodded, I hope they forgive me.
(Mirabel's point of view)
I was starting to feel my weaker body as the magic left me, the pain was intense, but that's nothing compared to the huge hurricane around me, I could see the rays going through, I couldn't see the outside and I didn't know what was happening, I just wish they didn't try come, Going through this should be impossible, I can't even say Aunt Pepa has done anything like this.
In that I felt as the storm changed color to become blue and before me began to appear multiple images, I could not focus, was more than a hundred, all around me and to see carefully I could see that many of them were things that happened, I saw Luisa getting her gift, Grandpa Pedro getting married to grandma, the birth of Dolores... were many events that had happened... I don't know how long it's been but out of nowhere four huge sun sprays suddenly appeared around me and pointing in a direction, I didn't know what was going on and I was starting to get scared, I could feel they weren't Isabela's plants, my body can't move and I don't know what their intentions are.
A few minutes passed and I could see in the storm how Isabela would have passed along with Uncle Bruno.
"ISABELA?!" Isabela looked at me and then looked at the plants around me.
"Great there are more of these... I promise not to generate carnivorous plants again in my life!" She sprayed them with sunshine and attacked Isabela and she held them with her own vines.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"WHAT DO YOU THINK!" vines appeared from the ground trying to catch Isabela. Isabela generated in his hand a bamboo cane to keep the plants away from her uncle bruno looked at everything from behind, he looked stunned watching the visions and it seems that the plants did not see him as a threat since he did not try to approach, but I still watched in horror as my sister fought with her own gift, how the heck did we get to this terrifying stage and what happened to the others?!
(Isabela's point of view)
He rarely acted without thinking, but these last days it seems that it becomes more frequent to do so.
Seeing how they were so willing to fight to get to Mirabel made me realize that I don't want to lose anyone in all this, my power acted and my vines caught everyone but Uncle Bruno put them together on one of the pillars and with more vines and vines I left them trapped and tied so they could not move.
Uncle Bruno looked at me and I approached everyone who looked at me amazed at my performance.
"Isabela what does this mean?!" Grandma looked upset.
"I'm sorry... but I won't let them get hurt." I moved towards luisa and generated a flower that I had researched... I never thought I would ever occupy it.
"Isabela let us go!" Ignore the complaints and look at Luisa who still looked confused and you better keep it that way, her super strength will break the vines without problems.
"Luisa, I'm sorry, but I won't let you put yourself in danger, neither you nor anyone, I've spent too many years neglecting them, just looking perfect, it's time for me to act like the older sister you deserve" Luisa looked at me.
"Isabela let go of me, we'll get Mira out of there and save her" Negue.
"I won't let you hurt yourself again" I generated a full bouquet of aconite flowers and made her smell them before I drove them away quickly.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING ISABELA!" Mom looked astonished and furious.
"Don't worry just..." Luisa tried to talk, but at the moment she was silent and started looking at her body.
"Luisa what's going on?"
"I can't move" I slowly walked away.
"Isabela what did you do?" Luisa looked scared.
"Don't worry, I reduced the effect so it was only paralyzing, you won't be able to move for at least an hour.
"ISABELA MADRIGAL!" Mom was furious.
"I'm sorry."
Uncle Bruno came to my side and we both nodded and began to go where the carnivorous plants, I felt the screams of everyone behind me, but I decided to ignore it, the wind was starting to get stronger and I do not know if Mira is safe but no plant will prevent me from passing, my gaze filled with determination and my vines came out of the ground holding the two plants that tried to eat us, I felt as they resisted, my power is not in its best form, but I will not let that stop me.
"Uncle bruno must run" I took Uncle Bruno's hand and started running towards the giant hurricane.
"WE WON'T BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH IT'S VERY STRONG" Generate a thick bamboo cane to have something to hold on to.
"I'm not letting a hurricane stop me!" Three other venus appeared in front of me.
"They're preventing us from getting there!" "I know that!"
"NO! What I'm saying is they think we're gonna try to stop Mirabel from getting past the magic and completing the ritual!" I generated another bamboo in my hand and two vines behind me.
"I'm not going to ruin the ritual so let us pass!" The plants rushed me and I against attack with the vines quickly, I could hold two and the third was by Uncle Bruno, With all the strength I had I hit the plant with the bamboo cane I had in my hand and it worked better than I expected because now the plant was following me, generate vines to hold me and restrain the plant as best I could with the other vines.
"Uncle this won't stop them much time you have to move now!" Uncle took me by the hand and we started to go through the hurricane, the wind was powerful, I felt the drops of cold rain on my body, the rays and thunder sounded and illuminated everything, it was very scary, we used the bamboo that had of cane to not fall or fly away.
As we slowly advanced the hurricane changed its color to a blue one, it was like seeing the power of uncle bruno but different.
"Isabela... look they are visions" "I saw too many images projected before us, where I looked there was an image showing an event... ¡ were visions of the past! I was dumb and amazed, I paid attention to some and among her I could see the ceremony of gift of the triplets, the birth of Luisa, the ceremony of Mirabel, but my look saw one that left me with a bad feeling as it showed how Mirabel tried to give me a gift and I ignored it, followed by this I saw that there were many more, I embraced myself to see what a bad sister I had been.
"Isa... you're not that person anymore" uncle Bruno took my hands.
"But that doesn't change the fact that I hurt her."
"Brothers and sisters fight, they say things to each other, but that doesn't change the fact that now you're willing to give everything for her." A golden butterfly passed by a vision I had stored in my room that showed the embrace of reconciliation I had with Mirabel, the embrace that broke the wall between us.
"Let's go with her" I held Uncle Bruno's hands and we kept going without stopping, we managed to reach the eye of the hurricane and I saw how Mirabel was shining and on my knees I was relieved to see that I was still conscious.
"ISABELA?!" Mira had noticed me and looked very shocked, but immediately noticed the four sprinkled of sun that were guarding her.
"Great there are more of these... I promise not to generate carnivorous plants again in my life!" The plants attacked me and I dodged them using my vines to cover me.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Trying to get to you.
" WHAT DO YOU THINK!" I saw how vines that were not mine appeared and tried to catch me, I generated a bamboo cane since I had not know when I lost it, the vines attacked me and using my own vines I tried to control them, in that the hurricane again changed to a golden tone, the images before us also changed, Dolores was seen in a wedding dress, an adult Antonio, a Mirabel holding hands with a couple of children.
"It's the future..." bruno uncle came to my side.
"Mirabel appears... she will live" my relief was evident
"No... she is still in danger" uncle bruno was looking in another direction and as I focused my eyes I could see how after passing the magic to the candle, Mira collapsed, without a trace of life.
"THE CANDLE IS STEALING HER LIFE!" I turned to see Mirabel looking at me and looked away.
"Isabela calm down" uncle Bruno tried to approach.
"How you want me to calm down when she's dying in front of me!" I wanted to go with her, but a couple of vines attacked me, I barely dodged as one of them touched me, I could feel my brow burning, but I couldn't care less.
"Isabela you can not go, if you touch Mirabel or the candle, your gift will be absorbed and probably your life is also in danger" Look at Mirabel and then Uncle Bruno, death scares, pain scares, but...
Before me a vision of the whole family gathered and happy appeared.
"I don't care..." I smiled at Uncle Bruno.
"What are you talking about."
"I don't care... I don't mind losing my gift, I don't care what consequences I have to face"
"Isabela"
"TIO BRUNO WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT, A STUPID GIFT OR MIRABEL!" Uncle looked at Mirabel who looked weaker as time passed.
"Nothing is more important than family" I smiled.
"I don't care if I have to face twenty of you are not going to stop me from helping my sister, I will get to her if you try to destroy me" My eyes were steel and the vines stopped their movement.
"We will reach Mirabel, no matter the consequences" We both began to advance, the vines retreated and made our way, as the sun sprayed them back to earth.
We arrived at Mirabel who was looking at us with reproach.
"You two are stubborn"
"I'm not sorry at all" I knelt.
"Me neither" Uncle Bruno stood on the other side.
"Don't do it... you'll get hurt" Mirabel was still trying to stop us.
We both smiled and looked at each other nodding and at the same time we put one hand on one shoulder of Mirabel and the other on the candle that Mirabel held, at the moment I felt my body being traveled by a horrible burning that made me scream of agony, I wanted to remove my hands, but I could not my body did not respond, my own body began to shine.
"Isabella, try to focus your magic towards the candle!" Uncle Bruno just like I was shining, his eyes began to turn golden too, I tried to ignore the pain and do what Uncle Bruno asked me to do, I felt my magic and slowly tried to guide her towards the candle in my hand, as soon as my magic began to leave my body I could feel the burning becoming fire, I felt my body burning inside, but also something was different and that was that now there were not only golden butterflies, there were green butterflies, I looked at Uncle Bruno who was beginning to look exhausted, I was no less, my body was beginning to tire and I wanted to collapse.
In that before us a figure appeared, a man with a warm gaze, slowly advanced until he reached us where he knelt, remaining at our height.
"It's time for a miracle to happen" The man put his hands on the candle next to ours and a blinding glow flooded us, I closed my eyes and felt my body being thrown out of the candle falling and plunging me into darkness.
I opened my eyes slowly, the first thing I noticed was that there was no longer any hurricane, I slowly got up trying to focus when I remembered Mirabel.
"Mirabel!" I sat down and looked for her finding her about ten feet from my unconscious. I crawled quickly as I had no strength to get up until I stood beside her.
"Mira?" I looked for the candle and I saw it glowing, my gaze returned to Mirabel "Hey we made it, the candle already has the magic" I touched the mirabel face which looked peaceful I took his hand between mine which felt horribly cold, compared to mine "Mira?... Hey open your eyes" My hands started shaking when I didn't get an answer, my eyes started to get wet "Mirabel please open your eyes... you said we'd be together once magic was out of your body... you don't break promises... we still have to do a lot of things together... please... don't do this to me" My tears wouldn't stop, I wanted to cry out in frustration my chest burned with pain and I felt my heart break slowly.
I feel my body numb, but never mind... nothing will take me away from her, right now I would give my life for hers, as long as she continues to smile, to keep others happy.
"If there is anyone up there... please... give her back... give me back my sister... do a miracle..." I closed my eyes and prayed, when in that I felt something wipe my tears.
"I never knew you for being a crybaby Isa..." I opened my eyes suddenly and saw how she was smiling wearily and her hand was on my cheek. More tears came out of my eyes when with all the strength I could gather I approached Mirabel to give her a hug that conveyed all my feelings, as I cried out.
"I thought I lost you" Mirabel denied.
"I'm sorry to tell you, but you'll have me by your side for many more years" Join Mirabel more against me.
"That better be a promise."
"It is." Mirabel split up a little but her look changed to worry
"You're hurt." Look I touch my forehead.
"It's nothing... nothing that Mom's food doesn't heal" Mira looked at me with doubt and I hugged her more against me "Is it really over?" I felt Mira's laugh as I held on to her.
"It's over Isa... it's over" Mirabel hugged me with the same force.
"WE DID IT!" We parted a little to see Uncle Bruno rushing to us with tears in his eyes and hugging us.
"We made it," Mirabel said and the three of us hugged tightly as we wept with happiness, I felt so happy that nothing could really ruin this moment.
"It's time for us to let others go, they won't be happy after being tied up for so long." I opened my eyes and a chill ran down my back.
"Tied up? What the hell happened?" he sighs. We stood up with difficulty and took the candle and began to explain what had happened as we walked to the balcony.
Once we arrived they all looked furious, so much so that I doubted whether to untie them, but in the end I did, the moment they were free they ran to Mirabel and wrapped her in a giant hug, I smiled and put the candle on the table while I sat down to take a breath.
"ISABELA MADRIGAL!" I looked up and saw Aunt Pepa furious with a thunderstorm cloud. "Aunt i... It was necessary, didn't I hurt you?" I got up suddenly and started to retreat.
"YOU'D BETTER RUN BECAUSE I'M GOING TO SINGE YOU HERE AND NOW" I don't know where I came from, but I got the strength to run while Aunt Pepa chased me by throwing lightning.
(Mirabel's point of view)
I was wrapped in the arms of my family when I saw Aunt Pepa yelling at Isa and then being chased while dodging lightning. "We should stop Aunt Pepa"
"Oh don't worry about that honey, a couple of lightning strikes won't kill her and she can always be cured with my food" I looked at my mother amazed at the indifference I was showing.
"Julieta..." Uncle Bruno looked equally astonished.
"It will be a lesson for her, so that she learns not to catch people to a pillar" Look how each time it was harder for Isa to dodge the rays... I understand you want to teach him a lesson, but I don't want my sister to end up roasted, but when she almost gives her life for me. "
ISA RUNS HERE!" Isa saw me and ran to the balcony again seemed about to collapse so I stood in front of her preventing Aunt Pepa from reaching her.
"Mira step aside" is she really willing to lightning him?
"Auntie is enough, we had enough, Isa had enough, I turned around and saw Uncle Bruno holding her while Isa was still trying to control her breathing.
"Fine, but let it be clear that I will not stop next time" Tía Pepa stepped aside.
"Don't worry there won't be a next time" Tía nodded.
"Well it's almost time for dinner we have to get ready and you three have to wash up and get cleaned up a little, you look terrible." Abuela started walking towards the exit, Mama and the others gave me one last hug and one last look of warning to Isa who was still in Uncle Bruno's arms.
Once they left, the three of us fell on the floor and looked exhausted.
"I need a vacation away from all this madness and uncontrolled magic." Isa hit the ground.
"I'm going with you" Uncle Bruno also fell to the ground.
"With me we are three, really have been a few days crazy" felt the exhausted body
"Well in a magical house with magical people is to be expected crazy days" uncle bruno spoke.
"No more craziness for a while for me" Isa sat down.
"On the other hand it will be better to get going or they will come for us"
The three of us got up Uncle Bruno said he would catch up with us later so we left him, Isa separated from me since she was also going to change clothes and get a little more decent, I went into my room and I was so glad he looked normal.
I just changed my clothes and got ready, Isa was waiting for me with clean clothes and a soft smile.
"Ready?"
"Yes, i'm ready"
We both went down the stairs, house looked happy to see us, we arrived at the dining room where everyone welcomed us with smiles, I took an arepa and ate... everyone looked at me and I felt nothing... I no longer felt any pain, the tiredness continued, but the pain of my body was fading.
"It works" The second I was hugged by mom crying with happiness.
"It means you no longer have magic" Isa looked relieved, I smiled and put it in her mouth.
"Mira..." Isa looked at me with reproach.
"You have to heal the wound of your forehead" Isa touched the wound that had almost disappeared, when I arrived uncle Bruno and saw me eating his look turned in a deep relief.
"Aaah tomorrow we will surely have to give many explanations"
"Do not worry about that, I made sure that the people did not be alarmed" At the door was Mariano next to Dolores.
"We thank you"
"No problem, Mirabel I brought you my mother's stew and I'm glad to see you much better" I smiled.
"Thank you Mariano" We had dinner with calm and laughter, when I saw a yellow butterfly through the window, I stared at it until it left.
"Is something wrong?" Isa looked at me.
"It's nothing, hey you decided where you want to go?"
"No, not yet, do you want to see him tonight with me in my room?" I smiled.
"Sleepovers?" Isa laughed.
"If you want" Isa shrugged.
I felt happy, finally this nightmare was over, the family was much happier, there were still some things to fix, but while this with my family I know that there is nothing we can not do, I say they showed that they would do everything for me when I get sick, which I hope will not be repeated because of the chaos...
As the Madrigals dined a figure watched them with a warm smile, butterflies surrounded him and with this image of his family being happy vanished.
The End