Chapter 6

"You fool!" the thief's leader shouted, "You let them escape and those animals know about the girls' powers. If they fall in love, they'll become immune to my magic and we can't let that happen!"

"I tried to kill them," said the thief, "I couldn't get close enough before they tried to attack me. And, in my defense, when I left, the coyote girl was dying."

"But the other coyote healed her!" said his leader, "This Order does not settle with dying, it kills, Erthor! We must destroy those girls and quick or we will all fall to them and my plan with fall apart! If you won't do it right, I will. I will destroy those girls and take the animals with them if I have to, or my name isn't Eronor!"

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Daniella, Wendy, and Sophie laid out the focus crystals on the towel in the Loonatics' living room.

"Are we sure we want to destroy these?" asked Sophie.

"We have no choice," said Daniella, "If we just leave these lying around, Eronor will find out about everything, take them, and then quite possibly kill us all. We have to do it!"

"But we don't know the spell to do it," said Wendy, "I guess we'll have to wing it."

The Loonatics watched as the girls got ready to do their magic. The 3 sisters put their hands together above the crystals. There was a flash of light, but nothing happened. The girls tried again with the same results. Daniella waved her hand while Wendy held her hands out above the crystals with her palms facing the ground and Sophie made a cage with her hands and parted it quickly. All these motions and nothing happened.

"Uh, what exactly are you trying to do?" asked Duck.

"What's it look like?" asked Wendy, "We're trying to at least crack these things so that Eronor can't use them."

"Nothing's happening, though," said Sophie.

"He must have enchanted them when he relocated them," reasoned Daniella, "That would explain why they're purple instead of blue. How come I didn't realize that before? That would explain why they would be so well protected, he must have known that we would try to destroy them."

"OK, we'll just hide them," said Wendy, getting up from the ground.

"No," said Daniella, getting up as well, "He'd find them in no time and then we'll all be in trouble."

"Well, why don't we undo the enchantment?" asked Sophie, getting up off the floor.

"We can't," said Daniella, "We don't know what enchantment he did. And if our magic can't break through even if we have Mom and Dad's power with ours, than nothing can. It could have been any indestructibility spell that he put on these crystals. There's an undo spell that will undo anything, but we don't know how to do it. I don't even know if it's real."

"Don't they say that true love can fix any spell?" asked Wendy, "Of course, that probably couldn't help very much considering the fact that true love is so rare and all that."

"Unless…" said Sophie, realizing the sacrifice Tech had made in the cave in the fort. He would had pretty much given up his whole life for her if he had held on any longer. She turned to look at Tech. "Do you love us?"

Tech, Rev, and Duck were shocked at this question and didn't know how to respond. They were each going to say something when there was a large BANG! emerging from outside and the alarm suddenly went off.

"Warning! Warning!" a female voice sounded, "Battle engagement currently in progress!"

"Who's attacking?" asked Sophie.

"I don't know," said Tech, "But we can't just sit here and let it keep going."

The group ran to the room handling all their weapons. Ace, Lexi, Duck, and Slam all handled the counter-attack while Tech and Rev organized the system. Right before they prepared to start the attack, they realized that there was nothing on the security camera.

"What in the world?" Tech asked, "Where's the attack coming from?"

On the camera, a blast suddenly came from nowhere.

"Target the source of that blast, Tech," said Sophie, "That was magic, I just know it."

Tech calculated the odds of the place where the blast had originated and targeted the most possible place. Ace, Lexi, Duck, and Slam launched the attack and knocked out the cloaking from the attacker to reveal a…guy on a broom.

"You've got to be kidding me," said Tech.

"Don't jump to conclusions," said Daniella, "That's Eronor."

The Warlock on the camera held out his hands and formed an invisible shield around himself. He did a spell and hit them hard. A hole was left in the wall of the room. Rev and Tech tried everything to figure out a counter-attack for that, but Eronor had completely knocked out their weapon system. The Warlock cast another spell straight through the hole in the wall and hit Sophie.

"Sophie!" Tech cried, as the coyote disappeared and the spell spread to the rest of the room. They were all able to flee the room before the spell hit them and Daniella cast a spell to reinforce the door so that no magic could go through it. The Loonatics and Witches were able to reach the living room before Eronor could realize that he had only caught one of them.

"We can't just leave her!" Tech said, once he could speak again, "She's our friend and your sister!"

"But, we can't go after her," said Daniella, "All we'd be doing was risking our lives. And even if we do find her, it'll probably be too late."

"The least we can do is try," said Wendy.