After they got a few feet away from Noah's place they stopped to catch their breaths.
"Are you okay?"
Mokuba nodded.
Maura sighed and looked at the road ahead and then looked around and noted that there were a LOT of roads and probably a lot they wouldn't get to. Then an idea popped into her head. "Okay Mokuba I want you to concentrate. I want you to throw these rocks and picture them in your mind lining up on both sides of the road. Think of how you want to protect this country and even if you've never been on the road just think about every road in this country!"
Mokuba wasn't so sure this would work."Are y-you sure? I m-mean w-we were told that t-these are m-magic rocks."
"I know it's a risk. But I mean we really want this and I honestly don't think that even if we tried we could hit every road. After we finish with our friends' houses we'll try it again on every house in Draglor. Again I just don't think we can find much less do every house! What do you say? Will you try? Oh I know, let's try together. I'll hold your arm and we'll concentrate while you throw the rocks okay?"
Mokuba simply nodded. He knew she was probably right on not hitting all the roads and that this might be the only way to do it. So when she grabbed his arm he reached into the bag and grabbed a small handful. Then he closed his eyes and as Maura instructed concentrated on both the road and the country and threw the rocks. Although neither of them saw what happened the rocks soon multiplied and scattered and lined all the roads in Draglor. The kids collapsed having used a lot of power for it. After a minute or two they got up.
"Are you okay Mokuba?"
Mokuba nodded and asked , "W-what about y-you?"
Maura smiled and grabbed his hand and said, "I'm fine. Come on, let's go, we still have a few houses left to do."
'Actually I'm really weak but if I tell him he'll panic! Then when it comes time to do this again he'll either refuse altogether or try to do it himself and I don't know if he can without getting hurt; especially if he's doing it while worrying about me!'
They soon arrived at Muran's house and thinking he heard something outside his window, Muran looks out, "Mokuba?" Then he shakes his head in disbelief and opens his window to ask how and why he was there but as he opened it and looked where he had spotted his friend he saw… no one? There was nothing there. He leaned out his window and frowned, "Strange I could have sworn I saw him, must be my mind playing tricks on me. After all, why would he be here with a snow storm coming?"
Mokuba and Maura continued to put rocks around the houses of his other friends' houses. They hit the last one when Maura asked, "Is that it? Is that all of them?"
"T- Talana's house."
"Talana?"
"V-Varon's sister, m-my speech t-teacher."
"Oh, okay then after that we'll again try to put rocks around other houses we don't know or see all right?"
Mokuba nodded and went to place the rocks around the house.
Maura did the same for the barn. 'Well at least my energy has perked up a lot since we did the first spell. I hope we can do it again!'
After they finished they met up in front of the house.
"Okay, grab a few rocks and do like we did before but this time picture it around every house."
Mokuba nodded and as soon as he felt Maura hands on his arm he closed his eyes and concentrated and then threw the rocks. Once again the rocks multiplied and shot off to do as Mokuba and Maura were wishing. Afterwards the kids again collapsed.
Mokuba recovered and went to Maura still on the ground. "Are y-you okay?"
Maura turned and looked at him and smiled and said, "Yeah I feel a bit weak but I'll be okay."
"A-are you sure?"
"Yeah come on, it's a long walk to the fair. We need to do it too. Too bad we can't just teleport there, although that'd be nice."
"T-tel-tela-p-port?"
Maura looked surprised but then smiled and said, "It means to get there now. You now like when Yami opens a portal to make it faster to get somewhere? It's kind of like that only you just suddenly get there."
'Oh, Can I really do that? Well I guess there's one way to find out.' He reached out and grabbed her hand, surprising her.
Maura frowned when instead of them setting off walking to the fair as she had thought, Mokuba just closed his eyes. 'What is he do…ing. Oh no he's taking my suggestion on teleporting to heart. I didn't mean for him to do it; especially not after having done such a big spell a few minutes before!' She thought, then she looked down and noticed that they were glowing and she realized whether she liked it or not this was happening. So she closed her eyes and squeezed his hand and helped him to concentrate on getting them to the fairgrounds.
Maura looked around in awe and looked back to find Mokuba leaning against the fence. "Are you okay? You shouldn't have done that! We could have tried to walk."
"B-but the f-fair w-was so f-far a-w-way. It-'d t-taken a l-long t-time t-to g-get h-here."
Maura sighed, as wrong as it was for him to use so much magic she couldn't blame him. 'If he's this tired with just a little help from me he'd probably be on the ground if I hadn't helped.' She pushed that thought aside and looked up at the fairgrounds now seeing the sheer size of the park again this time really looking, made her realize it was much bigger than she remembered it being. "Well let's get started." Then she grabbed several big handfuls of rocks and put them in her sack. "Okay you go left I'll go right. We'll meet in the back."
Mokuba nodded and set off. Half way around Maura started to feel the effects of assisting Mokuba with all that magic seriously starting to catch up with her. "No," She told herself, 'I have to finish my half! I can't collapse knowing that Mokuba will be forced to finish the rest or maybe he won't even finish the rest. Knowing him he'll be so worried about me he won't think about the fact that the job wasn't finished. No, this was my idea to do this and I won't give up!'
Finally she made it around and placed her last rock and sighed in relief seeing Mokuba there waiting for her that she just collapsed. Mokuba panicked and ran over to her.
"M-Maura, Ma-Maura!" He desperately cried. Then not knowing what else to do his mind blanked on Krystyn, who had promised to come for them but had yet to appear. He called out to the only person he knew would help. "Zariah!"
Zariah sat up with a start and quickly placed a marker in her book. She quickly opened a portal and went to the source of the sudden call. She wasn't sure who it was that called but wasn't surprised when she realized it was Mokuba. What did surprise her was the fact she could clearly see he was using an astral projection spell. Not only that, she noticed he was calling out to a girl about his age and Zariah could clearly read the girl's magic lines and noticed that her power level was far too low to be able to do this.
She walked over and Mokuba looked up and said, "Y-you h-have t-to h-help her!"
Zariah sighed and put on a medallion that would make her invisible to everyone of low to middle range magic and allow her to touch and be touched by Mokuba and Maura. She placed her hand on the boy's head to try to calm him. "Calm down little one. It's alright. I'm here, I'll take care of it."
Mokuba sniffed and did his best to calm down as he knew Zariah would help.
Zariah instantly knew the first moment she'd laid eyes on the girl what was wrong. The girl's power had been way too weak to do this to begin with and yet someone clearly sent her out here knowing that. She could tell because she could still see the signs of power she once had; which meant that someone had been boosting the girl's power then stopped. Then suddenly from what she could determine was someone else as the power lines were slightly different gave her a substantial power increase to sustain her for a while. She was surprised the girl could sustain that much power. What surprised her more was that Mokuba was not only able to pull this type of spell off but that so far didn't seem any worse for wear. 'There is no way Mokuba learned to do this on his own, much less to be able to bring this girl and keep her power up to his level. No someone else is behind this. I don't believe either of the two types of magic I sensed from the girl are his.'
She turned to Mokuba and said, "Okay little one you are much too upset to tell me what happened. So if you'll let me, I'm going to put my hand on your head and read your memories to see how you got here, all right? It won't hurt."
Mokuba nodded; if it would help Maura he was willing to do anything!
Zariah probed the boy's memories and came across Dartz and his granddaughter as being behind this. She soon understood the reasoning that they wanted to keep the castle safe and felt the easiest way was to have the children briefly plant the magic rocks around the castle. But what upset her more than anything was Dartz's granddaughter Krystyn's lack of concern over the children's safety. Instead of explaining to the children how to get back, just give them a vague do this and wait till I remember to come get you and take you back attitude. If it had been her she'd have made sure the children were well aware of how to get back.
Seeing Zariah pull away from him he asked , "C-can y-you h-help M-Maura?"
Zariah sighed; there were two ways to help her. Give her another boost of power or Zariah knew that the absolutely best thing would be to put her soul back in her body. She feared that more power might hurt her or at the very least prevent her from waking up for several days if not longer. She knew she'd have to prove to Mokuba that she would be fine or he could remain a spirit forever and his real body would die. She looked at Mokuba and said, "I'm afraid she's used up too much power as have you. You yourself will soon be like her if we don't get you back into your bodies."
"H-How?"
"Don't worry about that. I'll help you when the time comes. Now take hold of my arm, don't worry you can touch me. See my pendant? It allows me to be able to touch you. Time to get you and your friend back into your bodies." Zariah said, reaching out and picking Maura up.
"S-sister!"
Zariah blinked, "What?"
"S-she's m-my s-sister!"
Zariah was shocked. She couldn't believe it. Mokuba had told her he had a new sister, but she never imagined that the girl would look a lot like him! 'I think I'll have to investigate this girl further, later.'
"Well then how about we get you and your sister back into your bodies?"
Mokuba gave a faint smile and nodded.
"Good now take hold of my arm and we'll go."
Mokuba wordlessly reached out and took her arm.
