We Never Break A Promise-Part 8 (The Conclusion)
By Warm Hearted
****Willow****
As Wee Lo examined Willow's new effort on the easel she said,
"Goddaughter it is amazing. It is like a window to the past, I feel like
all I would have to do is to fly in there and join my brother and
sisters in the Equinox Dance. I think that dance is what I miss the most
from the time of The Old Order. But one day I may get to dance it
again."
Willow answered, "I think I did a fair job, but I think your biased. I
think though I like acrylic pencils better than water color."
Willow examined her work again and thought, "Yes I like this medium
better and I the subject. Learning the history of the Old Order is my
favorite course here at Eagle Nests Academy. I can not believe I have
been here almost a year. It is only two weeks till my Awakening and I
will be eighteen and have control of my Magic.
While we sleep we are taught Magically all our classes leaving our awake
time to pursue things that interest us personally. I still like reading
myself and I read a lot in the vast library here. But I also like Art
and Music and I am one of the soloists the Nest's Choir. I shocked the
hell out Erin when she came to my Piano Recital because no one in our
family could play music. So I do love it here at the Nest and I will
hate leaving.
But I will stay here till I learn how to use it effectively, probably
another year. Although I will have to move to the campus where Magic is
not dampened. Here on the Pre Awakened Campus Magic only works in our
beds while we are asleep. I like how it works here. So Wild Magic is not
a problem.
Although there is some Sleep Magic mishaps. When I found out about Sleep
Magic I got worried. Because while we are Magically Sleep Learning we
still dream. When I was told that Sleep Magic was Wild Magic triggered
by our dreams and could change us. But I was a little relived learning
that the changes only lasted till we went to sleep again. This scared me
because of my reoccurring dream of being Eric again.
I have not had that dream since I have been here and I figured it was
triggered by the stress of still having to regularly confront the same
people that Eric was tortured by. But Sleep Magic is rare here in the
Nest. The only case I know of personally was, April Fisher who normally
has small breasts showing up one morning with a pair of double DD's. She
returned to normal the next morning, saying her back still hurts and she
never wanted big breasts again."
Willow's suite at the Academy was indicative of the wealth and
prominence of her family. But no one knew about her past or the
expectation that she would be an Exemplar Wizard or her history. Willow
still used the last name of Sparrow because the story of the tragedy of
the Cranes and their infant daughter was still talked about regularly.
So the other students just thought she was named after that poor infant
that the Evil Wren killed along with Willow Crane's parents.
Willow had a separate bedroom, a sitting room with a grand piano and a
floor harp, and a dressing room connected to a huge bathroom. But Willow
was not pretentious and often had other students there for dinners or
just hanging out.
Willow took most her meals in the cafeteria with her many friends. She
had a very different life than Eric did, she was respected by all the
students and faculty of the Nest.
Once a rude self involved male student referred to her as "the little
princess" resulting in him being verbally ostracized by half the student
body and months later he still can not get a date.
But Willow had no problem getting a date but she did not have a serious
relationship with any one. She found she liked tall dark men that were
respectful yet fun. She was still a virgin although she had come close
to losing her virginity a couple of times. But was able to stop after
her disappointed dates made it to second base but one almost stole
third.
Willow was saving herself for someone that she loved like Erin loves
Aaron.
After putting away her art supplies and cleaned up she went to her harp
and started playing and singing an old Irish ballad. Wee Lo said,
"Willow you sing beautifully you sound like a Fae with your bell like
soprano voice. Please sing me something else."
Willow smiled and thought it would be good time to give Wee Lo the
surprise she had been preparing. Willow found in the library a song that
Fairies sing on special occasions like their secret Equinox Dance. The
dance was only seen by a few who just happened on it to their
misfortune. Fairies can be very mischievous with their punishments.
Willow started playing her harp and as soon as Wee Lo heard the melody
she started crying. Then Willow started singing Amha'n Aos Si which was
at the top end of her high soprano range. Wee Lo just sat there
mesmerized by the song with her tiny mouth opened. Soon her wings
wrapped around her while she was sitting in a tight ball with her arms
around her knees pulled into her chest.
Sobbing Wee Lo said, "My Goddaughter you honor me so much. Willow I
could not love a daughter more than I love you and I know you love me as
much. It has been many centuries since I have heard the Aos Si and the
sound of you singing it took me to the dance again. But it was very
strange, in seeing the dance in my mind you were dancing it with me as a
fairy which I know could not ever happen."
Willow started crying too when Wee Lo hugged her face as much as she
could and kissed Willow on the forehead. Wee Lo told Willow tells of the
olden times and Willow love to hear Wee Lo telling of the life Fairies
in the time of The Old Order. Wee Lo spun her tells till it was late so
Willow went to bed thinking how she was born too late and how wonderful
a life of a fairy must have been.
Willow in her bed sleeping peaceably dreaming of Fairies in the time of
the Old Order. Then she started to glow brightly. Willow dreamed of
flying through fields of flowers and sitting on toadstools. Willow in
her utopian dream of being a free Fairy was singing the Aos Si with a
Fairy choir backing her up. Then her Godmother a little taller than her
took her hand and Willow joined the rest of the Fairies in the dance.
Willow was awoke from the dream to the sound of Wee Lo screaming for
her.
In a panicked voice Wee Lo was screaming "WILLOW WHERE ARE YOU!"
Willow opened her eyes and she was under some heavy fabric covering but
she saw some light some distance from her and started to crawl towards
it. She was surprised that how easily she could maneuver under the heavy
fabric as she made her way to the light.
Hearing Wee Lo shouting in distress Willow answered, "I hear you
Godmother and I am crawling out from some kind of tent."
Then Willow got free of the fabric and saw Wee lo standing over her on a
giant pillow.
Wee Lo in a confused voice, "Willow is that you?"
Willow answered, "It is me but how did you get so big?"
Wee Lo in a voice that conveyed pure amazement, "Willow your a Fairy!"
Willow answered thinking she was still dreaming, "I'm a Fairy?" I must
still be dreaming."
Wee Lo calmed just a little said, "Willow it must have been Sleep Magic.
But There has never been a Wizard able to transform into a fairy. The
Merlins could change into animals and other human but Fairies are not of
the Earth. So the Magic would have to be stronger than any Wizard has
ever had. Magic strong enough to change your very being.
Willow what happens to a Wizard through Sleep Magic can easily recreated
by the once they Awaken and they learn how to use their Magic. Let me
check and see if you just changed into a copy of Fairy which would make
more sense."
Wee Lo flew around Willow and looked through her Magic vision and said,
"WILLOW YOU'ER REAL DOWN TO YOUR DUST SACKS UNDER YOUR WINGS!"
Then Willow said not near as shocked as Wee Lo, This is just Sleep Magic
so I will be back to normal by tomorrow. I want to see how I look as a
Fairy but how will get to the mirror it looks like a mile away now."
Wee Lo calmed down with Willow's calm assessment. Then Wee Lo got
excited that her Goddaughter was a Fairy now, even if it was just for a
day. Wee Lo explained, "Willow you have wings now and Fairies don't have
to learn to fly we are born with the skill. So just fly to the mirror."
Willow Looked over her shoulder and watched as she flapped her wings.
Then with a smile on her face she took off and easily flew over to her
vanity mirror with Wee Lo giggling following. Standing in front of her
mirror she looked at her naked form as a Fairy. Wee Lo waved her hand
and Willow was instantly had a Fairy dress on similar to Wee Lo's.
Willow saw she looked the same but with translucent wings and she was
now just a little shorter than Wee Lo. Willow then jokingly said "Damn!
You were the only person I knew shorter than me now I am shorter than
you."
Wee Lo picking up on the humor retorted, "I always said you always
looked like a giant wingless Fairy. Now your a proper height and you
have a proper set of wings. You are a perfect and if there were any boy
Fairies around I would have a hard time keeping them off of you."
Willow laughed and said with love in her voice, "Now I do look like your
real daughter."
Wee Lo grabbed Willow in a Hug and picked her up off her feet in a big
hug and said, "You have now idea how long I wanted to give you a real
hug."
Willow with false distress answered, "Hey watch the Wings. HAHAHA."
Wee Lo let her go and said, "Lets go for a Fairy Frolic." and flew out
the window with Willow following."
They flew up very high and let the campus then dove down into the
surrounding woods.
The day was sunny Indian Summer day and there were a few flowers still
blooming and they drank nectar from Morning Glories. Then they skipped
over a pond and flew with carefree abandon. Willow knew no one at the
school would worry that she was gone since she would often spend time
hidden away in with an old book.
After hours of play the rested on soft leaves in the sun and giggled and
talked and Wee Lo committed, "Willow when the Old Order returns you can
change into a Fairy and dance with us and I will be so proud to hear you
sing for all the Fairies."
Then Willow answered seriously, "If I can change into a Fairy like you
think I will be able to do and the Old Order returns I promise that I
will on my birthdays and a we never break a promise."
After they played all day and Willow and Wee Lo sang together well
into the night Willow laid on her bed exhausted. She went to sleep and
was soon returned to her normal form while Wee Lo watched. Wee Lo
thought as Willow returned to normal, "One day Goddaughter we will do
this again and I hope it will be soon."
****Val Morgen****
Val and Nikki were sitting at a table for two at the Capital Grill
Restaurant in down town Charlotte. Val liked the place because it
reminded him of some of the restaurants he liked in New Orleans. The
establishment's name was not descriptive it's romantically intimate fine
dinning atmosphere or price. Val and Nikki often frequented it to
discuss business privately, without distractions. But Val had planned to
do more than business tonight at the dinner.
Nikki closing her presentation said, "So with our contacts when the
Cuban Cigar and Rum importation restrictions are removed. We will be
positioned to control the new market. But we must watch it because the
market will diversify quickly so to maximize our profits we need to sell
our holdings while they are still at a premium. Val, does this strategy
meet your approval."
Val answered, "Yes we will do well in this as you said till market
diversifies."
As always Nikki sought Val's permission to implement the already
completely prepared and in place plan. But what has changed is Nikki no
longer called Val "Sir" when they were alone. This thrilled Nikki to
have Val's permission to use names like darling or love as the situation
warranted. Nikki liked the liberty because her feelings for Val had
changed from being just her employer to one that was as close to love as
a creature like Nikki could have.
Nikki naturally knew Val was through with business and was ready to
order so she ask if she could freshen up before dinner arrived. Nikki
waited for Val to stand and come and hold her chair before she rose and
picked up her clutch and made her way to the restroom.
It has been almost a year since he first arrived in Charlotte with Jack
his Will-O-Wisp Familiar and met Nick Cunningham the late Dianna Hobs
personal assistant. It was very hard for Val to remember this five foot
tall, graceful, vision of beauty sitting across from him as the very
tall young man he first met.
Over the months, that Nikki was his personal assistant, she has proven
herself smart, innovative, competent, and completely loyal. Nikki was
even better in her other role as his mistress. Val thought about how
their sex and their relationship had evolved over the months.
It started out with Nikki being just his whore. But it changed quickly
as Val's respect and dependence on Nikki grew. The tension releasing sex
sessions mutated into a type of casual date sex, to what it is now,
sessions of very romantic love making. Val loved Nikki as much as a
creature like him could. So Val's Familiar who was fed by the life force
from his Witches seed was actually getting a little portly.
So when Nikki was gone, Val took out black velvet box that had a Three
carrot cannery yellow diamond set in a platinum engagement ring. Val had
use his magic to hide his intentions from Nikki because of her gift of
knowing what he wanted without being told. So Val was sure it would be a
complete surprise to her when he asked her to be Mrs. Valentine Morgen.
He saw Nikki making her way back and quickly replaced the ring in his
pocket.
When Nikki returned to the table she had a box of her own. Nikki's box
was long and made of dark oak and had the Morgen Family Cress on it. Val
rose and pulled out her chair and she seated herself then Val asked,
"What have you there?"
Nikki answered, "It is something I found for you not on Ebay hope you
like it."
Val knew that Nikki had lately started buying him gifts just as he had
for her so it was not unusual for her to get him something. But Val knew
his gift for Nikki would top what ever she bought him so he let her go
first. Val thanked her and opened the oblong box and in it he saw a
dagger with a brass handle and an Obsidian blade.
Val saw in the handle was a piece of bone with his Family Crest carved
in it. Val touched the crest and he sensed immediately what it was. It
was the blade that his venerated ancestor killed the last Merlin with.
Val was shocked speechless but when he found his voice he just asked,
"How?"
Nikki answered, "I traced it down through the contacts I developed as
you know my Darling, I have many. Once I found it's location I, well
let's say you know how persuasive I can be when I need something. I hope
you like it. I truly want to please you in every way."
Val looked at the blade and looked at Nikki and said, "Nikki gift proves
to me that what I'm about to do is all so right."
Nikki looked at Val puzzled and wide eyed as Val pulled the small box
from his pocket and said, "Nikki Cunningham will you stop being my
perfect personal assistant and be my perfect wife and the mother of my
children?"
Nikki's Familiar whispered in her ear, "See I told you, you would never
be Nick again."
But Nikki ignored her Familiar and said, "YES OH YES!"
Val sat at his desk the next day in the office he took over from the
dead Dianna Hobs. Val and Nikki thought it was best for him to run
things from Dianna's last HQ to make the transition seamless as possible
and it worked. Val was now the undisputed head of the High Coven.
But Val was not pondering Coven matters at his desk but he was looking
at the dagger the gift from his bride to be Nikki. Nikki was gone
picking out a wedding dress. She was also getting the License in SC
which was only a few miles away from Charlotte. SC had a much shorter
waiting period for marriages. They would be married by the end of the
week.
Looking at the Dagger Val felt very strong residue energy emanating from
the bone emblem in the handle. Val realized then that the bone was from
the skull of the last Merlin and added to the dagger after his death.
Then a thought hit him and he mind spoke to Jack, "Can we use shadow
magic and see some of the history of the blade?"
Jack floated down over the dagger and said, "Yes. But there is more than
just residue Magic on the dagger. There is a link to another object here
and we will see both. But it is not dangerous so I suggest we do it. I
love a good mystery."
So Val and Jack worked there joined Magic and soon they were seeing long
past events.
The pair witnessed an old Wizard placing a part of his being into an
amulet hanging in the middle of a tripod. While the Wizard finished a
sealing spell, a beautiful woman dropped a cloaking spell and appeared.
If the old Wizard was not so intent on the amulet he would have seen
through the Witches cloaking spell. But he was so involved with the
amulet she was able to get close enough to drive and Obsidian blade into
his heart. The Witch left the amulet on the tripod fearful of its power
and ran out of the room.
The Val and Jack saw in fast forward the history of the amulet as it was
handed down from Wizard to Wizard. Most of the Wizards were afraid to
try to use it but some tried and found it could steal the power from
other Wizards. But there seem to be a cruse on who ever used it and they
would soon die after the employed its power.
This curse prompted other Wizards to try to copy their own version of
the amulet and only achieved a minimum of success. The more powerful
Wizards could create an amulet that could steal other Wizards power but
that was all. Those weak replicas came to be known as Socra Amulets. But
then at the end of this very quick history they saw the Amulet used by
the Wizard Wren to kill the Cranes and steal their baby. Then they saw
Wren give a Demon the Amulet in some bargain.
Looking up from the dagger Val said, "WOW!" and Jack said, "That was
fucking amazing!"
Val then said to Jack, "So am I right in what I felt that the Demons
want The Amulet of Power because an Exemplar Wizard can close the Demon
portal trapping them and closing their portal will open the Fairy
portal?"
Jack said "Damn straight Val and if I knew where the Amulet of Power was
and where this new baby Exemplar is I would give it to her gift
wrapped. It would be well worth returning the Old Order to get rid of
the Damn Demons."
Val replied, "I know for a fact if I could deliver on closing the Demon
portal I could control the Familiar Council and with the control of the
Familiars I would control all the Witches. So I think I have our new
game plan, Find the Amulet of Power and get it to this new Exemplar.
Then make sure she survives till she can close the Demon portal. It is
very Ironic Morgan killed the Last Merlin and her ancestor will make
sure the first new one survives."
****The Realm Of Chaos****
Piwet had worked diligently for almost an Earth year if time had any
relevance in Piwet's constantly influx universe. But Piwet knew he
needed to act now. Piwet had devised a plan that would not only save him
from punishment but also make him even more wealthy. So Piwet called a
High Council Meeting to present his randomly twisted plan.
In the counsel meeting Piwet spoke, "I know my past actions are in
question but I have a diverse plan to not only return The Amulet of
Power to our safe keeping. But also prevent the Fairy Portal from ever
opening again. In addition to all this it will provide us with a much
greater supply of Familiars to feed off of."
"In their jumbled chaotic way the Council expressed doubt Piwet plan
could be real. But they had interest enough to hear more so Piwet
accommodated them and told them more leaving out any details.
"I have found two Wizards that are the closest relatives of the dead
Wizard that made the bargain with Zehgp. I have a Witch ready to tell
the two relatives that that one of them will be awarded The Amulet Of
Power. But it will take many years for our probate court to decide who
has the better claim, which is all true.
"But my Witch will make them both a bargain with the stipulation that
only the first Wizard to accept will win the other will lose by default,
which also is true. Because the winning Wizard has to kill the other to
accept the bargain.
The bargain is to kill the new Exemplar Wizard and bequest to us the
Amulet at the time of their death. So the Exemplar will die before she
learns to use her power well enough to be a threat and the curse will
dispose of the winning Wizard. After they are no more use to us . But
this alone will not solve the problem permanently so that brings us to
the rest of my plan.
I also propose that in the bargain with the Wizard we stipulate that
they must use The Amulet to kill all the Arch Mages. So greatly reducing
the chances for a birth of another Exemplar. Finally I will convince the
Familiars kill to all the Fairies thereby removing any reason to reopen
the portal.
Then I will arrange a bargain with the Familiars to send us all
Familiars when they return after the death of their Witch that they
serve. I will include in the bargain with the Familiar High Council that
they rule that not serving a Witch and is a capital crime. But they will
serve a Witch only after they have Four offspring.
The Familiar Council will also make it a capital crime if the Familiars
fail to reproduce Four offspring after they go through six breeding
cycles. As the this ever changing body knows I get all capital
offenders. But this new bargain will be a tremendous new source of
Familiars. I will give Our High Council twenty percent of the
additional Familiars. So this is my plan and I am prepared to put it in
place upon your approval.
There were sounds like Godzilla in a junkyard emitting from those
present and it eventually shrank to the normal ever present back sounds.
Piwet gathered that they had two main challenges to his plan. So he
answered them with confidence but with no substance.
"I understand your assumptions that I have flaws in my plan let me
clarify the ways I have fixed these apparent flaws. To the assumption
that, "The Familiars would never destroy their food source.". the answer
is simple, we just give them the recipe for what we feed our Familiar
live stock. I know they think it is barely edible but they will find it
better than starving.
To the second assumed flaw " Why would they do anything for me so
drastic. Yes they will see this bargain will turn them into our breeding
stock. So they would normally refuse any such bargain. But I plan to
offer the Familiar High Council immunity for them and their offspring
from the requirements of the bargain. I assure you they will be happy to
take the deal when I put certain incentives in play. But at this time
sharing what these incentives will be would prove counter productive.
But I assure you they will motivate the proper response and you will
know very soon after what the incentives are and I am sure they will
meet your approval."
The High Counsel approved Piwet plan and Piwet went to his stock yard.
There Piwet viewed hundreds of Familiars all fearfully waiting their
inevitable fate. They all knew they soon would be spending the rest of
the rest of their long life in agony and torture.
For sometime Piwet had been holding back his supply of Familiars to
cause the price to inflate like some oil merchant on Earth. But his
plans had changed for his stock. Familiars have a genetic defect that
can cause Familiars in less than 1/100 of one percent to mutate into
Fairy and Familiar killing machines called Drows.
Drows normally live about three days but can be killed only by a joint
attack of many Familiars or Fairies. But while they live they look like
a drug addicts nightmare and can kill hundreds of Familiars or Fairies.
Their horrible appearance is like a giant scorpion with dragonfly wings
with razor spikes on their thorax.
Piwet's grand plan was to change all his stock into Drows that are under
his control and release them into the land of the Familiars and Fairies.
Piwet was going to extend the length of their live for as long as he
needed them as Drows.
Then he would change them back to his Familiar livestock. But after they
run rampant for a while the Familiars would be willing take his bargain
no matter how repugnant it is. They will have no choice if they wanted
to live.
After the Familiar High Council took the bargain he will send his Drows
with the Familiars to destroy the Fairies. While this is going on, his
plan to destroy the Exemplar Wizard and the Arch Mages would be
implemented. With all confidence of success, he began to transformation
of his Familiar stock into Drows and sending them through the portal.
****Roth Herring****
Roth Herring looked at the screen of his laptop as he worked on a new
story for his blog. Roth's article was one of those poorly written
excrements of hate that declared the author's personal feelings as
documented facts. The only thing unique about the shaved head, covered
in amateurish prison tattoos, and very dimwitted hate mongering Roth
was he was a Wizard.
Roth was very weak Wizard but he was the president of the Vale, NC
Chapter of The High Aryan Tradition Enforcers or HATE for short. It took
all of Roth's weak Magic to make his body imposing enough to convince
weak minded individuals into following his idiotic doctrines.
Roth has spent most of his 32 years in prison and had a reputation for
being insanely dangerous. Roth's few friends and followers would joke,
that you could not dig a hole in South Mountain State Park and not find
a body he buried. Frequently Roth would go into rants blaming his time
in prison on imaginary conspirators that have a vendetta against him
because he knew the truth.
He truly thought the Wizards High Council (Which he called the
Illuminati to his Mortal followers) and the liberal non-white people who
controlled the government were working together to silence him. Roth's
narcissistic world view never took into account that his main source of
income was selling illegal guns and cooking meth. So his actions did not
figure in his sociopathic logic on why he went to prison.
Roth was also like so many other self-involved, dull witted, and
prestige hungry people, he would often use violence to get what he
wanted. He had a tear tattooed in the corner of one eye and it was not
there for show. He had connections with many other criminal white
supremacy groups located all over the county, most of which owed him big
favors.
So he was very suspicious when he saw on his security cameras, a man
dressed in an expensive suit walking up to his door. Roth pulled out
his 14 inch long double barreled shot gun from its place under his desk
top and went to the door.
Holding the gun hidden against the wall in his right had he opened the
door with his left and confronted the man as he walked up the steps of
his old single wide mobile home.
Threateningly Roth said, "What the fuck are you here for?"
The man answered calmly, "I'm Keith Collingswood and I am with Shay,
Kline, And Collingswood Legal Firm and I am here to discuss a possible
inheritance with you."
Roth deluded as always thought it was a ruse by the FBI, Federal
Marshals, or the NSA so he said, "What asshole would die and leave me
anything?"
Collingswood answered " One Lea Wren a second cousin of yours I
believe."
Roth interested now said, "Yeah she was my cousin but she died a long
time ago so why you just coming around now?"
Collingswood answered, "It is a involved story and the inheritance comes
with some conditions. But if you allow me in I will explain."
Collingswood being briefed on Mr. Fisher's paranoia fabricated a lie to
expedite this unpleasant meeting along. Collingswood faking apprehension
looking across road at the woods. Collingswood lied, "Driving in I
noticed what seems to be a utility van across the road in the woods. It
was strange because there were two people in the front seat watching
this trailer with strange looking binoculars."
Roth hiding it from Collingswood sight slid the shot gun into the back
of his pants covering it with his lose shirt. Then motioned Collingswood
in the trailer quickly.
Upon entering Collingswood wished he concluded his business outside.
The smell was horrible there piles of dog shit all over the floor from
Roth's Pit Bull. Some of which had turned white with age. Every piece
of the old filthy furniture had either old pizza boxes or dirty plates
on it with Brown German Roaches on every wall. To complete this decor of
filth there was a constant swarm of flies.
Roth jokingly excused the condition of his domicile by saying, "It's the
maids day off."
Collingswood did not commit on the filth but it took a herculean effort
in not vomiting. But he did go professionally into the reason he was
there and said, "Mr. Fisher there was a certain amulet that your
deceased cousin put up as advance payment for services that became
impossible to be carried out. So said amulet was turned over to the
probate court of the contractors country. But there is some problems and
it might take years for the amulet to be released. The first problem is
you and another cousin have equal claim to the amulet. So till event of
one your deaths the amulet will be held in probate.
The other problem is after one of your deaths it still would take a
large amount of money to pay the legal fees and investigation costs to
prove true ownership. But before you worry over all those problems I may
have a solution.
I have a client who is willing at the time of the death of one of the
heirs to pay all expenses and expedite a very quick release of the
amulet to the survivor. If that survivor will contract to use the
amulet to remove a troublesome Wizard quickly of certain others. Then
sign a will bequeathing the amulet to my client. My firm will arrange
the needed resources and information needed for the survivor to carry
out these tasks. This offer is being made to both of Ms. Wrens
survivors.
Mr. Fisher I am ready to give you now all the information you my need to
contact the other survivor if you are willing to sign a contract that
states, the last survivor will carry out the contracted tasks
immediately upon receiving the amulet. Mr. Fisher I need your answer
now. So is it yes or no?"
Roth thinking a second said, "Ok so you know about Wizards and I'm
guessing that your a Witch and your client is a Demon. I know you will
not tell me if I am right but I know I am. So the deal is if I off some
cousin I don't know, since Lea was the only one I knew. Then use Lea's
amulet, that I heard about from my mom, to kill some Wizards that is
causing the Demon some shit. I get to keep the amulet for free?"
Collingswood said "that is correct any other questions because I need
your answer?"
Roth then said, "But this Will shit I am not good with. After I do what
you need me to do, why won't this Demon just off me?"
Collingswood replied, "My client had me put a stipulation in the Will
stating that he will not or have anyone else harm you. He knew that
could have prevented the heirs from agreeing. So he added that clause."
Roth smiling said, That amulet has some real juice and it is not like I
have not took a contract before. So fuck yeah I'll do it, show me where
to sign and give me the intel on my target."
With is business completed with Fisher Collingswood knew his partner
Shay was doing the same with the other cousin. Collingwood drove quickly
to his Embassy Suite Hotel to strip, shower, and probably burn the
clothes he had on while in Fishers home.
Roth opened the information packet on his target and read she was Debbie
Hawk and she was living with a Devon Johnson in St. Louis, MO. After
reading what he needed Roth picked up a burner phone and called a friend
in St. Louis. When his friend answered Roth said, "How the are you Bo
are you ready to return that little favor I did you? Great, I will send
you what you need to know the usual way. I need it done in the next
three days and bro I think you will enjoy this one it is chocolate
coving vanilla."
Hanging up the phone he thought, "Hell Bo will love taking out a fucking
race traitor so he will probably get it done in one day."
****The Realm Of Chaos****
Piwet looking at his herd of stock and moved over them and they
continued to change. Soon they were 723 Drow perfect killing machines.
But these were completely controlled by him and he could control them
from home through the Demon portal. So he would not even have to go into
the Familiar and Fairy Realm. Piwet changed them in one other way also.
Normal Drows had a very short life of just three days. But his Drows
life came from his Magic and they would live as long as he needed them
to.
Piwet then opened the portal and let them lose on unsuspecting Familiars
and Fairies. They would kill and eat many at first but once filled they
would still kill anything near them.
But Piwet had other plans for the Drows. Piwet plan of bring them back
his Realm to replenish his stock when their job was done . He would soon
be richer than ever. Piwet will soon send a Familiar minion to stike his
deal with the Familiar High Counsel. Piwet thought, "Soon they will be
ready to do anything just to survive.
****Debbie Hawk****
Mr. Stacy looked very nervous as he walked through the rough project
back to his car after Ms. Hark signed the contract. He was more than
happy to drive away past and drug dealers and homeless that inhabited
the depressed neighborhood.
Back in Debbie's apartment Devon her boyfriend came out of the bed room
where he was hiding listening to Stacy's proposal to Debbie. Devon was a
small time Shot Caller for a third rate street gang that ran the complex
that Debbie lived in. Debbie was a Wizard but so weak she could not hope
for any better than Devon.
Devon said, "Damn I thought he was Five-O at first but he was just a
suit with a deal. Debbie was he saying that you got some family that
died and left you some amulet but you got to bust a cap in someone to
get it?"
Debbie answered, "That is right baby. He talking about an amulet that
will give me a lot more juice and it has enough to help me make you
over this town."
Devon recapped, "So this necklace is the shit and it will boost your
Voodoo so I can be the main man in the city. Let me see who we have to
off."
Devon took the packet of intel on Roth Fisher and read it carefully
saying when he finished, "Ok, we will need take out this cracker skin
head mathafucca. It may take a little bit. But this if this necklace is
as bad ass as you say I will do it."
Debbie answered, Yeah it is some bad shit. I can steal power from some
strong ass Wizards and then I can take out anybody that stands in our
way with no one knowing we did it."
Devon said, "Fuck that some bad shit. Ok it will take a few days to get
some heavy fire power. Because these country skin head fuckers will have
all kinds of preper shit. then you, Me, Big H, Crazy mike, and Bang-Bang
will go down to NC and take care of some business."
Three days later with their new guns in the trunk of Devon's pimped
white out 1969 Eldorado, Debbie, Devon, and his crew pulled of the curb
heading for NC. But they did not notice the white man wearing a hoodie
walking to end of the block. The white man peeping around the corner at
the end of the street hit the send button on his cell phone.
When the smoke cleared there was not much left of the window glass of
the apartments facing the street but there was more glass left than
there was of occupants of the pimped out white 1969 Eldorado.
**** Val Morgen ****
Val Morgen was in his office with the new Mrs. Morgen at his side as
always. They were in a video conference with all the highest Ranked
Witches in the world. Val had just finished explaining how the return of
the Old Order was inevitable and how his plan to utilize synergy of
present holdings to protect what holdings they could.
There was a few objections to just giving up but after some heated
debate all was convinced Val's plan was the best course of action at the
moment. So Val outlined his future plans to approach the Wizards High
council with his proposed treaty.
But then there was a wavy burst of energy and Ignis Jack's brother Will-
O-Whip appeared in the office and he quickly melded with Jack and then
he left as quickly. Will-O-Wisps can come to Earth for short periods
with out a Witch host due to their spiritual nature.
Val with other Witches watching intently over the conference video
looked with deep curiosity wondering what just happened. They did not
have to wait long because Jack faced the camera and spoke in an audible
shaken voice and proclaimed the new his brother had delivered.
"My brother Ignis has just brought me news from the Realm of the
Familiars that is apocalyptic both to Familiars and Witches. It is my
sad duty to tell you all Witch and Familiar alike the Demons are now in
control of the Familiar High Council. Now as the Demon's puppets The
Familiar High Council has enacted several new laws.
The first is that all familiars are only allowed one trip to Earth as a
Witches Familiar. On their returned at their Witches death, they will be
given to the Demons. Secondly, All Fairies will be destroyed and
Familiars will only have some tasteless gruel that the Demons provided
the recipe for.
Thirdly, All Familiars will be forced to breed as soon as they are
mature enough. They have a short time limit to reproduce four offspring.
Once they meet their quota, they will be arbitrarily assigned by the
High Council to a Witch without any consideration to talents or
abilities.
The reason the High Council gave over control to the Demons is because
right now there is a plague of Drows that are killing many Familiars.
These Drows are not natural because they do not die in a day or two and
there are hundreds of them.
My brother believes they were created by the Demons and controlled by
them, because when the High Council submitted to the Demons' demands,
the Drows started helping in removing any opposition to the new laws.
As you can imagine there are many Familiars rebelling against the new
laws. My other brother Hinky Punk was killed in the rebellion. The
remaining rebels have formed an amazing alliance with the Fairies. These
dastardly circumstances have caused conditions so horrible that Fairies
and Familiars are fighting them together.
The screens of the video conference erupted with everyone expressing
their concerns on how these new laws would just make the Witches pawns
of the Demons. Val was finally able to still the clamor and say, "You're
all right we need to take action as soon as we can to help the Rebels
and we must do anything in our power to thwart the Demons plans to take
over. But to act in haste could be worst than not acting at all. So we
need to gather more information and see if we can formulate a plan.
But the best thing you all can do now is rally every Witch powerful
enough to cross the portal and prepare them to fight for our lives.
Because that is what this will be, don't be deluded that, this fight
will not be bloody. But the stakes are very high, I have no doubt if we
lose this war we will be the last Witches. The Demons are selfish and no
mater how the new Familiar law reads now, as soon as they win the Demons
will soon change it. I truly believe the Familiars here on earth now are
the last that ever will be allowed to come here if the Demons win.
All the ruling Witches were in complete agreement and quickly ended
their feeds to get busy preparing for a joint life or death struggle.
Once the last screen went blue, Val and Nikki went to work calling
Witches that were Val's subordinates. The one that were powerful enough
to cross the portal with enough power left to fight once they arrived.
Nikki was interrupted by a minion who she gave a look that should have
turned the minion to stone. But she softened after the minion whispered
in her ear the reason of the disturbance. Nikki nodding her head the
minion finished and quickly left the room.
Val looked at Nikki with a curious look on his face and Nikki said,
"There is a Mr. Collingswood here requesting a private meeting with you
immediately. The reason he is not beaten and bleeding in some ally right
now for his impertinence is he says he represents the Demons and the
High Familiar Council. Shall I have him shown in?"
Val face darkened and just nodded. Then Nikki went out and returned with
Mr. Collingwood. Then Collingwood with the attitude and demure of some
aristocrat talking to the kitchen help explaining why he was there,
"Morgen so not to waste time I have a letter for you for you to read
from my employers."
Collingswood handed Val a envelope with The High Council's unbroken seal
on it. Val opened the letter and quickly read it. The letter informed
Val of just a small portion of what he already knew. But the kicker was
a thinly veiled threat. They said that Jack would be taken from him and
he wouldn't ever have any other Familiar if he did not do all that
Collingswood told him.
Collingswood said, "Morgen are you going to agree and to the terms and
do all that I say?"
Val thought a second and said, "It looks like I don't have any choice.
What do you need me to do Collingswood?"
Collingswood in a firm venomous tone corrected, "Mister Collingswood,
Morgen! Now let me explain what you need to do in simple terms so you
will understand it. I will send to you a Wizard, who will be in
possession of a certain amulet.
Your job will be to use all your resources to help this Wizard
accomplish their mission. There is a contest currently going on so I am
not sure of the identity of the winning Wizard. But they will have this
special amulet so that is all the proof you need."
Val smiled at Collingswood and said, "I agree to help the Wizard with
the amulet complete their mission. If I am successful may I have one of
your cards so I can contact you?"
Collingswood handed Val a card while saying, "If your not successful I
doubt if you will be able to contact me. But I doubt that you have
comprehended that considering your intelligence level "
Val took the card and thought, as Collingswood quickly left, "Yes if I
am successful I will contact you personally."
****Willow****
Willow prepared for her Awakening which would happen in a few minutes.
Willow thought this day would be very different but the war going on in
the Realm of The Fairies changed everything.
There would be no parties and all her family is in a life or death
struggle in the Realm of the Fairies. Even her ever present Godmother
Wee Lo was gone to fight. Only Erin remained behind to protect her. Even
the academy was closed due to all the students needing to return to
their families and most of the instructors went to fight in the war.
So parties and birthday cakes seemed disrespectful to Willow considering
the dire events unfolding. Even her Grandparents were in the war as all
of the Wizards strong enough to be any good in a fight. Besides Erin the
only Arch Mage left on Earth was Aaron who was on a secret mission for
the High Council Of Wizards.
So Willow was impatient for the eight minutes to pass so she would
Awaken to her magic so she could help. Willow thought, "I am going to be
Super Wizard but until I Awaken I am useless, no worse than useless
cause Erin is having to stay here to protect me. I know they say it will
take years for me to learn to use my Magic to its full extant. But I
have beatened the curve on everything I just know in six minutes I will
beat the curve again and be powerful enough to save my family. I have to
because I will not live alone again."
The time of Willow's Awakening finally happened and Willow felt her
Magic come alive in her. It was like when your leg falls to sleep and
the feeling comes back into it. But it was a new member of Willow's body
she never had felt before. Soon it was fully awake and Willow felt it
move in her body.
The outward signs of Willow's Awakening were very anti-climatic. There
were no light shows or explosions just a small blue flame over the top
of her head that faded quickly.
Willow said to Erin, "Is that it?"
Erin answered with a smile on her face, "Yes that is it your now a full
Wizard."
Willow immediately walked to the training field only large space where
Magic was nor dampened on the academy campus. Willow squared off facing
a huge concrete block and she concentrated on her new ability to feel
her magic. She then pushed her Magic out her hands and said, "MOVE!".
To Willow surprise the block just sat there and Willow moved to a
smaller block and tried again and still nothing. Willow franticly moved
down the line to smaller and smaller objects till she got to a big foam
rubber ball and she successfully rolled it four feet.
Erin shouted "Great Willow that took me 3 weeks to do. If you keep up
your practicing you will be moving that big block in less than a year."
Willow screamed, "LESS THAN A YEAR THE WAR WILL BE OVER AND EVERYBODY
WILL BE DEAD!"
Erin said trying to comfort Willow but doubting the words as she said
them, "Willow you don't know that we might win."
Willow said crying with frustration, "Erin please don't lie to me I
heard how bad it is and I know if I don't get in the fight soon we don't
have a chance. Once when I was Eric I almost killed myself because I was
so alone. Then you found me and I learned what it was to have people who
loved me.
I will not be alone again and I will end myself if I lose all those that
love me .....I PROMISE!"
Erin in shock and terror said, "WILLOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU JUST
PROMISED?"
Willow flatly answered, "Yes Erin completely."
Willow just turned around and started practicing her Magic again.
****Roth Fisher****
Roth saw an UPS truck pull in his drive and he watched as the driver
left a package at his door. Roth put on blast protection armor under a
hasmat suit and took long tongs and opened his door and brought the
package in. Roth the put the package in a glove box and opened it and
found the Amulet of Power along with a letter.
After reading the letter he picked up his phone and called the number
and a woman answered, "Hello this is Nikki Morgen".
After explaining who he was the woman set up an appointment for him to
talk to Val in six hours. Roth hung up and took out his "court suit",
380 hand gun, and his boot knife and got ready for the meeting. Then
giving himself time enough for Charlotte traffic he left in his old
rusted Doge Ram truck with the hand painted Confederate Flag on the hood
to meet Val.
On arriving at Val's house 25 minutes late he was escorted in to Val's
office with Val and Nikki waiting on him. Roth looked at Nikki lustfully
then with distain Roth looked at the smaller darker man. Roth then with
a smirk looking at Val asked, "You a Mexican?"
Val in a very courteous way answered, "No my father was English and my
mother was Italian."
Roth then smiled, "Italians are good even Hitler had Mussolini as an
ally, I just don't like working with Wet Backs, Niggers, or Jews."
Val offering a chair then in a jovial understanding way said, "I
completely understand now please mister Fisher have a seat."
Roth went to the expensive looking chair and sat down making sure his
boot knife stayed covered.
Then Val said, "I have a lot to cover concerning the Amulet so you might
find that chair uncomfortable. So Nikki will you make our friend here
comfortable?"
Roth watched cautiously as Nikki picked up a pillow from the sofa and
walked to behind Roth. But Roth really like this sexy blonde getting him
a pillow for his back and leaned forward so she could put it behind him.
So with Roth looking down Nikki pulled a Rugger LR22 cal. target pistol
loaded with hot load hollow points and equipped with a silencer. Nikki
then calmly double tapped him in the back of the head.
The 22 hollow points had enough force to penetrate the back of his skull
but not enough to exit. They just flattened out and bounced around in
his skull making his brains soup. The two shots instantly killed him
leaving only to small entry holes and very little blood.
It always pays to be neat.
****Val Morgen****
Aaron was waiting in Val Morgen board room for about 20 minutes when Val
and his wife Nikki entered the room carrying the Amulet of Power. Val
had told Aaron the full story over the phone when he set up the meeting
with the Wizard. Val knew Aaron was still in Charlotte so it made it
easy getting him to the Mansion before Roth.
Val walked in and gave the Amulet to Aaron and said, "I have my
helicopter ready and waiting for you on the pad outside the rear door. I
suggest you hurry minutes count right now."
Aaron couldn't believe how accommodating the Head of the High Coven was
being so he had to ask, "Why are you doing all this? You seem to be
working very hard to bring back the Old Order."
Val just smiled and said " The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Now you
better get going we both have a lot to do."
Aaron actually shook Val's hand which made Val feel that he was making
the right decision. Then Aaron left to get the Amulet to Willow leaving
Val and Nikki alone.
Val said to Nikki, "Nikki I want you while I am gone to see if you can
help the acting head of the Wizards Council to hammer out the treaty
with us that will work, if we win. I don't know this low ranking Wizard
but more than likely he is some brainless middle management type. All
the powerful Wizards are already fighting in the war."
Nikki responded, You know I am more powerful than I am rated I can make
it to the other side and still have enough juice left to fight at your
side where I should always be."
Val turned to Nikki and softly said, "No I want you here keeping things
going and keeping our baby safe."
Nikki shocked said, "How did you already know I'm pregnant?"
Val hugged and picked up Nikki and said, "Don't be mad at Jack but he
told me the moment it happened on our wedding night when you untied your
tubes and ovulated."
Val then kissed Nikki deeply and said, "I need to go, our army is
waiting for me to go through the portal. I will do all I can to make
sure our child has a future and I will be back as soon as I can. I love
you my former male, ex-personal assistant, beautiful wife, and mother to
be."
Nikki started crying and said, "Val please be safe and I love you too,
My Husband and father of my child."
With one more kiss, Val pulled away from Nikki and left.
****Willow***
Willow worked on her Magic till 2am with Erin pleading with her to get
some rest. But Willow ignored her till she was so tried she could not
think. Willow then went to her bed and just collapsed. She woke from a
dreamless sleep at 6am and went back to the training field.
Willow had some success she was up to moving a five pound block of wood.
If things was normal this would be a huge advance for a new Wizard in
such a short time. But it made Willow furious and made her push herself
even harder. Willow was pushing so hard Erin was deeply worried that
Willow would hurt herself.
Erin said, "Willow if you push too hard you could cause yourself injury
and it will take time for you to heal before you can practice more."
Willow hearing Erin just pushed herself harder, knowing that Wee Lo and
all she cared about except Erin were locked in a life or death struggle
that she knew that she could stop when she had control of her Magic.
Willow was so intent on her on her Magic she did not see Aaron's
arrival.
Aaron went to Erin and told her the story of the Amulet and how he had
come by it and Erin said, "So Wren killed that Wizard not to make a
Sorca Amulet but steal this Amulet of power."
Aaron said, "Yes we had the story wrong but it makes more sense that
Wren using this Amulet on Willow gave her enough Magic to become an
Exemplar."
Erin agreed and told how Willow was working so hard that she was worried
for her. Erin pointed out, "Willow is so intent on learning to use her
Magic so she can help she has not noticed you are here."
At hearing this Aaron walked in front of Willow and Shouted, "Willow!"
Willow Stop and looked and saw Aaron and said, "Aaron why are you here,
is the war over?"
Crashing Willow's hope Aaron answered, "No, Willow the war is raging and
not going well and I will be going there once I give you this."
Aaron held up the Amulet and Willow recognized it and screamed, "Why did
you bring that abomination to me. That evil thing killed my parents and
made most of my life a living hell!"
Aaron explained the true story of the Amulet of Power how the knowledge
of the last Merlin was locked in it, including how to close the Demon
portal and opening the Fairy portal for all time.
Willow looked at it differently and was about to take it from Aaron's
out stretched hand. But then she pulled back in disgust and said, "No,
it is responsible for so much pain in my life. I can't bring myself to
touch it."
Aaron gave the Amulet to Erin and said, "See if you can change her mind
but I need to go."
Aaron then tenderly kissed Erin and said, "I hope you can get her to use
the Amulet soon. It is not going well for us and I need to go and do
what I can. I love you and I have a question for you when this is over."
Erin answered "I love you too and please don't be a hero. I will be
there soon I hope."
With that Aaron popped through the portal.
Willow watching all this and looked at the Amulet and felt shamed that
she was letting her personal feelings get in the way of helping and
said, Give me the Damn thing.
Erin handed Willow the Amulet and Willow took it by its heavy gold
chain.
Willow holding it up she looked at the amulet and seeing it looked like
a crystal that was filled with swirling colors and sparkles. She
hesitated for a second but then placed it around her neck.
There was a burst of light from the Amulet and it surrounded Willow.
Willow then felt herself traveling without moving and she saw the world
turn into swirling colors and lights and then it just fade into a plain
flat desert landscape with only an old man standing facing her to break
the sameness.
Erin saw Willow put on the Amulet and watched speechless as a sphere of
color consumed Willow. Erin worried tried to touch it, but only was
pushed back. Erin's Magic had no effect on the sphere so she could only
helplessly stand there and hope her niece was not harmed imprisoned in
the sphere of changing swirling color.
****The Realm Of The Amulet****
Willow seeing the very old man in front of her asked, "Where am I?"
The old man answered, "Where you need to be."
Then Willow agitated by his cryptic answer asked, "Well who are you
then?"
Then the old man answered, "Your Master that is tried of his Novice's
foolish questions."
Willow then asked, "My Master?"
The Master answered, "Yes and I have the almost impossible task of
training such a disrespectful Novice to be an full Exemplar to fulfill
the prophecy to free the Fae folk."
Willow then understood this was the Last Merlin and he was going to
train her to do what she so desperately wanted. Then she submissively
said, "Master please teach me."
Then the Master said, "Much better my Novice so lets get started it will
take sometime for you learn what you need to know."
Master and Novice went to work and they worked and worked and worked.
Willow was amazed how she never got tried or needed sleep. She thought
she must have worked non-stop for three weeks and she was not tired,
hungry, or even needed a bathroom break. But she also noticed that
everything in this realm never changed. It was always day and the same
nothing ever broke the sameness.
Willow learn to do many things and she lost all sense of time but she
knew she must have been with the Master for months. She worried a lot
about all her family if the war was over. But she did not dwell on it
because she knew she needed to complete her training to help those that
were left.
After Willow raised a mountain and blew it to rubble for the fiftieth
time the Master said, "Novice you finally have that now lets work on
transformations. Witches have the ability to completely change their
form completely although Wizard's strengths are in other areas. So most
Wizards can only make slight changes to their form. But as an Exemplar
you will have need to change into other beings so we will work on this."
What must have been weeks later Willow could change into anyone. She
even transformed into her old Eric form briefly. The Eric form made
Willow very uncomfortable. But she did change into Erin and Aaron a lot.
The Master then said, "You seem to be proficient at transforming into
humans now. But Exemplar's can't fly no better than any other Wizard. So
it will help you to be able to fly. Not just to get some where quickly
but to give you an higher vantage point. Because just as any other
Wizard your magic is limited to what you can see. So pick a winged
creature and work on transforming into this being."
Willow thought of the time the Wild Magic that turned her into a Fairy
and how she loved flying with Wee Lo and being with her as a Fairy.
Willow remembered what it felt like and how the world looked to her.
Then she focused her Magic on being a Fairy again.
Willow quickly shrank and became a Fairy again and she opened her eyes
and flew up to face her Master. The Master sounded surprised when he
said, "Novice you have a great talent and I am pleased. But you choose a
Fairy which I have never witnessed any other Exemplar with the ability
to do become one. But why did you choose one so difficult?"
Willow explained that her Godmother was a Fairy and how her Wild Magic
had turned her into one once. The Master smiled and nodded and then set
Willow to start working on other skills. Willow was about to change back
and get started and her Master stopped her and said, "No Novice you will
continue this part of your training in your chosen form so you will be
able to use your Wizard's Magic while you are in this form."
So Willow stayed a Fairy and went back to work.
****Realm Of the Fairys****
The Fae, the Rebel Familiars, and Wizards Alliance was losing the war.
The Alliance greatly out matched the Familiar Council forces but the
Drows gave the Council's forces overwhelming superiority. So the
Alliance after great losses were pushed back to their strong hold on
Rainbow Mountain. On the peak of the mountain the Alliance was making a
last stand.
The Rebels had lost half their number in battle more than the Fairies or
the Wizards but their causality numbers were high also. The tactics of
the Familiar Council was devastating, the Drows would spearhead the
engagements. Some Drows would Fly in and clear the skies of attacking
Fairies while other Drows would kill everything that stood in their way
on the ground. The Familiar Council forces would then just follow doing
any clean up needed.
The Alliance was on the top of their Mountain fighting off a new
offensive when a Drow force broke through one side of the Alliance line
and was starting to flank the Alliance weaker Left side.
Ged and Fiona were on a high vantage point bravely making themselves
targets so they could cast fire balls effectively at the advancing
Drows. Wee Lo was doing a great job leading the Fairy swarm in keeping
the Drows in the air at bay. While Aaron was casting energy bolts while
barking orders to the troops.
But with all this effort the Alliance was loosing ground. Then there was
a clap of thunder signaling a huge opening in the portal and over 700
Witches and Familiars came through.
Aaron was not sure if they were friend or foe till Val ran to him and
asked, "Where do you need us?"
Aaron said, "The left flank, they're braking through there."
So Val forces took the left flank throwing lighting bolts at and casting
death spells on Drows. The Familiars with Witches were more powerful
than Familiars alone so the Witches' Familiars did not fight themselves
they just supplied their Witches with power. Soon the Familiar Council's
forces were pushed back.
The Alliance forces started cheering and Aaron went over to Val and
Shook his hand again. But Wee Lo landed and cut short the celebration by
saying, "My scouts just reported that a very large body of Drows are
approaching from the East and will be here in three hours."
The mood went somber and just then a lone Drow flew in and stung Ged and
Fiona with its scorpion tail before it was killed. In Shock Aaron looked
at Ged and Fiona's bodies being carried down and laid at the command
post.
****Willow****
Willow back in her normal form was mutating sand into water then to
mercury then to steel. Then The Master came to her and said, "Novice, no
I should call you Willow now because your training is complete and you
are an Exemplar. Willow you are an Exemplar more powerful than I, and
Willow you will be formidable force I am sure your future will be great.
But you have one more task.
To release the Fae from their prison you must first release us from
ours. You have to destroy this Realm Of The Amulet. I have waited for
this for longer than you could imagine, so destroy this realm and set
yourself and me free. So you can go change the world and I can finally
find peace."
Willow looked at the Mater and understood that he imprisoned himself in
this world of sameness till an Exemplar would come to fulfill the
Prophesy. Now was that time but how would she destroy this world?
Willow shut her eyes and felt the energy of the Realm Of The Amulet and
she saw what it would take to cancel it. She thought, "This will not be
hard all I will have to do is reverse the energy flow to nullify it."
Willow then opened her eyes and said to her former Master, "Thank you
for suffering so long for me to come and I PROMISE that I will always
try to make you proud of your Novice. I hope you will find peace at
last, you truly deserve it."
Willow's former Master said," I will find peace and you have already
made me proud by your promise, because we never break a promise. Good
Bye Willow Fair ye Well."
Willow then called her Magic and nullified the energy that was the Realm
Of The Amulet. When Erath reappeared to Willow had an heavy gold chain
around her neck but no amulet. Willow saw she was still at the training
field of the academy and Erin Was still standing there looking Worried
at Willow.
Willow said, "Erin how are you still here? I must have been gone well
over a year."
Erin answered, "Willow are you OK? That energy ball covered you lest
than 30 minutes ago."
Willow realized then that time passed different in that world of
sameness she just destroyed. But she did not take time to explain this
to Erin. Knowing that if she was not gone that long the war was still
going on and she still could make a difference.
Willow said, "Come Erin we have work to do."
Willow locating Aaron in the Realm of the Fairies, then punched a hole
in the portal transporting Erin and her to Aaron's side. Upon arriving
Willow and Erin saw two Wizards reverently laying Fiona's lifeless body
next to Ged's. Erin looked at her parents laying dead there and ran
towards them but Aaron caught her and she held Aaron bursting into
tears.
Willow seeing this fought off doing the same as Erin. Then Willow using
a skill she learned as Eric to bury his feelings to deal with the danger
of the present situation. Willow thought, "I will grieve later right now
I need to get justice for this"
Willow went into a cold calculating rage she saw that the battle was
raging and that the new Drows were joining the main force and the sky
was full of them and the Fairies were losing the air battle. So she
climb to the highest point and prepared her battle plan.
Aaron saw Willow