Chapter 1 Nightmares I threw a ball of fire at the elf in front of me, it screamed as it caught on fire. “Good” dad said. “You will be a very powerful sorceress one day”. I smiled evilly, and threw another ball, this time missing the elf but catching the wall behind it on fire, I quickly put it out. My name is Severina Noel Black, my family and I are all sorcerers and sorceresses; immortal. My powers are ice and fire. When I use ice my skin and hair turn blue, when I use fire I have red hair and tan skin, and when I don't use magic my hair is dark purplish red, and my skin is pale. My dad is a very respectable man in our village, and our family, along with others, are working together to rid the world of all mortals, so that all who live on this earth will have magical blood in them. For the present the mortals don't know of us; they think all magic and sorcery is from myths and legends,
and we're going to let them continue to think that way until we're ready to battle. My story begins when I was at home training one summer... “Severina”, I looked up at my dad. “You are very powerful; almost as powerful as I am, I believe you will be ready soon” I stared at him with excitement and confusion. “Ready for what daddy?” I asked. “Ready for your coronation; ready to become one of us. One of the dark lords soldiers.” If dad wasn„t there I probably would‟ve dancing, but he was there so I just smiled up at him and said, “Thanks Dad.” He smiled back at me and said, “I have taught you well my child, I am very proud of you.” I was so happy I would„ve burst ,if that was possible, instead I smiled at myself. Then I threw another spell at the elf. This time it froze. The ice covered it completely; it couldn't breathe, and couldn't move, but it could see. It was staring at me with pleading in it's eyes, it looked so helpless, I kind felt sorry for it, but then I saw that it wasn't looking at me, it was looking at one of the flame throwers on the wall behind me, I rolled my eyes and pulled my arms back, then thrust them forward; fire shot out of my hands, I watched the ice melt and the elf turn to ashes in front of
me. I smiled, then bowed to dad, flicked my hair out of my face, and walked out of the room. I walked up the stairs to my room on the tenth floor. I changed out of my training robes into a long red dress and heels for dinner. Our family is very strict, every meal has a dress code; although for breakfast you can wear anything, even your pajamas. Lunch is casual dress, and dinner is formal. After I was dressed, I walked down the stairs to the dining room to eat, everyone was already there. I took a seat next to another sorcerer in training named Jason, who is two years older than me, and my best friend. Everybody at this table lives with us, that's why our house is so big. Once I was seated, Dad rose to speak, “As you all know the dark lord has returned, in fact, he is here with us, he should be down shortly.” Everyone gasped; nobody knew he was here. A few seconds later, the dark lord, Diamathe, walked slowly down the stairs, everyone stared at him in awe. He was the only sorcerer we know about that possessed every dark power known to mankind. Which is quite a lot compared to the two or three powers most of us have. He came down the stairs and stood behind the chair at the head of the table; then he spoke. “Good evening, my servants, I trust you are all well.” There were
murmurs of approval. He went on. “As you know, the mortals are getting stronger, creating new weapons, and learning new knowledge. It's getting harder to defeat them, but we will become stronger as well. Every day, every hour of your free time will be spent training, there isn't many of us, but together we are strong, we will win this war, we will start it, and we will end it.” With that he sat down, and we all clapped politely. Then dinner began.
During dinner, Jason leaned over and said, “Wanna sneak out tomorrow? We can skip some training.” I looked at him with shock “If we get caught the punishment will be horrible.” He grinned at me, “But we won't get caught, my powers are invisibility and I also have a transporter. I can make us appear at a place far away from here, then make us invisible if someone is looking for us, therefore it will be nearly impossible to get caught.” I smiled at him, I always did hate training. “Sure.” I agreed, “But if we die I'm gonna kill you.” “Fine by me, but we won't get caught.” I smirked, “I hope what you say is true.” I mumbled to myself, “Cause dad is dead scary when he's mad.” The rest of dinner was uneventful, most of it was just awkward silence, but we get that a lot, so I don't really
mind. After dinner went up to my room and changed into the tank and shorts I usually wear to bed. Hurriedly I brushed my teeth, braided my hair, and crawled into bed, but I couldn't sleep. I was thinking about tomorrow; about me and Jason sneaking out. I don't know why I was nervous. I guess, it's because I've never done this kinda thing before. I have always been the good child in my family. Never broken the rules, never talked back, never complained, always had perfect grades... the list goes on and on. I decided that was why I was so scared, then tried to sleep again. Finally I fell asleep, and I dreamed; I dreamed of what might happen tomorrow... Jason and I were walking through a forest, when suddenly we heard a twig snap behind us. “What was that?” I whispered cautiously. “I don't know.” Jason whispered back, just then, a man stumbled out of the bushes in front of us, I gasped, the man was my father, but he didn't look like he usually does. His normally neatly styled black hair was now curly and falling all over the place, and his eyes were dark and full of rage. I whimpered and took a step closer to Jason, who put an arm around me protectively. “Don't hurt her.” he said, “I brought her here, she didn't have a choice.” I looked up at him questioningly, and shook my head
slightly while mouthing, “No!!” But my father walked up to him and said, “Your lying.” Immediately backing away, he raised his arms above his head. I turned my face into Jason's chest, afraid of what my father was going to do, but nothing happened. I lifted my head and looked at my father, but I regretted it right away, where my father had stood there now stood a gruesome beast, with bloodshot eyes, black scales, and razor sharp foot long teeth. It was the most horrifying thing I had ever seen. It was like a mix between all the worst animals a sorceress can imagine. I should have remembered my fathers power was transformation. The beast raised up a paw, which had huge claws with ragged edges sticking out from it, it swiped at us with the paw, missing me but hitting Jason. He now had a long gash down his left side, “JASON!” I screamed; then the paw came down again, this time hitting me in the stomach, and then the neck, and all over my body, but I did not die. I had to live and suffer from the pain, just then the paw came down one last time, knocking my head into a rock, and the darkness took over.
Chapter 2 The Mortal World I sat up in bed, breathing heavily, I closed my eyes and tried to calm myself down. One of my biggest flaws is that I get scared easily, in other words I still check my closet for monsters, and nightmares haunt me for weeks, yeah it's sad. Anyways, after I calmed down I got dressed in my training robes, then remembered I was going to sneak out today. So I changed again so that I had normal clothes underneath my training robes, then I went down to eat breakfast. Once I reached the dining room, I realized most people still had their pajamas on, nothing new there, but I had to stifle a laugh when I saw the dark lord in pajamas that had 'DIE' written in spiky letters all over them. I walked to the table, sat down next to Jason and grabbed some toast. “Hey,” he said, “So, you ready for today?” I looked at him. “Nope.” I sighed, he face palmed. “You worry too much.” He whined. You whine too much!” I mimicked. We stared at each other blankly for a few seconds, then burst out laughing. “Why are we laughing?” I asked in between laughs. “I don't even
know,” he replied. We stopped laughing for a second, then burst out laughing again, everyone at the table was looking at us weird. Once we calmed down I sat up straight and screamed, “OH MY GOD COFFEE!” Dad looked scared, mom sighed, my older brothers Jack and Harry face palmed, and Diamathe looked disgusted. Everyone else just looked at me weird again and kept eating. I smiled sheepishly, and poured myself a cup coffee, but it was mostly sugar and cream. Jason looked at my cup like it was full of poison. “Is that stuff even drinkable?” He asked. “Duh,” I said.“It's like a cup of sugar.” He stated. I rolled my eyes. “Basically,” he stared at me. “What? It tastes good,” I insisted. “Whatever you say,” he replied. I sighed and finished my coffee, that guy needs to learn to enjoy life more; well, enjoy food at least.
After breakfast everyone got dressed in their training robes; quickly going off to the training rooms, but Jason pulled me into a closet in the hallway. “You ready?” he asked, I took a deep breath then took off my robes to reveal the cargo pants and tank top underneath, he was already wearing jeans and a t-shirt. “I'm ready” I said, he nodded then took my hand, and closed his eyes, focusing on where to take us, suddenly I felt a strong wind blowing around us, I squeezed my eyes shut and held tight to Jason, soon the wind stopped.
I slowly opened my eyes and looked around, we were at... a beach? “A beach Jason?” I asked. “Yeah” he said, “I remember you saying you've never been to the beach before” he tossed me a bathing suit. “Come on, get changed then meet me down at the water” I looked around and saw a bathroom not to far away, I walked over to the girls room and into one of the stalls and changed into the bathing suit Jason had given me, it was a two piece, I scowled, if this thing falls off I will personally murder Jason, no first I'll... I'll... oh who cares, this thing fits fine, it's not gonna fall off. I walked out of the bathroom and looked around, I couldn't find Jason, I walked down to the water and looked around some more, where was he? Suddenly I felt arms wrap around me. “Hey Jason” I said. “Jason, who's Jason” the guy behind me said, my eyes widened and I spun around, only to see Jason standing there laughing his head off. “YOU ARE SUCH AN IDIOT!” I yelled, but I was laughing too, suddenly he picked me up and threw me over his shoulder, then started running towards the water. “JASON MARK STONE YOU PUT ME DOWN THIS SECOND, YOU KNOW GOOD AND WELL I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SWIM!” he stopped running and swung me around so I was standing in front of him and said “Well we're just gonna have to teach you aren't we” my eyes widened,
he laughed and picked me up, then threw me in the water, I came up spluttering and said, “You. Are. So. Dead” then I jumped on him, pushing him under water, unfortunately he just pulled me down with him, I rolled my eyes and kicked off the sand on the sea floor, Jason came up soon after I did. “Seriously though, you've got to learn how to swim” he said, I shrugged. “Okay, show me” he dove under water again, I held my breath and followed him. I sat on the sea bed while he swam slowly around me, I grinned, this looked easy, I kicked off and tried to copy what he was doing, pretty soon I was swimming circles around him, one time I even saw a dolphin! It jumped out of the water and dove back in in a graceful arch. my eyes lit up, I wanted to try that, I swam down to the bottom and kicked off again, this time swimming the same way the dolphin was, I broke through the water and bent my back and arms into the same arch, and dove back into the water, I grinned, that was fun! I did it again, this time Jason saw me do it “Hey how'd you do that?” he asked, I grinned and showed him how, he looked confused, but tried to do it anyway, and failed, he tried to do it again but still could barely get out of the water, meanwhile I was laughing like a maniac.
“I give up” he said, after a few tries. “I'm gonna go get some soda, you want some?” I was confused. “What's...soda?” I asked, he just stood there gawking at me. “You've never had soda?” he half yelled. “Uh... nope” I said. “This family has got serious issues” he mumbled, I giggled. “Come on Sev” he said, “We gotta get you some soda, I can't believe you've never had soda before” I giggled again then followed him out of the water and to a big square machine on the beach, Jason put in some money and pressed a button, then took out a can from a flap near the bottom, I watched with wonder the whole time. “What is it?” I asked. “A vending machine” Jason replied, “So what flavor do you want? There's cherry, orange, and lemon” “I'll try the lemon” he put in some more money, and pressed another button, then took out another can and handed it to me, I opened it slowly and peeked inside, Jason laughed, “It doesn't bite” I sniffed it, then shrugged. “YOLO” I said, then drank a big gulp, the sour, sweet, fizzy taste surprised me, and I choked. Jason laughed again, “You gotta drink it slowly, or your either gonna get a brain freeze or your throat's gonna really burn from the fizz” I scowled at him, then drank a small sip, I grinned, this stuff tastes really good.
After we had finished our soda, Jason decided to take us somewhere else, this time it was an amusement park. “So what do you wanna do first?” I didn't answer, I just stood there gawking at everything, he laughed and grabbed my hand, dragging me towards one of the rides. Once I saw which one he had decided to put me on I freaked out. “NOOOOOOOO!” I screamed, “THAT THING IS A DEATH TRAP!” I mean seriously, this thing was a train that did loops and went up huge steep hills, and there was even a stretch of track that went straight down, IS HE TRYING TO KILL ME?! But Jason just laughed and threw me over his shoulder, then started walking towards our doom. “AHHHH!” I screamed while pounding on his back. “PUT ME DOWN THIS SECOND! PUT. ME. DOWN!” by now people were looking at us weird, just then Jason put me down, I saw that we were sitting in one of the cars in the train on the death trap, and that there was now a metal bar over our legs keeping us from getting out, I didn't scream anymore, I just said in a low voice, “Jason if you don't get us out of here in five seconds I swear I will burn you to a crisp” he laughed, then I remembered that I could just melt the bar, I was actually about to do it when the train started moving slowly and I grabbed on to Jason and started screaming, people were looking at me weird again, I didn't care, I just wanted out.
I was screaming for about half a minute before I realized that we weren't gonna fall out, then I started laughing, by the time we got off I was begging Jason to let me go again. “Please, please, please, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! oh wait never mind that one looks funner” he rolled his eyes and followed me over to the train that I was headed towards. “By the way Sev, they're called roller coasters” said Jason. “I knew they weren't called trains” I replied, still walking towards it. “Hey wait up” he called, running after me. After around thirty rides Jason took us to a movie theater. “So which one do you wanna watch” he asked, I just stared at him blankly. “Oh right” he said, “Come on” he dragged me over to where you buy tickets and said, “Can I get two tickets for harry potter and the sorcerers stone” I looked up at him. “I thought they don't know about sorcerers” he stifled a laugh and said, “This movie is just what humans think sorcerers are. They think sorcerers are just fantasy” I let out a sigh, I have a lot to learn about the mortal world.
Jason pulled me into a dark room filled with red plushy seats, and a big white sheet in the front, we sat down and after a while the sheet started changing colors and amazingly big people were talking and
walking around in it, I freaked out again. “KILL IT JASON!” I screamed, Jason face palmed. “It's part of the movie” he said, “These are the advertisements, the real movie will start soon” I let out a sigh of relief. “So they aren't gonna kill us?” I asked. “No” he replied, “They're not real people, it's just light” “Okay, just so they're safe” after that I just shut up and watched the light on the big screen. After the movie ended Jason was hungry so we went to get some pizza. It was around three or four o'clock, so we would have to go home soon, but I actually kind of wanted to stay here, the mortal world was actually really fun, it was a shame we were going to destroy it, but everyone has told me that mortals are dangerous, so I guess it has to go, maybe we can just kill the mortals and learn how run all this ourselves. “Sev? Sev? SEVERINA!” I shook my head and looked around, we were standing in front of a pizza store and Jason was looking at me with worry in his eyes. “What?” I asked. “You've been standing there not moving or talking for like five minutes” was I really thinking so hard that I forgot to move. “Sorry Jase, I spaced out” he let out a loud sigh, “Don't scare me like that Sev” I grinned sheepishly, “Sorry?” he rolled his eyes, but he
was smiling too. “Come on” he said, “the pizza place is right there” my eyes lit up. “PIIIZZAAAA!” I screamed, grabbing his hand and dragging him behind me towards the restaurant. We walked into the restaurant and up to the counter to order. “I want a mini pepperoni please” said Jason. “Sure” the girl behind the counter said, “And what about your girlfriend” my jaw dropped, “Oh I'm not... we're not... ugh” I looked to Jason for help, but he was trying not to laugh, and he was failing. “Sure you aren't” said the girl, “So what'll it be” I glared at her. “Cheese, small” I mumbled. “Sure, it'll be about ten minutes” Jason took my hand and led me to a table, I glared at him. “What?” he whined, still laughing. “You seriously thought that was funny?” I asked. he pretended to think. “Yup” he said, I rolled my eyes, “Fine, but it's never gonna happen” he smirked, “It might happen someday” I rolled my eyes again and mumbled, “Only in your dreams, and my nightmares” he shrugged and then got up to whine at the cook for taking too long, when he came back there were two pizzas in his hands. “Thanks” I mumbled, reaching up to take my pizza from him.
Once we had finished eating, we went outside so Jason could transport us home. He lead me to an empty alley, and reached into his pocket, but after a few seconds his eyes grew wide and his face turned white, he became frantic, searching every place it could possibly be, but he couldn't find it, he looked up at me and said, “It's gone Sev, I can't find it” I just nodded and looked up at him, then tears started to form in my eyes, I hugged him “I'm scared Jason” he hugged me back and said “Don't worry Sev, we'll find a way back”
Chapter 3 Remembering Noel We wandered around for a while, not wanting to spend any money until we found a way to make more. Unfortunately we didn‟t know much about living in the mortal world, Jason knew way more than me, but still not enough, he didn‟t know how to make money, or how to find a place to spend the night. He just knew the things that sorcerers who had visited the mortal world talked about. After a few hours, I started whining about being hungry, so Jason took me to a restaurant for dinner. “Don‟t order anything too expensive” he said. “We need to save up our money” I nodded. “How much money do you have?” I asked. He dug around in his pockets. “Not much” he replied. “I only brought enough for one day” I groaned. “We are so gonna die” he looked at me apologetically. “Sorry I lost the transporter” he said, smiling sheepishly, I sighed. “It‟s fine” I said. “You know I can never stay mad for long, and besides, I‟m more scared than angry” my stomach growled again. “And more hungry than scared”
I laughed. “Come on lets order” I ended up getting the smallest, cheapest thing on the menu, but it was enough for me, I never eat a lot. After dinner we went to find a place to sleep, we wandered around for a while, not wanting to sleep on the streets, but also not wanting to spend money for a hotel. We were walking past a dark alley when hands reached out and grabbed me. “SEV!” Jason yelled, diving after me, I tried to scream but hands covered my mouth, I struggled against them, trying to get out of their grip, Jason reached me and tried to pry them off of me, but they were stronger than him. After we had calmed down, they let go of me, I stumbled forward, then looked up and saw that the person who had been holding me was a boy about two years older than me, the same age as Jason, standing behind him was a girl who looked around ten or eleven, they were both wearing ripped, dirty clothes, and looked like they hadn‟t showered in weeks. The girl looked at me from underneath her thick eyelashes and whispered, “We know who you are” I looked at Jason, what does she mean? Does she know we‟re sorcerers? If she does then we are in big trouble. The boy stepped forward. “We know what you can do” he said. “We know about your
magic” yeah, we‟re all gonna die. “How do you know” Jason asked. “About four years ago, sorcerers visited us. They tried to kill us, but it didn‟t work, so they thought we we‟re sorcerers too, but we weren‟t, their magic just didn‟t work on us, we don‟t know why” I looked at Jason, the boy continued, “I noticed what was different from them and humans, and I taught Bianca how to tell them apart” he motioned towards the girl, she stepped forward. “You aren‟t safe on our world” she said, I nodded. “But we can help you, you just have to trust us” Jason and I looked at each other, then we looked at Bianca and nodded, she grinned. “By the way” she said, “This is Eric” she motioned towards the boy, I smiled at him, I didn‟t completely trust them, but they were better than being taken for experimenting, that had happened to my little sister Noel, we never saw her again. We stayed the night with them, they actually were really sweet, they acted like me and Jason did, always teasing each other, and playing around, they would argue, but never big fights, it was mostly over really stupid stuff. And when Bianca got into bed, Eric sat next to her and told her a story about a little girl who lived in a castle, who had everything she wanted, and had a big brother who would read her bedtime stories.
This whole night would be perfect if it wasn‟t in a dark alley with old moth-bitten blankets, but I was still happy, we were still together, Eric and Bianca were helping us, and nobody but them knew who we were. I smiled and snuggled into my blanket, pretty soon I was asleep, I dreamed about Noel, I was sure she was still alive, and that we would find her before we got back home. When I woke up, Eric and Bianca were gone. I jumped up and started looking for them. “Relax” said Jason, who had woken up before me. “They went to get breakfast” I let out a long sigh and sat down next to him. “I thought they left us” I said, he laughed. “Why are they so important to you?” he asked, I looked at him. “Because they might know where to find Noel” I said, he sighed and ran a hand through his hair. “Sev, Noel‟s been missing for years now, and you‟ve never brought her up before, so why do you suddenly want to look for her” I looked at the ground. “Because I know she‟s not dead, she‟s still here, in the mortal world” Jason looked pained, I knew he didn‟t like talking about her, he loved her just as much as I did, he was like a brother to her, when she was taken he didn‟t talk to anyone for a week, but right know I was sure she was still alive, and I had to find her. “I don‟t think she‟s dead either” Jason said “she‟s strong,
she wouldn‟t just give up, she‟d fight back. We‟ll find her Sev, I promise, we‟ll find her” I smiled at him, by then I was crying and even Jason‟s eyes were wet.
Just then Bianca and Eric came in holding a bag of something. I wiped my eyes and looked up. “Hey guys, what did you get?” Eric smiled and handed the bag to me. “See for yourself” I opened the bag and gasped, inside was more food than we usually eat, there were hamburgers, and pancakes, and eggs, and a ton of other stuff. “How did you guys get all this food?” I asked. Eric shrugged. “Bianca‟s a good singer, she sings in the street, and people pay in food. We always get this much” I grinned, then took out a hamburger and handed the bag to Jason. After breakfast, I pulled Eric aside while Bianca was showing Jason the book she was writing. I took a deep breath and said, “Eric, do you know anything about a sorceress Bianca‟s age named Noel” he looked at me with a pained expression. “Noel?” he asked. I nodded. He sighed. “She came to our world a few years ago with her family, her parents, and two boys” I nodded. I wasn‟t allowed to come that time because of bad behavior. Eric continued. “She somehow got separated
from them, and found us. After a few days of staying with us she was practicing her powers when the police drove by and saw her. They called more police, and the FBI. They took her. We haven‟t seen her since” I nodded. “Do you think you could help us find her?” I asked. Eric nodded. “I‟ll do my best” he said. I hugged him. “Thanks Eric”
Chapter 4 Mortals And Sorcerers I'd been thinking about the war between sorcerers and mortals. I had overheard Diamathe's meeting with his soldiers a while ago, he said that they would battle soon, but...the thing is, I don't think I want to kill them, the mortals are actually really cool, and they aren't dangerous like everyone says they are, most of them just don't have power, but some of them do our powers don't effect Eric and Bianca, I tried burning Eric, and it didn't work, they can still die, but not under our hands, that's mortal magic. if Diamathe wants to get rid of the mortals, then he has to get rid of me. I walked over to where Jason was practicing his powers. He was making things disappear and reappear. “Hi” I said, sitting down next to him. “Hey” he replied. I swallowed, I was nervous about asking him about the war. He looked at me with a questioning look. I shifted uncomfortably and said “Jason? If Diamathe wants to rid the world of mortals, who's side are you on?” He sighed and said, “Promise me you won't be mad?”
I nodded. He sucked in a breath, “I want to help the mortals” my face lit up, “Really?” I asked, “Me too” He let out a breath “I was hoping you'd say that” he said. I smiled at him. The next few days was spent preparing Eric and Bianca for battle. They probably wouldn't be allowed to fight, but I still wanted them to be able to protect themselves. Bianca was practicing knife throwing and bow and arrows. Eric was using swords and spears. We found the weapons dumped in front of an old building, we didn't know who's they were, but they were pointy, so we took them. Sorcerers are mostly immortal, but the one way they can die is if they are killed by someone with less powers than them, which means mortals can kill them, all me and Jason can do is wound them, but they won't die. I walked up to Bianca who was trying to hit a makeshift target on the wall with an arrow. I put my hands around hers to steady her hands, then helped her pull back the string and shoot the arrow, it hit the target, almost in the center. she grinned at me. “Thanks” she said. I grinned back, “No problem, you just have to hold it steady and
it'll shoot farther and straighter” She nodded and tried shooting it by herself, this time she didn't hit the target, but it was close. “Good job”
I said “Keep trying” she nodded, and I walked off to go help Eric. He was with Jason practicing sword fighting, they were randomly swinging sticks at each other, they looked like two three year olds pretending they're knights of the round table. I rolled my eyes and walked over to them. “Stop, stop, stop” I said, “You guys look pathetic. Do you even know how to sword fight?” They looked at each other, then looked at me and smiled sheepishly. I sighed and took Jason's stick from him. “Okay Eric” I said, “Attack me” he shrugged and swung his stick at me, I easily blocked it, he swung again, this time I ducked and swung at his legs, he fell down, landing on top of me. “Nice landing” I grumbled. He laughed and got off me. “Sorry” he said, I just stood up, took his sword and gave it to Jason. “Your turn” A couple of weeks later, we were ready. Bianca could throw a knife or shoot an arrow and hardly ever miss.
Eric could wield a sword better than I could, and when he was throwing the spear he never missed his target. We spent most of the time preparing battle tactics and practicing camouflage. One day, Eric came running into our alley and said, “they„re here, I saw them” I took a deep breath and nodded, this was the moment we had been waiting for. Jason, Eric, Bianca and I walked up to a police station and stood behind the wall, we could hear voices speaking. I looked around the corner and saw dad, mom, Diamathe, and two sorcerers I didn‟t know. They were talking to a police officer, I couldn„t tell what they were saying but Diamathe looked angry, we waved his hand over the mans face, killing him instantly. Then he turned towards where we were standing and started walking towards us. I gasped. “He saw me” I whispered. Their eyes grew wide and they ran behind the next corner. Diamathe peeked around the corner we were standing by just as I ducked behind the next one. we ran to the building beside this one and hid behind the far wall. “Is that the guy who wants to kill us?” asked Bianca. “Yeah” Jason said. Bianca‟s eyes grew wide and she looked scared, but she said in a brave voice, “I„m gonna help you get rid of him” we all looked down at her and laughed a little, it was good that we could laugh right
before the worlds biggest battle ever. In a few hours the battle was in full swing. Diamathe had started out just walking around with his soldiers randomly killing people, but after a while people started realizing what was happening and they called the police, saying that some creepy magic dudes were killing they're family, pretty soon police were all over the place, and they were dying rapidly too. We knew we were the only ones prepared for this, we ran out and simultaneously yelled, “FOR MORTALS!” getting everyones attention. “Severina?” my dad asked. I just kept running towards Diamathe, I shot ice out of my hands, fire wouldn't do anything, but the ice could stun him, it froze around him, and he soon melted it, but just then Jason turned a crate invisible and threw it at him, knocking into his head. Diamathe turned around, but Jason was invisible. Bianca threw a knife aimed at his heart, but someone bumped into her and the knife hit Diamathe's leg, he cried out in pain. Diamathe's pathetic followers finally realized what was happening and started throwing jinxes and curses at us, we had to dodge them while attacking Diamathe. We soon decided that Eric and I would hold back Diamathe's soldiers, while Jason and Bianca would take on Diamathe himself. I saw mortal soldiers and
police standing away from the fighting staring blankly at us. “COME ON!” I yelled at them, “ARE YOU GONNA HELP OR ARE YOU JUST STANDING THERE TO LOOK PRETTY?” They blinked and after a few seconds started yelling and running towards us. A few of them had the same powers as Eric and Bianca, so they were safe, but most of them were dead or badly injured soon, the sorcerers are way stronger than them. But the ones that weren't hurt were also rapidly killing them. I half smiled, this was bad, but not as bad as I thought it would be. After a while only the mortals that magic doesn't have effect on were still alive, along with Jason and I. I noticed someone standing a few meters away shooting blue fire out of her hands, another tear rolled down my cheeks, joining the hundreds of tears that had already been shed today as I remembered that Noel also had blue ice fire, it was both of my powers combined, fire that froze and burned at the same time. I also smiled as I realized that the ice fire girl was fighting Diamathe's soldiers, trying to make her way to Diamathe, she was on our side. After hours more of fighting, barely any of Diamathe„s followers were still alive, but we still had quite a lot.
Some of the sorcerers had tried to use the mortal weapons to kill us, but they couldn't figure out how to use them, so nobody died from that.
I had just killed a sorcerer and I looked down to make sure he was dead when I heard a voice, “Jason Stone and Severina Black, you are the ones who caused all this trouble, so step forward and duel me now. We shall settle who ends this. You, or me.� I looked at where Jason stood with Jack and Harry, who had turned to the mortals as well. He nodded at me, I took a deep breath and started walking towards Diamathe, inside I was scared to death, but I didn't show it, I walked with my head held high, and I took long strides. Tears were streaming down my face, but I wasn't crying because I was scared, I was crying because of all the innocent people that died because of Diamathe. I was going to win this battle, no matter what it took. I had almost reached Diamathe when I realized everyone on the mortals side were cheering for us, I half smiled, I was even more determined to win now, I was not going to let them down. I reached Diamathe and stood a few meters away from him, next to Jason. We bowed to each other, then
raised our hands in front of us. I fired an ice block at him, hitting his head and knocking him to the ground. The mortals cheered. He stood up and raised his arms above his head, transforming into a gruesome beast, it seemed familiar though. Then it hit me, this was my dream from the night before I first came to the mortal world, except this was different, for one it was Diamathe, not dad, but mainly, this time I was prepared. Diamathe swiped at Jason with his claws, but I had already pushed him out of the way. Diamathe roared and turned to me, he swung his paw again, I ducked, he tried again, I rolled out of the way. In a few seconds things were already different than the dream, Diamathe had transformed back into a human, and he threw a knife at me, it hit my arm, I held back a scream and yanked the knife out of my arm, and took Jason's hand in mine, I could feel my powers being spread though my hand into his body, and his into me. now as long as we were linked together, we would both have each others power. Jason shot out a stream of fire, while ice exploded from my free hand, the two elements hit each other, and became blue ice fire. This was the only other way to make ice fire, if one sorcerers ice meets another sorcerers fire, it becomes the rarest and strongest element, the blue ice fire, the only thing that
can kill the dark lord. Our ice fire shot out towards Diamathe, swirling up and around him. He screamed in pain as the burning, freezing fire consumed him.
When it died down, all that was left of Diamathe was a pile of ashes. We all turned to the remaining dark soldiers. They could tell they were outnumbered and backed away and retreated, screaming threats the whole time. “WE DID IT!” I screamed, jumping into my brothers arms, they held me for a long time until I pulled away and turned to Jason. “Thank you” I said, “I couldn't have done it without you” he smiled “I couldn't have done it without you” I smiled at him, but I suddenly felt weak and collapsed into his arms. “SEV!” he yelled. He looked down at my arm and went pale. I looked at the wound in my arm for the first time and nearly fainted. My whole arm, half of my left leg, and half my shirt were soaked in blood, and the gash that ran from my shoulder halfway to my elbow was still bleeding. I noticed that my vision was fading, I looked up at Jason, his eyes got wide. “No, no, no” he said, franticly “Sev, come on, stay with me” I just closed my eyes and passed out.
Chapter 5 Family Reunion I woke up on a bed in a small room, there was liquid being put into my body through a tube in my hand, Harry was asleep in a chair next to the bed, Jason was kneeling by on the floor with his head on my bed, Eric and Bianca had they're backs to my bed and they're eyes shut, and Jack was standing by the door. “Jack?” I said, then winced, my voice sounded like a frog. He turned and saw my face, then laughed. “Well, well. Sleeping beauty awakes” he joked. I rolled my eyes, “What happened?” “You lost too much blood, your in the hospital now” “When can I get out of here?” “Doctors said it depends on your condition” I looked at my arm. The blood was cleaned off it, and the gash was sewn up. I heard someone yawn, and I looked up. Everyone had woken up and were stretching. “whats going on?” Harry asked. “Sev's awake” said Jack. They all jumped up and screamed, “YOU'RE AWAKE?!” I winced from the sudden noise. “Duh” I said. They all hugged me, and Jack came and put his arms around all of us, we all
laughed and sat like that for a while, just enjoying each others company. Suddenly, we heard a knock on the door. “Come in” we all yelled. The door opened slowly and a young girl walked in, we all gasped. The girl that came through the door looked almost exactly like me. She had the same long black hair, the same fair skin, the same gray eyes. What shocked us even more was that she walked up to me and said in a small voice, “Hey, Sev. You guys remember me?” I looked at her with a curious look in my eyes. “Noel?” I asked quietly, completely unsure of myself. The girl nodded slowly. We sat there staring at her for what seemed like years, then everyone seemed to come to they're senses and started yelling and hugging her. After everyone got a hug she sat down and said, “That was really brave you know, what you and Jason did” I smiled, “Thanks” we were silent for a few seconds. “What happened to mom and dad?” Noel asked, everyone else looked at each other, nobody wanted to be the one to tell her. Harry cleared his throat, “Um...they were on Diamathe's side...they were both killed” she looked down at the floor in silence for a few seconds, then looked back up at us. “It's okay” she said, “They were on the wrong side, they were trying
to kill us” we smiled sympathetically at her. “Wait” I said, “Where are we gonna stay?” Noel's face lit up, “You can stay at our house” she said happily. “Your house?” I asked. “My adoptive parents. They'd love to have six more kids living with them, they're so rich” we grinned at each other. “If they let let us then were in!” said Eric. Just then a nurse opened the door, “I'm sorry, but you have to leave now, Miss Black needs to rest” I did puppy dog eyes at her, she laughed, “You still have to sleep” I rolled my eyes, “Fine” I said, “Bye guys” they all said goodbye and left. But I grabbed Eric's arm and said, “Thanks for everything Eric, for helping us, being our friend, everything” he smiled, “Your the one that needs thanking Sev, Your the real hero” I grinned, “Thanks, but I couldn't have done it without you, Bianca and Jason” he smiled, “So, you wanna sword fight again sometime soon?” I fake gasped, “You dare challenge me mere mortal?” I joked. he thought for a while, “Yup!' he said. I smirked “You are going down” he smiled, “I have to go. see you tomorrow?” I nodded, “See you tomorrow” Once they were gone I sighed to myself. I couldn't have asked for better friends.