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Chapter 15 - Betrayal and Reckoning

Evelyn together with her friend Jessica and Oscar finally arrived in Atlanta. It was a whole lot of them, the humans they turned to witches and Oscar army. They landed down onto the sand. Dragon Slair turned as soon as he heard them and shouted. "Finally see who decided to come and join the party", said Dragon Slair walking up to his sister stopping what he was doing, the others turned back and looked at them. "I wouldn't have missed it for the world", replied Evelyn laughing and meeting him half way. They both hugged one another. He walked to greet the others Jessica and Oscar. The others waved their hands at them and continued with what they were doing. "And you have such a huge army here, man", said Dragon Slair to Oscar. "Actually it not the whole of it. It's just a mix with a bunch of humans", answered him, his face so serious. "Ohh I see but we don't have time for little chats, where are the gemstones and the emerald?", asked Dragon Slair getting down to business. "About that, we only have gotten one (Dragon Slair's face immediately changed) yeah we only have the red gemstone from the Ciampa kingdom but I promise the other two will be delivered to us' ', said Evelyn, so adamant and quite disappointed in herself. "Okay then, it better be that or else we're no good then", said Dragon Slair walking back to the others. Oscar with two of his servants took out that one gemstone. The servant took them to the other two. "We may have a problem. We are shot of the green gemstone and the emerald", said Dragon Slair telling the others. "And what are suggesting father? That we stop, no we can't. We are halfway to breaking this wall", asked ILiara looking him directly in the eye. "No but then it's useless. We must have all the five gemstones and the emerald or else our plan is ruined. Ohh else (he called out remembering something) Evelyn who has the emerald and that gemstone? We will have to meet them halfway with a bit of a surprise death", said Dragon Slair turning back to Evelyn. "The queen entrusted it with those kids, Matilda and her friends' ', replied Evelyn walking to them, Oscar and Jessica following her. "Those kids again, why ain't they killed once and for all? they are starting to get on my nerves' ', said ILiara. "Twins you will have to do your job, kill 'em and get those gemstones and fast' ', ordered the eldest Atolie sister. The twins immediately flew up but they hadn't flown so far when they flew back down. Mother Teresa was already awake and listening to them together with Madeleine. She winked her eyes and counted to five. "We can't just stand, we will have to break this wall down", said the middle Arolie sister. The wall had already broken to pieces. Most of it is down in the sand. It just needed one more hit then it would all collapse to the ground. They all turned back to her. Mother winked one last time and the whole army awakened fro ell backward. Dragon Slair tried to hit her with his hammer but Madeleine choked him with her ring. He vibrated from it. Jessica tried trapping Emir with the plant's root but Emir cut them and jumped to stab her with his sword. Jessica moved aside, Emir fell onto the ground and turned back to her fast and kicked her down in her legs. The middle Arolie sister with the youngest tried freezing them but the warriors fought them breaking their ice with their swords. They all got up, ILiara and the others stood up ready to fight them. That is when they heard a plane coming from the sky. The twins flew back down. It landed down onto the ground. Six of them followed from different directions, it was Mr Goldberg and the others from the first plane. John with the two kingdoms and other three kingdoms in the other six jets. They all stepped out from the planes and jets. They stood in line and faced them. Jorge, Jenny, Steve, John, Scarlett, Kate, Scott, Lucida, Mark, Mr Goldberg, Mrs Barker, Duncan, Sandra, Austin, the kings and queens of the four kingdoms and Mr Houghton of the Avelon kingdom stood all in line with the soldiers behind them. Everyone stopped fighting, Dragon Slair burned from the inside. Madeleine, Mother and the others broke out from ILiara with their warriors from both kingdoms and stood next to their team. They stood next to Mr Goldberg and the warriors stood behind them. Whereas the army of witches scattered and went to theirs too. They stood behind their leaders too facing their enemies. Everyone "You again'' every person faced his/her enemy. They all stood facing one another, two teams battling against each other. But it was through one person others were confused by, Lucida. Evelyn, Oscar, Jessica, the kings and queens of the kingdoms and Mr Houghton were one of them. They couldn't understand why she stood with them and not with them. Neither did they understand what was happening but they soon got the full skoop. "So I bet you've come to stop us again", said Astraea looking at Lucida then back to Mark angrily. "You've got that right then", answered Scott holding his gun up. "Even if you try you will always fail, we always rise. You can ask your friend, Lucida. I bet she told you everything, right Lucida? no wonder I'm alive'', replied Dragon Slair smiling. "I did in every detail and I quite enjoyed stabbing you to death. I knew you would awaken but then there's always a second time, death always comes knocking, right?", answered Lucida smiling back at him. "Ohh so you've grown a pair, you've finally learned how to bark. It rather took you so long then", said ILiara moving closer to her and stopped again. "I just needed a little bit of time to learn the truth. And my husband played quite a huge role in that", answered Lucida holding Mark's hand. "You little witch, whatever you're I told you, we should have killed her a long time ago", said the eldest Arolie sister, she was getting annoyed with this talk. "You mean you should have killed me with my parents right but you just couldn't have needed me, right? No wonder me betraying you hurts so much", said Lucida laughing. "Then you read my mind and about the killing part, you will surely die today, in fact all of you", answered the eldest Arolie sister. "The time is against us, we will have to act now", whispered Borra to ILiara. "Wait, just be patient, I've got this planned. let them talk for a while", replied ILiara whispering back and smiling. The twins were somehow behind the wall trying to break it. "And the only difference is that your parents are dead and ours are here", said Borra, he trusted ILiara and her plan and kept them talking. "See if that can last longer", replied Lucida with a grin on her face. Dragon Slair crossed his face, he was losing it staring at her and all the others were what he couldn't handle. Evelyn laughed a bit and said "So quiet Barker, I thought you weren't that type. Why are you getting cold feet or surprised to see your friend?", she asked, laughing so loud. "As if you were, you were better dead and I'm not. I just can't wait to do it again", answered Mrs Barker. "So what is your plan then Goldberg, you will kill us all and then?", asked Dragon Slair. "Then we shall start over again and yey, we would save the whole world, king or I should I say Dragon Slair", interrupted Lucida. Dragon Slair smiled and stamped his foot onto the ground. Mr Goldberg and the others looked down. The dragon pits rose from the sand. The army of witches run to fight them. Neither did they hesitate, all the warriors and soldiers of the kingdoms ran to fight them. In that instance all the sorcerers arrived just in time. They wasted no time and fought back too. As planned John fought the wizard, Mr Goldberg with Dragon Slair, kate, Scarlett and Jenny the Arolie sisters, Mrs Barker with Evelyn, the fairy queen with Jessica whereas the fairy king with Oscar, Mark and Scott with the twin brothers, Lucida fought with ILiara whereas Sandra was busy with the arrows shooting some of the witches and Duncan ran to find the robots cave. His soldiers with him whereas the king and queens fought the armies with mother and Madeline. It was within the survival of the fittest. Everyone is against their match. They were still fighting and the army of witches somehow undefeatable but neither did the warriors and soldiers give up, they had their own strengths too. The wall broke at that moment. They all froze for a second. "I said I'm always a step ahead of you, Lucida, you won't win, give up, you chose the wrong team to fight with", said ILiara laughing at her face. "Then you must be a fool. I'm thirty steps ahead of you, just wait for a few minutes' ', said Lucida, laughing back at her and moving aside to dodge ILiara's attack. "As if you shall succeed with those idiots' ', answered ILiara m back. " You've always been and still are threatened by me and do know I have the best team at hand and always have won", said Lucida smiling. She hits ILiara with lightning. "And I'm not Astraea and Borra. I won't spare you and please be careful of your words. I'm not threatened by you, watch your words my dear", responded ILiara. "Nor am I that balmy husband of yours I won't spare you", answered Lucida. They both had strangled one another from the air. Mr Goldberg and Dragon Slair at cross. Mr Goldberg sword and dragon Slair's hammer crossed one another. Neither of them wanted to lose. Neither would the others back down. The Arolie sister is trying by all means to kill the three. The twin brothers with Mark and Scott on dead ends. Whereas the fairy king with Oscar fought brutally. The other kings and queens with Mr Houghton killing the armies so easily in a snap. And with no light between the two sisters. Whereas the sorcerers gummed up for this day for a long time, they were unstoppable. No wonder the wizard tried to kill Jorge and Jenny every time he came across them. Jenny being his worst enemy. Dragon Slair was too absorbent of this. He could see his army and the whole army of witches being beaten to death and defeated. He looked at ILiara. ILiara looked around. Neither did anyone see her next move, even Lucida herself. She was unprepared, ILiara spinned around in a circle. Realizing a whole lot of dust causing the warriors and soldiers to fall down. Only the fittest remained standing. Others moved back and forth and stood still whereas others crossed their hands. The witches rose again as well as the dragon pits. Lucida tried using her powers but they were no use for that dusty sand. She just became useless as well as the others, their powers wouldn't work, no matter how hard they tried, they would fail. They were powerless. They were just ordinary humans. "I think we are losing our powers, what now then?", asked Mrs Barker. "Someone has to stop that witch from what she is doing", shouted Mr Goldberg. Scott was holding a gun in his hand, he shot once at ILiara. It indeed worked. Iliara became agitated and faced him. It meant she could feel the pain. He shot again as many times. The Triads warriors followed him as well as the others. They shot back at her. ILiara lost strength and the sand settled back down. She held Scott up and threw him away with a couple of others who were shooting. They fell on top of each other. Borra walked to finish him off. The warriors and soldiers slowly got up and fought back the army of witches which now stood all of it as well as the human witches. The problem was that the army of witches had gained new strengths, they were stronger than before. They were more powerful. The warriors and soldiers were no match for them anymore even the sorceress were at least trying with the king and queens. ILiara, Dragon Slair and the rest of the others saw this as a perfect chance to fight them while they were weak. Borra tried burning Scott with his fire but Scott got up and stopped it with his shield. He knocked him down. The Arolie sisters tried it with the three, they multiplied themselves up but Kate swang them with water whereas Scarlett hitted them with a lightning and Jenny casted a spell and they all fell down. Dragon Slair tried hitting Mr Goldberg with the hammer but Mr Goldberg got him and stabbed him with his sword. He got out fast and held his chest, a wound opened from his shoulder. It was beyond repair, it wouldn't heal due to the Phoenix power. Astraea jumped up and tried to attack Mark but Mark spoke in his mind and appeared behind him. He stabbed him with his sword. He fell down. Evelyn realized her black power over Mrs Barker, Mrs Barker stopped it with her wand and sent it back to her. Evelyn breathed difficult and moved backward. The queens and kings still killed the armies where Mr Houghton knocked them down. ILiara realized her dark power to attack Lucida but Lucida dodged it and returned it back to her. It hit ILiara in her chest and was followed by lightning. ILiara got it with the others. They saw for themselves that their enemies were still powerful and strong. They turned back. Finally the twins did it, the Phoenixes got out. The phoenix got out angry, they flew from the ground and landed in front of ILiara. They breathed out the Phoenix fire, firing everyone. John and the others got down. Both birds were at the hands of evil, nothing could be done to stop them. Neither would they recognise Mr Goldberg and the others. "Quick, we will have to cage these ones, John and his team, whereas we will have to line everything up, the moon is almost full", said the wizard. Mr Goldberg and all the others were caged up by the Arolie sisters, ILiara and Jessica. They were all helpless in front of the Phoenixes unable to control them. It was like they took their powers once again. The cages fell on top of them and caged them. The only thing they could do was to shout but the Phoenixes would turn back at them and fire them. Lucida tried fighting, dodging the cages but they caught her. She obeyed the Phoenixes. The Phoenixes then stood next to the cage and guarded them. "ILiara you know, you can't do that. You still haven't gotten the other gemstone and the emerald", called out Mother. "So if you know very well your kids will be bringing them to me and I've got a nice surprise for them", replied ILiara. "Dare touch those kids, you're dead, you hear me!", shouted Mark. "I won't, they will", said ILiara pointing to the twins. "Then if you knew very well, you'd know they were too powerful then and they even fought you to death and left we Left you weakling, right", replied Mother shouting. "I think you're getting on my nerves now", said ILiara, so irritated and angry. "And that's the truth and that's where it hurts, you do know you're weak compared to them and your kids are no match just say it, you won't succeed", said Mother looking at her and shouting from the cage. ILiara was burning from the inside, she didn't want to be seen weak and worse compared to kids. She shouted "Say that again and you shall see your grave", said her. "Or maybe you should pick up your things cause those kids are on their way", answered Mother. ILiara lost herself and uncaged Madeleine and killed her from that instance. She entered her hand in her stomach and took out her intestines. The others watched her die in her hands and her intestine hanging from her stomach to the ground for the dragon pits to eat them. Kate and Scarlett looked away, the intestines fell next to their cages and the Dragon pits disgustingly fisted on them. ILiara dropped Madeline's dead body to the ground. The others looked at her with pity eyes and tears. Especially Mother, she wished she had kept quiet but this was ILiara they were against. She would have killed them anyway. ILiara hands were filled with Madeleine's blood. She had seen that and after walking to Lucida and Mother whose cages were next to each other and smeared the blood on them pulling them close to her. She laughed "Why have you gotten weak? That's not like you or you powerless and as for you, your friend's death will be on you", said ILiara to both Mother and Lucida. Lucida tried to catch her but ILiara got her hand out fast. She was burning to kill her and it seemed like what she had planned to do took so long. It would happen within the full moon and now she had to relax within the cage since she was helpless. ILiara followed the others, Jessica and the Arolie sisters had long left her to the others. Dragon Slair ordered the witches to fetch every weapon, every ointment and the other gemstones from the plane. They were ready to execute their plan. They flew up and placed the four other gemstones in alignment to the moon covered with dark clothes. "We shall need someone to sacrifice with, we need blood,remember?", said the youngest Arolie sister." Don't worry about that we've got enough", said the wizard. Kids were taken from the plane by Dreadlocks and moved them to where they were. "Those are the kids I told you about. They shall kill more for their blood", said John. "They shall be the ones to be placed in the center to be sacrificed, neither do I know for what", added Jorge. "History repeats itself over and over again and this thing of theirs always changes' ', said Mr Goldberg. "The ointments were long made with those kids' blood. They are carried by the soldiers in jars", said Jenny. She could recognise those jars. "We can't allow them. This is a great threat. They are planning to make it 1000 times bigger this year", said Lucida. "No wonder there are so many kids but how do we get out of her?", asked Mrs Barker. "Perhaps the kids would come with a better plan", answered Kate hopeful. "Everything was done according to the witches. History indeed repeated itself. The kids were brutally taken up and were all placed at the center and all hanged from the air. They were only shot with the gemstone and the emerald. The Phoenixes both remained on the ground waiting for orders. "Then what now? The Moon's almost full, on a count to a few and the kids still haven't arrived", asked Jessica. "We will have to get those kids, Dreadlocks fetch the robots' ', ordered the wizard. Dreadlocks did so and went down the hills. He opened the door of the plane and all the robots got off. He was the one to control them inside the plane. He got inside and sat in there but that was not the only plane. They were two, one guy was in the other one controlling the other robots. There were too many of them. He needs an extra hand. Duncan was looking out at him as he passed and getting the robots off. He walked to the other plane with his soldiers slowly. He opened the door, the man raised his hands. "I'm not here to fight. I was sent here to arrest him by the police, I'm just a cop", said the man begging for his life. "Yeah we're just cops. We are here to arrest him. He's too dangerous' ', said a woman cop. "And luckily for you, it is your lucky day. He trusts you, right then you shall help me, do you know anything about this?", asked Duncan. Anyone would be scared, Duncan truly was. He had no smile, no laugh, just a serious and dangerous man. Him being muscular was what made him more scary and having that grin face. "Yeah I do but we will only help if you help us first", said the woman. "Okay then with what?", asked Duncan. "To arrest him", answered the woman. Duncan just laughed. "As if he would be alive by then", he said murmuring and smiling. The woman noticed him smiling and didn't hear him well. She was bitter and a bad ass. She had worked too long in the police academy. She's worked in big cases and has solved them pretty well. And this one was just one of them. She was dark in completion too with brown round eyes and tall in height with a deep loud voice. "Then we are not on the same page then. I shall scream plus I don't really know who you are. It's either you help us then we will too", said the woman, her voice so loud. "Okay then I shall help you but then why arrest him?", asked Duncan. "He is a dangerous criminal, got out free due to this war by escaping and still continues. He is poaching young children all over the country and kills them", answered the woman. "Then we are on the same page then, that's why I'm here. We need to stop those robots. Those are the kids inside them. They turned them into robots. You now supernatural kids and staff (the cop got lost ) okay then he takes those kids to the witches and the witches kill some and others were made to robots so we will have to disarm them to free the kids and not cause any damage and luckily you also know this things", explained Duncan. "Yeah as well as him even though we don't really get what you mean about the kids and the robots but then yeah we will help you to free them", said the woman. "Right then we are on the same page then, let's get working", said Dunacn. "Okay then", replied the woman and the man sitting back down. They opened the system. Dreadlocks got out from the other plane and heards to where they were. They hear him coming. "I think he's coming, you have to hide. I just saw a shadow passing by, move", whispered the woman. She stood up and hid from behind the door l. Duncan and his soldiers hid from the seats. The woman reaches for the handle, it opens. Dreadlocks had opened it. She appears as it opens by the door. She was breathing too fast. "It's time. We just have to wait for their signal. The robots are already making their way to the wizard", said him. "Okay then is the something else?", asked the woman couching. "No, I'm your.. you know.. (he cuts) ..there in your shirt", said Dreadlocks pointing to it. "No I can explain", replied the woman looking at herself shaking. She sees her badge showing a little, she fixes herself. "Well then thank you", she said panicking looking at him straight in the eye if he had seen it. "I'm I meant that it not buttoned and what is it that you wanted to explain?", asked Dreadlock. "No its nothing, you know I'm embarrassed", replied the woman. Dreadlocks after walked away with the robots. She then closed the door. "What then, why panich?", asked Duncan. "I thought he saw my badge", answered her. "Ohh I see so we wait for what exactly?", asked Duncan confused. "We will have to wait for them to tell us to start working, for their signal then he shall enter the code after that we can control the robots", answered the male cop. "That means we will have to get the code first before we disarm those robots, we will have to move to the other plane", said Duncan. "How?", asked the woman. "By killing him (she looked at him crossly) ohh I've forgotten you're a cop but we still have to get that code. We can't operate without it. We will have to enter it from the system and use it to shut it down, without it we useless", replied Duncan. "Perhaps we can stall him while he enters it from the system in the other plane. I can go in there and see if I can get it", said the woman. "Or I will try and hack that system, how about that?", said the police man. "Okay then, lets get working but his system is still off right now. We will have to wait", answered the woman. They sat down and waited for him to come back. The robots moved being controlled by those kids inside leading the way. There were too many of them, tall and strong and made of iron. Their eyes are all red. They moved in slow motion. "Those are the robot kids I told you about '', whispered John. "There's so many of them", replied Mrs Barker. "And who's that man exactly?", asked Mr Goldberg. "His Dreadlocks, no wonder he has them. He is a servant to the wizard. He's the one who created those robots and the one who stole those kids' ', answered Jorge. The robots stopped in front of the wizard in line. The wizard smiled. "Have you tested these things before?", asked the eldest Arolie sister. "Yes many times' ', answered the wizard. He called for one robot. It does martial arts and everything enhanced with swords, knives and the kids powers. "Excellent then", said the eldest Arolie sister. Dreadlocks went back and entered by his plane. "Good job man, I taught you well", he said to a friend of his from jail. "Yeah man, I saw it move just by the computer, we've done it", replied the jailbird. The computer turned on. They had seen how excellent and advanced the robots were. They stood up and watched it. It was indeed dangerous. "We will crack that code fast. We can't let these kids die inside '', said Duncan. The woman and the man agreed. "He created killer machines not robots' ', said Mrs Barker. "Hope Duncan can stop them", said Kate. We will have to kill them, we can't go easy on them. Have you seen those robots? Even a gun is no use. It won't have any effect", said Scott looking at them from his cage. "Enough about that we can't stay caged up in here. The moon will be full any moment from now", said Mr Goldberg looking for a way out. "Worry about that no more", said Lucida, she was onto something. The moon was already becoming full. The four gemstones shined brightly and the boxes broke from them. The whole place was filled with light. The Phoenixes flew up as well as the others. ILiara and her father as well as the other crew started to speak in tongues creating the helori wall. The only problem was that the gemstones were shot. But that didn't stop them. The kids died one by one, their souls moving out to the phoenixes to feed them and also their blood. Whereas the Phoenixes stood like the old times, the woman and man like old times. Female to female and male to male. At that time Lucida got her powers back, she broke out of the cage as well as the others got freed. She was more fierce and more powerful. The others too got back their powers. She flew up to the sky whereas the others remained back and fought the armies. ILiara saw her coming. She also flew down to meet her. They grabbed one another with their nails and went back down to the ground. They fell so hard on it and rolled down. One on top of the other again and again. They were trying to strangle one another. Clinging their paws on another to death. Oscar followed as well as the wizard. Oscar kicked the fairy king from its back as he was busy fighting. The king stopped backwards and both ran to fight one another. The wizard flew down to John casting spells on him. He dropped a lot of rocks on top of John. They fell on him but he managed to get out from them, breaking out with his sword. Scarlett uses her lightning and hits the Arolie sisters from the sky. The Arolie sisters fell down to the ground. The three run up to them to finish them up. The Arolie sisters got up and got ready to fight them too. They combined and realized fire on them. Kate broke the ground and gave water to them. It was a dead end. Neither will she or will they lose. Scarlett striked the lightning again and broke them apart. They moved backwards. They went back to it again. Mark jumped for Astraea and kicked him back down. He fell to the ground. Astraea goes for him and strangles him. Mark used his sword and stabbed him. Borra had no intentions to get rid of him. But Scott provoked him and shot him. He hits him back with the fireball and Borra down. He got down to finish him. Dragon Slair and her sister had no time to waste fighting. They remained and made the spells creating the wall. Mr Goldberg flew up with Mrs Barker who had long strong wings. They fought them up in the sky. Trying by all means to destroy what they were doing. No team was losing nor winning. It was then time for plan three of ILiara's. A lightning hit from the sky to the ground. Certain Soldiers from the kingdoms got killed by it. After that it rained heavily. The soldier's and warriors became weak. They vanished one by one with the sand. The witches remain powerful. Mr Goldberg looked at his team, their soldiers vanishing and perishing with sand. The rain poisoned them to death. Mother was one of them. She was weakling. She too vanished away. They all stood and watched her die and became hopeless. The Triad warriors were down looking at her too. They were hiding from the planes, their leader was gone. There were two now, Mother and Madeleine were down, six feet under. They were all bereft but it was part of the game. ILiara looked at them all with their sad faces and laughed at Lucida's face. "I told you, you would win, you are no good to us, give up", said ILiara laughing. Lucida threw her away. She looked around, only a few were left, most of the soldiers and some triad warriors were six feet under. Some were still perishing. You could count the remaining ones. Dragon Slair and the others gleed with happiness. They were winning again. John looked around too. He'd seen them perish in front of him. He looked back at him and there from far stood the robots. He took his last breath and fought the wizard back but the wizard pushed him back and he fell. "We will have to fight. We can't give up now", said Mark speaking through their heads. They all looked at him. They were all hopeless, fighting but not in fighting spirit. They had lost their mother. Their pillar of strength. She's kept them united and had fought with them for ever since they knew her. It was like when Lindasay died. It hurted too much, they were in grief. But they heard Mark's voice, neither would they deny they were here to fight and to stop them. They sat back down where they were defeated and looking at one another. They took a leap of faith and fought again. They were still defeated. There were too many to fight. The army of witches and the dragon pits were just too much for them. They tried using their powers but then you see their enemies were too powerful then. While they were still fighting, a plane flew down from the sky. "It's them, twins kill them", shouted ILiara. The twins stood ready to fight them. They've been waiting for this for too long. They looked around. All of them one by one froze, Mr Goldberg and the others. They were slowly dying with the dead flowers. Finding it difficult to breathe. The flowers were realizing an unpleasant smell holding their oxygen from the inside. That kept them surrounded and rooted to the ground. They were being buried with them. Steve died at that instance. He slowly became a skeleton, rotten and smelling. Neither could they escape, Lucida was with them too and the rain was still raining making it worse. That was ILiara's fourth plan. The girls got out, Elaine led the way followed by the others. Lindsay took a while to get off. They got off to a surprise of their parents being captured and to Steve dead with Mother and Madeleine not around. "Pass on, as you can see you fight us then they will die", said the twins. "Then we rather fight, see if they can", replied Suzette. Lucida stopped her. "Give it to them, girls", she shouted breathlessly. She was still breathing and kind of strong. The others were weakling. They could not speak. "She's right, we have to. They will die if we don't", said Matilda. They took the gemstone and the emarald out from the bag. They gave it to them. The twins realized them and they fell to the ground weak. They ran to their parents. "So much for thinking you were powerful enough", said ILiara. The last gemstone and the emerald joined the other ones. The herolie wall was completed, the gemstones shined brighter and broke off into ashes. They fell onto the wall. Flames broke through hitting every part of the world. Destroying the world over and again. Lindsay was inside the plane, she was waiting for the perfect time. She had planned it well with the girls with the sweetest and the soured revenge. Their underworld slowly ripped from the ground. The rain sweetened its roots. It was all dark and red now. Mr Goldberg and the others felt the ground tear apart and they slowly got up. Whereas the powers of the wizard and ILiara multiplied. They powered up again. "I told you Lucida, you are up to no good. You will all die tonight. This is our world, we don't share with any tribe, get it now", said ILiara. Lucida looked at her and her child with a shamed face. She was rather disappointed with the look on her child's face. She had learned the truth about her mother and her sordid past. "Twins finished them up. We have better things to do. It shall be easy to finish them while they are all down and weak", said the eldest Arolie sister. "Then you might like our pleasant surprise", said Matilda. "Of Course not, I hate surprises", said ILiara. "Twins finish them up", said Dragon Slair lifting his hammer up and hitting the ground. Lucida and others went back down again and fell to the ground. Dragon Slair headed straight to Lucida. She wanted to finish her up. A figure slowly came out from the plane. It was a woman they saw. She walked out until her whole body was exposed. All their eyes popped out even Mr Goldberg with John and the others. They were surprised. Dragon Slair turned back. ILiara spoke "It can't be, you're dead. I killed you", she said, shaking. "Her again", shouted the Arolie sisters. Mrs Barker got up and called out "My niece, she's back", she said laughing to their faces. "How did that happen?", asked Evelyn. "Just like how you all rise from death. It is also possible for humans too", replied Lucida getting up. Dragon Slair had frozen as well as his twins. They couldn't believe it. Mr Goldberg and the others too slowly got up. Jenny helped him up. She gave them hope. They may have lost their soldiers and warriors due to heavy rain but still having her was like having a whole army. Jessica was pissed. She hated Lindsay. She always fought her ever since they were young for the throne and she was the reason she got banished from the fairy kingdom at first. The present fairy queen looked at her and smiled. She grinned and crossed her fingers, swearing death. "They may have her but we still have a whole army", said Dragon Slair telling the others. Lindsay walked out to them. ILiara got pissed and ran to fight her. Lucida got in the way and fought her. Dragon Slair swore to finish her and lifted his hammer. Mr Goldberg jumped for him and sent him back to the ground. The Arolie sisters ran to finish Lindsay themselves multiplying themselves again. Kate and Jenny got in their way. Lindsay held ILiara with her hair while she was still on the ground. She pulled her up. ILiara stabbed her with her claws. Lindsay threw her down and her claws got off. She realized her green power to her as she was down. Lucida turned away and fought the dragon pits. The wizard sent the message to Dreadlock. It was through an unpleasant sound. The robots moved from then to fight them. Aurora fought the witches. Alexis realized thorns to trap them. Elaine burnt them. Alice broke the ground and realized water and sent them to the twins. Alexa clicked her finger, the water poured down to the ground. She created an electric fire ball from her hand to choke them. She later realized it. Suzette stood in front of them and shields, sending the ball back to her but the ball disappeared before it even got to her. Alexis got angry and did it again with her black magic. The others stood back. Matilda fired the dragon's fire at them. Both powers were too powerful for one another, they exploded causing the ground to vibrate. Only the weak fell. Fighting the robots was hard. They tried being linearth with them but the robots weren't. They were fighting brutally and killed some of their soldiers. Emir, Sirius, Austin, Mahmut and Dani came up with strategies to fight them and the six warriors to help them. But that was the least of their worries as from the left bit of sand their soldiers rose again. That ointment given by the fairy queen worked. They all rose from all the kingdoms. Even from the Atlantians, they all rose once again and fought them. The rain was still raining heavily, killing more people across the globe. Scarlett shot up to the sky. Her father shouted at her, she heard nothing. She flew up and the rain drops made it hard for her to see. She lifted her hands and spread them open. She twisted around. The clouds also twisted. The rain stopped. She flew up and got inside the clouds. She created a lot of lightning that the clouds cleared off and the sky returned to normal. This made ILiara angry. She could see how everything was going. She suddenly turned to the beast. Everyone was scared , even Lindsay moved back. She growled so loud at them. All the soldiers went down as well as the warriors. She had given her people more strength again. She stood tall above them and the two Phoenix birds joined her. Elaine felt an instant connection with them as she looked at them but it was instantly lost, they couldn't recognise her. They attacked her as well as the others. The robots, witches and dragon pits finished off what was left of them. Jorge died at that instance as he stood next to thorns when he fell and they stabbed him right through his heart. Lucida looked at Sandra. Sandra winked. She and her husband managed to get to the plane and hid from them. She does what she promised. And took a lot of arrows from her bag. Her husband took some and helped her to carry them from the back. She then held the ointment of moon flowers carefully. She was then ready to attack ILiara. Lucida and Lindasay teamed up and fought ILiara. Duncan and as well as the cops got through the system. They managed to open it and to crack the code. They entered and shutted the robots down one by one which ruined the whole place. They killed most of the soldiers and the Triad warriors. They shut down one by one. The wizard saw that and sent the dragon pits and Oscar's army to the planes. Dreadlock noticed the clinch, the robots shutting down and the others not working. And that someone who had cracked the code and hacked through the system with his friend got off and went to the other plane. He coincidentally got shot a million times as Duncan was firing at the robots. Dreadlocks heard the gunshots. He saw the chaos but noticed there were intruders and his friend dead. The woman and man fighting too, carrying guns shooting at dragon pits. He fisted and punched someone and it was Duncan. Duncan dropped the gun and pulled him by his neck and threw him down. He got up quickly and kicked Duncan down. Duncan fell and sat on top of him and strangled him. The woman shot him dead. Duncan nodded and shoved the dragon pits as they were all around him. He fought them but these things don't die with just gunshots on their own, especially the dragon pits. The policeman creeped inside the other plane. He found something in there. It was ointment in spray bottles. There were three of them. To him he thought it was liquid perhaps to spray off these creatures. Two dragon pits followed him inside. He sprayed them and they vanished out in the thin air. He looked around and saw the three spray bottles inside heavy and as that one. He walked outside and sprayed all the dragon pits and the witches. They all vanished. He did that whereas Duncan got inside and stopped the robots. He shut off their systems. And all the robots came to an immediate stop. Emir, the soldiers, warriors, Sirius and Dani now fought back with peace. Sandra ran back to the crowd whereas Austin went to the others on the plane. He saw the policeman carrying the spray bottles. He decided to help him . He took out one as well as Duncan. The woman took another one from under the table. They hid from the planes and sprayed all over. The witches and the dragon pits dissipated from the thin air. The witch spell washed away from the humans. "This is impossible, how can it be?," asked Evelyn. She could smell the scent of the ointment. She looked where it came from and ILiara throwed the planes away and they bombed. The police siren was heard from far when suddenly most of its cars bombed with the planes. They died at that instance. Duncan and the others ran out and layed on the ground whereas the plane bombed behind them. The spray bottles bombed the planes. They only saved themselves. "So you called the police?", asked Duncan. "Yeah, I needed backup but he's dead now," replied the woman. "Okay enough about that police stuff, are there any remaining bottles inside?", asked Austin. "No they ain't, we will have to fight back now", answered Duncan. "Do you and your buddy know how to fight?", asked Duncan. "Try us", answered the woman with such spirit. "Okay then, let's get them then", said Duncan. "But then with what? all our things were burnt in the fire", asked Austin. "Then follow me, I have some in my car", said the woman. They crawled and followed the woman to her car. It was parked away on a cliff just far from where they were. They took out bombs and guns. There was this police van next to them. It belonged to the captain but he was now dead too. He died with his team. The dragon pits had killed him. Perhaps he saw the woman's car and thought she was there and he died from then. They found the guns next to them and searched within the car. They found a whole lot of them. They took them together with the bombs. They run back to the crowd. ILiara and the phoenixes were unstoppable. They destroyed everything, killing many of them. It made it easier for the twins and her teammates to defeat them. ILiara would defend them as well as the phoenixes. The whole world was transformed to their underworld. And was now everywhere all over the world. The clouds were red. The soil black. The wind was so cold, it was filled with loneliness. Elaine tried getting up and again. And that connection would end, it would come and stop again. She felt like attacking it but it wasn't its fault. It was being controlled. Mr Goldberg fought while making his way to her. "ELaine you have to get up. You will have to strengthen your connection with them so that the spell can break. It's destroying everything. We will soon also turn to ashes if you don't get up", said her grandfather. She looked at him and looked around her. Her friends were trying but it was no use. No powers would equal one of the phoenixes. They were slowly becoming weak and restless on the ground. The world was slowly becoming toxic. She saw it beneath her legs, their underworld creeping from her feets. The sand turned black. Thorns growing from the ground replacing their flowers and trees building this strong wall. The water from the sea washes away, the Atlantians becoming weak as well as the Oceanias. The sea as well as its water was their strength and power. It shouldn't be washed away or dried out. The phoenixes shooting everywhere from the sky and destroying the entire universe and the other planets. She looked at the elders they were fighting still in hope to defeat and destroy the witches. She even saw Austin, the two police and Duncan running and shooting at the dragon pits and bombing them. ILiara was a show stopper and had killed the police man as he shot at her. She took off his head and it fell onto the ground with his body. This gave her strength. All of it was happening around her. She got up and lifted her hands pointing them to the Phoenixes. "It's such a waste. She also knows it won't work, it's impossible you won't be able to break the spell", shouted ILiara. She laughed so loud that everything next to her perished. Matilda got up and turned to a dragon too. She was as big as her. She attacked her. ILiara turned away crossly at her. Her mother tried with Lucida to stop her but ILiara threw them away. She looked Matilda straight in the eye. Matilda couldn't turn away or close them. But she did fire at her. The attacks were even pretty much bad. ILiara quickly turned her into a puppet. She fell to the ground again helpless. Her skin changed to fur. Her eyes became bigger as a doll. Her legs became small and covered with fur. Her nose and mouth are sponge. She fell and hit the ground. She didn't even bother looking at herself. She knew what she looked like. She was that useless doll again. Elaine was indeed failing. The spell was unbreakable. She lowered her hands, a tear fell from her chicks and then fell onto her necklace and it glowed. She fell to the ground. She faced Matilda and her eyes closed. She had the same vision from her childhood. It was now clearer, she could see everything clearly. It ended and she worked up. Matilda was still on the ground. She remembered the voice that spoke to her. She looked around and everything was the same as from the dream. She remembers the voice and its words and the only difference would be the ending that the voice had spoken to her. She slowly got up and raised her hands again. The necklace glowed over the Phoenixes eyes and ILiara's spell broke, her memory washed away from the phoenixes. They could now recognise her. She got up and slowly walked to them. She held them from their souls. Dragon Slair disturbed their connection. He hits the Phoenixes with his hammer. It shot straight at them over to the red then to the dark one. The two birds fell down on top of her. Matilda saw this lying on the ground. She realized and heard the fairy queen's voice, her aunt. She was looking at her fight and those of her trainers. She realized she hadn't lost herself. She just lost humanity. She picked up her hand, the dragon flame showed in her hands. She stood up a little. This gave the girls hope, they were also tired of being fought by the twins. They slowly got up, the twins stood and waited for them. They thought they would do like the other times and defeat them again. Aurora got that spirit, she threw the dragon pits away from her. They were all hearing voices of their trainers that Mother sent them too. Matilda fired the dragon flame over to dragon Slair. He lost his hammer. Mr Goldberg made a play out of him. Alice created a wave out of the sea's remaining water and realized them to the dragon pits and the armies of witches. They all washed away and fell down. Aurora kneeled down and torched the ground. She realized her power to connect to nature from within. The underworld slowly disappeared. Plants, trees with grass and the water from the sea to be restored again. Suzette foreseen the future with his father and that future was now present. They looked at one another, Suzette realized her black magic over to the herolie layer. It was destroying the world. That's what they had seen, more people and planets being destroyed. The herolie wall is broken. The ashes of the gemstones fell down to the ground like rain. ILiara noticed this and realized an enormous toxic, deadly filled poisonous snake beast. It was scary itself. It had a snake's head and a beast body. It ran to defeat the girls. It kind of realized poison over to them to instantly die. Kate and Scarlett tried stopping it but ILiara attacked them and hit them with her wings. They fell and got trapped in the thorns. Mr Goldberg tried slaying it, it jumped above him kicking him down from his head. It ran straight to them. It almost got them with its poison when the two Phoenixes rose up and stopped it. They breathed out the Phoenix power to it. It turned to a stone and broke down like sand. Elaine got up and stood next to the phoenix birds. Kate and Scarlett managed to get out from the thorns. Everyone now stood with their team again. ILiara being the protector and the shield of the witches as well as the phoenixes protecting Elaine and her troob. Dragon Slair shouted "Let's finish them all ''. The witches shouted and ran to them whereas they followed. "And we shall end this for once and for all", shouted Elaine too. They ran to finish them too. They were again back at it fighting. Lucida looked at Sandra, Sandra nodded. She and Lindasay ran to fight ILiara. Lucida flew up to the sky standing in front of ILiara whereas Lindasy flew behind her. They both attacked her from all directions. She tried fighting back but as planned Lucidas powers had regained, she was too powerful. She healed from every attack. ILiara tried by all means to kill them. Lucida makes her weak with the dark power. Sandra crept in with the help of Matilda's dragon. It flew her up. She poured the moon poushin over to the beast. It lost control. It became mad. ILiara couldn't control it anymore. It fired everywhere growling non stop. It damaged and stomped on everything. Sandra then flew a bit up, she took an arrow and shot it straight to its chest. The arrow got inside and killed it. The beast slowly turned to ashes. Lindsay and Lucida flew down as well as Sandra. ILiara soul with the wolf separated. She was back to herself again. She landed fastly to the ground and never was she seen that angry before like she was now. She realized her power over Lucida picking her up from the ground. Lucida broke it, she blew her back to the ground like paper. She got up again, Lindsay attacked her with her green magic. She saw it for herself as she rose up that she would lose. She stood up slowly and was in it for a surprise. "No, No", screamed ILiara. Lucida laughed back at her. "And yes it is guess who found out about your little secret that you killed and sent my parents to the prison book and yes right I found it and I will make sure no one reads of you", said Lucida. "You can't do that, you know you can't kill me. I'm too powerful for both of you, I had killed you once Lindasay and I will do it again as well as your parents. you won't succeed even if you tried", replied ILiara standing still, her power flaming in her hands. She was flying up and this was one of her best attacks for over many years. Many had never survived. Even the two knew it. Lucida looked at her and winked. She opened the book. Lindsay got ready to attack her. The fairy queen fought her sister, they were both on cross end. The fairy king on loose end with Oscar. He felt his body freeze, he couldn't move or anything. He saw snakes crawling from his legs. Oscar came closer controlling the snakes. Letting them bite him one by one. Suzette helped him and spoke through Oscar's mind and commanded him. Oscar lost mind and let go. The king saw it as a perfect chance and stabbed him. Elaine and the phoenixes fired all around and the dragon pits with the army of witches burnt. Aurora continued restoring the world. Mr Goldberg stabbed Dragon Slair from his chest as he jumped to attack him. Scott and Mark worked hand in hand as Mark got through the two brothers heads and confused them.They argued with themselves whereas Mark stabbed both of them as they were still confused fighting each other. They both fell to the ground. The twins tried attacking the girls but they got it coming. Matilda had her dragon's fire fired up, Elaine her phoenix power, Alice with a sea of water and Suzette with her dark power. They all fired at them and the twins fell to the ground defeated. Evelyn also had no chance Mrs Barker had her with her green magic. It surrounded her causing her to breath difficulty. "It is time we finished this up", Elaine, flying up to the sky with the phoenixes and the girls. They built up all the ashes of the gemstones from the ground. Two riding in with the phoenixes, one on Matilda's dragon whereas Aurora and Matilda flying next to them. ILiara realized her death power over them. Lindsay shielded back. She moved backwards whereas Lucida dropped the book. She kneeled down at ILiara. She begged her not to kill her. She took something from her jacket. She lifted it up. "It was all an act, I wouldn't kill you, you are too powerful for me. I get it now I chose the wrong side. Who leaves their own family, huh?", she said, picking up the death stone. ILiara looked at her, she lowered her hands. Lindsay shielded no more. "You do know with this stone everything would perish, no one's power is too powerful for it and the power it holds, everything dies and perishes with it. We can kill them (pointing to Lindsay and the others) We can rule the world, you and me, your father and the others' ', said Lucida begging. Everyone was surprised they stood amazed. She betrayed them. "Don't believe her, she's lying", shouted Borra with Astraea bleeding. ILiara looked at her. "Then prove yourself, kill one of them", said ILiara. "With pleasure'', she said. She looked at Scarlett like old times, her evil self revealed. Everyone was convinced she had betrayed and went back to her team. Mrs Barker spoke "I knew it she was faking it, there she is, her real self exposed showing her true colors' ', she said shouting and angry and still there was nothing she could do. She pulled Scarlett closer. She held her closer to her. Scarlett spoke softly `Don't do it, I beg you, I..I..", she said, tears falling from her eyes. Mark was confused, he tried speaking to her. "You can't do that, remember you changed, you left them... (he doesn't continue). She looked at him and got her nails inside her skull. Scarlett became silent from then on. Elaine was looking. She saw her mother die. Just like Matilda from the past, she saw her die and fall from death onto the ground. No last goodbye, no kiss and no last hugs. She wanted to fight back but it would be useless. No attack would even Lucida. She was being protected by the stone and everyone would die instantly if she did. She cried painful tears. His father stood bereft. He was angry and drops of tears fell from his eyes. Mr Goldberg kneeled down in tears. Mrs Barker touched his shoulder brushing him. Her parents shutted, they felt broken. They've only seen her now, just for five minutes and she was gone. Matilda couldn't hold her tears as well as the others. She remembered this day as if her mother was killed again. She could feel ELaines pain. It was cold as hell stabbing so hard. She held her and leaned her to her shoulder and both cried. Alice and Aurora moved slowly to touch her. Suzette was confused and embarrassed. She entered her mother's head and spoke multiple times but that didn't help. She sat on the dragon and folded herself shifting away from the others. She was scared to face the world. It was what her friends were scared of at that time. ILiara was convinced. She clapped her hands. Lucuda flew to her. She gave her the stone. "She was never one of us, she's always been with them. Leopards never change their spots. I should have killed her that time", said Mrs Barker. Elaine flew back down slowly with the others. She ran up to her mother and Suzette remained back. She looked at them fly down. Elaine looked at her and turned to tears crying. Lucida stood next to Iliara and they both hugged one another. From her she took her husband's death stone and placed it in her chest. ILiara's mouth opened, her skin was peeling off. She looked at the stone, it didn't protect her nor was it in her hands. She slowly lost her breath and became weak. Her powers wouldn't work. She fell to the ground. The twins ran to her crying and screaming. They kneeled at her. Elaine got up and wiped her tears. Everyone's hearts melted, Scarlett awakened. Elaine hugs her again. Suzette flew the dragon down to the ground wiping her tears. She got off and hugged Elaine and the others followed. Lucida picked up the book, and she created a spell speaking in tongues. Iliara's body moved from the ground to the book. The twins screamed holding their mothers body pulling it back but it slipped away like sand. She was then trapped in the book. The wizard tried to attack them with the others but they were undefeatable, the stone had protected them. Their powers were weak and had no effect on them. They were just ordinary witches with no powers. Even Scarlett herself was protected by the stone; neither did she die. That stone belonged to Lucidas father and was now hers. Everyone stood amazed as the phoenixes entered Elaine's body. She turned to it and was the phoenix herself. The twins tried fighting them but they were numb and useless. Lucida closed the book and from it remained a picture of ILiara at the front page. Scarlett hugged Lucida where Elaine and the others finished building the gemstones. It was now up to Aurora to finish the job. She took them and flew to the ground. She placed them down onto the ground in a circle and stood in the middle. Together with Elaine and her universal power they restored the world. All the witches with Dragon Slair disappeared with their underworld onto the ground. They tried but failed not to. They were sent back to the underworld and prisoned in there for the next hundred years. The spell broke from Matilda, she became older again. She was a fine beautiful woman in her 30's slender with long black hair. She had round green eyes. She had an Indian nose. Her body was shaped perfectly. The spell vanished into thin air. She stood and watched them. Elaine and the others had no clue what to do or say, that person was older now. They just looked at her and smiled as she smiled back. Her mother hugged her and cried. Her daughter had grown old. More beautiful and wise. The others joined too. Elaine just bowed at her as the phoenixes left her body and disappeared to their next home. No one knew which kingdom, perhaps the Atlantians again. Elaine smiled back as their traces were left behind. She moved her hand around them until they were gone. The gemstones were separated again. Now it was different. All kingdoms took them but now they were hidden in different places. Far from earth. Those places were only made known by the kingdoms only. They were still though given to all kingdoms on how they used to guard them. The whole world was restored with its people . All planets were brought back in shape. People crept out from where they were hiding, those who died awakened lost. They had to be brainwashed though so as not to remember anything. They all stood watching from a cliff. "So then what now, it's all over, where to from here?", asked Scott looking out from the cliffs at the blooming flowers. "We start over I guess, I mean what else and wait for the next attack", answered John. "But first how about a wedding?", asked Mr Goldberg and Mrs Barker holding hands. "Yeah that might be a great start, I think I missed being alive again", replied Lindsay. "Well then me and the girls shall prepare everything and by the way everyone's invited", said Matilda. "Yey! we are going to have a wedding", shouted Aurora excitedly. Her father picked her up and held her in his arms. Scott clears his throat and says "All kingdoms are invited to the wedding and all others, drinks and food (he turns and looks at them) yeah where are we going to get that anyway?", asked him clueless. "We will take care of the food", answered the four Jenny, Scarlett, Lucida and kate. "And leave the deco to us", said Lindsay referring to her and her sister. "Whereas we will come to eat, that is our job right", said Scott. They all laughed. "And we shall need groomsmen and maidens", said Sandra. "And I shall be designing the whole attire", said her continuing. "We here, ain't we?", asked Scarlett's parents. They were then bridesmaids. A couple others volunteered, the queen and king of Atlanta. Mr Houghton with her woman and the Ciampa king and queen, and a couple of others of the same age. "Fine then are you ready then for tomorrow", asked John. "Of Course yes, we are why not, we are not getting any younger", answered Mrs Barker, Mr Goldberg agreed. They all laughed. Everyone then scattered around preparing for the wedding tomorrow.

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