Ancient Mystic's War of the Realms Saga - Lady Adellandra Dratianos (electric book reader TXT) 📗

rim. “I am impressed, little sister.”
Sabrina smiled, but found he wasn’t finished.
Damian had a mischievous smile on his lips when he faced her. “Not bad, for a beginner.”
Sabrina was furious. “I am no beginner. I have been Earthbound with the Dominionite Crystals. I have been Exiled in the Crusades, coming back with the Abolishment Spell of Father’s. I have also led your Warrior Army to battle against Lord Guardian.” She spat. “How dare you call me a beginner!”
Damian held his grin. “Did you know what I had done?”
Sabrina was curious. “Tell me.”
“Sister Mary Ellen pines for love, power, and control.” Damian replied. “I just gave her a push.”
He showed her a sphere of pink energy.
Sabrina grabbed at it, but he jerked it away. “You took away one of her powers?” She was astonished. “How? You must tell me!”
He made it disappear by throwing it into the air. “In time, sister, in time.”
Damian tossed a few charms into the cauldron until it smoked up the room. He stood silent while he watched her stare deep into her cauldron. He saw the self-satisfied grin on his sister’s face.
Damian couldn’t have been prouder of his sister than he was at that moment.
“I want a piece of the action.” He declared, making her look up at him.
“Do your worst, Damian.” Sabrina supplied. “I dare you.”
They never knew their cousin had listened from her hiding spot, hearing the whole thing.

II

Katherine Hawk-Stargazer flew to the Palace of the Ancient Mystic Sisters. They had to know what was going on. Sabrina and Damian were back, and worse than ever. Lord Guardian O’Dell himself met her at the door.
“What bothers you, Lady Katherine?” O’Dell asked her.
She bowed, telling him what she overheard. By the time she was finished, she’d had more of an audience. Jezebel had joined them.
Jezebel and Katherine stared at each other, with Katherine biting her lower lip.
“Just Sabrina and Damian, my Lord.” Katherine told him. “Why must they threaten our happiness?”
O’Dell shook his head. “The Dark Magic consumes them.”
“I have even tried to re-Exile her using the Exiling Spell.” Jezebel told them.
“What happened?” Katherine asked.
“The Crystal’s glow distracted me.” Jezebel said. “Before I could be drug into its power, I disappeared. I warned her she would destroy herself if she was not careful. I even told her the truth about herself being a Ancient Mystic, but she did not believe me.”
“She is too into the Dark Magic, Jezebel.” Katherine said. “She is truly her father’s daughter.”
When she closed her eyes, an empathic vision clouded her mind-sight. It made her gasp.
“Katherine?” Jezebel put a hand on her niece’s shoulder, startling her out of the vision.
“It’s Kit.” Katherine said. “Something’s wrong with her.”
“Hurry, then.” O’Dell instructed.
She closed her eyes and disappeared. She reappeared in the air, flying above her sister’s home in the Feline Village. When she caught sight of Kit’s mate, Toby, pacing in the grass, she called to him as she descended.
“Toby!”
Tobias “Toby” White-Snow was a jungle tiger, with black and orange stripes. The Emerald amulet around his neck glowed black, telling Katherine something was wrong with Kit.
She was in front of him in moments. “Toby, what’s wrong?”
Toby stopped pacing to face her. “Kit is acting strange, but she will not talk to me.”
“I will speak to her.” Katherine told him.
Toby grabbed her arm as she passed him. “Tiger worries for her. Her amulet glows red, and I am afraid for all our lives.”
Katherine purred, hugging him to calm him. Tiger was their white tiger son. “Please Toby, calm down.”
“The Crusades...” He muttered, now staring into space. “She keeps talking about the Crusades.”
Katherine didn’t want to remind him, but she had to, to get his attention. “Warrior Tobias, listen to me. The Crusades are long over, you know that.” He faced her once more, his eyes frightened. “Relax. I will find what is worrying Kit.”
Toby nodded, and Katherine headed inside.
She found her sister curled up in the corner of a room. Kitten’s Claw was shaking, rocking herself and crying. Katherine rushed to her side.
“Kit, what’s wrong?” Katherine hugged her sister, hoping to calm her tears. She noticed the Sisterhood Amulet around her sister’s neck was indeed glowing red. Being it was the White Crystal Amulet, it would usually be clear.
“I did not mean to do it...” Kitten’s Claw muttered under her breath between gasps.
“What did you do?”
It took a moment for Kit to answer her sister’s question. By that time, Katherine’s fur was wet from her sister’s tears.
“It is all my fault.” Kit revealed. “I brought Sabrina back from the Unknown. I did not mean to, it just happened.”
“Nonsense.” Katherine assured her, secretly watching the necklace. The amulet was now pink. “Sabrina got the spell from –.”
“Jezebel’s and Orthos’s Spell-books.” Kit replied. “It is called the Abolishment Spell.”
“Still, how are you to blame?” Katherine asked.
“It was the middle of the Crusade, with Sister Shannon’s friends.” Kit started. “I found Aunt Jezebel’s Spell-book in the Throne Room of Dark Tower. It was opened to a new page, with nothing on it. In front of my eyes, it appeared. I read the words as they were written. Once the spell was finished, it glowed, and I knew I had to have it. I did not know its purpose until I overheard Jezebel and Orthos talking later that night. I wrote it down on a separate piece of paper, just in case something happened to me, I would call it.”
“Where does Sabrina’s Exiling come in?”
“Somehow, she found my copy of the spell, using it to come back.” Kit began to cry again. “I told you it was my fault.”
Katherine hugged her sister, keeping an eye on it. The amulet was back to clear white. “Come on, Lady Kitten’s Claw. Your followers need you to be strong.”
Once Katherine helped her sister to stand, Kit hugged her. “You do not blame me?”
“Nay.” Katherine shook her head. “You know how Sabrina is. Evil, seductive.”
“Hurting, cruel, mean, heartless.” Kit went on, then rolled her eyes. “Thank you for listening, Katherine.”
“What are sisters for?” Katherine smiled. “I have to be going home now. Wolf and Celine are waiting for me at Stargazer Castle.”
“You will come again, Kat?” The sisters heard Toby’s voice behind Katherine.
Katherine turned and saw Toby holding his son’s hand. Toby’s necklace was back to the green Emerald color it had been before.
“Of course.” Katherine supplied. She hugged her nephew’s shoulders, making Tiger White smile and blush in embarrassment. “Anytime.”
“Can I come with you?” Tiger White asked her.
He and Celine got along great, and were always the best of friends with another Companion-Crusader’s daughter, Destiny.
Katherine looked to his parents. “If you do not mind.”
Kit shook her head, hugging Toby’s waist and kissing him on the cheek. Now Toby blushed, and the sisters laughed. “Go right ahead, but be careful in the Canine Wood, Tiger.”
“Aye, Mother.” Tiger White mumbled reluctantly.
Katherine tapped his shoulder. “Race you!”
Tiger smiled and disappeared in front of their eyes.
With a wink, she was gone.
When they reached Stargazer Castle, both Celine and Destiny Grey were there to greet them.
As she let the children play in the Wood, Katherine couldn’t help noticing her own Sisterhood Amulet. It was the Ruby, with the Earthbound power of Telepathy. At that moment, it was bright burgundy, the color it was supposed to be. Smiling, she opened the door to greet her canine mate.

III

At about the same time, Sabrina and Damian were in the Old Dominion’s underground dungeons. Damian was growing tired of waiting for his sister to make her next move.
“Come now, Sabrina.” Damian growled impatiently. “If we do not do something soon, they will think we have given up.”
“Who said I was giving up?” Sabrina asked, facing him. “Who is to say I do not have something bigger planned?”
At this, Damian laughed. He jumped off the rock he was sitting on and went over to the cauldron. “Face it, little sister, you have no clue.”
Sabrina fumed. “How dare you!” She screamed. “Just wait until you see what I have planned for them next.”
Damian shook his head, looking at her. His laughter stopped when he saw the Black-as-Night Crystal that still hung around her neck. It was no longer glowing. In fact, as he took it into his hands, he could see and feel the magical glow fading. “Have you used this recently?”
“At Witches Grove with Young Guardian and her sisters.” Sabrina said. “Why?”
“Feel it.” He said simply.
She was confused. “What? Why?”
“Just do it!” He roared, once-black eyes now glowing bright red.
She took it from his hands and closed her eyes, hoping to catch the power in it through her system. She found nothing, opening her eyes. “What’s wrong with it?”
“Its power is being drained by the Dominion.” Damian said. “Do you know how to charge it?”
Sabrina looked at it and shook her head. “Maybe if we go back to the Unknown, Father will know what to do?”
“What? And give up here?” Damian wasn’t too happy with her suggestion.
“We will get back to the Dream Realm; I assure you dear brother.” She said, nodding her head with a malicious grin on her blackened lips.
Damian crossed his arms. “Well, how do we get back without being Exiled?”
“Hmmm.” She said. “Good question.”
“Maybe Mother was right and we are Ancient Mystics?” Damian suggested. “Maybe then we could use our powers to propel us back to the Unknown?”
“If in fact we are Ancient Mystics.” Sabrina replied.
Sabrina began to pace, thinking. Damian watched her as she circled the cauldron, touching its rim with only a finger. When she stopped, he stared at her.
Her face brightened, her eyes glowed brilliant red. Sabrina the former Dominionite Maiden had a wonderful thought in her head.
Excited, she blurted it out. “The Palace of the Ancient Mystic Sisters!”
Damian was listening. “Go on.”
“Well, we could use the Mirror at the Palace to take us to the Unknown without losing our powers in the process!” Sabrina screeched happily. “What do you say about that?”
Damian smiled. “That is the first sensible thing you have said in your life.” He looked away. “Wait, though. How would we get in? No one but the Ancient Mystics themselves can enter it, or the Mirror Room. Father told us that in the Wars for Power, remember?”
“Yeah, Yeah, I remember.” Sabrina mumbled. “Why not give it a shot anyway, Damian? What do we have to lose but the power in this necklace?”
“I admit, you do have a point.” Damian said. “What are we waiting for?”
The siblings took hands and whisked themselves to the Palace of the Ancient Mystic Sisters.
Damian’s head began to pound so he shook it. He saw Sabrina was having a hard time standing on her own. “Are you okay?”
She nodded. “The power in the necklace is weakening. We have to get to Father, quickly.”
“Right.” He said, looking from side to side.
“What are you looking for?”
“One of the Sisters.” Damian said. “I do not plan on getting caught.”
Sabrina rolled her eyes, then spotted the door to the Ancient Mystic Palace.
“What luck?” Sabrina said. “The door is open.”
The siblings tiptoed inside the forbidden Ancient Mystic Palace. As they walked to where they thought the Mirror was held, Sabrina could feel her Dark Magic fading, and a new, invigorating Magic filled her system. It was enough to make her sick, yet, it also made her feel more powerful than before.
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