Third Person's POV
"Okay, guys... we need to hurry. The sun will soon be up in a few hours. We need to get a cure for Ashleigh before the sun rises. Now let's go!"
The friends are now in a carriage going to the forest. When they reached their destination, they immediately got out of the carriage. Stheno and Demian were late coming down.
Stheno really wants to ask the young man what the reason is and why he is kind to her friend.
Out of sheer curiosity, she pulled the young man away which caused the young man to stop walking. The young man raised an eyebrow which meant he wondered what she had done.
"Demian." Stheno said seriously to the young man's name.
"What?" no emotion said the prince.
"Why are you so kind to my friend?" Stheno asked immediately.
"Lady Stheno... why do you want to know the reason for my kindness to your friend?" the prince asked back to her.
"I want to know the truth." she answered seriously.
The young man sighed and stared at the girl seriously.
"Because she's kind." the prince replied.
The girl raised an eyebrow and suppressed her annoyance.
"Tell me the truth. What is your reason?" the maiden asked the prince again.
The prince just smiled and walked again.
The girl followed him again on the walk and eventually the young man stopped walking.
The two of them both stopped walking and there the young man confronted the girl.
"Do you like my friend?" Stheno asked the young man directly.
The young man looked away and there Stheno noticed the young man's smile and covered his mouth with his fist. In the girl's mind. the young man seemed thrilled when she asked the question. Stheno smirked and spoke again.
"You really like her. Don't you?" she asked again.
The young man is still looking away, Stheno smiled and seems to want to speak again but she just shrugs. While smiling, Stheno decided to follow the young man again. That's all she wanted to know. To know that the young man really likes her friend.
"You really like her huh?" she thoughts and keeps walking alongside the prince.
Arriving at the center of the forest, they immediately went to the alleged waterfall. And there they saw a very nice waterfall. the waterfall with pink water and they are seems fascinated by what they saw because its water is shining because of the moonlight.
"Amazing!" Lizette said in almost whispered.
"I know right?" Elgin said almost gaping.
Demian started to pick up a rock and in a few moments, It turned into a golden chalice with a lid on top.
"Maybe this golden chalice can be used to fill it with water." said Demian and handed Stheno the glass.
"Yes, It can be." Stheno replied.
Stheno immediately walked closer to the waterfall and fetched water from it. When she got the water she let it go for some inexplicable reason.
"Stheno?" Ember called out to her after seeing what happened.
Stheno turned around and suddenly someone pushed her into the water.
"AHHHH!" Stheno shouted as she fell into the water.
Her eyes immediately searched for who had pushed her but she could not find it. After a while, there was a strange breeze her companions felt.
"The heck is this?" whispered Cadmus and prepared himself for the use of magic.
But like what happened to Stheno, someone pushed him not into the waterfall but into a deep pit near it.
"Crap! That's it! who pushed me?" he said annoyed almost loudly.
"Stheno! Jax! Are you all right?" Shreya said worriedly.
"I'm fine!" Cadmus shouted and floated up the pit back to his companions.
Stheno immediately floated in the water while holding the golden chalice which now contains freshwater from the waterfall. they heard some muffled and laughing voices from nowhere.
"What was that?" Stheno asked while floating in the air.
"Hello Lady Stheno." said a voice.
They immediately searched for it all but could not find it.
"I know that voice." Stheno thought to herself.
"Who are you?!" Elgin asked angrily while searching everywhere.
They felt the strange breeze again and suddenly a whirlwind appeared in front of them.
"W-What is happening? AHHH!" Shreya almost shouted, as she hugged the tree so she could not be blown away by the wind.
"Hold on tight to the trees!" Stheno commands them.
Her friends immediately did that so that they would not be swept away by the whirlwind.
In just a few minutes the whirlwind turned into a cloud of smoke and two figures came out of it.
"Hello, mages."
The two figures in the smoke could not stop laughing.
"You!" Stheno's eyes almost glazed over when she saw the two figures as the smoke disappeared completely.
"HAHAHAHA! Surprise, Surprise!" said the woman wearing the purple jumpsuit outfit.
"What are you two doing here?" Stheno asked the two women who were now in front of her.
They stopped laughing when they heard her question.
"We're here because we wanted to play with you guys." the woman in a leather jacket replied and flicked her hand.
The woman in the leather jacket suddenly disappeared.
"W-Where did she go?" Lizette said nervously while holding her sister.
"What the? L-Let me go!" struggling Shreya says.
"Oh I'm sorry but I have no intention of releasing you." said the woman and laughed out loud and suddenly Shreya was electrified by it.
"AHHHH! ARGH! S-STOP!" screamed Shreya said because of the pain she was feeling.
"SHREYA!" Elgin shouted and out of anger, he made a big ball of sand and wind and threw it at the woman.
When the woman was hit by it, she released Shreya. Elgin immediately ran to catch his friend and immediately caught the girl.
"S-Shreya... Shreya." Elgin whispered to the friend but she did not open her eyes.
In a fit of rage, a huge tornado suddenly engulfed the young man from the waterfall.
"What did you do to her." Elgin asked without emotion to her.
But it just laughed.
"What did you do to her?" he asked again.
It stopped laughing and stared at Elgin.
"Your friend is too noisy, so... I put her to sleep for now." she answered and laughed again.
But before she could laugh completely, she was immediately struck by a tornado which caused her to circle around inside of it.
"Duana!" called the woman Stheno was talking to earlier.
"H-Help me, Nisha!" Duana shouted.
"Release her!" Nisha shouted.
"No." no emotion says Elgin.
The tornado is now moving faster and faster now that it is moving toward the waterfall.
Stheno immediately approached her friend Shreya and immediately used magic to wake her up.
Slowly Shreya opened her eyes and hugged her.
"Shreya. Take this remedy. You should go back to the palace. When you arrive, take it back to Ashleigh as soon as the sun rises so hurry up." Stheno whispered to her.
"B-But... what about you guys?" Shreya asked worriedly.
"Me, Demian, and Cadmus will be left here. Just go ahead and take care of that water. Make sure you will take care of it and give it to Ashleigh right away." Stheno whispered to her friend again.
"Yes, But promise me you three will be careful." said Shreya.
Stheno just nodded at her.
Shreya immediately performed magic and suddenly the golden chalice with only water from the waterfall disappeared.
"Elgin! Lizzy! Ember! Let's go!" Shreya calls the three of them.
They immediately ran closer to Shreya.
"Where are we going?" Ember asked her.
"Going back to the Fleland." she replied.
They ran and immediately looked for the carriage that brought them to that place.
"What about my brother, Demian, and Stheno?" Elgin asked her.
"They'll be following us as soon as they stop those two. But first, we have to go back to the Fleland. we need to give it to Ashleigh as soon as possible." Shreya replied.
Arriving at the carriage, they immediately boarded it.
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"Follow them, sister." Nisha commands her sister.
"Right away sister." Duana replied and immediately chased Shreya's group.
After Duana left, Nisha immediately confronted the three Stheno, Demian, and Cadmus.
"What do you think you're doing? Enya? Your friends can escape? That's where you made a mistake." Nisha said seriously to her.
"Leave them alone Nisha." Stheno said seriously.
"Why? Are you scared? Are you afraid your friend will die?" said Nisha and tilted her head to the side.
Stheno's eyes widened and she approached Nisha and held her by the collar.
"Tell me... are you responsible for what happened to Ashleigh?" Stheno asked with wide eyes and touched Nisha's collar even tighter.
"I am, Why?" smiling Nisha asked her.
"You bastard!" Stheno slapped Nisha and pushed her to the ground.
"Stheno." Cadmus grabbed Stheno by the arm to stop her.
"How did you get into the celebration?" Demian asked Nisha without emotion.
Nisha turned to her and smirked at him.
"Even if we are not invited, we can still afford to attend your celebration." Nisha replied.
"And you put a hex on Ashleigh's drink!" said Stheno and struggled as Cadmus grabbed her.
"Yes, because..." Nisha cut off and touched Stheno on the cheek. "We want to get her." she explained and laughed out loud.
Suddenly, a large flash of lightning struck the four of them.
As the lightning struck, Nisha disappeared.
"Where did that damn girl go?!" the anger was obvious in Stheno's eyes.
Cadmus was suddenly struck by a black object on his arm and suddenly bled.
"I'll play with you first before you get back to Fleland. I'm sure Duana is torturing your friends now. Tictac Enya... you might not be able to save your friend from her malady." Nisha teases her.
"Bullsh*t, how could we defeat her if we couldn't even see her?" said Cadmus as he held his now bleeding arm.
"I think... I know how to defeat her." Demian whispered.
"How?" Stheno and Cadmus asked at the same time.
"Just watch..." Demian said and smirked.
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Shreya's POV
"Coachman, take us to the castle immediately!" I ordered the driver.
"Right away Your Highness." the coachman replied.
The coachman hurriedly drove the carriage.
"You can't go far... Princess!" Duana laughed.
We were all surprised to hear her laugh.
"Hurry up coachman!" I command.
The coachman accelerated the operation even further away as Elgin decided to be left.
"The three of you go first. I will follow you right away." said Elgin.
"No way! We all need to get back! Stheno told me that! Do not rebuke El!" I said to him and held him by the arm.
"Shreya, I can't. I have to stay behind... I have to mess with her so she can't follow us. So you three should go." said Elgin and immediately jumped down into the carriage.
"ELGIN!" I shouted but he just waved.
Due to the speed of the carriage, I could no longer see him.
Within minutes we were back at the castle. Mom and Dad immediately greeted us.
"King Symon, Queen Seana." Lizzy said and she was with her sister who was curtsy in front of my parents.
"Where are your other friends? Why are there only three of you coming back?" my mother asked us worriedly.
The three of us both looked down and sighed.
"We were attacked by 2 twin witches. Stheno, Demian, and Cadmus were left at the waterfall... while Elgin. Misled witch Duana." I explained while looking down.
"Then..." my mother covered her mouth and immediately hugged me.
"We need to get back to Fleland right away. We only have an hour and the sun is about to go up. We need to give our friend the cure for her malady right away." Ember explained.
"All right... enter the portal immediately." my father said.
I smiled at them and immediately hugged them both.
"Thank you, mom, dad." I said and at the same time, Lizzy and Ember and I entered the portal.
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When we returned to Fleland we immediately approached Duchess Matilda.
"We need to give her that water." she said and we immediately went to the room where Ashleigh was staying.
I immediately handed Duchess Matilda the golden chalice which was then bring it to Ashleigh's lips.
"Is she swallowing? Your Grace?" I asked Duchess Matilda.
"Yes but..." Duchess Matilda interrupted what she was saying and swallowed.
"But what?" Lizzy asked.
"She still doesn't wake up."
To be continued...