Teenage Sorcerers: Prophecy Foretold

Chapter 8: Friend or Foe?

Character Info

Aurora (Female)

Appearance: A 5'5 18 year old with medium length ginger hair that's pulled up into a messy high bun. She wears a white tank top with an exploding car on it. She has a green cardigan over the tank top and striped brown baggy jeans with the pant legs rolled up to her ankles. She also wears a pair of light brown sneakers with white ankle high socks.

Personality: Is extremely outgoing, to the point that it can appear annoying to some. She's incredibly athletic and competitive, turning every little thing into a contest. She's a gregarious person, always wanting to be with at least one other person. When left alone for too long, she would feel left out, even if nothing is going on for her to miss out on.

Malik (Male)

Appearance: A 5'9 19 year old with a black mini afro. He has a piercing on his right eyebrow and four ear piercings, two on each ear along with a mood ring on his left hand. He wears a sleeveless yellow hoodie with a ying yang design in the center of the hoodie's back, black joggers, and green sneakers.

Personality: He can be a bit of a coward alone, wanting to chicken out when he's on his own, but is able to stand his ground when he has his friends with him. He always thinks of logical reasonings for everything, even when dealing with sorcery situations. His strategic and critical thinking skills easily made him the best out of everyone else in his group to plan out missions and attacks.

Josephine (Female)

Appearance: A 5'6 18 year old with golden blonde hair pulled up into high twin buns. She wears light blue overalls with a dark orange sweater underneath it. She has beige moccasins with a sunflower pattern design on the front of them.

Personality: Childish to the point that it's seen as an occasional annoyance to her friends. It takes a while for her to take certain things seriously, seeing those certain things as a joke at first. She has the ability to be extremely creative, being able to create anything out of everything. When it comes to getting herself in trouble, she turns to a completely different person, willing to fight someone to the death if it meant she would get off scot free.

Bora (Female)

Appearance: A 5'5 20 year old with short fluffy hair that's dyed to a midnight purple color and a gray hair clip. She wears a black spaghetti strap crop top with a black skirt reaching her lower thighs. Underneath, she wears lace stockings and dark gray hunting boots.

Personality: Usually a laid back person, mostly chill with everything and tries to go with the flow. Isn't too good at physical support, but is great with moral support. Very broad-minded, accepting everyone and everything for who or what they are, even if she doesn't 100% understand it herself. Also has a short temper, becoming aggressive whenever her friends make stupid decisions.

After everyone went back into the hut, Lucius sat them down in the living room, basically being the go-to spot whenever anything important was to be discussed. "Alright, so how does what just happened have to do with your mythical abilities..?" Sabbi asked Lucius as she rubbed Andre's back to comfort him. "Well...it's true that everyone can get a max of two abilities, but there's one way you can get more than two..." Lucius sighed and moved towards the oven after hearing the timer ding, signifying that the pizzas were ready. "The only way you can get more than two abilities is if you kill someone or their companion and take their abilities, but it only works when you kill them with your own mythical abilities.." He pulls out the pizzas and serves them up on paper plates. "That happened with me and someone close...I'm not ready to go into full detail about it, so all I can say is that I ended up with their abilities in the end...the sphere of light you saw from Tempest was his mythical ability, but it should've been given to that girl. It only goes up into the sky when it's finding its way back to the Crystal Calamity. If someone with a mythical ability is killed by someone with no ability or from other causes, the ability will be sent straight to the Crystal Calamity, but right now it's not stable to handle anymore power..." "So why did the girl not take Tempest's ability? Did she not want it?" Chaz asked Lucius while scarfing down her pizza. "It doesn't work like that, the ability should've gone to her regardless if she wants it or not...and she clearly had mythical abilities, so she should've been given the storm creation...I'm not exactly sure why she didn't get it. I also noticed that Andre and Kennethn have unlocked their new abilities, but we'll wait until a bit later on to discuss about them.'' Lucius assured them as they all continued to eat, Andre being the only one not to touch his food. Everyone decided to let him have some space, knowing how much losing Tempest had an affect him. While they were eating, they remembered that Andre had left to get drinks but must've left the bag outside from all the commotion. Sabbi set her plate down and made her way outside, agreeing to search for the bag for everyone. She looked through the trees and bushes before seeing the bag of drinks in the distance. As Sabbi took a few steps towards the direction of the items, she could see a group of figures walking towards the bag as well. She held herself back as she watched the group from a safe distance. "The group lives somewhere around here, I swear!" a whiney voice could be heard from one of the figures. Sabbi moved a bit closer and immediately recognized who it was, seeing the same girl from earlier with a small group of people with her. "Josephine, if you're playing another one of your dumbass pranks, I'm going to kick your ass." a girl with fluffy purple hair and a halberd scoffed at Josephine as she picked up the bag of drinks. "Sweet, free drinks! Hand me one, Bora!" a girl with ginger hair up in a bun and a pair of axes exclaimed as she peered into the bag. "Aurora, chill out! You're not drinking a random soda from the middle of the forest!" Bora pushed Aurora's head away from the bag and tied the handles up so she couldn't grab one. This caused an argument between Aurora and Bora to form, Josephine now trying to talk over them so she could lead them to Lucius's hut. "Can you guys shut up?! If Jospehine is telling the truth about the group being here, we won't get shit done with you all fighting!" a boy with a black mini afro and a spiked mace raised his voice at the girls. This made the girls shut up and finally have complete silence surrounding them. "Jeez Malik, maybe lower your voice a little?" Aurora furrowed her brows a bit before hearing Josephine exclaiming. "Over here! There's the hut!" Josephine pointed over to the hut that Lucius and the rest of the Midnight Crusaders were still eating in. "I don't think it'll take long to take them out, I killed one of their companions already, so it shouldn't take long with all of us against them!" Josephine smiled as she got her slingshot ready. "I still think we should be stealthy, just in case something else goes down. What do you think, Lulu?" Malik asked, turning behind him. Sabbi froze when she heard the name, not believing that it could be who she thought it was. She felt her heart sink down to the pit of her stomach as she recognized the person Malik was talking to. "Yeah, we can sneak up on them by circling the hut. I don't think it'll take long to deal with them all..." Lulu grunted as he got his hammer ready, signaling for his group to do the same with their weapons. Sabbi wanted to do something right then and there, but she couldn't. She had no mythical abilities yet to fight them off and she left her sword in the hut, she couldn't even make it back to the hut to warn the others since that would mean running past Lulu and his group. She searched for her phone to call one of her friends, but she left it in the hut as well. Despite all that, she knew she had to do something, she didn't want to just stand there and do nothing. As she tried to form a quick plan in her head, Lulu and his group began making their way to the hut. "No windows...we'll just break the hut in and crush them up. If that doesn't finish them off, use your combos." Lulu ordered, the rest nodding in agreement. They began circling around the hut and standing in position, getting ready to attack. Sabbi had to think quickly, so she grabbed a rock from the ground and threw it at the nearest group member, which was Aurora. "Ow! What the hell?!" Aurora turned and saw Sabbi amongst the trees. "Hey, get over here, you douchebag!" she yelled as she ran towards Sabbi. This was all Sabbi could do, try to distract the group and make enough commotion as possible so her friends could come out and see what's going on. As Sabbi was being chased by Aurora, she ran past Josephine, quickly snatching her weapon in the process. Sabbi looked down at her hands and mentally facepalmed herself. Out of all the weapons she could've snatched, she had to snatch the metal slingshot? She had nothing to use as ammo, so when Aurora caught up to her, she panicked and quickly swung the slingshot at her. A small crack was heard coming from Aurora as she collapsed onto the floor, blood coming from her mouth. "Holy shit! Aurora!" Bora rushed over to her wounded friend as Josephine started chasing Sabbi around to retrieve her weapon. Malik ran past Jospehine and rushed at Sabbi from behind with his spiked mace and smacked her in the back with it, causing a long streak to form. Sabbi fell over in pain, reaching to feel her back and could tell that she was now bleeding, along with bits of her hoodie ripped off from the marks. "Lulu, come finish her off! We'll deal with the hut!" Malik called out to the group leader, swinging his spiked mace up and hitting Sabbi with it once again, this time in her leg. She wailed in pain, loud enough for her friends and Lucius to hear from inside the hut. "Shit, we gotta do this guys! It's time to strike!" Malik called to the others in his group. As his group began striking at the hut, Lulu towered over Sabbi, his hammer raised in the air. Lucius and the others quickly left the hut, weapons up and ready to fight off their attackers. As the rest of the Midnight Crusaders and Lulu's group began to fight one on one, Lulu could only stare down at Sabbi, not moving his hammer at all. He had it lined up to go right at her head, but he couldn't move. Sabbi stared back at him for a few seconds before seeing Lulu's lips move. She could tell he was trying to say something to her, but she couldn't hear what was being said. Lulu' voice could be heard increasing in volume until Sabbi could finally make out what he was saying. "Leave..." Lulu whispered loudly, making Sabbi question his motives. "What? Hell no!" Sabbi slowly stood back up, still in excruciating pain. She couldn't even stand properly, now not being able to put much pressure on her right leg thanks to Malik. "You need to leave before my group sees me letting you go!" "I'm not going anywhere! I'm not leaving my friends to fend for themselves, and I'm not letting you get away with any of this! I'm the leader, so I'm standing my ground and going to kick your ass!" Sabbi yelled at him as she held herself up against the hut. "You can't beat me! You've seen what I'm capable of! And you don't even have your weapon on you or any mythical abilities of your own, what kind of a leader are you that you're the weakest link in your own group?!" Sabbi grumbled and tackled Lulu in response, pushing his hammer away and throwing punches at him. Lulu didn't hit her back, grabbing her arms and holding her still instead. When Sabbi tried to move away, she couldn't move her body at all. She looked down at her body and began to panic as she saw herself slowly turn to stone. "I gave you a chance to leave, you should've taken it!" Lulu yelled at her as he continued turning her to stone. "Why are...you doing this...?" Sabbi looked up at him, slowly getting weak from the stone putting increasing pressure on her ribcage and the blood she was losing from her open wounds. "Your group and Lucius are trying to restore the Crystal Calamity! You guys think you can corrupt and take over the sorcery realm, but you failed!" Lulu managed to have Sabbi turned to stone up to her neck. "W-What..? We're t-trying to save t-the sorcery r-realm..!" Sabbi spat out as she could feel the stone move up her neck, gently squeezing against it. "What the hell are you talking about? We're the ones trying to save the sorcery realm!" Lulu let go of Sabbi's arms in response, the stone slowly reversing from Sabbi's body. "The Crystal Calamity...isn't..." Sabbi kept trialing off while she spoke before collapsing onto the ground. Her vision was a blur as she saw Lulu calling out towards his group and making them seize their battle with the Midnight Crusaders. She could see both of the groups arguing for a brief moment before her vision turned black.