Fina flipped thrice, escaping the spell.
She had nothing to defend herself and Tyrell didn't stop either.
If only she was connected to her wand.
Bryce Parker was right.
She shouldn't learn the hard way. It's definitely painful to not be connected to your wand.
How does magic becomes one's life?
Tyrell had said you breathe magic.
Do you fight with someone who breathe magic when you can't even feel it's breeze?
"Running away doesn't solve anything. You are a threat to our world. And we get rid of every threat"
"I don't even know you" Fina said
Tyrell had darkened all the walls. There's no escape.
"That's why we have to make sure you never know about us"
"Tetsiya Bilincuns!"
That hit her and Fina fell to the floor.
Every limbs in her body weakened and the pain she hadn't felt before in her stomach hit her in waves.
That meant, she was merging with reality. She was becoming real here.
Tyrell wrapped his fingers tighter on his wand.
Fina could only watch him as he flexed his hands on his wand.
No. His dark wand.
She closed her eyes and with every will in her, summoned her wand.
She felt nothing.
She calmed her breathing.
"There are so much things you don't know about our world. Not even Frida. If you know our Elders, you won't try to stop us from getting the book"
"Why do you hesitate? Kill me" Fina said
"I'm just wondering, would it be smart to kill you? I can just take you to them"
She felt something but it was weak. A connection.
The feeling began to come in waves and soon she felt warm.
Her wand appeared in her hand and without waiting she said the spell that first came to her mind.
"AYUNUP ESTERIDUS MANIFSA!"
All the glass exploded and separated them.
Fina didn't know if it made everything worse because now she had to deal with three enemies.
Jessica was limping badly. Coco still had the red eye mask on.
Tyrell was trying to get up. He had been closer to the glass.
His wand was knocked out but closer to him.
None of them had the book.
Fina pointed her wand to Tyrell's own and ordered it to come to her with a mind spell.
Tyrell grabbed it before it could reach her.
Fina avoided Coco at all cost but Coco didn't leave her alone.
She moved closer to Fina, the red eye bulging from her head.
Fina closed her eyes which turned out to be a disadvantage because Jessica used that opportunity to attack.
Adrenaline coursed through her and she pricked her hand on the spine attached to her body.
Fina wrapped her hand on Coco's eye and she screamed. The red eye bulged so bad.
It shrunk completely and Coco was blinded.
Tyrell and Jessica attacked her with spells which she swatted away with her wand.
White light radiated from the wand she was holding and she wrapped her hand tighter to it.
Her wand waved away every spell they sent her way.
Two against one.
******
Zo hands were getting more shaky when they couldn't find Fina. They have been searching for hours now and still no sign Fina.
Mr Walker turned to Zo.
"Give me something of hers" He said "She's not in the physical part"
"I don't know…. but does this strikes any familiarity?"
They turned to see Bryce Parker taking a small hair band on the floor.
Zo took the band from him.
"Yes, it does. It belongs to Fina. She must have been here before"
Mr Walker took the band from Zo and brought out his book wand.
Students gave them curious looks as they passed.
"No one is allowed to pass anymore. Dismissed" Mr Walker said
It was on the tip of Shelly Jefferson's tongue to tell Walker he wasn't in his class but she kept quiet.
Fina was important.
Mr Walker whispered some spells on the band and it rose into the air and began to burn.
The band started to move straight and they followed.
They entered through walls and walls. A spell done by David.
They entered through twenty one walls before the band finally stopped at a dark room.
None of them talked but the danger of the situation began to seep in.
Mr Walker lit up the whole room and it brightened.
Zo's gasp made them all turn to her.
She flew towards something but it was too late to stop her when they realized the body lying lifeless on the floor at a distance.
"Alvarez. Stop!" Mr Walker shouted.
It was too late.
As she tried to touch Fina's body, something blew her away with full force.
She closed her eyes, preparing for the hit but it didn't come.
Her feet gently touched the ground and she realized Walker had saved her.
"I want you to stay behind me. There's dark magic in this room" Mr Walker said
"Dark magic." Bryce Parker asked "Wait. Dark students? I thought they do not exist anymore" He said, looking at Walker.
Mr Walker didn't answer.
He moved slowly towards Fina's body and saw the red light emitting from her.
"They are back" Mr Walker said
Shelly began to move forward but Ozias dragged her back, holding her wrists tighter.
"It's dangerous" Ozias said
Shelly glared at him.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just worried about my friend whom your girlfriend is trying to kill"
Xavier had Zo in his arms.
Only Bryce and Kit were closer to Mr Walker.
"You think this is easy for me? For us? We were betrayed! Do you know the kind of relationship we all had? We were like a family!" Ozias shouted
"Well forgive me for not understanding the kind of relationship you had with a dark student because that is definitely none of my God damn business when my friend is either dead or alive!" Shelly screamed at him.
Everyone ignored them.
Bryce, David and Kit observed Fina's body carefully without touching her.
"How do you remove a dark spell?" Kit asked
The red light emitting from her grew stronger and stronger.
Since Fina's body was side viewed to them, they couldn't see the blood clearly.
Mr Walker wrote some words on the ground with his wand and it vanished.
"What's that?" Bryce asked
"Diversa sentimincus. It's a dark spell. You use dark spells against dark spells. That's how it works"
The red light vanished at once.
Mr Walker touched Fina's hand and felt her pulse while they waited with bated breath.
"Her body is completely cold. It's like she's freezing inside." He said
"Isn't that blood?" Bryce asked as he touched Fina's shirt on the other side.
Blood was on his hand when he withdrew it from her body.
Zo's body shook in Xavier arms.
Fina hair was splayed about and her eyes were closed. She wasn't breathing.
At all.
Mr Walker carried her body from the floor and tried not to let the coldness affects him.
"What should we do?" Xavier asked, his hands on his wand.
"She's not here. I've seen this kind of dark spell before. She's trapped inside. Whatever happens there reflects on her. If she die over there, she dies here. She will be more closer to death when she starts feeling real at the other side" Mr Walker said
Panick marred their faces.
"There must be something we can do. Anything we cannot do" Bryce Parker said
What they'd all forgotten coming back to them in waves as they start to remember.
Xiana's death. The way Xiana had died in his arms.. The memory of Xiana completely forgotten.
Everything they'd missed.
The dead students.
He'd been helpless watching Xiana die. He wasn't going to let Fina Clark die.
"We opened the way for her to come back" Mr Walker said "Before it's too late to come back.
Fina was completely limp in his hands, her chest not moving.
"In dreams does it all lay" Shelly said "Does it strike anything?"
"In dreams does it all lay? Yes. A dream of reality. A dream where you are dead to the world. She's in a dark dream. I'll meet you all in my place" Mr Walker said and teleported away.
"I'll kill him" Xavier said in anger "If she dies, I'll kill him!"
"To think we have been with dark students and not knowing, doesn't it make us stupid?" Kit asked
"Yes" Shelly replied with a smirk.
"Shelly" Ozias warned
"Yes, Oz? Any stupid excuses?" Shelly asked
They glared at each other. Hard.
"Dark students" Bryce Parker said, repeatedly "How? If dark students are back, then, they might have found a way to enter Amenix without the Guardians knowledge. The fact that not even the Queen had any idea who they were meant they might have come through an invisible link. It means they are in Amenix. Amongst us within our knowledge"
The horror of what he was saying starts to seep into their head.
"They have pierced through Amenix" Xavier said
"Who?" Zo asked
"We don't know much about them but they are another world like us. And if they are already in Amenix…" Bryce said and drifted off.
"We aren't safe anymore" Kit finished.
"Yes" Bryce said, staring at the blood in his hands. "We are not"