"Tell me what??" asked Annie as she opened the door to Stella's office and she walked in, leaving both Stella and Curtis surprise.
"Oh my" said Stella to herself as she sighed, she had forgotten to put up a sound barrier since she was busy arguing with Curtis, and now Annie had probably heard everything they were saying.
Annie just stood there, waiting for either of them to explain to her what they wanted to tell her, Stella was trying to come up with something to say, which Curtis just sat there saying nothing as he looked at Annie.
"You want to tell me that I lost my powers?" said Annie and as soon as Annie said that, Stella's eyes went wide.
"You know??" asked Stella in shock as she looked at Annie and then she looked at Curtis, even he looked surprised for once.
"Yes I do…" said Annie as she sat down across Curtis.
"How do you know my dear?" asked Stella as she was trying to find the perfect time and way to tell Annie gently that she had lost her powers, that was what she and Curtis were arguing about, she just wanted to agree with Curtis on how they should tell her, but all he wanted to do is argue with her and push the blame on her, and now it would seem that they were arguing for no reason, because Annie already knew.
"I did not know at first" said Annie.
"But my magic told me" said Annie as she sighed, now she knew why she was received sudden bursts of pain in her head, it was because what she was supposed to remember was that she had spoken with her magic while she was in that coma, and when she woke up, she had forgotten that, she had cracked her brain trying to remember what it was that she had forgotten and when she heard Stella and Curtis arguing it suddenly came to her.
"Your magic???" asked Stella as she looked confused, she could not understand what Annie was saying, yes she had lost her magic, and yet her magic told her??
"Of course" said Curtis as he seemed to realize something as he shook his head.
"Curtis do you know about this??" asked Stella as she and Annie turned to look at Curtis, in all her years Stella always had something new to learn when it came to the Grey's it was a frustrating as it was exciting, and right now, she just did not have the energy.
"Grey Magic is… it is like it's own being" said Curtis as he explained.
"Alright…" said Stella as she was trying to understand this whole thing.
"My dear, what else did your magic tell you?" asked Stella as she turned to look at Annie, because there was no use hiding anything from her at this point, it would seem that she already knew everything, and she needed to be involved since this did concern her.
"She said that I lost my magic because of the revive spell I casted on Curtis" said Annie as she sighed and Stella sighed as well.
This was not good, it was not good at all, for Annie not to have magic, it risked her being in danger, since their realm was filled with magic.
"Stella I told you not to teach her that spell, it may be a normal spell for other witches, but not for a Grey" said Curtis as he looked at Stella angrily.
"Curtis, I am seriously not going to take your insults, stop pushing the blame on me" said Stella as she snapped at Curtis.
"Aunt Stella is right Curtis, stop arguing, just stop" said Annie as she looked at Curtis.
"I am so tired of everything being different for me just because I am a Grey" said Annie as she was fed up.
"My dear…" said Stella as she looked at Annie with sadness, she knew that Annie was frustrated they all were.
"Annie you were not supposed to use that spell, it was forbidden!" said Curtis as he looked at Annie.
"Curtis, I had no other choice, I had to save you, and that was the only spell that came to my mind" said Annie.
"What do you mean you had to save him?" asked Stella as she looked at Curtis and then at Annie.
"Aunt didn't he tell you?" asked Annie as she looked at Stella.
"Well no, Curtis has not told me anything at all, once Mira's call of distress reached the Palace, we rushed to the plains, and we only found Curtis with you and the others in the outskirts of the plains and we brought you all back here, the others woke up, while you did not, I just assumed that whatever made the others sleep, did the same to you" said Stella as she explained.
"Well no Aunt Stella, that is not what happened at all" said Annie as she sighed and she shook her head, Curtis did not tell anyone what really happened.
"Azazel used Curtis to boost his powers, and I just got so angry that somehow I think I hit Azazel, and he just disappeared, so I rushed to Curtis, he was burnt, at that moment, I did not think of anything else, I just had to save him, and the only spell I could think of was the revive spell, so I casted it on Curtis, and it worked, and after I did that, I just felt so weak and I fainted" said Annie as she explained.
"I see now" said Stella as she was trying to take all of this in as gently as she could.
"My dear, do not listen to Curtis at all, you did nothing wrong, your heart was obviously in a good place" said Stella as she smiled at Annie, and Annie forced a smile.
"*Sigh*, Look Annie, you only did not just loose your powers" said Curtis as he sighed.
"But you lost your strength as well" said Curtis as he explained and he looked at Annie.
"Right now, you are weaker than a human, you have no strength at all, you magic is more than half your being, and now that you lost it, you are just more than powerless" said Curtis as he explained and Annie held her breath, the bad news she was hearing this evening was just too much for her to bear.
"And what happens to you directly affects me" said Curtis seriously.
"I cannot change into my normal form, I am stuck as a human, I do not have enough magic to sustain myself, in fact I have no magic at all, so if I do change, I would end up dying" said Curtis as he explained, he was powerless as well.
"Oh…" said Annie as she did not know what to say, she was the one who caused all these problems.
All Stella could do was sigh, it would seem that bomb after bomb was being dropped on her today, now she understood why Curtis was acting the way he was.
"Is that why you were so cold earlier?" asked Annie as she looked at Curtis.
"Yes… I might look human, but I am not, so I do not have a body temperature" said Curtis as he explained.
"But isn't there a way to get my powers back??" asked Annie as she was sure that there should be some sort of way for her to fix this, for her to amend her mistake, she just could not remain powerless like this.
"I am sorry my dear, but when you use the revive spell, it is impossible to reverse" said Stella as she sighed, that was the sad truth, the revive spells were irreversible.
"Stella is right Annie, It is impossible to reverse" said Curtis.
"The revive spell is one of the most irreversible spells, which is why it is only used as a last resort" said Curtis.
"So what you are telling me is that I am basically powerless forever??" asked Annie as she could not believe this, it would seem that all odds were against her.
"Yes Annie, sadly that is the truth" said Stella as she sighed.
"Except…" said Curtis as he seemed to be thinking.
"Except what??" asked Stella and Annie as they turned to look at Curtis and he looked at them.
"Do not worry, it is not important" said Curtis as he shrugged off his thoughts, he did not want to raise any false hopes till he was totally sure of what he was saying.
"Alright" said Stella.
"But what I truly want to know is where is Azazel?" asked Stella as that was the main concern for her right now, she knew nothing about him, if he was dead or alive, and where he was, and that scared her.
"Well unfortunately, he is still Alive" said Curtis very seriously as Annie and Stella sighed.