During Sportfest every year, magazines containing information about the Sportfest are distributed to all parts of Rocksville to remind people who already know about this event, that it is time to come together, to those who are new to Rocksville like Aires and her mother, these magazines are a way of kindling their heart's to engage in this auspicious occasion which brings the entire town together. On that very year when for the first time ever Sportfest was going to be held in New World High, magazines came out a little late, about two days before the Sportfest. Aires got one to share with her mother on the Monday, which was two days before the event commenced, during diner. She took it upon herself to read it out to her, while they waited for the food to cool down, 'Sportfest' the first page read 'comes once every year. It is characterized by sporting events of all kinds. During this period, every high school student in any school within Rocksville is expected to participate to bring victory to his or her School. Parents or legal guardians of these students are entreated to be present to show support to their wards, it is out of these little events that memories are formed, don't forget. So, Mom's, Dad's, students of all schools, fasten your boots, buckle up and let's get ready to Sportfestttttt!!!!'. "Ouch" her mother said, "that means no work?" "Mommmm really?" She replied eyes wide open, "Come on, I'm just messing with you" her mother shrugged "I was just one second away from crushing your brain with some weird ability" Aires joked "Ohh so you think you can threaten me these days with your little spooky whatever huh? I got something up my sleeves too you know?" "Mhm what have you got?" Aires rolled her eyes "Sweet food that gets me hungry three seconds after eating?" "Well alright fine, you got me." Admitting defeat, she pulled her daughter into a sideways hug, but while patting her on the shoulder, Aires noticed a tear slithering down her cheek so reached out to wipe it off and asked "Hey what is it? What are you thinking?" "Aires" she said, "even though I'm trying to ignore it, I can't help but get worried about you" "Oh Ma..." "No let me finish. First of, your own friend almost killed you, it got physical, and now you're going to face of with more than one person and there are only four of you, I can't help but worry. Please be careful, maybe we should go pray first okay?" "Okay Mary, mother of all nations, I will be careful, and we'll pray on the Morn of the games too, I promise." The two hugged very tightly and continued the night with conversations about their expectations for the games until a call from Elena interrupted them.
_On call_
Elena: Hey girl
Aires: Hey you, whatsup?
Jason: I hate how you two always try to leave me out of conversations, I'm alive you know? Hey baby?
Aires: Hey love, I've missed you so much, how are you
Elena: Augh, Aires come on, it's less than 5 hours ago that you two said goodbye to each other, can we focus already? I must admit, I used to enjoy it more when you guys argued while you were just friends, now that you're together it's annoying, A-N-N-O-Y-I-N-G.
Jason: I smell jea-lousyyyy
Aires: Haha okay okay fine, she's right, we should get down to business..... Oh wait, off awwn babe how's your evening going.
Elena: Aires!!! I will bury you alive, don't joke with me.
Aires: We're just messing with you, jeez I'd kill to see the look on your face behind the phone.
Jason: Shorry Queencess Elena
Elena: For real, I have a boyfriend too, I can show him off of he didn't exist only in my mind, but for real I'm sleepy, let's talk saving Rocksville
Aires: I would love to meet him, he definitely won't call you babe, but boss
Okay fine so have you guys got the stuff I asked for ready?
Jason: Yeah I got the ritual dagger, I don't know how but Grandma's stuff has a lot of weird voodoo related items and books.
Elena: I have the four different candles red, blue, black and white
Aires: Aight that's cool, I'm providing the incense, the salt and the water, plus the magic wand which isn't really that necessary with the dagger around, but I want to look like a real witch.
Elena: How are the candles going to fit on the park? I mean, it might be windy, even if its not that windy, there's a ninety-nine percent chance that the candles won't last even a minute.
Aires: So a little bit of something I learned from the summoning book is that, everything we will use for the spell should be cleansed before the spell can work, so I believe the items will still remain cleansed if we cleanse them here at my house and hide them till the time when we need them, specifically whenever that may be but my instincts tell me that we're going to need them during the boy's football game on Friday because it's the only activity which has been shifted to 6pm.
Jason: Wait, I didn't see any of these items in use when I was being 'de-demonized'.
Aires: I know babe, that's because there was only one of it in you, so it did not require so much, but on Friday we're looking at potentially hundreds or everybody, so we need these.
Jason: Okay that makes sense. One more thing, why don't we have Vanessa joining us in this call? Honestly
Elena: Aires says that The Reformer warned her about Vanessa being a potential threat, so we can't afford to have her ears in our every conversation, especially one's like this one.
Jason: If you ask me she looks too innocent to be a snitch, but anyways, whatever you say.
Aires: So tomorrow right after school we gather together at my house and cleanse our bodies and the items. Jason, did Stawicki agree to what you asked?
Jason: Yeah. I told him you said you're not feeling so great but you'll love to help anyways, so you'll be honored to offer your help in terms helping them contract the circle even though he can do it with the machine. It took a lot of lies to convince the man though, cos even if it was I, I would think something fishy is up your sleeves for you to make such a request if I didn't know doomsday was up ahead.
Aires: Aight thanks, cos if we want to be able to construct the magic circle much bigger without them noticing it, using the football park's center circle is the only bright idea we've got.
Elena: Couple, hello, over here
Aires: Yeah whatsup
ELena: I think that it's a little lame and physically unbelievable. Physically they will see you constructing a football park's center circle when you don't even kick a ball in school or run. Their first thought will be 'how did Aires get that job' or 'why is she doing that when it's not hers to do, followed by that is an ocean of suspicions that you're up to something.
Aires: That's true, I haven't thought of that. I can use an aging spell, what do you guys think?
Elena and Jason: No way!
Aires: Why? Come on I've got to try that, it'll be fun, I'll be a good grandmother you know.
Elena: Aging spell takes a lot out a person and weakens him or her, you're young, you might not want to try that Chosen One. I have another option in mind.
Jason: Elena is right, I've read that before.
Aires: Ouch, you two are such dream crushers. Aight what you got in mind El, but I'ma try this aging thing at some point.
Elena: Whatever, Okay what I'm planning is to use mind control on Stawicki, I will bring him to you after you find a way to upset him, or even don't upset him, I'll ask him to come to the class and publicly give you the punishment of going to create that circle even if it's midnight. That way they'll think it as a humiliation and mock you.
Aires: How long have you been planning this?
Elena: It occurred to me just now.
Aires: That's an amazing idea, we're sticking with that. But guys, make sure that Vanessa hear nothing about our plans.
Elena and Jason: Okay.
Jason: Are we done? The old man's demands my assistant.
Aires: Yeah babe, we are, you can go, see you guys tomorrow, I love you both
Elena: Aight see yah, love you
Jason: I love you too, adios.
_The call ends_
The next morning drove in almost too
quickly for Aires. After the call the night before, she went on to read spell books and other magic books she got from The Reformer. Yes, after nearly two weeks she went back again to meet her and make a request. This is an account of all that went down.
AIRES' P.OV.
For the past one and a half week I haven't been feeling so good. Anytime my eyes meet that of Vanessa's, the speed of my heartbeat increases as if my heart was scared of something but I could not tell what it was. Most of the time the words of the Reformer echo in my heard causing shivers and involuntary sweating. Vanessa is a nice person, a really nice person and to think that she can betray us is a little absurd except if she is possessed. My worry is that she has been given an ability that makes her almost invisible. She can be anywhere in any shape of form and that alone makes her a threat. I just pray none of these comes true though. Anyways, after the call with Jase and Ellie, I decided to study for a little while but my busy mind couldn't settle for even thirty minutes, it kept bugging me with thoughts about Vanessa going rogue. I crossed my legs and teleported my soul to HOMER.
Sitting in a rolling chair next to the window looking out with no sign of enthusiasm was the woman in charge of the place. She always had a smile on her face but this time as I approached, she could not even notice there was an intruder. "Hey" I whispered holding both her shoulders as I approached her from behind, "Thought I'd never see you again my friend" her reply came with no rolling of eyes or a turning of a face to look at me, I got really worried, 'something must be wrong' I thought, "Yeah something is about to go wrong" she replied, "You heard my thoughts?" I asked, "I thought mind reading could only be done by touching the temple" "That is for Elena, she can do it without touch, you can do it too but you'll figure it out. " She answered "Still uttering parables, I see. But godmother, what is it, you're always happy, you're never like this, what's wrong?" I came up from behind her and sat sideways on her laps, finally a little smile escaped the corners of her lips, I then leaned in and rested my head on her chest, "So you can be this sweet? Thank you, Aires, that melted my heart" she said as she positioned her palm on my back and set about to pay me, "So the day is come" "Yeah, my instincts tell me it's this Friday, do you feel the same? And is that why you are this way? We can do this together, all of us, I feel we will win, I can see myself alive and everything else looking alright on Saturday and days after" "Aires, that's not what I mean" she said, I lifted up my eyes confused as to why she would say that or what she meant "Pardon?" I asked in my state of bewilderment, "Aires, I have known my fate since the day you shed your first tear, my destiny as you know it, was to be by your side, to protect you, to train you and your friends and to prepare you for Friday, but Aires my dear, I apologize that I could not say this before now, I feared you'd grief my departure" "Your departure? What're you talking mother? Please don't go, please godmother, was it something I said or did? Tell me I will apologize, please don't leave me, I need you, I can't do it without you." "Aires! Aires! Calm down my child, you didn't wrong me, oh no, you haven't done anything wrong and don't you for one second think that you cannot do this on your own, you can." " Why are you leaving? Don't you want me to make you proud? Don't you want to see this world in a perfect state? Balanced again? Why has everyone I love got to leave? Dad left, you and Mom and Jason and Aires are all I got left? What's the point of all these if you have to leave?" "Be silent" she commanded, immediately my lips went shut, I got up and tried to leave due to my anger, but she stretched out her finger and a rope from nowhere wrapped me up and a seat gave my buttocks something to relax on, then she motioned it towards herself, "I'm sorry, but this is the only way I can have your attention" she apologized "like I was saying" she resumed "you know I will move heaven and earth to protect you and help you in all things, but this time, it's your battle to fight, not mine, I have played my role, I have done what I can, and I will do what I must as well, that's why I have to say goodbye because today I leave to rest with my people, I will die Aires, I will die trying to save your mother, and you, l must not tell you this because you will be tempted to save me, but you must not, if you do you might lose your mother or any other person together with Vanessa who will be present at the scene and I don't want anyone to get hurt because of me. Aires people died to save me and you, that is why we are alive today, it is our responsibility to keep this earth safe and put nobody at risk when we can help. I must save your mother, you need her, but me, you don't need me anymore, you'll have all of me in your being, you will be the perfect representative between the two realms, your world and the spirit world, Theron Of Evil will be the government governing both, all the spirits will bow to you because you are their new ruler, that is why you must live, that is why I must leave. When I die, your abilities will be more than you have ever dreamed of, you will supersede me, and won't have read all these books, but like you vowed, do not use them to harm innocents, use them to serve and protect, anyone, anywhere because that is your duty. I have to bestow this blessing on you now, so that when I leave to my resting place you will inherit what is rightfully yours, what is within me now, but it will only work if you accept it wholeheartedly, so I'm setting you free" she began winding her fingers, ordering the ropes to set me free "and the choice is yours to make, me or every creature on the planet?" As I got untied I got down on my knees, buried my face in her white garment and began sobbing bitterly. Her fingers found perfect spots on my hair to caress but for the first time, when I lifted my watery eyes at her, I behold hers, flooded, "I'm sorry Aires" she apologized again, "No it's okay, I'm sorry I was stubborn. I
wish we had met much earlier, we could have spent so much time together, I don't want to miss you, I want you here every time I come, I want you there whenever I dream, I " "I know my child, I know, and I want the same thing too, but we must not alter this, because where there's death, there's always death, and I want this for the greater good, I'm always going to be with you, trust me, but I must die, please Aires, please accept your fate" she pleaded, the glowing flood of tears began descending her cheeks while I looked on, crying as well. I got up and consoled her, wiping off her tears too, then she hugged me tightly, warming my heart with whole being as our bodies collided, "Okay" I whispered "I will do it for the human race" my words caused her to giggle slightly in my ears, then she kissed my cheek and whispered back "Thank you so much." I got down on my knees again upon her command, to her, kneeling as this power is being passed on to you is a sign of your humility, so it was necessary for me to. She placed her hands on either sides of my shoulders and closed her eyes, I bowed my head and listened to what she had to say. "As you willed" she began, speaking loudly "so is being done today in this resting place, your Chose One comes in complete submission to your will, ready to receive your grace and your gift, to serve, protect and unify all realms.
I request that when I leave, may what is rightfully hers, be given to her, do for her as you did for me so that peace will be reinstated as ruler over the world. I pronounce you Aires, as my successor" I felt strong winds blowing from all corners of the earth, forcing to enter my body through my nose and mouth, I could not breathe properly, so I gave out a loud scream and eventually blacked out.