The rest of the group followed closely behind Alexander and Sophia who was cradled in his arms in a princess carry and was by now in excruciating pain. He tried to be as quick but equally as gentle, as he could be, whilst carrying her and she would've loved to savour this moment but alas she couldn't.
As per usual, her mind was amess with thoughts. 'Why, why her! This night started out odd got good, went shitty then got good again/embarrassing and awkward, then got really good again!
She was meant to be enjoying a night out at a club, not a roller-coaster at a theme park. What is with this Shit!' She couldn't understand what was wrong with her. She was fine one minute but the next she was burning with a fever and now she is in pain, and it was awful.
Too much pain! she almost couldn't take it and then she really couldn't. As they got into the lift quickly, Sophia screamed out in pain. The whole building shook, which to say the least was surprising but Sophia didn't notice this, as again the pain tore through her, the rest however obviously notice that the building shook, might I add while in a steel box, which wasn't comforting at all.
"Shit, we have to get her to the office now!" Cried out Amanda, who couldn't figure out why this was happening now and on this scale, they have been told that something like this would/could happen to Sophia, well they weren't told much but they were given the gist of what to expect.
This however wasn't one of them. As the group made it to Alexander's office, he rush into the room and placed her down on the large sofa in the resting area and the rest of the group rushed in after him to try and figure out why this was happening now so that they could help her.
"What do we do?!"- Tally said sounding panicked. "I don't know, can't you call someone, maybe one of your eld... I mean contacts'" Jessica stressed, pacing around the large office. Tally looked at her, then at Sophia, who was in a lot of pain on the sofa, they could all see it and they desperately wanted to do something, to take her pain away.
Alexander at this point was extremely apprehensive, so everyone avoided him. He decided he couldn't just stand there and do nothing, so was busy making calls but he know he couldn't help her with this, his kind didn't know about these kinds of things.
Jack then came into the room not long after the rest of the group, he called everyone over to the side, he looked like he had something really important to say. Alexander who was on the phone, said a few words to whoever he was talking to before hanging up and coming to the rest of the group and give a part of his attention to Jack, who looked like he had figured out something or at least knew something, so once every one was present, Jack open his hands in a cupping motion and they saw what looked like a crystal.
It was purple at the base and went white at the top, and it was shining so brightly it looked majestic however this crystal appeared out of nowhere but this didn't seem to overly surprise anyone. Sophia who was writhing in pain on the sofa, felt that the pain decreased quite a bit, long enough for her to be coherent and to look at the stone in jacks' hand, she had seen similar ones before, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it. "She needs this to help her."- Jack said to the group.
He then walked up to Sophia as everyone in the office quietened down when they notice the effect of the Royal crystal on her. They obviously wanted him to elaborate but they knew it could wait for later, when Sophia was in better shape. Alexander walked up to the sofa and wanted to place a hand on her head, but jack told him to step back.
"It's too dangerous for her to be touched right now, her powers are awakening. We can not touch her until the process is complete. Today is her 19 birthday. It had begun. And I have contacted my elder council, you all should do the same." The group were stunned as they looked at Jack.
'It has Begun?!'
As Sophia listened to what Jack said she could believe it. 'Was he crazy? What powers, what birthday, today wasn't her birthday?! What has Begun?'
"Jack what the heck are you talking about, this must be a really bad fever, take me to the hospital." She called out whilst still in pain, just not as bad since he bought in the healing crystal. Anyway, she didn't care if this was something new Agey, this at least helped her also as she wasn't in as much pain anymore, she was a big wuss and couldn't deal with pain she didn't mind admitting it to herself.
The rest of the group looked at each other as if deciding whether to tell her the truth or not. Amanda who had decided then walked up to the sofa and squatted down to Sophia eye level.
Alexander who wanted to say something, knew he couldn't so he stepped to the side, whilst keeping his entire focus on her. Amanda knew that this was it, She wanted to reach out and touch her, but she knew she couldn't it would cause her pain if she did.
So, she just looked at her in the eye, took a breath and was about to reveal one of the biggest secrets of Sophia life.