One after another tree Hazel and Shelby made their way into the hollow forest they heard not even a tad bit of sound from the surroundings as it was silent as an owl. Nevertheless, Hazel had marked Barry on the tracker and was making good progress toward him when she noticed two bodies unconscious laying on the ground with no one around.
"I assume they already met Barry and the others" murmured Hazel while ignoring them and making their way towards Barry. Not far away they could now already feel Barry's presence in the forest and through the help of the tracker finally found him snoring on Gabriel's belly.
Shelby immediately poured some water into her hand and manipulated it to strike both of them with a splash. At once its effect took place as Gabriel woke up with a scream as he had a nightmare and started to fight with Shelby for pouring water on her, while Hazel was concerned for Barry as he was still in his slumber.
[Examine]
[User: Barry Rover] (Under a Spell)
[Ability: Light Type]
Hazel knew exactly what his condition was and immediately opened his eyes by force and made him look into hers. Him still being unconscious and didn't feel a thing but Hazel opened his eyes and after a few seconds a red effect vaporized into the air while Barry was brought to his senses.
"Whoa, what was that?", questioned Gabriel while still fighting like a cat with Shelby.
"It's an awakening skill which dissolves all effect on the user applied but it's an ocular skill only", Explained Hazel.
Barry held his head as he had a pretty rough fight and was still fatigued from the fight and if another one was to take place he was most probably prove to be a burden. But not for long Hazel had already read his stats and deduced that he was not in a good condition and needed assistance. She at once took a serum out of her pocket and gave it to both Barry and Gabriel, which they accepted and drank and after a few moments, their health was restored as they stood up with no fatigue ready to fight.
"Well, your of some use am I right?", taunted Barry to which Hazel just gave him that look and started to walk away making him guilty. However, they didn't have much time left so they immediately located Alan through their tracker, and not far away they found him sitting against the tree looking at the moon without anything to worry about in the world, He felt at peace.
Barry came close and put his hand on his shoulder through which he was alerted of someone near him, He was glad to see everyone alright but didn't expect Hazel to be here.
"You look pretty exhausted, was the fight difficult to deal with", asked Barry.
"Nah, rather it was Funny as I fought myself", answered Alan.
All of them were confused and thought of it as a metaphor and quickly got him back on his feet to move, he had already taken the serum but due to it not being efficient like Barry's it took a long time to act but it would most likely do its work before they reach their set destination.
They grabbed their stuff and were set to go out. The illusionary clan was a sub-clan of the shadows and worked under it and it was assigned to an important mission related to Alan but it had failed to do so Barry knew the whereabouts of the illusionary clan which was not far away from his current position as he dashed along the forest crossing trees after trees and making his distance short.
After some decent while of traveling, they still hadn't reached the clan as now Barry was confused as he knew he was going the right way and by now they should have reached their set destination. Nevertheless, Barry trusted his instincts and still follow the path ahead until,
"Barry stop, we have been tricked it's an illusion!", explained Hazel as she sensed it because it was hidden due to the auras of Barry and the others but when focused it was detected.
They were all this time roaming around an illusion that Francis had created before getting knocked out and had given more time for the clan to fortify itself.
Barry was furious to hear this and started to punch a tree to calm his anger and kept doing so until it broke down which made Alan shocked as this was his raw strength, Hazel at once cleared the illusion as it was a low-level one and Barry without wasting a fraction of a second rushed into the original path of the clan with all of them following him behind.
The Sun had started to rise which was great and bad news as firstly Barry was on his max stats once again but the problem was that they were much more visible to the enemies now. However, they made their way and quickly reached the clan and did a quick scan around to see the threat level.
"What lousy guards you can handle them haze right?" Questioned Barry.
"Sure you guys go ahead ill silence them for sure, here stand here", said Hazel
Barry and Alan stood in front of Hazel as she applied a spell on them which took the resemblance of a portal opening from the ground and scanning them from top to bottom whilst applying the effect. It was a silent potion that made Barry's and Alan's movements make no sound for the next 10 min.
"Sweet!" said Barry and Alan in a union.
A second portal emerged from the ground which swallowed Barry and Alan inside only to drop them on the roof of the residence. They quickly analyzed the area before crawling into the ventilation system hoping to find just the right person to talk with. After some time searching (they had no idea where they were going) they stumbled upon a room where they expected that person to be but found no luck, Alan decided to jump in and investigate the room and he did only to be pulled back up by Barry who gave him the death look due to his stupidity as he had sensed someone coming, It was him Professor Clay in the flesh.
"Bingo!"