There was an ear-splitting scream that shook the cave. "What is going on?" Silvia yelled over the sound of pure power. Lacey shook her head, they stood in complete silence a moment later.
The fabric around them turned from the fire red and orange to just yellow as the fabric fell away, they stood, the ground beneath them was hot but rapidly cooling and they no longer stood in a cave.
Lacey turned to look for Ray, he stood his clothes in tatters and his eyes. They glowed gold, she stared, seeing above his palms were two balls of golden light.
"Are you ok?" She called letting go of Silvia and Tim and walked over to him. He blinked, the light in his hands disappeared and the glow in his eyes was gone. "I'm fine." She stepped closer to check him but stopped.
"What in the magic wood forest was that?" Silvia said, coming up dragging Tim by the arm. "Huh. Oh.." Ray said looking around them, he spun around at an eerie crack.
"CRACK!!" They looked up to see a crack in an invisible wall, just then the crack screeched then sent spider-like cracks on up. "Crack." "Crack." "Crack." "Crack!" Then the sound multiplied by a thousand, that sent everyone to their knees holding their ears.
"Captain!! LOOK!!" Yelling the man in the crow's nest, the man put his spyglass to his eye looking in the direction the man had pointed.
He caught a flash of light from far out on Claws island, They had to be about a hundred miles away from the place. Then the light was followed by a series of ear-splitting cracking sounds, he still had his eye glued to the glass.
When he saw the huge wave that was sent from the island and headed right for his ship. He bellowed out commands as the wave came even closer.
He had his ship turned around and the sails picking up wind, but the wave came upon them drenching the ship and all its crew.
Lacey awoke, every bone in her body ached, everything was still around her, she turned her head at the movement to see the others slowly sitting up.
She too sat up and looked around her, they lay in a clearing about a mile wide, big trees lay half uprooted beside the clearing and rocks and debris.
The last thing she remembered was holding her ears as the barrier broke. She stood up, her dress was still blue and full-length. Tim swore as he stood.
"Really! I just got better. I am not trying to kill myself. What even happened." Tim yelled, looking at Ray.
Ray brushed off his tattered clothes. "The barrier broke." He said turning to look toward the mountain, Lacey turned too.
What they saw left them stunned for a few moments, there was now a huge canyon left where the cave had been.
"Well. I have my magic back." Ray said, opening his fist as his eyes glowed gold and a ball of gold light appeared on his palm, it twirled and twisted into the shape of a bird as it flew around his hand then landed on his hand, before he closed it and it disappeared and the glow of his eyes faded.
"Wow…" Breathed the others. Ray smirked.
"You guys weren't lying. The trees are massive." Ray said, turning to look at the forest. Silvia sighed.
"Yeah. Well if you guys will follow me." Tim looked surprised. "do I finally get to see your cabin." Silvia just turned and headed into the forest, going past a couple uprooted trees on the way.
Tim followed, Lacey stayed where she was looking around her, her spear was not on her back it had probably got thrown when they had been thrown by the force of the barrier.
"What is it?" Ray asked, and she turned to him. "My spear. I can't find it." She said, he nodded.
"That's easy." He flicked his finger, then waited. She looked at him but turned as she heard a scraping sound. The spear came flying and two boulders fell from a ways away. "Here." He caught it out of the air and handed it to her.
She took the spear silently, Ray smiled then headed out to follow Silvia and Tim. The skirt of her dress started floating as it pulled in Ray's direction.
"aah!!" She grabbed for her pink skirts, to pull them down. "Huh?" Ray turned as she looked up. "Everything Ok?" She laughed nervously.
"Yeah. I'm coming." She said as she began smoothing down her skirts, Lacey did not notice her spear drop to the ground again as she smoothed her dress back into place. Ray nodded and turned to start walking the way Silvia and Tim had gone.
"Please don't do that! And please can you turn into something more suitable for outdoors?" The dress flattered and humbled, then turned back to blue. Then in a flash of rainbow light, it turned into a more outdoorsy summer dress, with long sleeves and knee-high skirt. She smiled then ran to catch up with the others.
Lacey caught up to everyone at the base of the large tree that held Silvia's cabin. "Are we waiting for something?" Lacey said as she stepped up to them, then looked up in the big leaves of the tree.
"Yeah, you." Silvia answered, she looked down to see Tim and Ray staring at her, she sighed. "Yes! My dress changes color. Oh! And shape too." She said pushing past them to jump and grab the tree branch and pull herself up.
Silvia giggled then jumped up after her. The boys were left standing on the ground stunned. It took them a while to climb to the cabin, because Tim was struggling the whole way, so they had to stop and wait for him.
They finally climbed onto the porch. "Wow, how did you make this place?" Asked Tim. "I didn't make it. Mark did…" Silvia said opening the door, the room was covered with dust.
Lacey covered a sneeze when they entered, Silvia smiled then turned towards the door.
"I'll be back." She said before going out the door and closing it behind her, which sent the dust flying. Lacey sighed and reopened the door to air the place out.
-to be continued