CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 13

Emily darted back into the jail, wiping away her tears. Adriane was awake, cradling her arm. Zach stood as far away as possible, as not to touch her arm. Emily knelt beside Adriane. She placed her glowing rainbow stone on Adriane's arm. Adriane flinched with pain, but allowed it to stay there. She closed her eyes.

"Hm...It's not working," Emily said.

"Try a spellsong. Those always work," Adriane replied.

"Okay. But you have to help and keep me steady."

"Done."

Emily sighed and started.

Things are broken,

Things are wrong.

Nothings working,

Ever tried for long.

Long since I left,

You seem to care.

With long shadows

Of which I seem to tear.

Adriane clapped along, then sang:

In my own dreamland,

I make whatever I want.

Release my feelings,

Seize the anger.

Boiling inside of me.

'Cuz it's a land I call my own.

Adriane paused.She felt a light stinging on her arm, then a purple and black cast formed around her arm.

Emily smiled and clapped to herself. She was proud.

Zach lightly fingered Adriane's cast. "What's this supposed to do?" he asked.

Adriane rolled her eyes. "A cast. You put it on when your arm is broken."

"Oh," Zach gazed at the restrainer. Then Emily remembered what to tell her friends.

"Kara is..." Emily couldn't finish. Her throat tightened. The healer took a deep breath. "Kara is...sacrificing...herself..." she gasped out.

Adriane stood immediately. A look of determination spread over her dark eyes.

"So whats the plan?"

--

Kara sat in a damp, dark cell, carefully avoiding the ugly, hairy spiders. The Dark Sorceress and Grazeila chuckled when they saw Kara in the jail.

Kara put her head down. She had to accept defeat. After all, she had chosen this. She had chosen to become the savior for her friends.

--

Adriane, Emily, and Zach quietly snuck out of the cell. They trudged back through the tunnel and darted out into the field. Mistwolves littered the ground. Loved ones and families sniffed the corpse and lifted their noses to the moon. Moonshadow, the leader of the pack, howled first.

"Aja! Dawnrunner! White Fang!" he barked. "Number the Fallen!"

"Right away, Moonchadow!" Aja howled.

Adriane ran to Moonshadow. "Pack leader! We need the pack!" she howled.

"Why pack mate?" Moonchadow cocked his head to one side.

The Warrior lowered her head. "Kara is in danger. We need to save her."

"After you, Warrior. We stand with you."

--

The Dark Sorceress lifted her head to see the shivering body of the Blazing Star. Lucy had to grin. Finally. After so long, she had the idiot Blazing Star. As she raised her fist to do the final task, a long wrapping came from the door.

Lucy looked up to see an upcoming charge of mistwolves with a stubborn, insolent little girl with wild black hair leading the group.