Sno continued to travel upwards into the sky. Worry flooded her mind as the countless possibilities of what could be happening to
Zoey and Sara entered her thoughts. She ascended with frightening speed, her wings pinned closely to her sides, her hair flowing wildly back.
Zoey and Sara were nowhere to be found. She had reached the top of the Mesosphere, and as she looked down on Earth, she spied 2...no, 3 people shooting pink, blue, and silver sparks at each other. "
Zoey? Sara?" cried
Sno, plummeting downwards. As she spun down towards the spot where she had seen them, she wondered who the third person was.
I am supposed to be the blue sparks!Sno is supposed to be where that stranger is!, she thought. She thought perhaps it was an enemy. A foe, not a friend. But those were fun sparks, not the typical battle sparks.
Sara fights harder than that. It looks like a training battle... and Sara and Zoey aren't even trying, she told herself in her mind. It was all too confusing. As she neared the spot, she glimpsed a cannon of blueberries hurtling towards
Zoey, full speed. And in the midst of all that blue, her sharp eye caught something that did not belong. Something that could cause harm...something that wasn't supposed to be there. A blackberry, obviously enchanted with dark magic, was in the middle of the large group of blueberries.
Sno knew
Zoey's kryptonite. She knew her weaknesses,
and how much she hated certain things. And those three categories all contained one thing: Blackberries. As the blueberries and one blackberry loomed closer yet to
Zoey, she remained where she was.
Sno didn't bother to stop and think. She spread her wings and dove as hard and fast as she could. Still, the resistance was too much...and she decided to transform. Her body shrunk and distorted, until it was in the shape and appearance of a streamlined hawk. She flew hard and fast, beating her wings with all her might. At the last second, she transformed back into her old self,
Sno, and shot a beam of ice straight at the berries hurtling towards
Zoey. As the berries hit the solid ice, they one by one turned into blackberries.
Zoey and Sara stared in awe at Beryl. There friend, now turned into a foe. As Sara put a force field around
Sno,
Zoey, and herself, she began to rant at Beryl. "How could you do this to us?", she said, looking long and hard at their former teammate.
Zoey stepped forward. "The Beryl we knew would never do this to us. She took the Oath to never hurt her friends. We all did it together! I thought we were a team!" "Remember?", said Beryl. "I quit. I left. I took off, and I never came back. I never
planned on coming back." She smirked evilly, and produced a blackberry. "I started training in dark magic. I wanted my revenge
on you two, for making me join your gang. All along, I knew I could do this on my own, but I just played along. Now, it's my time to shine."
Sno glared at Beryl. "I'm not letting you get away with this. I challenge you to a duel. Right now, right here. I don't know who you're going against other than me, but for sure you're having one opponent." "Make that two," said
Zoey, stepping forward. "Three," corrected Sara, looking at Beryl. "We're no match for you. Do you still accept, or will you be the coward?" "Remember, Dark magic is far more powerful than any other. Almost all magic is weaker than it. I accept, and I promise, I will go easy on you three."Beryl nodded, and Sara removed the force field. "Begin!" shouted
Zoey, starting an attack on Beryl. "Strawberry Explosion!" The pink bomb floated calmly toward Beryl. "Ha, you think that little toy is going to hurt me?
HAHAHA-" Her sentence was cut off as the bomb exploded. Seemingly harmless, the bomb actually caused much havoc. It had paralyzed, temporarily, Beryl's left hand. " NITROGEN ICE!!!" yelled
Sno. She was so tired of seeing her friends getting hurt. The little, tennis-ball sized spheres of nitrogen ice, at -1000 degrees Celsius, hit Beryl on her stomach. Her robes turned blue, and brittle, not to mention frozen. Anger flashed in
Sno's eyes as Beryl made a face filled with agony. Sara wasn't feeling very empathetic after the incident with the blackberries. "Blue
Crystal Shards!" she shouted, sending hundreds of tiny, sharp pieces of crystal shooting towards Beryl. She
dodged with speed, and raised one hand into the air. "BLACK-" she shouted, the contempt in her voice too obvious, "BERRY-" she screamed, furious. " DARKNESS!!" she finished, and released a beam of swirling, purple jelly-like stuff and the trio. It was not liquid, nor sold, and not air. It was magic, and pure dark magic. Her rage and anger had been put into this one spell, this one draining, yet overly victorious spell. She had no magic left, not for now. she could only watch with her trademark smirk planted on her face. Her satisfied look told them that they were doomed. As the beam reached farther towards them, it slowly but surely would hit them in time. Only one thing could stop this spell. Only one chance could secure their lives. And they all knew what to do, all were so prepared for this one moment. As they linked hands, the golden light emitted from the entwined fingers of them all, and the strongest magic, the magic of friendship, of goodwill, and purity, shone with all its strength. Their trio attack was their last hope to live, and they depended on it to keep them alive.The beam of dark magic collided with the good. Black and gold fought, good and evil, courage and cowardice, Trust and betrayal. As the gold beam began to overpower the dark,
Zoey and Sara squeezed hands harder.
Sno followed the same action. The light pushed farther, until finally, the dark magic of Beryl, their friend turned foe, burst into pieces. It rained down on the city, eternally covering it in the darkness that still remains today. Violence, hatred, untruthfulness, evil, everything that you wished couldn't be there, was all in that one spell. But without it, we could never learn to live. And so, this is the end of STORY NUMBER I.
THE END for now.
