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Chapter 209: Summerlands
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Warrior of the Way Chapter 210: Summerlands
By the time morning came around, Laci had become more than ready to get out of there. Between the lousy food and the constant poking of her body every hour on the hour, she needed to get out of this place just to get some rest. Besides, she desperately wanted to wear normal clothes once more and get out of that flimsy gown that flapped in the back that hospitals forced you to wear. Jayden cut classes at the college to help their mother get Laci home and situated, determined, she said, to be there for Laci no matter what her sister needed. Maria Valentine sat in the backseat with Laci, while Jayden drove, her mother telling her to slow down every time she took a turn, causing Laci to wince.Home. That was a word Laci never thought she'd be saying in the context of returning to her childhood home, but that's where they headed. Home. Not Rhychard's condo, but to the home where she grew up and had been forced to abandon."We'll reach out to Rhychard and make arrangements to get your stuff
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"I know I joined the coven to practice magic," Kayla Lewell said from where she sat on her bedroom floor, twirling her copper hair with one of her fingers. Alex Barrister sat with her, his back against her bed, his legs folded and crossed in front of him. "To be honest, though, I never really thought it was all that real, you know? I just thought it was like meditation and the power of positive thinking. When we fought at that small neighborhood a few days back, it surprised me I could do anything."Alex shook his head at her. "You'd done small things before. You should have known magic existed. I mean, how long have you been practicing at the Murky Cauldron?"Kayla stared at him a moment, his dark, greasy bangs dangling in his dark eyes. Everything about Alex seemed dark. Dark eyes, dark shirt, dark clothes. Even his mood, at times, grew dark, mopey almost. Maybe, she thought, it came from being the only male in the coven. He never really stood a chance against all those women. Howeve
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Alex crab-walked backward, shoving himself out of Kayla's way as she turned, her normally bright green eyes a flaming red as she glared at him, her lips twisted up into a sneer. "Kayla, what the hell?" He slammed himself into the wall, pressing against it as he forced himself into a standing position, his hands out in front of him. Kayla opened her mouth, but the voice that came out was not her normal, soft-spoken tone. Instead, her voice sounded gravelly and deep, sinister and male. "The young witch is no longer in control." Kayla stood, her arms at her sides as she took a wobbly step toward Alex. The creature laughed as it examined the body it now possessed, glancing down at its arms and legs, touching itself in all the most vulgar ways. "I am Baltabek, and I now own this vessel." He jerked a hand out, flinging power at Alex.Alex rolled to the side, chanting as he stood, thrusting his arms out, repelling the creature's power. While he didn't want to hurt Kayla, he wouldn't allow w
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Rhychard jumped onto his back porch, rushing through the doorway of the sliding glass doors leading into his condo, which they kept open for Kree, so the coshey would be able to come and go as he needed. Renny had screamed once and then silence, and the silence terrified him. When he slid into the small living area of his condo, he saw Renny pressed against the wall, staring with wide eyes at something in the middle of the room. Pux and the other three gnomes stared at the same spot, but whereas Renny held a petrified expression pulling her face taut, they just looked confused."I swear, I don't see anything," Fist said, his tiny hands bunched into fists and shoved onto his hips. The gnome stood no taller than a child's action figure and looked just as silly. "It's just air. Who screams at air?""What's going on?" Rhychard asked, darting his gaze from Renny to the empty spot in the living room where she stared and then back to the gnomes standing around staring. "What the hell is ever
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Pux and the other three gnomes watched with pinched brows as Renny took another step away from Rhychard, screwing up her courage to face the ghosts. Rhychard watched her take a few calming breaths to steady her nerves. He stayed close, just in case she lost control again. She stood tall, arms straight at her sides as she faced the ghosts. "I know what you seek," she said, her voice holding a slight tremor. "But I can't give that to you just yet. I don't know how. I know you think I'm the bridge, but the bridge is out right now." Rhychard smiled at her attempt at being a smartass like him in the face of the supernatural. Everyone possessed their own coping mechanisms. She stood as if listening to something. Or rather, to someone. Her head tilted to the side a bit, her blond hair falling slightly, brows pinched over her nose. She nodded. "I know. I know you want to cross over, but I don't know how. I can't access the bridge.""Maybe tell them there's a toll, and they can't cross over
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Tansy tossed the book into the pile already teetering on her desk. "I can't find anything," she said in exasperation as she fell back into her chair. For the past three days, she had poured over every book she had in her personal library while the Lore Master Apprentice searched through the ones on the front shelves only to come up empty-handed. "I've searched every book I can imagine and nothing talks about people leaving the Summerlands once they arrive nor those of the living traveling there." With a scowl twisting her features, she stared at the pile of books in front of her, her arms over her chest. "If Rose is truly trying to reach us, then I think the only path left is holding a seance and trying to contact her." She glanced up at Wanda who hovered over her all morning."A seance, how exciting." Wanda clapped her hands and then rubbed them together. "I've never done one of those before. What do we do?"Tansy just shook her head at the older woman. Wanda always attacked everythin
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Laci laid in her bed, her head resting on the headboard as she stretched her legs out in front of her, a book, which she didn't feel like reading, in her lap. Her side ached, especially where the stitches were, and movement only seemed to agitate her wound. She had hoped reading would take her mind off everything, but even one of her favorite authors could not distract her from thinking about what transpired over the past few days. Her mother left her alone, deciding for once not to call out of work, and Jayden attended her classes at the local community college, leaving Laci alone for the first time since she left the hospital. If she was honest with herself, she feared where her mind would take her. Since leaving the hospital a couple of days ago, every time she closed her eyes, she saw Rose and Renny standing there, wrapped in coils of magic, screaming in pain, their bodies jerking and twisting in the air. Those screams kept Laci awake at night.Closing the book, she tossed it on th
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Famallumi sat on the floor of the Murky Cauldron, a pile of books scattered around him, while Tansy sat at her desk sipping some mint tea Wanda forced upon her. The elf arrived shortly after Wanda put the call out to the Valentine sisters about what happened, and he immediately started poring over the books on the shelves in an attempt to decipher what happened to the witch. Tansy turned him loose in her store as she always did, but inside she wondered why the Lore Master Apprentice didn't know more lore about things. He always seemed so shocked and amazed by anything that transpired in their world even if caused by a creature from theirs, that she wondered how long he had actually been studying to be a Lore Master.Wanda sat in a chair across from Tansy, her own hands wrapped around a chipped ceramic tea cup as she stared into the dark liquid. She gnawed on her bottom lip, her eyes bunched together as she struggled to come up with a reason for what happened, while never taking her gaz
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While their mother piddled in the kitchen fixing them a plate of fajitas, the Valentine sisters sat on the living room sofa, legs folded under them. Maria Valentine put most of the house back in order after Baltabek's attack, but the destruction remained obvious to Laci. She held tight to her sister ever since the Summerlands, scared to let her go. Jayden, of course, fussed at her to stop being a mother hen.Once everyone arrived back at Rhychard's Thinking Rock, a place Renny decided would cause the least amount of sightseers, the witches and Famallumi returned to the Murky Cauldron while Rhychard placed a still-weak Jayden in the back of Laci's car. The eldest Valentine wasted no time or words as she headed straight for home."I almost lost you," Laci said. "I don't know what I would have done if that happened.""Probably moved into my room since it's the biggest," Jayden said with a shrug."That's not even funny," Laci snapped, shoving Jayden's hand away from her in disgust.Jayden
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Rhychard wasn't sure what he hit, but he found himself spinning backward, the Guardian Sword leaving his hand as he hit the ground with a hard thud, the air whooshing out of his lungs. Scrambling to his feet, a pain tugging at the back of his head from where he hit the ground, the first thing he noticed was Laci sprawled on top of Kree. Renny! He jerked his attention around until he saw her still gripping Jayden's arm as both women lay stretched out on the grass. However, he didn't see the wall he ran into, knocking him back on his ass. Another glance around, and he noticed the salt circle and the three witches sitting on the ground, eyes closed as they chanted. An older man he didn't recognize stood behind Wanda, his face a mask of admiration.A groan alerted Rhychard to Baltabek stirring, and Rhychard lunged for his sword. The demon moved faster, however, and shot a burst of his demonic power at the Warrior, knocking him back against the invisible barrier, the air he just managed to
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Rhychard heard screams, but he couldn't tell whose or where they originated. They might have even been his for all he knew. Pieces of the broken table jabbed him in his back and legs, and he felt blood making a trail down his side. Groaning, he tried to sit up. He must get up. Renny needed his protection as did his parents.:Warrior, Baltabek is heading to your home,: Kree sent. Rhychard could hear the elven hound moving toward him through their connection. :He hid among the woods along the creek.:"Rhychard!" Renny shouted, and then he felt her hands on his arms along with someone else's on his other side.:Well, he knows how to make an entrance.: Rhychard sent.He could hear shouts of panic coming from the parking lot and other apartments, people screaming at the sudden explosion.Glancing up, he noticed the other set of hands helping him to his feet belonged to his father. His mother stood by the sofa, her face pinched with concern, and Tryna picked herself up off the floor from whe
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Tansy walked over to where Alex's backpack lay on the ground from where the gnome dropped it when they first entered the Summerlands, pulling out the container of salt that rolled halfway out. As she stood, she couldn't take her gaze off the dark pack, remembering its owner and how far he came since walking into the Murky Cauldron that first day. Her heart twisted, and she did her best to keep the tears at bay. She didn't know how much time they had, so she needed to make sure she completed the barrier spell before Renny arrived with Baltabek.Kayla and Wanda sat off to the side, Kayla with her arms wrapped around her knees as she stared at the last spot she saw Alex, and Wanda absorbing her surroundings. Since the demons had been cast out of the Summerlands, the dank grayish color slowly faded away, replaced once more by the lush greens and vibrant colors of the flowers that filled the Land of the Dead. They had even seen the return of some of those who had already passed on from the
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"Mom! Dad. What are you doing here?" Rhychard just stood there, staring. He didn't need this right now."Your father thought I was crazy," Catherine Bartlett said. "He even made sure I didn't have any hidden wine bottles anywhere. Empty wine bottles, that is. I had to drag him here to see for himself.""You're alive," Rhychard's father said as he stood there and stared at Renny, his brows bunched in disbelief. "How is this even possible?"Rhychard sighed. "I've discovered just about anything is possible these days.""Hello, Mr. Bartlett," Renny said as she casually closed her purse, hiding the gnomes from sight for now. Catherine didn't handle them well last time, and Renny didn't know how Rhychard's father would react. "I'm sorry we didn't come over and tell you. We've just been…well, we've had our hands full."James Bartlett swooped in, wrapping his arms around Renny and giving her the tightest bear hug she ever had. "I can imagine you have," he told her, his voice filled with enthus
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Rhychard watched as Renny gathered up the other Warriors and returned them to the Guardian Sword, only to reappear a moment later with Pux on her shoulder. Laci paced the entire time until Renny returned, eager to be on her way to protecting her sister. With the bridges gone, she had no other way back to the Land Above than Renny. None of them did, actually. Rhychard ran a hand over his long, dark hair, worried about what they would find when they arrived in the Valentine household, concerned for his brother, just as Laci showed concern for her sister.Tansy still stood off to the side, holding a sobbing Kayla and a shaking Wanda. Both witches shifted back to normal once the demons left them, but still wore the wear and tear from the possession. Rhychard hoped they would continue to heal with time, at least physically. He highly doubted Kayla would heal emotionally anytime soon considering her hands snapped Alex's neck even though the demon controlled her. That would be a heavy weight
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Karl stood there, still not sure what he should be doing or even what was actually happening. He saw what those demons did to downtown. He couldn't possibly stop one if it showed up now and took over Jayden's body. Glancing over at Famallumi, he wondered just how much power the elves possessed. Gormec seemed to always have his giant hammer nearby, and while Karl had seen its power before, was it enough to stop the demons? There were only five of them against a demon like the ones who killed a witch and almost defeated his brother, the Warrior. Karl didn't particularly care for his odds."How do you feel?" he asked Jayden, his hands over his chest."I'd feel better if you'd stop staring at me like I'm about to go off my meds," Jayden snapped."How about I go and fix us all some lemonade?" Jayden's mother suggested. "It'll give us something to do while we wait for the others.""Do we even know they're going to be here?" Gormec asked, leaning on the handle of his hammer. "It's been longer
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The witches continued to shout their chant, their power strengthened with their success. Baltabek sent a blast toward them, but Rhychard blocked it and hurled the power at the demon's feet, the ground exploding and shoving Baltabek up and backward into the air. The other Warriors quickly pressed their attack while the demon lay on the ground.Kayla let out a wail, slicing the air, and dropped to her knees. The demon inside of her wasn't so easily taken, however. With clenched fists, he shoved his power at the witches, doing his best to stop their chanting. Rhychard caught one of the bolts before it struck Tansy, but the next slipped past him and struck Laci in the chest, somersaulting her backward to land on the ground in a heap.Kree leaped up on his back paws, spinning in midair before racing over to the fallen witch. Rhychard could hear her moan and breathed a sigh of relief that she still lived. :Is she okay?: he asked Kree.Kree leaned down, pressing his muzzle against Laci's sho
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Rhychard blocked another blast, sending it off to the side to explode into the ground. The gnomes fought from inside the ground, churning up the soil the demons stood upon and causing them to slip and lose their balance. Kree darted in all directions, drawing the demons' fire while he attempted to get close enough to bite one of them. The witches sent their power at the demons, Rose from behind and the others in front, doing their best to keep Baltabek and the others from focusing on any one person. They all did their best to bide Renny time to bring the other Warriors out of the sword, but Rhychard wasn't sure how much longer they could keep it up.The demons who possessed the witches spun, one sending a bolt of power at Rhychard's head and the other one sending one at his feet. He swung his sword, blocking the bolt to his head, but missing the one aimed at his feet. The magic snatched at his ankles, spinning him around and dragging him to the ground. His sword arm hit the ground, his
