Element Girls Book 2, Mihaela Bogdan [learn to read books .TXT] 📗

something strange among them. At first sight it appeared to be a small black dot. Soon the dot began to grow and turned into a black hole with dark shades of a multicolored spectral which seemed to connect the ground with the hole.

  Violet watched in silence as the suspicious spectral was absorbing the creatures nearby it. Titans, trolls, the Gargoyles on the Violet’s castle rooftop which had the duty to protect their princess and her home, the werewolves from the nearby forests, the demons underneath the ground and some Cerberus. Some Spectra and Will-o’-the-wisps managed to get away and take cover in the castle. Although these last creatures that escaped are in The Dark Kingdom, they aren’t necessary evil ones. Their duty in this kingdom is to maintain order and a certain level of understanding between the inhabitants, especially between the witches and wizards whom were exiles from the other kingdoms because of their wrong doings there.

  In other words, The Dark Kingdom was more of a prison and the Spectra forms as well as the Will-o’-the-wisps were the guardians.

  Ace didn’t noticed what happened until the end. He threw away the rake from his hands and rushed up, to his sister’s balcony to see if she was fine.

  -Violet! Are you still here?! He asked but then exhaled relieved when he saw his sister unharmed.

  Violet didn’t respond, her eyes were still staring at the place on the sky where the black dot first appeared. When it had done absorbing the creatures nearby the ground, it disappeared quickly.

  -Sis’! Say something, you’re scaring me. What was that thing?! Ace asked again, putting his right hand on his sister’s shoulder to see if she was aware of his presence.

  After a short moment of silence, Violet turned her gaze at her brother, showing him her pale skin and her emerald eyes full of fear and anger.

  -Ace, we must go to Petra and tell her to gather the Element Girls. I am afraid that Coldblood is behind all of this and if we don’t get to him first, Wiearth will have the same faith as Earth.

  -The Element Girls?! Oh yeah, those four witches from Earth. Man, they have a name for their group too? Ace was asking himself while he ruffled his hair.

  Violet exhaled heavily being once again surprised that her brother didn’t know this, although he met the girls before her.

  “Oh man, Ace is even dumber than I thought. And he has a bad memory as well. What am I going to do with him?!”   

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  The people from The Light Kingdom were living their peaceful lives as usual, unaware of the danger that took place on the other side of their magical planet, all except Petra.

  Usually, Petra is a calm and loving person, reason why everyone loves her. But since Violet and Ace brought bad news from the Dark Kingdom she began to worry and pass around her room.

  -Petra, calm down and take a sit. If you continue like this, you’ll make ditches in the floor. Violet said to Petra, following her every move with her eyes.

  She and Ace were sitting at the round marbled table with the crystal ball in the middle.

  Ace was looking into it to see something, but the ball didn’t show anything.

  -Uh, is this thing broken?! I can’t see a thing in it. Ace said after giving up staring at it.

  -It isn’t turned on, dummy. Only Petra can control the crystal ball, since she’s the Oracle. Violet responded instead.

  -I wasn’t asking you, sis’.

  -Well can’t you see that Petra is about to explode?!

  And so the two siblings began to argue, ignoring the fact that they were annoying Petra, making her to lose her peace.

  -Will you two please shut up so I can think?! Petra shouted at them restoring silence in her room as it was before. She took a couple of deep breaths and after she calmed herself down she took a sit at the table along with Violet and Ace. Sorry about that, but you two were driving me crazy. Now that I managed to calm down, I can send a message to the girls mentors, telling them that it’s time.

  -Time for what, exactly?! Surprisingly, Ace was confused once again.

  -For the Element Girls to return home. Didn’t I tell you what happened here before I brought you home?! Violet asked irritated of her brother’s bad memory.

  -I recall you mentioned that Petra sent the girls on the other four realms when I was cleaning the alarm bell from the upper tower of the castle. But then I accidentally made them rang and couldn’t hear the rest of the story.

  Violet slapped her four head with her left hand, letting a DOUGH sound out of her mouth.

  Petra hurried and sent the message through the crystal ball before the two siblings will argue again. Their fights might seem funny at first, but after a while they get annoying.

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  All this time, Coldblood hypnotized the creatures he captured to obey his every order. Then he sends them to Earth and ‘welcome’ the four witches back home. Or what was left of it.

 

A.N: Planet Earth under the Dark Lord’s control.

Chapter 9 - The reunion. Part 2

  With the bad situation at hand, Petra finally summoned the other four leaders of Wiearth to end their trainings with the Element Girls. Just like a few months ago, Petra casted the same spell which opened the portals of the magical realms.

  From the first portal came King Neptune riding a giant shelve filled with salt water carried by Heraclites, since he had no legs to stand on. Behind him came Oana looking very different, in a good way, as if she just returned from a well rested vacation. She changed a lot since the last time she was in Petra’s room; her whole body was releasing a calm and confident vibe which smelled like sand and salty ocean waves. Her outfit matched her mood perfectly, being consisted in an azure colored long strapless dress decorated with white and grey pearls, on her feet she wore white beach slippers, an oyster necklace around her slightly tanned neck, pink sea stars earrings and her hair was held back in a long braided ponytail.

  From the second portal, Queen Cleopatra made her entrance in a golden painted carriage pulled by a couple of Sylphs. Next to her was Laura. When she got out of the carriage in a regal manor with small graceful steps, her hands were gathered in front of her belly and her head was held high. Her long black hair was caught in a golden hairnet, leaving only the front strands of hair lean against her cheeks. She wore a short white dress with a transparent yellow cape on her shoulders, which was held by a wide semi circled turquoise necklace, two golden wide bracelets were covering her wrists and short heeled sandals with turquoise stones on them completed Laura’s new style. And by the looks of it, Laura became to be more alike her mentor not only by the way she was dressed, but also by the way she behaved.

  From the third portal, Lady Merida arrived riding on a light brown unicorn and Helena after her on an orange unicorn. Helena seemed to be happier and more connected with nature by looking at her new appearance: brown boots with laces in front, grey long socks with leaves pattern, brown short pants with an orange belt holding many small bags around her waist, a long sleeved green shirt and a black hooded vest. Her bangs grew up until they almost surpassed her eyes so she tilted it behind her left ear while her wavy hair was lying on her back held by a small hair pin. She also had earrings shaped like acorns and a light brown glove on her right hand.    

  Lord Vesta came through the last portal riding his dark stallion along with Michaela. Unlike the other three girls whom were peaceful, calm and friendly, Michaela had a harsh look on her face as if she was about to beat someone to death and her whole body was emanating negative vibes. But the hard core outfit she wore dragged all the attention: a pair of black leather boots up to her knees with many small belts on them, a pair of long black pants which seemed to be made from a rough mysterious material, a red belt with a silver chain hanging on the left side, a white tank and over it she wore a hooded bloody red half zipped blouse. On both her wrists she had black leathered bracelets with silver spikes, a black leathered neck chocker with silver spikes and silver skull shaped earrings. Her curly hair grew a little longer and now it was covering her shoulders tilted on the right side. Her glasses were changed with oval shaped ones with red metal frames. But the worrying thing about Michaela’s new appearance was a pink snake shaped scare, which extended from her left cheek up to her forehead.

  Petra smiled very wide and opened her arms to welcome the four witches back:

  -Oana, Laura, Helena, Michaela! Welcome back, I’ve missed you all!

  Then Oana, Laura and Helena approached Petra and hugged her, one by one. They seemed happy to reunite after numerous days of departure, but then they realized that Michaela hasn’t moved from her mentor.

  -Michaela, aren’t you glad to see us after all this time?! Helena asked, looking confused at Michaela’s cold reaction.

  -Maybe she is too shy to express her feelings towards us. Petra tried to calm Helena.

  -I ain’t shy. I just don’t like to get too emotional. Michaela responded coldly, maintaining her thought position.

  All except Oana, Laura and Helena didn’t seem to be bothered by Michaela’s attitude.

  -Why are you three so surprised? Violet asked the three Earth witches, while raising an eyebrow. This attitude is normal for someone who lived in the ruthless Fire Territory.

  Ace, Petra and the four mentors approved Violet’s commentary silently.

  Seeing that the three Earth witches were still confused, Petra snapped her fingers making the small round table into a bigger oval shaped one. She then multiplied the three chairs on which she, Ace and Violet once sat, so that everyone could take a sit at the table, except King Neptune whom was already sitting in his giant clam filled with water.

  Everybody took a sit at the table, the Element girls were sitting on a side along with Violet and Ace, while on the other side their mentors were sitting along with Petra. Each of the Element Girls was facing her mentor.

  Petra threw a quick glance around the table and after a moment of silence she began:

  -First of all, I would like to thank King Neptune, Queen Cleopatra, Lady Merida and Lord Vesta for training the remaining witches of planet Earth. (All four leaders of Wiearth lowered their heads slightly in front of Petra as a sign of thankfulness for the compliment that she made towards them.) Secondly, I bet you are wondering why Ace is