Katy said nothing the last days of classes; she took her finals and then went straight to bed at the end of the day. She knew there were things to be discussed and plans to be made, but she wanted for just one day feel like a normal witch child. She woke up the Friday at end of term to Deen as he shook her awake, proudly he stated he got two E’s on this last report card and the rest were G’s except history which was an S.
“Oh, and Katy the parental units are here.” Deen said as she came back from getting dressed in her Eleball uniform.
“Great, just what I need. Let’s just get ready for the Eleball game and sneak down to the field before they decided to come up to talk to us.” Katy said as she finished putting her hair up and she grabbed her Hawk.
“How do you know they just didn’t come for the game?” Deen asked as he jumped off Katy’s bed and grabbed his broom as well.
“Come on we have been planning on running away. Trust me somebody either told them or they figured it out. They are not stupid. I was just hoping to leave before they figured it out.” Katy said as her and Deen walked down to the main room to meet up with the rest of the team.
“Well let’s just see after we kick some Air butt!” Deen said as they joined the team.
“Okay team!” Garret huddled them in to a loosely formed circle. “We are going out there and we are going to dominate them! We beat them last year! Let’s do it again team!” The whole team shouted with him, Garret knew how to get the team pumped and soon they were on the field, they waited for the game to begin.
Professor Seth Clark came up to the pitch. “Teams in position!” Jack was injured in practice the other day and since Isabella had graduated last year Katy and Deen were both to play the whole game. Garret hadn’t had a chance to hold tryouts for this year, and since they had a strong team as is, he figured it would be okay. Professor Clark threw up the elemental ball and the game as on.
The teams were pretty much even in power, it seemed it would turn out to be a great game, and by the middle of the fourth quarter they were still tied 0-0. Katy looked out into the crowd and saw Deen’s parents as they sat with Antonio and Sandra, all of them cheered on the Fire team. Then something caught the corner of her eye. It was Raven Ebony; she was seated with Damien and Blake. Katy flew over by them to see if she could hear them.
“Look, I think if we just take out her, Riley will come to his senses.” Blake tried to explain to his mother.
And just before Ebony could respond she caught Katy as she watched them. She allowed Katy to see her thoughts. They locked eyes; and Katy knew she would try something. Something terrible. Something very terrible. It scared Katy. She knew if she allowed Raven Ebony to do what she had thought about; the pain, it would kill Katy. So Katy flew up to sky and tried to do something that she had only read about. She tried to create a lighting storm. She had to stop the game. She had to protect everybody from the Ebonys. Katy took what power she could feel and pushed it to the max, her eyes rolled back into her head, she spread her arms as pain rushed through her, she pushed herself further before, but this time she was completely in charge of her powers. She could feel the power as it left through her fingers, she could feel the sky become black as sin; she could feel the power build as the lightning started.
“Okay teams! Bring it in the game is being called due to lighting!” Professor Clark yelled out; nobody seemed to notice Katy and what she had done.
Katy’s feet hit the ground just as the rain started, she was weak, but she could not show it, because that would tip off her family. She knew she did what she had to do, even if the team was upset that they ended up in a tie with the Air house. “Deen!” Katy called out as she saw him land.
“Brilliant; that was strange it was like this storm came out of nowhere!” Deen stated as they started the walk back to the dorm. “Well, it looks like we will start our break early. It sucks that we had to end in a tie.” Deen was upset, but she knew he hadn’t noticed it was her doing; which meant she only had to worry about…
She didn’t have a chance to finish the thought as she heard “Katherine Lillian Fitz and Deen Joseph Hepburn! Come here now!” It was Edgar.
“What is up dad?” Deen asked, as they walked over to Edgar who was soon joined by Sandra and Jane.
“What was that? And what is this I hear about you two trying to leave the country?” Edgar demanded as he ushered them into an unused classroom.
“What was what? And leaving the country? Don’t know what you are talking about.” Deen stated.
“Do not lie to me!” Edgar’s neon orange eyes glowed like a blazing fire, he was really mad at them. “Why did you two manipulate the weather to call off the game? So you two could sneak out and be gone before we found you to stop you?”
“Stop the game, we wouldn’t do that, we love playing Eleball! We want to beat the Air team. And it is fun getting a few hits on Riley!” Deen was confused and turned to Katy. “What is he talking about why would he think we would stop the game?”
“Who told you that we were trying to leave the country?” Katy asked she wanted to change the subject; she flashed a warning glance at Deen, which she would explain.
“That does not matter! Why did you create a storm? The planes won’t be able to leave until it lets up! And why are you thinking about skipping the country?” Antonio asked as he walked into the classroom.
“I don’t know who told you that we were leaving, but we are not.” Katy lied; but she knew she must to protect those she loved.
“You are right you are not! You are grounded! Both of you!” Edgar yelled again.
“You can’t ground me!” Katy was mad. She only did what she needed to do to protect them. “And does it really matter what I do? Does it matter where I go? Does it even matter to you that Raven Ebony was out in the crowd today? That she was going to blow the stadium?” Katy yelled back. She had to get through to them the fact she only did what needed to be done to keep them all safe. She had allowed Deen, Riley, Haley and Jerome make plans, but would have left without them.
“Ebony was going to do what?” Edgar was shocked and it threw him, he was at a loss for words. He had known that she was in the crowd but he thought he got a good read on her thoughts and had not seen anything dark in them at the game.
Katy sighed and counted to ten in her mind; she needed to calm down before she hurt one of them by accident, and then explained. “I saw her talking to her kids. Blake just wanted to hurt me, but Ebony thought of something else. She saw me, and showed me what she was going to do. She thought I wouldn’t be able to stop her, and I probably couldn’t if I took her head on.” Katy left out that she also thought of the white being that had been seen in her nightmares, that with that being on Ebony’s side, it scared her. “So I stopped and thought about what I could do. I knew that if there was a true lightning storm then the game would be called, but I had to make it look real. So I created a storm. It emptied the stadium and stopped Ebony’s plan.”
“What about leaving the country?” Jane asked.
“I was trying to lure her away from those I loved. I let Riley, Jerome, Haley and Deen plan the trip, but I was going to leave before the planes left. I know it is wrong, but she knows that she failed to kill me, well she didn’t, but anyways, she will try again. So I felt if I drew here away from you guys, then well, she wouldn’t try to hurt you.”
Sandra knelt in front of Katy and hugged her, and then she pulled back and looked Katy in the eyes. “Listen Katy Lily, we are powerful, we can deal with whatever she throws at us. We want to make sure you are safe as well. And look what happened to Wesley Solomon. He tried that route and he is dead. Why do you feel this need to protect us?”
“Because I love you all! Even if you can protect yourselves, she has…” Katy stopped; she almost slipped up about the white being. “Black magic on her side, I know you know black magic but you all are too good to use it unless there was no other way. And this war is coming and I know it has something to do with me. Why else would an ancient dragon state now it was time for the war to start after talking to me? And the judge in the beyond stated if I don’t win then Darkness shall, it sounded like that would mean so much more pain then the world could take. I think it would destroy the life on Earth if we lose this war.” Katy told them the truth; she let one of her few remaining secrets slip.
“She said Darkness? Not they? Not bad? But Darkness?” It was Jane that asked, she had gone as white as a ghost, and one could see the fear in her eyes.
“Yes, what is going on?” Katy asked. She knew that it was a bad sign how much that word scared Jane.
“Nothing.” Jane stated as she looked Edgar in the eyes.
“Nothing, is going on, just an old myth.” Edgar stated. “Jane always thought there was something in them, but that is impossible. Don’t worry about it.”
“Yes, go finish packing; I am sure the storm will let up…” Sandra stated, but the sky seemed to have gotten darker, and Sandra looked like she had seen a ghost.
Katy and Deen were going to press for more details, but instead left the room and went back up to their dorm. “Deen, I didn’t do this!” Katy said as she looked out the window, it was blacker then anything black she had ever seen, and the rain came down like hail.
“What do you mean? You started the storm.” Deen stated and walked to the window and stood next to Katy.
“I dropped my spell as soon as the game was called. Look it is getting worse out there. I tried reversing the spell, but it isn’t my spell. I can’t stop this. This isn’t my work.” Katy stated.
“Brilliant, if the storm don’t let up then we are stuck here. And so is everybody from the game…” It finally clicked with both Katy and Deen at that point.
“It is Ebony. She has to be behind this! She wants us to stay here to get to us!” Katy yelled and grabbed Deen and ran out of the dorm. But before they could open the door they were stopped by Jerome.
“Wait guys!” Jerome called out to them. “Where are you two going? They have the school on lockdown. Your storm is really something Katy.”
“It isn’t mine. I dropped mine as soon as the game was called. I have to go tell Edgar and Antonio that Ebony is doing this. She is trapping us all in here with her!” Katy stated.
“No she left. I saw her, I was in Mitchellville, and I know I skipped your game.” He said as he felt the anger in Deen’s mind. “Sorry. Anyways she teleported out of town just as your storm started. I just got back before lock down.”
“Then what is the point of keeping us here?” Katy asked out loud even though she knew none of them would have the answer.
Katy and Deen still decided to seek out Edgar and Antonio, at least to let them know this was not Katy’s storm. “Deen, if she wasn’t trying to trap us here with her than why would she do this?”
“Maybe she didn’t, maybe somebody else wants us here?” Deen couldn’t think of a reason. “But then again, evil does not always have to make sense.
“I think she has something to do with it, after all how did she know to leave? Do you think she took her kids?” Katy asked just as they reached Antonio’s office.
“Jerome didn’t say he saw them.” Deen said as he knocked and they waited.
“Hmm… something doesn’t add up.” Katy stated as Antonio came to the door.
“Good just the two we want to see, again.” He said with a sigh. “Always you two. We were just coming to get you.” Antonio ushered them in. Inside sat the headmaster, Jane, Edgar and Sandra.
“Good, we want to see you two.” Edgar stated as Katy and Deen walked over to the chairs between Sandra and Jane and sat down.
“The storm isn’t mine. I dropped mine as soon as the game was called off.” Katy stated.
“We know. Even with the power you two show, there is no way that you could have kept it up this long, and you wouldn’t trap yourself in with the Ebonys.” Edgar stated.
“Raven Ebony is not here. Jerome said that he saw her teleport just as Katy’s storm started.” Deen told them.
“Now that is interesting. We thought it was her, but why leave if her goal was to trap everybody here?” Edgar asked aloud.
“Maybe her goal is to just know where we are…” Katy stated and they all turned to look at her. Katy hung her head and continued. “I mean we were… going to…”
“Leave. Yes, we know. We were just wondering when you were going to inform us of your travel plans.” Sandra stated. “Of course, you know now that your plan was silly. You don’t need to protect us. We need to protect you.”
“Look, we just wanted to make sure she didn’t come after our homes.” Deen stated; he knew how hard Katy tended to take things. “Katy explained it to you just a bit ago. Katy knows that Ebony is after her and she wanted someone that evil to be far away from people with light souls.”
“We understand that, but now we are stuck on grounds. And we don’t have a way of leaving. Of course they could have planned something else and took Katy’s storm as a convenient opportunity.” Antonio stated.
“Grounds? Are we not stuck inside?” Deen asked.
“The storm is just staying around the boarders now, whoever is controlling this storm, made theirs once you started making yours, and their goal was to get everybody into the school. After they achieved that goal, they moved the storm front to just stay on the sidelines, so nobody can leave the grounds. There must be a reason for that; it would make much more sense to trap us in the school.” Edgar explained.
“But why? Why would they want us at the school?” Katy was confused there was another player she just knew it, and it had to be the white being that haunted her nightmares and they wanted them all stuck here. She knew it was the white being, she just didn’t know who the white being was, and that disturbed her most of all because she seemed so familiar.
“They?” Antonio asked. And Katy knew she let some of her thoughts slip.
“They who?” Katy tried to play it off.
“You said ‘they’, what do you know?” It was Jane who asked, which surprised Katy, as she thought it would have been Edgar.
“What do you know?” Katy asked; she knew now they knew something more.
“Nothing.” Edgar stated. “Now why did you say they.”
“It doesn’t make sense that Ebony would know when to leave. And either she is still close or more than one person is working to keep this storm up.” Katy stated, she still had not told them about the white being that haunted her.
“Good point. I figured this is a couple of witches and warlocks, keeping it in place, they have to be just right outside the school, as the headmaster just put a spell up preventing weather spells on school property. Trying to counteract this spell. Hopefully they play their hand soon.” Edgar stated.
“So we have to stay at school for break? Not knowing?” Deen asked.
“Yes we are all stuck here; nothing we throw at the storm is stopping it. And to try and teleport through it, well we don’t know what other spells are contained within the storm.” Edgar stated. “Now, go unpack.” Edgar stated and walked them out of the room; he closed the door again once they were in the hall.
“You get the feeling they were hiding something?” Deen asked.
“Isn’t that my line?” Katy said with a smile as they walked back to their dorm.
“Sure but we all know they are hiding something. I wonder what it is.” Deen said as they sat down in the common room which was now full to the brim with the Fire house members.
“We will have to find out later.” Katy said as she settled into the new book she picked up at the library.
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