Power of M

chapter 18

18. We finally started our vacation. Hey you have to admit we deserved it.

Sitting on Ash's mattress again made me feel like I had never left. As if none of it had happened. Getting out of the Twilight gates was tricky but we managed it, keeping our faces covered just in case they kept records.

Ash came up holding two hot chocolates. We survived on chocolates because it's the cheapest edible thing to buy outside of Twilight. The shop sells burgers, chocolates and nappies, don't even ask me how those three are connected. So for us, hot chocolate basically means heated chocolate. Not cocoa.

"Ash what happened when you suddenly fainted? Zoned out kinda thing?"

She looked at me weirdly as she handed me a plastic cup. "I honestly have no idea. I guess it has something to do with my tattoo memories."

I nodded. "Makes sense." She gave me a push. "No it doesn't."

She shivered slightly. "You don't understand. What I saw........it was weird. I mean I saw Twilight crumbling down from like an aerial point of view and there was this ghostly silver ring and also I kept hearing this really creepy voice repeating this eerie poem over and over again."

"What was it like?"

She pulled her legs closer to her chest and looked at me helplessly. "I can't exactly remember any of the words. Sorry."

"No, that's totally fine. It's just poetry." I said patting her on the back.

She shuddered. "Extremely creepy poetry."

I tried to keep the mood light. "But poetry nevertheless."

That wrung a smile out of her and she gave me a push.

"Here's what I was doing while you were in dream world." I filled her in and she seemed pretty impressed by my work. When she heard about how she came hurtling back at the wall she acted like her ribs were hurting and I told her to go fly a kite. Why did I say that? Because she only realizes that it's hurting after I tell her the story. Faking it to get attention and sympathy. Girls. She got really excited when I came to the part of how I made the bars crumble to dust, but her excitement faded rapidly when she realized it didn't last long and I had no control over it. But on whole she was pretty impressed.

"So what are we going to do?" I asked her thinking about Mavis. I don't know why I was thinking about her. Irrelevant. I don't like her at all. Also irrelevant.

"What do you mean?" Ash asked me.

"Come on Ash we have to go back. We have to save Mavis and defeat Violet."

Ash looked at me as if I had gone mad. "Did we escape for nothing?"

"Yes." I said. "I mean no." I sighed. "Not really sure anymore." Ash swatted my arm. "Shut up. You are confusing me, you little idiot. You mean you did all that, all that for nothing?"

"No" I said. "Maybe" I muttered after a moment of silence. We gave each other a look, sighed and face palmed.

"Never mind Ash. Let's just rest for a while and then figure things out ok?" I asked pretty nicely but Ash shook her head defiantly like 'no Alex everything is not ok.' Then her face turned pale.

"Alex." Her voice was dead calm. "Do you hear what I'm hearing?" I had to use all my mind power to stop myself from visibly shuddering. "If you are hearing someone trying to break through our door, yes."

"I know you're in there." I heard Violet shriek sounding like she had lost her final strand of sanity. I looked around desperately. Our shed was divided into two parts. Her room and my room.

But the one element that the architects forgot to add (whoever who created this thing) was at least one darn window.

I know right. We just finished our hot chocolates and were having a chat like in the good old days and now we would probably be taken into custody and go back to the palace awaiting the moment where Violet would call us to get cured for appendicitis. Ugh. I really felt like we had lost this round. No. No negativity. Not now. We hadn't even made it to the battlefield yet. I'm trying to keep my hopes up. We would come up on top of this. We had to. If we didn't, God save us all.

The door fell to the ground with a bang. Now they were probably in my room and about to step into Ash's. We jumped into action. I locked Ash's door from the key and a rather useless wooden latch. Then Ash started dragging the mattress towards the door and we managed to push it against the door. Then I piled a small plastic chair which had a bunny picture cut into it and on top of it we piled all of Ash's belongings, which admittedly, wasn't much.

Finally both of us got onto the mattress and leaned all our weight against the door. Suddenly I felt a something sharp slice down my back and I felt my t shirt rip. I dragged Ash off and stared at Ash's door in the utmost dismay.

They were cutting it down with an electric saw. I looked at Ash and she looked at me and we both nodded to each other and gave each others' arm a squeeze.

"Let's face it." She said. "Together." I said and we shook hands.

The door fell to the ground and Violet stepped onto it smiling. Still smiling.

"Hello Alex." Mavis walked in standing behind Violet respectfully and when she looked at me I could see a hint of worry in her eyes.

"Are you forgetting someone?" Ash asked defiantly and I suddenly realized that she could be a bit jealous of me receiving so much attention. Violet looked at Ash in disgust.

"At least your brother didn't run off when he had the chance. He could've left you behind like you did to him."

Ash shut her mouth and looked guilty and shocked at the bluntness of the way Violet told her the truth. It was the truth. She had left me. I still felt a twinge of irritation but she was my sister. I had to be there for her.

"But she came back. Anyway, since when were you so worried about people ditching me and running away?" Ash looked at me in surprise and gratefulness. Am I not amazing? My amazingness didn't last long. Does it ever?

Violet turned to Mavis, who I noticed was holding an iron bar. "Knock them out."

"What?!" I asked backing against the wall, my heart beating hard against my chest. Mavis advanced me with a 'what can I do?' sort of expression. Then she winked at me. "Sorry Alex."

She said and suddenly grabbed my arm and swung me towards Violet. "Duck!" she yelled. Assuming she meant me, I ducked and she threw the iron bar at Violet and it hit her hard on the head. Without a sound, she slumped to the ground unconscious.

"Oh God no. Did I kill her?" Mavis asked no one in particular and ran to Violet and listened to her heart beat. She heaved a sigh of relief and got up and faced me and Ash.

She licked her lips and in my head I was like 'uh oh,' I did not like that expression.