Chapter Twenty One: The Apprentice

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"Ok, this is definitely not happening." Scathach was pacing back and forth up their dorm. "Ok, so we actually won the tournament. I'm dreaming." She decided.

"Why don't you pinch yourself." Suggested Aoife. When Scatty pinched her self, she said, "Ok, I'm not dreaming."

"Yeah." Amber said. She was sitting next to the trophy. "I mean unless we all are having this dream."

"Guys!" Miss Rosie dashed into the room. "Kaywick's gone looking for the crystal!" You need to go now!"

"Where's Aoife?!" Amber cried over the noise. She answered her own question, "Kaywick kidnapped her."

She put on the teleportation paint.

"Grab on!" Amber called.

Everyone reached out to touch her and once they all had a firm grip on her arm, she teleported over to the fire pit prison.

Everybody jumped behind a bush or a large tree as Kaywick and Tom walked by carrying Aoife between them.

"No. No!" Amber whispered in horror. "All this time. It was him. Him!"

"Ok. The legends bait is ready. Apprentice, you go get the crystal, and I'll wait for The Weapon Master."

Amber took it that he was was going to call Scathach not by her real name or her nicknames, but by her titles.

"I'll hold him. You stop Tom and get the crystal." Scathach said.

They nodded.

"Good luck." Ivy whispered.

"I'd thank you for giving my sister back." The Shadow stepped out from behind a tree. "Well, actually I wouldn't thank- whoa!"

A bullet shot from Kaywick's gloved hands.

The Shadow jumped in the air, criss cross applesauce, as the bullet rocketed under her.

Dodging the bullets, Scathach led Kaywick away from the pit were Tom had disappeared.

They ran over to the pit and saw Tom getting off Crystal's ice slide and pressing a button in the wall.

"Hmmm." Fern said as the slide melted. "Looks like he turned up the heat so no one can follow."

"So we can't get in?" Sky asked.

"We can." Answered Fern calmly.

Vines shot out and pressed the button.

At once the lava stopped bubbling.

"A slide please Crystal." Fern said.

"I'm on it." She said.

The slide curved down to the platform that led into a corridor.

Amber jumped onto the slide.

About halfway down, Tom shot the other half of the slide, and it fell with a big splash into the lava.

Amber shot the end off it.

Her hand shot out and grabbed the end of the slide.

She looked down.

Her wand was plummeting towards the lava!

Then she remembered her plant powers.

Ivy shot from her hands, wrapping its self around her wand.

Her hand was losing grip.

"Catch!" Fern carefully aiming, threw a paint to her.

Using plants she pulled the paint towards her. "What type is it?" She screamed.

"You'll see, just put it on!" Fern called back.

She rubbed it on.

Then to her horror her stomach plummeted, as she fell towards the lava.

Then she landed on the air.

A force field! The force field was protecting her from falling on the lava.

"Jump down!" Amber called.

They all jumped except for Sky, who took one look at them and slid down the slide falling twenty feet at the end of the slide instead of falling one hundred.

Ivy and Joan tied up Tom.

They walked through the corridor and found themselves in a big room with the crystal in the middle.

Hope rushed forward, and touched the crystal. Rattling, about 2,000 skeletons, vampires, zombies, and mummies moved into attack.

They wore guard uniforms, except the mummies, which were wrapped in toilet paper, but had a "Guard" badge on their toilet paper.

Backing up as far as they could, Amber said, "We are in big, big trouble." 

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