If You Trust Me - An Onward Fan-Novel

◊ Chapter 17 ◊

Previously on Onward...

With the magic of shapeshifting by his side, Gedeon also uses the power of words to try and bring Ian down! Nevertheless, the young wizard refuses to give up! But just as Ian gets the S.S. Medallion back in his hands, a final blow forces it away from him again and back to Gedeon, who takes it with pleasure then disappears without a trace...

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◊ Disarray ◊

Ian was on the classroom floor, feeling completely divided and conquered. Every part of his teenage body ached from his head down to his feet. He couldn't even get up off the ground anymore. All he could do now—at long last—was think, and it led him to asking the same brutal questions over and over again.

What had he done? How could he have let this Gedeon the Grotesque get away? But above all, how could he have let the rogue wizard get away with the S.S. Medallion? The young elf had it right back in his hands again when—at the very last moment—the gremlin had won it all by playing one more devious trick on him! Ian hadn't felt more ashamed of himself in all of his life. He laid there wishing he had never found the S.S. Medallion, wishing he had just left it right where it was in the Labyrinth Mall parking lot. He might've even wished that he wasn't a wizard at all.

So there the young elf was, beating himself up after literally getting beaten up by a shapeshifting gremlin, when all of a sudden, the classroom doors burst open, and in came some of his friends—Althea, Kagar, and Sadalia.

"Let me at 'em! LET ME AT 'EM!" Althea screamed as she thrusted herself inside. The cyclops wildly swung her bedazzled prop bat around in front of her as the satyr and the elf followed in after her.

But as they all stopped at the threshold, the three friends then noticed that while they'd finally reached their history classroom, it now appeared a lot more smoky and trashed.

"Marsalax's Beak...," Althea let out in a quieter voice as she lowered her theatrical weapon.

"What happened here?" Kagar asked subsequently. He was certain his friends were only overreacting when they told him that Ian was in danger. But now he could see from the heavy signs of a fight that they had every right to act that way.

While both the cyclops and the satyr could only stand there in shock—not knowing what else to say or do about what they were seeing—Sadalia used her observant eyes to look around at the damage. She thought it'd be much easier to investigate if the lights in the classroom were turned on, so she stepped away from her friends and went over to do just that. After flipping the switch upward, the reporter then turned back around, and almost slipped when her eyes locked themselves onto the weakened wizard that was laying flat and coughing on the ground.

"You guys! Look!" she said, pointing.

Althea and Kagar gazed in Sadalia's direction, and they both gasped. Then without a second thought, all three of them ran over to aid their wizard friend.

"Ian!" Sadalia cried as she rushed over to his right side. "Are you okay?!"

The elf wizard coughed some more, then faintly replied, "I'm fine..."

Even though he felt only half-conscious, Ian was absolutely surprised that of all people, his friends were the ones to find him here. But as he came to a little more, the young wizard instantly recollected something. He had already known that his friends were on their way because he had heard them calling his name from down the halls!