cleansing her soul part 3

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"What the hell happened?" Ember asked.

Gwendolyn coughed. "If I were to guess the Arcane Knight couldn't absorb Crystal's powers so boom,"

Stella looked up from Crystal and then over to the youngest in the room. Shizuku 

Shizuku hadn't moved, she had simply covered her head as if nobody could see her if she couldn't see them.

Crystal didn't move despite Razer's best attempts. Sheila ran over and joined him. "Please no..no...no I didn't come here to see this,"

"She's dead," Razer said. "Isn't she?"

Shizuku whimpered.

"I...I can't..." Sheila muttered before she started to cry.

Charlie rushed over. "She..." He choked up. "She can't be...not her,"

"CHARLIE!" Razer screamed. "YOU'RE THE GENIUS HERE! DO SOMETHING!"

"I...I can't...Razer I'm so sorry...but I can't..." Charlie started to cry.

"CPR!" Ember shouted. "SOMEBODY DO CPR!"

Charlie started chest compression, but it didn't help at all.

Then Gwendolyn noticed the Ender Crystal's cracking. "What in the..." She muttered

"GAH!" Ember yelled as his comm bracelet summoned Meeps.

Meeps took the Relic from her database. "I have a feeling that this will kill Crystal or heal her," she said. "And I ain't one to gamble."

"Oh no!" Gwendolyn said. "EVERYONE BACK!" She yelled

Meeps backed away, still clutching the Relic.

"No, I can't leave her, I can't," Charlie said clutching Crystal's body

"What do you want?" Shizuku whimpered.

"The ender Crystals are cracking, if they break a massive amount of ender magic energy will break free enough to kill everyone here, if we get caught in the blast,"

"And we're just gonna leave her here?!" Razer asked.

Meeps picked Crystal up, grunting a little bit. "I could store her in my data," she said. "But I don't want to screw her over."

"She's dead," Ember said. "What's the point?"

Meeps shrugged, as she restored the Relic into her database.

Charlie shook his head. "I...I can't leave her," he said

"Someone get him back!" Gwendolyn yelled

Ember grabbed Charlie and pulled him back. Charlie didn't fight back, it was like the spark keeping him going was gone.

The ender crystals cracked further before exploding the purple energy moving around just above Crystal's motionless body

Razer, Meeps and Ember just stared in complete surprise, meanwhile, Shizuku stared at the purple energy.

"Ooh! Pretty!" She said, trying to grab it.

Gwendoly pulled her back. "NO! THAT WILL RIP YOU APART!"

Shizuku looked sad. "Aww," she said. "But they're pretty."

"What are they?" Ember asked, as Meeps glared at the purple energy, menacingly

"The energy held in the ender crystals is supposedly a piece of creation, a force of life and destruction," Gwendoly explained

"What's it doing then?" Shizuku asked as Razer drew out his sword.

"I...I don't know," Gwendoly admitted. "An ender crystal has never broken before," 

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