Land of Mistique

Chapter Seven

"What's going on?" Leanne demanded, but Snowi just grabbed her hand and pulled her into the nearest house. It didn't even seem to be Snowi's house; there were seven fairies crammed into that tiny cottage.

"Two of you - upstairs!" the biggest fairy barked.

"What?" Leanne asked, and Snowi's grip on her arm tightened as the fairy with damaged wings dragged Leanne to the upper floor.

"A Titan attack," Snowi said, finally answering Leanne's question. "We have to hide. Porari! What element is it this time?"

The biggest fairy, supposedly called Porari, hissed, "Fire."

Snowi cursed under her breath. "The worst kind," she growled under her breath.

Leanne understood. Fire had to be the most destructive out of all the elements, and it was a fire elemental that had come to attack. She heard chatter from downstairs about how last time's plant Titan had been bad enough, and the plant one was weak.

There were some fairies at the front lines fighting, but they were swatted away like flies.

Leanne could hear Peveri's voice in her head telling her to use her magic, but Leanne hadn't taken stock of the situation well enough. She made a decision.

"I need to get outside," she told Snowi firmly.

Snowi's eyes widened. "Are you insane?" she whisper-hissed. 

"I probably am, but... This is what I'm meant to do."

Snowi snorted. "Fine. But if you die, it wasn't my fault."

"Of course it wasn't," Leanne said, chuckling to herself as she exited the house. The collective fairies didn't bother stopping her, but they whispered to each other about her being wingless and stupid.

Ha. They thought. She had magic, and they didn't. She finally let Peveri manifest, and her dragon familiar decided now wasn't the time to yell at Leanne for the earlier rejection.

Leanne held out a hand, willing every inch of her body to produce something destructive, and golden light condensed on her palm, solidifying into a golden orb.

Peveri's gasp told Leanne all she needed to know: it was powerful. And it was a weapon.

Leanne was a bookworm, but she was also an all-rounder.

And her aim had always been flawless.

The ball, a little lighter than a shot put ball, nailed the fire Titan between the eyes. It didn't react immediately, but golden cracks started spreading across its entire body, and its very body turned to stone and shattered.

"Is it so easy to kill Titans?" Leanne wondered, before it hit her. She was drained and completely exhausted just by creating a tiny golden orb. That couldn't be good.

But she'd gotten rid of the fire elemental, for now.

"Powerful magic takes a lot out of the body," Peveri explained, and Leanne wished her familiar had told her that sooner. "I'll train you, don't worry."

Was it strange that her familiar was promising to train her? Yeah, it was. Very strange. But Leanne didn't object.

"I'm going to need to know you better, won't I?" Leanne asked, as she followed her familiar back to her home.

Peveri gave a slight nod of her head. "I'm newly bonded, so I'm at my weakest. But the stronger our bond is, the stronger I will become, and I will be able to help you fight once we've bonded sufficiently."

"How did you lose the war to the Titans?" Leanne asked quietly. If every fairy had had the sort of magic she'd created, couldn't they just all use the same magic? They could've peppered the Titans with those attacks! They had been trained in magic.