Crisis in Lyra

Chapter 4

Caligo House

Dominus lifted Lia's body in his arms and carried her into the house. He laid her onto the couch.

"Her body is really cold, like ice."

"What do we do?"

"Don't worry, this is normal," Shay said.

"Who are all these people and what are they doing in my house?" A woman walked into the living room with her hands on her hips.

"Mom!" Gemma cried out, "There were these big monsters and they saved us." She pointed at the four strangers.

Bianca Caligo still looked very confused.

"Hold up, what can we do to help her first?" Austin said.

"Do you have ice? Like loads of ice," Shay asked.

"We have ice in the fridge," Bianca said.

Shay shook her head, "It has to be a tremendous amount of ice. Or like a big block of ice. The size of a couch."

"Actually we do. But it's with Lord Bishop. I'll ask him." Dominus left the room.

"Alright, now who are you four?" Bianca gestured to the four girls.

"I'm Poppy, this is Shay, Bree and the one on the couch is Lia," Poppy introduced their names.

"Right," Bianca said as she beckoned her kids to her side. "Do any of you know them?"

"Tristan does," Jace said before he realised and covered his mouth with his hand. Tristan glared at his brother.

Bianca turned to Tristan.

"I know Poppy." Bianca was still unsure what to do with the people in her house but she knew it wasn't a good time either.

Dominus came back, "He agreed, let's go there now."

The Cave

They walked through the security and into one of the caves.

"Is this where you guys live?" Bree asked.

Dominus chuckled, "These mountains have been here since this dimension was created. The cave here holds the life force of the dimension. The Lord of Lyra Realm spends most of his time here."

They stopped walking. Two men stood in the room.

A dark-haired man turned around and nodded to Dominus. 

"Lord Bishop."

Leo Bishop gestured to one of the rooms. Dominus walked in and placed Lia on the ice block.

"Come on," Dominus said to the three. He stood behind Leo.

The three girls remained in front of Leo. Another guy with white hair walked in and sat in one of the chairs.

"Take a seat," Leo said as he poured tea into cups. "Dominus, you too. Stop cosplaying as a statue all the time."

Dominus let out a cough and took a seat.

"So where are you all from?" Leo took a sip of tea. They shared looks amongst themselves.

"Oh, it's quite obvious from your magic. It's different. What are you doing here?"

"We'll wait for Lia to recover first," Shay said.

"You can't say or won't say or don't know?" The white haired guy asked.

"All of the above," Shay said.

"What happened to her?" Dominus asked.

"She used too much magic. She's an ice elementalist. She needs to draw magic from the ice block. Give her time, there's nothing else we can do."