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Part 10 what happened to the mayor

           Zel, Anna and Grace found their way to each other. After meeting up Zel, Anna and Grace discussed about how they will handle the town. Anna asked "so now, what are we doing to do"?. Grace responded "we will have to cook and feed the town's people or else they'll die out as they starve to death". Anna said "Grace, you know I can't cook". Grace responded "but I can, so as I cook you, you can distribute the food amongst the town's people". Zel said "I can cook as well. I can help you with the cooking".

       Zel and Grace went to the town square and used magic to create a giant pot that can feed the town's people, Zel went to a nearby forest got some wood and dried it with magic to use as fire wood. While Anna goes to the woods to find headable beast for Grace to cook, upon seeing some massive chickens and turkeys she forms several swords using ice magic. The swords flying in the air Anna shots the swords at the chickens and turkeys. She kills them with the ice swords and carries them to Grace. Grace and Zel cooked for the entire town while Anna gave the food to the town's people as they line up with plates in there hands.

    Later in the evening of that day, they saw the sick man they had seen before a man around his 50s with black hair, round face, black eyes, fairly tall and white skin. As they saw the he thanked them saying "thank you kind travellers, if not for you I don't know what would have happened to us. So we owe you our lives. By the way, my name is Jasper Oltres". Grace speaks saying "you don't have to thank us, we couldn't just let a town filled with people die. By the way, my name is Grace and she (pointing at Anna) is Anna and he (pointing at Zel) is Zel. Anna speaks saying "by the way, where those the burgomaster of this town leaves". Zel said "yes, where does the mayor leave so that when we get there we can ask him why he wasn't doing anything about the situation of the town". Jasper pointed at a mansion and said "there, that's where he leaves with his wife and daughter. That's the mayor's house".

     Zel, Anna and Grace goes to the mayor's house, they open the door, went inside and found a skeleton on the floor. They went upstairs, searched around the house and entered a room then they saw two more skeletons. Zel asked "what do you suppose happened?. We have searched the entire house couldn't find a single person". Anna responded "I guess we could find that out if we just look into the past". Grace said in response "you're right, we could". Zel said "What?".

         Grace and Anna's entire eyes began to glow blue. The saw into the past and what happened in house. The saw the mayor of the town a fat and short man around his 50s with his wife a beautiful and tall woman and his daughter a girl around 18 years old. The man's daughter saw sick and bedridden the mayor consulted a doctor. The doctor said "there's nothing that can save your daughter, she has always sickly, but not conventional healing magic and medicine just can't save her anymore". The mayor said "but, surely doctor there must be something you could do, right"? he said in a desperate voice. The doctor said "no, there isn't". In the major's disparity he turned to dark magic and cast a spell for a plant that can save his daughter to grow, his wife begged him not to but he went ahead anyways. The plant grew and upon feeding it to his daughter, his daughter rose from the bed but the crops the farmers of the town grew began to die. A few days later the fished in the river began to die, birds began to fall from the sky and the mayor and his wife began sick. When they began so sick they were catatonic, his daughter fell on ground and a plant like spirit resembling the one Anna and Grace saw in their vision left rose from her body. The spirit passed through the daughter leaving nothing but her skeleton it went to the mayor's room and pass through the mayor and his wife leaving nothing but their skeletons. The spirit cursed the entire town with the disease affecting the daughter and that every night the spirit will take the life of one of the town's people.

    Anna and Grace told Zel what they saw Zel said "well that's tragic, not every tale has a happy ending. Those who can't accept their tragic fate and tries to stop it will have an even more tragic fate waiting for them and that's the reality of life". Later that night, Zel, Anna and Grace waited for the spirit after it came they stopped it entering the town, Zel did a fire spell saying "flame be thy force in my has as shoot this ball of fire". He shoots the fire ball at the plant spirit but it passes right through it. Grace said "Zel, what do you know about magic?". Zel responded "I know that magic is the using of one's internal magic force to manipulate the external force the there surrounding with spells and with the more internal force there magic power the more spells they will be able to cast". Grace responded "yes, but that's ancient, people stopped defining as that three thousand years ago when further research was and is now magic is defined as the tapping into one's internal force magic power or the tapping into sources of magic such as emotions and dimension or even force with the more magic power an individual has the more powerful spells they can cast, the longer a person can keep casting spells and the more dangerous types of spells one is capable of casting because magic is run by the power of the individual casting a spell". Zel said "so, what are you trying to say?. And what does that have to do with the situation we are in?" Grace responded "I'm saying we need the type of power the can affect a spirit, something that exists in a different plane than us physical being". Zel said "do you have that power?". Grace responded "yes, at this period my magic power has increased I can affect being that can exist in a different plane".

       The plant spirit released a poisonous fog. Anna used wind magic to blow the fog away as she purifies the fog. Grace reached her hand towards the plant spirit and fire began burn it, but the plant spirit extinguishes the flame and flies towards Grace as Grace reached her hands out and disintegrate the plant spirit till nothing remained.

   Zel said "so, is it gone for good now?". Grace responded "yes, it is now the town's people can live in peace".