Magic? (Book 1 of The Aluna Search) (completed)

Chapter 14

Dark and damp, Lina was seeming to get associated with that, at least she had some company this time, someone else to torment, and that person was Sirge. He was lying face down on a pile of moss, his shaggy hair covering his face. Lina guessed because she had been knocked out a couple of time that she must have been getting a better immune system against it, if that was possible. She decided to leave Sirge and go exploring the cell they were in.

There was a moss pile under Sirge and was probable why he was still asleep, he got something like a bed. She traced the wall with her hand walking in a square. There was a door on the side Sirge was on and light filtered through it. There was finally a use for Sirge; he could break the door down.

She started poking him, on his arm which didn’t work then his face, which didn’t work ether so she licked her finger and stuck it in his ear, it worked in movies it must be able to work in real life, she hoped. Sirge jerked awake and Lina yanked her finger out of his ear.

“Did you stick your finger in my ear?” Sirge asked

“I tried poking you?” Lina shrugged turning back to the door.

“Why would you poke your finger in my ear?”

“Stop complaining this is the second time I have been capture in two days, I’m not going to get any sleep the way things are going. Also I saw it in a movie, sticking something wet in someone’s ear to wake them and I wanted to see if it worked.”

“Why-“he stopped seeing Lina glaring at him “what are we going to do about the situation?” Sirge said changing the subject.

“I thought you could break down the door.”

“Is it a wooden door?”

“Not sure it was cold and hard I can’t really see.”

“That would be metal not a problem” Sirge nodded in the darkness.

Lina was about to protest ‘how are you meant to break down a metal door!’ until she saw a light leap from Sirge’s fingers. He held fire in his hand and it crackled with life. Then he started throwing it at the door and closed his hand snuffing out the mini fire. There was a long groan from the door, then a quick creak which was when it fell off its hinges, then a loud doff as the door hit the floor.

“Nicely done” Lina congratulated him

“I know” Sirge replied with made her want to take what she said back. They steeped out and over the door. They looked up and down the corridor, both ends lead in different directions.

“Ah so that’s what I smelt” Sirge said out of the blue. He bent down and picked something up. He held it up for Lina to see in between his fingers. He held a matt of hair.

“So what it’s just hair” Lina said

“Not just any hair it’s werewolf hair.” Sirge pointed out.

“Great are they as good as vampires? Do they want to make me their queen?” Lina said sarcastically

“Not sure, and it wouldn’t be queen don’t you know anything” he clicked his tongue “its pack leader’s wife”. From this she really thought he didn’t know what sarcasm was.

“Though I think they can make an acceptation.”

‘Now that’s sarcasm’ Lina thought rolling her eyes.

“So which way do we go?”

“Right”

“How do you know?” Lina asked

“Because I’m guessing unless you weren’t knocked out and saw which way we came in, I don’t think either of us n=know how to get out,” Sirge ranted

“Okay right it is.” Lina agreed. She heard howling coming from her left then from her right, then above her.

“Well looks like we will have some company”

Sirge grabbed her wrist and dragged her behind him lighting a fire in his hand. She saw something flash as he did but wasn’t sure what it was. She felt a warmness from her chest and looked down to see it lighting up.

‘If Sirge can use fire because he is from the fire kingdom then I should be able to use water because Aluna whose magic I’m using is from the water kingdom.’ Lina clicked her finger and a sport of water jumped from them.

“Wow!” Lina said and the water swirled around her hand. Sirge looked back and stoped walking.

“How did you do that?”

“I clicked my fingers” Lina said gleefully

“Well if you can do that then you should be able to find Aluna easy.” Sirge stated and went back to dragging her up some stairs. Lina felt herself grinding her teeth, when she heard something like a girl’s laughter. Sirge stopped they were still standing on the stairs.

“Great werewolves, hate them, annoyed by them, wouldn’t want to be them.” Sirge joked before he started throwing fire balls at them which caught alight on the werewolves’ hair, but Lina wasn’t concentrating she was looking for the girl’s laughter. Until she found the ball contain the laughter, she touched it and light surrounded her.

It was the girl again in the pink dress, she guessed that was Aluna. It ran up to a group of boys.

“Hey! Go away leave Sirge alone!” she screamed. The boys pulled away to shown a boy in ragged clothes which were torn and had holes in them.

“What did they do to you?” Aluna asked.

“Don’t worry about me, I’m worth nothing I don’t even have magic,” the boy, Sirge answered.

“Is that why they tease you? Are they using magic on you?” the boy kept quiet.

“That’s not fair they shouldn’t do that!” Aluna said, “you know what you can have my magic.”

“What? Aluna, no I refuse you need you magic I’m worth nothing, nothing at all!” the boy refused pushing himself away from Aluna.

“You are worth a world to me” she said sincerely to Sirge. She cupped her hands together and a red gem appeared in them. It was a small ruby, and it was eight sided.

“I hereby give you my element fire to you for safe keeping for you shall need it.”

Then the image faded. Sirge was shaking her violently.

“I got rid of the werewolves come-on!” Sirge yelled.

“sorry” she said looking around for the ball but the ball had already disappeared.

“Let’s go” Sirge said. Lina who was not looking where she was going heard a grating noise. she looked down to see she had stepped on a trap.

“oh great” was the last thing Sirge heard from Lina before she fell through the floor, but before he could chase after her the floor turned solid again and he was left hopping for her best.