The Planet of Darkness

Chapter 12

"Desdemona, please wake up! You got to wake up!"

Desdemona eyes flutter open to a view of blue sky and green dragons flying above her. She sees Fames looking down at her with both worry and concern on her face.

How am I outside? Desdemona remembers being inside her home with all that smoke, and that new witch, what did she call herself? Oh yeah, Daedra.

"Oh, good. You're awake. I was so worried," Fames tells Desdemona and hugs her. She pulls away and starts to babble, "What happened here? Fallo and I were on our way here when she started to spasm out and fall off her broom. I tried to catch her but she turned into dust! That's when I realized that she's gone and the new witch must be born. I came here as fast as I could and saw our home was on fire!"

"The witch... She's evil," Desdemona said, coughing.

"She's what?" Fames asked then asks, "What do you mean, Des?"

"She's evil, Fames. She has powers that I have never seen before, powers I have never felt before. She can use magic without a wand, Fames. We've messed up. We've messed up and now our planet is in danger!"

"No..." Fames said, shocked by the news. She sits down and starts shaking, "No..."

"We need to warn everyone of the danger."

Just then a loud scream that could be heard throughout the forest interrupts Desdemona and Fames conversation. They look in the direction of the screams but could see no one. Seconds later, more screams could be heard. The forest was having a choir of screams to which no one was prepared to hear.

"It's too late," Fames told Desdemona, "They already know."

Desdemona closes her eyes and sighs, "What do we do?"

Fames answers, "Don't ask me! I don't know what to do."

Desdemona opens up her eyes and look at Fames in annoyance, "You are the eldest. You have to do something, the planet and the creatures depend on us to help them."

Fames shake her head, "No! I'm not ready. I haven't had Fallo's knowledge enter me yet, I know nothing."

Desdemona sits up and tells Fames, "But you do, you do know. You have been alive way longer than I have. You've observed Fallo this whole time, I've seen it. You may not know everything, but neither she did. She got her knowledge from learning and gathering experiences. When she didn't know something, she studied it until she did know."

"But I don't have time to study this," Fames says, with tears in her eyes.

"We have to think of something, Fames. No one has any time for any kind of hesitation."

Fames nods and says, "You're right. We mustn't fail our creatures."

Desdemona smiles at her sister, "Good, now we need to find Princess Carol."

"Princess Carol? But we don't have time to play with a child! We need to defeat the witch."

"You're becoming forgetful, sister. She is the key to defeating Daedra. And since Fallo is dead, then that means time is continuing."

"Which means that Princess Carol has her powers," Fames states, connecting the dots in her head.

"Exactly. Let's go get her," Desdemona says as she stands up.

Desdemona looks back at her home and see it in a pile of rubble and bricks. Her whole home is destroyed; all of her memories, the spell books, and her broom, gone. All gone.