One World Away (Book II)

Curing Clitocaphitus (Part I: Claiming The Sun)

I stared at my textbook on the corner of my bed and just levitated it back in my backpack and groaned. I just came back from Sam and Pepper's house after well... The scenario.

I could still feel Sam however. Like his touch was still lingering and his breath was still tickling me if I tried hard enough to conjure it up.

It was just a lazy Friday. No school tomorrow but that means nothing to me.

My phone vibrated and I picked it up.

"Mhhm?... Heather here whaddya want?..." I asked not bothering to check the caller ID.

"Heat, we need you back at our place!!! Immediately!!!" She exclaimed.

I nodded and summoned my wings then flew up to the balcony and circled the Hearthian department till I could see Snoeshore with its wide spread area of snow and sand and the wooden house with its Christmas decor. I quickly swooped in and then glided down and rushed inside.

"What happened?!" I kicked open the door and entered.

Scipes was lying down on the floor and her scales had strange lumps and she was weak.

"What happened?..."

Everyone was there. Sam, Pepper, Lacer, Lacier, Geist, Heda... The usual... Even Sàrda.

"It's a deadly disease... One of the most deadly... It doesn't spread but it kills slowly..." Sàrda said feeling for her temperature.

"I've tried all the healing I can do but all it does is stop the swelling for a few minutes and heal her fever and her sores!!! I can't do it!!!" Pepper panicked.

"Clitocaphitus is deadly... It's achieved through a poisonous plant called the Clementox. However, it isn't found in this realm and the Clementox plants are nearly extinct!" Lacer started talking.

I nodded and then felt Scipes forehead. No fevers... But she was groaning.

"Isn't there a cure?..." I asked.

"It requires advanced magic, a potion, and a healer with years of experience. Sadly, the healing arts aren't practiced muh these days. People resort to pain rather than healing..." Sàrda said shaking his head solemnly.

"Sàrda, don't you have a potion?!" I exclaimed.

"No. That's why you're all here. You need to gather these ingredients to make the potion... I ran out years ago and I can't travel through dimensions to obtain them." Sàrda said holding out a paper.

"At least a drop of morning from the Sunnysuckle, millennium crystal shards, salt of the Dirmakian Sea, and lastly the phantom star of the fallen..." I recited.

"The Sunnysuckle flower is in the Plantian Dimension, Millennium Crystals are mined in the shard mines in the Quartz Division of the Krystallos Dimension, the Dirmakian Sea is found in the Aerochazi Dimension, and the phantom star of the fallen in found in Cranstatioa's Treasury." Sàrda said.

I wrote them down in my book and stroked the leather cover and sighed.

"And well... We better get moving..."

Pepper nodded and summoned our armor. I grew my wings out of my back. I looked a little more intimidating after Pepper activated my wing armor.

Geist nodded and opened up a portal. "This one goes to the Plantian Dimension... Are you all ready?..."

Heda was shaking and crossing her fingers secretly behind her back. She was that worried...

I sighed and jumped in the portal. I landed on soft grass and summoned my sword. The whole place was a huge forest with some flowers as tall as trees.