Behind The Unseen Stars

Chapter Three Breaking Through

"Make me an unseen to keep me safe, as I do what you have asked me to do." I could feel the change take over me, I looked down at my hands to see nothing at all. No one would be able to see me now, well at least not till I wanted them too. Gran showed me this when I was sixteen and she regretted it as soon as she did. I used to sneak out of the house but Gran would always find me and bring me back.

When I came to the place that I thought the altar would be I put my hands out to see if I could feel anything. It was small but I could feel a disturbance in the energy, I knew it had to be here. There was a group of trees on either side of where I was standing. I couldn't deny what I saw in my mind's eye, there were rocks between these two trees which only meant there had to be an altar. There weren't any rocks anywhere else when I looked or anything out of the ordinary.

I just had to break the spell and find what I needed and I am sure that all that I would need would be my necklace, my blood and the altar then I would be all ready to go. I know that was easier said than done but I didn't have a choice and I needed to move fast and get it done.

I put my hands all the way straight out in front of me and I concentrated very hard. I needed to destroy the spell, I closed my eyes and looked through my mind's eye. At first it was dark but then I could see little flashes of light. At first, they were all just white light but then they started changing color. I could see blues, greens, purples, reds, yellows and pinks.

It looked like they were trying to turn into words but I still couldn't make them out, they were going too fast. I couldn't read them, not yet. But then I felt something change and it wasn't a good change. Before I could stop my spell, I was thrown backwards.

For some reason, the spell thought that I was the enemy, my Gran must've put a spell of protectiveness over the spell of invisibility. It would be just like her to do that.

I didn't even have time to open my eyes before I felt myself hit a tree and it wasn't soft at all. Not that I thought it would be soft.

I knew that I was going to bruise. I just hoped that I didn't brake anything. I grunted as I slid down the tree to the forest floor, I better not get splinters those really hurt and I would have to use magic to pull them out! I was going to have some good-sized bruises, they would match my still healing shoulder that was definitely covered in bruises and my arm where my bone had broken through. I was on a role today with getting hurt.

I don't know if I told you but when I heal myself I can only heal so much. Like I can't heal bruises or scratches and sometimes that can suck, but it is better than nothing. I would rather heal myself deeper like broken bones anyway.

I didn't want to get back up but I knew that I needed to. I needed to break the spell so I could cast the big one. I know Gran didn't want anyone else to find the altar but I didn't understand why she needed to put a protective spell over top of her invisibility spell, sometimes I didn't understand why my Gran did some of the things she did, this was one of them.

I went to push myself up off the ground but I fell back down in pain. My left shoulder really hurt but I couldn't see anything because it's not like I can see behind me and that is where the pain was coming from. I wish that I could just scan my body with my magic but that wasn't one of my powers. This was just great, my right shoulder already hurt from dislocating it and I knew there were bruises already forming all around my shoulder and now I had hurt my left shoulder. Both of my arms were down and I needed them to do the spell, this was just great. You don't realize how important your shoulders are until you lose their ability to do anything.

I sat back against the tree but I didn't put any pressure on my left shoulder and that was hard because then I was putting it all on my right one and that didn't feel any better. I would just have to take a little brake, I ground and banged my head back against the tree, that's right let's bang your head and get a concussion to go with everything else that is going wrong today. I sighed, I didn't have time for this, I needed to keep going. Ugh!