Magicae: Magic

Prologue: A Savior Was Lost

"Give her up, or your world will crumble." Leila Savvy had Evie Sapphire exactly where she wanted her. Evie contemplated her decision: give her one-year-old daughter up or the rest of her world would die. There was always the factor that Leila wouldn't honor her word, but Evie decided not to trust her. Leila was a monster, not even human when it came to the heart.

"I-I can't give her up," Evie stuttered, sobbing, but she wondered if her choice was the right one. She didn't want her planet to be destroyed, but if Ivy survived, she could save it. Leila smiled, opening the box that was behind her. Leila showed Evie the contents and Evie gasped. The dust within the box was the color of a sunset, and the dust was the dust that was supposed to be in Evie's hair to give her powers. Evie knew she was helpless now and could only watch as Leila levitated little Ivy away from her. Leila created a portal and threw the baby in, taking her time, toying with Evie's emotions. Evie broke into sobs as Leila watched.

Should I have done that? Leila thought to herself as she held a human-heart-shaped object. Shrinking it again, and putting it back in the locket she wore around her neck, she put her right hand out, in a shape that made it look like there was an invisible orange in her hand. She struck Evie with her nails in the face and Evie became unconscious for a few seconds. Evie came back, bloody all over, and Leila remembered that those like Evie could only die of old age or a powerful spell that required multiple people, one Leila wouldn't be able to use. Leila used more of the magical dust and created a picture frame. Evie knew what was coming.

"Don't!" she yelled, begging for mercy. Leila ignored her and Evie was thrown into the frame. Evie had become nothing more than a painting. Leila knew the painting was indestructible but she knew that if she kept it for long enough Evie would pass, a painful and natural death but nevertheless still a death. Leila picked up the painting and flew off, using the dust.

"Good luck, little princess," she sneered, "you see, unlike the world you live in now, this world doesn't have magic."

Evie was scared, but she couldn't do anything, she was stuck within the painting, without her dust. She could move and talk within the painting, but she couldn't leave it.

Leila wasn't flying home, to her stupid cave. She was flying to Evie's palace in the clouds. Evie was the queen of the planet, called Magicae; the people called the Magicaeans. Anyway, Leila was flying to the palace and once she got there, she knew what she was going to do. She hung Evie's picture up on a wall, above the twenty feet high front door, while Evie muttered something about Leila being a bitch. It looks nice over there, all perfect, pretty, and stupid, Leila thought, laughing to herself at the last part. The royal dog, Cinnamon, and her puppies, Juniper, Clover, and Ginger, all saw Leila and Cinnamon urged them to begin running away. Leila used her stolen dust to levitate them back and Cinnamon teleported away with Juniper and Clover but Leila levitated Ginger away before Cinnamon could teleport her. She laughed and caressed the puppy, before creating another portal, the same as the one she threw the baby in, and threw Ginger in. She began chasing after Cinnamon, who had only teleported ten feet away, and watched as Cinnamon got both of her puppies on her back and stretched out her wings before flying down to the ground. What good could those three possibly do anyway. I don't need to get rid of them, so I'll let them go, for now. Leila flew back into the palace and began to customize the palace. She used the dust to change the beautiful palace into a black, evil lair and flew out and over the capital of Magicae, Veneficus.

"Magicaeans, your pathetic queen is currently unable to rule you, so now you answer to me!" Leila screamed menacingly at the Magicaeans. All the Magicaeans ran away as fast as they could to the closest emergency evacuation building, but Leila created a sphere around the planet. Nobody can get in and nobody can get out, she thought triumphantly, looking at her work with satisfaction. Leila had won, and it was all over, but somewhere, on another planet, the princess lived on, unknowing of the task she was destined to be given.