A New Phase:The Arcana

The Magician: Ripples Through The Air

As we speak, Nadia comes crushing.
N: Mc!
I startle in a shock. Portia jumps in scare nearly falling off where she was sitting. I give her a look asking what happened.
N: You need to come.
We follow her with fast steps to an abandoned wing of the palace.
Mc:  Where are we going Nadi?
N: A hidden room.
Well that *explained* a lot, I speak to myself. At last, we reach to a door way more secure and complex than the one she had in her room and the library. She presses to a ruby, twists a knob, pulls a lever, moves a pice of wood from the door, which opens a lock at last. But this time it seeems the lock has a uniqe way of opening it. Nadia's symbol glows with a cyclamen mixed with dried rose color.
Inside, there are some pools bordered with black marble that adds to the ambiance with colums reching to sky, holding it up above us. There are statues resembling the arcana, arranged in a symetrycal order. In the middle, there is a giant fountain coverde in gold leaves and purple to blood red balls, resembling beautiful grapes. The fountain is like a wedding cake with four tiers reaching the  double the height of Muriel as we all know who is a towering man. The second tier of the fountain looks like a sea. A wave that seems to be crushing giant and glorious ships. They look like the ships I emagined to be in Portia's realm, only more gigantic. The third parts look a little plane, just with a newly triving village. The people and nature  seems to be well encoprated into each other.
The top... I am quite speechless. It's equally mesmorizing and bloodcurdling. The Vesuvian pallace sits on top with all its glorry. There is only one problem... It's designed to look loke it's melitng into velvety redish goo. It most certainly resembles the plauge that happened roughly 5 years ago. A Portia and I stare in both shock, confusion and horor Nadia's voice raises up.
N: You see yourselves.
Mc: What is all this?
N: This is the time room. As you see this fountain has all the major events of the Vesuvia.
So all along i was right.
N: This room used to have high levels of magic. So much that there were ripples all among this room opening to all sorts of places, dimentions, powerful beings. Some even giving this citiy it's heart beat. The beauty. And about 3 hours ago, it stopped. The fountain used to sprout with powerful magic flowing in it and all sorts of creatures jumping into a wripple from another. But the time part is the most important feature of this room as you can understand from its name. When the magic dies, the time stopps acriss the land. Only the ones who contain magic in them can do anything really.
We both look at eachother with Portia. In shock and teror.
I try to summon some words but i can't. Nadia takes the words out of my mouth.
N: Mazelinka knows magic and Julian must have drank one of her potions so he is ok as well as Muriel and Asra. We will gather them as fast as we can but we need to find what has caused this. Until then we can only use our magic to flow the fountain for a while to pass the time.
Again, Nadia speaks before me with a sad and lowered tone.
N: As we use our magic on this, it drains us. It drains not only the magic but the life out, so i want both of you to be carefull.
P:Aye aye milady!
As Nadia starts to summon her magic the whole room starts to come along. Everything starts to move, the ripples she talked about opens and the fountain starts to ooze out some liquid. It's not giving the whole affect bu still this place was mesmorizing. Portia's eyes glow as she looks down into the fountains liquid. It is quite impressive actually. It sparkles and changes colors between of the rainbow. We snap through it as we hear a fall. Nadia collapsed on to the marble floor cracking a tile. As we rush through the room to her, the crack deepens and a small portion falls down. As we reach to her, she wakes up and jumps away in a thrilled face. The crack she caused nearly made her fall down to the deep dark cave underneath. We all look at eachother in confusion what the cave underneath leads. Nadia again and once more