Revenge of the Past

Blamed

3rd Person POV

"Addie!" Aspen tried to shake Addie awake from where she passed out on the grass.

"Where'd that.. thing go?" Dreamer asked as he and Sadie stomped out the fire around the lectern before it could have spread to the trees in the garden. Abruptly a high pitched scream was heard coming from Beacontown as well as loud cries of panic.

"Judging by those screams, in town." Stone pointed to the masses of people flooding past the garden with panicked looks on their faces.

"What's going on...?" The group looked down to see that Addie was starting to wake up.

"The big smoky creature flew off and I think it went to town." Lily explained as she and Lily Rose helped Addie to her feet.

"It was Madegno, I thought you said that the spell you were casting would rebanish him." Lily Rose questioned nervously.

"And what did he mean when he said that Melaferrum was a traitor?" Aspen asked curiously, making everyone look at her in question, "What? I can understand backward messages from this journal I read once about paranormal creatures and activity."

"Think you can lend me that later?" Addie asked shakily.

"Sure. It even has a whole chapter on curses and-"

"Back to before," Dreamer directed the conversation back on track, "We have to check on the citizens and see what's spooking them."

"Then let's go." Lily pulled out her iron sword as the others followed and they all ran into town, weapons drawn.

When they got to the center of town where the celebration was being held, they saw the stage in ruins with all the banners that had been hung around the surrounding area strewn across the ground. The people were limping around helping others who had been severely injured in the attack with dirt and ash streaked on their faces from the fires that were being put out by others with buckets of water.

"Ivy!" Addie yelled out as Ivy came running at her full speed with enough force to knock her onto her backside again.

"I'm so glad you're Ok..."Addie sat on the ground and continued to hug Ivy, crying a bit into her fur as everyone else surveyed the damaged in front of them. More fires were being started from small sparks, but, luckily, Nell was one of the ones pouring water on the fires as Radar was helping to patch up a little kid who had gotten his knees scraped in the human stampede.

"Guys, what happened?" Sadie asked as she went up to the two.

"Ok so I didn't really catch most of what happened because I was busy, but, from what I heard, a big something made of smoke like attacked everyone and took the Order." Nell explained as she put out the last of the fires.

"Wait what?!" The group exclaimed.

"Yeah, it came, said some gibberish, and whirled around them in a huge black cloud and disappeared!" Radar cried out worriedly, startling the kid he was helping.

"What did the gibberish sound like?" Aspen asked urgently.

"I-I-I don't know, I'm too panicked to remember. This.. thing was a whole new monster, one I've never seen or even read about before."

"Madegno was supposed to be rebanished, but I brought it to life instead." Addie admitted with guilt clear in her tone.

"So you brought that monster here!" A citizen yelled out in anger and more people started coming to see what was happening.

"No no it's not like that!" Addie tried to explain herself but the people wouldn't have it.

"That monster took the Order!"