The Hidden Mages

Why?

"So let me get this straight. You went on a whole journey with Lucas and Opal, met fairies, fought of griffins, giants, bandits and managed to find all of us just to save me?" Xavier asked me in disbelief.

"Yea, pretty much,"

"So, now that we're all here, what now?" Just when I was about to answer him, something happened. A black portal opened out of nowhere.

"What's going on?" Nico asked, confused as the rest of us.

I turned to Xavier thinking that he had an explanation but he shook his head. Suddenly, five figures appeared out of the portal. Five familiar faces. The wizards of The Tribe of Terror.

"What the-"

"Well, well. Look what we have here. It's that Adonia girl," she spoke with a chuckle.

"Wait, you know them?" Xavier asked me, confused as ever.

"Unfortunately, I do. Lucas, Opal and I met them at the Fairy Kingdom. They made a bit of a mess while they were there," I explained.

"Oh, I was really looking forward to killing you," spoke Evanora again.

"Right. Let's cut to the chase. What are you doing here?" Vincent asked, impatient. No one out of the five said anything but, then, they turned their attention to someone behind me. We turned to the direction they were looking at and at first, we were confused but, then, it became clear to us.

The five wizards from The Tribe of Terror were all looking at..........Dylan.

"Dylan? What does Dylan have to do with any of this?" Angelo asked, defending his brother.

"Go ahead. Tell them, Dylan," said one of the wizards. Our eyes were all on Dylan. It was pretty clear that he was guilty and that he didn't feel comfortable with everyone staring at him like that.

"Years ago, the five of us went on a quest. We traveled on boat for days until we found an island. Terror Chain Island. While we were there, we found a kid wandering the woods. We helped him, took care of him," explained one of the five wizards.

'Dylan. They found Dylan,' I thought in my head.

"When he grew older, we realized that he had a lot of potential in him. So, we made a deal," he continued.

"In exchange for his survival, he had to join our tribe........forever,"

"Is this true, Dylan?" Angelo asked his younger brother, his eyes filled with sadness and disappointment. He nodded slowly, not making eye contact with any of us.

"You guys are cruel! You made a deal with a kid? Who the hell does that?" Leona yelled.

"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?!?!" Angelo yelled at Dylan, making everyone go silent, even the five wizards from the Tribe of Terror.

"IT WAS THE ONLY WAY I COULD SURVIVE!!" Dylan yelled back.

No one said anything after that. No one dared speak. I turned to Angelo and what I saw scared me because there were dark shadows all around him. His attention had turned to the five wizards that came out of a dark portal, minutes ago. His aura had turned from light to really, really dark and no one dared to even say a word.

"I'm gonna make you pay if it's the last thing I do," Angelo finally spoke, his voice low and darker than normal.

"Well, then, until that time comes, we're taking Dylan with us," said Evanora with an evil smirk on her face.

All of a sudden, the earth started shaking violently. I looked at Evanora to see her laughing manically. In a split second they disappeared and everything went back to normal.

"What the hell was that?" asked Nico.

"Not sure. That has never happened before," Xavier answered.

"Guys!" Angelo exclaimed, catching everyone's attention.

"Dylan's gone,"

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We journeyed back to Vincent's underwater city. We tried every way possible but we weren't able to track down Dylan. It was like he vanished into thin air. No said a word while we were in the sub. Everyone was still trying to process everything that had happened at the Stormy Reef. We all felt disappointed. Not in Dylan but in ourselves. Out of all of us, Angelo was the one who felt it the most. Losing his only brother for the second time really took a turn on him and no one blamed him. Once we arrived at our secret city, Vincent told us to get cleaned up and meet him in the meeting room in three hours. The first thing I did was take a bath and change into a blue hoodie and a pair of black shorts. After that, Opal and I went to the library. We still had two hours left before heading to the meeting room so we decided or........ I decided to distract myself from everything that has been happening by...........reading. Minutes passed and I was already on the fourth chapter. Once I realized that there was only 10 minutes left, I quickly got up and headed out of the library with Opal. When I got there, everyone was already there. Everyone except Angelo. Daphne said that we should give him some time to be by himself and we all agreed. 30 minutes passed by but Angelo still hadn't showed up yet. So, we decided to start the meeting without him. Vincent assured us that he will explain everything to Angelo later that day.

"Alright. First thing's first, it's gonna take me a while to track down Dylan's location," Vincent spoke.

"How long is 'a while'," I asked.

"Weeks. Maybe even a month," he answered.

"This will also give us time to train. Saving Dylan is one thing but defeating those wizards is another," he continued.

"He's right. It might be a while till we see Dylan again but at least we have time to get better at using our powers," Nico spoke, earning a nod from his brother.

"Yea, you're right. I've got a lot of brushing up to do. Being stuck in a demon didn't do me any good," Xavier added.

"From today onwards, we will all make training as a daily routine. Got it?" said Vincent, making sure that everyone understood him correctly.

"Got it,"