Determining Destiny (Book 3 of the Enchanted DVD Player tetralogy)

25 - A Taste of Their Own Medicine

Y/n's POV

"What are you going to do with it?" Jacob asks me as Skylor hands me a book.

"You'll see," I answer. "I don't know if it's going to work, so don't get your hopes up."

"What can we do?" Lloyd asks. "Whatever you need, we'll help with."

I think for a moment as everybody comes closer, eager to know what I'm thinking. "Okay, here's what you guys can do..."

————-Harumi's POV———-

It's lucky that y/n had locked me in a non-magical cell, rather than an anti-elemental one. Otherwise, my powers would be useless. All it took was a simple portal conjuring, and I was back in the meeting room.

Now that we've successfully awakened all the warriors, there's no stopping us. Not even that horrible y/n can think her way out of this one.

Speaking of y/n, here she comes now.

"Aspheera! Clouse!" She shouts. "Send all the armies back to where they came from!"

I scoff and roll my eyes. How pathetic.

"And why would we do that?" Aspheera laughs.

"Because if you don't, I'll just have to destroy everyone on the island, including you."

"How would you even do such a thing?" Clouse asks, raising an eyebrow.

"Ever seen this before?" Y/n questions, holding up a book.

Clouse's eyes widen. If I didn't know any better, I'd say he was scared.

"H-how did you get that?" He stutters.

"There's something called a library, Severus," y/n sighs.

"Severus? Who's Severus?" Aspheera asks.

"Never mind," y/n says. "But I know you know how powerful the spells in this book are, and you better send all the warriors away before I dispose of them myself, incinerating you in the process."

"You wouldn't dare!" Clouse bellows. This is the loudest I've ever heard him. "If you use any one of the destructions spells, you'll blow up the entire island!"

"And that includes all of you, idiot," I spit at y/n.

"That's a sacrifice we're all willing to make," y/n replies. "So? What say you?"

"You're bluffing," Aspheera accuses.

"Am I?"

Y/n opens the book and starts muttering an ancient spell. Her feet raise off the floor, and smoke begins to circle around her. A ball of fire appears in front of her, and starts expanding. The ground begins to shake violently, threatening to open up and swallow everything whole. The sky suddenly goes dark, and lightning strikes randomly, including right beside me. I shriek and jump away. Grrr. I'll bet y/n did that one purpose.

"Okay, okay! Enough!"

As soon as Clouse told her to stop, y/n sinks back down to the ground, turning everything back to normal.

"Now," she says. "Send the warriors back."

Clouse grumbles, but he gets out his own spell book. He flips through the pages, until he finds the right one. He starts reading the spell out loud, and once he's done, a series of portals opens up.

"Send them through," y/n orders.

Clouse does as he's told. He commands all of the armies to go back through the portal from which they came, and, due to the obedience spell he put on all of them earlier, they have to obey.