To Be Free and Unafraid

Chapter 12- Aftermath....

I woke up, it seems. My head ached a bit. "Funneh!" I heard before being brought into a tight embrace by my siblings. They hugged me. All of them were crying. "Are you all alright?" I asked. "We should be the one to ask you that! You've been out for 2 days!" Rainbow said tearing up. Darn. Was it that bad? My dream didn't feel like two days. "Heh. Sorry." I said. "What exactly happened?" I asked. Gold looked down and started fumbling with her fingers. "When you passed out, we thought we lost you too." Gold said with more tears streaming down her face. "Too?" I asked. Then I remembered. "D-did t-they.." I stuttered. "Not exactly, no. Mother and Father are in a comma. They are in critical condition." Lunar said.

Apparently, while I was out, there has been a few changes. Draco was now officially the captain. The old captain was the one I knocked out saving Draco. That captain was taken by the witch as her soldier or something. Gold was now queen and Rainbow is the advisor. Lunar is now part of the medical unit making healing potions to help anyone who was injured.

"So what do I do?" I asked. I wasn't hoping for much either ways. "You don't have anything to do as of right now. You were suppose to be Gold's advisor too but we decided that we should let you rest." Rainbow said. "Funneh?" Draco said. "Yes Draco?" I answered. "How did you learn to sword fight?" Draco asked looking directly into my eyes. "He's right, how do you know? You looked like you knew exactly what you were doing. But, you never received proper training to begin with." Gold said looking at me. "I- I can't answer that exactly." I said. "Huh? Why? Do you nt trust us?" Lunar said. "No no! It's nothing like that. It's just, well, it seems natural. As if I always knew about it. I don't exactly know how, but it feels like I've done it my whole life. Even though I never actually had proper training like Draco. To be honest, the only time I've ever practiced was a few times before but it wasn't much." I said. "That's strange." Rainbow said.

"I mean, I don't mind. It allows me to practice you guys." I said with a smile. "And you almost died! You think I'll allow you to do that again?!" Gold said raising her voice a little. I didn't mind too much. She's been through a lot as I can see the bags under her eyes. "I- I, I could've lost you! I can live with a few scratches and bruises! But you got hit by a hurl of magic! And then you continued to fight! You could've got yourself killed!" Gold continued. "C'mon, let Funneh rest a little. We'll see you later sis." Rainbow said dragging everyone out.

I got off my bed. Walking over to my desk. I picked up a picture frame. It was a picture of the krew and I. "I promised to protect you all, and I'm not about to back down. If it's a fight the witch wants its a fight she'll get. No matter what, even if it means death, I have to protect you guys." I mumbled the last bit. I set eyes on my sword and picked it up. I looked at it. I placed it back down and went to the bathroom to get changed into a comfortable dress. I grabbed my sword and snuck out of my room through my balcony. This wasn't new, I always escaped through this way. I made my way up to the hideout. It was a long travel by foot but it doesn't bother me. I made a shortcut up the hill last year. It usually takes around an hour of walking, but now, it's only 30 minutes. I trudged up the hill.

If I want to keep my siblings safe, I have to get stronger. If I can't get stronger, nothing would work. I can only block so much attacks before I get ganged on. I pushed the vines away and here I was, in the hideaway. If I am able to create almost anything, I should be able to create testing dummies, or living dummies. I closed my eyes, and imagined a string of magic and grabbed it, formed it into a person lookalike. I imagined it with a sword and able to fight. When I opened my eyes, my hands were swirled with magic. "Summonio!" I said before a hurl of magic whirled out and 5 dummies popped out.It felt like second nature. I guess spell charms come out as long as you kind of know what you are doing.

I got a grip of my sword. All five dummies lunged at me with their sword. I was able to dodge their attacks and strike one of them. The dummy disappeared and now four more to go. Our swords collided and I was stuck. Then, I decided to kick one of them, they tumbled back and I jumped up, doing arial attack. I did not know I was semi flexible until right now. I managed to strike two down with that attack. There was two left, I sliced through one, making it disappear, and it was now a one on one. I attacked it directly, the dummy managed to dodge and strike at me. I was able to block it. When I kicked their shin, I was able to get the upper hand and strike the dummy.

For the next few hours, it was me challenging myself with more powerful enemies each time. By the end of my training session, it looked like the sky was becoming dark. I turned my phone on and saw so many missing calls and messages from my siblings. Shoot, I'm so dead. If I go back down the trail, Rainbow will probably made a search party so how can I get there faster? Wait. I can do a transportation spell. I closed my eyes. I imagined being transported through a magic panel and ended up in my room. I took hold of the magic strand and felt it expanding. When I opened my eyes again, I was in my room.

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