.Elementals.

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My first instinct was picking up Nix and kicking my staff in the air before kicking the door open.

I instantly spun around as extremely hot air washed in to keep Nix from it.

All was flaming blue, the hottest of flames a human mage could make.

I let go of Nix gently, satisfied to find her claws deep in my corset so I could use my hand.

I blasted ice over the area but to my surprise it melted soon so I grabbed Nix against to keep her from accidentally falling or running from me in this inferno.

Looking out the window more flames.

"Mystery!" I looked up to see Em in the same trouble, simply in pants, his chained daggers wrapped around his wrists.

"What the hell?!" I coughed out, leaning my staff against my shoulder, just like how I had done with flames before but I let my magic spark free and cover the room ice as the others soon escaped their room and we just bolted as the ice melted.

"What the fuck?!" Leo exclaimed when we were all out off the blazing building, coughing from the smoke as I stroked Nix's fur, gripping the skin on her nape, not wanting her to run under any condition as I held the staff tightly in the other.

I whipped around at screams and saw many of the servants homes going up in flames and the guards on the wall of the castle ringing the alarm for an attack.

"No..." I whispered.

"Mystery no!" But I already ran towards the castle without even thinking of giving Nix to someone.

"Audrey!!" I yelled but no answer came from her room. "Audrey!!!!"

I bite down on my staff as hard as I could and with a stomp froze the wall into a slope and blasted air from my free hand to send me sliding up it and gabbed the sill and pulled myself up before grabbing the staff.

I screamed when I felt something grab me but it was just Em.

"The others are saving the horses and people just fine by themselves, don't think I will let you do something stupid and not follow Mysty." I sighed and nodded as I looked around.

"We need to find them!"

"On it!"

It was a constant fight to freeze the flames long enough to pass through them, someone or several strong mages must be doing this to keep the flames coming back.

I almost dropped my staff when Em called that he found them in what was once Ethan's room, it was mostly made of stone while the rest had wooden flooring.

"Oh my gods are you alright?" I asked Audrey, looking her over fast.

"Yes yes and now even better."

"Okay." I turned to the queen. "We mages think this is the darkness prophesied, Belladonna says an army dressed in black is attacking the town and the gates on the wall won't hold for much long we need to go now." 

"Wait let me hold her, must be limiting." Audrey said before I could step away from her, I gently pulled Nix's claws from me and handed her over with a last pat to the head as she dug her clothes in Audrey's corset as like me she hadn't changed in her night clothes, I could bet my hand she hadn't even fallen asleep like I had.

"Em!" I called and he nodded as I stepped to the window and with a stomp on the sill froze the wall of the castle down to the ground and jumped, rolling as the flames came back.