Celtic Magic (20 page)

Instead of having the small room with the
map, this was a very large room with hallways coming off of it in
every direction that she could see. She looked up and saw that
there were at least ten stories above her, all with a balcony that
looked down to the room she was in.

She felt a pull toward the hallway directly
to her left, so she let her instincts guide her as she made her way
through the twisting hallway. Finally after walking for nearly a
mile it seemed, she came to a door that had a stained glass that
covered the entire door that had flowers of all different shapes
and sizes all through it.

She pushed the door open and walked out to a
small garden that seemed to be entirely empty, until she saw a lone
figure sitting on a stone bench with their back to her.

It looked to be a very small woman, and as
she started to walk closer, noticed that it was actually a pixie.
She had a feeling that she had seen this pixie before so she
decided to take the chance and called out to her.

“Isabella?” she asked.

The pixie turned around and sure enough it
was Isabella, and she noticed for the first time that she was
crying.

As Isabella realized who she was she gave a
little squeak and flew over to her, and when she put her hand out
Isabella landed on her palm.

“How are you here?” the small pixie asked
her.

“It’s a long story, and I don’t have time to
tell it all now, why are you crying?” she asked her in a
whisper.

The pixie started to cry even harder, “Your
mother sent me here to protect Tom and try to find a way to bring
him back over to your castle, but I cannot figure out how to get
him away from here. I have failed your mother, and she had been so
good to me!” she yelled through her sobs. Abby’s heart suddenly
started to beat very fast.

“Have you seen him? Do you know where he
is?” she asked frantically, not even thinking to whisper this time.
Isabella nodded and Abby felt a surge of power run through her
body.

“Then take me to him” she said.

Abby followed Isabella up through the air as
she flew up and around the castle, flying nearly to the top of the
highest point of the castle. Finally they landed at a large
window.

“He is in here” the pixie told her.

Abby watched as Isabella slid through a
small hole in the window and felt a frustration run through as she
realized that she would never be able to fit through this hole, and
she didn’t want to bring any attention to herself by breaking the
glass more than it was already broken.

She started to feel the red hot anger that
always went through her when her powers were at their strongest and
sure enough when she looked down at her hands she saw that they
were already red. She needed to get into that room, and what she
needed was to be small like Isabella, but didn’t think that was
even possible.

As soon as the thought crossed her mind, she
felt shivers run through her body and noticed that the window
seemed to be getting suddenly larger. Abby looked around her and
saw that the window wasn’t actually getting larger. She was
actually shrinking in size, and she continued to shrink until the
hole was large enough for her to go through.

She had to bend over slightly to fit
through, but she managed to make it into the room where she saw
Isabella standing up against the window watching the other side of
the room and when Abby turned to look, she saw Elysia standing with
he back to her, and directly in front of her was Tom sitting in a
chair with his hands and feet bound by a vine of blue flowers.

Abby sucked in her breath and threw her hand
over her mouth to keep herself from crying out for Tom. Seeing him
bound up and Elysia there in front of him was almost too much to
bear; she wanted to send a bolt of lightning right at Elysia’s
head, but she knew it would backfire on her if she tried to hit her
from behind.

She stayed pressed up against the wall and
watched as Elysia turned and walked through a door, shutting it
behind her. She heard what sounded like a dead bolt being engaged,
and knew that Elysia had locked them in the room, even though she
was sure that she didn’t have any idea that Abby was standing right
behind her, as small as a pixie.

Abby watched as Isabella flew up to Tom and
landed on his knee, and she was surprised when he looked at her and
smiled.

“Hey Isabella, have you figured out how to
get me out of here yet?” he asked her.

She had no idea he had been actually talking
to her about getting out, and he didn’t even seem all that freaked
out about her being a pixie. Isabella shook her head.

“No, but I’ve brought somebody that might be
able help” she told him.

Abby flew up and landed next to her on his
knee, and as he looked at her, she saw the recognition in his eyes,
but he looked almost confused.

“Abby? Is that you?” he asked.

Abby nodded, “Yes, I am so sorry you have
been brought into this, but I am going to get out of this and home
safe if it’s the last thing I do” she told him while putting her
small hand into his much larger one.

She grabbed hold of his finger as though it
was all of him, pulling it into a hug.

He laughed, “It’s weird seeing you so small,
how did you do that, and when did you get wings?” he asked touching
her small wings with his other finger.

She looked up at him, “It’s a long story,
and I will be happy to tell you about it later, but for now, we
need to just get you out of here” she told him, thinking of a way
to get him out of the chair.

She flew down to look at the bottom of the
chair, where the vines were coming from and saw that they were
actually a part of the chair, as if it had grown them. She knew
that if she could get the chair to listen to her, it would release
him.

She walked around to the back of the chair
where the largest vines where coming from and pushed her hands up
against them and wished that the chair would let its vines release.
To her amazement the chair listened immediately and she watched as
the vines started to move.

They looked as though they were growing
backward into the chair instead of out of it, and after a few
seconds they released Tom. He jumped up out of the chair and
scooped her up in one hand and Isabella in the other.

“Thank you so much for getting me out of
that chair, it was so uncomfortable. Now, how do we get out of
here?” he asked.

Abby shook her head, “I’m not sure” she
answered him. Suddenly her body started to tingle and she had a
feeling she was about to go back to her normal size.

“Can you put me back down please?” she
said.

Tom nodded then leaned forward and put her
back on the floor, and as soon as her feet touched she started to
grow. It wasn’t long and she was back to her normal size, and as
soon as she was finished growing, she ran forward and pulled Tom
into a deep hug, kissing him as though her life depended on it.

The sound of the deadbolt pulled her out of
the kiss, and as she pulled away from Tom, she pushed him behind
her and as the door started to open, she looked right into Elysia’s
eyes.

Chapter 33

Elysia stared at her in shock for a few
seconds before finally wrinkling her nose at her.

“Well, I thought it smelled worse in here
suddenly” she said.

Abby felt the heat rush through her
again.

“Move out of the way and let us leave, if
you do I won’t kill you” she said to her through gritted teeth.

Elysia laughed, “You think you can kill me?
Stupid human trash, you don’t have the power, no matter what magic
your slut of a mother gave to you” she said.

Abby lifted her hand and pushed Elysia up
against the wall.

“You will not speak about my mother that
way, and if anyone is trash here, it’s you” she said. Elysia lifted
her hand and sent Abby flying through the room, hitting the wall
hard.

“You are so weak and pathetic, thinking you
have anywhere near my power. You have made a mistake coming here
stupid human, you should have taken the first offer, you would be
back in the mortal world with this other slime you call a lover”
Elysia told her as she was frozen to the spot on the wall that she
had landed on.

Abby tried to move but Elysia’s spell was
stronger than anything she tried to use to attack her with. Elysia
must have felt her trying to use magic to free herself because she
suddenly started to laugh.

“You are like a buzzard to me, annoying, but
no real threat” Elysia said.

Abby was starting to feel as though she was
going to lose everything she loved, her newfound magic, Tom, her
mother, everything. She couldn’t let Elysia beat her so easily, she
had to fight back, but nothing she tried worked.

Just as she was about to lower her head in
defeat, hoping that she would at least let Tom live, the glass
window behind her shattered so completely, she felt the dust from
it hit her face. It must have distracted Elysia because she was
suddenly released. Once she realized she was released she jumped
onto her feet looking toward the window at what had been strong
enough to break through the thick glass.

Standing next to her was the unicorn, only
it looked even larger than it had before. Abby turned and looked at
Tom and saw that he was also staring at the unicorn in disbelief,
Isabella still in his hand, also looking stunned.

Abby watched as the unicorn walked forward
and stood right in front of Elysia, who Abby noticed actually
looked scared for the first time. The unicorn then stood up on his
hind legs and basically punched Elysia on her chest sending her
flying so hard, she burst through the wall behind her. The unicorn
then turned and put his front legs onto the now empty window sill
and looked over at her. She heard his deep voice echo through her
head.

“Come!” he said, and she didn’t
hesitate.

She ran over to Tom and pulled his hand.

“Come on, we have to ride him out of here”
she told Tom.

He nodded slowly, looking too stunned to
speak and climbed up onto his back behind her, holding onto her
waist as she wrapped her arms around his neck once more.

The unicorn leapt out of the room and into
the air and Abby smiled as she felt the wind against her face once
more. She looked back at Tom and noticed that he was still
clutching Isabella in his hand.

“You can let her go now she can fly next to
us” she told him.

He nodded and opened his hand and Isabella
flew up to her and sat in front of her on the unicorn, wrapping her
hands around his mane like a rope.

Abby felt a sharp pain in her stomach and as
she looked back at the castle, had a bad feeling that Elysia was
going to come after them. She looked back in front of them and saw
that they were close to the barrier.

“I need you to stop and land after we go
through the barrier!” she yelled to the unicorn.

He didn’t respond but knew that he had
understood her and as they hit the barrier and he slowly slid
through it, she stood up and waited for the unicorn to land.

As soon as they touched the ground she leapt
off of his back and threw her hands up into the air. She closed her
eyes and focused on making her magic as powerful as she could
pulling the power of the grass around her. As soon as she felt it
welled up inside of her she released it through her hands, turning
the barrier inside out.

Abby lowered her hands, hoping that her
magic had worked correctly. She didn’t need to wait long to test
it, because just as she was climbing back onto the unicorn she saw
Elysia flying toward them her hands outstretched sending bolts of
electricity toward them.

Abby watched as the bolts hit the barrier
and bounced back, hitting Elysia and making her fall hard toward
the ground. She quickly jumped back up, brushing the dirt off of
herself as she walked toward the barrier.

Abby smiled as she saw that Elysia was
unable to get through the barrier, no matter what kind of magic she
threw at it.

“Okay we can go” she said to the
unicorn.

He lifted into the air and started to turn
to leave when Elysia flew up right in front of them, their faces
only inches apart separated only by the shimmering barrier.

“You haven’t won, I will get out of this
eventually and next time I won’t bother coming for your filthy
lover, I will come straight for you, no matter where you are”
Elysia spat out.

Abby smiled, “Promise?” she teased as the
unicorn turned and continued the flight to the castle and her
mother.

***

The unicorn landed so softly in the Southern
Gardens that it almost didn’t feel as though they had even stopped
moving. Abby slid off of the unicorn and helped Tom climb down and
once they were off of him, she hugged the unicorn’s neck.

“Thank you so much, I never would have
gotten out of there if it wasn’t for you” she told him.

He lowered his head slightly then turned and
walked out of the gate, heading for the Eastern Gardens where he
fellow unicorns were no doubt waiting for his return. Abby picked
Isabella up into her palm.

“Do you think you can get into the castle if
I took you there?” she asked her. The pixie shrugged her tiny
shoulders.

“I’m not sure, nobody has ever tried it, I
mean Zeus put the enchantments onto the castle himself, and he is
one big bad dude” Isabella said.

Abby laughed as the pixie used language she
must have heard in the mortal world and closed her hand around her
body as she grabbed Tom’s hand with her other one. She closed her
eyes and thought of the throne room, making sure to think about
both Tom and Isabella getting there with her and when she opened
her eyes, saw that it had actually worked.

When her mother saw her land she ran to her
and wrapped her arms around her, making Abby release both Tom and
Isabella in the process.