Megan stood there dumbfounded. The so called 'evil-being' told her not to kill them, but they stupidly announced that they still steal away Sura.
"No one is stealing my dragon!" Megan murmured as she looked back at the frozen statues that stood there.
"That's what you are going to go against? That dangerous being?!" Her mother yelled. "Megan I know you are fascinated with magic and spells, but how are you going to fight some like that?"
Theodore and Marie took some steps back as they didn't want to be involved in the argument.
"It's not like I have a choice mother, this is my fate and destiny" she answered her mother calmly.
Mr. Vinnesia came to the rescue as he took his wife into the kitchen to get the mops to clean up the useless water.
The three went out to the back yard with a gloomy and serious face. Marie knew something was weird about those flames, but she didn't expect the evil being showed themselves THIS quick. "So what are your plans?" She asked Megan.
"Well, there is no leads to let me know where she or he is so I can't go onto an aimless journey. And I just started training too..." Megan said.
Sura turned invisible as she said, "This being is using magic and spells just like me. They made the fire appear and disappear, but how did they know our location?"
"Can they use spells to dictate our location? Like how you knew Victon and his troops of knights were on the edge of the North Forrest?" Megan asked.
Sura gasped as she forgot about that spells, she closed her eyes then tried to detect any large energy of magic. 1km... nothing, 5km... nothing, 10km... nothing, 60km... a red aura!
"Bingo! I found a magic source 30km North" said the she-dragon. "I will conceal our Magic's aura so the being can't track us down."
"North?" The three glowed in light as Sura worked her spell.
They looked at each other as they simultaneously whispered out, "Hong Jin Kingdom."
"Great, that's a 3 days ride by carriage" Marie spoke.
"Megan, are you seriously going on a carriage to Hong Jin just to defeat some monster?" Theodore said.
"Not right now. I still need training" she replied.
"What about AFTER training?" He asked.
"We will talk about this later!" Megan grabbed Marie's arm and ran upstairs. Leaving Theodore in the back yard thinking of what he should do in this weird situation.
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Inside Megan's room, Marie settled down the basket of snacks and scented candles she presented.
"Marie, what do you think if I make up a team of fighters?" Megan asked.
Marie stared at her best friend with her accusing eyes, "don't tell me-"
"Will you be in my team?" Megan asked with sparkles and rainbows radiating off her. She wanted to have a group full of her closest friends and family. Marie was the first person that came to her mind.
"Why does this feel like a suicide mission?" She heard her best friend said.
"It's not suicide if you get powers from a legendary dragon now will it?"
"Megan, I will shit myself when we try to kill whatever this evil being you are talking about."
"I will be the bucket to your shit. I trust you with my life Marie! My one and only best friend, I am only asking so no pressure" Megan replied, but secretly winked.
Marie was jumbling pros and cons of the suicide mission. Cons: a suicide mission and she didn't know anything about saving the lands and oceans from a selfish predator. Pros: getting magical powers, thinking of this as a vacation and she's just traveling with friends. She will also get to skip her job at the Hui Pharmacy...
"I will go with you" Marie replied as she got attacked by Megan's tight hug.
"Thank you! Love you" Megan gave her best friend a smack kiss on the cheek.
Sura flew in front of the two and asked, "what do you want your powers to be?"
"What power would be useful?" Marie asked.
"What about healing powers? You work at a pharmacy so it's a plus!" Megan exclaimed.
"Makes sense, okay dragon do your stuff" Marie said.
Sura waved her claws and Marie's body glowed from head to toe. "Alright, try hold out your palm and push out a light."
Marie held out her palm to Megan's cheek and a green soft light radiated out. Megan giggled and said, "it's so fuzzy and warm."
"Marie, do you want an earth, stone, or ice power? It suits your cool personality" Sura suggested.
"Ice" Marie replied nonchalantly.
And so her body glowed once more, but this time it wasn't warm, she felt a cold energy in her heart then running out to her limbs. Marie walked up to the table with her basket sitting on top. She held out her palm and gently let out an energy wave. Ice formed on the handle of the basket then rapidly spread to the rest, making the basket covered in a crystal clear ice.
"Woah! An ice block with a basket inside HAHAHA" Megan laughed.
"Shush or I will freeze you next" Marie said with her smile turning into a small smile.
"And born was the Ice Queen Marie" Megan announced dramatically.
Sura went on explaining to Marie that she has to meditate in order to control her powers. Ice is something out of the ordinary and so is healing. Since it's winter right now, if she accidentally used her powers people won't notice anything being weird, though it would be a different story if it was summer. And her healing powers are not just intend for injured people. Marie can now heal animals and nature, if she accidentally release her powers near a dying tree, that tree will heal and come back alive.
The two best friends talked and meditate with each other before Marie left to go back home.