Chapter 34

Locked memories

The four young boys were playing with their swords playing "attack attack". This was their favourite game from all the games they had been shown by their uncle Mr Gregory Nodicus. He had shown them other different games, how to play around with their magic and even how to use it for their advantage. Hunkins went up to the air trying to take down his siblings from up getting them unknowingly. Meshack turned back time and took him down even before he even thought of flying and now it remained three of them, John changed his appearance to Look like Meshack just when Meshack was about to strike him this made Meshack hesitate and John took the opportunity to defeat him.

It was left just the two of them, John and Lorna but before John could raise his swords Lorna hypnotized him and made him weak. John slowly let his sword fall and Lorna struck him down.

"Good, you are learning. Lorna next time fight a little more before taking your oponents down," Uncle Greg said to Lorna who was now enjoying her victory over her brothers who didn't like a bit of it.

"Come on in now...time to have your lunch before we get back to more training." Margret their mother came to where they were.

"Will you teach us the enchantments of the heroes today mother?" Hunkins asked excitedly as he ran after his mother his siblings following behind.

"Yes,but you have to first be smart in your fighting skills and I will show you more spells," she replied to him.

They all went in and more flashes of them training came to them with instructions and orders on what to do and all the magic spells their mother taught them and their father James.

Years went by of training and they grew so fast discovering and learning of their magic and more of what they could do, especially in a combo. They grew older and now they would get into the field to a challenge with their mother and father. Some days they would battle with their 2 uncles Greg and Billy but Billy would come once every year except for their uncle Gregory who was their trainer. They would always be reminded to train even harder as so many people are dependent on them.

They were now 18 years and were waiting for their admissions to their expected university, Hummingheart University. Their parents had assembled them at their training field and their 2 uncles were there,Gregory Nodicus and Billy Nodicus.

"We are doing this because we have seen you train and we want you to be better than what you are. Always remember we want the best for you always." Their mother started the conversation before uncle Gregory Nodicus took over.

"We also want you to be ready not only to rescue the whole world from the war but to also set free your uncle Simion Nodicus from where he is."

"I don't understand mother, what do you mean?" Lorna asked concerned.

"Don't worry my sweet girl, everything is okay, now I want you to hold your brother's hand and say your enchantments you will understand everything then," their father James said to her and their mother held their hands and their uncles with their father made a triangle like formation and begun their enchantments. This took time back to them being just toddlers and the same events happened again and again only that they still had their previous skills in them but did not know what time had been returned behind for them four.

1000 years of repetition until their last year. Seeing all things, remembering every little details, having a true reality of who they were and all the lessons they had been taught.

"Your sister's fate is not same as yours but you are all one. When the time comes the fourth heroe shall come and all of you shall say these words upon him," their uncle Greg said as he gave them the enchanted words followed by an instruction of what they were supposed to do.

"Hunkins! Stop the enchantment now!" Ashly's voice was heard. From their memory she was standing on the other side from where they stood watching everything as if watching a movie.

"Everyone stop!" Hunkins ordered his brothers and they all disappeared from their memory back to where they were in the dark forest of queendom witches.

They came back as if breathless and the witches' laughter could be heard.

"That was not part of our agreement,you wanted to lock them their?That was not the agreement!" Ashly screamed at the witches pushing them away by her mere angry words. Their laughters faded and they now shrunk in fear. The ancestral witches were still there, behind Ashly boosting her power. The lead witch apologized asking Ashly to calm down before she caused havoc that cannot be undone.

"You don't know how powerful you are. You carry the power of all the dead witches and even the killed ones that the people in Caleb Tirak rule. If you get angry you not only have your anger but the anger of all those witches whose time was not due but were killed for merely having a witche's blood. Why do you want to use that anger to finish your fellow witches when you should use it to destroy that man and all the people that participated in finishing our race," The lead witch said to her trying to calm her down.

"But you wanted to harm my friends, you know any threat to them is a threat to me and not only me but all the ancestral witches. We serve the true have, our loyalty is to the blood of the Queen. You don't depict that!" Ashly hissed at her and all the witches were even more scared.

"Your great grandmother is loyal to the man that caused the death of our blood, why don't you question her action?" She said no to joining us in this side where we are allowed to stay and be free not where we are hunted and killed. How many witches are there in Kingdom? You know not ofcourse because you have kept your loyalty to that evil man and you dare tell me about loyalty Hoot!" The lead witch said now impatient with her.

"My grandmother knows what she is doing," Ashly said now calmed down from her high rage. "We have no time to waste let us finish with this."

"Not before you tell us, who was the lady with the boys? Where is she?" The lead witch asked angrily.

"None of your business," Ashly said now getting her rage back. "Now get us down here now!" She ordered with the many voices of the ancestral witches behind her. The lead witch feeling threatened ordered her witches to begin the last ritual and instructed the boy on what to do before saying the enchanted words given to them.

Derrick had to be knocked unconscious before the process begun. This was to help cope with the pain of transforming. The boys begun the enchantment and the witches of Queendom followed then Ashly. This time they were channelling all the magic to Derrick who started moving uneasily for sometime before he started screaming in pain waking up from the deep sleep he had been put into. This was clearly a tough process. It was years and years before a thing like this was done and this was going to alarm and awake many witches from all corners. It only happened when instead of four heroes born, three are but the human boy to fill the gap was always looked for before he grew up to be a man that made it easier for his transformation as it would begin from a young age. This was a different case Derrick was all grown now it was going to take long and it will be painful. Every witch at whatever place they were could hear the scream and the thunder clouds that were forming all around Hummingheart not only in Queendom where this was happening but all around. A crown was formed on top of Derrick's head and it sunk deep in his head causing blood to spread all over and he had to feel all the pain. When the crown had completely submerged in his head he fell down unconcious. It was now done the tattoo could be seen from the back of his neck glowing.

The boys stopped their enchantment and quickly went to check if he was still breathing.

"He is fine, he is going through what you went through when you got the crowns only his will take longer compared to yours," Ashly said as the shadows behind her dissapeared one by one. All the other shadow witches around the first didsapeared and the thunder sounds seized. "Carry him we have to be on our way."

"Not so fast," the lead witch said followed by wicked laughters from the other witches. "You all can leave but not him he is our price," she said reffering to Derrick.

"No ! We shall leave with him," Ashly said back at her.

The lead witch laughed and summoned all the roots to hold her before, she could do anything to scare them away.

"The ancestral witches are not present here, you do as we say," she said and pulled more roots towards her holding her and all the others.

"I think we can have all of them instead," the lead witch said and they all laughed dragging them by the roots.