Chapter 6: Puppet Of Fate

That's what kept us going everyday watching the wizard become a barrel of laughs. And I stayed in my land governing my own kingdom and nurturing my people. But that did not last so long. One day a group of eight men came to the land. All of the sudden my mind became unsteady and my heart only felt sick. I had no choice but to run away. I had no time to warn anyone. I knew those men. They were the queen witch soldiers. Although I had no idea where they gadcame from nor how they had survived the killing. But they were already here in my land, where I thought I was safe from, hoping they wouldn't find me or rather believed they were all dead and the only person who posed a threat to my life was that balmy wizard but no I was all wrong. I quickly erased that thought and took a notebook. I had to write something to warn my people at least that's what I could do for them. So in that letter I swore to warn them and at least told them where I was going. After that I quickly folded the letter and placed it in the drawer where anyone could see it. I then took off. I had to use the long and devastating staircases so no one could see me leave. I literally had no idea where I was going but I knew I had to fetch that bag that me and Mrs Barker had hidden away before someone purloined it to the soldiers. I wouldn't rather think of what the queen witch would do to me if she found out so I quickly made my way to the special place of mine I had hidden in the bag. When I got there I started digging for it. But back at the Lavella forest, the soldiers had no intentions of being friendly nir merciful. Their actions were uncanny and they were here for a mission and the mission was to find me, dead or alive. They had no time to hesitate but started searching in every house there was in the forest. As I've alluded they were not here to retain any peace, but killed every man who fought them, any woman begging for mercy, killed every woman who seemed to be like me. I felt it, I felt it from within. It was like I was the who was being hurt. I heard them crying, seen them kneeling, sobbing, weeping, I heard them begging for mercy, begging for their lives to be spared and those of their loved ones. It was like I was there within them, within every soul and it felt like my body surrendered every time a soul got ripped apart from its righteous body. It just felt so real wheres my body just froze and remained still listening to the pains of the heart, to the fear of death and to the misinterpreted, interrupted thoughts of the mind, and the wailing sounds of death. It felt like I had wrecking balls inside my brain and not it feeling like it was gonna explode. I kept hearing gunshots where it wasn't the soldiers decapitating people's heads and the screams of others being beaten up to a pump, and to that I felt every scar, scratch, wound, every bullet, every kick and my heart kept stopping and stopping every now and then. I had unbearable chest pains. I just couldn't bear it that I started crying but every time a tear dropped I saw blood. Yeah it felt like I was crying blood, I know that sounds weird but that how it felt like and every time I dug out the sand it felt like the hole grew deeper and deeper and the sand piling up. I just couldn't handle all of this. I just wished everything could stop, the killing, hiding, running away for owns life and the fear. You know I had once loved peace, where everything was just at ease but now what is meant to retain peace, it now terrors the mind, triggers the heart, threatening souls and tears it all apart. For a moment so suddenly it all went quiet, not that it raised no suspicion but to me the silence meant focus, concentration and to pick my ass and get to digging again. I then dug the hole until I finally I reached the bag. I took it out, picked in to see if everything was there, the were I deed the gemstones and the emerald. I then went away. I had no clue where I was going but the feets were just too itchy and I had to keep going. I had to run away somewhere safe but to where I didn't know nor my feets, but I knew I couldn't go to the fairy land, I would be serving lunch so I headed to one place to go and that was at the Faraway kingdom. It was a bit too far from where I was but I had to go there at least I'd be safe. So I went off running and never looking back. I was too scared or perhaps tok shaky or I just had no guts to do that but to look forward and to pray for guidance:

OH lord I kneel before you today, please show me the way because darkness surrounds me and how fearsome the way behind me. I am wondering where I am, where I am I. I'm lost in your father. I'm helpless. Firm disares, strong women, sharky plans follow me. I think I'm cursed but you know you can't tell a lie from the truth. The journey opens its arms to me. I just happened to find myself at the horns of a dilemma and I don't know which direction to choose. But please do not forsake me, please show me a ray of hope. And everytime I try to think my mind just dries up. I think I'm in the lands of the lost ones. I can't believe I'm even speaking, words just pour out of my mouth like milk pouring out onto a glass. Although I have spoken to you. Please help me. I have been on a long trek and I'm kind of exhausted, when will this end. "Enjoy yourself and don't worry about tomorrow" that's my philosophy but this is something to worry about. Please do help this reckless soul. Oh lord, I pray today.

I dawdled the whole road until I felt the ground quaking, the trees falling, the ground ripping apart, until I saw the sky turning darker and my body to be struck by lightning. I froze for a second and my body was sweltering. My foot just shook death itself and I just realized that writing that letter was useless, it didn't help instead the wrong person found it. And now I stand here alone with no one to turn to, all of my people were caged up and looking so helpless. Others looked like they could bite the dust at any moment. At some point I just wished my mother was here to help me, to free me from this wicked witch and my people but instead heaven couldn't wait for her. So now it is all up to me to save my people. I tried to get up, stood a little although my chest was burning hell but I managed to get up and stood for myself. I easily lost courage when I saw how many were those soldiers because when I was laying down it was all just feets I see not all these heads looking at me now. But nevertheless I had to die trying. I then stretched out my legs, one leg in infront and the other making it way to my back, then followed my hands stretching them out too up into the air. My whole body was getting ready to fight, and all the soldiers made their way to me, to finish me up but one by one I fought them, and defeated them. I helped my people and freed them one by one and like again others freed others. Then we all worked together, one by one and defeated the soldiers. We were just at the vastness of celebrating our success when the witch came thundering from the sky. Destroying everything that was standing in her way, giving her soldiers the power to rise again, to become stronger and stronger. She was filled with vengeance and could see she was headed towards me. I had no place to run to so I just grabbed two knives with me and I also headed towards her but before I could have beaten her, she stroked me with a lightning of chamber and it sent me back to the ground leaving me dead lying on the floor with no strength and my people were once defeated again. They were once tied and caged up. I was lying dead on the ground when that witch picked me up from it and threw me to the Boomslang tree to finish me up for good. I was up to no good but I just laid there in the tree with my legs closed listening to the pains in my body. She then used her dark magic to release an evil spell sending it to the moon so the moon would dim in light becoming darker and darker and the sea to release powerful tides causing unveiling strong dust to rise from the ground like a tornado and the ground to quak, tearing it more apart, causing the volcano to erupt releasing the volcanic liquid into shedded parts of the ground. Damaging every flower, vegetation on earth, leaving the earth bareless. I had fallen to some sleep as I was on the edge of falling into the volcanic liquid that had created a dam around me, but luckily I was awakened by the quaking of the ground. I woke up to no earth. The whole world was in flames. Everything is down in ashes. Smoke was everywhere and the world was so dark. The light was being consumed by evil. Buildings had collapsed. Waking up to the barest land. Dams and rivers had dried out. The ground had cracks and moreover it was ripping apart. The ground was shaking. My whole body had been vibrating from it. I slowly woke up from the ground. I had laid from two separate grounds and my feets had been hanging loosely from a hole. I looked down at the hole and my heart nearly stopped. I was a little scared to say with so much guilt in me. But I didn't bother to look back, I just followed where the path led me. I was too focused on seeing where it would take me, never knowing that it was the worst decision of my life I could ever take. So out into the darkness I went on risking my life. Never knowing what laid before. Never knowing it would change the rest of life forever giving it a new venture, a new turn. A new beginning leading to unimaginable pain, loss and unforgettable events and memories filled with regrets and many cryful days. Never knowing I would be transformed to something I wouldn't be able to figure out what it was and to do about but to stay cooped day in and day out. I somehow wished I had followed my inner soul when it opposed but it's too late now. If only my future self had warned me. The path led me to a castle, a dark, widowed castle. A castle so old, about 160 years old. It was dilapidated, shadowy and ramshackled. Its paint had faded years ago with the storms, some front windows were broken. The roof had also fallen off and the yard filled with long grasses. The gate was rusty and made a screeching sound when you opened it, and there was just something odd as I opened the gate. But then I was brave. I took my last breath and took a step inside. It had no door so I just walked inside. It was so cold and damp inside the castle. I then went on the staircases and climbed them. There were whistling sounds in the windows and cracking sounds on the stairs as I was climbing them. And that's when terror prevailed. I heard my calling for my name so hard and so hurtful. I then followed the sounds of her voice but it was just a goose chase. Every room I entered my mother was not there. Every time I felt so close to it, it got far. But her mournings and groans were so painful, sending pain throughout my whole body. She needed my help but I just couldn't find her. I kept running and running into every room there was in the castle, kicking and breaking every door just to find no one. The hallways were so dark. All the rooms are dark and misty. They were delightfully dinghy with stale air. I had just lost hope and had sat next to the walls. They were so firm as I learned on them and that's when I heard her voice again so loud and so clear. She mourns now, powerful and agony. Her groans hit straight into my eardrums causing them to vibrate, sending pain throughout my whole body. They came from the basement, the last room I hadn't searched. While still stripping and falling I made my way to It, feeling so helpless. I took a spade and broke the door, and entered when I heard the loudest laugh and her voice being so quiet. I walked in still carrying the spade and only to find the wicked witch and her evil friend laughing at my foolishness. Her friend kept making those screws as if it were my mother in agony. I realized I was made a fool once again. All this running, all those empty rooms, the groans and the mourns were just made by the witch's friend. I felt so stupid that I had believed my mother could have awakened from the dead. Still on that thought and the witch laughing and her friend making those screams, I got angry and attacked them but my attack was useless, my powers hadn't matured, who was I, they had grown stronger. Somehow they took the gemstones and the emerald when I was still lying dead on that ground and had activated their powers. Revealing the rise of their underworld. They beat me up, each taking turns to beat me, creating and making spells to try and kill me, tying me with chains so I could listen to my sorrows. So I could feel the pain and I would scream so loud in pain, and they would stop and start again until it bore them. And they would call the witches to beat me up. The witches would come too many and would each beat me up taking turns up until the witch would call for a stop. The witch's purpose was to get me beaten so I could lose more blood as it carried the most powerful magic in it and she would use it to make ointment. After losing so much blood they took it and poured it onto a beaker for the making of the 1000 ointments. I wasn't the only one who was beaten, some were killed so the witch already had enough blood to make the ointments. The ointments were to be used to activate the three gemstones which each held their own magic. Whereas the gemstones were to be used to wake both the Red and dark phoenixes. Then the two Phoenixes would give rise to the emperor of witches, wizards, sorcerers and also serve as power to defeat any human or any power trying to destroy the two worlds. Which were both kept behind a big wall so the witch and the wizard both combined their powers to break the wall and release the phoenixes. But the wizard only casted a special number of spells a day so instead he decided for each spell to create magic rungs that would break the wall up to his last spell. The witch then wore those rings and using her powers, she broke the wall. They indeed broke into pieces and Phoenixes were released. The witch's friend was busy pouring the ointments onto the gemstones and they all glowed brightly into every room in the castle from windows to doors. After her and the evil witch mixed the other left ointments and created the flying ointments to fly the phoenixes to the sky. When they were done making those ointments, they did so andpured the ointments onyo the phoenixes and up into the sky they went, with me at the back of their heads. I was placed at the center of everything with the body of the phoenixes beside me. The witch then ordered the witches to start digging out all the dead skeletons of those witches, wizards and sorcerers that were being buried in the lands so they can be awakened again. The witches did so and started digging every grave there was in the lands. The sorceress started aligning the gemstones at the center of the phoenixes. The gemstones were placed facing directly to the red phoenix and the emerald to the dark phoenix so that their lights would shine directly onto the two phoenixes. The gemstones were all covered up in clothes and boxes up until the moon was full and it would shine brightly whereas after all the graves were dug. And as soon as the moon became full and all the graves were dug, the witch, sorcerer and the wizard stood surrounded next to the phoenixes. Both the witch and the sorcerer stood next to the red phoenix as it feminist and the wizard stood next to the dark one as it was masculine. They then started saying out the hirolinox spell to connect their powers with the ones of the phoenixes. The hirolinox spell created a defensive layer around them and released crystals of infiltration into the gemstones and they immediately as the clothes and boxes were fastly removed shined brightly, lighting the whole world and combined as one, and after formed a reunion, combining as one whereas after a minute broke again to ashes. That rained all over and when they reached the heroli layer, it caused flames. The heroli was said to have the stones of flames, which when combined with ashes formed from crystals being burnt from the gemstones released a combustion into flames, causing the phoenixes to rise from the flames. So then the two phoenixes did rise from their death and released fire whereas by then my power was starting to leave my body and my death to begin but as I've said I wasn't the only one the three evils had captured. The wizard had also captured humans from the human world, so he released them as the phoenixes breathed out fire, their souls would enter the human body and lead tk the person death, releasing souls so the dead skeletons fed on them but it all went south when it entered through my body and couldn't kill me due to I was wearing my mothers bracelet that protected her from death. It was impossible for it to release my soul. Instead the more the phoenix power came to me combined and entered my body, it somehow formed magic which by when it reached my body it instilled some power in me and the bracelet to carry the magic too. The phoenix power showered everywhere and penetrated through the layer and entered the dead skeletons of those dead witches, sorcerers and wizards so they could be awakened. It then led to a great threat of legendary, powerful witches, wizards and sorcerers but as the phoenix penetrated through the walls, it posed a great threat to the rest of the world. The flames bece too much, destroying the heroli layer, making it easier for it to pass through to every planet there was, destroying everything, creating genocides but somehow it gave powerful warriors, kingdom such as Oceania, fairy, Ciampa, Riven and Avelon and other planets, heroes like Mr Goldberg and his son, Scarlett and kate, protectors and Mrs Barker who was already in search of me with the fairies from the fairy kingdom a warning to act fast. All those people united and fought as one and separated duties. Others were given orders such as the warriors were said to protect the citizens with the Riven kingdom whereas Oceania and the fairies to act as one and form a defensive layer across the planet to prevent the phoenix power from damaging earth more further. And the Ciampa together with Avelon kingdom were instructed to defeat the three evils. Everyone did so, the Ciampa and Avelon fought together the witches, wizards and the sorcers. Although it was difficult to defeat them as they rose again more and more, stronger and stronger from the ground because of the phoenix power giving them strength. They were all growing tired and losing strength but they had to stop the phoenixes from realizing their power. Luckily Goldberg and his son, Johnny together with Scarlett and Kate were there to do that and others I don't remember. They helped fight the and defeated the witches, wizards and the sorcerers using reversed magic from the green pigment, so slowly they defeated them. When the witch saw this, she tried to fight them but Scarlett, the daughter of Stephan blade who held the power of the storm fought her. The sorceress tried helping but was challenged by Kate who was from the Oceania kingdom. She was well known for her power to control water. The wizard was challenged by John, Mr Goldberg's son, who was known to carry the phoenix sword and could disappear. Mr Goldberg on the other hand was trying to find a solution to stop the phoenix power but was unable though he held the sword he needed more of its power. He then saw me playing from the moon and took me. He took me to a secret place and tried waking me up. It was thought impossible but he then noticed something glowing from my face, that was glowing dark and red. He then touched my face when he got electrocuted, and that is when I woke up. I woke up confused and filled with a fighting spirit, stuck between good and bad. I saw him lying on the floor and looked at him for hours and there were so many images playing in my head, and strange sounds. Whereas the phoenix power created sparks in my brain until he woke up and told me he could help me. He then took his sword and stabbed me from the back and I fell. I don't know what happened from there but I woke up remembering everything from the moment they took me to the sky. We then came out and headed back to the sky to finish this once and for all. When I got there everyone was surprised to see me, even the witch herself and even the phoenixes bowed down at me. Mr Goldberg had rode on my back as I flew up into the sky. I was a dragon myself for I carried the fairy dragon's power within me that was now enhanced with the phoenix power. The witch didn't like that so she controlled the phoenixes to her evil plans and to fight me whereas Mr Goldberg tried to find a solution to stop them. It wasn't easy though to fight the phoenixes, I had to be leaneth and with me still learning on how to use my powers, unfamiliar with them, they seeked to kill me. I was up and down, back and up from the sky defeated by them. They had no mercy on me. I was at the verge of sacrificing to death, feeling weak and lying dead on the ground when I saw an image playing on my mind on how to defeat the evil spell of that witch from the phoenixes. But fortunately Mr Goldberg too had the same vision as we were connected to the phoenix magic. I then woke up from where I was and looked around. It seemed like the enemy was winning, most of our people were dead, some fighting but still defeated. I looked up to Mr Goldberg, he nodded yes. I then lifted my head, I felt something burning in my throat, I then opened my mouth to release it. And what chaos I had caused. I fired everywhere around and the whole place went up in flames. Everything to burn down into ashes whereas the army of witches, wizards and sorcerers to remain defeated and to burn into ashes. But by then the phoenixes were up on me, they too fired back at me whereas the army rose up again from death. I knew from then I had to break the spell. I then challenged the Phoenixes to look at me from the eye so as to try and connect our souls but it was impossible. The three wouldn't give me no choice but Kate and Scarlett did keep them busy for a while whereas the others were fighting the army. I then took that chance and tried again but I kept failing. This needed more concentration with no destruction so I then asked Mrs Barker to hold the power of peace on me with the circle of oracles. She indeed flew up to me with the fairies and using the circle of oracles, they did so and I had placed my hands on it and closed my eyes. It seemed to be working though the phoenixes were too keen on fighting me as if they weren't handled. So then Scarlett and Kate only had one job and they had to end the two friends, the witch and the sorcerer together with the wizard. John had to do something with him. They then planned it, Kate and Scarlett would fight them altogether with the wizard whereas John had to disappear and stab them with his sword. It did happen and the three became weak and became unconscious,although it was not enough, they then trapped them in cages. I then managed to get hold of the phoenixes and connected with and so now it was to Mr Goldberg and John but first the vision was from the moment the spell Mr Goldberg and his son, John had to throw their phoenix swords onto the phoenixes where their souls were so.that they could die but we needed some power to stop the flames so that the phoenixes would be stopped from their rebirth or from being born again and die at combustion. We then entrusted Kate to stop Mr Goldberg to shoot straight at the dark phoenix with his sword and John to shoot straight at the red phoenix, at the same time. So as the spell broke and the herolinox power stopped, Kate immediately drew water and stopped the flames whereas at the same time Mr Goldberg together with his son shot the swords straight to the phoenixes heart and one by one, both the phoenixes disappeared and did. All that was left was their ashes. As the phoenixes disappeared, the phoenix power also stopped with the army of witches, wizards and sorcerers to be sent back to death and their underworld to disappear. But then the sorcerer, the witch's friend, broke out from the cages as she saw and freed the other two. She was waging war and threw Kate with Scarlett away so hard that they hitted hard on the walls. They then created a spell to stop me and Mrs Barker with the fairies. Whereas the sorcerer trapped Kate and Scarlett in the cage of sorrow so they could die crying, And Mr Goldberg with John were both held up high from a volcano so if the clog breaked, they would fall and the wizard sprinkled John with powder stone so he couldn't disappear. They then again formed a circle, the three of them waking up their so-called king "Dragon Slair'' to defeat and to end life on earth. Their plan succeeded, Dragon Slair came to life and gave rise to a group of creatures of his army called dragon pits. They were said to be powerful. There were too many of them and the Rivens with the other kingdom were so tired from the previous war and lost many of their people from that war. Dragon Slair again destroyed the human world and released dark creatures from the underworld to eat up humans and end life on earth. After that he, the witch, wizard and the sorcer made their way to finish us for good. He was holding that hamner if he was ready to chop our heads off, especially the Avelon king with Mr Goldberg. That is when my necklace glowed and the ashes transformed to flames and the phoenix rose again from the flames and I too gpt freed and transformed to a dragon. I burnt down the thorns and freed Mrs Barker and fairies, whereas I flew to Mr Goldberg and John together with Scarlett and Kate, burning down that clog and flew down with them. The witch gazed with surprise whereas I, Mrs Barker, the Fairies, Mr Goldberg and the others ran to fight them too. The phoenixes flew up and gave the Ciampa, Avelon, Riven, Oceania and fairy new strength to fight wherdss Madeleine and Mother Teresa arrived with the Triads to fight too. Dragon Slair had jumped out to defeat me with his hammer when the Red phoenix released its power to him and he was sent back to the underworld again. Whereas I fired all the dragon pits, sending them back with him. I wasn't looking when the witch casted a spell of change over to me just to curse me. I got thrown onto that Boomslang tree. I then felt my whole body changing, transforming the dragon's image disappearing, my legs, head, eyes, nose and hair shrinking and I was being transformed into a puppet. I couldn't feel myself losing myself. I was rather not Matilda, the real me. I still looked like a human but my appearance was rather different. I was a puppet. I somehow looked like a doll but more like a puppet. Some said it was a beautiful puppet but still I couldn't accept it. The Red and dark phoenixes were both angered by this and once and for all decided to put an end to the three. The phoenixes absorbed their powers from them, took their powers and banned them from the fairy kingdom or any kingdom there was in the world, and transformed them to ordinary human beings. As I sat down from the Boomslang tree looking so shadowed and bereaved. I had lost a loved one and that was me but the phoenixes together with Mr Goldberg and the others combined their powers also with the help of the fairies with their wheel of tentacles, they gave me a new life, they gave me a new life to become a human again but also a different Matilda, who was now a young girl, no longer an adult but a little human many that was entrusted to be taken care of by Mrs Barker. And after that the phoenixes combined their powers to rebuild earth. They gave it new life, renewed it, gave its nature back, dead people were awakened and returned to normal. The five kingdoms namely Avelon, Ciampa, Riven, Oceania and Fairy were interested to take care of the five gemstones and all wrrs transformed to ordinary hans including Mr Goldberg and the others with some if the powers is forbidden on the human world and taken. The phoenix power remained in me with the fairy dragon but then I lost the necklace somehow when I fell from that tree. And after that the phoenix bowed down at us, and they disappeared looking at me. I was told five years later that me and the phoenixes were now connected and would protect me for the rest of my life as I started school who was still my legal guardian. And I was given such conditions that night that I would become a puppet by night time and a human by day on the same day of the war and given a sand hourglass to turn so I could be that human and from there you all knew me as Matilda who attended the same school as yours from primary level up to this day and this is how I became a puppet", said Matilda the puppet crying, and they all cried. Haven't they released that school had knocked off when they heard Alexa and Alexis calling for Alice from the main house. They had to keep quiet until they were gone and they all went straight home filled with sorrow, anguished, cryful, sad and sorry.