I slept for many days. Without the magic, my body healed much slower. I woke up four days later with my mother sitting next to me, which lead me into another fit of tears..She held me tight.
“It’s not your fault love,” she said stroaking my hair. I clung to her as never before. I felt so valnurable without the crystal. It had become my life.
“what will we do mother. Without the power of all five of the crystals, we are not match against Gebri and Garados,”
“You will find a way Kel,” she said.
“I’m so afraid,” my shoulder shuddered.
“You have every right to be. They are both very powerful wizards, but you have light and love on your side. You will win,”
“I still don’t know how?”
“Be patient. In time it will come to you,” then she left me and I fell back into a deep sleep.
I woke again a few days leter. Someone had drew back the curtains to let the sunshine in. I sat up looking out the window. THe guys were out playing a ball game.
“Are you hungry?” asked my Granfather as I walked in. I let him sit down on the edge of the bed. “They’re pretty good at that game,”
“Yes,”
“Hey you’re better,” said Mathyus as he and the other came in through the door.
“I’ll be back for the dishes,” said Grandfather.
“How are you feeling?” asked Jess as he came and sat down next to me. He gave me a side squeeze.

“ Like all of the energ has been saped out of me,” I touched the dull crystal on my chain.
“There has to be a way to get the powers back,” Griffen said.
“Mother said that the idea would come if I waited,”
“Do we have the time?” asked Kalob.
“The only way the block can be opened is with our crystals. Gebri needs all of them for it to work,” Griffen said.
“Let us hope he doesn’t come back for them,” I said solomly.
I spent the day wandering the hills of the island searching for an answer to my problems, but nothing came. I thought that maybe if I looked into my soul I would find the answer. But when I did, I found myself only at the mountain inside my soul. Was my soul trying to tell me something? Was the answer in the mountains?
So I stayed there pondering over why my soul told me to come here.
All night I watching mountains. Then in morning, the sun came out. Sitting up and streching, trying to get the kink out of my neck from sleeping outside, I saw the rays peaking through the clouds. They hit the farthest mountain top which in turn reflected off the other mountains. Could this be what my soul was trying to tell me? Light could defeat the evil. That had to be it.
Walking down the mountain, I began thinking about how the light streamed through the mountains like that.
“The mountains are beautiful in the morning,” said a voice which startled me out of my deep thought.
“Oh Grandfather you startled me,”
“So sorry. What were you doing here so early?”
“My soul told me to go to the top of the mountain and I would find out how to defeat the evil,”
“And did you?”
“Yes, the light trail,”
“Oh you saw the reflecting llight off the mirrors. That is a wonderful sight,”
“If I can make a light trail like this one, I may be able to vanquish the evil,”
“I hope you succeed Kel,” We continued down the mountain path to Grandfather’s house.
I was now ready to go after my father.
***
“Did you find what you were looking for?” my mother asked me that night.
“I need to make a light trail to defeat Garados, but I still don’t quite know how to make a light trail,”

“You saw the mirrors on the mountains making the path,”
“Yes,”
“That light path is physical. I think that what you are looking for is more spiritual than physical, something that comes from all of your hearts,”
“But how?”
“You all have love for someone or something. Light comes out of that love. When you consentrate all of your magic, together you make a light trail,”
“We have to go after Garados together to be able to create this trail,”
“Yes,”
“But my magic? It still hasn’t come back,”
“Go back to the mountain once more. Listen to your heart,” and she vanished into a ball of light,”
***
“Even if we have the light trail, it doesn’t help us find Garados,” Kalob said exasperated. He and the others were arguing the plans as we went up to the mountain. They would always ask for my advice, but I shrugged them off. I was still in deep thought. I wanted quiet. I didn’t care about Garados right now.
“Guys,” I said trying to get their attention, “Guys,” a bit louder, “Guys!” I shouted. All head turned towards me. “Can you just be quiet for a moment,” I continued to walk up the mountain. No one spoke.
The air up here is so fresh and I drank it all up. I found a place to sit and meditate. I had completely forgotten about the boys.
“Where has my magic gone?” I asked my soul.
“Where do you think?” it asked.
“My father has it,”
“That answer seems to be the most logical, but are you sure?”
“Where else could it go?”
“Magic cannot be taken from someone. Their powers may be borrowed for awhile, or a spell put on them suppressing that power, but it is not gone. But what is magic? Where does it come from?”
“It comes from my heart, from my love,”
“As long as you are still using that love, you have your magic. You lost your hope when you found out abot your father. That dispare made you feel as if you lost your power,”
“My powers were being held down with my sadness?”
“I think if you find out why you are upset your powers would reamerge,” my soul said.





A door sprung up. A gold plate said THE UPSETTING ROOM. I opened it to find shelves pilled up with memories of something being upsettinf to me. Some of the labels had the word ‘passed’ written over them. At the very end of the hall, the memory of my father and mother being taken and feeling defeated kept my heart heavy.
“Al least Garados can’t be released. I should be happy about that. My heart lightened when I finally realized that to be true. People were not being hurt by him and that brought me great joy. The memory glowed orange and the word ‘passed’ appeared on the memory. A tingle crept up my arm and into my heart. I could feel the crystal tugging at my heart again. I felt some of that magical connection. It was then that I knew that I didn’t fail my mother. I had captured Garados which is what she wanted. I knew that she lived and my guilt for not staying and helping her fight was lifted as well. Most of my power returned, but I still coldn’t shake the uneasiness that I felt towards my father. But I knew that I was still weak. My heart hadn’t healed all the way.
“Kel you are glowing,” Mathyus said when I came back.
“Part of my power has returned,”

PART 4

Lessionia was clever. She knew that he would find her. It was inevitable. He wanted Garados,but she hadn’t succeeded in capturing him. Garados skuled away leaving no trail or clues for Lessionia to find. Lessionia gave up after searching for Forty years. That was when she found Gebri in the woods.
But now with the dogs going tense and growling, she knew that it was too late. She had to get Kel and Jess out.
He came himself, but he stood on the hilltop watching his minionsdo the dirty work. The trees shaded his face so all that Lessionia could see was his lower torso and legs. Lessionia wanted to know what his face looked his face looked like. Now that the kids had gone she would be able to stop the mysterious man. Who was he and what right did he have to order an angel around?
The house was crushed in a matter of minutes. The animals fled in the forest.
“Lessionia, have you’ve forgotten our agreement?” he asked.
“I searched for forty years and found no trace of Garados,”
“So, that doesn’t mean tha you stop looking for him,”
“I wasn’t going to search for him my entire life,”
“Angels live forever Lessionia. You have endless time to look for him,”
“We pardon me for wanting to forget that part of my life. And is it so terrible to want to have a family?”
“Yes, but now you forfit Kel for not giving me Garados. I gave you back tthe crystals and the elixer for Garados,”
“The elixer didn’t work,”
“Was it my fault that you were late Lessionia? If I didn’t give you the elixer then Gebri would have died. I saved his life,”
“Gebri was a monster. Maybe it might have been better if he died. Gardos would have been gone then too,”
“But it is all too late. Where is Kel?”
“Safe, and you will never find her,”
“No one can hid from me,”
“Kel is smart. She would sense who you are,”
“But who am I? Even you don’t know Lessionia,”
“The show yourself,”
“Not just yet,”
Three tigers charged at Lessionia. She used her angelic powers to rise above them. They jumped into the air trying to get her legs.
“Using angelic powers.Tsk, Tsk,” with a wave of his fingers Lessionia fell to the ground where the female tiger held down on Lessionia’s chest.
“Why do you fight for him?” Lessionia asked the tiger. Angels have the gift of tongues.
“Because we get fed,”
“Just hunt,”
“We can’t,” said the male.
“No one taught us,” the third implied.
“Well what are you waiting for!” shouted the strange man. “Kill her!”
“Will you teach us how to hunt?” asked the female again.
Lessionia nodded. The three tigers let her stand up.
“Don’t trust animals to do your bidding. They may only do it because they are hungry, but when given the opportunity, that can change,”
“ That may be true for tigers, but I have other who are more faithful,”
But in that instant, in a flash of light, Lessionia disapeard with the tigers.