Day One - The Vanishing Glass

This is day one of the Promptly Potter challenge. It's another SpaceWizard Short Story.

SpaceWizards
(Another SpaceWizard Action/Adventure Mystery)

Angoria might look thirteen, and she always will, but she was over thirty thousand years young. Her home planet of Lovicca was a Wizard World. Except for a few million freaks everyone there was a wizard. Angoria specializes in Magical Spells. But she was a lot more powerful than just that. The only problem was her spells didn’t always work as planned. At her age, you would think that they would. But they didn’t most of the time. This was one of those times.

“The Vanishing Glass”

A Short Story

Remembered By

Angoria

     A small Fire Ball shot out of Horrald’s raised palm and headed right for Mairon. Angoria mumbled something. A second later that Fire Ball exploded sending shards of flame sparks across Mairon’s face. Thanks, Angoria. But next time couldn’t you do it a lot faster. Mairon swept his hand over his face, and the streak marks disappeared as he passed over them.

     Mairon was the Mind Reader and Thinker of the team. He could read anyone’s mind. It was very hard doing that with Horrald, especially now. But he could do it. Mairon wasn’t much of a talker, either. He preferred thinking. That’s what he did most of the time. Angoria thought as she scanned a large almost empty room where a battle was happening.

     Angoria stood in front of a small glassed room where about a hundred humans huddled together in fright. They were shivering, shaking, and hiding among the others. The humans also sweated. Some of them were sweating a lot.

     The humans mumbled to each other too. Angoria turned toward them and put a scaly finger in the center of her two pairs of lips. Aka the universal sign for ‘Please, Keep Quiet.’ “It’s going to be okay. We don’t know why Horrald is here. But we are here to protect you.”

     One at a time the humans began to calm down. They were still scared. But now they weren’t talking about what was happening to them or what was about to happen. “Thank you for doing that. We don’t know why Horrald came here to Ovivan. Besides, increasing his Army. But we are going to find out.”

     Angoria turned back around to the fierce battle that was going on between Horrald and her fellow SpaceWizards. Using her three eyes, Angoria kept her eye on the other SpaceWizards. The two eyes next to each other, like most races had, kept the right one on Pacill and Yena while the left eye watched Mairon and Borrele.

     The eye in the center of her forehead above the other two kept it on Jacci and Stavon. Angoria closed her left and forehead eyes. She focused her right eye on Yena. Yena appeared in her eye. “Yena, watch out.”

     Yena glanced back at Angoria. Then back at Horrald just as another Fire Ball stopped right in front of her stomach area. It just hanged there for several seconds before he headed back toward Horrald. About halfway back it stopped and admittedly started back at Yena.

     Angoria continued mumbling her magic spell that kept that Fire Ball headed back toward Horrald. It got closer and closer to both Yena and Horrald every time it went back or forth. This continued for a couple of minutes. Angoria suddenly changed her spell. And the Fire Ball exploded several inches from Yena.

     First, Yena closed her right blue eye, then her left red eye. Yena pointed her long thin wood looking finger at Horrald. And an electrical string shot of the tip of it. A few seconds later that string struck Horrald on his right shoulder. That spun him back slightly as another one hit his left arm. Borrele was the one who struck his arm.

     Horrald instantly fought back. He sent one Fire Ball at Borrele first because she was the closer of the two. Then one at Yena. Angoria exploded both the Fire Balls about halfway between the three of them. Horrald floated up a few more inches so he could see Angoria. He saw the humans behind her and smiled.

     While Horrald took on Yena and Borrele he fought the other four SpaceWizards he was battling. Horrald swatted away one electrical string after another. Sending Fire Balls and electrical strings right back at them. He fired back with Fire Balls most of the time. But every so often he switched to electrical strings he also shot out of his palms.

     The SpaceWizards did just the opposite. They fired mostly electrical stings at Horrald. But they switched back to Fire Balls more often than Horrald did. And they didn’t all do either electrical strings or Fire Balls at the same time. It was half and half. Half tried to strike Horrald with one or the other.

     Most of the time Horrald blocked those attacks. But about one out of twenty did hit him. About the same hit the six SpaceWizards too. The only difference was that he was one against six. Horrald did have one advantage from those he was fighting. He was hovering above them. It was hard for them to hit him. But it was harder for him in his attack against them. Horrald could see them better now, though. That now included Angoria and the humans.

     Angoria kept her eyes on the other SpaceWizards. Each one she eyed appeared in her eye just before she helped them. Every few seconds a Fire Ball had exploded before it struck one of them. The electrical strings she just slapped away. Most of them were about halfway to their destination. But some were close. And a few were extremely close.

     Horrald smiled at Angoria. Angoria looked up at him. He appeared in all three of her eyes. Horrald fired two Fire Balls at Angoria. The first one directly at her while the second was aimed at the humans. Angoria sent the one headed for her into the second one exploding them both. Horrald threw three more Fire Balls. The first two at the humans and the third at Angoria.

     Putting her scaly palm against the glass Angoria ran down the length of that wall as she mumbled a phrase repeatedly. As she ran, that part of the wall disappeared after she passed it. “Everyone get down, now.” A few seconds later the two Fire Balls hit the back of that room and exploded. The one that was headed for her exploded after it hit the wall next to that room.

     Mairon looked at Angoria in shock. Why did you do that? You could have gotten them all killed.

     I did it to save them from becoming part of Horrald’s army. Shards of broken glass would have killed some, if not most or all, of them. This was the only thing I could do to save them. The Vanishing Glass spell is one of the easiest spells to summon.

     The other SpaceWizards continued their fight against Horrald. But now they had started triple fighting him. All five of them started firing Fire Balls and electrical strings one after another. “YOU’RE NOT GOING TO GET THESE HUMANS HORRALD,” Stavon shouted. “WE WON’T LET YOU DO IT AGAIN.”

     Horrald suddenly stopped fighting and started laughing. The SpaceWizards stopped their fighting too. “What are you laughing about?” Pacill asked a few seconds later.

     “You think I’m interested in these humans. Well, I am. But they aren’t the reasons why I am here. If I just wanted them, I would have already taken all fifteen trillion of them. I’m here to find… Oh, no. You’re not going to find out why I’m here. At least you’re not going to find it out from me.”

     After laughing for a couple of more minutes, Horrald finally stopped. “I’m tired of this fight. This fight is over. I’ll come back for what I’m looking for later.” Horrald suddenly disappeared.

     Angoria turned and faced the humans and mumbled something as the humans started getting up and the other SpaceWizards joined her. “Was that the spell to bring back the glass?” Jacci asked. “What happened? It didn’t work, again. Did it?”

     “I was shocked when the spell did work. It was the counter-spell that didn’t work, and that I don’t understand. I know that I did that one right too.”

     “Calm down.” Yena put her hairy arm around Angoria. “Then try to do it again. You know you get nervous when you try to do a spell too quickly.”

     Mairon stepped in front of Angoria and the missing glass room. “Don’t do that. It will be easier for us to find out why Horrald was here this way.”

     “Which one of you is the Leader of this village?” Mairon asked after he turned around to face the humans.

     Everyone looked at one human. “I am the Leader here. My name is Avvon. How can I help you?”

     “Do you know what Horrald was looking for?” Mairon asked.

     Avvon didn’t say anything for about a minute. He just looked at several other humans who nodded their heads yes. “I don’t know for sure, but I think he’s after the Legend of The Dackin.”

     A few seconds later Avvon continued. “It’s a SpaceGem. And according to legend, it was here in Xonic several thousand years ago. But it disappeared, and no one has seen it since.”

     Everyone looked at Angoria. “I didn’t do it.”

     “What kind of a SpaceGem was it?” Mairon asked.

     “According to the legend, The Dackin has the power to bring back the dead. All you have to is place in on the heart, and they are alive again.”

     “No wonder Horrald is looking for it. With it, he can revive his true love, Tonnie. Tonnie was the reason why he turned evil. After she was killed, that’s when his evilness began.”

Word Count = 1540