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Comatose: Adj. When Sera And Arson Fall Asleep And WON'T WAKE UP!

(Finally found someone for Sera! Kaya Scodelario! Just... Imagine DARK red braids twisted in, and her eyes flash red sometimes. And not wearing that shirt. :D)

I sit with my head tucked in between my knees, my legs folded up against my chest on the chair I haven't moved from in two hours since I brought Sera and Arson to the hospital. Footsteps reach my ears and my head snaps up yet again, but the person walking by me passes without glancing my way. Sagging with a mixture of embarrassment and frustration, I tuck my head down again. 

No news.

Again.

The doctors promised they'd tell me what was going on with my friends, but so far nobody has shown up. I haven't even left to tell my friends where I am. What happened. I still don't even know if we won or not, but the few doctors left here had barricaded themselves in before the pirates came here so they'd let me in without question. 

Footsteps come down the hall again and my head bolts up. Again. This time I'm met not with a doctor or a random patient, but Carlos running down the hallway looking out of breath and scared. He sees me and runs faster. I get up out of the chair just in time for him to basically ram into me in what I guess he thinks is a hug but I feel as a stranglehold. 

He spins me around one time before putting me down, grinning hugely. "We won! Ellie, we did it! What are you doing here, you've been freaking everybody out! You need to come back to the castle, and Sera---" he looks around. "Where's---?"

I press my lips together silently and shake my head. 

His face falls. "Sera...?"

"She---" I press a hand against my stomach to try and keep down my breakfast. "She and Arson are in twin comas right now. Their dad did something, called down this fire thing, and they both just collapsed. She told me that it drained her and Ar. Right before she---" I choke and stop talking. 

Carlos looks crestfallen. "But... we won. This shouldn't... after... we..."

I shake my head again. "We may have had a victory today, Carlos, but we didn't win. Ares and Uma got away."

"But... They're not on the Isle." Carlos says. 

"How do you know?"

"Oh! Right, you left early, I guess. Well, Jane and Dizzy went through the castle looking for everybody, they freed everybody from the prisons and found Beast, Belle, and Fairy Godmother. It was all over after that, when Jane gave her mom's wand back. FG magicked everybody we captured and everybody trying to get away to the Isle, then did some weird spell where nobody can get out or in without a limo. Then she checked that every villain was there. Uma and Ares were the only ones missing."

I curse under my breath. "So they could be anywhere right now!"

Carlos nods and opens his mouth to say something then someone clears their throat behind us and we jump apart. I swivel around to see who it was, and find a very red doctor standing by Sera's door. 

"I can come back." he mutters, his eyes on the floor. 

"No---we weren't---" I clear my throat. "Is she okay?"

"We can't tell. That's what took us so long. They're both basically bodies right now. No breath, no movement, none of our treatments are working, and yet they both still have faint heartbeats." The doctor glances at Carlos once before plowing on. "Their eyes are rolled back no matter what we do, neither have any body heat, and respond to nothing." He shrugs helplessly. "In short, there's nothing we can do but wait."

"How long will that take?" I ask, dreading his answer.

"Anywhere from a week to a few months to a few years. As I said, we really don't know what is going on. Could you explain how it happened, again?"

I scrunch my eyebrows together and rub my aching forehead. "We cornered Ares and he grabbed Uma in return for Arson, then he sort of threw his hands up in the air and this tornado-looking fireball came down and sucked him and Uma up. Arson collapsed first, then Sera, right after she told me it drained Ares' kids when he did that."

The doctor looks troubled. "Their father did it knowingly?"

Carlos snorts. "Believe me, Ares didn't feel love for either of them. He basically saw Sera as a bodyguard, and saw Arson as an annoying pet he couldn't return."

The doctor gives him another glancing look. Carlos flushes just barely and ducks his head down. 

I clear my throat. "You're absolutely sure there's nothing we can do?"

He takes a deep breath and rubs his eyes, looking tired. 

"Nothing."

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"Ellie! Thank God you're okay!" Mal notices me and glares. "Why did you run off in the middle of everything?"

I press my lips together before I start crying again. I'd found out quickly that my tears set things either on fire or freeze them now. (Remind me to pay for the burned carpet in Ben's office later... If he finds out it was me.)

Carlos puts his arm around my shoulder consolingly. "Sera and Arson are in the hospital." he explains. I wrap my arms around my stomach to keep the cold guilt from crawling up my spine. 

Brit appears in an instant, along with Gil. "What?" Brit asks, her voice a few octaves higher than considered human. "S-sera? Arson?"

Gil's right eye twitches. "What happened?"

I look down at the concrete underneath us. Carlos explains the gist of it, the fire/tornado/thing and Ares getting Uma out first and foremost, even willing to sacrifice his son.

Gil's bottom lip trembles. "This is my fault."

"What? How?" Mal demands. 

"Gil, you couldn't have seen this coming." I say, though my voice cracking probably doesn't help my case. 

"But I---I helped Uma and Harry invade. I helped everybody come here. I helped them capture you and nearly kill you!"

"CRYBABY!" Maira yells, startling Gil so much he freezes up. "No use cryin' right now, aye? Hades, did you sense Sera and whatever-his-name-is death's?"

My dad pops up and Carlos instantly removes his arm from around my shoulders. Hades gives him a death glare (He gives really really good ones, no surprise) and then shakes his head. "No. I did not." He glances at me. "And since you were right there with them and didn't feel anything, they should be all right."

Maira goes pink at him talking to me again, but she puts her hand on her hip. "There. You see? If Hades didn't feel anything, then they're nowhere near death."

"Somehow, that doesn't help." I say through my clenched jaw. 

Maira just rolls her eyes and flips her bushy hair. She stalks away and Brit puts a hand on my forearm. "You're sure? You saw it happen? Ares called down---that?"

I nod. "Why? Do you know what it is?"

Shakily, Brit nods. "It's a form of transportation that all the gods can use on occasion. They summon their powers from their offspring. That's why it's not used very often. It's the one brand of magic that can't be dampened or put out. You are basically powerless once he process starts, and depending on how far the god or goddess travels using it, their children will suffer more and more."

"Why only their kids?" Evie asks. 

"Because when the gods first figured it out, they tampered with it. They molded it, sort of, so that they couldn't be harmed by it." Brit says. 

I look over at my dad, who has his arms crossed somewhat guiltily. "What can I say? We were young and stupid. We didn't have any kids then, didn't think we'd ever have any that we'd care about. We didn't think ahead to how having kids could actually make us love them."

"Nice save." I mumble. 

Brit has the ghost of a smile on her lips. But it disappears as soon as Evie asks, "How long will they be asleep?"

Brit shrugs helplessly. "Judging on what you told us.... It could be anywhere from a month to a year."

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Hope you enjoyed this (rushed) chapter! My next update will not be a real one, it will be the cast list for everybody, K? I think it's about time I make visuals for all my characters. 

Also, anybody seen Evie, Mal, Jay, and Carlos' new D3 outfits? Disney posted an Evie video, and I gotta say I love her new outfit. Could use a little more BLUE less RED, but otherwise it's awesome!

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