"Sparkle, wake up."

My eyes shot open at the sound of Dianites voice.

What? I asked in my mind.

I didn't want to wake up Tom, so I just spoke in my mind.

"Go to the town, now."

Why? What's wrong? Did something happen to Andor?

No answer.

I looked at Tom, who was sleeping soundly on his side of the bed.
Should I tell him where I'm going?

"No." Dianites voice answered.

I sighed and slowly peeled off the covers, trying not to make any movement on the bed.
My feet gently touched the wooden floor and I crept towards the door.

The door opened silently and I was half way through when I heard him. "Sparklez, where are you going?" His tired voice called. I turned and faced him with a guilty expression on my face. He was sitting up from the bed, his eyes staring at me groggily. His tone sounded worried,

"Er, bad dream. I'm gonna go take a walk. I'll be right back, I promise."

I didn't like to lie to him.

"Okay...take a weapon...love you."

"As do I."

He laid back down and pulled the covers up to his neck. His eyes closed, and I slipped back through the door.
~
I flew over to the town, looking at the houses down below me. I looked to my newly built house, or tower. I had decided a tower castle kinda thing would be the cooler approach in making an awesome house. I called it the fortress of fury, and I was proud to have built it. The grey stone and purple and orange windows were the greatest accents to the thing.

Tucker's house was the only one with lights on, I assumed he was awake. I hadn't seen Andor yet.

I finally reached the town and landed softly on the bridge.
This place looked terrible. Everything was falling apart.
Captain Sprinkles bakery was destroyed, the tavern the same. The pathways were overgrown by the weeds and the stone had cracks and holes in them. The walls surrounding the place were barely standing, slowly crumbling.
My old house I had lived in ages ago was destroyed, as were the others. Everything was ruins now.

It was kinda sad.

I kept walking, trying to find Andor. He would be at the castle, which was on the other side of the town.
As I turned the corner that the castle was near, I gasped.

The whole thing had fallen. Fresh dust blew in the air, some of the blocks were still falling. Glass and stone covered the pathway, blocking my way to the rubble. This had just happened.

Andor was in there.

"ANDOR! ANDOR?!" I climbed over the broken stone and sharp glass. He's gotta be in here somewhere.
I turned over stone after stone. Dug through piles and piles of rubble. I screamed his name and pleaded for him to answer me.

I never got an answer.

I turned on my communicator and began to call Tom.
He wouldn't get here in time. Andor would already be dead.

Tucker. He was awake.

I punched in Tucker's number and waited for him to pick up.

After several rings, his voice answered.

"Hey Jordan, what up? Why you calling this late?"

"I don't have time to explain, please get over to the town and bring your Mage armor! Go to the main castle! Please hurry!"

"Alright...I'm on my way." We hung up. I continued to search for Andor.

"ANDOR?!" I screamed. I turned over more bits of roof and stone. He was now where to be seen.

"What the hell happened?!"

Tucker's voice shouted from behind me.
I jumped at it and turned to see him, fully dressed in his Mage armor.

"How...how did you get here so quickly?!"

"Eh blood magic stuff. What's going on?"

"The thing fell! Andor's in here somewhere and I can't find him! Use your claws on your armor to get him out, it'll be faster!"
He followed me and we dug through layers and layers of stone, broken wood, and shattered glass.

After several minutes of digging, Tucker shouted that he found something.

I ran over and saw what he was holding up. A feather. A solid white feather. From Andor's wings.

"He's around here somewhere, keep looking!"

We dug around in the area where the feather was found.

My hope was dwindling as minutes passed. I yelled and yelled for him, lifting things as fast as I could. My muscles ached from it, but I kept going.

Tucker stopped for a minute and was trying to lift something really heavy.

"Come help me, it's a huge piece of the roof and I can't move it on my own."

We lifted together as the large piece of solid stone slid from the rubble. Tucker pushed with all his might, the roof fell over.
Andor's crippled body laid beneath it. His body laid flat on the ground, still and unmoving.
I've seen that position too many times before.

"ANDOR, OH MY GOD NO!"

I picked up his lifeless body from the stone and ran him over to the other side of the pathway where there wasn't any rubble. I laid him down gently on the ground and shook his shoulder, he didn't respond.

I put my head on his chest and listened. No heartbeat.

"Oh my god...oh my god no...no no NO!!! WHY AM I SO STUPID?!" I screamed in rage.

He's dead. I did this. I caused him to die.

I hugged his lifeless body and sobbed into him.

I hear Tucker yelling at me, but I ignore it. I grip Andor's limp shoulders and hug him closer to me. He was too young.

Too sweet, too innocent.

Tucker shook my shoulders and I quieted down and glanced at him.

"Sparklez! Listen to me! I can help him! Just give him to me!" He reached out his hands.

How? Even Ianite can't raise the dead...

I sobbed and handed him Andor's body. His fragile little body...
Tucker ran from me, at the speed of light. I mean, at the actual speed of light.
I looked around frantically for him, but he had disappeared.

"The dojo." Dianite murmured.

He was at his dojo?

I stood up from the ground and flew up.
I landed a few moments later at the gates of Tucker's compound. I ran to his door and threw it open.

"Up here!" I heard him shout.

I stepped on the magic elevator and shot up to the next floor.
Tucker was standing over his blood alter, Andor's limp body was on top of it. His still wore his Mage armor, and he bent over focusing on something.

"Wh-what are you d-doing?" I asked, still sobbing.

"Come here, I need your help with this."

I walked around the alter to see what he was doing. He was slitting his wrists again, and pouring the blood in a tall glass cup.

He then took Andor's arm and sliced open his wrist. My heart leaped at the sight.

I know it wasn't hurting him...but I still felt the pang in my chest as he did it.

Crimson blood began to ooze from his arm, and Tucker held the cup underneath it collecting it.

He laid his arm back down and began to chant something under his breath. He stirred the blood in the small cup and added something from a purple bottle into it. It sizzled and red smoke began to rise from it. He stirred it again and began speaking a different chant.

Then he held the cup out to me.
"Cut your arm and let the blood drop into it."

I did as he asked and slit my palm with his dagger. I winced and felt a little sick as the blood began to trickle into the small cup.
I handed it back to Tucker and he stirred it again. This time he added some sort of white powder.
He then held it in front of me again.

"Now drink it."

What?

"Drink the blood?" I asked with a startling tone.

"It'll work, just trust me. Drink all of it, every drop. Or else it won't work."

I gulped and took the cup from him again.
I stared at the dark liquid. I hate blood. It makes me so sick when I see it, now I have to drink it?

For Andor. It will help him.

Think about Andor.

I pressed the glass to my lips and turned it up.

The thick liquid stuck to my throat as I drank it, the bitter taste inhabiting my mouth.

I felt like I needed to puke. I can't, it's for Andor. For Andor.

I tilted it further and drank in bigger swallows. It was almost empty.

I breathed a loud sigh as I finished, the blood sticking to the insides of my mouth.

The cup was empty. Now what?

"Say his name. Make sure it's clear and understandable."

I nodded. "Andor."

I felt strong wind blow against my face, it felt like a hurricane just entered Tucker's room. Books flew off shelves and papers blew everywhere. Picture frames fell from the walls and shattered and a small crack formed on the ceiling.
The wind seemed to fly past me, and go towards Andor. His hair flew up gently as the wind seemed to...enter him.
Then it stopped just as soon as it came.

Tucker, who was totally unfazed by what just happened, walked to the side of his alter and put a hand on Andor's head.
He pushed back his long bangs and felt of his forehead. I could almost see...color return to Andor's cheeks.
His eyes fluttered as he tried to wake. He squinted at the sudden light and his gaze looked wildly around for something.

His blue-green eyes landed on me. He looked at me apologetically.

"I...I tried to avoid it. I really did." His voice was strained and tired, he smiled anyway.

My lip quivered and I burst out in sobs again. I hugged Andor as tightly as I could, sobbing into his shoulder.

"What? What is wrong? I was only unconscious..."

"No you weren't! You were dead! You were dead..." I sobbed.

I could feel Andor shiver as I said the word dead.
"I...I did not...oh my..." He whispered. He hugged me tighter.

"Tucker...how did you? He was gone..."

"Don't worry about it man. It was nothing." He smiled.

"Ianite can't even raise the dead! How did you?!"

"Well...it took a lot of blood points. All of them actually...I get blood points from the blood I get from my wrists. One soul brought back is one million. But I guess I owe it to you. You've saved my butt countless times."

"Thank you, Jericho," Andor whispered.

"It's no problem man. It was worth it to save a life."

Andor sunk into my arms, and I gladly picked him up from the alter.

"Tucker, I owe you everything. Thank you. I don't think...I would've made it if you hadn't..."

"Just go home dude. He still probably has broken bones and stuff, I only got his soul back. I didn't fix him entirely."

"Yes, I feel like one of my ribs may be broken..."
~
I sat in the kitchen with Andor still in my arms. I didn't want to wake up Tom, because I knew he'd be angry I lied to him, so I was going over what to do in my head.

"He is going to find out eventually..." Ianites voice whispered.
I sighed. It was true, he would see my cut hand or see how hurt Andor is.
I stood up and laid Andor on the chair, he groaned as I did so.

"Sorry..." I whispered to him.

"It is fine..." He whispered back.

"I'll be right back, just try not to move."

He nodded painfully and closed his eyes.

Poor dude...

I opened one of the cupboards in the kitchen and pulled out a blanket. I spread it out and placed it over Andor. Maybe that would help him a little.
He smiled. "Thank you."

I walked to Toms room and opened the door.

He wasn't even asleep.

He was sat up in bed looking at his communicator.

Uh oh.

His head turned to me slowly, his face a light shade of red.

"Look, before you kill me-"

"YOU COULDVE BEEN KILLED! WHY DIDNT YOU LET ME COME WITH YOU?!"

"I didn't think it was that serious! I thought maybe he broke his arm by falling or something! I didn't know a freaking castle fell on him!"

"You shoulda told me anyway! Tucker said it couldn't have been five minutes before that thing fell! It could've killed you! Then you'd both be dead!"

"I'm sorry! Next time I'll tell you..."

He sighed and ran his hand through his light blue hair.
"You better...is Andor seriously hurt?"

"I think one of his ribs are broken, but other than that I think he's fine. I guess suffocating was the thing that killed him..."

"Did you put him in bed?"

"No. I don't wanna leave him alone Tom..."

"...bring him in here then. I'll wrap up his chest."

He got up from the bed and pulled open the drawers that hold all of the med kits.
I went back to the kitchen where Andor was still sitting in the chair with his eyes closed.
I shook his shoulder gently.

"Andor, Tom wants to wrap up your chest. Can you get up?"

His eyes opened slowly.

I nearly fell when I saw them.

They were bright purple again.

His head twisted towards me and his hand reached out and gripped my wrist. I yelped and tried to pull away, but it was too late.

I was in his head.

A white light flashes and I blink rapidly trying to focus on the scene in front of me.
It was the castle. I was in front of it.
I watched as Andor appeared from behind the wall, walking the overgrown path.

He looked up at the large structure, his eyes landing on the window that was at least four stories up. He walked past me, like I wasn't there, and he entered the castle.

I knew it would be useless to warn him, he wouldn't hear me.

I followed him in and went up the huge flight of stairs. The climb didn't seem to bother him, like he'd went up it a million times before.
We finally reached a room and he opened the splintery wood door.
It creaked as he slowly opened it.

The room was huge. It had white walls and bright red carpets. A large master bed sat in the middle of it and on both sides of the wall were closets. The walls were blank, no pictures whatsoever.
A cream colored dresser sat on the end of one wall, and Andor walked to it.

He began to dig through all of the drawers, looking for something.
A few minutes passed and he finally pulled out what he was looking for.
A small sheet of paper, it was very old looking. Cursive letters were written on top of it and I stepped closer to read them.

'Partnership
I, King Helgrind, ruler of Dagrun, pledge my allegiance to Lord Mianite. My life shall be dedicated to him and no other being but him.
If I shall break my pledge with my Lord, my lord has my full permission to smite me where I stand and punish me for my sins.
Lord Mianite is my only God and I shall not worship any other gods except him.
For he is the kingdom, the power, and the supreme lord forever.'

Andor sighed sadly and put the certificate down on the dresser.
"It is true..." He whispered.

His dad had sold his soul to Mianite. No wonder he wouldn't come with us, he was trapped.

But then Andor did something, I never dared would have done myself. He picked up the paper and ripped it in half.

Lightning boomed and shook the castle. Andor stumbled and fell to the floor.
Lighting struck again. But this time, the old castle couldn't hold itself any longer.
The roof of the room caved in.

I yelled Andors name as it fell.

His body was crushed beneath it.
The castle began to lean forward, and everything began to get darker and darker.

The scene changed and I was outside of the castle now. It had already fallen, pieces of stone still crumbling to the ground.

I start to hear a woman screaming, and I hold my ears at the piercing sound.
Lady Ianite stood before the rubble, tears flowing down her red cheeks.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" She screamed at the sky.

Lightning responded to her question.

She shook her head while she wept. She bent down in the ruins of the castle, her hair covering her face.

Footsteps began to be heard and she turned her head towards them.
She stood up from her spot and vanished.
I saw myself come around the corner.

I saw my face pale at the sight of the fallen kingdom.

Andors grip loosened and his hand fell.
"It was him," his lips moved, but the voice coming out wasn't his.
His eyes still glowed a radiant purple color, his pupils were gone.

"M-Mianite?"

"He knows."
His eyes closed and his head fell to the side.
Mianite knew about his siblings. He knew they were alive.
He had killed Andor. Tucker saved him.
,
Would...Would he try to kill him again?
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Sorry for the late update...I didn't wanna edit yesterday. BECAUSE IM LAZY! DONT JUDGE!
I was watching parks and rec, and after ten o'clock I could no longer stay awake. IM SORRY, ITS A GOOD SHOW.
You guys should seriously watch it. If you like sarcasm, THEN WATCH IT, BECAUSE IT IS MADE OF JUST THAT.
I can't wait for summer, I miss my social life xD
I literally talk to no one. You guys are like my only internet friends xD
But I'm gonna go and write up more junk, I'll see ya later!
Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Leave a favorite of you did! Thanks!
- Lee