The Sinister Four: Chapter 9

Jessica's P.O.V

It's already in the afternoon, and I decided to carry Josh to his cabin. While I was walking from my cabin to his cabin, Jarren offered to take him to his cabin, and I agreed, handed my husband to Jarren, and Jarren ran with Josh to his cabin.

I went to the swordfighting arena, and found Stella practices her swordfighting skills with a dummy. She kicked the dummy and beheaded the dummy.

I clapped from behind her. "Well done, Stella!" I commended her. "It was brilliant!"

Stella looked at me and blushed. "Thanks, mom." She said.

I walked towards the swordfighting arena. There are a lot of dummies need replacing, so I called up Chiron from the big house, and then he brought back some of the straw dummies. They were still the same as last time, unimproved and old. But I'm sure that Chiron will send someone to make new ones.

But for now, Chiron and the Hephaestus cabin kept making new straw dummies right now. After new ones had arrived, I started practicing with them.

I sliced and hacked at the dummies, the same style that Josh does. It might be similar, but I didn't need all his so-cool moves because I'm not as small as him, and it's easier for me to kill off monsters. I dropped my sword and summoned my black shadow sword and practiced at the dummies. It didn't exactly char the dummies, but slowly, darkness began to spread throughout the dummy, and the darkness consumed the dummy whole, and when the darkness disappeared, the dummy is in ashes.

I gasped. This is new. I had never used this kind of power before. I was just doing what Josh is doing when practicing with the dummies, except my element is darkness and Josh's is light, and so we have different effects when killing monsters.

I made my shadow sword disappear, and grabbed my celestial bronze sword. Then, I began trying Josh's moves and stabbed the huge straw dummy right in front of me. It was weird, because when I try it on small dummies, the ones that Josh used to practice on, it didn't feel right, but when I try it on the larger ones, it feels just right.

I decided to finish practicing sword fighting and started to go to the magic practice arena, where it was surrounded with a plexiglass cylinder with branches covering the rooftop made of ceramic.

I looked inside the cylinder. Melody was meditating, and as soon as I touched the plexiglass cylinder, a surge of jolt rushed through me. I immediately recoiled and the room started churning black and gold. I was scared, and I summoned a cloud of shadow and blast it at the cylinder, but the cylinder just repelled my attack with relative ease.

This is dangerous, even for Melody. For years I have watched Melody do her magic inside this plexiglass cylinder, and never had I observed this multicolored black and gold blending one another.

After a few minutes, the light dispersed, and Melody looked slightly taller, and is radiating more magic from inside her.

Melody opened the glass door, and she saw me. "Hello, Mother."

I smiled at her. "Hello, Melody. I see that you have been practicing with your magic."

"That's right, Mom." Melody said. "It took me quite a while for me to found this spell. You want to know what it's called?"

"What?" I asked with excitement. I have been always keen to see my daughter's magic progress, and someday I will be hoping that Melody could teach me some of her magic.

"It's the barrier-fixing magic!" Melody said happily.

That gave me a sigh of relief. I know that Josh had fallen into a coma yesterday because his last barriers broke, and this new magic of Melody's might gave the answer that Josh needs to keep himself from being in a coma.

"But..." Melody added quickly. "It's still under construction. I can't test it because it's still unstable. It will take me at least 1 month to make it stable."

"Can't you just speed up the rate of making your newfound spells to stable?" I asked.

"I wish I could do that but no. Magic is a very delicate essence to mess with. Once you found the ingredients, it takes a lot of time to make it stable. Unless, of course, you're extremely lucky."

I thought about this. An unstable spell could be very easily go wrong, and I don't want things to go wrong when it comes to healing my little husband of his coma.

Anyways, Melody invited me inside the plexiglass cylinder, and Melody closed the door.

"I taught my father some basic magic here." Melody told me. "I got to admit he has some degree of magic."

"Oh..." I said, then for some reason, this plexiglass cylinder is making me nervous, and I decided to get out of this cylinder.

Melody walked out with me out of the cylinder and into Hyperion's cabin. I know that Josh would need Melody's help to eventually overcome his coma, and Melody might have just got the spell she needs, which she just needs to stabilize.

(WIP)