Goal: Get out of the darkums woods

Conflict: The kids and their guardians get ambushed by a lone Kin-Klix

Disaster: They defeat it but it calls for backup

Emotion: fear that they are going to die when they just started to get answers

Thought: Abra tells the kids they don't stand a chance against a pack

Decision: Get out of the forest, Kin-Klix burn in the sunlight.

Action: The kids being unable to use their natural abilities. The guardians put their magical abilities to use and buy enough time for the kids to get out.

I took this from my manuscript and cut some info/backstories stuff, Abra is a fox(abilities are fire and teleportation) he is Zek’s guardian and oracle is a bluebird(abilities are time and clairsentience) she is Samantha’ s guardian

“Abra, wake up.” Zek placed a hand on him.

Abra shot up on to all fours, ears perked up. He looked around, seeing no dangers. His ears dropped. He looked over at Zek.

“I just had a dream. I’ve been having them for a few months now. I didn’t think them relevant until just now.” Zek explained his dreams to Abra.

“What! Why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Abra growled.

“I thought you knew, you said you had my memories.”

“That is a powerful spell. Only the person effected can know. Has Samantha been having them too?”

“No. I’ve been telling her, but she stopped believe me after I tired to tell her the last one.”

Samantha soon woke up.

“Why are you two yelling,” she asked, groggy.

“Apparently, I’ve been dreaming of our uncle, Kyzik.”

“Wait, your dreams were real?”

“We need to hurry. You said he is in Ozryn. That’s good, Dulhurst has a ferry that travels there faster than it would take to walk. If we hurry, we can catch him before he leaves.”

The light had broken through the trees by the time they got everything packed; they had filled the empty water bottles up in the river, they only had two left.

“It would be best to continue in silence. Creatures still roam around this early in the morning.” Abra said as they headed out.

The forest was quiet. They had been walking for about an hour. Zek soon getting an eerie feeling, Abra’s fur stuck up and sparked, it sounded like fireworks.

“Something's coming, Zek, get your book out. Your first lesson is going to be now.” Zek dropped his bag and fished out his book. The ruby shined just like the one on his amulet. He noticed new symbols on the cover. They were the same ones that were all over the walls of that room.

“The first thing to know is, you need to pronounce every spell correctly and stay focus, it can backfire.”

Opening his book, he sees it too is full of the same Symbols, he couldn’t read them. He was about to tell Abra when one glowed and changed to English.

Fierecto, Zek somehow understood what it did. It summons a ball of fire.

He wasn’t to surprise, with everything else that had gone on in the last few days. Holding the book in his left he held his right. Fingers craved as if holding a baseball, ready to say the spell. The air hung heavy as they waited. The silence was agonizing. After three minutes Zek relaxed, but just then a wolfs snout popped out of the foliage. It barred its fangs.

Abra’s fur erupted on fire. The wolf jumped out, reviling its true form. It had a top half of a werewolf and bottom of a normal wolf.

“What is that thing.?” Samantha asked.

“A Kin-Klix, dark centaur.” Oracle said.

Abra wasted no time. He jumped at it, aiming for its neck. The Kin-Klix was faster. It blocks him with a swing of its huge arms, throwing Abra to the ground. It howled and lunged at him.

“Zek, do something.” Samantha yelled, snapping him out of his daze.

A quick glance at his book.

“Fierecto.”

His veins burned. It started from the shoulder and down his arm. When it reached his fingertips, a bright red ball grew in his hand. When it filled his hand, he threw it as hard as he could at the Kin-Klix. The fireball hit it in the chest; it had enough force to knock it out of the air, smacking the ground. The smell of burnt fur stained the air.

Getting up, realizing that its fur was still on fire, it began swatting at it. When out, Zek saw that the skin underneath was bright pink. It locked its eyes on Zek. He had another fire ball ready. It growled, charging at him.

Zek throws his next fireball, but it used its arms to block it. There wasn’t as much fur on it. When it was halfway, Abra jumps onto its back, his flaming fur catching all of its fur on fire. Abra bit down on its side, howling in pain. It kept trying to reach for Abra but couldn’t, so it falls to the ground and rolls on to its back.

Abra had expected that and jumped off, but the Kin-Klix had expected this and grabbed him in midair. Opening its jaw, big enough to fit Abra whole. Razor-sharp teeth ready to tear away at Abra. A fireball to the eye stopped that. It dropped Abra. Zek could see rage in its eyes. It growled and charged. Zek was about to get another fireball when he heard Samantha shout something.

“Arkmonus!”

A blue orb shot over Zek’s head and hits the Kin-Klix, it exploded with a bright light, but it didn’t blind Zek. When it faded, Zek saw the Kin-Klix, run into a tree, then disappeared into the dense foliage.

Turning around, Zek stares at his sister with wonder.

“What was that, and why didn’t you do that sooner?”

“Oracle just told me, she didn’t think it would work without my gem. I figured since we teleported, I would try it.”

“So, it just blind it.”

“We don’t have time to talk, it’ll be back and bring friends with it.” Oracle chirped. “I followed it with my senses, it’s heading right for its nest.”

“Samantha pissed it off with that flare. Kin-Klix never like to retreat, we'er lucky that one was a child. We still need to get out of the forest, they won’t stop hunting us.”

“That was just a child?” Zek asked.

Samantha handed Zek his bag, putting his book inside, and slipping it on his shoulder. They all took off running. Oracle, perched on Samantha’s shoulder, tried to keep her senses on the Kin-Klix but couldn’t as they ran. They soon heard a chorus of howls behind them.

“Oracle, can you slow down time and make us faster?” Samantha asked.

“I’ve done all that I can. The more people I affect, the harder it is to hold. I’ve given us about an hour.”

“They will make quick work of that hour.”

More howling echoed behind them, pushing them to run faster. Vision's of Zek tripping flashed into his mind, shaking his head and focusing on the ground in front of him.

“If only we had our Super-speed.” Zek said. “How are you two still using your abilities?”

“Only natural abilities are blocked. We were created by a spell, so we aren’t affected by them.” Abra replied.

Zek soon got short of breath and began slowing down. An image of him being eaten kept him running.

They heard thumping and breaking branches right behind them. Just as Zek thought, they were going to be eaten. They burst out of the forest. It felt as if time had stopped as they flew out. The howls turned to panicked shrieking.

When they ran about a yard from the trees, Abra stopped and turned.

“Keep going! Ill make sure they don’t follow. I can teleport away faster than they can get me.”

Zek stopped, too. Turning, he saw seven huge Kin-klix standing at the edge of the forest. Two of them were steaming. Zek laid eyes on a smaller one. It was more different from just its size. Its fur was white and had none on it’s head. When it’s eyes found Zek, he saw one swollen shut. It howled and almost charged, but another one held it back.

“Let’s go.” Abra turned and ran, Zek following.

“I don’t understand, why don’t they keep chasing us.”

“Dark creatures burn in the light, natural and artificial, sun or moon. It’s why our fire burnt it and Samantha’s flare bleached its fur.

Ashley Smith

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