Chapter Eight
Taking Down Ruby
“Madeline, are you absolutely sure Ruby is back” Sarah said in a serious, half-scared voice.
“Sarah, did you not just see me have the biggest premonition I’ve had in a long time?” Madeline ask. “I almost died having that premonition, I’m sure she is back!”
“Rose?” Sarah said, looking over to her to get an answer.
She didn’t even have to ask because Rose’s eyes were glowing red and already searching for the answer.
Her head jerked a little coming out of her search and she confirmed that, Ruby, was back. She also informed them that she would probably come for them and try to avenge herself.
“What are we going to do?” Sarah ask “Should we call Mary and Xander here?”
“I actually think that is a good idea.” Rose said “how do we get them here?”
A silence swept across the sky and the clouds cleared, leaving a pure light blue canvas of air. The winds that were blowing and the little rain droplets that fell, stopped. The Canaby sisters didn’t know what was going on.
A familiar voice called through the sky, echoing, “Like this.”
A hot streak of blue and a sharp streak of red poured down through the sky about five hundred feet from the Canaby sisters, leaving a trail behind them.
The two streaks went side by side and leveled out horizontally, coming straight for them. The Canaby sisters could hear a crack as the sudden change in movement came towards them.
The streaks of red and blue came barreling towards them and kicking up dust behind them as they soared close to the ground.
Shewoooooooooooosh, was the sound that the two streaks made as they past the Canaby sisters, almost knocking them off of their feet by the wind that slammed into them. The sisters watched the two streaks curve upwards and spiral down to the ground.
Two glowing auras stood in front of them and slowly the light diminished showing Mary and Xander.
“Mary, Xander!” Madeline squealed “How did you guys know where we were?”
“We’ve been following you.” Mary said “Do you guys think we, your guardians, would leave you guys alone?
“Wait, you guys have been following us and you didn’t help us when we were in trouble?” Sarah said “We almost died a couple of times!”
“Sarah, we had to let you do it for yourselves, we knew you guys could do it” Mary said reprovingly
“Well, help would have been nice.” Sarah said with her eyes looking down
“Anyway,” Rose cut in “We called you because we need your help, our cousin Ruby who we sent to the Realm of Nothingness, has escaped and is probably coming for us.”
With wide eyes Mary said, “How could you guys send her to the Realm of Nothingness!”
“We had too!” Sarah said “She was going to kill us!”
“No, you three don’t understand,” Mary said “When…”
“Fill her in Rose to make her understand” Sarah said
Without thought, Rose took Mary by the hands and a red glow gleamed out of their clasp. Mary’s eyes rolled back into her head and closed and Rose’s eyes glowed red. In their minds, they went back through time and replayed the event of that night when they sent Ruby to the Realm of Nothingness.
Xander had had enough and nudged Rose a little cutting off the information supply. Mary’s eyes regained normality and so did Rose’s.
“Why did you do that?” Rose said “I was trying to make her understand why we did what we did”
She reached for Mary’s hands once more and Xander pushed them away.
“No!” He said, his voice irritated a little “We already know what happened that night, We know what she did to your father, we know everything there is to know about you three!”
Rose stepped back and pieced herself like the last missing piece of the puzzle between her sisters.
Mary stepped closer and pushed Xander aside.
“Listen, please.” Mary told them “The night when you sent Ruby to the Realm of Nothingness your father’s power stayed behind right?”
“Well, yes.” Rose said
“What you guys don’t know is that when you send people to the Realm of Nothingness, they can’t get out.”
“We know that already and …” Rose tried to say
“You don’t know that when people get sent there, their powers are gone so they are helpless to get out, staying there forever.” Mary said “However when Ruby was sent there, even though the power to freeze things solid stayed behind, Her old power restored itself inside of the Realm of Nothingness. You guys didn’t know that she had another power, did you?”
“No.” Rose said “We thought she was powerless until she killed our father and took his power.”
“Well, your Father’s power was strong enough to weaken her old power enough that it didn’t register when passing through the portal.” Mary continued “That’s why she wasn’t left powerless and the reason why she got out! But since her old power restored itself in the Realm of Nothingness, It is more powerful than it ever was before.”
The three Canaby sisters stood astonished, regretful even.
“What was her old power?” Sarah ask.
“It was the power to open and close portals to where ever she wants.” Mary said “Now it is more powerful than you’ll ever know, if you want to take her down, it’s going to take all of us.
“So that’s how she got out!” Madeline said being overly obvious
“Yeah,” Mary said “That’s how she got out.”
“Do you know where she is?” Madeline ask.
“I don’t,” Mary said looking at Rose.
“Okay, I get it, hold on.” Rose said
She stood between her sisters and closed her eyes, red light shined through the little slits where her eyes weren’t shut all the way.
In her mind she searched, she searched over valleys and mountains, but nothing. She looked even harder this time and she saw a dark alley with a dim fire burning and blood. In her mind’s eye she looked around, almost as if she were there. In the shadows she saw a movement and walking into the fire’s light was Ruby.
Ruby’s thick black hair fell down to her back and her face was almost transparent white, she had on a dark blue tunic and her nails were sharp and pointed. As Rose watched she felt eerie as though Ruby could see her too.
Rose’s feeling was a good one because Ruby looked right at her and shouted, “Olilian” and before Rose could get back to normality, even though she wasn’t there, got blasted back on the ground by a ball of energy.
Madeline and Sarah along with Mary and Xander rushed to where she lay.
“What happened Rose?!” Madeline shrieked
Rose couldn’t talk because the energy ball knocked the wind out of her. She lay on the ground And tried to regain her breath, she was fine other than that.
The four of them looked at her with intense scrutiny as she lifted herself up and said, “She knows
where we are, We don’t have long.
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After I'm done with my nano I will definitely read and review your entire story 
Would it be to an advantage if you read out what you wrote? It always help to pick out little points. I'd reword it to: "I think that's a great idea, to be honest."
