Page 127 of Destined to Fight

“NOW!” she yelled to the warlock.

They brought the water through the neighborhood and straight toward the house.

“INCOMING!” Kelly yelled, warning everyone to brace themselves.

Anyone watching from a second-story window would have seen a mini tsunami headed for the house.

At the last moment before the water hit, Kelly took a deep breath and hoped they’d done the right thing.

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The sound of waves crashing surrounded her. Kelly stood with her eyes shut tight, still holding her breath, waiting for the water to take her. It never did, though.

At first, she thought she’d stopped time again, but the water wouldn’t have been moving around her.

Chancing a look around, she opened one of her eyes and saw a wall of water in front of her.

She forgot her fear and opened the other, looking around to see what was going on.

The warlock was in deep concentration, and she knew it was because he held the water from them.

The dark and murky water began to recede and then dispersed almost completely. When there were only a few inches on the ground, the warlock let his wall down, and water splashed at their feet.

“How did you do that?”

“I just changed my method of control. We didn’t need control of the larger body, so I let it go and switched to keeping water away from us instead of bringing it in.”

“Nice! Thanks for that.”

He nodded.

Kelly looked at the destruction they’d caused. As far as she could see, the neighborhood was soaking wet and still slightly flooded as if it had just rained an inch or so.

A car sat in their lawn, somehow bringing just the right amount of character to the yard.

A bright-orange body ran down the street, having escaped the water. A guard ran it down and dismembered it, then steam rose as the water on the ground extinguished the fire.

Kade and Fabian stood on the porch next to them, both sopping wet.

One by one, the guards began making their way back to the house. From what Kelly could see, they were all pretty beat up, but it was nothing that wouldn’t heal in a day.

Sirens wailed in the distance.

“We need to get inside. Ye dinnae need to be seen on camera. Asta can handle the police and media.”

As expected, representatives from the Council showed up bright and early the next morning. This time, the entire group was ordered to appear in two days’ time, guards and all.

Apparently, lighting hundreds of dead bodies on fire in your front yard, then using water to put out said fire was frowned upon.

Well, that and the fact that they knew she’d used her powers outside the house again when they’d expressly forbidden it.

If she was being honest, Kelly was happy to go back to London for a bit. The water had broken the windows on the bottom floor and flooded the house. The smell was atrocious. Asta already had the cleaning crew fast at work, but they were loud, and it would take time to get everything taken care of. No doubt the smell would be there for a while too.

News of their hearing had traveled through the Arcane community like mad.

The Council issued a statement that any interference with their arrival in London would be punishable by death. It seemed a little harsh to Kelly, but she was also grateful that they could travel without any crazy schemes or plans.

The morning of the hearing, everyone piled into SUVs and made it safely to the Council building.

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