Celtic Magic (18 page)

Abby blinked, “I never thought of it that
way. Why does the time run so fast over there?” she asked. Jasmine
walked into the front to lock the door.

“Well, it’s not that it runs fast, it feels
the same as here, it’s just that it doesn’t matter as we are
immortal and don’t age” she answered as she turned the sign on the
door to show closed and started to turn the lights off inside the
building.

“So when I’m here for two or three days
before going back over to see my mother, it’s like I’ve been gone
for two or three years to her?” she asked.

Jasmine laughed, “No, it doesn’t quite work
that way, and I don’t think I’m explaining it very well. You see,
the key word is it feels like time runs over there, but in reality
there is no time at all. Does that make any sense?” Jasmine asked
her.

She shook her head, “Not really, but what
about me though? I’m half human, will I age and die like a human,
or be immortal like a Goddess?” she managed to get out, a little
scared of the answer.

She followed Jasmine back into the back
room, “Well, you did grow to adulthood as slow as a human would,
but now that all of your powers have been unlocked, and you have
been to the Other World, I think you will be more Goddess than
human” Jasmine said.

That was the answer she was dreading to hear
as it brought up a question she was too scared to ask out loud,
what would happen when she didn’t age and Tom grew old and
died?

Abby’s phone beeped and she pulled it out of
her pocket to see a text message from Tom.

“Hey Jasmine, Tom’s here, we are going to
dinner. I’ll see you in the morning, okay?” she told her, giving
her a quick kiss on the cheek. Jasmine had started to feel like a
second mother to her, and it only seemed natural.

“Okay dear, have a good night” she said back
to her before she disappeared, no doubt heading to her apartment.
Abby closed her eyes and when she opened them she was sitting in
Tom’s car.

“Man I wish I could do that, it would save
so much time” he told her leaning in for a kiss.

Abby threw her arms around his neck making
the most of the kiss; she was still a little shaken up at the
thought of him growing old while she still looked the exact same.
When they finally separated she smiled at him, trying to keep
thoughts like that out of her mind. She would deal with things like
that when they came around, she just wanted to enjoy every minute
with him.

“So, where are we going?” she asked him,
buckling her seat belt.

“That depends on you” he answered her. She
smiled and tilted her head, he was always so full of surprises.

“How so?” she asked.

“Well, are you in the mood for fancy? We
could go back to Nobu. I can usually get in without a reservation”
he said.

Abby shook her head, “I don’t know, is it
possible to get it to go then have like a picnic on your terrace? I
just love the view so much” she asked.

Tom nodded, “That is a brilliant idea, I
knew there was a good reason I loved you” he said with a smile on
his face.

Abby laughed and leaned forward as though
she was going to kiss him, but stopped just inches from his
lips

“There better be more than one reason buddy”
she whispered.

He smiled, then leaning the rest of the way
kissed her once again.

Chapter
2
9

Abby awoke with a start as she felt as
though something bad had happened. It was an awful feeling in the
pit of her stomach and as she touched her forehead realized she was
drenched in sweat. She needed to get to the Other World, something
was seriously wrong there, and as she looked next to her in the
bed, hoping she hadn’t woken up Tom, she saw that he wasn’t there.
She really needed to find him to let him know she was going to be
leaving, so she got out of the bed and started walking around the
apartment, thinking that he must have gotten hungry or
something.

She searched the entire apartment, even
going out onto the terrace, but he was nowhere in the apartment.
Suddenly a blinding pain shot through her stomach that made her
bend over suddenly. She had to leave, and she had a bad feeling
about Tom not being there in the apartment. Still bent over, she
closed her eyes and thought of the castle and tried to send a
message to her mother and Jasmine that she was headed there, but
she didn’t know if it would actually work that way.

When she landed in the throne room, her
mother and Jasmine were already there standing with their back to
her next to the window that was over the Southern Gardens. As
though sensing her arrival they both turned suddenly and looked at
her, and she noticed that they had horrified expressions on their
faces. Their expressions were perfectly matched, so much so that
they almost looked to be the same person.

“What’s the matter, I had a bad feeling that
something was happening here, so I headed over right away” she said
to them.

Abby watched as her mother and Jasmine
looked at each other, once again using a silent communication that
she couldn’t hear. Finally her mother started to speak.

“It’s Elysia” she said slowly.

“Is she in the gardens again? I can try to
make her leave again, hopefully I can make that happen” she said,
starting to walk toward them.

Her mother came forward and stopped her
before she could fully get to the window.

“It’s more than that. She has somehow found
a way to hurt you, deep down” her mother told her. Abby tilted her
head in confusion.

“What do you mean?” she asked, but her
mother just pointed at the window.

Abby walked forward and looked down at the
gardens and standing there in the middle of the glittering grass
was Elysia, looking right up at the window, holding Tom up in
midair, he hands around his neck.

Abby felt the red hot fury run through her
body, it was more powerful than anything she had felt up to this
point. She turned back around to her mother and Jasmine.

“How long has she been down there?” she
asked frantically.

“She appeared just seconds before you did”
Jasmine answered her quickly.

Abby looked down at her hands and noticed
that they had turned red once again and knew without a doubt that
she wanted nothing more than to kill Elysia. She closed her eyes
and made herself appear in the Southern Gardens, directly in front
of Elysia.

“So you have arrived, I was hoping you would
find me, you human garbage” Elysia spat out as soon as she
landed.

Abby was too angry to even speak, so instead
she started to channel the anger and the power and pointed her
hands at Elysia, ready to send flames right at her, but before she
could let loose, Elysia pulled Tom right in front of her body.

“No, no. If you try to hurt me, you will
kill him in the process. You can take that chance if you want to, I
wouldn’t mind having one less piece of trash to think about, but I
think you might not want to do that” she told her with an evil
smirk on her face. Abby felt the anger boil inside of her, aching
to be released.

“What do you want?” she asked through
gritted teeth.

“There are many things I want, but mostly I
want you either dead or banned from here once and for all. There is
no way I am going to let you wear the crown, or sit on the throne
and rule, the stink would be unbearable” Elysia said.

Abby thought for a moment, was it worth
never coming back to this place if she could take Tom with her
right this second? She knew that even though it was tempting to
just give in and take him, she had to do the right thing. She had
to choose what was best for everyone, and having Elysia rule was
not a price she was willing to pay.

“Never!” she yelled.

Elysia laughed, “I was hoping you would say
that, I would love nothing more than a good fight with you. That
will have to wait though, I want you to suffer, and the best way to
make you suffer, is to make this human suffer” she said as she
disappeared, taking Tom with her.

Chapter
30

Abby looked up at the purple sky and
screamed a guttural sound that came from deep within her. She
continued to scream, but the anger was still trying to get out, so
she lifted her hands up toward the sky and felt the heat race out
of them, making the clouds move quickly until there were directly
above her and the castle.

It then started to rain, and the cold water
hitting her pulled her out of the angry trance she was in and
decided to go back into the throne room to try and find out exactly
how all of this had happened. When she landed her mother and
Jasmine ran up to her.

“What happened out there?” her mother
asked.

Abby was at a loss for words, she knew that
if she opened her mother, the tears would start, and she was so
angry she did not want to give Elysia the chance to hurt Tom.

She knew she had to move fast so without
saying a word, she pulled the Seer’s Orb out of her pocket thinking
that she wanted to know exactly how Elysia had even known about
Tom.

The orb glowed then flew up in front of her,
growing large, she watched it. She saw her mother, Jasmine, and
herself standing in the gazebo on the night that she thought she
might have lost her magic. She saw herself crying, it was after she
had seen the truth on this exact orb, and she was telling her
mother and Jasmine how she was going to the hotel to talk to
Tom.

She watched herself disappear, with all of
the tiny lights following her, and then watched as her mother and
Jasmine held hands and then they also disappeared. She was just
about to look away, thinking that the orb had misunderstood what
she wanted to see, when she saw a movement directly behind the
gazebo.

It was Elysia and she slowly started to
appear, as though she had been standing there completely invisible.
Abby’s heart started to beat very fast, she had felt something was
off when she was there in that moment, but she had been so upset
about Tom and Nicole that she didn’t think much about it.

Now she knew, she should have trusted her
instincts, they were trying to tell her something and if she would
have listened, Tom would right now be in his apartment, safe and
sound.

After she closed the orb, she looked back to
her mother and Jasmine.

“It’s all my fault that she took him. I knew
something was wrong, why didn’t I listen to my own head?” she cried
out, feeling the tears start to roll down her cheeks.

“It is not your fault Abby, how were you
supposed to know that she was there invisible? You were very upset,
besides I didn’t know she was there, and neither did your mother,
and she’s a full Goddess” Jasmine told her.

Her mother nodded, “Yes, don’t blame
yourself. Elysia is very powerful and cunning, nobody would have
guessed that she would have gone there to eavesdrop on you” she
said.

Abby shook her head, “What do I do now?” she
asked putting her head onto her mother’s shoulder.

She wished with all her heart that she could
go back in time. She would have never let him sit down at that
table with her. At least then he would have been safe never knowing
her. She had to get him out of this mess, and when she did, she
would have to end it. Being with her was much too dangerous for
him, and she wouldn’t’ be able to live with herself if anything
more happened to him.

Her mother patted her head, “We will have to
find her and get Tom back for you. I want you to know that it will
be an awful fight, but I have a feeling you are ready to fight to
the death after what she’s done.”

Abby nodded, “I will kill her myself if I
have to, but I will get Tom back from her unharmed” she answered
back pulling her head back up, the tears gone now that the anger
had taken over once again.

***

Abby stood in the middle of the throne room,
listening to the ideas that her mother and Jasmine were throwing
out at her, ways to try and find where Elysia had gone.

She couldn’t take her eyes off of the throne
though, wondering when she would finally be able to sit on it and
rule. She would never let someone like Elysia have control over all
of the creatures in this world. They deserved someone who would
fight for them, not against them.

Abby was deep in thought when she started to
feel an urge to turn toward her left, so she slightly turned her
head, hoping there wasn’t something there that would deepen the
problem. All she saw was the window that overlooked the Eastern
Gardens, and something deep inside of her told her she needed to
see something out of that window.

She felt her entire body turn and start to
glide that way, even though she knew she wasn’t actually moving her
feet. She looked down and saw that she was actually flying a little
bit toward that window. There must be something she really needed
to see, even though she already knew that the only thing that was
ever in the Eastern Gardens were the unicorns.

When she finally reached the window she
looked down and saw the large one with the golden horn that had
allowed her to touch him before.

“Abby? What is it?” her mother asked behind
her, obviously concerned about something that had transfixed her so
suddenly.

“It’s the unicorn, the one with the golden
horn, he wants to speak with me. Do unicorns speak?” she asked, a
little confused as to how this was going to work.

“Yes, they can speak to you telepathically,
in a way. If he wants to speak with you, then you should head down,
he may know something about Tom” her mother told her. Abby nodded
and took off for the garden.

As her feet hit the grass, she saw that he
was standing right in front of her, with his golden horn lowered,
close to her hands. Unsure of what to do, she followed her
instincts and put her hand on his horn.