What Lies Deep Below [CLOSED] (1,869 views)

[Maddie]

Star closed her eyes, took a deep inhale, and sighed resolutely. "Well, if you're sure you want to try again..." she replied, nodding. She put on her bravest face and sat back down in the chair. "You have my support." Mustering some courage, Star opened the blue book Azelf handed her earlier and started scanning the pages. "Maybe your brother has something written about what happened," she suggested, gesturing at the book.

[Blue]

"Hmm..." Azelf muttered to himself, as Star turned the pages. Feepit rested quietly on the biscuit Kacheek's shoulder while eyeing on the book. "Oh wait, wait... Lookie..." Azelf pointed at the chapter with B's old list of spells. "T-these incantations were from when... he was still a yellow Kacheek?" As stated in the page, the note says these spells were written years before B got himself a baby paint brush and while he was training for the Battledome. The Shoyru went by Star's side and read carefully, looking for answers.

Summoning rain of balls of fiery wrath, rain of lightning and dark novas, unleashing powers of the sea, controlling clouds, freezing your opponent, increasing one's craftiness and agility... There was so much filled in the baby Kacheek's journal. "A spell that can steal someone's items just by thinking about them?" Azelf exclaimed. "And a spell where you can look ages into the past? My brother thinks of everything! Well he is... a genius..." Astonished as he is, a portion of the list suddenly struck him. "He even has spells for... dark magic..." He stepped back for a bit and sat helplessly on the floor.

[Maddie]

"Woah woah! Easy there!" Star exclaimed, crouching next to Azelf and steadying him. "What? You seriously think what happened was dark magic? No way!" Star tried to laugh it off, but in reality the chance of it being dark magic terrified her. Still, she couldn't just tell him that. She had to reassure him. "All this tells us is that your brother is familiar with dark magic. That just means he'd know what to do if what happened earlier was dark magic – which I don't even think it was. This is good news! Everything is under control, yeah?"

[Blue]

Reflecting, Azelf pointed out, "But... I wasn't even... trying to... use a... dark spell." He stood up. "I-I was only using an energy-channeling spell... It must have enhanced... the magic I had within me... " He felt strange, but it a good way. He has more power than he realized. "W-wow... Never thought I was able to do that part right though, but it still blew up on my face..."

[Maddie]

Star was wary. "Are you sure it was dark magic? Like, really sure? I mean, I know you told me about your darigan father and all, but... There's no way you have magic like that inside you!" She was looking through the pages of the spell book again. "D-Doesn't that worry you? It's dark magic."