War of The Worlds

The First Battle

Drake

     The first thing that crossed my mind while charging into battle was the class on fighting every one of us had taken a year ago. Yeah, a fighting class. What? You thought the town wouldn't prepare in case something like this happened.

     I remembered that when the instructors picked out weapons for us, we all got the same ones we had now. “Dodge and attack,” the teacher said. “Whole battles can be won by doing only that.

     I could see Toby and Demy running alongside me while Luke and Sophia launched themselves into the air. Ben stayed put and nocked an arrow.

     We reached the army and all heck broke loose.

     The first glimpse I had of the army was their commander. A tall, well armored Earth Pony with a yellow coat and brown mane. He didn't look like anyone I’d want to mess with.

     Then I saw the rest, about thirty more Ponies all with weapons, armor and real training.

     A Pony looked surprised, like he wasn't expecting a bunch of kids to come up and attack them. Then again, who would expect that?

     I slashed at a Pony and luckily hit…his armor. They taught us where to find chinks in armor in the combat class, but I wasn't so sure I would be able to do it.

     The Pony knocked me down and stood over me, spear ready to pierce my chest. I closed my eyes, gritted my teeth and waited for the strike. A second after I braced myself I heard a loud thunk! I looked up and saw an arrow sprouting from the Pony’s helmet. I told you Luke was a good archer.

     I grabbed my sword and got up and ran to the nearest Pony.

     The Pony slashed at me with his sword and I ducked, slashing at his legs. The Pony fell to the ground and I slashed at his neck, looking away.

     I looked around and saw that we weren’t winning. We were out-numbered five-to-one. The rest of my friends were doing their best but I only saw around ten corpses. We were going to lose.

     I couldn’t allow that.

     Wading into the army I slashed and dodged trying to turn the tide, but with no luck. One Pony managed to get my right arm with a sword, leaving a good sized cut. My face was battered      and bruised from Ponies slamming me with their bodies and weapons.

     The army’s size was now cut in half but it wasn’t enough. I didn’t want to lose, failure was not an option.

     Then, something strange happened. I could feel power coursing through me, lifting me into the air and flowing outward into a ball around me. I yelled at the top of my lungs and then my vision turned white.

     When I came to, I was still in the field. Nothing looked different and the sun was still in about the same position so I hadn’t been out long. Then I looked around.

     The damage was severe: holes in the ground were all around the field, Pony corpses lay everywhere, my friends were laying on the ground and then whole landscape seemed, darker, somehow.

     I got up and ran to my friends. Luckily, they were alive just unconscious.

     I went to Ben and shook his arm to try and wake him up. But Ben is a really heavy sleeper so it was no use. The only one of my friends I could wake up was Sophia, and she was jumpy and looking around like something was about to get her.

     “Hey, Sophia, what’re you so jumpy for?” I asked.

     “I-I don’t want to talk about it right now,”

     “Aww, come on, Sophia, why not?”

     “P-please, don’t ask,” She looked pretty shaken up.

     I inspected the others. Some minor cuts and bruises, nothing we couldn’t fix.

     That’s when I looked at myself and noticed something, I was completely fine. No cuts, no bruises, scratches or bumps. Not that I’m not happy about that or anything.

     I decided to give Sophia some slack though. What had happened had scared her and I didn’t want that to get worse.

     “Okay, Sophia. Let’s work on the others,”

     After we had tended to their wounds and woken the others up we all stood or sat around with an awkward silence hanging over us.

     Whenever we woke one of the others up I asked them the same question. ‘What had happened during the battle?’ They all responded with. ‘I’ll tell you later,’ or. ‘I don’t want to talk about it,’ I eventually gave up and we all just stood around for a while, thinking.

     I eventually got to thinking about what o do next, and my brain   finally decided to work.

     “Well, we should be heading back to town shouldn’t we?”

     The others looked at me with mixed expressions.

     “Go back to town?!” exclaimed Demy.

     “After what just happened out here?!” added Ben.

     “Okay guys, I don’t know what happened and you won’t tell me so why don’t we all just stand here and do nothing!” I yelled.

     “Drake…we don’t want you to be like that.” Sophia fidgeted with her spear tip.

     “Yeah, we just don’t want to worry you,” stated Luke.

     “How about I tell you what I saw happen?” I asked.

     They all agreed that would be fine, and I began. I told them about the surge of power, the need to win, the blinding light, and the way it all looked when I woke up.

     “Annnd, I still haven’t gotten to open those presents.” I said beginning to smile.

     All the others cracked up, saying they were sorry that I hadn’t gotten to pen them yet. I felt like it was all okay again.

     “So what did you guys see?” I asked.

     Everybody else fidgeted with their weapons and wouldn’t look me in the eyes.

     Finally Sophia spoke up. “I saw you…start to get darker, then I realized that…there was a entire shield of pure energy around you. You rose in the air and the whole ground started to shake and the air was humming with energy. Then there was a very bright flash…and I blacked out.”

     All the others agreed that they saw the same things and I started to get worried. What was happening to me?! Then I realized something.

     “Guys, you don’t think this is because…Mifeo’s spell, do you?”

     “That’s exactly what we thought,” replied Luke.

     I thought about that. So...Mifeo’s spell might have given me this power that just saved all of our lives and the whole town. Also...I would probably be considered a freak back in town if anyone found out. Then again...all of us got that spell casted on us. So wouldn’t all of us have this amazing power?

     “Well...I think we need to get back to town,” - I looked into the distance in the direction towards town - “And then have a serious talk with Mifeo.”

     “...And that’s what happened in the battle,” I finished.

     We were in Mifeo’s house sitting in the ugly living room discussing whether or not what happened during the battle was his spell or not. I had just finished describing the whole battle from my point-of-view.

     Mifeo stood up. “I going to tell you this because one of you used your powers. It’s what the spell does.”

     Mifeo walked across the room and pulled a book out from a book shelf. He turned around and showed up the cover. The title read, Advanced Spells For Master Magicians.

     “This is the book that I found the spell in.” He shook the book while he said this.

He walked over to Demy and opened it to a page towards the middle. “If you would, Demy.”

Demy looked confused at first, then realized he wanted her to read it.

     “It says, The Spell of The Elements,” read Demy. “It doesn’t really explain what it does very well...”

     “Allow me to do the explaining.” Mifeo said, taking the book and returning it to the shelves.

     “The spell itself seems pretty self explanatory,” stated Ben.

     “That’s exactly it!” Mifeo exclaimed.

     “What do you guys mean by all this?” I asked, pretty confused.

     Mifeo looked around as he talked. “What I mean by all this that the spell has to do with the title, The Spell of The Elements, It gives the one who the spell is cast on control over a specific element of nature. From what I heard about the battle you had, Drake, I’d say you have control over darkness.”

     We all looked at him, dumbfounded.

     Finally I gathered up enough of what I knew to answer. “So what you’re saying is that...I can just control darkness?!”

     Mifeo looked at me in the eyes. “Of course that’s what I’m saying, but remember you must learn to control it willfully.”

     I got sense in what he was saying. I can control darkness/shadow but I have to learn to do it. All the others can control an element too though. So we are basically killing machines is what I got from it.

     “So what do we do now?” asked Sophia.

     Mifeo looked at us with a twinkle of mischief in his eyes. “You go to another world, of course.”