Darkholders

[6th Century, 520]

"Morgana!" Shouted a fellow witch.

"We can not hold it!"

"We need to banish him!" I shouted. Thunder rumbled, the sky covered in darkness, a stormy night at the Wundergore Mountain. We gathered four witches, including me, standing in each direction to perform a ritual to conjure Chthon with The Darkhold. I transcripted the writing on the wall on Wundergore Mountain into the spell book, creating The Darkhold. It showed us great magic written by an elder god named Chthon. Chthon was one of the elder gods that came to earth long ago. He possessed the Chaos Magic, the most powerful magic we had ever known. We planned to conjure him up, then offer him to work for us. But we soon realized that Chthon is far more powerful and dangerous than we imagined. We needed to banish him from the earth.

As worried as I looked to the left wall, the shadow of Chthon was roaring madly, and echoed around the room. A red aura of magic covered the floating Darkhold. Together we managed to banish Chthon. The atmosphere was chaotic no longer.

"Morgana, are you alright?" asked a fellow witch.

"Yes, Sabrina, I am alright," I replied.

"The other, are you alright?" Sabrina asked the other.

"Patrick and Harry?" Sabrina was the kindest one of us. She wore a white dress with a raven-black feather cape. Sabrina also braided her blond hair, resting on her right shoulder.

"I am alright," said Harry. Harry wore a black robe with two daggers on his back and a chain of a raven skull as his belt. People usually were frightened by his scarred face and buzz cut.

"Me too," replied Patrick. Patrick put on a battle skirt and was shirtless, showing his big strong muscles. He wore a pair of silver gauntlets with a raven skull necklace and had shoulder-length dark hair.

Sabrina, Patrick, Harry, and I were members of the cult of Darkholders led by me. Our goal was to get more and more powerful, whatever it took. Everybody was scared of us because of what we could do. We could make their lives miserable with just a ritual or a snap of a finger. We could be more powerful if we had aid from Chthon. We could even take over the world if we wanted to, even when Merlin tried to stop us.

"Let us head back," I suggested.

"I agree," Harry said. "That was one powerful creature."

"We tried to conjure an elder god," said Patrick. "What did you expect?"

"Enough," said Sabrina.

"We are heading back."I opened a dark portal leading to a village. The black cloud of smoke slowly disappeared after we stepped over the portal gate when we entered the outpost. The villagers whispered at each other.

"Run. It's the Darkholders." They all went into their house, keeping their doors and windows shut.

"Are they that scared of us?" asked Patrick.

"We wiped out the whole army in a few minutes," I replied.

"They should, are they not?"

"Morgana," whispered Sabrina after tapping my shoulder, then pulled me behind Patrick and Harry while we were walking.

"Yes?" I whispered.

"Do you think that we successfully banished Chthon?"

"Yes, is there anything bothering you?"

"Something felt weird after the ritual."

"You just tired. You should go home and rest."

"Alright," replied Sabrina.

***

The next day, we met each other at now-we-call London. It was pretty early in the morning when we decided to steal the Book of Cagliostro from Kamar-Taj. To get there, Patrick learned that there was a gateway, leading to Kamar-Taj. The book was one of the Ancient One private collections. The book was originally stored in The Lost Library of Cagliostro. It could help us contact Dormammu and learn the magic of the Dark Dimension.

"People, are you ready?" I whispered while staying hidden behind the building.

"Yes," said Sabrina, Patrick, and Harry behind me.

"Alright, I will repeat the plan. We fight our way in, go through the gateway, get the book, avoid The Ancient One and get back. Understood?"

"Got it," said the rest.

We ran in front of the gate, then Patrick and Sabrina did a hand sign and blew up the gate. The explosion alerted the sorcerers of Mystic Arts and a bunch of sparkle orange portals opened, ready to defend. While we scanned the situation, from the Sanctum, stepped the Master out of the Sanctum.

"Merlin..." I said.

"That was not how I taught you to knock," said Merlin.

"We were not knocking," I said, then I pressed my wrists together and spun it, hitting it on the ground. The ground started to rumble and crack with orange glowing between the gaps and explode in front of me, causing the sorcerers to lose their guards. Harry drew one of his daggers from behind and hurled it, cloning it into a bunch of orange daggers piercing into the sorcerers.

"Enough!" Merlin shouted and beamed an orange and sparkle beam toward us.

I blasted the same beam, linking with his beam. "You are not the only master of Mystic Arts here." The beam then slowly turned into a dark purple beam with black smoke and pushed all the way to Merlin, forcing him to dodge aside. "Show him what we have learned," I said. Harry recalled the dagger and drew the other one from his back, a black smoke appeared around him, then teleported into the middle of the sorcerers. He slashed, dodged, and parried them until they were all dead. Sabrina did a hand sign, then summoned the dark hands to grab the sorcerers and shapeshifted her cape into ravens, diving straight at them. The Sanctum was chaotic, Patrick summoned an Army of Dead to handle the rest while we were about to take care of Merlin.

"I did not raise you to be a power-hungry witch," said Merlin.

"My hunger for power is the way I live," I said while stepping up the stairs. Merlin stood up and activated the Mirror Dimension.

"You have caused enough damage," said Merlin.

Harry decided to strike first, he immediately teleport to Merlin and performed a slash. Merlin quickly conjured an orange sword and blocked the attack, then followed up with a sweep. Sabrina sent her shapeshifted ravens to help Harry by calling to dive straight at Merlin. As wise as Merlin was, he bound Harry, then summoned thunder to strike the ravens and Sabrina, causing her to pass out.

"Sabrina!" I shouted.

"Mystic Arts are not the only magic I know," Merlin said.

"Undam Viperarum!" The Wave of Vipers dives their way to Merlin while Patrick summoned The Dark Hands to pull Harry and Sabrina away. Merlin held his hands aside, then extended, turning the vipers into butterflies. When the butterflies covered his vision, Patrick blasted a dark beam at Merlin. Merlin summoned the Shield of the Seraphim just in time to block the beam. He got pushed back as long as the beam was still on him, he stumped his foot and the ground exploded. Patrick lost his balance and interrupted the beam. While we were all down on the ground, Merlin circled his hand and opened a portal with his Sling Ring. Sabrina unexpectedly jumped Merlin, causing them to fall on the other side of the portal, then it closed. "Sabrina!" I shouted.

"No!" shouted Harry.

We thought that we would be stuck here forever without knowing if Sabrina was alright or not. A few moments later, a sparkling sound drew our attention. A portal opened with Sabrina stepping in with Merlin already beat up and passed out in her arms.

"Let us get out," said Sabrina and dropped Merlin on the ground.