Blazing Academy: Semester One (Academy For All Things Scorching #1) - Avery Song Page 0,100

D-Don't cry. Let's give a moment to figure things out."

"We're out of time."

Gabriel's words tugged us to Clara's body, watching her take a struggling last breath before her chest lowered and her eyes remained opened.

"Clara?" I whispered. "Clara?"

Reaching out to shake her, I noticed how her breathing had completely stopped and her eyes began to dull of life.

"Clara!" My mind went into overdrive, and I quickly slid her closer to the right side of the desks and climbed on top to begin compressions on her chest.

"Alice, you-" Keru tried to reason, but I shook my head rapidly.

"She can't die!"

"Bringing her back to life without healing her isn't going to do anything!"

"Maybe someone will come and help?!"

"You're only going to make her suffer more!"

"You don't know that!"

"Alice! Let her die!"

"She doesn't deserve to die, Keru!" My scream bounced off the walls as I glared at him. "How can you even stand there and tell me otherwise!"

"Because in this world people die! You can't save everyone!"

"I know damn well that if I was in Clara's shoes you wouldn't spit bullshit!" I defiantly declared.

That shut him up, and I looked back to Clara and returned to compressing her chest. My tears blurred my vision as I fought to keep it together, but press after press did nothing to revive her.

A heavy silence lingered as I slowly came to a stop, struggling to keep my sobs from escaping my lips.

Closing my eyes, I fought the urge to admit defeat. To accept that there really wasn't anything I could do anymore.

"Mistress?"

My eyes opened slightly, noticing the room was pitch black, and there was Cyrus, but in the little girl form I remembered from the window incident. She was in a white kimono with blue flowers, and her tail moved back and forth.

Cyrus?

"Do you want to save her?"

The question was easy to answer.

Yes. I want to save her. She...she's my friend, even if I may not be as important to her as she is to me.

I paused to look at her dead body once more, my tears streaming down my cheeks.

I know people die. I get it. Innocent lives are lost every day, many who were mean and others that were the kind people on the planet. I know I can't save everyone...but can't I save at least someone I care about?

"You can achieve anything you want, Alice. With magic, the limits placed on reality can be bent to fit what you wish."

She smiled and floated up to my face, her little hands pressing against my wet cheeks.

"Therefore, my mistress, let me ask you again. Do you want to save her?"

I blinked away my remaining tears and looked back at her with determination.

Yes. I want to save her.

"No matter the pain and possibility of death?"

No matter what lies ahead of me with this decision.

She smiled as her eyes softened, and her body began to levitate as the dark room around us flooded with white light.

"Then release that loving power out and bring her back to life."

My senses were flooded a warm sensation, and I let the words that rushed into my mind flood out of my lips.

"I summon the blazing power that courses through my vines. Unlock the pages of my divine light and do not judge by thy earthly actions, but by the beating of thy heart. Bring back what has risen to the skies and revive the innocent that have been lost. Let this not be just for one, but all that have perished in the act of unforeseen misguidance. Let my ancestors of blazing hot witchery invoke justice upon the lost."

With a deep inhale, I whispered the final words to complete the spell.

"Holy reviva of ela na ru."

My eyes opened to see the formation of a thick, bound book. The exterior with red and gold incantations began to bleed light, seconds before the book opened up and the pages lit up and swiftly turned at an uncontrollable pace.

My eyes rolled back as energy pulsed through and out of me in waves. The first ball of light hit directly into Clara's body before multiple balls of white flames burst out of me and shot towards their destinations.

I could feel each ball of flame reach its destination, embedding into the bodies of the dead and igniting breath into their once corpse bodies.

That's when the rush of indescribable pain hit me, my body unable to even scream as it felt like I was being burned alive. I fought against it, trying to endure every speck of