Witchling Academy Semester Eight - Avery Song Page 0,170

consciousness, until the last second when we fell into the dark acid pits of the purple cobra - our flesh sinking into the boiling acid.

My knees buckled at the memory, and Elijah caught me. It felt like an icy shiver went through me, which seemed to unlock a flaming heat within my chest that disappeared seconds after. The others were quickly at my side while Jax snapped his fingers.

A golden flame materialized in his grasp before it moved swiftly around Elijah's and Eliyahu's injured hands. In a flash, their cuts from the blades were healed.

Elijah helped me sit up before looking to Jax. "Thanks."

Jax merely nodded and looked at me. "Brianne. Are you okay?"

"Ya, sorry," I breathed. "I just need a moment."

"She Spell Traveled all of you?" Finnick questioned as he and Kaito quickly rose up to put on the rest of their clothes while we responded.

"Ya," Jax replied and looked at Connor. "What's going on? Did we-"

"The realm imposter acting like Elijah all this while is one of the cheerleaders in the competition. She's plagued with the darkness Brianne placed on the Elijah that tried to kill us. She tried to control Brianne by setting up a trap in the changing room that ended up striking her, but Elijah and Eliyahu were able to extract it out of her. This was before a massive earthquake and when we reached the stadium, everyone was trapped. Everyone essentially died. I used my gift to reverse time...and um..." He trailed off as he began to blink his eyes. "Fuck. My eyes are blurry."

Eliyahu cursed and looked to Jax. "I need some of that healing fire shit!"

Jax didn't even delay as he summoned the golden flames while Eliyahu was up and behind Connor in a second. He placed his hands over Connor's eyes. "This is going to hurt but you'll thank me later."

Connor couldn't reply as he hissed as Eliyahu literally froze a good chunk of his face. We all stared at him questioningly before Elijah explained. "This was in a book. Are you freezing the retina veins in his eyes so that the damage doesn't spread and create irreversible blindness?"

"That's exactly what I'm doing, dummy," Eliyahu replied with an added insult.

"You just love insulting me when I'm the one angry at you."

"And your miserable life is my fault because?"

"Because you're my fucking twin who was off in a different dimension while I was suffering like an orphaned puppy!"

"Uh-huh, and when you were left in a coma for two damn years, who came to change your diapers when the nurses abandoned you until your crush came along to save you after the hospital realized her net worth and that she had a connection with you? Who was it? Oh right, my ass!"

"Don't act like you weren't shit-talking abo-"

"Boys," I groaned. "As much as we'd love to figure out how the hell there's two of you and all the history of your up and down brotherhood, can we focus on not dying again?"

"Right," they replied before Eliyahu returned his attention to Jax. "Alright. You can use your flame. Just be careful not to make the heat too hot."

"You need to move your hands or it's going to burn you."

"I can't or the ice will melt just as fast."

"Eliyahu," Elijah warned in worry but Eliyahu rolled his eyes. "Listen. I'm a fucking agent. I've dealt through worse than a few burns. We can't waste any more time. Heal your boyfriend's eyes up or he's going to be blind and useless in this final showdown!"

Jax bit his lip but directed the flames to the source. Eliyahu hissed in pain, and I could feel the way his emotions spiked as his dark aura rose in defence.

Elijah and I moved further out of the way, as did Finnick and Kaito. Even Jax took a hesitant few steps back at the intense growth of Eliyahu's dark aura, but he seemed to keep his energy from oozing out into a physical weapon.

When Eliyahu cued him to finish up, Jax retracted the flames. They danced around him and extinguished. Eliyahu moved back then and took a moment to put his hands on his knees to catch his breath.

Connor opened his eyes and took a few breaths as emotions of relief washed over him. "Fuck. I can see you."

"Good," Eliyahu breathed. "Ten seconds later and you'd be a blind fucker."

"How do you know that?" Jax asked before he approached Eliyahu. Reaching where he stood, he crouched down and quickly sparked a flame