Samantha Jones's Story

(Gwenlower, are you sure your real name is not Shirley Vienslash, or Angelica DePru? (Inside Joke))
Hades is asking me about my powers. "I can levitate, but I'm still working on the shape-shifting. I've never really learned anything, I'm self-taught, so I don't know much." I lower my voice. "Please don't tell sam. I still feel guilty about earlier, and if she knows how weak I really am, she might take advantage of me. Hopefully we'll leave before she can try anything."

((Goddessiris, my name is Angelica Dupre. I am special.))

I am so close to performing necromancy. I still can't though. I tried to walk on a cloud when I was 4. It worked, I had so much fun controlling weather and Posidonia was sad because she couldn't yet. I was never able to control a cloud since then. I can shape-shift pretty well, I am still not perfect. Posidonia looks like she is telling Hades a secret of some sort. I hear just one word. "weak" Is she saying that I am weak? How about a bit of friendly competition?
"Hey, Posidonia and Hades! How about a magic contest, we will see who can perform the most spells. Just no deadly spells," I say.
We did this all the time in magic school. I would always win, I want to see if Posidonia is as good as she says she is.

Hades is confident, all right go ahead. Oh yeah, he can't do real spells.
"First you must name the spell and what it does, we'll start with simple spells and they will get harder as we continue."
"This is the growing spell AKA the nijzhansi spell, it will grow any plant out of the ground immediately." I say.
I perform the spell and a small herb comes out of the ground. These are edible, I take a bite out of one. These are the herbs that I would give Posidonia if she was starving and needed help. I remember my mother giving Posidonia a basket full of fruits and vegetables that I grew myself. My mother felt a connection with Posidonia. I want to know how my mother and little sister are doing. A sound stops my train of thought. Helicopters? There aren't any helicopters in the mage nation. Some people come out of the helicopter and they have huge guns. When I see people with mechanical arms and legs I realize what is happening.
"The hex are invading!" I yell at the top of my lungs.

oh good god. now????? why now???? i know that i can do a lot with my element, and i'm okay with battle spells, but the only other two people that are that good are whitebane and Samantha. i use my firepower's to fry the circuits in the guns, but it doesn't do as much as i wanted it to, and the people keep coming. i think i know some of why they are here. Hades. "Hades!! HIDE!!" he looks at my like iv'e gone nuts and then suddenly realize what i mean. he makes a run for it, and me and Samantha start working together. i don't know where whitebane went, but he isn't helping. i start pulling fire into the engines, and they burst into huge flames. the hex soldiers look around, surprised, and that gives Samantha enough time to open a hole directly under them, like what happened to me. they scream and fall backwards. the helicopters have at this point completely caught fire. i put the flames in the surrounding underbrush out, but left the ones in the helicopters going. the people in the pit look dazed and small without their guns. "so what do we do now?" i asked. the others looked confused. and then i realized. i had almost singlehandedly defeated a group of hex soldiers. and then my adrenaline rush gives out and i faint with exhaustion.

I see Posidonia being stabbed. She knocked out a lot of helicopters and it seems like they are all gone. I look around and she hasn't even knocked out one-quarter of them. The hex who stabbed Posidonia sees me. I send a fire ball at him. He dies immediately. His face and clothes are charred, but I can read something on his armor. "Knight of Hexadecimal" Hexadecimal is after us. Why us? I catch a glimpse of Hades running. That necklace, of course!
Posidonia will die if I don't help her. I use the growth spell and I grow a healing herb. I pick the herb and I chew it. I spit it out and place it on Posiodnia's wound. She is still unconscious. This is my chance. I summon a cloud and I try to step on it. I don't fall through. I grab Posiodnia and place her on the cloud. I bring Posidonia to a small shelter that i made underground. I set a fire trap, a water trap, an air trap, and an earth trap around the shelter. Posidonia should be safe. I see Adena getting captured by the Hex. I teleport to her and I send 10,000,000 volts of electricity through the Hex. Adena is freed.
"Adena, Matthew, Hades RUN!" I yell.
Once they are all at a safe distance I use all the energy in my body to cause a huge explosion that kills every Hex within a 3 acre radius. All the Hex are dead. I feel so weak that I can't stand up straight, I collapse on the ground and I am unconscious.

((Okay, that's great. It doesn't really matter if this seems similar to the Hunger Games or anything else.))

I wake up and I see Hades wanting to get on the plane. Oh great, now Hades wants to be a Hex again. Does he realize what its like in the Hex nation. There is so little space, but so many people. I come from a very poor mage family, but we live like a middle class Hex family. He can do whatever he wants, I just know that he'll come running back. We will all be awaiting him. I see the pilot look at me.
"And who are you, young lady?" says the pilot.
I didn't expect him to be so calm after he witnessed that explosion.
"I am Samantha Jones, you do realize that I am a mage, right?"
"J-Jones? Like the noble man Eric Jones? He has been trying to contact somebody in the mage nation, he said he had to contact Samantha Jones, his daughter." says the pilot.
My father knows about me? He really does care. The pilot hands me a small letter. I open it. The letter says:
"Dear Samantha,
I am a traitor to the Hex nation and I am no longer a noble man. It was all worth having you. I know how successful you are and I am proud. Tell Fernando that I am proud of him, too. If you see him, of course.
Sincerely,
Eric Jones, your father."
Who is this Fernando guy? Is he my half-brother? That doesn't really matter right now. I want to see my father.
"I am going with you, too. Just to visit my father." I say.

((the "other elemental" mentioned at the end of this post is another one of my characters, but played by my sister on this account. confused yet?))

joy. i passed out, Samantha and Hades are going to the hex area, Posidonia gets stabbed in the back and i don't know WHERE Matthew is. how is it that you can go from having a relatively civilized duel to being under attack from the hex nation? oh, right. you get stuck in a stupid elite squad with a bunch of freaks that either a.) are hex, b.) cant do/control their magic, or c.) all of the above!!! i am none of these things!!! how did i get stuck here??? and now that Samantha left, i think that i'll have to deal with Posidonia, an idiot water elementalist, and a teacher that was disappointed when he saw how many of us survived!!! and now that Samantha left i have no idea how to cure Posidonia, since the herb that Samantha used didn't seem to do much good. and it isn't exactly as though i can ask her what to do about it now, since she went to go find her dad in the hex area and bring him back, i guess. shes lucky she still HAS parents. and she can use at least two of the elements. how is it fair that she gets to be pretty, smart, talented, have a family that loves her, everything? i just want to be able to change my name and appearance and have Adena Mirrorflame never be seen again. and it looks like some other loser got drafted into the squad. wonder who the heck she is.

((Uhh..... Air, weather, lighting is a naturaly happens when pressure drops in the air plus, Sam, you can't controll all of the elements. That's just unfair.)

I wake up with my head pounding. Adena is leaning over me. "Hey." i croak. Adena smiles.
"You've been out for a few days. I'm keeping you alive." I smile at her , thinking back to how I said almost the exact same thing to her when I saved her from a swarm of hex attacking the first time she ran away.
"Looks likeyou're repaying a favor." I joke, "Where is Sam? Hades? Matthew?" I hope she'll tell me that they are outside, but she doesn't. Adena's face darkens and I immediatly fear the worse. I give a worried glance, and she says, "Don't look at me like that! I don't know WHERE Matthew is, Hades and Sam have gone to the Hex nation, and you are looking like you're gonna drop dead!" I gasp. "Sam and Hades, in the Hex nation?" "Yep," says Adena, "Hades went to find out who he 'really is' and crap, and Samantha is in seasrch of her 'long lost noble Dad' who as far as I'm concerned probably isn't worth 2 seconds of her time. And since Matthew is gone it's just you and me, a fire and a flame about to go out." I groan inwardly, but then I smile. "Since Matthew is such a lovebird, he's probably a stowaway on the helicopters, waiting for just the right moment to confess his love or give someone a 'powerful emotion'." I giggle, and Adena actually cracks a smile. I think she and I might actually learn to get along.

On the plane ride I think about what the hex nation will be like. I hear the pilot saying a few things quickly. My heart drops. The plane is crashing. It was hit by some sort of projectile, I'm not good with technology. The plane almost hits the ground. I manage to help Hades escape alive. I get some cuts and bruises, but nothing lethal. I need to go back to the mage nation. Hades can go to the hex nation if he wants to. I can feel my head throbbing. I grab a small fruit, I am starving. I stop walking. We are near dead water. I see the black colored water. This water is polluted by the hex and magic leaks are put there by mages. This will kill you the second it touches your skin. The river of black water separates the mage and hex nation. I can't go across the river, it is at least a mile wide. My only choice is the enchanted forest. I walk slowly and I see a small tree with writing on it.
"You can never go back, enjoy your stay at the Mage nation"
Creepy, but I am going the right way. I start walking in the direction of the tree. I step in some suspicious red water. I see some strange animals that live in the forest. There is a bird with long feathers and a 8 foot wing span. These animals must have adapted well to this forest. I get distracted by some tracks left by some animal. I keep walking and I see a small tree with writing on it.
"You can never go back, enjoy your stay at the Mage nation"
Crap! This enchanted forest. I am back where I began. I keep walking for about an hour until I finally crack the "code" of this forest. West=south, south=east, east=north, north=west. Simple enough. I make it to the Mage nation. Now that I am out of that forest, I can use magic. I teleport back to the elite squad. Adena, Posidonia, and some weird girl are looking at me. The girl has very very pale skin, I wouldn't be surprised if she is a vampire and ashy blond hair. Very strange, but she doesn't seem like a threat. She doesn't seem to powerful, so I introduce myself.
"My name is Samantha Jones, I am an Earth elemental. Nice to meet you," I speak in a soft voice.

Sam has come back. I wonder how she and Azalea will get along. Hades is seriously hurt. Not even Samantha can wake him up. I wish things would just go back to normal, with me going outside to trade for my Dad and I. When all I had to worry about was food. Why did I have to grow up so fast?!

Well, i know why it looked like haddes; it was hades. How he got into that hole is a mystery, though. Samantha is extraordinarily stuck up about Azalea right now. She only even acknowledges that Azalea exists because she "doesn't look dangerous". I want to stick up for her simply because Samantha will probably be annoyed. Hades is still in a coma. Nobody seems to have found a way to wake him up. I asked if trying to use my magic would help, since he is tecnically a fire elemental, but that got a resounding no. From everyone. Which isn't fair, since none of them have any better ideas. This is way too dangerous for a bunch of teenish people. How did we get picked for this, anyway? Grr. And everyone is clashing with each other, exept Azalea and Posidonia. And me and hades, when he's actually functional. ARRGH!!!!!! This is too confusing!! "WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS!!!!!" i scream at the sky. As if i expect an answer. The others give me weird looks, and i run off towards the woods. I'm going to go find a cave. And stay there. And noone is going to try to stop me, either.

((New character alert!))
Name: April May
Description: earth elemental, 7 years old, not good at magic, lives in Sam and Pos's neighborhood, looks up to them, blonde hair, green eyes

April:I was invited here to improve my magic because earth is a powerful and difficult element. Why couldn't I just be a fire elemental? I look around and Samantha is there! I look again and Posidonia is leaning over some boy. All these people are tall and older that me. I go to where Posidonia is and I almost fall in a hole. The boy is Hades! He is always made fun of in school. He is famous at school! In a bad way. Samantha sees me, I give her a hug and I give Posidonia a hug, too. They taught me so much magic when I was little.

Samantha:Two more people arrive. Where are these people coming from?! A woman and a very small child are coming closer. Oh, it's Delana Walters. She is one of the only descendants of Hexadecimal, besides Hades. She is Hexadecimal's great cousin twice removed. Not related much, but they are related. The kid is April May! I would always teach her magic. She should remember Posidonia and me! She almost falls in the hole with Hades. Suddenly, April gives me a hug. I missed her, too.

Samantha: Adena is leaving. Where? Who knows? I wish i could stop her, but Adena doesn't care about anything that I say. I see her search around. I follow her around, maybe I can get her to stay with the group. There's safety in numbers. I saw her as she casted that invisibility spell. I follow her by looking at her footprints. She starts running and i can hear her feet and breath. She knows I am following her. Oh, and her invisibility spell is wearing off. She casted a level 1 spell on herself. No wonder it lasted for so little time. I see Adena go over the mountain. I teleport over the mountain and she sees me. "It's dangerous to be out here alone," I say. Just as Adena was about to reply a giant cat-like creature shows up. I try to communicate with it, but I can't. This means that the creature isn't alive. It's a robot. Adena looks at me in fear and I do the same. Suddenly I hear the scream of a child, April!
April: Samantha is going somewhere and she looks very worried. I follow her, she is my mentor. She could teach me more magic. She takes many twists and turns, but I stay hidden. I even got to talk to a cute bunny on my way! Samantha stops and looks around. She looks so scared, but it's just a huge kitty! I try to talk to it, but I just hear static. I hear a loud roar come from it. Mommy says that i can go deaf from loud noises. It walks towards me. I scream in fear.

((question: why do i look at you in fear? its already been mentioned that i can fry circuits...))

"crap. go away, stupid robokitty." <insert sound of large robokitty's circuits being fried HERE> Samantha, against all logic has decided to follow me. and bring a leech with her. "Hi, so nice to see you again. how are you? why are you following me? I'm LEAVING. I won't be out her for much longer, so I'm perfectly safe. So, BYE!" she stares at me and I use the chance to teleport to the edge of the enchanted forest, where no one will find me. i walk in, and take a moment to send a spell at my footprints to make them dissapear. I run for about five minutes and stop. i know that i won't be followed now; that was fifteen MILES. I'm kind of tired, so i use another two spells, this time a spell that creates a shelter out of sticks and leaves and a level 42 invisibility spell on me and it. "ha." I say aloud. i got away, and NO ONE is bringing me back. YAY.

I wake up and see that Adena, Samantha, and April have left. I listen on the wind for them, and I hear a scream. I can't leave though because besides a woman who calls herself Delana I'm the only person with Hades. I have a funny feeling he's not actually unconcious, but I'll leave him be for the time being. Azaela is looking for food. I listen, and here Adena destroy a robot. Oh well, she'll be leaving. I'll miss her though. I mean, she's practical, smart, and a nice person. I guess she got sick of me. ouch. Even the thought hurts. I stop. Why should I stay here with Hades when he obviously doesn't want to talk to me. I think I'll go ask Azaela to come with me to my home. If she says no, I'll go any way, but I genuinly like that girl. I turn to Delana. "Look," I say, "If you hurt Hades while I'm gone, I will personally kill you." I'm not planning on coming back, but it might make her back off. I don't trust her story about being a 'helpless traveler lost in the woods.' There is something the wind is trying to tell me about her. Something that carries a hint of metal and pollution. Something almost like a... HEX!!!!! Well, since Hades is a hex, I guess it'll work out. I get up and walk away.

((Last posts! :'(. BTW Alexis AKA Matthew couldn't very much post at all, so I got her permission to say that Matthew died when the Hex invaded. ))
I think that I should take April home. She is bleeding on leg, I think she got hurt on the way here. I hold her in my arms. I don't know how much I will miss Adena. She was extremely rude, but only to me. I know she hates me, but I don't really care at this point. I probably wont see her again. I walk back to camp. "Just go to sleep, dear. We will be home soon." I say quietly to April. Her mother must be so worried. My mother must be so worried. I go over the mountain. The trip is silent as I think about what I'll do when I get home. Right now, we are fugitives. I keep walking, it is a good thing that April weighs so little. I reach the camp and I see Posidonia walking out of the corner of my eye.
"Wait!" I yell. She realizes that April is with me and waits for me to catch up. At least I know that Posidonia doesn't hate me anymore. "We are going home, are you going, too?"
"Yes," She says softly, she seems less peppy than I remember.
As we walk I turn back to look back at the camp where I spent a horrible week of my life. I made some friends and lots of enemies. Not the outcome I wanted, but it all turned out okay. I survived. I'm injured, but alive. So is April, that is all that matters now. And, to think we arrived here young elementals and we are leaving very different. Hades is going home where he will be safe. That is a word that I haven't used in a long time, April will soon be safe, at home. Safe. Something I haven't been for this whole week. For some reason I feel like it's been way longer than a week. I look back at all the destruction, things were peaceful, all we had to worry about was food, water, and shelter. Then chaos started here and it all ended with a death. It was depressing, but there was nothing that I could do. I tear runs down my cheek. I look back at the corpse that we are leaving behind along with all of the bad memories. He deserves a proper burial, I can arrange that. It doesn't matter what kind of person he was, nobody deserves to die. I turn around, all looking back is going to do is make me more depressed than I already am, more traumatized than I already am, need more therapy than I already am. There is no use thinking of what could've been, only think of what is. I stop thinking about the camp and we are halfway to home. Thinking about the past really is a good time killer. We finally arrive after having 3 breaks to catch our breath. I knock on the door of Ms. May's tiny house. She responds quickly.
"Sammy! Long time, no see! Why aren't you in school? Have you taught little April any new spells?" She says. As always, bombarding me with questions.
"Hello Ms. May. I am taking April back home to recover. She was in a training camp and she's been through a lot in a small amount of time." I say. Ms. May takes about 5 minutes to study me, she looks at my shiny, red hair, looks at my deep, blue eyes, and then takes April into her arms carefully. She makes sure not to wake April and carefully closes the door. I walk over to my tiny house and hesitate to knock on the door. I knock on the door and my mother responds. At first, she studies me similar to how Ms. May did. Then, she grabs my hand and says "Samantha, Samantha Jones... still as beautiful as I remember you. Trust me, i remember. I have been sick for a long time, but I could never forget my first child." She says very quietly, I could barely hear her.
I enter my house. I take a look inside, i smell the roses, such a familiar smell. I quickly step back out of the house and cry. I can't hold back the tears. Suddenly, my sister walks out and I see her, she is 8 years old now. This causes me to run into the forest and cry some more. Whenever I look at my sister, all I can see is a little baby. I am finally ready to enter the house again.
"Samantha, we have the house smell like roses to prepare for the day that you should return. I didn't know that it would be so soon." my mother says. Her voice just seems like a fantasy. Her blonde hair makes me wonder why my hair is red, her green eyes make me wonder why mine are blue. She just feels like a distant memory that i bring back with a simple spell. A family is more than a simple spell. I embrace my mother and sister. I walk into the house one small step at a time. My old room, it is exactly like I left it. They must've kept it as a memory. I sit down at the table after getting accustomed to my house.
"Honey, we've been thinking about starting our own magic school to teach mages properly. With your amazing magic skill, we could win this war once and for all." My mother says with her soft, soothing voice.
She always has amazing ideas. I just nod my head. This one idea could turn into something huge. A boy in my neighborhood knocks on the door. I answer it. David? We played together as kids!
"Ready to start the Jones Magic School?" he says teasingly. He is in on it? Great, more people to help out. I realize how much he has grown, too. Ugh, I feel like I've been gone for twenty years.
------------------------------5 years later--------------------------------
Yeah, David asked me out and the business is amazing. We are training students in combat skills. This seems too perfect to be true. Then again, meeting my mother again seems to perfect to be true. Life is just full of surprises, usually after a bad one, a good one comes along. Now, I'll have my family to be with me during the good surprises and bad surprises.
THE END!! (or is it?)

10 years after all the action in the rest of the roleplay-----------

The Hex have won after years of hard fighting. Hexadecimal expected me to become a war prince, but I had my taste of battle back at the elemental school when the Hex invaded. After that invasion, which Samantha and Adena were able to ward off, the Hex kept up the relentless attack. With the elemental school ruined and only a few survivors who never wanted to touch their element again, in one generation the Mages were lacking their strongest link they depended on for security. We won the war in days.

It's not how I imagined it, though. Everyone liked to dream of the land from the defeated Mages could once and for all solve our population problem. With the Mages gone, the Natives were able to rise up. They fought with a mixture of crude war technology and natural magic. We would have been able to defeat them in our full glory, but the war had left us weak. We are currently under siege from the Natives. They are attacking our main factories. We have no resources and soldiers to fight and with the constant attack we can't gain any.

A few villages in the Mage nation were spared, including the one Samantha and Posidonia call home. They have started a Mage school, and with the Native attacks, we can't stop them while they are weak. With the defeat of the Mage nation, I got my memory back. I wrote it all down so I can't forget it again no matter what happened. This is what it said:

I was a 5-year old in the Hex nation. My parents were rich and had high status because of their strong relation to Hexadecimal. My parents loved me, but they took for granted the total safety of our town. One day I was playing in my yard. A poor looking man came over. He didn't look the same as normal, but I couldn't place it. He asked me if I would spare some money. I agreed and told him that my parents might not allow me. He told me that I should sneak it out. He told me I was to put it in a secret place where he would find it. I asked where, and he said, "Come, let me show you." I shouldn't have trusted him, but I didn't know better than to follow him at the time. He led me to the very edge of our town, where the factories started, and bent down to lift a trash can. I knelt down to see it better, and suddenly his cold hand was on my back. He said some words I had never heard before and the world started spinning. When it came back into focus I saw that we were in a small village with shacks. It was very different from what I knew, though. Even the really poor always had metal houses. Sometimes it was bad metal, like iron that could rust easily, but they were always metal or plastic. Here, these houses were made of wood and dirt. Two materials I had barely seen, and yet this obviously poor village had houses made of them! I knew we must be in the Mage nation. I should have been scared, but I was so young it was only fascinating. The man snapped his fingers and I was roped and gagged. He shoved me on a wagon and off we went, with me unable to protest. We came to a long, low brick building and the wagon rolled right in. The signs in the building said things like, "Convert a Hex!" and "0-2-year-olds that way. " It started to dawn on me what was happening. The man spoke again in his gravelly voice. I recoiled in terror. "Yes, my pretty, you are going to give my family a chance of surviving the winter." He was going to sell me! We went into a room. A man in a white uniform sat at attention behind a large wooden desk. "Greetings," he said. "This one looks good. Another one to pass of as an elemental, I assume." After some research in recent years, I know that the elemental schools used to pay the family money to compensate for the fact that their child would probably die. Some poor mages used to sell kidnapped Hexes as "elementals" to make money. The transaction finished and the man behind the desk took me home. That is where I lived until I was twelve.

I had other "brothers" and "sisters" in the man's home too. We all suspected we were different, but something about the house made us forget why. We were separated from other kids usually, so we didn't realize everyone else at our age could do magic.
Then, on my 12th birthday, we were all taken way way past the border of our village. We walked so long I thought our feet would explode. We saw a tall, glistening building grow in the distance. When we were still far enough away that the people in the building couldn't see us, our "father" went to us one by one and performed a memory charm. It would be 11 years until I finally recovered. We went into the building, which I discovered was a school, were enrolled as students, and became "elementals". I remember everything that happened next.

I am now about twenty years old, a "war prince", and married to a great girl. She has never left the Hex nation but understands my struggle and everything I go through. We have one kid, who we named Katherine. Whatever eventually happens, I at least know my whole life.

((Ok everyone, after letting this rest I have determined that we should end it with a proper fight. The Hex may win since that's already been written, but I think we need real words, so here it goes))

-----Reversing Time...Ooh, magic....------

I have been home with my dad for a few weeks and I've settled down to normal. Except nothing can be normal anymore, not after what happened. I still have nightmares where everything is distorted. I'm with all of the strangers when the cat attacks us, I feel guilt as I harm it....We are starving to death and fighting amongst ourselves...The Hex attack and I feel power building up in me as I kill men and women and don't feel remorse...I see Mathew lying on the ground dead...I'm walking home when I fall down dead ad I hear rough sobbing in my ears...and then I wake up and realize I'm the one crying.

Though my dad swore they would, the nightmares don't seem to be getting any better. They aren't getting any worse though, so I guess that's good. Kind of.

The Jones haves started a mages school, which is good I guess...especially since it gives me something to do. I'm a teacher there, of sorts. While most teachers focus on spells and the like, I am purely elemental. I've tried the spells, but everything they do I feel is pointless so I stop listening. Samantha has given up on regular classes so she's tutoring me herself. Which I guess is good... It's back to the way things were.

My dad is a lot better off than he was when I left. The elemental school was paying him, of course, but when I was selected for the elite training program, he got a boost. That's good because I don't have enough time now to devote myself to our survival only... and even if I did I couldn't. Not after the week I spent out where the only thing I had was eat, sleep, and listen to endless bickering and the wind howling in my ears. April has calmed down and is a very good pupil. She takes after Samantha though, she prefers the spells to Eolas, the type of elemental training I teach. But Samantha's little sister who's a water is with me entirely. Not to mention that the magic can pollute water, so she's a little pissed about that.

As I was saying, life is peaceful. Or at least, sort of. Our school has been overthrown by Hex. The surviving pupils have fled here or sworn never to use their magic again. Which bums me out. Because without some of our most talented people we are hopeless against the Hex. I know that they have also gained a strong ally: Hades, or should I say Fernando Waters? While his magic was weak he could make things blow up and he's a great tactician. However, he's a good ally for another reason. Hexadecimal has regained full power because Hades has turned over his necklace. Funny, I never knew what it was. Samantha knew. She could have destroyed it. But she was uncertain, so why hold a grudge?

Anyway, MY life isn't perfect at the moment. I have to gather all of the remaining mages. That hasn't been hard but I have to track down Adena. THAT is what's difficult. I wonder what will happen....
((Ok, more 2morrow, I'm kinda tired))

It took a while, but I finally found her. Adena was in the forest with some "natives." I say "natives" because a fair amount of them appear to be mages. I found Adena when I accidentally fell into the middle of their camp. You see, I've finally figured out how to fly...kind of. It's more like standing on the wind but that's not the point. Anyway, I had been doing this for two days straight when I fell asleep, and when that happened I fell. Hard. Halfway down I woke up, but I was so shocked I hit the ground, and the wind only just softened the blow. Several people came poised to attack when they saw me. I was obviously not a hex. One of the mages of the village who had control over animals came forth and tried to use her powers to calm me. I say tried because I managed to create a bubble of protective air around me. She looked annoyed, and a conversation burst out trying to figure out what to do with me. Then Adena stepped forward and I yelled her name. She looked almost the same, but a bit more soft and yielding. However, there was a determination in her eyes that hadn't been there before (at least not as strongly) and a look that said she's heard what she had always wanted to know. Adena saved me by saying I was "An acquaintance from the 'school'" and the others cut me some slack. Turns out she's respected because of her parents and her fire. In both senses. Adena looked in her element, but I understood the fire in her eyes now. She knows who killed her parents now, or so she tells me. I have been trying to get her alone. And now I finally have.
"Adena, I need you. The school has been destroyed, but we want one last go at the Hex. I want to grind Hades-or Fernando, or whatever you call him!- into a fine pulp. Hexadecimal has regained full power, and we MUST stop her, or else this entire village will be destroyed with us." I think it's a winning argument, but Adena disagrees.
"Waste innocent lives for you? What have you ever done for me?"
"Adena, this isn't about you or me, about old rivalries. This is about us, about the world and the future we want. The Hex have pulled down hopes and dreams and destroyed souls. They have burnt villages and polluted the land. But that's not all. They have killed the innocent along with those opposed to them. They killed your parents and destroyed you village. But it's not just you! I had a boyfriend, and he moved to a new village though we kept in touch. I received word a few days ago that his whole village has been razed and him the only one killed, Adena, the only one killed! They destroyed the lives of so many to send a private message to me! Whose to stop them from going after this village just to teach you a lesson? What is to stop them from destroying us all and grinding us beneath their heels? What is to stop them," I add, "From taking away our abilities and killing us as a message to our people?" I can see my words taking effect, but then Adena's control comes back and she counters.
"You speak to me of the danger we're in, that our families are in, that our world is in, but what will happen if we rebel? Who will be left? NO ONE! If the Hex are as powerful as you say, then the world could come falling apart. Ok, a few villages are destroyed, a boy you haven't thought about in a year dies, who cares? The population would be safe, we'd survive, and I could burn everyone of them if they get to close."
"Exactly! Adena, you are one of the most powerful mages who has ever lived! We all were! We still are! If we can come together we can destroy them!" I say. Adena sighs.
"Fine, but you're telling them" she says gesturing outside, and I smile.

The speech is easy enough, I tell them the same things I told Adena. They agree to fight, and all of those who can come with me to my village. WE WILL CHALLENGE THE HEX, AND IF WE DON'T WIN, THEN WE CAN AT LEAST SAY WE TRIED.
((More later, sorry if you don't like my changes to Aden's personality, I just thought she might be a little different after moving in with the natives.))