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Serenity waved her glowing pink finger and a small cloud appeared overhead.
Dede stared at it with awe, clapping her hands.
The cloud started to snow and Dede giggled, sticking her tongue out and catching a snowflake on it.
Serenity smiled, but it faded as Nathan walked up and gave her a wide grin.
Dede glanced at the other Never and Serenity frowned.
The cloud grew a dark gray color as her finger glowed brighter and it started to rain, a small bolt of lightning striking Nathan on the ear.
He yelped and his hand flew to his injured ear.
Dede giggled and grinned at Serenity.
The cloud turned back into a white fluffy one again and snow gently fell.
Axel came up to check on Nathan's ear and gave Serenity a small glare.
Serenity rolled her eyes and glanced back at Dede as she watched the snow fall delicately around her.
Serenity's heart beat a bit faster as Dede's eyes, still filled with an almost child-like wonder, turned on her.
Dede had dark eyes, just like both her mothers, but the light within them didn't portray anything but excitement.
Serenity swallowed and her finger glowed brighter.
Dede didn't seem to notice Serenity's response.
She also didn't notice as Axel gently checked for any other injuries on Nathan.
~
Theresa's finger still glowed its royal gold color and beside it Amber's shown with the orange of the setting sun.
Amber kept glancing between her finger and Theresa's, feeling weird about it.
They were quite similar colors, but then she supposed that there weren't that many colors to pick from, so it wasn't really a surprise.
While Serenity showed off her talents across from them, Theresa was trying her hardest to form something.
Yuba had told them to start with a simple transmogrification or weather spell.
Amber found it hard to concentrate.
Theresa was suddenly grinning and Amber was so distracted by her expression that she didn't notice the small cloud that had formed over her head.
Theresa's grin turned mischievous and suddenly water poured down on Amber.
She gasped and immediately leapt from her spot under the storm cloud.
She glared and her finger glowed as well.
A moment later, a cloud appeared above Theresa as well.
The princess rolled to the side a moment before thunder crackled and rain poured down from above.
Amber growled and her finger followed after the running girl.
Her mice scampered down from her hair and legs, running toward the other girl.
Theresa was still grinning with mischief and enjoyment, even as Amber's mice scampered toward her.
The cloud neared Theresa and she glanced up.
The smile didn't slip one bit, even as it thundered menacingly.
"Theresa!"
The princess glanced over her shoulder and saw her father grinning.
He tossed her a shield and she gave him a quick "Thanks!" before raising it over her head and blocking the rain.
Her finger glowed gold and Amber threw herself to the side just as more rain poured down over her.
Lightning crackled above Theresa and she glanced up.
As she did, her eyes momentarily passed over Amber's rats.
Lightning flashed above her head and the mice glanced up.
Theresa had an idea and smirked.
She rolled across the ground and scooped all three rats up, cradling them in the crook of her left arm while raising the shield with her right to block the rain and lightning.
Amber's eyes widened as she heard the squeaking of her mice.
What was Theresa doing?!
~
Theresa aimed to hit Amber with rain, but a glowing red finger dispelled the spell easily.
Hilda glanced over at Hester, the only one apart from herself with a red glow, and saw her glaring at Tedros.
He had taken Theresa's side and Hester had clearly taken Amber's.
As the cloud dispelled, it was shot away and bits of rain splashdd Milly.
Hilda whipped her head around.
Rage suddenly filled her and her finger glowed as well.
Another rain cloud formed above Theresa.
She stalked forward and joined her twin by her side.
Milly watched with shock (and a bit of cold from the rain).
Theresa let out a surprised sound and pulled herself into a ball to keep from getting wet.
Agatha glanced up and frowned.
She dispelled the attack from the twins.
She felt oddly protective of Theresa and she cast a gust of wind, blowing the cloud away from Theresa.
It landed above Dede and the girl shrieked as she was coated in water.
Serenity's eyes shot to the twins with cold fury.
Her finger glowed hot pink and she stalked forward.
She grabbed Theresa's outstretched hand and pulled her to her feet.
"Let's show those two, cus."
Theresa's grin widened.
"What are we waiting for?"
And that's how people started to get sucked into a small, playful fight turned into a war.
Hester and Anadil instantly joined the twins with Agatha and Tedros joined Theresa's side.
Axel joined his sister while Dot joined her covenmates.
Kiko joined Theresa whole Hort joined Hilda and Amber.
Dede and Milly watched with shock as this turned into a full fledged war.
Milly soon joined Amber and Hilda's side of the amazing army.
Serenity raised hell and soaked both twins thoroughly while Theresa defended her from counterattacks using back her shield and her finger glow.
Axel joined his sister and cousin, cousin.
He doused Nathan quite thoroughly, but got as good as he gave from the boy's father.
Beatrix, having thought herself above this whole thing, found herself drenched by Hester and joined in heartily with loud yells. She even hit her own daughter (though of course she didn't know that) as she had taken the opposite side.
Dede was the only one just watching.
Yuba had given them a few minutes to practice with a muttered reason to leave that none of them remembered now.
Dede was torn between both sides, so she took the opportunity to just watch how they each 'fought'.
Milly let out a loud, high pitched whistle.
Gildy and Gordon burst into the clearing.
As Milly barked and howled at the two, Hilda took a protective position beside her friend.
Serenity flicked her wrist and a storm cloud appeared above Milly.
She'd clearly sensed the threat Milly would be with her wolfhounds.
Hilda let out a low growl and her finger glowed red.
Her green demon tattoo grew and stretched across her skin until she was suddenly surrounded by it, becoming the demon herself.
She let out a roar and grabbed Milly around the waist, picking her up in the middle of a bark and saving her from a lightning strike.
Milly's face turned as red as Hilda's finger glow.
The wolfhounds has, apparently, gotten enough instruction from their master as they leapt into the fray, trying to tackle friends and take them from the fight (gently of course).
Milly couldn't pay attention with Hilda so close, even in her demon form.
Most people would be terrified by Hilda like this, but Milly found it amazing.
She looked so strong and in control, her neon green wings folding over her back sand covering Milly as another storm cloud formed.
Her wings were long enough that when she wrapped them around the two, it completely blocked out the exterior world.
All she could see was Hilda.
The wings formed a green dome around them and the light made a rather... romantic lighting.
She blushed furiously at the thought.
"Stupid Theresa. Knew this was a trap," Hilda muttered.
Her voice was deeper and a bit more gravelly than usual, but Milly could hear the resemblance nonetheless.
One thing that stayed the same was Hilda's eyes.
Her vibrant, blood red eyes that were the same color as Anadil's.
Milly found herself lost within those eyes.
Hilda said something else she didn't catch and then stood up straight, unraveling her wings from around Milly and looking back toward the other side with a vengeful look in her eyes.
Milly knew she wouldn't be able to do much else in her demon form at the moment.
She was strong, but she still needed to build up her endurance some.
Hilda took advantage of the remaining time and took off into the hair, her wings flapping hard.
She dive bombed toward the other side and grabbed onto one of the Evers.
It was Axel.
He let out an embarrassingly high pitched shriek as Hilda flew off and dropped him into a tree.
Nathan looked up and his eyes widened.
"I'm coming, Ax!" he called loudly.
He didn't get far before he was tripped by Anadil's rat, however.
The albino smirked as Hester cackled, her demon already streaming through the ranks and shoving or pushing the other army's members over.
Amber wondered if Theresa still had her mice.
She glared and advanced on the girl, intent on knowing if she still held them.
No other reason.
~
Dot was knocked back by Hort as the other Never fell over.
Dot bumped into Anadil and fell against Kiko.
Anadil fell against Hester and Kiko hit the ground beneath Dot, but not before hitting Tedros.
The prince fell against his princess and soon all of the older generation, who had been fighting each other as their spells were a bit more advanced, were on the ground.
Dede watched with wide eyes and tried not to laugh as the younger generation, her friends, were the only ones left fighting as the older generation was left to awkwardly look at the others who they had fallen against.
Tedros was gently clutching Agatha and was the only thing that kept the two of them from joining the group splayed out in a pile.
Inside the pile, Hort a foot in his mouth and was at the very bottom.
Hester and Anadil were sprawled out as well.
Both of them stared at each other, their faces less than an inch apart.
Anadil’s heart actually stopped for a moment and she just stared at Hester with wide eyes.
The tattooed witch’s face turned red and she tried to push her way out, but her eyes somehow stayed glued to Anadil’s.
Dot and Kiko were at the top with Beatrix a platform between them and Hester and Anadil.
Kiko was groaning and didn’t know that Hester was likely to explode with people crushing her.
Kiko just laid there for a moment, catching her breath.
Dot knew better than to do that and scurried to her feet.
She could heard a growl from Hester and her eyes widened fearfully.
She reached her hand out and yanked Kiko up just before Hester literally threw Beatrix off of the pile, making the girl yell and utter a few phrases a princess really shouldn’t know.
None of them knew who had caused the pile.
They only knew Hort had tripped.
They didn’t realize that Dede had easily tripped the Never.
She smirked a bit evilly and then turned back to watch her friends as they continued to ‘fight’.
~
Amber caught sight of Theresa and growled.
She stalked toward the girl, watching as she defended her cousin from one of Hilda’s storm clouds.
Theresa was still grinning despite being soaked quite thoroughly.
Amber glared at the expression and she snapped her glowing finger.
She knew she didn’t need to snap, but she liked the extra bit of drama it offered, even if she wouldn’t say it.
Lightning crackled above Theresa and the Ever’s eyes widened.
It hit her in the head.
The lightning was nothing powerful, Amber wasn’t strong enough to make one that could hurt her and if she could she wouldn’t have, but Theresa still let out a grunt.
Theresa looked up and caught sight of Amber.
Her fluffy blond hair was all frizzy now, but the princess reached a hand back and smoothed it down a bur.
It wouldn’t stay put, but Theresa didn’t seem to care.
Her eyes grew a mischievous glint again and she stalked toward her.
Amber found herself watching with wide eyes.
She stared at the slightly insane hair (how could it still look so pretty when it was all tangled from the electricity?!) and the way her lips curved up with the same devious intent of her eyes.
Amber gulped, suddenly finding that her mouth felt dry.
What was going on with her?!