Her soft, child-like voice held a commanding sensation as flames shot out of her little hands and danced around the card that began to spin rapidly. The pink light shone outward until four beams of light began to reveal a swirling door.
The first person to arrive was to my left. The pink light revealed Alice in her uniform as she blinked out of her confusion to look my way.
"Huh? Brianne?"
"Alice?" I gasped. We both looked to the next arrival, Jade, as she walked through the portal wearing pajamas.
"Hmm? What's going on?" she questioned with an exhausted expression.
"KILL!" Shadow Jade jumped out of the portal to crash into Jade, who somehow managed not to fall over.
We couldn't respond as the next girl came out of the portal. Alicia walked in wearing a dazzling dress with various stars. It was like she'd come out of a ballroom magazine.
She seemed the least confused as she looked at the three of us before she glanced at the space around.
"Looks like my backup plan worked," she declared with pride.
"Backup plan?" I asked as she nodded her head.
"I saw that girl's intentions and your change in fate when we met. I didn't have enough time to determine whether we were all connected, so I figured I'd let the stars do it for me. And now we're here. Well, almost everyone."
"Wait, there's one more person?" I asked as we all turned our attention to the last beam that sparked with electric currents.
"Yup. The one who's going to get you out of this," Alicia said with pride. "She helped me once before."
The last woman walked out of the portal, flaming wings trailing her as she walked into perfect view.
We were all left speechless as the woman with beautiful long silver locks with turquoise highlights appeared before us and the spinning card began to glow. My eyes widened as I realized she was the same woman from the sky, only her wings were literally in flames and she wore a dark purple combat uniform with a matching cape with red velvet interior on her shoulders.
Before the portal could completely close, a girl jumped right through and landed down next to Elsa. She looked just like the latest woman, only her hair had multiple colored highlights and she wore a colored leather coat, black tights, a purple skirt, and a black t-shirt that said HELLCHILD DUTY.
"ELSA!" the girl cheered and put her hands up.
"STAR!" she cheered back but kept her hands up to control the spinning card. "You came!"
"I told you I'd come if you or your Mistress ever needed help. We're friends!" Star cheered and hugged her. "Familiar friends! Familiar friends!"
We moved our gazes from the cute reunion to the silver-haired woman, who smiled at the conversation. Her eyes took each of us in before she viewed the stadium. Her eyes locked onto Enova last.
"I knew Alicia and Daisy were onto something, but I never thought this would become the end result," she declared before she bowed her head slightly in greeting. "Silver Spell Solange," she introduced as her eyes locked onto mine. "This is the first time we've officially met, though it's not the first time I've given you a hand."
"You're...the woman who helped me during the bridge incident," I whispered. "The one who apparently healed me."
"Yes," she calmly replied with a slight grin. "You've grown. Though I expected us all to not meet so soon."
"We're not supposed to meet?" Alice asked. "I was in the library when I felt a tugging sensation and was brought here."
"Sleeping," Jade replied.
"KILLING!" Shadow Jade declared.
"Meaning she was organizing her plushie collection," Jade translated.
"I knew this would happen," Alicia revealed and walked over to where Elsa still had her hands up. "Thank you, little one. We'll take it from here."
"Yeah!" Elsa cheered and looked at Star before she looked in my direction. "Mommy! I did it."
"Elsa..." I whispered and watched her push off the ground to reach where I was levitating. Her eyes twinkled with happiness as she reached out to gently press her hands upon my cheeks.
"You did it, Mommy! You summoned me!"
"Why...why couldn't I do it before?" I wondered before I raised my hand to stroke her head. "Elsa. This is your form...like Fuwa."
"Mommy couldn't because Elijah put a spell on you!" she revealed as her body began to fade.
"A spell? Wait...Elsa, you’re disappearing!" My heart spiked but she smiled and pressed her forehead against mine.
"Mommy needs energy to save everyone. Love you, Mommy," she replied as she faded into twinkling dust. I worried she'd never return, but Silver spoke up.
"Your energy is unstable and that’s why she can't stay as long," she revealed. "As for whatever spell was placed on you, there’s a good chance it is to prevent those who work with the Dark Kingdom from discovering your rooted connection with your familiar."
"Rooted connection," I whispered.
Silver nodded as Star pushed off the ground to soar to Silver's side. She hugged her left leg as she looked our way.
"Your Elsa's past mommy!" Star cheered.
Silver nodded and elaborated, "You would have easily unlocked your familiar's abilities a few weeks or even days after awakening her. Due to your rooted bond, it would have potentially aided in a premature death on your end because the dark forces target anyone whose familiar has rooted bonds. Whoever may have placed this spell had to have known you'd be in a dangerous enough situation that would lead to the awakening of your familiar's abilities long ago. Guess you should thank them because they had to have taken the spell off minutes ago."
"Minutes ago..." I trailed off as I remembered when Elijah caught me and my body felt like an icy shiver ran through me, followed by intense heat in my chest.
Was that him unlocking it? Elijah...
"We're running out of time," Alicia announced as she showed the Unity card that was beginning to fade.
Everyone looked at me and I swiftly informed them what was going on. "The girl is wearing a vest with some weapon that not only can kill people but makes it impossible to rejuvenate or anything. We were going to teleport everyone in the stadium, but it's too late."
Silver frowned as she stared at Enova.
"The moment time restarts, it'll explode."
"Isn't there anything we can do?" I questioned pleadingly. "I...we can't lose. We died and Connor reversed time for this moment."
"There's one thing that can be done," Silver announced. "However, it'll require enormous energy, an item to host the energy, and I'll need to finalize the last part. I can last a little longer in this world but you three won't be able to remain much longer."
"Alright!" Alice fist-pumped the air. "Let the three of us pump out the energy."
"We need an item to host the power," Alicia acknowledged.
"KILL!" I flinched at the loud noise to my left, noticing Shadow Jade was next to me and pointing to my neck. "Shiny! Host! Kill!"
Glancing down, I realized a prism crystal was resting on a golden chain around my necklace. The sight triggered a glimpse of the shining jewel entering my chest, seconds before I passed out in Finnick's arms during the confrontation on the mountain semesters ago.