18.
Final Bout.
The third landing
of the building housed the witches secrets, in which this case was not much to
be seen except for the single statue in the chamber. Its the figure of an old
man dressed like a King.
"Is
that..." I felt silly to ask but my answer was forth coming.
"That's King
Pastoria. We encased him in bronze there; alive and perhaps not
breathing." Mother Witch gloat on her capture. "He was a whinny when
we were encased him. He was a bad example for a King."
Mother Witch
looked at me. Then she smiled.
"You looked
like your mother. If she was not dead, I would had reckon she is back
now." Mother Witch walked to stand beside the statue. "He would had
been proud but he also disliked him. You see, your father was a meek when seen
by the King. Pastoria never liked his daughter to your father. He wanted her to
marry her to an equivalent of her but she selected the magician."
"Enough on my
father and mother! I am here to battle you for my mother's revenge." I
shouted at her.
"Revenge?Is
that all about?" Mother Witch looked at me."What happened to the
mission to topple my daughters to resurrect the old Kingdom? Is that forgotten
now?"
I looked at her
and slowly shake my head. She is confusing me. I am getting confused. I lashed
out in the only way I know; I screamed out loud. My sonic vocal boom did come
up as expected but I was facing the statue. It broke the statue into fragments
and pushing the Mother Witch to the back.
"Wow! Girl,
you got a mouthful there." Mother Witch stood up and brushed the dirts
off. She picked up a piece of the fragment and smiled. "There goes grandfather.
Perhaps we can sell parts of him."
Mother Witch
laughed out loud. Then she stared back at me.
"Murderer!
You killed your grandfather." She seem to enjoyed it but I am getting
irritated.
"Mother Witch
or ....Witch's Mother, I don't care. You are still the person to be removed. I
intent to do that." I glared at her. The Mother Witch just twitch her nose
and drew out the red hilt with a shiny red blade. Its was mother's. Then the
streak of red waves appeared with a spiral twirling direction towards me.
I jumped clear of
the wave and tried to use my voice on her but she's fast. She evaded my booms
and I am getting hoarse. Then she made a mistake; she tripped on a loose plank
and fell on her face. It was when she lost her hold on the dagger. It flew to
my feet and I picked it up.
"Dorothy, do
it." I heard the voice in my head and I know its telling me to do it
right. I held the dagger and watch it glowed. I looked to see Mother Witch
standing up and realizing her missing dagger.
"Oh, I am in
the poo poo house." The streak of red wave went for her but it was aimed
at her right shoulder. Mother Witch groaned in pain on the hit.
"I did not
aimed at your heart as I felt you would had none. I am telling you this one
time; get out of Oz or you would be buried here." I lowered my arm and
turned to walk away. Mother Witch is not giving up. She pulled out her wand and
point it at the ceiling. She blew a hole in the roof that open it to the red
skies.
"Dorothy, do
you know why the castle have four towers. They are position to amplify the
lightning that would strike it, but I also improvised it to collate the four
lightning power and have it direct to my wand." The red skies starts to
flicker and then the lightning came. Four of them struck the towers and the
conductor relayed the power towards the wand. Then Mother Witch direct her wand
at the flooring near Dorothy; it blew a hole big enough for a new staircase.
"That was for
show. The next one would be on you. So write your own obituary."
I hate myself
then; I actually smile at her. My mother's murderer and I smiled at her. I
stood there and brace myself for her next attack; flexing my muscles and shrug
my shoulders. This would be a split second decision on the cue.
Mother Witch took
her new move with the wand pointing at me. Just as she strike, I took the run
along the flooring with the witch burning up the planks behind me. She was so
absorb into killing me; she did not see the damages she was undertaking. The
damaged flooring creaked under her lightning strikes and was soon collapsing
under loose flooring. Mother Witch fell down one level and her wand fell out of
her hand. It pointed downwards and was aiming at her when the lightning
arrived.
"Aargh!"
That was the last we heard of Mother Witch.
I then went over
to picked up the pieces of the bronzed statue, and tried to piece it together
but it did not fit or some parts are missing. Probably got vaporized in the
battle. I would never get my grandfather back. Just as then, an image appeared
before me; its my mother in her red dress.
"Dorothy..."
She called out to me. "Its me, your mother."
I looked up and
saw her floating there on mid air. My tears welled up in my eyes on seeing my
mother again. This was no magic but a true love gift.
"I am fine,
my child. I am also happy to see you here today. When you killed the Mother
Witch, you released my soul from the prison she created for me. I am now free
to join your grandfather and mother." The image of my mother points to the
skies. On it, I can see the image of the old King and his Queen.
"Mother Witch
lied to you. There was no one in the statue but the metal. She had that built
sometime back to appease the people of their old King, but they did not believe
her. So she hid the statue here." The image looked around at the damaged
level. "There was no secrets here. She was never a Witch but one who stole
others ideas. She only knew one magic which was to direct the lightning but
that now is over. She is dead and I am free to go."
"But before I
leave, I wanted to see you." The image of my mother looked at me.
"You grown up beautifully, my child."
Then the image of
my mother left for the skies to rejoin her parents. I am left alone again. I
heard my name being called.
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