Rise of the Malactric Heir

After seeing the entrance, Adora was about to go first but Alix grabbed her by her arm and she looked at him.

"I will go first, follow me," Alix said as he walked ahead and they followed him to the entrance.

"What's the matter?" Adora asked when he suddenly came to a halt.

"There is a barrier here, which means it's either protecting us from something or protecting something from us," Alix responded.

"See if you can break it," she said, and Alix took a deep breath, his eyes glowing orange, as did the palm of his right hand, which he placed against the barrier, and the entrance began to shake as a blue light in the shape of lightning passed across the barrier.

"This barrier is hard to break," Alix said, putting more force on it and suddenly it started cracking while Adora smiled.

'If I am right, your people are the ones that came to this place, meaning it can't lock you out,' Adora thought then the barrier shattered and disappeared into thin are and a huge amount of energy passed by them, almost lifting them off of the ground.

"That source is here, only that will have such power," Alix said as he walked past the entrance, and Adora scoffed as markings appeared in thin air, forming two dragons, and lightning began to bounce off of them, and when Ayden tried to grab one, it sent him flying into the wall, and the others looked at him.

"Are you okay?" Alix asked.

"Yeah, I am fine, that's beyond my control, it's merged with a different type of magic," he responded as he got up.

"It's another barrier, stronger than the one before, this place might not look scary, but it's deadly for most," Alix said.

"True, don't get too close; I think this barrier has a few more tricks up its sleeve," Adora said then Alix sighed.

"We are going to have to break past it, but we have to be careful, this building is old, one wrong move and we can bring it down," Alix warned and Adora agreed with him.

"There is another type of magic merged within the barrier, this thing is powerful," Kyris said and Adora looked at the barrier.

"I know, I can sense it too, don't try to attack it, that won't work, this is made to repel even one of the most powerful magical spells," Adora said as the others looked at it.

"We all have different types of powers; unless you want to try Alix," Adora said.

"Hey, Alix, if you can do it, do it," Kyris said with a smile, then Alix looked at Adora and she grinned as he walked up to the barrier, then the star marking appeared in both of their hands and Adora smiled as her eyes glowed purple and the snake marking appeared on his chest, creating an invisible shield, but Kyris sensed Adora's power and smiled as the lighting tried but failed to hit Alix and he managed to get close to the barrier.

"Alright, here goes nothing," Alix muttered as the snake mark vanished, as did the barrier around his body, and he placed his glowing red hands against it, causing the red glow to spread across it, while the others watched as the glow surrounded the dragon markings on the barrier, causing them to glow blue and a star marking to appear on their bodies, before the lightning stopped flashing and the barrier faded away and Alix's hands returned to normal causing the star mark to disappear in his hand as did Adora's.

"Well done, Alix," Kyris said as Alix turned around to look at them, only to see everyone smiling, and sighed.

"All right, let's go," he said as he continued to walk forward, following the blue hue, and Adora smiled.

While following the shining light, they all came to an opening that looked like a forest with big branched trees and water falling beside them, except the water was shining and there was a blue light behind the falling water by the huge tree in the center of all the others and Adora smiled.

"I take it, that's the source?" Alix asked as Adora looked around. Before she could cross the small bridge over the flowing water which was like a stream that connected to the outside of the structure, then a similar stone to the one that raised up on the beach appeared before her, and she placed the key in the keyhole she saw, and it turned on its own.

"What now?" Nina asked as the stone vanished and the tree began to shake as it approached the bridge. Alix grabbed Adora's arm, pulling her off the bridge, and she looked at him as the water before the tree stopped falling.

"Now this is something else," Yan said, and Alix's eyes narrowed as the tree vanished and the ground shook as something glowing bright blue began to emerge from the ground, and they all gasped as a huge rainbow-colored crystal appeared before them, and they smiled.

"Now that's a view," Kyllan said, and Adora sighed as Alix's eyes began to glow red while staring at the crystal, and Adora tapped him on the shoulder before he looked at her.

"That thing is powerful," he said.

"I know," she replied then went up to the crystal and her mother's death came flashing before her eyes and she jumped.

"What's the matter?" Sarah asked.

"It's nothing; we need to destroy the crystal before they get to it," Adora replied.

"If one of us isn't enough, we can combine our powers," Eliza said to which Adora sighed.

"I don't think we'll need to combine our powers; there's another way I know of to destroy it; it'll take a lot of energy, but there's no need for you guys to get tired," Adora replied.

"Well, your highness, enlighten us," Alix said.

"Yeah, let's get this over with, I'm getting a bad feeling, especially with how things have been going so well so far and there hasn't been any sign of the enemy, this isn't right, they know we'd go after the source," Nina replied.

"She's right, which means we're going to get into trouble, no matter what," Alix said and the others agreed.