The Shade (spoiler, Books lodestar-legacy)

The Shade
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= Chapter 1 =
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“Elizabeth, are you listening,” Lady Zillah said. Elizabeth is in Foxfire in year 5. Raiden must be having a lot more fun. He’s in year 4 and is with Lady Victoria, the Astrokinetic mentor. She is a lot more forgiving. 
“If you mean by staring into space or sleep standing then yes,” Elizabeth said. 
“You should be listening to me if you want to be able to control your power.” Lady Zillah sighed, “You know how important it is to control it.”
Elizabeth wasn’t very good at controlling shadows even though she manifested first in her grade. If she doesn’t learn how to control it, and it gets out of hand she may be banished to Exillium. She does not want to be “The Girl of Darkness” or something like that. She just wishes it was easier to control her ability. 
“Okay. Beth-” Lady Zillah started. 
”My name is Elizabeth.” Elizabeth argued. 
“Fine, Elizabeth, We are going to do an exercise and see if you can control shadows better. First what you need to do is try to feel the shadows around you.” Elizabeth closed her eyes and tried to feel the shadows around her. “Good. now see if you can command the shadows into wrapping around you.” Lady Zillah said. Elizabeth tried to shout at the shadows with her mind, but it didn’t work, so she tried to echo the words into the shadows, but that didn’t work either.
“It still doesn’t work,” Elizabeth said. Lady Zillah sighed. “Okay, It’s time for lunch. Go and talk with friends while you can, we can try again tomorrow.
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“Hey, Abigail, Over here,” Raiden said from their usual table. Elizabeth rushed over to the table. 
“I thought I told you to stop calling me by my middle name.” She said once she sat down across from him. 
“Awww. But it’s fun annoying you, Elizabeth Abigail Maybell,” he said, “Still no luck?”
Elizabeth sighed, “Yeah, I don’t know what’s wrong. I’m doing everything that Lady Zillah tells me to.”
“Hey, cheer up, I just heard there’s a new shade being taught by Lady Zillah. I think his name is…Tam.”
“Really. What year is he on,” Elizabeth asked.
“The same year as you.”  
Elizabeth sighed, “He’s probably better than me, isn’t he?”
Raiden sighed, “ Yeah, I’m pretty sure. But you just keep on trying and I’m sure 
someday, like the day you manifested, you’ll be able to control shadows and be the most powerful shade of all times.”
“Yeah, pretty sure that the new guy will be more powerful, I mean think about it, if he started school on year 5, he’s probably really powerful,” Elizabeth said.
“ Okay, Okay, you have to stop being so negative. On the bright side, at least you have Universal Studies up next. You do way better at that than me, I mean, you have a photographic memory. You are definitely way better than me.”
“Fine, I’ll stop annoying you with negative emotions.” They both laughed.
“Well, this is the end of lunch, see you in study hall.”
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“Finally I’m home,” Elizabeth said thankfully.
“So how was your day,” Lady Madeline said.
“Still nothing, Mom.” They both sighed. Elizabeth went up to her room and looked in her spectral mirror. “Hey, Opal,” She said. A small female elf appeared on the right-hand side on the top of the mirror with teal blue eyes and long curly blond hair.
“Hey, Liza. How are you doing? You look tired, there are shadows under your eyes,” Opal said. 
“Yeah, well, I am tired, I’ve had a long day,” Elizabeth told the mirror, “Okay, time to take a nice hot shower.” After that Elizabeth walked into her private bathroom, got undressed, and jumped into the nice hot shower. After the long night of homework, she got dressed in her PJ’s and jumped into bed to sleep. Finally, something positive.
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= Chapter 2 =
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“Hey, Marella,” Elizabeth said the next morning at school. 
“Hey, Elizabeth, Did you hear there’s a new shade being taught by Lady Zillah, and his sister is a Hydrokinetic, she’s awesome. I should get you guys to meet, and maybe get you to meet the new boy also, his name is Tam.”
“Oh. You know them, Raiden told me about the shade, Tam, yesterday. I heard he’s a level 5. How do you know them?”
“Well, that’s the kind of thing you get to know when your friends with Sophie Foster. They were banished to Eillixum, well, the girl, her name is Linh, was, but Tam stayed with her to keep her safe. Oh, and also I’m going to tell you a secret later, can I come over to your house after school?”
“Well, that is a lot to process, but sure, there’s like nothing else to do there except homework.”
“Great see you after school then?”
“Yeah, Bye,” Elizabeth said while she turned to leave.
“Hey, Raiden, thought I might want to see you before lunch, and I heard from Marella, that the new shade, Tam, has a sister, Linh, and he followed her to keep her safe after she was banished, AND apparently, she knows them.”
“Whoa, Whoa, enough with the information overload, you just walked up to me and spilled the words everywhere. I need time to process this, okay,” He said
“Fine, but make it quick, also Marella’s coming over tonight after school.”
“Okay, but why are they here if they were banished to Eillixum?”
“No idea, if you want to know, I’d ask Sophie Foster, I think she is the reason that they aren’t banished anymore.”
“Well, see you at lunch, bye,” Raiden said
“Yeah, bye, also Marella might make me meet Tam and Linh,” She said as Raiden turned to get to his class.
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“Hello, Elizabeth, time to get started with today’s exercise. We’ll see how this one works out for us. Now just do what I do.” Lady Zillah reached out her hands in front of her body and shaped shadows into a scroll with nothing in it. “Now, you try.” Elizabeth stretched out her hands and closed her eyes. At first, she didn’t feel anything, but then she felt like she was nothing but air, then it felt cold and dark, and after that, it just went away. Elizabeth opened her eyes and there was nothing there, except a wide-opened mouth Lady Zillah.
Elizabeth asked, “Is something wrong? I felt something when I closed my eyes and I think I heard a word when I did. I think I heard the word ‘Shadowflux’. Is that bad?” All Lady Zillah did was sit down on her throne/chair.
“Wow, I never thought that would happen,” Lady Zillah sighed, “Well, you should be getting to lunch. We’ll talk about this another time. Right now I need to talk to someone. Okay, you go.” And with that note, Elizabeth rushed over to lunch.
“Hey, Raiden, mind if I invite Marella over to our table?”
“Why?”
“I need to tell you both something, and it will be easier if you two are together,” said Elizabeth
“Okay,” Raiden said. Elizabeth walked over to Marella’s table and asked if she wanted to sit with her. When Marella said yes, they both walked over to the table they were sitting at.
“Okay, something happened in my lesson today with Lady Zillah. She told me to shape shadows into an everyday object. So when I closed my eyes I felt something, and I think I also heard a word. The word I heard was ‘Shadowflux’. Marella’s jaw fell open. “Okay, Marella, you’re doing the same thing Lady Zillah did when I opened my eyes, somethings wrong.”
“Nothings wrong,” Marella assured her, “It’s just, I never knew you knew that word. Do you know what the word means?”
“No, I don’t. Can you tell me?”
“I’ll tell you after school when I come over to your place.” They ate the rest of there lunch in silence.
“Bye, see you after school,” Elizabeth said after she was done eating. Elizabeth rushed to the girls’ locker room to get into her PE uniform. Then she went to the gym. 
“Today we are playing Base Quest. Split into two teams, boys vs. girls,” Coach Caroline said. Elizabeth went to the right side of the gym where the girls are. “Now I want each team to plan your positions: protectors, runners, distracters.” Elizabeth was a protector. She stayed by her base to protect it. 
Then she felt a cold dark breeze from somewhere on her left. She closed her eyes and followed that breeze, and when she opened her eyes she was holding someone’s wrist. He had long bangs over his eyes and the tips looked like they were dipped in silver. The elf had pale blue eyes with hints of silver, and he looked like he was shocked when I let go of his wrist.
Then the elf said,  “How did you find me I blocked my thoughts with-”
“I’m a shade, not a telepath,” Elizabeth interrupted.
“But, still, only a really powerful shade would find where I was.”
“I’m powerful? Ha. Not in a millennium.” Elizabeth countered.
“Then how did you find me,” He countered back.
“No idea. What’s your name,” I asked
“I’m Tam,” he said, “What’s yours?”
“Wait, your Tam, where’s your sister? Also, I’m Elizabeth.”
“You didn’t see her, she looks just like me.”
“Now that I think about it, yeah, I think she’s questing.”
“Really. Because if so, then I need to get back to my base, Bye.”
“Bye, I’ll look for you in study hall.”
“Okay, and you can meet Linh, my sister.”
“Hey, Tam,” Elizabeth said as she sat down across from him in study hall, “Is this Linh, hi”
“Hey, Elizabeth, and yes, this is Linh. Linh this is the shade I was talking about, Elizabeth.”
“Hi,” Linh said.
“You know Marella, right. She told me that there was a new shade and hydrokinetic, and, Linh, I just happened to bump into your brother in Base Quest when we were in PE. I’m sure Tam will tell you the whole story later.”
“I’m sure he will,” Linh said.
“Yes. That’s a story for later,” Tam said.
“If you guys want, you can come over to my house after study hall. Also, I have a brother, Raiden, that’s there, and I haven’t told him that I’ve met you yet. I just need some time to get changed out of my uniform and tell Raiden. Marella’s coming over, too,” Elizabeth said.
“Sure, we can come over to your house after school,” Linh said.
“You can, I’m not gonna be the only boy with a bunch of girls,” Tam said. Elizabeth and Linh laughed.
“Okay, but you are going to miss out on the fun stuff,” Linh said.
“I need to talk to someone after school anyway,” Tam said.
“Okay, but still, you’re going to miss out on a lot of fun stuff. I collect a lot of prattle pins, I got a lot of rare ones, too,” Elizabeth said.
“Nice, I am so going to look through your collection. We should get you to meet Wylie, I’ll ask, he’s in the elite levels,” Linh said.
“I have a lot of pins that are the same, I can give you some. Also, I have an alicorn pin that I want to show you, I just got it last year, and there’s only one other one,” Elizabeth said.
“Cool, now your just getting me more excited. Now, I’m definitely going to your house after school,” Linh said.
“Well, study hall is done, I’m surprised that we didn’t get yelled at for talking today. See you after school, bye,” Elizabeth said as she turned to leave for the leaping master 1000.
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“Yes, I’m home. RAIDEN” Elizabeth shouted.”
“Yeah, Abigail,” Raiden said.
“First: don’t call me Abigail, and Second: Linh is coming over, Tam’s sister, I met with Tam at base quest, and met Linh with Tam at study hall, and I’m going to show Linh my prattle pins. So unless you want a makeover don’t come into my room.”
“Okay, I won’t, but you need to tell Mom and Dad that Marella is coming over and that you are inviting a new friend here.”
“I will.”
“Well, I’ll be in my room. Say hi to Marella and Linh for me, bye.”
“Okay, MOM, DAD, MARELLA, AND A NEW FRIEND OF MINE ARE COMING OVER SOON.”
“OKAY, I CAN MAKE MALLOWMELT FOR YOU GUYS.”
“THANKS, MOM,” Elizabeth shouted. Just the sound of mallowmelt made her mouth water. The doorbell rang. Elizabeth said, “I’ll get it.” Elizabeth rushed to the door. “Hey, guys how are you doing.”
“We’re doing great,” they said at the same time.
“We are super lucky today, my mom is making mallowmelt for us, and I got Raiden to stay away. Let’s go upstairs to my room, Raiden is in his,” Elizabeth said.
“Where do you keep your prattle pins,” Linh asked.
“They’re in this box right here,” Elizabeth said while she picked up a huge box full of pins.	
“Where is the alicorn,” Linh asked. Elizabeth started digging in the box, all the way to the bottom. She pulled out a small box that was a soft blue. Elizabeth opened it, and inside there was a white alicorn with blue on his wingtips.