Bienvenue à Magix: Chapter 5: Alone against the witches!

In a nice restaurant where we are finishing our diner, I think of my parents: they would be happy to learn that I have already made new friends. It is time to give them some news. I pull out my cell phone and dial their number but...nothing...no tone.

"Let me see," Tecna suggests. "Electronics are my specialty."

I hold out my phone. She bursts into laughter.

"It's prehistoric, this technology! Where did you find this antique?"

Annoyed, I say that it is the latest model. But Stella whispers in my that is only the latest on Earth. She lends me her card and points to a phone booth on a nearby street.

Inside the booth, I reach my mother. How good it is to hear her voice! And to tell her that everything is going well! Through the window, I suddenly see passing by on the sidewalk a massive yellow silhouette. I do not believe my eyes: is that the ogre Knut? The one who had attacked Stella during her visit on Earth? I cut short the conversation with my mother and run outside. The yellow monster turns around the corner of a street... Quickly, I tail him.

But... He has found my friends! Faraway, I see that they are waiting for my in front of the restaurant, sitting on the edge of a fountain. The ogre is watching them?

Well now... He leaves. He turns down a road, then another. I know that I am not very careful of getting started on his trail, alone. But how could I resist my curiosity? I stick to the walls, a dozen meters behind him. At the end of a dead end, the giant stops. Quick! I hide behind a garbage can.

The yellow monster looks like he is in a big discussion with three young girls. Dressed in leather and needle-like heels, wearing dark coloured makeup, they disturb me and look unpleasant. Ah, shoot! Because he moved slightly, the ogre hides them. What a huge roly-poly! This is even more annoying that I'm too far away to hear. What could they be talking about?

"Turn around!" says a glacial voice behind me suddenly.

Terrified, I jump and turn around. One of the girls eyes me with an evil stare. But...how did she do that? I she her at the other end of the dead end but she is also just beside me. Oh! She is a witch, who has materialised behind me and has left an illusion at the end of the dead end. So already, here I am confronted by students of Cloud Tower! The ones that I should never go near! And I am all alone... What will happen to me?

The witch laughs at her trick. I hear in her cruel laugh that she has no pity for my. Immediately, an evil power picks my up and throws me hard on the ground, at the feet of her friends, at the other end of the road. Sore, I have enough to strength to warn them:

"Watch it, I'm a fairy!"

A few meager sparks of magic shoot out of my palm but they bounce off without touching witches. They laugh at me. One throws a spell and blocks of hard ice rises out of the asphalt and traps me. Another throws a terrible blast at me. I am picked up by the air in an evil spiral.

I manage to grab ledge of a building. But the magic picks me up and throws on some old crates. The first witch summons around me enough ice that I am soon trapped inside a giant crystal, sneeringly she claws with her long black nails.

The cold quickly swallows my body... I hope my friends from Alfea realise that I have disappeared! ...before it's too late...