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preserve and research facility called The Garden. I’m designed to stay on Earth for long periods of time.”
    Fairimentals had visited Emily, Adriane, and Kara on Earth in the past, but their particular magic could only be sustained in this world for minutes, sometimes seconds, before falling apart.
    “What are you doing here?” Emily asked.
    “I materialized my elemental byproducts in Ravenswood but I was attacked by a pack of brimbees so I had to triangulate on your jewels, construct a portal path—”
    “Gah!”
    “What are you doing here? ” Emily repeated.
    “I was sent to find the mages.” Tweek’s quartz eyes eyed Ozzie. “ You’re not one, are you?”
    “I’m the fuzzy one!” Ozzie crossed his arms angrily.
    “I have a very important message!” Tweek cried, waving his arms so dramatically that a few twigs flew off.
    “What is it?” Emily asked worriedly.
    Tweek’s twiggy features settled into serious lines. “Something terrible has happened. Avalon has lost its magic.”
    Ozzie pressed his paws to his head. “What!?”
    “Can you tell us anything else, Tweek?” Emily asked.
    Twigs and leaves fell to the ground as the E.F. shuddered. “This is my first assignment,” he said, picking up pieces of himself. “Maybe I didn’t get everything just right, but I know I have to find the missing magic—AHHHHH!”
    Mage and ferret mage stared at the E.F.
    “Look out behind you, it’s a—”
    Bang! Tweek exploded into a cloud of twigs and brush.
    Emily whirled around, her rainbow gem pulsing a deep crimson warning light.
    Four sparkling tornadoes were touching down on the far side of the canyon. The desert floor bulged and undulated as if it had suddenly turned liquid.
    Domino neighed, stomping her hooves, ready to run.
    “Let’s get out of here!” Ozzie cried.
    Grabbing Ozzie, Emily sprang into the saddle as the horse bolted. She had to warn Adriane and Kara. This was no ordinary sandstorm.
    “Go, Domino!”
    The horse ran at breakneck speed, slaloming around the first whirlwind. The tornado spun like a giant, colored top, roaring over rocks and melting them to vile black sludge. Another wind engulfed several cacti, twisting them into horrible thorned monstrosities. Emily leaned left as Domino raced between a pair of oncoming tornadoes, narrowly missing them. Stinging edges of dark magic whirled past Emily as her jewel blazed upon her wrist. She stifled a scream. Nature itself was being twisted and bent into unnatural forms. She leaned forward, urging Domino to outrun the fourth wind, leaving the twisters spinning against the canyon walls like pinballs.
    Within seconds they were safe, out of the canyon.
    Behind them a huge jagged fin rose up and then disappeared beneath the sands.



“E MILY .”
    Emily walked into her living room. Ghostly beams of light played over what used to be couches and chairs, now twisted into slabs of black ice. She caught movement from the corner of her eye. Spiders skittered up and down the walls.
    Carolyn stood in the hallway watching her daughter. “Your new mother is here to see you.”
    A tall woman stood facing the hearth, long dark hair falling down her back. The woman slowly turned, and Emily’s voice locked in a silent scream.
    The woman’s porcelain white skin matched the streak of white lightning in her jet-black hair. And her eyes, the vertical slits of an animal, pulsed with a feral glow.
    “We’re family now, dear,” the Dark Sorceress sneered, beckoning Emily forward with a long silver claw.
    Vampire fangs appeared at the edge of her thin lips as the sorceress embraced Emily, pulling her into darkness—
    “Emily, are you in there?”
    Emily opened her eyes to find two noses, one furry, one damp and cool, in her face.
    Dreamer gave her a lick as Ozzie dropped a tangle of curly hair back over her face. Wiping sleepy eyes, Emily let the nightmare fade.
    “We brought you something to eat,” Adriane said, standing by the bunk bed. She handed