Chapter 7

“She’s going to take away my best friend,” Fira said as they got to the waterfall and got off their horses.

Then Tommy asked, “What do you mean by that?”

“Ryan is in love with her. He wants to ask her to marry him,” Fira said.

Then Tommy went over to Fira and said, “Don’t worry about it I’m sure you have more friends that will help you deal with it and besides he loves her.”

She looked at him and said, “Only I don’t really have any other friends beside him and a few in town that are just nice to me because I’m the princess.”

“I’m your friend and always will be,” Tommy told her and gave her a hug.

Just before he pulled back so they could get ready to swim Fira said, “Wait, I’m going to do something and I don’t want you to freak,” Tommy stayed hugged with her and she said, “Okay this won’t be hot.” Then about five seconds later, she and Tommy caught on fire.

Then Tommy seeing himself and Fira on fire said, “Why isn’t it hot?”

“It’s so you don’t have to worry about your clothes getting wet and you can just swim,” Fira responded proud of herself.

“Then why didn’t you do this earlier when you went with Venus?” asked Tommy.

Then Fira responded, “No reason really.”

“Okay, then let’s go,” Tommy said as he walled to the waterfall. Fira then pull her arm right into the waterfall and it made a passageway for them to go through. She let Tommy go first and then followed once pass the waterfall she and Tommy climbed a small hill and there was a wall of water. “What is that?” Tommy asked.

“That’s the way to Atlantis. Let’s go. All you have to do is walk and then swim once you’re completely covered by the water,” Fira told him. Then she started walking into the water, just before she went in Tommy grabbed her hand and she stopped. Then she told Tommy, who had a scared look on his face, “Okay we’ll go together,” with that, Tommy walked forward and they walked into the wall of water together. They swam for quite a bit and Tommy was glad that Fira was there and for some reason he could breathe under the water. After about 15 minutes of swimming Fira pointed for them to swim up, so Tommy did. Once they got to the top, they climbed out of the water and Fira released the fire that was around them. She looked out to Atlantis and said, “It’s really is beautiful.”

“Your right,” Tommy said. Then all of a sudden, Fira fell down to the ground with bent knees, and Tommy ran to her and asked, “Are you okay?”

“Ya I’m fine, just hold up a minute,” Fira said as she sat down on the ground.

Tommy then said, “You don’t look okay. It looks like you need sleep.”

“No I’m fine I just needed to sit down for a minute,” Fira tells him as she starts to stand up.

“Are you sure?” Tommy asks her again.

“Yes I said I was…” Fira says but faints to where she falls and hits her head on the ground.

“Oh no! Fira, Fira, are you okay? Wake up,” Tommy screams. Meanwhile down in Atlantis Ryan heard Tommy scream and rushed out the door to where Fira and Tommy were.

“What happen?” Ryan asked when he got there.

“She just collapsed,” Tommy, told him as he picked up Fira.

Then Ryan said, “Tell me what happen starting from when you found her, back in the forest, and I’ll carry her for you,” and Ryan reach out his arms for Fira.

“It’s okay I got her,” Tommy said, so Ryan put his hands down because he understood, “Okay when I found her she was crying and we talked a bit and then this girl, Nicoliyias showed up…”

“Wait did you say that Nicoliyias showed up? What did she say? Did she ask about me?” Ryan asked in a quick rush.

Tommy let out a small laugh, “Hold on Romeo. First where are we taking Fira?” Ryan pointed to a small building near the castle, and Tommy said, “Okay I’ll tell the rest once she is over there.”

That is when Ryan grabbed a hold to Tommy’s arm and said, “Don’t freak.” When Tommy nodded Ryan jumped up into the air and they landed right by the building. Ryan then told Tommy, “Put her in there and tell the nurse to fix her a bed and lay her down to sleep. She is going to need rest.” Tommy nodded and went into the building.

When he came out Tommy said, “She’s resting and the nurse said she will be fine, I’m glad for that. Okay now I will finish my story about what happened and please do not interrupt me anymore,” Ryan nodded so he continued, “okay so as I was saying Nicoliyias came along and she told me the reason why Fira was crying and she was right. Then she asked if we had seen you and told, us who she was then Fira started acting all mean to her. So I got Fira to leave with me and Nicoliyias said she was going to come over here to since I kind of let it slip that we had to get back to you and when me and Fira got to the pond we took off without Nicoliyias and went to the waterfall. At the waterfall, Fira and I talked a bit. Then she set us on fire with some kind of fire shield that…”

“Wait she used her power while you guys were swimming?” Ryan asked concerned.

Tommy told him, “Yes she set us of fire and that how we swam and then we got here and she collapsed.”

“She used all her energy up doing that. That is why she fainted, she was exhausted,” Ryan said, “Why didn’t you stop her?”

“I…I… I didn’t know. Plus when I asked her why she didn’t do it before when she was swimming with Venus she just said no reason but now I see.” Tommy said with shame.

“She did it for you. At least be happy about that for her but now I’m going to have to figure out how to get her back to the castle,” Ryan said.

That’s when Tommy said, “I’ll take her.”

“What? You can’t take her it will use up your energy and she won’t be able to breathe. We don’t need anyone to die here,” Ryan said.

“Hey can’t you give me some credit. Come on I have been traveling with my mom all my life and she does black magic I know a few things,” Tommy said as he stood up and walked to the water and said, “Hakimo-Bummlebist.” With that, a giant bubble went around his body and he walked out on to the water and slow went down. About 10 minutes after Tommy went down he came back up walked back on to the ground then said, “Bummlebist-Katono. See I can handle carrying her and doing that.”

“Okay I guess but only cause this is desperate measures,” Ryan told Tommy. Tommy and Ryan went to where Venus was so they could tell her what happened.