Malakia and Phoebe got up off the ground and walked towards the palace holding hands. When they reached Alieta and Ginger, Phoebe smiled at Alieta. "Where are you two going?" asked Ginger. "Malakia is going to introduce me to his friends," said Phoebe. "Before you go, can I ask you a question Malakia?" asked Ginger. "Sure, what do you want to know?" asked Malakia. "I was talking to a friend about black stallions and she said that it was next to impossible to catch one, said Ginger. I was wondering how you aquired Black Magic." "Well I needed a new horse seeing my other one went lame and had to be put down so I went to the horse farm where they raise race horses but always have some for sale for a very good price that are no good for racing or too old. I saw Black Magic running around with the other horses and figured that horse wouldn't be for sale but I asked about him always. The owner said take him, he is no good to me and is just costing me money feeding him. Two hundred bucks and he is yours. I asked what was wrong with him and he said the horse won't turn on the track. He just keeps running straight off the track and onto the grassland then stops. We tried everything to fix him with blinders and different riders but nope that stallion has a mind of it's own and can't be changed. Real pitty though. Black Magic comes out of the gate so fast and gets over ten lengths ahead of the other horses on the first straight away then goes off the track at the first bend. It's like he figures why bother embarasing the other horses and just stops to watches them go by. Well I didn't want a race horse and two hundred bucks was a great price for a stallion, so I bought him and was able to ride him home. So he is your horse now?" asked Malakia. "Yep, super fast horse," said Ginger. "Oh ya, fastest ever but I if you want him to turn and not slowdown all the way, just tap him on the side of the neck and say left or right in elven, said Malikia. He understands what you say and will start to turn slowing down just a bit then straighten him out and it is full speed ahead again. That horse has stanamia like no other. Try talking to him and see for yourself. He understands what you are saying to him, I am sure of it, he even watches closely what other people are doing or saying. Too bad he can't talk but that would of put the price up big time." "Okay enough horse talk, said Phoebe. Take me to meet your friends then I will take you to see some of mine. Then they walked to the other side of the steps. "Wow so Ktara was right, he was no good for racing, said Ginger. I am going back to the stable and try talking to him like Malakia said." Then Ginger ran back to the stable. "Well looks like Ginger found her boyfriend and Phoebe has a good grip on Malakia, thought Alieta. Just two more to go. Man love is really moving fast today in Fae Land." Alexa showed up at the palace and found Alieta sitting on the couch. "Well Ginger was right, all the radios are sold out in town, said Alexa. Ginger said there was some in the storage room that I could buy for Tempressa and me. Is she around?" "She is in the stable talking to Black Magic," said Alieta. "That horse can talk too?" asked Alexa. "No but the past owner swears the horse understands everything that is said to it, said Alieta. "Oh okay, most horses can understand some of the things that is said to them thought that horse seemed to be listening to every word I was saying to Ginger, said Alexa. Anyways can I get a couple radios?" "Yep, lets go in the palace and break into that last box of them," said Alieta. As soon as Alieta stood up Trigger ran over and jumped on the couch. "Who is your friend Alieta. Does she like to play?" "What have you got here?" asked Alexa. "This is Trigger and she is a Precious pet that Gabriel sent down, said Alieta. There is another one around somewhere named Koko." "Yep Koko is with Aiko and Sabrina talking to Tiffany over there, said Trigger. I think they want to go shopping or something. So what is your name?" "Alexa, I live at the other end to Fae Land." "Is that far away? I have only been on the palace grounds," said Trigger. "Yep pretty far away I would say. You wouldn't want to walk there," said Alexa. "Okay we have to go in the palace and get a couple of radio's for Alexa," said Alieta. "Can I come too, I am bored," said Trigger. "I suppose so," said Alieta. "Can we get some ice cream too?" asked Trigger. "Oh another ice cream lover, said Alexa. I always have some ice cream when I come to the palace." "Okay first the radios, then the ice cream," said Alieta. Okay, said Trigger then jumped off the couch and followed them. "So Alexa you are not as tall as everyone else her and I like that, how often do you come to the palace?" asked Trigger. Both Alexa and Alieta smiled. "Cleaver little devil isn't she," said Alexa. "Nope I am a tiger, said Trigger, What's a devil?" "Never mind Trigger just come with us," said Alieta. Miyo was getting right into picking out records to play and looking at the cd that pixie Ginger left for them to play. The phone rang which starled Miyo a bit because that was the first time it rang on her shift. "Hello, 101.5 FM, Miyo speaking." "Hi Miyo, you don't know me but I heard a really cool song yesterday that I would like to hear you play again today. Is that okay?" "Yes it is, what was the name of the song?" asked Miyo. "Sign Of The Gypse Queen by a band called Queen. That is an awesome song." "Okay I will have a look for it and play it as soon as I find it," said Miyo. "Thanks your the best," then she hung up. "Okay Queen, where did I see that album before. She started going through all the albums one by one. "Man we need a better way of doing this, thought Miyo. I think it was a red album. Here it is, Queen, side two Sign Of The Gypse Queen." She took out the record then set it up on turn table one. If all these albums were in alphebetical order by band name it would be way faster to find them. Something I can do after my shift is over. The present song went over and Miyo turned on the microphone. Okay all we have a request from one of our listeners. Sign Of The Gypse Queen by Queen. Awesome song so get ready to rock. She dropped the needle and the song started. She looked at the phone and it showed the last calllers phone number. "Hey I thought all the numbers in Fae Land start with 777, this one is 259, that is weird. Ivy flew out of the cove and was headed to the palace when she felt something very bad which made her stop and land. She tried to get a better read on it but she couldn't. "Must be too far away," she thought. She saw some sprites flying by and waved them down. One of them was Jazmen and she came down alone and landed beside Ivy. "What is it Ivy?" asked Jazmen. "I just started to feel something very bad," said Ivy. "Really, where?" asked Jazmen. "Not exactly sure but far away in the west," said Ivy. "We just came from Paxon and didn't see anything out of the usual," said Jazmen. "Maybe a bit further west of Paxon, said Ivy. It is kind of foggy." Well if it isn't in Paxon or Fae Land then there is no threat to us," said Jazmen. "Bad is evil plus evil is attacted to magic and Paxon is being charged with magic now," said Ivy. "Okay so what do you want to do, tell Alieta?" asked Jazmen. "Not yet, I have to find it first," said Ivy. "Okay but you are not going alone, I am coming with you," said Jazmen. "Okay, follow me then," said Ivy then took off fast. Hey wait up! yelled Jazmen. Ivy kept flying west and Jazmen followed her. Then Ivy stopped and said that way. Now they were going southwest and soon left Paxon. "Look down there, said Ivy. What is that?" "Can't tell from up here, said Jazmen. Let's go down and have a look." They flew down in front of an archway with two closed gates. "What is this place?" asked Ivy. "This is a graveyard and a very old one from the looks of it," said Jazmen. "So dead people are buried out there?" asked Ivy. "Well, they are all decomposed by now but humans bury their dead and mark the spot with a gravestone," said Jazmen. "There is lots of bad stuff out there," said Ivy. "Maybe they were all bad people," said Jazmen. "I am not sensing people, said Ivy. Something different and lots of them." "Do you mean ghosts? asked Jazmen. Well, ghosts are just lost souls, they can't hurt you or even move anything. They just float around lost with no purpose." Suddenly the two gates began to open slowly making a creaking sound. "Um I thought you said they can't move anything," said Ivy. "They can't, there must be some ropes or a spring trigger that made them open," said Jazmen. "I don't see anything connected to them, said Ivy. This is getting spooky." "Ya a little bit, said Jazmen. Let's go in and have a look at one of the gravestones and check the date on it. You go in, I will guard the gate," said Ivy. "Really you are scared to go in a graveyard. Dead people can't hurt you,: said Jazmen. "I can feel them but can't see them and they are very bad," said Ivy. "Never mind I will check those ones over there myself," said Jazmen. Jazmen walked over to the tall tomb stone but saw no date or name on it. Just some scription etched into the stone in an unknown language. She walked over to a smaller grave stone and bent down some. "Died Oct 10 1869. Aged 60 Years. William Catney. Over a hundred and seventy years ago," said Jazmen. Suddenly Jazmen felt something grab her ankle. She looked down and saw nothing. She tried to shake loose but the grip got tighter. "Ivy help, something has hold of my ankle and won't let go!" yelled Jazmen. Ivy flew over fast but saw nothing. "I don't see anything," said Ivy. "Well something has me and it is beginning to hurt," said Jazmen. Ivy went invisible and then saw a dirty decayed hand holding on to Jazmen and a head was coming out of the ground. She started stomping on the hand but it wouldn't let go. She gave the head a hard kick with her foot and the head came off and rolled to the side. The hand let go and they both flew up. "I thought you said dead people can't hurt you," said Ivy. "I was wrong, lets get out of here," said Jazmen. They started to fly up but something was trying to hold them down. "Flap faster Jazmen!" yelled Ivy. Ivy had hold of Jazmen and both of them flapped their wings as fast as they could. Then they broke free and flew up higher. "What the heck was that?" asked Jazmen. "Pure evil and not the strongest here, said Ivy. Look over there, a big house, that wasn't there before." "Your right but lets put some distance between us and that grave yard," said Jazmen. "Good idea, lets get up high and do a fly by then we will go back and tell Alieta what is out here," said Ivy. "Okay," said Jazmen that was still dealing with a sore ankle. They got nice and high the flew towards the house. As they got closer they could see all the first floor windows were boarded shut including the front door. There were no lights on inside and the big old house looked abandon. Suddenly lights inside started to flicker, first like candle light but then a bright red like the place was on fire inside but there was no smoke. "What was that?" asked Ivy. "Where?" asked Jazmen. "In the second floor windows, I saw what looked like people moving," said Ivy. "I really don't want to find out, said Jazmen. My foot is really sore now and turning red. I need to get back to the palace now." Ivy looked at Jazmen's foot and it was very red and swollen. "Okay lets move it," said Ivy. As they flew off they could hear screaming coming from the house. They both ignored it and flew as fast as could back to the palace. When they reached the palace there was no one outside. "Where is everyone? asked Ivy. Jazmen get on the couch, I am getting Lilly. That foot is getting worse fast." "You're telling me, hurry up, I can barely stand the pain," said Jazmen. Ivy flew as fast as she could to the cove and in record time came back with Lilly. "What the heck happened to your foot?" asked Lilly. "We will tell you later just heal it," said Ivy. Lilly made her wand appear and started healing the foot. It looked like it was healing but when she stopped went all red again. "What the heck is going on here," said Lilly. She tried again but the same thing happened. "This isn't working, said Lilly. I can't heal this. I don't even know why it is like this." "You can't heal it, but you can heal anything," said Ivy. "Not whatever this is, said Lilly. Fairy magic has little effect on it. I can hold the wand on the foot to keep it from spreading more but that is it. What happened?" "A dead person in a grave grabbed her ankle and wouldn't let go," said Ivy. "A dead person, well maybe an angel can fix it, said Lilly. That is all I can think of." Ivy stood up and yelled for Gabriel. "Gabriel come fast Jazmen is hurting bad. It is an emergency". In a few moments, Gabriel appeared. "Oh my goodness what happened here?" asked Gabriel. "We were investigating a big graveyard just outside of Paxon when a dead guy in a grave grabbed her ankle and wouldn't let go I was able to break Jazmen free when I went invisible," said Ivy. "I see, touched by pure evil then. Your wand is no good against this Lilly, said Gabriel. Where is Alieta?" "Don't know, probably inside," said Ivy. "Okay, Lilly go inside and find Alieta while I take care of this," said Gabriel. "Okay," then Lilly ran into the palace. Gabriel got down on one knee then lightly took hold of Jazmen's foot. She closed her eyes then slowly the red began to fade and the foot went back to it's normal size. She opened her eyes then took her hands away from Jazmen's foot. "There all done, said Gabriel. You will need to stay off this foot for a couple of days but after that, it will be just fine." "Thank you Gabriel, your a miricle worker," said Jazmen. "Well I am an angel and that is what we do," said Gabriel with a smile. "You said she was touched by pure evil, said Ivy. I did sense evil there but all over the place. I guess we shouldn't of gone there in the first place." "Really, you sensed something bad and would ignore it, said Gabriel. I dought that would of happened. You did what you had to do and brought some one you trusted to go with you. You did the right thing and now we know where it is." "Well I am sure it wasn't there before when we were searching for Penny, said Ivy. Plus a big house appeared out of nowhere, a real spooky one." "Yep, you found the Land Of Pure Evil, at least that is what we call it," said Gabriel. Very hard to find even for me. It moves to a place taking it's victims then moves some where else." Just then Alieta and Alexa came running out. "What happened, Lilly is in tears saying she couldn't fix Jazmen, said Alieta. "Well she did good, she used her wand and stopped the evil from spreading, made my job easier," said Gabriel. Now stay away from there for now as I go get the only person that can battle this kind of evil. Fill Alieta in, she looks very confused." Then Gabriel vanished. "Okay Ivy, what the heck happened here?" asked Alieta. "Well here Lilly first tried to heal Jazmen's foot but couldn't so I called Gabrilel and she healed her," said Ivy. "Yes Ivy, that I already know, what caused Jazmen to get hurt?" asked Alieta. "Well it is very spooky to talk about, said Ivy. You tell her Jazmen." "I will tell her until we got to the grave yard then you take over, said Jazmen. You were able to see it and break me free." "What are you two talking about? asked Alieta. One of you speak up." "Well I was flying with a couple of sprites and was coming here to give you a report when I saw Ivy on the ground waving me down, said Jazmen. I flew down and she said she felt something bad but it was pretty far away. We decided to go together and find out what it was. We flew across Paxon then to the south west corner just outside of the Paxon border I think and we found a grave yard." "Yep Jazmen said it was very old, said Ivy. Tell her about the gates." "Well Ivy never saw a grave yard before so I just told her that human buried their dead in graves and there was nothing to be scared of because dead decayed people can't hurt anyone, said Jazmen. Even if there were ghosts there they can't touch or move anything. That is when the front gates opened by themself. Kind of creepy but I still believed ghosts can't hurt anyone so I went into the grave yard by myself because Ivy was too scared to go in past the gates, to read one of the grave stones. The person buried there died like a hundred and seventy years ago. That is when it started. Okay take over Ivy." "Okay what happened Ivy, old grave yards are very common all over the place," said Alieta. "Not like this one, said Ivy. Jazmen started to call for me to help her because something had hold of her ankle and couldn't get loose. I went there fast but couldn't see anything but Jazmin was really struggling to get loose and you know how strong she is. I went invisible then saw a gross looking rotting hand holding on to Jazmen's ankle, so I went translucent also then began to stomp on the arm to break it loose but it wouldn't budge. Then a head began to rise out of the grave and man it was ugly. I gave it a few kicks with my foot and the head came off and rolled to the side. Then Jazmen was ahble to break loose so we tried to fly away." Hey that is what I used to do, said Alexa. Cut off the bad guy's head and that makes sure they were completely dead." "Yes we know, said Alieta but it sounds like this thing was already dead. So what happened next? You said you tried to fly away." "Yep we did but something was holding us back, said Ivy. It took both of us hanging on to each other, flapping out wings as fast and hard as we could to finally break free and that is when we saw the house not that far away and that house was not there when we first got there. We decide to get up nice and high and do a fly by just to check it out but as we got closer we could see the bottom windows here boarded up and then the lights inside began to flicker then glow red. We got the heck out of there but heard screaming from inside the creepy big house. Then we came here." "Now that would make a good start to a very good ghost story, said Alexa. A grave yard, the living dead and a haunted house. People write books about scary things like that." "Yes but those stories are fictional, said Alieta. This really happened. So now what do we do?" "Well I am going home to lay on the couch, said Jazmen. Gabriel told me not to use my foot for a couple of days." "I am going to my place and see if there is anything about a town of pure evil on the internet," said Ivy. "What about you Alexa?" asked Alieta. "I am staying right here to see what happens next. That is the most exciting thing I have heard about in a long time," said Alexa. Alieta smiled and shook her head.
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