From zero updates in months to two updates in one day…Ah well, stranger things have happened. The story is coming to a close though,
I think 2 (maybe 3) more chapters. I hope I'll stay this inspired! If you'd like to, tell me what you think!

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When they reached the far end of the clearing Siva let go of Magnus' arm to stand in front of him, crossing her arms over her chest.

'Okay shoot, tell me about that master spell of yours oh Magnificent one.'

Very amused by her as usual, Magnus took his bag from his shoulder, produced an ordinary looking crystal from it and put it in his friend's
waiting hand.

Siva weighed it and looked at it, but without getting any wiser she looked back up, 'I have no idea why this is an important part of your
elusive spell, so I suggest that you cut the smirking and tell me what we are to do before that creep gets here.'

Magnus smirked some more in spite of her comment, 'Oh Siva dear, don't be so dramatic, I simply thought you would know what kind of
crystal it was.' 'I suppose it's no surprise that you don't because you don't own a single decent piece of jewellery.'

Earning himself a venomous glare he laughingly added, 'but no matter, I will show you how to use it and buy you a pretty necklace once
this is over.'

Before she could reply, he took the crystal from her hand with both of his own and started murmuring the words to a spell Siva recognized.

The words formed a multiplying spell from the Book of White, seldom used, but not immensely difficult to perform. She realized that Magnus'
spell was as simple as it was brilliant, Chiron wouldn't know where to run because he wouldn't be able to!

Meanwhile more and more Magnuses appeared in all corners of the clearing surrounding the lake, all murmuring the same words until the
spell was complete.

When he put the crystal in Siva's hands, a sea of Magnuses winked at her, seeming to say 'and now we wait.'

Shaking her head she said 'you are one brilliant Warlock mr. Bane', earning herself a smile from the man that had been her friend for
hundreds of years.

Then she closed her eyes and started to recite the spell, feeling the crystal divide her into a thousand pieces.

Who knew rage had a taste? Chidon certainly didn't, until now. How could he have let Magnus Bane and that damned woman escape trough
a portal! As he moved through the woods like a bullet after using a tracking spell he thought about the last time he'd encountered Magnus
Bane.

It'd been sometime in the late 1800's, he'd been on the hunt for a wholly different object back then, an object of which Magnus Bane was the owner still. Fighting him hadn't been the cleverest idea he'd ever had because he'd lost, but he was stronger now, he made sure of that,
Magnus Bane wouldn't allude him a second time.

Fuelled by his ardent desire to kill the Warlock who calls himself magnificent he pushed himself to move even faster; he was getting close. He
was just thinking about all the ways he would make Magnus pay for the fight he made him lose all those years ago when he had to stop. He
had reached a lake that was surrounded by more then trees and a sheer mountainside, everywhere he looked was the face of Magnus Bane
and that woman, multiplied by a thousand at the least. Chidon took an involuntary step back, this was not good.