As she races through the door, she hears it slam shut behind her. Turning around, she notices a short, tufty-haired boy standing with his back against the polished mahogany. Kelsey turns on him angrily when she realizes there is no way out of the room she has just entered. "What do you want with me?!" she exclaims, balling her hands into fists.

The boy gives her a small, twitchy smile. He doesn't look very dangerous (he might be about twelve), but then again, neither did Meredith and Amnester. "You're Kelsey, right? My name's Iggy."

Kelsey shifts her stance to remain stable in the off chance that he turns out to be Unspeakably Evil and runs at her with a Concealed Pointy Object. "What do you want with me?" she repeats, more confident now and considerably more authoritative.

Iggy swipes a clump of dark brown hair out of his eyes. "You're the linixie that Mer and Am want." He seems intent on repeating known truths until he can function properly. "Actually, what I wanna say is I'm on your side. I saw the whole thing - you getting captured and all. I've never liked Am and Mer's never nice to me. So I was wondering... Can I come with you?"

Kelsey hears Sophie's voice in her head again. Kelsey, where are you? What's taking you so long?

Somebody stopped me. He says his name is Iggy and he hates Amnester and Meredith, also he wants to come with us.

She can practically hear Sophie's exasperated sigh. Run him through the Sidekick Scen. I don't have time to tell you how to do it all but the instructions should be on the box.

Kelsey doesn't have the time to wonder what a Sidekick Scan is before a large cardboard box pops into existence in front of her. Opening it, she sees a device that looks like a thermometer. Attached to the end is a tag that reads "Official Sidekick Scan. Just stick in potential sidekick's mouth and press the button."

She does just that, not paying attention to Iggy's bewildered questions. In exactly three seconds, the thermometer beeps, and the display on the handle reads "Adequate for Sidekick."

"I'll take that as a 'good enough'," Kelsey sighs. "Iggy, do you know how to get out of here?"

"Of course I do. I'm half-gargoyle, that's my specialty." Iggy winks, looking much less twitchy now, and kneels down to the stone floor. Placing a hand in the center of a tile, he pushes and it cracks in half.

The entire floor disappears, and they find themselves falling through the sky, somehow above where they had originally been.

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I thought we needed another character. But one who wasn't trying to kill/imprison/steal their powers.

Kelsey stared at the pile of red rubble. "Amnester," Frank said darkly. Tears started to stream down Sophie's face. "Now what?" Kelsey asked in a small voice. "I don't know..." Frank replied. Anger started to course through Kelsey. How could he do this? Why? Just because she was some silly linixie? He's a power-hungry monster! "Whoa!" Frank said, startled, staring at Kelsey. The tips of her hair had caught fire. "Guess that's what happenes when linixie's get mad," Iggy said, eyebrows notched. He seemed a lot more focused, more alert. "Yes," Kelsey said, fists clenched. "I am mad! I'm going to fix this! Back up!" She sprouted her fairy wings and shot up in the air. She wasn't exactly sure what all she was capable of, but she just did it as she thought and felt. She gazed at the pile of rubble, then raised her arms, hands spread. She concentrated. Then, the linixie power took over. Her eyes changed, and began glowing a violent shade of violet. The ground began to shake. Frank, Iggy, and Sophie all backed up even more so. Then, beams of light appeared, intertwining themselves, making beams, and pillars. Walls shimmered into existence. It all began to take on the look of a house. Finally, several minutes later, Frank, Sophie and Iggy were staring at a large strawberry red mansion. It had a wrap-around porch, pillars evenly spaced, and a second floor porch. The roof was made of deep blue shingles, and windows were spaced on both levels every few feet. The glow died from Kelsey's eyes. The rush was gone, and she dropped from the sky, thoroughly spent. She nearly crashed to the ground, if Frank hadn't expected this, and caught her. "Nice!" Sophie said grinning! "This is incredible!"

Taday!

Kelsey haunts me in my dreams.

"A linixie?" she says, "what kind of writer thinks of a linixie?"  She storms off and flies away.  The scene melts from a luminescent cave to my English teacher's classroom.  The useless posters are plastered on the wall at precise angles, but it looks like all the ink flowing out of the red pens that scream, "Punctuation is Key?" is blood.  I look at my teacher, and she comes at me, little bat wings shooting out of her back. 

"You think you'll ever be a writer, you fool?  You'll never do anything with this manure of a manuscript!" The evil looking pencils start singing, as the teacher closes in on me.

Ilene hurried me off to finish what would happen to Kelsey, so I started writing.

The last thing Kelsey remembered was Sophie's massive grin, then she blacked out. She awoke to the feeling of soft sheets. She blinked her eyes open, sat up, and gazed around. The room was pink and white striped. A vanity stood over against one wall, a closet across from the bed. Or, beds. Kelsey realized her bed was one of two. They were just alike, green head and footboards, with a cream bedspread with flowers all over it. Identical plaques hung above the beds. Hope, Faith, Charity. A table stood between the beds, and an armouire stood by the window. All the furniture was old fashioned, like it was from the early 1900's. "Oh good, you're up!" Sophie's voice floated across the room. Kelsey hadn't noticed her at first. She sat by a lamp, curled up in a large armchair, again, one of two. "You did a wonderful job! The house is huge and beautiful! And this," Sophie said, waving her arm at the room, "is ours!" Kelsey swung her legs around and rubbed her head. She vaguely recalled using her powers, in a way she had never even known she could. But it was all so fuzzy. She tried to stand up, but nearly fell over. Sophie came over and gently placed her back on the bed. "Don't try getting up too soon. You used a lot of power. Something like that leaves you pretty drained." "What happened, exactly?" Kelsey asked. "Oh, you got mad that Amnester destroyed the house, so you flew up, and rebuilt it into this beautiful mansion! After that, though, you fell out of the sky, Frank caught you, and brought you up here. He told me to stay with you, in case you awoke, tied getting up, or doing something rash. He's currently doing a cross between lookout and exploring." Kelsey thought about that. "Well," she laughed, "I guess he knows me well enough. I do want to get up and see what I did." With Sophie's help she got up and walked out of the bedroom. The first thing that met her eyes was...

Taday! Sorry, but I REALLY wanted to design their room! Sort of Anne Shirley's bedroom from the movie. I've always wanted my room to look like that.