The Broken Angel & Her Overprotective Brothers

Emily and Shadow finished their lunch before the two of them headed towards the library on the third floor.

"Are you sure that the library is a good place for this? What if we ended up ruining the books, or the shelves, or maybe those historical paintings? Domenic will kill both of us." Emily tried to remind Shadow of the consequences that they would be facing if anything went wrong in the library.

"I think your brother should be more worried about the two of us instead of his library just in case something went wrong. As for your first question, the library is just perfect for this situation," answered Shadow as he unlocked the library door and waited for her to enter before following behind her.

The two of them made their way to the other side of the huge room where couches were sitting around a small glass table next to a huge window locating under the stairs that led to the upper compartment of the library.

Just when Emily was about to sit down, she was stopped by Shadow. "Go and get these books from the upper collections." He told her before handing her a slip with the names of the books written on it.

"We have these here?" Emily asked in a surprised tone when she noticed that all the books mentioned in the slip were books containing supernatural knowledge and magical spells. These were definitely the last books she expected to find in her brother's library. 

Instead of answering her, Shadow just pointed at the stairs that would lead her to the secret collections of the book that were located in the forbidden compartment built in a secluded corner of the library.

Emily didn't waste any more time and hurried to grab the books. It took her four rounds to get all the mentioned books to the sitting area where Shadow was busy looking through these books as he searched for something.

"What are you trying to find?" She asked as she took a seat opposite him and pulled one of the ancient books towards her. 

"A spell for you to master to help your spirit beasts fuse with elemental magic." 

"Huh?" 

Emily's head jerked up as she stared at Shadow with a dumbfounded expression on her face. She was having a hard time processing whatever he had just said. What spell? What did he mean by fusing elemental magic with her three little treasures? 

Her surprised reaction made Shadow look up at her. Seeing her questioning look, he locked the door of the library with a spell before he took out the six balls of elemental magic and let them dangle in the air between the two of them.

Emily observed the six floating balls that were emitting a powerful aura, reminding her that she had the similar energy before while she was at the Nightfall Academy. "Do these have anything to do with the Spirit ball that I've in my possession?" She finally asked after a few minutes of observation. 

"That's right. While the Spirit ball contains the spiritual energy that controls the other six elements, these six balls contain the essence of those six elements individually. Since you will be fusing with the Spirit Ball, it's perfect to let your spirit beasts fuse with these elemental magic." Shadow explained as he flicked his fingers and made the six floating balls disappear.

"The fusion spell that I know is too powerful for your spirit beasts to handle. That's why we need a different spell. That's the spell I'm searching for." He explained further as he once again returned his attention to the books piled up in front of him.

"But I'm still unable to handle the Spirit element. Will it be alright to let little treasures fuse with the other elements right now?" Emily asked in an uncertain voice. She was worried that her lack of control over the spirit element would cause trouble for her spirit beasts.

"Don't worry too much about it. I'll make sure that the three of them will be alright. As for your control over the spirit element... that also won't be a problem by the end of the year." Shadow calmly replied but his words only made Emily worried.

"Is that what you have been busy doing the past two days? Finding ways to sort out my problems?" She asked him even when she already knew the answer.

Shadow didn't reply. Instead, he kept his entire attention focused on his books which made Emily scoff but she decided to drop the topic. The best she could do at the moment was to try her very best and not disappoint him after all the hard work he was putting into her. 

She too tried to look through the old pages of the books to see if she could find any spell related to the fusion of the soul and essence of elements. Unfortunately, most of the books were written in the ancient language of the elves and she had very limited knowledge about it.

Soon enough, she got bored and decided to let Shadow handle the work since she was unable to provide any help.

She watched as Shadow suddenly drew her tablet with a simple spell and handed it to her. "You can work on your comic if you want." He told her before he resumed his search.

A small smile made its way to Emily's lips as she thanked him and accepted the tab. She immediately opened her comic site to see the new comments and reviews that her readers had left on her latest update. 

"How long before you will be able to end this story?" Shadow asked when he noticed her drawing a rough sketch of the new chapter.

"I'm almost on the last arc of the story. I think I'll be able to end it before winter." Emily replied as she started adding little details to the background of the sketch.

Shadow nodded his head while he recalled the letter that he received from the Fae court. "That sounds good... you will probably be too busy this winter to handle two comics at a time."