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The Witch's Revenge Chapter 16
The front door to the post office breaks inward, a tall, blonde young man standing on the other side. Just like the rest of us, he's got his school uniform on, but he's already discarded the vest and tie."Hey, Hotaru. Sorry about this"Rather than aiming for Rosa or Yan, as predicted, he throws himself at me, aiming a punch at my head. Flames burst into life between us, cutting him off and forcing him to move back. It's not a lot of fire maybe enough to consume a watermelon whole but Mac happens to be wary of it.Maria starts throwing small, orb-shaped flames at him, with each one getting swatted away by lan's forearms. Not a single bum appears on him, however, the protective spell Borg already in place. True witches can use that one all the time, without even trying. With Mac, it definitely takes some focus, which he's free to do since he knows he can't go making flowers sprout in a place like this.I throw a basic projectile at him, the green light flying around his head. Since thi
The Witch's Revenge Chapter 17
Mac runs up to the floor just above us, stopping to stare. Maria throws a small fireball at him, but he has no trouble punching through it.He's using the same spell as Rosa. Must mean she's our B. Good. She should be able to handle herself up on the rooftop, then, if the two enemies attack.Mac comes running toward me, Yan still his target. I get between them, letting my attack magic show. Mac holds a hand up above his eyes to stop himself from being blinded again as if I could pull it off now. With Haywire in effect, I'm nothing when it comes to magic.So instead, I latch onto him, wrapping my arms around his neck and pulling us both toward the hole in the wall lam's trap made. Maria keeps hitting him with fireballs, each one sending us deeper into the apartment. He struggles and thrashes, and as soon as he manages to grab my arm, easily pries it off of himself."It's a magic fight!""No rule says that." I grin at him, but it's all just bravado. In a physical fight, I wouldn't be su
The Witch's Revenge Chapter 18
An ord of light springs to life between his palms, which lan throws forward. Rocks break out of the ground and rise toward the light, wrapping around it in drones, soon forming a boulder. Rosa stops running, only staring at the spell in horror."GET DOWN!"Rosa throws herself on the ground, covering her head. I thrust my arms out, releasing the spell I prepared. This time, my timing is right, and lar's eyes widen as he realizes it.Haywire hits it directly, scattering the rocks in every direction. One of them hits his plaque, shattering it and ending the match. The light from his spell goes unstable and vanishes, the rest of the rocks and stones harmlessly falling down.As Resa stands back up, she has a nervous look on her face. "I screwed up."What? She didn't. She got it right; Her timing was perfect. We won! "What are you"Her armband falls off her upper arm, the plaque on it split in two,"It hit the ground when I did."The city vanishes, all eight of us back at the school lobby,
The Witch's Revenge Chapter 19
"I-I can't he help it" stutters the tall, blonde giant. He must be in tears to sound like that. I can barely understand him. The following words he says, I miss completely.I give the bathroom door a few knocks"Busy," lan tells me, tone tough and composed. Huh, Must not have been that close to Maya."She's alive""We're busy What?"As the door opens, I'm faced with lan's scowl. "What did you just say?"Mac is behind him, on the ground, hugging the toilet. His face is an absolute mess red eyes, dishevelled hair, snot around his mouth. Yikes."Maya is alive""Bullshit. I was there. I saw""She died, but the doctor can revive her"Mac starts breathing hard, looking at something behind me or maybe nothing at all."You've gotta be shitting me, grumbles lan, le
The Witch's Revenge Chapter 20
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. I'm sure you've heard the song before. Comes from an old trading festival, which I will be invoking right now to get a bit of symbolism going."I'll be buying something of yours off of you now, lan, using these." I hold the coins up, looking at him. "It can be whatever you have on you. Then you do it with Erik, he can do it with Mac, and he can do it with me. Once we've all done business, we'll trade a few of the item son us, until each of us is also a trader, Clear enough?"With each of them giving me a nod, I take my seat, then toss the coins at lan. "I'd like your shoe, please" He tosses it back at me, turning to Erik. "Give me your tie With a roll of his eyes, the blonde mutters something, but throws the tie forward anyway. "Give me your watch." Of course the rich kid would go for the expensive thing. Mac almost drops the money due to how hard Erik throws it, but manages to grab it all, hitting the aristocrat in the forehead with the watch "Sorry
The Witch's Revenge Chapter 21
HOTARUA few mornings after, it's tense in our room, with neither lan nor I looking at the other. Mac does the opposite, repeatedly looking from one of us to the other"Are you guys fighting?"Instead of looking at him, I meet larr's sulky gaze. "Of course not"Wouldn't dream of it. We just pressed pause""Yes. No need to be bitter about the situation in the least"Standing up, lan puts a hand on his hip. "People could have gotten hurt."If he thinks giving me attitude is enough to make me back down, he's misjudged our relationship. "It was an accident Let it go.""If it was an accident, tell the teachers. They'll understand. It won't affect your points with them.""I'm sure they will right after they give each of us a critical warning. Do you want that?"Saying nothing, he crosses his arms and just stands there. Stubborn bastard."I don't have time for this Spirituality is about to start."And I spend it doing the same thing as always - mindlessly glaring at my crystal orb. Everyone
The Witch's Revenge Chapter 22
"I wanted to cast a spell, and wanted something to help me with it." I go on to describe just what happened, what was intended, and the fact that I began the Rule of Three anyway. Once I'm done, Erin's jaw is clenched tight."Hecate? You used a circle to summon Hecate?""Yes." I already said this. What's wrong?"From one of my books?""Yes..?""Hotaru, there was no such circle in any of my books""What? What is she talking about? "I'm not lying-""I'm not saying you are," she cuts in. "I'm saying somebody messed with the books-somebody who wanted the summoning of Hecate to be attempted. I just want to know how they knew which book to do it to. I checked them all and only yours is missing the page. The others are all normal. Who have you told your plans to?""Nobody" Which is true. Absolutely all my plans for revenge are mine alone. There's no need to involve others in it."Think. Somebody must have known. That's the only explanation""Nobody knew.""This isn't a game!" she screams, a
The Witch's Revenge Chapter 23
A few mornings after, it's tense in our room, with neither lan nor I looking at the other. Mac does the opposite, repeatedly looking from one of us to the other."Are you guys fighting?"Instead of looking at him, I meet lan's sulky gaze. "Of course not.""Wouldn't dream of it. We just pressed pause""Yes. No need to be bitter about the situation in the least."Standing up, lan puts a hand on his hip. "People could have gotten hurt."If he thinks giving me attitude is enough to make me back down, he's misjudged our relationship. "It was an accident. Let it go"If it was an accident, tell the teachers. They'll understand. It won't affect your points with them.""I'm sure they will-right after they give each of us a critical warning. Do you want that?"Saying nothing, he crosses his arms and just st
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Chapter 63
"A spell gone wrong brought me here, I tell her, turning my palms upwards in a show of pacifism. I mean you no harm, I only wish to leave"The woman hisses, pointing one finger at me. "Then leave." From all around her, a whirlwind of petals comes flying toward me. I sense no true power within, so I let the spell hit me. The next moment, I'm in the middle of the rest, rushing through the trees. Then I'm above the ocean, one with the wind. Then I'm being pushed through a stone archway on a remote island.I get flung through it, and emerge back in New Sunshire. Well, that was a trip.Looking around, I see the others have realized what this is all about, too. With everyone going in and out of houses, the doorways are unable to fully close, letting some of the power of those inside them leak out. Perfect.I follow the stench of scented candles and expensive perfume, letting it guide me through an archway leading into a garden overcome by weed. I protect my body before stepping through, jus
Chapter 61
HOTARUOnce again, Quinn is the teacher sent to chaperone us on the field trip. The buses drop us off in New Sunshire, many miles away from regular Sunshire, all the way on one of Scotland's shores. Don't ask me to tell you if it's the east or the west, though. Maybe north and south? Scotland does touch the sea on all sides, right?"I can't believe you brought that," I mutter to Mac, who has a small plant in his lap. "You're gonna break it.""There's a burner moth somewhere in our room, and it keeps messing with my plants. Puffing out his chest as though he were personally challenged, he gets a serious look in his eye, which is not something you often see on Mac. "I'm not letting it have this one.""Why's that one special?"The blonde giant shrugs, looking down at his plant, a tender smile on his face. "It just is. Got the seed from the last one, so this'll be my first time going through multiple generations."I thought that was a regular thing to do, honestly. Well, I never did claim
Chapter 60
IAN"We don't have time for this." Maria approaches, and I can tell what she's going to do by the look in her eyes. Too late to stop her, I can only watch as her palm harshly connects with Hotaru's cheek, nearly knocking him back to the ground. "Wake the hell up."He looks at her, his face turning red, more clarity in his eyes. "Tll curse you into being bald." It's a genuine spell we've learned. Makes one wonder what sort of witch was bored enough to invent such a thing.We throw the dreamcatches into the fire, a large burst of white smoke rising from it, making us all pull back a little.The image that forma inside is nothing like the ones we saw in the bubbles. Instead, what we see is a woman- maybe a man with the same colors as Choronzon, only different features. They're wearing a black centurion-like armor, with absolutely no cloth attached to it, meaning no pants, cape or anything. The armor has jagged shoulder. pads and no sleeves, showing off a pair of thin, pale arms. They hav
Chapter 59
HOTARUPotions aren't really a class I remember all that much about, for whatever reason. Quinn is the teacher, and seems to be looking kind of stiff whenever our eyes meet. Why do I not remember this?I seem to remember the potions well enough, I just don't remember learning how to make any of them. What gives? It's a class we only take once a week, so it should be pretty memorableSeeing that one of the pages of my book has had its comer folded, so I turn toward it. 'Memoria Damnum: How to Delete Someone's Memories.I guess that explains it.With Mac no longer interested, Maya is the only other person who bothered to take it, and this is the one class she excels at. Doesn't take much magic control to make a potion work, so I guess it makes sense she'd put all her energy into this.it's the last class of the day, so we're all free to meet up once it's over. Other than Diana, I'm the first to arrive at the library, Maya probably heading off to meet with Erik first to try and steal eve
Chapter 58
He just gives me a wink, saying nothing. Alright. Keep your secrets."Dreamcatches are typically used to protect children" Diana continues, shooting lan a quick dirty look. "These would be woven in a slightly different pattern. The dream bubbles would have to go through them, where they'd remains until we burned the catcher and saw the dreams inside the smoke. That's the only method described here."If she knows that, she must have gone through the entire damn book. How? How can a person read so fast? She has to be using magic for it. If so, she better share.Antoine's fingers gently, reach for my lower back, giving me a pinch. I reach over to his face, flicking his nose harshly enough to make him wince. His response is to shove his fingers under my ribs, forcing me to squirrn back as I try to get away. This only results in my elbow hitting Maya in the back."Ow. Watch it, man. That hurt.""Sorry""Are you children quite done?" Crossing her arms, Diana starts to fume "Honestly. How ca
Chapter 57
ANASTASIAThe maid is beginning to irk me. The fool is incapable of dusting anything off without dropping it. The earrings we gave her are the only reason I haven't fired her aiready. If she can't offer good services, at least she can offer her energy. Shouldn't be long before her Soul Seed shows itself.I wish there were a quicker method. The Heralds are hunting for us relentlessly, always sending one of them to search. the globe. The Master is keeping us hidden from them, but that simply means wasting his power on things other than his revival, slowing things down even further.I enter Doctor Crowley's lab, the scanner set to recognize my eyes. Once inside, I walk over to the large glass wall, through which the Doctor is currently looking. "You called, sir?""It's about to happen""What is, sir?"A man is inside the other room, in the nude, strapped to the operating table. He keeps twitching around, his eyes flickering with a strange, red light. Every few seconds, a rune appears on
Chapter 56
"Weren't the Old Ones human once?""That's correct""Then how can they be infinite?"The class starts murmuring and muttering, everything along the lines of agreeing with her. I was about to ask a similar question, so I'm glad she opened the topic up.Grey looks like he's uncomfortable talking about this, but still decides to answer. "The Old Ones, the Light and the Dark-they are all people. Not one of them is the same thing they started as. Caught in endless wars, they diminished one another to the point of humanity, an existence of the lowest layer, managed to steal their power and overtum them.The same applies to the Dark and the Light, then."What about the Light and the Dark?" Diana asks, neglecting to read my mind."That one is slightly different." Grey tums back toward the board, his back as full of white as one might expect, drawing a few chuckles. He erases the tip of the pyramid entirely. "The Dark and the Light started out with two names, same as the Older Ones. Yahweh and
Chapter 55
The news covered that? How? With what footage? There's no chance any chopper could have withstood the magic being sent around that place. An illusionary jungle was created for miles around it, too. Did they just use words?The lack of an image is very likely to have the common masses just as fearful as the students are.Quinn, shoulders slumped, sits down on her chair. "I think you deserve to know. Really, I do. It's just not that simple. There are things you can never know about him things you aren't physically able to know. I'm sorry you're scared, and I'm sorry some of you will have to leave, but my decision is final. I'm not saying another word."She tries to make us focus on more nonsense with our guardianshaving them manifest into our world and such- but I'm pretty sure the mood is too dead for anyone to focus.Levitation is a welcome relief, as always. We simply practice some of our moves. Now that Rosa is gone, only Diana and I are actually capable of flight.Roger is here, to
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"Count me in," Antoine adds with a small smile, directing it at me. "Promise you're gonna wear that to class?"I walk up to him, resting a hand on his chest. "I only put this one on to not make a big splash on the first day back. Wait til you see the other ones""Y'know, my mom's a model. If fashion is your thing, I can score some outfits for you."Oh, where have you been all my life?Well, this past week. Before that, I wasn't all that into fashion. All I cared about was looking good. That and glorious vengeance, of course, but that urge has been sated."One small problem, lan starts. "Rosa isn't here."Right. That might be a problem. "Any of you hear from her?" Since we went on a brave quest to save the world, I mean.Nobody offers a response, predictably. With no signal or internet, we don't exactly have a habit of exchanging phone info, since we never get to use it while we're here. Figures nobody bothered to get hers."We could talk to a teacher about it?" suggests Maya. "I don't
