So sorry about the delay!
We didn't talk much as we began racing away from the wall, we needed to get far as we could from there. I could feel the rage rolling from Jason as he kept by my side. As a hybrid now I could run faster than any of them but I didn't. Having them believe I was running away from them wasn't a good idea at the moment. Especially since Jason was mad at me, and Emily was probably regretting letting me retrieve my sword. I cared and and I didn't, my sword meant a lot to me. And even in their custody I probably wouldn't have lasted long mentally, and physically without it.
Before we left the wall Jason had told me where we were going, and I wasn't too excited about it. Going through a Stage Portal wasn't respectful of the Angels who guarded them. People who got caught in them thought they were fairy's but they weren't. Angels protected them from Vampires (like the ones I was with), and other species who wanted to destroy the portals. We were going to the Eighth. I'd heard many things about it, that the Angels couldn't protect it like they used to and many were dying from the rogue vampires that terrorized it and used it to escape.
I could feel the power as we neared the portal, a oval mirror sitting on the bottom of a hill. It was positioned on a wheel. And was hard to get into if it was heavily guarded. Emily leapt inside of it, and the Vampires followed, Jason came in back of me. Not wanting to go first and I don't follow. Reluctantly I went through and they were standing there waiting for me. I couldn't believe what I saw. No Angels were there, no one from the Gates were there at all. Just rogues and death.
The Vampires didn't look bothered at the scene, they began walking steadily left down a wide road and I was forced with them. My tears welled beneath my eyes. I couldn't take this, this wasn't right! There was supposed to be life here, love , animals frolicking, and people living there lives as they were promised after death.
"This is wrong" I said to myself, my fists balled at my hips and I bit down on my lips as I tried not to speak anymore.
"This is how it is" The blond female said, she didn't sound like she liked it either but she accepted how it was. And that was giving up hope that life here could be better. I would do something about this, I vowed to myself that I would.
"Where are we going now?" I asked curiously, Vampires stared at me, and humans were laying around like trash. Skinny, sick and their eyes showing defeat.
"Emily knows a witch here, she will transport us to the Third Portal where I have a secret home at" Sonny explained.
"I had a dream about you" The witch said hoarsely when she opened her front door for us. She stared straight at me. And I felt that she was looking right at my soul with her bottomless black eyes. We all came into her living room that was bare of any furniture. All of her stuff was on the floor, and she patted a spot on in the middle of a chalked circle. "Sit here Samantha"
My eyes bulged, "You don't seriously think I'm going to sit there are you?"
Her old hands pointed to her temple, "Yes cause I saw it that way"
"Well see it another way because I don't trust you, you're just supposed to transport us to the Third" I said adamently, I was not plopping my ass into that circle.
The old witch smacked her lips, " I'm not doing a thing until you sit" She pointed down at the circle, "Sit we are wasting time"
"Damn you to hell" I snarled, going to sit in the white chalked circle. She smiled at me smugly and went to retrieve a both of vials. She grabbed a light blue vial and came back to me. Bending down to rub the cool oil over my forehead.
"That's not a very angelic thing to say" She muttered, her breath hot like acid on my skin.
"I'm not much of an angel anymore."
"In your heart your more pure than anything else" She told me standing and walking out of the circle.
"What are you doing to her?" Jason asked concerned, I could tell he didn't' trust the witch with me.
"Hush boy, I'm going to see this young woman's future" She said waving a wooden stick around in the air in a circle. She looked directly at me, I felt my soul go to her. Connecting with some kind of force that was within her. And then I passed out.
"So you aren't going to tell me what happened?" I asked Emily once we were only, she seemed really shaken up by what she'd seen. And by her and the rest of them not telling me anything I was really worried.
"Quit asking me Sam, I can' tell you and it's killing me that I can't because-You should know but that fucking witch bonded us in a contract not to. What I can tell you is that it's bigger than us, it's bigger than you and you better not fuck it up" Emily said walking away from me, leaving me standing in front of her door bewildered by what she'd said.
"So you're the half angel half vampire" The blonde said from the other side of the hallway, she muttered it under her breath but I still heard her.
"That's me"
"I can't believe what's going to happen" She said softly, crossing he arms across her chest as to guard her self from me.
"Looks like you're going to have to believe in me"
She nodded her head, "Oh I do, I have faith in you because Jason does, and Emily does too, And that old crazy bitch also. I just can't fathom what's what's going to happen." She brightened up, "but that's another day, not tonight. We escaped without getting hurt, I think that deserves a drink"
"I don't drink"
She rolled her eyes, "Look, your half vamp. And we Vampires like to have fun" I could see that having fun with Carly could get me in loads of trouble. I was willing to find out what kind.
