Hex: Just the Beginning
Chapter two-I'm Not Dead- Pink
I'm not dead just floating
Right between the ink of your tattoo
in the belly of the beast we turned into
I'm not scared just changing
Wrap me in a cigarette and a velvet smile, oh you're my crack of sunlight!
We left the plane in a hurry; I could tell Amelia was relieved to be back on solid land. Perk number one of being a ghost, no jet-lag! Score for me! "Ok so where's this home of yours?"
"Medenhame hall is not just a home; it's a battle ground for good and evil. Whoever possesses it, be it good or evil, it'll give them a significant power boost. If their good, It'll draw the evil towards them. If their evil, evil will spread…everywhere."
'Why does this all of a sudden sound like an episode of Charmed?' I though. "That's not good, but still…how will we get there?"
Amelia dug through her pocket and pulled out a wad of cash. "We'll call a cab."
I rolled my eyes. "Fine." I set my hands on my hips as Amelia called for a cab. None of them seemed to stop. "You're doing it wrong." I said.
"No, I'm not." Amelia said.
"Yes, you are. Here, let me try." I stepped beside her. I put my pink and my thumb in my mouth and let out a sharp whistle. Just about all the cabs stopped. "See. You were doing wrong."
Amelia glared at me as see stepped in to the car, I sat beside her. "Where to?"
"Medenhame hall, please."
"Ok." The cabbie replied. We spent about an hour of silence in the cab with nothing but idle chit-chat between Amelia and the cabbie until Amelia spoke to me.
"I don't get it, how could they hear you? I mean, They're not suppose to hear you."
"I don't care, Ask if he can point out the hospital, the Morgue should be in there."
"Fine. Excuse me, sir?"
"Yeah?"
"Where's the hospital at?"
"Oh that? Its right over there, it's actually close to the school."
"Thank you."
"Here we are. Medenhame hall. Do you want me to get your bag miss?"
"No, I've got it, thank you, how much?"
"Oh, 56 pounds"
"Here you go. Thanks again. Keep the change." Amelia handed the cabbie 60 pounds and got out of the cab and grabbed her bag from the trunk, it was a little heavy due to the couple of books I snuck in there. We stood there at the iron rod gates staring at an undamaged school even though it had a whit banner that said 'End of Days' at the front.
"Ok, what now?"
"You go ahead to the Morgue; I'll hunt down my sister."
"Got it, I'll meet you back here in about hour, hour and a half?"
"Sounds good."
"See ya." I ran off in the direction of the hospital while Amelia just stood there, looking at the school.
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Amelia set her duffle bag down and closed her eyes. She sensed a presence in the woods. Two people in the woods, they were holding each other. She could suddenly hear their deep even breaths of them sleeping. Amelia opened her eyes and she was standing in front of the couple, she hadn't realize she had Materialized so quick and so accurately. It had been nearly one hundred years since she had used any of her powers, so she thought it'd be very hard harnessing them again. She looked at the red haired girl as the girl snuggled deeper in the warmth of the young male that was next to her. Amelia sat down on a nearby rock and waited for her sister to wake up.
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I strolled into the Morgue with a somewhat happy attitude. I walked in to find the guard was asleep, that didn't surprise me, but what did surprise me was I saw a girl in an angel costume (Fuzzy halo and all) looking at two bodies who were fully clothed. I walked right beside her, but she was so deep in thought she didn't see me. I looked at the two bodies and what they were wearing. One was wearing Black cargo pants with a sage green tee shirt that had 'Don't speak unless spoken to' written on it, she was also wearing black converse shoes. The other girl was wearing a slut school girl outfit, obviously a costume. I looked at the girl in the angel costume, she had hair that went to her chin, she was holding tight to her harp as she decided. "If I were you I'd take the first girl. Another costume might be weird." Her eyes shot up to me, I just shrugged them off as I looked through the drawers of dead people.
"You…you can see me?" She asked after a couple of seconds of staring at me.
"Yeah of course I can see you. What'd you think you were invisible?"
"Are you dead?" I winced at her question.
"Yeah… Do you have any recommendations for what I could wear, cuz it looks like you've been through all these and I'm kinda new to this so, the less dead bodies I see, the better."
"You're new? Really? Well then let me introduce myself. I'm Thelma Bates, the local haunt at Medenhame Hall up the hill a bit. Yourself?"
"Allyson Staal. How'd you die Thelma?" I shook her hand.
"I was ritualistically sacrificed by the fallen angel Azazeal a little over a year ago."
"Man, he kills a lot. Anyway the clothes, I'd really like to get out of this devil costume soon."
Thelma looked me over looking at my devil costume but she particularly stayed on my chest for a bit to long for a normal look over, I guess the push up bra and the cleavage did they're purpose. "Well?" I said with a small devious smile on my face.
"Oh, uh…try that one. You might like it." She pointed to a drawer an looked down letting her hair fall on her face so I couldn't see her blush, but I did. It was a cute blush even if I had only known the girl for a total of less than 5 minutes and I liked her already. I pulled out the drawer and saw a dead hooker.
"You're kidding, right?" I looked at the body in disgust; the hooker wore stripper shoes, fishnet stockings, a skirt that barely covered her and a very revealing halter.
"Well do you always dress like that?" Thelma pointed to my costume.
"No, it was Halloween last night and this so happens to be the outfit I died in last night. I was just trying to pick up girls at a stupid party a friend of a friend was throwing. And who are you to be commenting on costumes?" I said as I pointed out her angel outfit.
"Never mind, here try this drawer, it shouldn't be too bad." She pulled out another drawer, this time I like this outfit. It was a girl who was wearing no shoes, Blue jeans with a blood red rose embroidered on the side of the left thigh with the stem and leaves trailing down, and a black collared tee shirt that buttoned down from the neck to the chest.
"I like it, where can I change?"
"Right here. Don't worry I won't peak as long as you don't look at me while I change."
I raised two fingers and raised them to my head. "Scouts honor."
Thelma laughed. "I highly doubt that you were a girl scout as a kid."
"Actually I dropped out when I was six then rejoined when I was thirteen, and then dropped out again. Those girls are serious about getting those stupid brownie badges. I tell you, it can get scary."
Thelma laughed as I turned my back to her and started undressing.
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I finished dressing, everything fit perfectly besides the shirt. I had to trade that in with for a black tank top. "Are you done?" I asked so I could turn around.
"Yeah. I'm done." I turned around and I swore Thelma looked like a completely different person.
"Wow." I whispered under my breath. I tried my damnedest not to stare, she was quite gorgeous once you looked past the fuzzy halo that was still on her head. Thelma was wearing the black cargo pants with a dark purple shirt that had a smiley on it with an evil smile and horns. I cleared my throat to stop myself for staring any longer. "So…nice meeting you." I started to go out the way I came in. on my way past her I grabbed the tie off of the slut girl and headed on my way.
"Wait!" I heard her yell after me.
I turned around to see her running up, I hadn't have gotten that far and she was right beside me when I had left, right? "What?"
"Do you know where you're going?"
"Yeah, to find my friend." I said as I turned around walking toward Medenhame Hall.
"But that's the way toward the school."
"Yes, thank you captain obvious, I know that."
"Well, let me take you to my friend first. Maybe she can sort some of this out, like why you're here." Thelma grabbed my hand and started walking in front of me. "I'm sure she and Leon will think of something."
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Ella shifted and opened her eyes; she saw a blurry figure sitting on a rock beside them, flipping through the pages of a very large book. "Thelma?" She groaned but then her vision cleared and she saw the once blurry figure stand up and crouch down next to her. "Hello Ella." She saw her sister say.