Mal
Evie sat on her bed, her giggles filled the silence. She was talking with Doug on the phone, my mind flashes with the new spells I've learnt, I kept repeating them over and over again so I'd remember them. A soft knock is heard, Evie isn't paying attention just looking like she's somewhere else; I roll my eyes. When I pull the door open, I'm met with the face of Giselle. She wore a black dress, that stops mid thigh , it hugged her body in all the right places, black heels and a black circlet on her head with black and blue gems glittering and sparkling; the only other jewelry she wore was the skull ring that hung on a gold chain around her neck, the eye liner and mascara made her red eyes look fierce and startling. A shocked noise escapes my mouth,
"Uhm hey Giselle. Is there something I can help you with?" She gives a smile I'm sure makes most guys fall for her.
"You can call me Ellie if you want. But I wanted to ask you something, is it okay I come in?", her voice sounds persuasive and also full of charm. My eyes squint, she wants something.
"Will it take long? Because Jay and Carlos are coming soon and it's a private chat. So can you make it quick?", she nods looking more serious now. She walks gracefully over to the desk, she sits herself down on top, instead of the chair.
"I need a spell. A spell to put Kenzie, Brie and my brother to sleep." She says right away, my eyebrows raise.
"Why exactly?" I question her, she bites her bottom lip, the look in her eyes you can tell she's fighting with herself.
"If you don't tell me the reason I can't, and what will I get in return?" At this Giselle smiles again, pulling out the prettiest bracelet I've ever seen. It was purple and blue, with charms hanging on it all made of gold, pure gold I'm not sure. My eyes widen,
"Where did you get that from?" She giggles in response.
"Don't tell but I stole it, it's all real even the gold. If you sell it it's worth $50,000. Don't ask I just know, and as for why I need the spell I figured out another ability. I want to practice it, and I don't want Ash to know until I have it all figured out, that way I'm at least a step ahead, Brie will just distract me and Kenzie... well she can't know, she'll use it to her advantage." I could tell she's being honest, but the parts I don't understand is Brie and Kenzie. She taps her fingers on my desk, looking worried and angry. She glares at the floor, like she's blaming it for all the words that she probably didn't want to speak. Soon I realize Evie has gone quiet, staring curiously at us, she whispers into the phone and hangs up. She stands walking over to us,
"Can we know this new ability?" Giselle jumps, and her eyes widen like she wasn't aware of Evie's presence.
"Uhm... Fine, but swear on the River of Styx you won't tell." Evie looks confused, her forehead creasing a little but she soon relaxes her face; old habits die hard I guess.
"There's a river full of sticks?" I say before Evie, Giselle looks annoyed.
"No! For Zeus sakes, the River of Styx, the river that's like a border for the living and dead. Its like promising me you won't tell, but far more serious because if you break the oath it's worse than death." She looks serious, her eyes show desperation. Evie and I lock eyes, we soon come to a quick agreement.
"We swear on the River of Styx we won't tell anyone, unless you give us permission." We say in unison. She nods looking relieved, she closes her eyes, her hands clutch the table. Her eyes snap open, and she looks beyond pissed.
"We need to go outside it'll be easier. " Giselle storms out, without another word. Evie and I jog after her, in no time we get to the forest at some clearing. Giselle is crouched down, her hand on the ground. Again her eyes are closed, sweat glistens on her forehead. A skeleton hand soon claws the ground, like it's trying to dig itself out. We both yelp jumping back, she lets out a frustrated scream, causing four skeletons to pop out. All four of them kneel in front of her, they stay as she stands.
"It helps if I'm angry. I'm not sure who they used to be, I found out this morning when Kenzie and I started arguing. I stormed off and ended up near some water, soon enough this skeloten pops up out of know where." She quickly explains. I continue to stare at them not moving, I look back at Giselle as he plays with a lock of her midnight black hair.
"Can you summon ghosts?" I finally ask, Giselle looks away and focuses on the skelotens. She points her finger down, as soon as she does they sink back in, the grass goes yellow where they were and where Giselle stands.
"I haven't tried, but I'd need food and a hole or something. I read it in a book, I guess Ash is useful for something, because he's the one who showed me the book." She finally speaks, her voice trembles and she starts shaking. Evie walks over to her, putting her arms around her shoulders and giving comforting rubs. My eyebrows raise again,
"So you mentioned Brie distracting you, how could she?" Giselle blushes, her pale cheeks finally have colour in them.
"Well Brie is now my girlfriend..." she trails off avoiding eye contact, Evie squeals hugging her.
"That's amazing! But what about Kenzie?" My question causes her to shrink back away from Evie, looking rather bitter.
"Well Kenzie is greedy and selfish. If she found out about my powers and possibly Ash, well she'll want to use me. I'm just glad she hates shadow travel.", again she glares at the dead yellow grass; regretting what she has said.
"Shadow Travel?", she smirks and grabs my forearm. The shadows envelop us, the feeling is indescribable. Cold and Sickening, pretty much. Nausea takes over as we end up in my room, Evie stumbles; puking all over the floor. I try my best not to do the same, Giselle ends up falling on the floor instantly sleeping. Jay and Carlos walk in, laughing at whatever the were talking about. Jays eyes pop out of his head as the land on Giselle on the floor,
"Mal what the fuck? Why is she on your floor? And why is Evie puking over there." Carlos speaks in a worried tone. My eyes land over on Evie who is actually hunched over a garbage can and still puking, I remember something that will help. Green comes from my finger tips and I blow it towards Evie. As it reaches her she straightens, sighing out in relief.
"Thanks M." She walks to the bathroom with another outfit, Jay bellows a deep laugh, his eyes shutting. Carlos elbows him, causing him to stop, dude comes running in but stops short when he gets close to Giselle. He starts growling, and baring his canine teeth. Giselle stirs, groaning rubbing her temples. She sits up, blinking her eyes. Dude continues to growl, but as Giselle sits up he goes insane barking and moving behind Carlos.
"Dude calm down, it's just Giselle." Carlos attempts to pick him up, dude bites him and judging buy Carlos' reaction it's the first time. He stands there, dumbstruck.
"He bit me." Carlos mumbled, Giselle seem to realize the situation, she makes a strangled noise.
"He'll calm down once I'm gone, he can just smell death." Giselle sounds sad, with a hint of anger.
"I should go, I'll talk with you later about my request? And here's the bracelet before I forget." Giselle stands quickly, wobbling a little. The cold beautiful bracelet gets put into my hand, she curls my fingers around it.
"Whatever you do don't go see the daughter of Ariel and Eric." She shouts over her shoulder, Jay raises one eyebrow,
"Wow if she stole that I'm impressed." Carlos and I roll our eyes instantaneously.
"What did she want?" Carlos asks, while he picks up Dude.
"She needed to ask Mal-"
"Relationship advise. She thought Evie and I would be able to help and we couldn't continue the conversation because you guys got here. And her request is uhm a spell to help her out." I cut Evie off, technically I didn't lie, Giselle actually did ask me for a spell.
"Who is he?" Jay questions, a look of suspicion clear on his face. Evie giggles,
"Not a he a she actually. And to be exact it's Brie. Don't they make a cute couple?" She gushes, Carlos jumps like someone startled him.
"Brie? As in daughter of Scar Brie?" Jay raises his eyebrows,
"Why does it matter if it's Brie or not?" His eyes daring him to say something. Carlos only rolls his eyes, reaching for his hand.
"It doesn't I'm just surprised that's all." My eyebrows raise up, Evie seems to get it right away to, she gives a huge smile.
"Since when?" They seemed shocked, as if they were expecting different reactions.
"Pretty much after the coronation." Jay smiles. Carlos smiles back, before anyone can say anything back there's another knock on the door, Evie gracefully walks over to the door swinging it open. In walks Jane, both hands on her forehead.
"Okay I've being thinking way to much, Vincent came up and talked to me the other day, offering me some help with my magic. And now I'm actually considering on letting him help me, I mean he seemed so sweet and cute."she rambles on, not knowing Jay and Carlos are here. Jane paces in front of the door,
"You have magic?"
"You think Vinny is cute?" Jane stops short when she hears Carlos speak. She squeaks jumping back into the door, she straightens composing herself.
"Yes. Do you want to see?" We all nod not saying a word. She puts her hand in front of her, snapping her fingers, blue smoke swirls around on her palm. When it disappears she holds my spell book that I've hidden.
"Mother will be so proud. I didn't even need a wand or have to say a spell or anything." She holds it out for me to take, a smug face expression.
"How did you find it?" I ask fiercely, she soon looks guilty and her lip trembles.
"I just pictured in my mind and it's like I summoned it. I can show you how to protect it." Her hands still shake, I nod my head not trusting my voice. She soon smiles again, as if she wasn't frightened just a second ago.
"Okay you have to focus, channel your anger into your magic." Jane smiles again, moving closer to me. She lays the book in my palms.
"Now move your hand over it but don't touch it." I do as she told me, my hand glows green as a green bubble surrounds my books. Jane squeals looking happy,
"You did it. Its a protection spell, now no one but you can touch it. Watch." Jane reaches for it again, only when she touches it she flies back hitting the wall, she hits the floor. We all rush over Jay picking her up easily,
"Jane are you okay? I'm sorry." I say quickly, Jane only laughs straightening her ruffled outfit.
"Its okay Mal I'm fine. Vincent taught me how to do both of those." Her tone softens as she speaks his name, her blue eyes shining with a new light.
"You know maybe I should let him teach me magic." She giggles, and practically skips out of the room. A scowl comes across all our faces,
"I think it's time we have a chat with Vinny." I declare marching out the room, they follow me walking just as fast. Jay and Carlos are still holding hands, but my anger is clouding my thoughts so much I don't care. Once we reach their dorm room, Chad comes out almost bumping into us. He gives a dimpled smile but hurrys away, Ash comes leaning against the door.
"Ooh what a surprise, if it isn't princess Mal and her friends. What can I do for you?" A mischievous smiles comes to lips, a playful glint in his eyes.
"Shut up Ash I'm not a princess.", I give my hardest glare, he gives a cold laugh sending shivers down our backs the air getting a little colder.
"You're dating the king are you not? And dont try fear manipulation with me my fathers Hades I can resist it you're just wasting your energy." He says clearly amused, my eyes widen.
"Fear manipulation?" Ash sighs looking at me as of I'm stupid,
"Di Immortales it's a form of magic, something your mom could do to. I can do it because of my father, I'm not sure if Ellie figured it out yet but she can learn on her own." He states plainly, rolling his eyes. My hands shoot up, but as soon as they do Ash makes choking noises. He claws his neck desperately, causing the shadows to flicker. Vinny stands at the door giving a wicked smile,
"Look who finally learnt how to use her magic, I was starting to get annoyed with him to." I was about to object when I noticed my hand was out as if I was choking him. I gasped backing away, putting my hand down and clenching it into a fist. Ash starts gasping and coughing falling to his knees, Vinny gives a delighted laugh.
"Aweh poor Ash, you asked for it. Now what is it you need?" He asks unconcerned for Ash, guilt starts to build up.
"I uhm came to talk to you about teaching Jane magic. I want you to stop." I state in a shaky voice,
"Now why would I do that? And I haven't started yet I just helped awaken her powers, teaching her a protection spell isn't any harm I mean her mother uses it to keep her wand safe, so why not Jane learn the same thing?" He replies boredly. Evie steps forward glaring,
"We don't want you manipulating her." She spits,
"We're not. If I was I wouldn't make it so obvious now would I? We all know what manipulation looks like being the children of vilians. Besides we're not our parents, deceiving isn't my thing." Vinny says in a simple voice, shrugging his shoulders. Carlos growls,
"If I find out you're lying I'll-"
"You'll what? Send your little mutt after us? How scary." Ash finally speaks in a sarcastic tone,
"No darling, something so bad not even your father could think of such a nightmare." He says slyly back sounding like his mother causing both Vinny and Ash to laugh happily together.
"Oh thank the gods. We thought you guys have gone soft" Ash says the word soft like it's a bad thing. We don't speak a word, not moving.
"No it's not like that. We're good now." I try reason, with myself or them I don't know.
"Really Mal? Even a blind man could see you haven't. You choked Ash and Carlos threatened us." Vinny shoots back, realization dawns on us, horror written on all of our faces, with Vinny and Ash grinning back at us.
"No-" Jay starts but behind us Kenzie chuckles with Brie and Giselle at her sides. Giselle is looking at both her brother and Vinny with complete rage,
"Guys leave them alone. Clearly they were just annoyed with your idiocy, you aldreay make my life miserable no need to make more people suffer" Giselle quickly defends us, still glaring at the two. When her eyes land on us her dazzling smile is there,
"We'll talk later remember. But for right now we have business to take care of" she grabs Kenzie's elbow and drags her into the room, pushing the boys back in and shutting the door with her foot. We all stare at the closed door more confused then ever. They're up to something and I have to find out what.
Okay so sorry if some seem ooc but I have gotten my wisdom teeth pulled which hurts like a bitch btw, oh and I started watching once upon a time. I LOVE Rumpelstiltskin and Captain Hook by the angel I'm so obsessed with the tv show. Review, Enjoy!?
