Chapter 9
The truth is finally out there, and sometimes it hurts
Once again, barley two full days after my mother's near death experience, I found myself back in the dark corners of the underworld. I had hidden myself behind a big rock, where I usually stay when I'm demon hunting in the future. I had been here for quite a while now, contemplating on my next move. I knew better than to rush into things, I've learned that the hard way. We had been out on a rescue mission; some demons had captured two of my cousins; Parker and Tamara. After a heated discussion, I had convinced Chris and the others that we had to go save them right now. I was part of the rescue team with Chris, Bianca and a few others from our resistance group. I should have known it was a trap, naturally. They were expecting us and a very heated battle broke out. We managed to bring them back, but we lost a few as well. A demon had snuck up behind my friend Trent and broke his neck before anyone even had a change to react. Another had died from taking a fireball to the stomach that was aimed at Tamara, pushing her aside. Yes, we gained a few and lost a few. Ever since that day I never once jumped to action. I couldn't bear the thought of what the result could be.
I knew that it was probably the stupidest thing to do right now considering the recent events, but I didn't really care about that right now. I needed to keep myself occupied, and far away from my mother and my aunt's questions. Which I had no doubt about would come as soon as I sat foot back inside the manor. I honestly couldn't deal with that right now. This was just too much for me to handle. After I had accidently slipped and Piper heard me, I'm pretty sure of it, I kind of panicked and did the first thing that came to mind; run. Run as far away as possible. Or, in my case orb out of there. And that is precisely what I did after mumbling some lame excuse about a demon trail I needed to look into. And with that I was gone. It wasn't one of my proudest moments, but what else was I supposed to do? I had sworn that I would never let them discover my true identity, and now I'm pretty sure that I had kind of blew that. Never mind, scratch that. I had just blown my cover. How could I have been so ignorant? I'm hopeless. I sighed heavily.
Chris is going to be so mad when he finds out, if he hadn't already. I had been playing this charade with them for a while now, and I'm not sure how to behave around them any longer. A part of me was happy to have the secret out in the open, it would be so nice to finally have my mother back and help me fix things. There was no way that she would leave me to deal with it all by myself, keeping a close watch on me. That's just who she is, one of the most overprotective and loving mother's there were. Or, were I suppose is the right word in this case. But another part was absolutely terrified, that they wouldn't believe me and send me away, or even worse; that I would become close to her only to having to lose her all over again. I don't think that my heart could be able to bare that, I barley lived through it the first time. How could I possibly do that and go back to a future where she didn't exist anymore? There was no way I could to that. So, I avoided them all together. I spent the night on a bench in the park, again to keep them from finding me. They had been calling me for a while, but I tuned them out. I was nowhere ready yet to face them. I had to eventually of course but not right now. I was occupied with other things at the moment.
I had decided to do some investigation about that mysterious demon I found in Wyatt's room. As much as I would have liked to stay away from here, I had no idea where else to look. I hated being down here more than absolutely necessary. The place brought out so many painful and horrible memories. But I had to suck it up; there was no time for me to get all emotional about it. I had a job to do, a family to save. Everything depended on it. And maybe, this would be the demon I've been looking for. The one I came back here to stop. He seemed to belong to some kind of order or something. A cloth is not exactly what demons usually wear. I could have sworn that I saw an unknown symbol on it as well. And that strange oval object he'd been holding in his hand, what was that? It sort of reminded me of a wand in a way, but that didn't make much sense. I knew for a fact that he couldn't possibly have been a warlock. I had met them before and he was nothing like that. Was he trying to bring down his force field? It didn't seem to have done any harm to Wyatt though, so what did it really do exactly? We will succeed with our goal and it will be too late. His last words echoed inside my mind. What exactly was their goal? Then it hit me all of the sudden.
Something must have happened to him, made him turn into the monster I knew him to be.It had to be a demon or something, corrupting him. Completely changing his morals, changing him. That's it! That's what he was trying to do, getting inside his head I can't believe that I had already known the answer. Maybe they were really trying to get inside his head, to mess it all up. To turn him evil. I knew that there had been something affecting him. I was relieved at my new epiphany. It felt as an enormous weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Finally after weeks of searching and demon hunting I had managed to figure it out. And know we could save him. I decided to orb back to the bridge and tell Chris what I have found out. I'm positive that he could come up with the perfect approach to fight the demons. But just as I was about to orb; I heard a noise behind me and I froze on the spot. Suddenly, I got a very bad feeling in my stomach. Holding my breath, I turned around.
"Well, look what we've got here." A demon stepped out from the shadows; a torch shone a little light across his face. Black angry eyes stared back at me and an evil smirk spread across his face.
"Are you lost little witch?" His voice was filled with amusement. It made me sick. But for some reason, I didn't move. It was like my whole body had been paralyzed. What's wrong with me?
"No, I'll find my way out. Thanks for the offer though." I remarked, hiding my fear behind sarcasm. There was no way I would let him see me scared. And it's not like a demon would actually help me. They don't do nice, they do only bad.
"Oh, no you won't." He said grimly, his face turning hard as stone. Then I sensed another presence behind me. Before I could react, I felt a heavy object smash against my head and I collapsed onto the rock-hard ground. My head was hurting badly, and I felt something wet and sticky running down my neck. The last thing I registered was an evil laugh, and then I drifted out of consciousness and let the darkness embrace me into its comforting arms.
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