Chapter Eleven
Mariah's POV
I wake up with a jolt, I open my eyes quickly and look around. I'm still laying in the fort I dug. I get up and stretch my legs. I walk out of the den and the sunlight hits me, I feel it's warmth being absorbed, my heart beating faster than normal. I feel the same seven points on my body swirling with warmth. I look down at my legs.
"My fur!" I yell and panic, noticing my fur is pure white.
"I look like Lilly!" I yell.
"I don't want this!" I yell. I hear a feint voice inside me.
"What has been given can't be taken back. The prophecy must be fulfilled."
"What prophecy!" I shout. The voice from inside is silent. I feel my stomach grumble, and sigh.
"Looks like I'm going to have to go on a hunt." I say, disappointed in myself from the last hunt. Them I remember what... Galileo did to me. I lay down in tears.
"Why is this happening to me?" I ask.
"This is a gift, not a curse." I hear the voice say. My stomach fills with extreme warmth and my hunger settles.
"I must go and so must you." The voice finishes and I feel a presence leave me. My fur shortens and turns back to it's original blonde color. I lay in awe and confusion.
Devon's POV
As I walk down the street I feel something in the air change. A pressure drop, and a bolt of lightning strikes a lamp pole causing the lightbulb to explode, shorting out all the lights in the city. I turn around as I feel a presence. The man in black stands in front of me.
"You can't be here." I speak.
"We'll you see Max, I'm not truly here, those peacekeepers have trapped me in some sort of spiritual cage Inside a black hole, all I can do is project my image and consciousness." He replies.
"Then why are you here?" I ask.
"I'm here to tell you that your debt to me has been payed, but there are some people downstairs that are very displeased by your actions, the way you betrayed us. We have others, who unlike you are loyal, and they know about you, and they will come for you." The Man is engulfed in blue flames and disappears.
I stand in silence.
"I must protect myself."
I see an abandoned building up the street. I walk up to it and look at it for a moment. My old house, an empty house, my Mom, my Dad, have all since passed, considering I left them to their drinking more than 32 years ago. I take a small dagger with a black blade from my satchel. I hold it in my left hand and with a flick of my wrist the door blows open, the pieces of board covering it shattered. I walk into the house and put my blade away. I take out a jar of salt and begin to create a line running along the walls and windows of the house. I then walk to the middle of the empty living room and set down the jar of salt. I pull out five white candles and set them beside me. I take a piece of chalk and draw a pentagram on the floor, then I circle it with salt. I take the candles and touch my left index finger on each wick, igniting them. I pull a bronze bowl with many dark stains on it, from my satchel. I take my knife and put it on my arm cutting into my flesh, and I let the blood pour into the bowl. As soon as the bowl was filled to the brim my cut healed. I invoke the demon inside me, turning my eyes a blood red. I close my eyes as I feel the fire inside me, so euphoric and powerful. I resist the urge to let it stay and speak.
"Relinque daemonium!" A dark black smog emits from my mouth and flows into the bowl. I feel the fire die and my eyes relax. I look at the bowl of blood in front of me, containing the demon. The blood bubbling and emitting black steam. I open the leather satchel and pull from it a clear quartz crystal point, it is pure.
I hold the crystal above the bowl. The crystal begins to glow red and burns my skin. I drop the crystal into the bowl.
"Contineretur!" I scream. The circle igniting around me in a huge black flames. The blood in the bowl is pulled into the crystal, the sides of the bowl
crack and the bowl sheds it's bronze color, leaving a clear silver bowl. The flames around me drop, the salt now a circle of sulphur, smoldering yellow.
The crystal is left at the bottom of the bowl with a dark cloud inside of it. I pick up my knife and some black cord from the satchel. I measure the cord around my neck and cut it at a good length. I hold the dark satin cord above the bowl.
"You are mine now." I say as it floats up and draws the ends of the cord together, circling and wrapping around the crystal. The new necklace floats and lands around my neck, the sulphur ignites into dark red flames and the vines thought my left arm bump up and I see the blue blood turn grey. The sulphur burns out and blows away as ash. I feel the power of the demon sink in. My deal was finished and now I have the power I need to protect myself. I
get up and step out of the pentagram. I look at the front door broken open. I pull my black cloak around me and turn into a cloud of black smog and fly out the door into the sky.
Mariah's POV
I look up at the sky as I walk through the thick forest next to the city. The sky is dark and I see a cloud of black floating above a building. I look back down the path and walk slowly through the unknown territory, I hear sticks breaking around me.
"Hello pretty." I hear a voice say in a low and devilish tone. Four wolves come out from the bushes. Two with dark brown fur, one with black, and another with grey fur being the biggest.
"Our scout, Dart saw you start to head into our territory, what is it you want here?" The Grey wolf asks.
"I'm just passing through, I'm heading towards a park where my sisters are. I don't mean any harm or to cause any disturbance." I say.
"A likely story. But it's suspicious that an alpha from the south would come north." The black wolf says.
"Dart has a point sir." Both the dark brown wolves say in unison.
"Well I guess you can travel through our territory as long as Dart over here can watch you as you're here." The grey wolf says and the black wolf Dart steps forward.
"I'll make sure to watch her Sir." He says and stands beside me.
"Let me show you around." Dart says as he walks north and I follow him.
Devon's POV
I appear in front of the cave in the middle of the barren park ground. I walk inside to the cave, the crystals red and glowing hot. I enter and walk to the back. I come to a desk and pull open a drawer on the bottom left side. Inside is a small wooden box. I open the empty box, the inside walls mirrors. I take the blue crystal from inside it, and pull the demon crystal off my neck, causing my dark cloak to disintegrate. I feel the power leave me, but my left arm has been empowered. I put the demon crystal in the silver box and close the box to conceal and block it's power. I put the silver box in my satchel and take a deep breath while holding the blue crystal, protected from the dark energies. I know as soon as I put it on will come extreme pain as it purifies me, and turns me into a new form. I slowly put the crystal around my neck and fall to the ground, the blue energies chasing the dark ones in my veins through my body. I see the dark energies absorb themselves into my ring. The blue energy releases it's pursuit and travels through my body to my heart chakra, igniting it and pushes its energies through me everywhere, my eyes grow heavy and I feel myself slip away.
A/N okay so chapter eleven. Please review!
