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Chapter 13

Witchling Keko

I've been crawling around the castle's ceiling for at least three hours. In this time I have taken a total of fifteen wrong turnings through this complicated building. Its like a labyrinth in here.

"A broken window was found on the second tower, but there are no traces of the intruder other than that." A figure said below. I stared at him with wide eyes, for there were large brown teddy bear ears on his head.

"Five guards were found near the tower, some unconsious while the rest dead. From the information we collected off the guards who survived, it seems that the intruder is a girl in her teens." Another figure responded. This guy was also wearing some animal ears on his head. He had cat ears.

"We need to be careful." The teddy guard replied. "By the way, did you hear what one of the maids did earlier?"

"Oh! She punched a hole through the wall right? And stole all of the curtains. Witchling Keko banned her from the castle after a long talk!" The cat guard laughed. "Anyway, I need to inform the other guards. You should tell Keko about the new information."

"Right," the teddy guard replied. The cat guard walked down towards a set of doors while the teddy guard made his way down the opposite route. He turned left at the end of the corridor as I scurried after him on the ceiling. As I crawled around the corner I found him enter through a set of large steel doors which were beginning to close.

I scrambled towards the door, just getting through the gap before it slammed shut behind me, trapping my rope. I clipped up the last of my rope while the teddy guard was conversing with...a child?

I didn't hear what they had talked about since I was too far away. But the childs voice did reach my ears.

"Thats fine, leave me." She had said with a grown up voice.

I looked down at my pocket pouch to find that I still had one hook left. Whille I waited for the teddy guard to leave the room, I began twirling the spare hook around my finger to kill the bordem. What I didn't expect was the hook flying off my finger and dropping to the ground in the dead silence of the room. Clang! It went making two sets of eyes focus their attention on me.

Suddenly, a long spear shot past my ear; wedging into the ceiling. It made me jump, causing my legs to bump into each other and pulling my feet of the ceiling. "KYAAA!" I fell to the ground but landed on something squishy.

"KYAAA!" I screamed again, looking at who I had fallen on. "IT'S THE TEDDY GUARD!" I scrambled to my feet moving as far away from him as possible. He looked unconsious, making no sound.

"I suspect that you are the intruder little girl?" The child asked me.

"Yes, but aren't you much smaller than me?" I inquired dusting myself down.

"I suppose, but since I'm not actually a child it doesn't count." She poked her tongue out.

"What do you mean? You look like a child!" Even acts like one.

"Your companion Medusa did this to me. She disbanded my soul and placed it in this childs body, which limits my magic power." She said.

"So you really are Witchling Keko?" I grabbed my chained scythes and ran at her, getting ready to swing when my whole body froze. I looked at my feet, finding myself standing in some sort of circle.

"You can't kill me right now since you've stepped into my Devil's Circle. You'll stay stuck in that position until I disband the spell." She snickered.

"Witch!" I screeched.

"Why, thats very clever of you." She teased.

After a long pause I asked her, "Why don't you just kill me?"

"I don't want any blood spilt on my hands." She sighed. "Since your stuck her I might as well tell you why Medusa sent you here to kill me since she probably hasn't told you right?"

I shook my head, waiting for her to start.

"You see, about fourty decades ago; all the witches were gathered in the dark realm by the ruler of magic, Catherine Peatly. She told us that she had seen a vision of herself lying dead on the palace grounds, so asked for three of us witches to guard her. I, including two other witches were chosen. Medusa was Catherine's closest friend, but for reason's I still don't know of, she didn't choose Medusa! You would have thought that she would've been the first choice. Medusa became very upset with Catherine so plotted to take revenge." She said.

"Revenge?" I asked.

"Yes, revenge. She was the one in actual fact, that murdered the ruler of witches. And know she's after the three guards. Your here to kill me aren't you child?" She smiled with an evil edge to it.

"Obviously. But I don't agree with killing people myself without knowing the reason behind it. I think its pointless for her wanting to kill you three guard witches but its something I need to do." I said determined.

"What hold does she have on you?"

"H-Hold? How did you know..?" Here answer was a cold stare. "My friends, family if you can call Papa that, my whole birth town."

"I see. My time is up then, you may kill me." She suddenly said.

"W-What!" I shouted astonished. It shouldn't be this easy to kill a witch right? Shouldn't there be some fighting or something?

"Shut up and get on with it!" She snapped.

"Ah..." This could be a trap! I think..? AHH I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! Maybe she wants to die? But who would want to give up their life when you can do so many possibilities with it. I will kill her.

"Are you going to kill me or not?"

"Yes, once you release me from this circle." I replied.

She snapped her fingers giving my body freedom. I tightened my grip on my chained scythes and pounced, stabbing her right through the heart. What surprised me at this moment was that she didn't fall to the ground dead. There was blood on my scythes yes but she looked totally fine!

"You can't simply kill a witch by stabbing her in the heart! You have to slash an X across their chest. Haven't you been taught any of this!" She told me off. Is she my mother?

"S-Sorry." I lifted my scythe at the ready before slashing the first line on her chest.

"You have to cut me harder than that!"

"O-Ok..." This is really wierd. A witch is telling me how to kill her. Totally not normal...

"Before I go, tell me one thing. What's your name girl?"

"Maka Albarn."

"I prefer my name to yours." She stated.

"AHHH!" I've had enough of this women! I brought down my other scythe, completing the X on her skin.

She let out a childish laugh as her body glowed silver. Tiny parts of her began to fall off like pieces of sparkling glitter. I stayed there waiting for her whole body to tumble away into crystals before sprinting out the room, hopping over the unconsious teddy guard.

Once I was out of the castle and far enough away from it, my legs buckled underneath me from the exhaustion.

A white piece of paper fluttered from the sky landing on my lap. I read the note in disgust finding it from her.

Well done Maka.

I'll give you a couple of weeks break before the next kill,

Medusa

"You'll get your day where I shall be the one to kill you." I growled under my breath, wiping away the stray tear that fell from my confused eyes.

Posting Date: 23rd July 2012

Symm: Hey! Sorry for not updating yesterday! So to make up for that stupid lazyness of mine I will be uploading two chaps tomorrow. So please come back and sorry if the killing of the first witch wasn't that good. There IS action on the killings of the next witches. Also sorry for not replying to anyones reviews! I will when you review again! XX

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