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Chapter 20
The next day, the 11 teenagers were sitting on the couch in the living room. "Is anyone gonna say something, or are we all just gonna sit in this awkward silence?" Chelsea said, seeing them all shrug. "We're gonna be spending a lot of time together, so we might as well get used to it." They were all still skeptical about trusting one another, but were open to making an effort. "Me and Reid are engaged." Mia said, showing Chase her ring. "Wow." He said, his eyes full of surprise. "I didn't see that coming." Mia shrugged her shoulders and leaned back in her seat on the couch. "Me neither. She can do so much better than him." Riley said, smiling at Reid sarcastically. "That hurts, Riles." Reid said, faking a pain in his heart. "We're gonna be family and you're insulting me." Riley scoffed and leaned on Pogue's shoulder. "I've been insulting you since before I met you, Garwin." She said, making Chelsea and Vikki nod in agreement. "Us too." Chelsea said, pointing to her and Vikki. "You honestly didn't think it would stop just because you're engaged to my sister, did you?" Reid smiled and shook his head. "Not really. I expect it from you. It's how our relationship works." Riley chuckled and nodded. "Oh, arguing. How I love the sound of the people I love bickering back and forth." Mia said, gaining a laugh from Damien. "This is going better than expected." He said. "I honestly thought there'd be problems." He said, not noticing Caleb's slight tension.
"Caleb, just ask him already." Vikki said, rubbing her temples. "You're giving me a headache with your brooding." Mia laughed and leaning forward and turning to her cousin. "I feel it too. But not to the point of a headache." Vikki put her head on Tyler's shoulder and he began rubbing her shoulder. "Is it because Vik has had her powers longer than me?" Mia asked, turning to her brother. "Most likely." Riley looked over at Damien in confusion. "So that means…" she said, making Vikki sigh in frustration. "It usually doesn't get this bad, Caleb is just more broody than usual. I can usually tune him and his girly mood swings out." Chelsea laughed at this. "Caleb more broody than usual? Is that even possible?" Riley nodded. "Apparently. So spill, Danvers. What's on your mind?"
"I was just wondering what actually happened that night." Caleb said, looking over towards Chase. "I mean, none of us were there except you and River, and I wanted to hear your side of it and compare the two." Pogue nodded. "That makes sense cause River told us that you were dead." Reid scoffed and sat back in his seat. "Apparently, he lied. I wonder what else he lied about." Chase moved forward and put his head in his hands.
"Well, it starts in the barn on your birthday, Caleb. River transported me out when you all showed up and I was in the shed by the lake." Caleb and Damien nodded. "That answers how you disappeared." Reid said, wrapping his arms around Mia. "Yeah. Well, after that, he stabbed me with this knife." Chase said, making Chelsea look at him weird. "But you didn't die?" She asked, as Chase shook his head no. "Did you get a chance to look at the knife?" Vikki asked, moving from under Tyler's embrace. "No, it all happened to fast." Chase said with a strange foreign look on his face. "Why, Tor?" Damien asked, but Vikki waved him off. "How did it feel when he stabbed you?" She asked, looking towards Chase. "Like I was being sucked out my body." Vikki nodded and put her head down, starting to chuckle. "Vikki, what's going on?" Sarah asked, a slight hint of fear in her eyes. "There's a specific kind of athame that does that. It's extremely rare, and a preferred weapon of choice for upper level demons." Damien looked at Vikki. "Is there something more to the story, Tor?" Vikki nodded her head. "Only one demon still uses it." Damien's eyes grew wide as she spoke. "You know the demon?" Vikki nodded and leaned back into Tyler's arm. "Yeah, I do. River's made himself a good friend." She said, sighing. "It's Dominic's brother, Dante. They went separate ways after some sort of fight between them and Dante started working for this demon. When that happened, his powers started advancing." Damien looked at Vikki with hopeful eyes. "So you can take us to Dante and see what he knows about River." He said, but she shot him down. "I haven't spoken to him in years. I wouldn't know where to look." Sarah looked over to Vikki.
"How do you know so much about demons, Vikki?" She asked, gaining a pinch from Chelsea. "Why'd you pinch me?" Sarah asked, rubbing her arm. "It's fine Chelsea." Vikki said, looking from Chelsea to Sarah. "I've had a so called "interest" in them for a few years after my brother died." Not only Sarah's, but Riley and Mia's eyes grew wide when Vikki said that. "Mom said that Nate died from a shot to the heart." Riley said, watching Vikki shake her head. "You didn't know about this world then. A fatal gunshot was the most logical reasoning that my parents could think of to explain it to you. It helped that you guys were in that summer camp when it happened." Vikki said, her eyes starting to swell with tears. "I didn't know you had a brother." Tyler said, pulling Vikki closer to him. "I don't like to talk about it much. Neither do my parents. It's part of the reason they're so overprotective." Vikki said, turning her attention back to Sarah and the other people in the room. "He was killed by the demon that Dante worked for. It's part of the reason I stopped talking to him. But afterwards, I wanted to know as much as I possibly could about any kind of demon that I could find, to prevent anything like that from ever happening again." Damien looked at Vikki, trying not to let his inner feelings about the memory show or impact Vikki in any way. "That's why I know so much about them." She said, looking around the room.
"What happened to the demon?" Mia asked, looking over at her cousin, who was physically at that moment, the weakest she'd ever seen her. "Dante killed him once he got strong enough. That's how he got the athame." Damien looked over at Vikki. "So there's no way to get in touch with him?" Vikki shook her head and leaned on Tyler's shoulder. "I don't even know if he's alive or not." She said to Damien. "There might be a way to find out." Riley said, moving from the couch. "We might actually be able to kill two birds with one stone." Mia stared at her sister as she walked over towards the bookcase and opened it, revealing some of the many magic books they owned. "What are you thinking of doing Riles?" She asked, looking at her rummage through the book she picked up. "You said that you couldn't find that Dominic guy right?" Riley said, turning to Vikki. "Right…" She replied hesitantly. "And you want to find him?" She asked, briefly looking up to see Vikki nod. "I don't know what you could do that I haven't already tried. I've had my powers longer, you know." She said. Riley laughed when she got to the page she was looking for. "This may be true. But, I've read way too much when I found out about all this stuff, so I think I may know a thing or two that you don't think I do." She said, passing Vikki the book. She looked up at Riley after she quickly read the page and smiled. "Why didn't I think of this before?" Vikki said, to her cousin. "Because I'm brilliantly talented." Riley said, flipping her head off her shoulder. Vikki and Chelsea both chuckled and Chelsea leaned over to look at the book. After she read the page, she looked up at Vikki. "Can you really do that?" She asked, confused and slightly scared at what her friend was about to say. "Do what?" Sarah asked, looking at them. "Yeah, what exactly are you trying to do?" Damien asked. "Summon Dominic." Vikki said, passing the book to Damien. "If we're looking for Dante, why summon his brother?" Tyler asked, as Chelsea slightly smiled. "Because there's a spell that we can use after we summon Dominic to summon Dante." She said, watching him nod his head. Chase peaked at the book Damien had in his hand and leaned back. "That's an insanely powerful spell. You sure you're strong enough to do it?" He asked, looking over at Vikki. She laughed and got up from her seat. "Don't ever underestimate me. I'm capable than way more than you think I am." She said, walking into the foyer.
"I said it once and I'll say it again." Reid said, looking over towards Tyler. "Your girlfriend is scary, Baby Boy." Chelsea laughed and Riley hit Reid in the back of his head. "She's just determined." She said, moving from her seat. "She knows what she wants and will go by whatever means necessary to get it. It's inspiring." Mia nodded in agreement with her sister. "This is true." She said. "But there are times when Tori gets a bit too intense and it's a little off putting." Riley shrugged and pulled Mia off the couch and walked into the foyer, followed by the other girls, leaving the guys alone.
"You're gonna try to kill my brother, aren't you?" Chase asked, looking around at the five other boys. "We're just trying to fulfill a prophecy, Chase." Damien said. "We don't even know what we fully have to do yet." Caleb, Reid and Tyler nodded in agreement. "What he's leaving out is that if River gets in the way, we can't guarantee what's gonna happen to him." Pogue said, looking at Chase. He just nodded and put his head down. "I already said that I was gonna help, but can I ask a favor?" Caleb reluctantly nodded, making Reid scoff. "We're not sparing River, if that's what you want. Why would you even want that?" Reid asked, staring at Chase. "I don't, Reid." He said, lifting his head up to look at Reid. "I wanna do it myself. If and when the time comes, and River has to be "taking care of", I wanna be the one to do it." Damien and Caleb both looked around at the other boys in the room, seeing the look of understanding on their faces and the nodding going around. "We'll have to talk it over with the girls, but we're okay with that." Caleb said, looking over to Chase. "But first we gotta figure out what to do." Chase nodded and looked back to the girls talking in the foyer. "Why are we summoning a demon though?" He asked, looking over at Damien. "A few reasons, actually. In doing so, we get information on a potential enemy. Anything that could get in the way of us fulfilling the prophecy needs to be stopped beforehand so we have nothing to worry about while we're actually doing it. That, and because this is important to Vikki and she's not gonna stop until she finds out what happened to Dominic. He's important to her and that makes him important to us." Chase nodded and got up. "Okay, then. Let's go to work."
Just a little insight: I based the part about Vikki and her brother on a short story that I wrote for my English class last semester (Got me an A) only it's tweaked to fit this story….
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