A/N: Hi all. Yay the fifth section, and I'm still writing! Maybe I'll finally finish a story! You know… I don't like the title anymore. I never like the titles of my stories. I won't change it though, don't worry. That'd make it too hard for people to find it again, and anyway, I don't have any better title. So Illusions stays.

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silver.shadow.23 – That's odd that it took so long to get to the review thing… haha. Well I'm glad you like the story! That's awesome! I hope I update soon too ;). Thanks for reviewing!

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Section Five

(Seth's POV)

At one o'clock in the afternoon, I appear at the entrance to path leading towards New Mayhem. The black rosebush depresses me, reminding me of the time when I stopped being human. I still miss being mortal.

In a minute or two, a car pulls up next to me and Isabel opens the window. Without wasting time on any hello's, she asks, "Are you ready?"

I nod, too nervous to say much. I've only been in any type of fight once, and now I have to break into a place full of witches. Hopefully I'll be able to sneak in without being seen. It's the only real chance I have.

Isabel motions me to get into the car, then pulls away from the curb. During the drive, I stare glumly at the neighborhoods we pass by. She stops the car soon enough, though, and I don't have too much time to worry before she announces, "The house they rented is on this street. The car is too easy for them to spot, so we should walk from here."

We get out, and I follow her down the street. After we pass a few houses, she ducks between two of them, coming out in the trees behind the houses. We sneak by five more houses before she turns and motions for me to be quiet.

"Maybe you should see if you can will yourself in there. They probably only have Acantha blocked from doing it," she whispers.

The probably doesn't comfort me much. "Um… alright… But what if they have it so I get blocked too?"

She grins. "Then you'll either not move an inch from where you're standing now, or you'll appear outside the nearest wall of the house. Both ways would leave you safe, and them not knowing you're here."

I gulp. "Okay." Figuring dawdling will only give me time to get even more nervous, I hurry and disappear.

There's no block for me. I get inside the house easily, appearing in an empty room. I listen for a minute. I can hear the faint sounds of people—breathing, heartbeats, and soft muttering—coming from the basement, directly below me. There are no other sounds in the house, which means that if Acantha's in here somewhere, she's right under me. I make myself appear there.

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(Acantha's POV)

A section of the basement has been walled off with thick bars, and for the last day, that has been my prison. Always, there are at least two witches sitting outside the locked door, twice as many at night. They constantly keep a few knives out and ready to throw. If I try to disappear, they can land one of those in my heart before I'm fully gone. I don't doubt their aim, especially Adianna Vida's. The Vidas go through strict training when they're young, learning from their parents to kill vampires.

Suddenly, another person appears in the room. Appears? I sit up straight and peer through the bars.

The two witches jump up and whirl around as they sense a vampire behind them. Seth lashes out with his power as I've taught him. He causes them to stumble into the walls, but no more.

He looks past them and sees me in the cell. Fury fills his eyes, fury directed at the witches. Now his attack makes Adianna double over in pain, the knife she was driving at him falling to the floor.

The other witch, Mary, from some little-known line of witches, sends a burst of her own power at Seth, then me, so quickly I don't have time to gather up any strength to counter it.

When I straighten up again, I see Adianna in front of the bars, knife out and point against me, right over my heart. I freeze. She still needs me, so she won't kill me unless she has to. But I don't want to give her any reason to.

Seth is still fighting Mary, but I know if I try to help him, Adianna will thrust the blade in before I can do anything useful.

Within minutes, Seth is out cold, lying on the floor. Mary unlocks my door and drags Seth in, while I'm still trapped by Adianna's knife. I glare at both of them as hard as I can. I hate all witches.

Once the door is locked again, and both the guards are leaning on the walls, confident that we've been taken care of, someone comes down the stairs into the basement.

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A/N: Hmm… I think this is a good place to cut it off. This was the hardest chapter to write so far. Whoa… I just copied and pasted a paragraph into a new document for the next chapter, and it kept on pasting… 3,547 times before I could stop it. And now it's 395 pages long, when it should be a few sentences. O.O My computer is creepy.

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