I dedicate this story for my fiancée, a big fan of Kelena, well more of Katherine than me xD
Enjoy.
*-*1. Welcome to the darkness*-*
POV Bonnie Bennett
I closed the door of my old car. The weather was terrible, the rain started to pour on me as a warning. I put on my wool gloves, because of the coldness. Winters were terrible there.
I did not expect to arrive here but there was a reason for my presence. I was slowly stepped inside the dark and unwelcoming forest of my hometown. Even if it was a forbidden place, I dared to enter.
I looked around my surroundings as if a psychopath will jump on me if I did not pay more attention. The wind was brutally slapping my face, I tried to continue to my unknown destination. I had a hard breath, in what kind of mess I was? I could not see the light except my phone which guided me into the full darkness, eating me all alive.
The leaves opened like a sea to show me the road to take. I hoped my magic will remain as long as possible. I was a novice. I discovered my powers for my eighteenth birthday. All the women in my family were witches. My grandmother never wanted to talk about it, and we had a fight about her silence and my decisions. I did not understand why she was so stubborn. I knew she was hiding something fishy, soon or later, I will find her secrets.
Nevertheless, I could not stay away or I will fail again to help her, and I can't. I supposed it will be too late after. I felt it was my last chance and I would lose her forever. My determination and resolution were stronger. I could not give up.
I walked to the slippery mud. I winced when my palm tore on the bark of a century-old oak that held my certain fall. The ruby blood escaped, I had no handkerchief ready, so I clean my hand with my jacket, the sky water will remove all my mess.
The road was more and more complicated. Pangs of the weather were not to my advantage. But it did not stop me. I just had to move forward.
I did not how many times I was walking, I felt hours, I watched my screen. 2:30 a.m. It was already been two hours I was inside the forest. I looked around, I was totally lost. I could not decipher where I was. And I could not call for help, my phone was not working here…
Shit!
Where am I? Why I am here! Why did you bring me here! I snarled for no one in particular. I was waiting for an answer but it was useless. It was over… I almost throw my smartphone on the ground when a bolt of blinding lightning broke in the air and cut a tree in two, I suddenly stepped back.
I was speechless when I noticed a vault behind it. I never saw it before. I knew it was my final destination. I gulped heavily, I could not go away. I took a deep breather and I entered inside.
The place was darker than outside, I was nervous. My battery phone's died. I could see any more. My heartbeat like crazy, I will die of an attack if I stayed this way. It was like a horror movie. Noises surrounded me as a concerto.
Think, Bonnie. Think!
Accendit! I shout, it was as if someone whispered this word for me. The lights from torches brightened my way one by one. I finally saw a big, rusty iron gate. There was not any other path except the one I had just come in.
I went there, I hold a little knife inside my pocket to protect myself.
I opened the old gate with difficulty, it was trapped from all this year even centuries. I visibly had no choice… I pushed with all my strength, it dully winced and I fall on the ground when I opened wide.
I groaned. I had blood now on my palms and knees. My jeans were up the spout. I stumbled. I continued my crazy adventure in the lair of the death. I finally noticed a stone coffin, with the simplest possible design. If I did not know the use, I would think it could have been a worthless big stone that could be found anywhere.
I tried to see if I had to go further but there was only that place. I searched for some useful objects, I only met rats and cockroaches. I sighed, there was only one place I did not search…
And I was not a grave robber … gosh … forgive me…
I pushed the crave, I grit my teeth, it was so heavy. I realized I could not open it with raw strength. Was there magic? A strong and familiar one, I sensed it. All this time, it resisted. Incredible. What was inside that needed to be protected? Something powerful? Or dangerous? I wondered if I had to continue my quest … and I remembered the reason I am here, and I had no choice. If it was working, it was good, if not, it was the end and no more hope. I will have to face the consequences.
Aperta! I shout, only my echo answered me to mock me. Damn it!
APERTA! I screamed, I punched the solid grave. The pain was not important anymore.
Open damn it! APERTA!
And it miraculously opened and unfortunately exploded. I protected myself with my forearms as a shield. The cutting stones scratched my flesh like a thin piece of paper. I yelped in pain. My legs collapsed on the ground like a rag doll.
A few minutes later, I came back to my sense and I coughed the dust. I painfully rolled on my back. It was over, my only hope simply vanished in the air and I finally saw her … above me … a familiar face … chestnut and deep eyes, messy and long curly hair, thin and pale face … she looked like a mummy... she was totally naked, covered with charcoal dirt. I blushed because of our unusual position. What's going on? She painted painfully, she seemed so weak. Her fingers stumbled on my shoulders.
"Elena?" I could see at her cold reaction it was not the owner of the name but someone else. A dead person who is her exactly twin? That was impossible. Who was she? I could not go further into my reflections when teeth pierced inside my neck to swallow the content. I screamed all my lungs.
