So... ok I know I said I wasn't gonna update for a while, but cut me some slack. I give this to you as a peace offering, since my exams start next week I'm not going to have chapter 10 done till middle of Feb. at the earliest (this is my educated guess) I think some parts of this chapter will be confusing so if anyone has questions, feel free to pm me or just ask in your review.
Chapter 9
"Ok, so let me get this straight," Tucker said, looking between Danny and Sabrina, trying to understand what they explained. Sam, Tucker, Danny and Sabrina had found a table at the edge of the cafeteria, and were unnoticed to the other students eating their lunch; it was the perfect place to talk about the paranormal life they lived.
Sabrina had already explained her situation to Sam and Tucker and they were now discussing the prophecy. "There's a prophecy that says that Plasmius and this Taika are going to destroy the world?"
"Yep," Danny and Sabrina answered in unison, uninterested.
"And you two are the only ones who can stop it?" he asked.
"Yep," they answered in the same tone.
"And you have to figure out how to use your powers together?" he asked.
"Yep," they said.
"Wow Danny, you can't catch a break can you?" Tucker said slyly.
"Nope," Danny answered unenthusiastically, resting his elbow on the table and his face in his hand. Sabrina smiled sympathetically at him. Danny turned his attention to Sam, who had not said anything in a long while. She was glaring daggers at Sabrina, but he had no idea why. "You ok Sam?" he asked his friend, confused.
"Huh?" Sam said, breaking out of her thoughts. "Oh, yeah, fine," she said, just catching what Danny had said. She wasn't really listening to their explanation; she really didn't trust Sabrina too much.
Sabrina read through Sam's reaction and sighed sadly, but Danny and Tucker didn't notice. She then got an idea. "Sam, can I talk to you a second?" she asked in a friendly voice, taking everyone in surprise.
"Uh… sure?" Sam said, it sounding more like a question than an answer. Both girls walked together into the halls, leaving two confused boys at their table.
"How much you want to bet that Sabrina's not going to come back?" Tucker said sarcastically. Danny just looked angrily at Tucker
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Sabrina led Sam outside to an empty part of the hallway where she knew she wouldn't be overheard. Sabrina turned around to face Sam.
"You don't trust me, don't you?" Sabrina asked sadly.
"What?" Sam exclaimed, shocked. "No, I-" Sabrina raised an eyebrow at Sam and she sighed. "Ok, yeah."
Sabrina sighed. "Why don't you believe me?"
"It's not that I don't believe you," Sam started but then stopped. Why didn't she trust her? "I guess I'm a little overprotective," she admitted, ashamed. Sabrina looked at her, confused before she smiled.
"You like him, don't you?" she asked.
"WHAT!?!" Sam yelled in anger and confusion.
"Danny," Sabrina said sweetly. "You like him, not only like a friend, but like him."
"I do not!" Sam said a little too quickly. Sabrina smirked; Sam's actions had answered her question.
"Sure…" she said, not believing Sam for a minute.
"I don't!" she protested.
"Relax Sam," Sabrina said, amused at Sam's protesting. "I'm not into Danny. He sweet and all, but…" Sabrina trailed off; a pained expression came across her face. Sam, noticing the girl stopped speaking, looked up and was surprised to see tears starting to brim at her eyes.
"Are you ok?" she asked, actually concerned. Sabrina quickly wiped away her tears.
"Yeah," she sniffled. "I just remembered how it used to be when I first started out with the paranormal stuff. I told my best friend and he was the only person I talked to who had ever accepted me for who I was, until I met you guys." Sabrina felt her tears running down her face, but didn't wipe them away.
Her expression quickly turned to one of anger. "Then Taika came. She made my life as miserable as possible. She tried to take my powers, she never succeeded. So you know what she did? SHE EXPOSED ME!" Hysterical tears were running down her face. "My town hated me; everyone I knew tried to destroy me. Except for my best friend." Sabrina started to cry harder; she braced herself against a wall, slid down and buried her face in her hands.
Sam was shocked to say the least. A wave of guilt and sympathy washed over her; this girl couldn't possibly want to destroy Danny. Sam sighed and walked over to Sabrina.
"Sabrina…" she started but Sabrina cut her off.
"Just… go away," she said dejectedly.
"Can't do that, you asked me to talk so I'm staying," Sam said stubbornly. Sabrina sadly chuckled. "Listen, you can't go on letting Taika ruin everything for you, you need to face this head on.
Sabrina raised her head, taking in Sam's words. It was what she was already doing, but it felt nice to hear someone else say them. "Thanks Sam," she said standing up.
She wiped her tear stained cheeks to make her look like she wasn't crying. The two girls smiled at each other. "You know," Sabrina said after a few moments of comfortable silence, "Danny should be glad to have great friends like you and Tucker, I'm kinda jealous of him."
Sam laughed at that. "I don't think so, have you ever seen Tucker eat?" she said sarcastically as they walked back to the cafeteria.
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"Dude, they've been gone for ages, maybe we better make sure Sam didn't bite Sabrina's head off," Tucker told Danny, checking his watch.
"Relax Tucker," Danny said pointing to the door, "They're coming back." Tucker whirled around and gasped.
"Sabrina, you're alive!" he exclaimed happily. Sam gave Tucker a death glare while Sabrina gave Danny a confused look.
"Don't ask," Danny told her. Sabrina looked between the two of them.
"Do I want to know?" she asked.
"No," Danny and Tucker said, though Tucker's answer was fearful at the glance of Sam.
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Sabrina dropped her bag onto the ground exhaustedly. Danny and her agreed to start trying to figure out how their powers work tomorrow, and she needed to finish her homework quickly. But she felt so exhausted. Maybe I'll just take a little nap, Sabrina thought as she climbed onto her bed. She was asleep before her head touched her pillow…
Sabrina was in a yellow tiled hallway, her hair a dark chestnut brown down to her back. She wore a blue tank top with a white sweater over it with black jeans. The star pendant was reflecting against the fluorescent lights from above her. She was smiling and happy as she closed her locker.
"Guess who Brina?" a brown haired boy said, covering Sabrina's eyes with his hands.
"Knock it off Joshua," Sabrina said in fake annoyance, although her tone sounded amused. She pushed away his hands.
Joshua scowled at the name. "I told you Sabrina never call me that unless you have a death wish to go with those powers of yours," he said darkly.
Sabrina's eyes widened as she made an attempt to cover her best friend's mouth before anyone could hear. "Josh, please-"
"I know, I know," he said, apologetically. "I'm sorry ok, but you know how I dislike being called my right name."
"Yeah, I do," Sabrina said with a small smile, remembering how one guy got his face punched by Josh a couple weeks ago for calling him his full name. They walked down the hall together, as they did everyday, saying hi to everyone in their small town.
Suddenly, however, the school's alarm went off, signaling the students to run for cover. Sabrina and Josh looked at one other, before they ran outside to see what the commotion was.
"Where is she?!" a figure yelled from above them. The students gasped in fright and shock; humans were not supposed to fly. "Where?" she yelled again.
Josh looked over at Sabrina, who was equally terrified. They had both witnessed someone fly before, Josh still had painful memories from it, but they had never seen anyone else do it.
The figure turned towards Sabrina and smiled evilly. Sabrina looked into the figure's cold red eyes and shuddered.
"So," the figure said, "There you are." Right then the figure's hand lit in a purplish glow; the crowd had gasped again. The figure released a blast from her hand towards Sabrina and Josh.
Sabrina stood there frozen; she had no idea what to do.
"LOOK OUT!" Josh yelled, pushing her to the ground to avoid the blast. The blast had hit behind them, creating a huge crater.
Sabrina looked towards the crater fearfully, then towards her friend. "Thanks," she whispered in shock.
"No prob." Josh said, he too looking at the crater. He then heard the figure above them cackling with evil laughter. "Come on, we have to get out of here." He stood up and then extended his hand to Sabrina, who took it instantly. They both ran far away from the figure, not noticing the crowd watching in their direction.
Josh led Sabrina to an abandoned alley way and they both gripped the wall tightly.
"That… was… close." Sabrina panted. Josh nodded his head in agreement.
"Why would that crazy Pop Tart be looking for you?" he asked her.
Sabrina looked at him. "Pop Tart?" she asked.
"Hey, if the pastry fits," Josh said with a small smile. The conversation then turned back to the seriousness it held before.
"You… you don't think?" Sabrina whispered breathlessly. That thing up there couldn't know what she was… could she?
"I hope not," Josh said. They had both read the shocking details of what happened to witches back when they found them in their town. Josh wasn't let his best friend be subjected to that kind of torture.
"Well, well, well," a voice cut through the teens' conversation like a knife. Sabrina and Josh gasped and turned.
It was a woman, around her late forties, her dark purple robes hung loosely over her figure and her ghostly white completion gave both of them shivers. Her dark black hair was pulled into what looked like a bun, with a few pieces sticking out in all directions. "I finally found you, Salem."
Sabrina shook in fright. Josh grabbed her hand to calm her down, but made sure the new person didn't see.
"Who… who are you?" Sabrina asked fearfully, her voice trembling at every word.
"I am Taika," the figure said, grinning evilly at the sound of Sabrina's voice. "And I have come for the powers that are rightfully mine."
Sabrina's eyes narrowed at that. "You have no right to say my powers belong to you, my family have been witches and witchums since the beginning of time," she told Taika.
"Really now," Taika taunted in fake surprise. "I believe your family had created a treachery against our kind and according to our laws, that power should be protected, not with some silly little girl."
Sabrina gasped in shock; she had no idea how this person knew so much about her family. Josh looked between the two, he had a really bad feeling about this.
Sabrina's eyes narrowed, if this Taika person, witch, whoever, wanted her powers, she would have to fight for it. Sabrina took her pendant off and waved her hands. Almost at an instant, a five point star appeared at her feet engulfing her in a bright white light.
Josh let go of Sabrina to shield his eyes and the gasped when he saw Sabrina in her 'other' form. Sabrina's dark midnight robes fit her exactly, her black hair shone against the sun and her eyes changed from the hazel brown to a lake blue. Taika smiled in delight.
"Sabrina, are you nuts?" Josh exclaimed, looking worriedly at Sabrina.
"Josh, get out of here," Sabrina said as she pushed off lightly from the ground. "And try to find a spell to get me out of this mess," she added in a whisper. Josh nodded and took off sprinting, giving one last worried glance at his life long friend.
"Well, it seems you want to do this the hard way," Taika said evilly. Sabrina's eyes narrowed even more.
"Bring it on, grandma!" Sabrina said in determined yet mocking tone.
The two witches flew high up into the sky. Taika unleashed more purple blasts, which Sabrina barely dodged.
Sabrina closed her eyes for a second. Please work, please work! Sabrina said to herself. She put out her hand and used all the concentration she had to blast Taika. She finally created a light blue flame like blast, which hit Taika in the chest. However, the blast did not make much of a dent to the witch's power. It just made her angrier.
Taika let out a scream of rage and blasted Sabrina; this time hitting the girl hard. Sabrina screamed in pain and started to fall to the ground. There was an earth shaking impact and a cloud of dust before everything seemed to be normal. Once the cloud cleared, Sabrina was lying on the ground, a bright light engulfed her and she returned back to normal.
"Sabrina!" she heard Josh yell before she saw him running towards her. He wore a panicked expression on his face. Once he reached her, he helped her up. "Are you ok?" he asked her.
"Yeah," she answered quietly. Josh let out a sigh of relief.
An evil laugh was heard from above and the two teens looked up at the evil face of Taika. "You've lost girl," she said, venomously. "Now it's time to give me your power."
Sabrina gasped and tried to stand without help to see if she could get away, but it never worked. Josh caught her when she was about to fall.
"Do you think you can teleport your way out of here?" Josh asked her, concerned.
"I'll try," Sabrina said weakly. She closed her eyes and concentrated again. Within a few moments, a light surrounded the two and took them away, leaving a furious Taika hovering above them. Taika looked over the town and smiled evilly, descending to where the town was looking in awe.
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Sabrina collapsed onto the floor of her room as soon as they reached there. Josh bent down and looked at her sadly while she struggled to breathe. Finally regaining some energy, Sabrina stood up wearily and sat on her bed.
"That was close," he said. Sabrina looked at him with a sarcastic look on his face.
"Yeah, I'll say," she answered drolly. Josh smiled sympathetically at his friend.
"Wonder why she was looking for you, though," Josh pondered out loud. "I mean other than to steal your power." Sabrina sighed and turned on the T.V.
What was on surprised both of them. There was a news report of that afternoon, and they kept showing a video footage of her transforming over and over again.
"No…" Sabrina whispered in shock. Josh was frozen stiff. The next thing they heard shocked them even more.
"There will be a town rally in 1 hour to see how to get rid of this menace," The news announcer read. Sabrina had heard enough; she broke down crying.
Josh was instantly at her side. "Come on Sabrina," he cooed, trying to get her to calm down. "It isn't that bad. You're a smart witch, you'll think of something." After a couple minutes of self pity, Sabrina dried her eyes and looked up at her friend. That's when her brain suddenly remembered something important.
"Josh, do you have my spell book with you?" she asked. Josh smiled and nodded, giving her the book. Sabrina frantically flipped through the pages, looking for a spell to get her out of this mess. "AHA!" she exclaimed finally. "A memory wipe spell. This should make everything go back to the way it was." She looked over the spell and gasped.
"What?" Josh asked. Sabrina's next sentence changed everything after that.
"It…it's only 50 effective," Sabrina said. "The only way I could make sure it's going to work is if I leave town." The two friends looked at each other; each had no idea what to do.
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Sabrina was running as fast as she could away from the mob. They've chasing her for hours and she was lucky enough to not have been caught yet.
Unfortunately, her luck had just run out.
She made a turn into a dead end. She was trapped. The mob stood there angrily, watching as the girl tried to escape. They started to chant "Burn the witch, burn the witch!"
"STOP!" a voice from the crowd bellowed. Josh's face came into view and he stood protectively in front of Sabrina. "If you want to go through her, you'll have to go through me!" he said angrily.
There was a brief struggle and soon Josh was being held by two large men. The mob started to close in, a rope and lit torches in almost everyone's hand...
"GET AWAY!" Sabrina yelled, jumping out of her bed. She looked around and realized that it was all a dream. No, it wasn't, Sabrina said sadly to herself. It had been real. She had almost been destroyed by people she'd known all her life. She was shaking all over and she seemed to have been crying in her sleep.
Sabrina got up wearily and went to her dresser. After some digging through her sock drawer, she had found what she had been looking for. It was a picture, in a small wooden frame, with the boy from her dream and her. Both were smiling and looked geninuely happy.
I miss you a lot Josh, Sabrina thought to herself. Silent tears began to fall from her face. She moved her finger across the picture sadly, remembering the only real friend she ever had. He was the only person she hadn't erased the memory of in that small town; actually the only one she'd ever let keep their memories of her.
But you've probably forgotten all about me, Sabrina thought as she looked at the picture.
A sudden thud brought her out of her thoughts. Sabrina quickly dried her eyes and turned to face the sound, when she gasped. Danny was floating, in ghost form, outside her window, rubbing part of his head. Apparently he had tried to come through her window; she chuckled slightly before going to open the window.
"Thanks," he mumbled as he flew into her room.
"Danny, what are you doing here?" Sabrina asked skeptically.
"I was out patrolling when I heard a scream," Danny said. Sabrina paled; her scream had apparently been louder than she thought.
"Yeah, that was me," Sabrina said sadly, walking back to the picture. "I just… had a bad dream that's all."
"Oh," was Danny's answer. He then noticed something else; there were tears flowing down Sabrina's cheeks. "Are you crying?" he asked, concerned.
"No," Sabrina denied, wiping the tears from her eyes. But unfortunately, the tears kept coming. Sabrina kept looking at the picture and Danny sighed.
"Alright then," he said, still worried. He noticed the picture in her hands, and the look she was giving it. Danny took off from the ground slowly, but then stopped in midair when he saw the picture.
He noticed a brown haired boy and a girl that looked like Sabrina, both really happy. "Is that you and your friend?" he asked curiously.
"He was," Sabrina replied sadly, not turning away from the photo. "You're really lucky Danny," she continued after a pause. Danny looked at her skeptically. "Having best friends like Sam and Tucker, knowing that nothing can come between you guys. Nothing."
Danny looked down at this; there were quite a few things that could come between his friendship with Sam and Tucker. But she was right; having Sam and Tucker as friends was… well words really couldn't describe their friendship.
Danny looked up and saw Sabrina looking at him, her brown eyes swollen with tears. She really didn't look like she wanted company right now. He was about to say something when his ghost sense cut him off. Sabrina smiled sadly.
"Looks like you're needed," she said.
"Are you going to be ok?" he asked, still concerned. She nodded.
"I just need some time alone," she said quietly, turning back to her picture. Danny sighed and tried to fly through the wall, but instead bumped into it.
"Ow…" Danny muttered, rubbing his head again. He heard Sabrina chuckle.
"I would suggest flying out the window," she said with a hint of sarcasm to her voice.
Danny shook his head, annoyed, and took Sabrina's advice, looking for the ghost who decided to cause trouble.
Sabrina looked at the photograph once again and looked around her room. She finally took the picture and put it on her bookcase, next to one of her spell books, and smiled. Sabrina then turned around and went back to her bed, silently hoping she wouldn't be cursed with nightmares from her past.
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Back in Wisconsin, Taika paced back and forth, her temper fuming at their failure.
"There," Vlad said from an office chair, set in front of a bunch of screens. Taika stopped pacing and walked up to her 'partner.' Vlad turned to face Taika. "These cameras should be able to track Daniel and that little witch of yours throughout the town. Then we can plan out our plan from there." Taika smiled evilly.
The two watched as Danny was fighting off Klemper (who was losing easily) and Sabrina looking at a picture. Taika watched the girl in interest, trying to figure out her actions.
"What is she doing?" Vlad asked his partner. Taika didn't answer, until she saw the picture. She waved her hands and copied the picture from the girl's shelf and put it in her hand, much to Vlad's complainants about the use of technology rather than magic. Taika studied the picture, and smiled.
"So," she began, Vlad tuning in to her, "It looks like the two of them have the same weakness." Vlad looked at her skeptically. She turned to him. "I have a plan," she said firmly, "And it'll take care of those two pests once and for all." They laughed evilly, but Taika had a different reason. Once I get that brat's power and take care of this loser, I will be the ruler of the 3 worlds once and for all, Taika thought to herself as she laughed evilly into the night.
So that's the 9th chappie for ya. If anyone has any questions about Sabrina's dream (the bold and italic part) or anything in this chapter, ask away. I'm going to try a new thing today. I'm not going to update this until I have 4 or 5 reviews. I don't care if they're flames, I'll just toast marshemellows(marsh-e-mellows) on them hehe. So hoped you liked this chapter.