Secret in Hiding
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Chapter 10: Witch Hunters
Cassie and Diana sat on one of the beds in the motel room playing chess on their fathers board. Theirs were still at the Blake house. Unfortunately their brilliant plan to get the crystals meant everything they owned that was taken with them to the Blake house was at the Blake house. It wasn't much, but the two found themselves missing the only things they had ever owned in the world especially that chess board which had been a present from their father years ago.
The motel room was tiny, but John Blackwell promised them they didn't have to stay there for long. Claire and Dylan were sitting on the other bed and were looking at the two staring. The two had been looking at them since they arrived the night before and it kind of freaked the two out. Lucas and Ryder seemed to not like them giving them looks. It was probably because of John Blackwell's comment when they arrived and the two choose to ignore their older brothers' reaction to them. The two seemed to worship John Blackwell for some reason and would listen to anything the man said.
"You two are very powerful," Claire said making the two look at them. "I can feel it, but you two are hard to read."
"What?" Cassie asked confused.
She's the one with the power. Remember father mentioned it to us once when he was telling us about our other siblings, Diana reminded Cassie and then looked at Claire. "Okay." Was all she said before she went back to her game with Cassie.
"I always wanted a big sister. Now I have two," Claire said clearly wanting to talk to them. Diana and Cassie gave her a look. "You want me to shut up so you can play your game?" The two nodded and then went back to the game.
"Cassie, Diana," John Blackwell said walking back into the room. The two stopped there game right away and jumped off the bed. "I am going to start preparing for the spell the two of you and I will be performing to create the skull. Lucas and Ryder are going to help. I need you two to do something for me." They nodded waiting for their orders. "I need you to train Claire and Dylan in their dark magic."
"What?" Cassie and Diana asked confused.
"You are my most well trained children in your dark magic and they are the least trained. Their mother was using herbs to block their dark magic. I want you to train them." Cassie and Diana nodded. "Take the car you stole and go to my old house. It abandoned now and you should be able to train there. I'll give you directions."
"We know where it is," Diana told her father with a smile.
"Good, I'll see you later." John Blackwell looked at the chess board. "Cassie you're black pieces right?"
"Yes father," Cassie said.
"Is it your move?"
"Yes father."
"Look at the board and tell me what move you should make." Cassie looked at the board and the pieces. She had been trying to figure out a move that would help her win and she knew by her father's face he saw it. It took Cassie another minute to see what John saw. She moved her queen a couple of spaces and then floated up Diana's king. "Checkmate," John said out loud and hugged Cassie. "That's my girl."
John then put an arm around Diana. "You did well too." Diana smiled at her father and then her sister.
I'll beat you next time, Diana thought and Cassie laughed.
"Okay, funs over. Get to work." Cassie and Diana nodded and John Blackwell left. Not too long later the four youngest Balcoins were out the door.
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After arriving at the abandoned house, Cassie and Diana went over a spell with Claire and Dylan for a while before they actually decided to practice it. "Since we don't really want you exploding anyone's head we're going to use a ball." Cassie said holding up the ball she had in her hands and then continued, "The minute I throw this Dylan try to do the spell."
"Will do captain," Dylan said with a laugh, but Cassie just gave him a confused look. "Never mind." Dylan stated and waited for Cassie to throw the ball. Cassie tossed the ball up in the air and Dylan tried the spell, but instead of exploding the ball just got tossed into the woods.
Dylan gave Cassie and Diana a worried look. "Go find it," Diana said and Dylan went running. "Help your brother." Diana told Claire who had already been running after Dylan. I can't believe we're doing this? Diana thought to Cassie.
How long do you think it will take them to find that? Cassie asked and Diana didn't even have to answer for Cassie to know what Diana was thinking, Cassie took a seat on the porch. We're going to be here a while.
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Faye, Jake, Adam, and Melissa were all walking to the abandoned house together. The four had decided they just needed to get out and get their minds off of things. Melissa especially needed to leave that house and get some fresh air. Even after the spell had officially wore off Melissa had continued to cry for about an hour before falling to sleep. Since she had woken up she had been very quiet and Faye, Jake, and Adam decided she needed to get out of the house. Away from elders making plans and trying to get the crystals back. So they decided to go to the place where they had always felt safe for some weird reason. That place just happened to be the abandoned house.
"Stop," Jake said when they got close to the house. "That's my car." Parked not too far from the house was Jake's car. Sneaking in closer the four saw Cassie and Diana hanging out on the porch looking as though they were waiting for someone and were really impatient about it.
"You think they're waiting for us?" Adam asked looking at Diana.
"Why?" Jake asked. "They got what they want." No one had an answer for Jake. "You think they have the crystals on them?"
"They don't have the bag," Faye pointed out. "We should question them?" Faye then turned to Melissa. The girl was as a white as ghost looking at Diana and Cassie terrified. "They haven't seen us yet. We can always just back off." Faye offered, but Melissa shook her head.
"No, we need those crystals back," Melissa whispered. "We should try to get the elders here though."
"How?" Adam asked.
"Did either of you two ever explain what a cellphone was to the girls?" Faye asked the boys who shook their heads. "Good, the elders are about to hear a very interesting conversation." Faye took out her cell phone and started to dial.
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"Hey," Cassie and Diana heard the familiar voice and turned around to see Adam, Melissa, Jake, and Faye walking up.
What are they doing here? Cassie asked her sister as the two jumped up from their sitting positions to face the four.
We forgot they hang out here; Diana said looking at the two and then said out loud. "Well Melissa I see my spell wore off. You here for more?" Diana was very happy with the reaction she got. Melissa gave Diana a terrified look before stepping back. "I didn't think so. Why don't you four get out of here now?"
"This is our place," Faye said taking the lead. "You should give us back the crystals and leave now."
"Well the crystals are not here and you're never getting them back. Also this isn't your place. This house belonged to our father." Diana told the group. "Now get lost." Diana looked over into the forest. She didn't want Claire and Dylan to return while these four were here, but there was no sign of their younger siblings.
"I don't think so," Faye said taking a step towards them which almost made Diana and Cassie laugh.
"You think we can fight us and win?" Cassie asked.
"Maybe not, but I'll try," Faye said.
"Well how about you all fight me instead," a voice said causing everyone to turn around to look. Standing not too far away from them was Eben and a group of witch hunters. Melissa, Jake, Adam, and Faye took a step back and stayed together figuring strength in number. Faye hid her cell phone just a little bit better praying to god the elders were on their way. Cassie and Diana on the other hand didn't move. They weren't afraid of Eben or the six demons inside of him. "I'm ready to start killing witches and you six just happened to be at the top of my list."
Eben directed his hand at the group of four and he went to turn around. Cassie saw movement in the woods and then realized it was Claire and Dylan. If Eben turned around completely he would see them and Cassie couldn't let that happen. Cassie ran forward throwing her magic out at Eben causing the witch to move in a direct that he wouldn't see them. Eben turned around to look at Cassie clearly pissed. He had been ignoring the two girls up to that point, since he didn't know they were the bigger threat in that group of witches not really knowing who they were. Eben used his demon magic to throw Cassie against the house and straight through one of the walls knocking the blonde witch out.
The minute Cassie went through the wall Diana hand shot to her leg. She felt horrible pain and she knew it was coming from Cassie. Through their link they could feel each other pain, but to a lesser extend then what the person in pain was feeling. If she was feeling this much pain she couldn't begin to understand the pain Cassie was in. She shot one warning look to the forest knowing from Cassie that Claire and Dylan was there, but she didn't see them and then she ran to her sister.
"Did Cassie just save us?" Melissa asked and everyone could clearly hear the fear in her voice. The other three didn't know what to say though.
"Enough of this." Eben shouted and then threw a burst of his demon magic at Faye, Adam, Jake, Melissa, and Diana knocking all of them out. He looked around and then looked at the witch hunters that were with him. "Take them to the boatyard. We're going to perform the ceremony to kill them the same place we killed their parents." The hunters went right to work getting the six of them. No one saw Faye's phone fall to the floor. On the other end the elders heard everything and they all knew what they had to do. They had to save their grandkids. All six of them.
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Claire and Dylan had seen Cassie be thrown into the house. Dylan had wanted to run in to help but Claire held him back. "Cassie did that so we could escape," Claire whispered pulling her twin brother out of sight to make sure the witch hunters couldn't see them. "That hunter has a dark force in him." Claire then thought for a minute. "It's demons. He has a few in him. I can't tell how many."
"What do we do?" Dylan asked his sister.
"We got find father, Lucas, and Ryder to help save Diana and Cassie," Claire informed her brother and the two went running through the forest.
"Damn I wish mom had gotten us a cell phone before father had come. It would have made this so much easier."
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At the boatyard Jake, Faye, Melissa, Adam, Diana, and Cassie all started to wake up. "Lock unlock," was the first thing that came out of Faye's mouth looking at the handcuffs that were on her arms, but they didn't unlock. "What's wrong with my magic?"
"These block magical power," Jake informed his former girlfriend. "We're not going anywhere."
They heard metal drop to the floor and turned to see Diana was up without her handcuffs on. "How did she unlock them?" Faye asked and everyone turned to Jake.
"She must be too powerful for them," Jake said impressed. He knew the girls were powerful, but he hadn't realized exactly how powerful.
Diana had gone over to Cassie right away and was kneeling on the floor next to her. Cassie was lying on the floor and her hand was on her leg. Jake could tell Cassie was in a lot of pain and it broke his heart. Then he remembered how easy it was for her to torture Melissa and he was a little less heartbroken. He still loved Cassie though and didn't want to see her in pain. Jake was truly torn.
Diana magically took off Cassie's handcuff and then basically had to lift her sister up. Cassie was leaning heavily on Diana and wouldn't put her right leg down on the floor. Diana wished she had the ability to lift Cassie in her arms, but she wasn't strong enough and she had to keep her magic ready to use against witch hunters. The two started very slowly to the door, Cassie basically hopping on one foot next to Diana.
"Are you going to leave us here?" Adam asked after Diana opened the door. Diana turned her head to look at them and then suddenly all their handcuff opened up.
"That's all you get. If you make it out of this boat alive that's on you." Diana and Cassie left and the four saw them make a right turn.
"Should we follow them?" Jake asked.
"I say we make a left," Faye said at the door. "You heard them. They're not helping us anymore. Let the Blackwell sisters find their own way out and well find our own way out." Melissa agreed and the two went that way. Adam and Jake looked to the right, but then followed the two girls they knew they could trust.
Not too long later the four literally bumped right into the elders. They actually did just walk right into them. "Oh, thank god," Penny said taking Melissa into a hug. "We were hoping we weren't too late."
"How did you escape?" Kate asked the four.
"Diana was able to unlock the anti-magic handcuffs and the witch hunters were being too over confident. They didn't even post a guard," Jake told the elders.
"Where are they?" Jane asked looking around. The two girls weren't with the group, so Jane assumed they went on their own.
"They went..." Adam was just about to point in the direction, but then the group heard a bang. "I think that would be them."
"Come on," Jane said and ran towards the bang followed by Kate and then everyone else.
"Why are we going this way? Shouldn't we be running?" Melissa asked her Circle, but no one answered.
When they got out onto the deck they saw a couple of thing. First was that most of the witch hunters were on the floor unconscious. Second was that Eben and Cassie and Diana were facing each other. Third was that Cassie and Diana were saying some spell in an unknown language to the four and Eben actually seemed to be in pain from the spell.
"What are they doing?" Faye asked curious.
"They are trying to exorcist the demons," Royce said.
"Can they do it?" All four of the grandkids wanted to know.
"With both of them and their dark magic I would say two or three they could do, but not six." Royce said disappointing everyone.
"Channel some of your magic into them," Jane said when she saw the two were struggling. "We need to get rid of this witch hunter threat now and that spell is our only chance. We need to help them." No one liked the idea too much, but they all agreed they had to. The elders quickly explained to the four what to do and then the nine of them focused on their magic to help the two girls.
Cassie and Diana felt the power boost right away and didn't waste any time in using it. It wasn't long later that they heard Eben scream as the last of the demon was forced out of his body and back to hell.
Diana and Cassie were very weak at that point. They had used a lot of their magic and the extra magic they had gotten had now gone back to where it came from. Diana couldn't hold Cassie up anymore and Cassie fell to the floor. Diana wasn't far behind her. Both were breathing heavily.
At that point Eben took a knife out and planned to go stab the girls, but Jake was faster. He found one of the witch hunters knife and got behind Eben throwing the knife into his heart. Eben fell down dead not too long later. Everyone looked at Jake. 'It had to be done," Jake said and everyone nodded.
Faye looked at the two exhausted girls and laughed. "Well, who's more powerful now?" Diana gave her a look, but didn't say anything.
"Where are the crystals girls?" Jane asked, but neither Cassie nor Diana said anything. "Tell us now." Once again neither girl responded. "You're coming back with us. Get up."
"Cassie can't walk and I can't hold her up anymore," Diana finally said something and looked at Cassie. Both girls knew they didn't have much of a choice about going with them. Neither of them could fight right now.
Jake went over to Cassie and lifted the girl up. Faye rolled her eyes at that. "Still all over her I see." Jake gave Faye a look that clearly said shut up. Adam went over and helped Diana up and let her lean on him as they went back to the cars the elders had. Cassie, Diana, and Adam were all in the backseat of one of the car and Jake got into the passenger seat while Jane drove.
Jake kept on looking at Cassie and Diana. "Answer me one question." Diana looked at Jake. "Why use us like this? Just why?" Some of the hurt and anger he felt since learning about the betrayal could be heard in his voice, but both girls didn't hear it.
"We had too," was all Diana answered, but then the two were silent again.
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Lucas, Ryder, Claire, and Dylan all ran into the motel room where John Blackwell was waiting. "Where are Cassie and Diana?" John asked his children and anyone could see how worried he was. "Why aren't they with you?" John yelled at his kids his anger showing thinking he should have gone too instead of just trusting these four to save his girls.
"By the time we got to the boat you said they would be at we were too late," Lucas said.
"They're dead," John asked sitting down looking like he would cry.
"No," Ryder said causing John to look at him. "We saw them being forced into a car by five older witches and four younger ones. The witch hunter that had the demons in him was dead."
John smiled. "So the Chance Harbor Circle thinks they have them. Well you're going to have to rescue them from the Blake house." The four nodded getting ready to go and get their siblings.
AN: okay I think that's good for this chp. How did you like? I kind of wanted to show at the end there that John does care about Cassie and Diana a lot.
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