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MidnightxMusic, Fabula et Dolum, Mink Pockii, RebeccaSaysYay, Carles-Ichigo-Desu, Fanfiction Ninja, HorseGirl784, BiddyAuthor, Green Lilyz, Azn-Rinny, MagicalSquaresOfDarkness, and morningdew123. It means so much that you all continuously review!
Oh and for those of you who asked a questions.
My ideas come from...lack of sleep I guess you could say lol. I wouldn't consider them that awesome.
The question about Wizard's glare shall be revealed all in due time my friend XD.
For my first fan fiction I really do feel honored that you all have supported me so much.
Without further adieu, I give you the next, long awaited chapter!
~Molly's POV~
There I was, thinking that Chase was confessing his love for me and all of a sudden a knife is pulled out on me and I'm forced to go to a secluded and seemingly closed off area of the forest.
Why was I so stupid?
'Care for me, pity me, save me, all those things...yes. But, Chase could never love me. '
I felt a sharp pang in my chest, as if it hurt me. I guess it did hurt me...
Chase was actually trying his hardest to save me right now. I didn't want him to get hurt, nor did I want Angela or Wizard to come after me. As long as Angela stayed away it'd be okay, right?
"I'm not worth the worry..." I muttered. It was always me that everyone was worried about. Angela always worried about me, Chase always comforted me, even Calvin would give me sympathy.
'I'm too useless!'
Now I was sitting by myself in a dark area. Finn was no where to be found and Chase was out there probably about to do something reckless.
I stood up and surveyed my surroundings. Though the trees were tightly knit together, it didn't seems impossible for me to squeeze through. But the dark abyss that was in between the trees didn't look to be promising.
"I should still give it a try..." I muttered bravely to myself and started towards the widest looking opening.
The stale air and quiet atmosphere settled upon me as ominous as I peered into the darkness. I looked down to see if there were any thorn bushes or thickets of any kind. Fortunately for me there were none.
'I can do this...' I thought and took a deep breath.
Ever so carefully, I slipped through the trees and started to stumble through the forest, pushing branches and such out of my way as I went along. The forest grow thicker as I proceeded and just when I was losing hope, a sliver of light appeared before me, as if an opening was ahead.
"Just a. . .little. . .more!" I breathed through the dense foliage.
I burst through the trees into the dim lighted area and opened my eyes to scan the area.
"Huh...what the-"
"Mooooooooolly." A deep, rough voice called out to me from behind.
'I know that voice...from somewhere...' My frame became stiff and I didn't want to turn around.
'Don't look. Close and lock the door. Don't freak out just CLOSE the door!' My thoughts screamed yet my body reacted by turning around slowly.
'Stop, stop, STOP!' But my thoughts were drained out along with the blood in my cheeks.
A scream lodged itself in my throat.
~Angela's POV~
"Somethings wrong...I know it..." I murmured as we approached the forest's entrance.
"Just don't get separated from us. I would have liked to keep you away from here but you would be more vulnerable by yourself if the Rogue Sprite came to get you." Chase said.
"I know that already!" I snapped at him.
"Good to know that you feel at least a little better." He grumbled.
"Wait up!" A familiar voice rang out, right before we trekked into the forest. We turned to find a very worried looking Kathy.
"K-Kathy?" I managed to stutter out.
"Where are you three going! Where's Molly!" Kathy's voice cracked on the last sentence.
"Uh...umm."
"You do know where she is, right! After what happened at the bar I...I don't know what to think!" Anger filled her eyes because I supposed that she wouldn't allow the worry to show.
"Don't worry Kathy. Molly wanted us to bring her some glow sticks because she said she found a "cool little cave" in the forest." Chase rolled his eyes.
"She's such a kid." I was shocked at Chase's great acting skills.
Kathy's worried look dropped. Is that something that Molly would really do around here? But I couldn't help myself from asking something though.
"How come you don't think it's strange that Molly would ask a guy to bring her something in the woods? Not that it'll be bad or anything like that but you know she's afraid of them."
"Not of Chase! I thought you'd never confess though! It's about frickin time I will say!"
"So that's how...the Bringer did it..." Wizard muttered. I gasped at the realization and I could see Chase's eyes widen slightly from confusion then shock.
Molly followed the fake Chase after it confessed! That's how it lured her! Using her love for Chase!
"Gee, thanks Kathy." Chase muttered sarcastically, his acting skills still in check as he crossed his arms with a small smirk.
"Let Molly know that I want all the details later then Angela!"
"I-I'll do that..." I tried sounding as normal as possible but it didn't seem to work. Kathy eyed me suspiciously and then looked at Wizard.
"Mmmhm...Make it that I want both of all the details..." She said and grinned at me. My face went hot at what she was indicating though Wizard seemed to be unfazed.
"I'll see you guys later then!" Kathy called over her shoulder as she walked back to Flute Fields.
As soon as she was gone, Chase's facade left too. A scowl now adorned his face and his violet eyes were now clouded with what seemed to be a mix of hate and anger.
"That idiot! She trusts me too damn much!" He growled and looked at me.
"You stay close to him!"
"Where are you going!" I demanded.
"It's not after me! If you have him he can use the spell in these glow sticks I have. You'll be fine with him." Before I could protest, Wizard chimed in.
"He's right. He could keep most of...the pre-made Luminite...while you keep two for safety measures. It's the safest way..." Wizard explained.
"Fine...but don't you dare get hurt. I don't need Molly grieving over you." I warned him.
"Yeah...neither do I..." He sighed and stormed into the forest with eight vials of Luminite with him.
"We should have a phrase...just in case we do get separated."
Wizard nodded in compliance.
"What should it be? Maybe something long and complicated?" Wizard brought my ear closer to him and whispered a complicated phrase to me. It was as if it were a story of some sort.
"I can't remember that!" I shouted.
"You already have. You'll see" His sentence was almost like a whole this time as he gave me a warm smile. His smoother than caramel voice bringing me back to the night I first met him. Though it wasn't even a week, it felt like I'd known him longer than Molly had known Chase.
"But if we get separated...for even a second...ask for that phrase and nothing else..."
"Alright then. Let's go." I said and we started through the forest.
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Wizard and I had been walking for quite a while, no signs of Molly had shown up. We walked on in silence for a while before Wizard asked me something surprising.
"If Molly and I are the...only important people to you. What does that make all the others...who you've laughed with...?"
"Well...I never act serious around non-serious types and it's vice versa with the serious-type. I never give them a different side of me and if they happen to see it, well I guess I have to be more careful. Those people to me are...just people." I admitted.
"Why do you sound...so sad then?" He asked.
"I guess it does make me lonely. But I can't get too close to others or else I won't have time for-"
"For Molly...she wouldn't want that..." Wizard murmured.
"How would you know what Molly would want?" I snapped at him as we stopped in the middle of the forest. He just gave me his same unemotional mask but I felt that I did hurt him.
"I-I'm so sorry! I didn't mean it! I-I-I..."
"Let's keep going." Wizard cut me short and began walking again.
"Wizard...?" He didn't turn to face me.
"F-FINE! I'll just go this way!" I shouted and turned down a different path. I heard him coming after me but I didn't stop or even turn to look at him.
"Angela!" Wizard grabbed me from behind and spun me around to look at him.
"What do you-" He warm lips suddenly met mine and if felt as though my mind had flitted off to La La Land.
"Y-y-yo-y-you-a-an-and-m-me-"
"Don't leave my side!" He said in a voice that sounded close to anger. He held my hand and we took a few steps. I shook out of my thoughts and pulled my hand away from him.
"Hold on buddy!" I said.
He stared at me.
"You want to act like nothing affects you and you suddenly go around getting angry and kissing people! That's just not gonna fly!" I then took a closer look at him and noticed that his green eye and yellow eye had switched and so had the tattoo he had. I didn't make it obvious though.
"Look, I'll just go this way, and you can go that way. I don't feel like talking to you right now." I said, sort of venting on the imposter.
"Angela...now!" The imposter demanded for my hand.
"Now you listen here! No one and I mean No one gets to order me around like that! And you shouldn't just ignore people when they apologize to you! I didn't mean it and you know that and-" A bright light from behind me suddenly invaded my venting and the imposter Wizard burst into flames.
"Angela!" The concerned, stern, but still gentle voice of Wizard came from behind me. I turned to see all his features in the right place and he seemed completely stoic.
"Anything else...you'd like to relay?" He asked somewhat smart-ass like. I stared at him for a second before my rage came back.
"And another thing-!"
~Chase's POV~
I had the undeniable feeling that Angela had done something stupid but I quickly shook it off and continued to search for Molly when I heard a stifled scream from somewhere deep in the forest. Not taking any chances, I hung a vile of Wizard's spell out in front of me and proceeded with caution.
After what seemed like hours, I finally reached a clearing in the forest and I gasped. Molly was standing in the opening, her back turned to me.
"Molly!" I called out to her.
Her form became stiff, I was wary of her, just in case it was another fake.
She began to slowly turn around to face me and I noted that all her cowlick and bangs were all in their right places. When she saw me a look of fear played onto her face.
"Mol-"
She let out a high-pitched scream and I held onto her shoulders and started shaking her.
"Calm down, it's me!" I tried reassuring her but she just tried to pry herself from my grip.
"No, NOOOOOOO!" She screamed once more. Her thrashing caused us to topple over, me on top of her.
"Calm down! What's wrong?" I began to question if this was the real Molly. To be absolutely sure I decided to check her injury.
That only made her scream more as I struggled in lifting up her shirt.
"NOOOOO NOOOO! I don't want this! Not again!" She cried painfully, tears spilling from her eyes with a mix of terror. She started reaching above her.
"What are-"
"Where's the lamp! Why isn't the lamp here? Oh Goddess why isn't there a lamp here anymore!" She went into hysterics.
"Lamp? What lamp?"
Something suddenly popped up into my mind.
*Flashback*
"There was a lamp on the table behind me. Without thinking I took it and slammed it down on his head really hard.-"
*End*
What she said about her experience with that guy rang through my head clearly. It might seem crazy but after everything I've seen it was very possible that Molly's mind was being drawn back to that time and she was reliving it right now!
I looked at one of the vials that I had with me and grabbed while struggling to keep Molly pinned down with just my legs so I could unscrew the cap.
"I hope this works." I mumbled and poured the serum in Molly's face.
She became silent for a moment, the terror in her eyes dying down and then...she passed out.
I pushed off of her and knelt beside her, eyeing her warily. She began to breathe at a slow, steady pace and I sighed with relief as I lifted her up into my arms.
"I see you've spoiled my plans again!" The shrill voice from earlier called out of nowhere. I spun all around me, searching for the source.
"Don't even try! You can't see me! But can I ever see you, and may I say you're quite the cute one." The voice sounded more like a female's, it was haughty and stuck-up sounding and-wait...did it just call me cute?
"One might even say...sexy?" The voice materialized behind me and I turned to see the figure of a woman draped in robes.
Her hair might have been tucked in because it wasn't showing and I couldn't see her face.
"Please tell me you aren't coming on to me." I groaned with a sardonic smirk.
"Hmph! I see we've got a live one here! Don't we?" A dull gray light flitted over to the cloaked woman's side.
"My friend seems to like you, it says your name is Chase. Is that right?"
"That's right."
"What do you say you come over to our side Chaaaase? I could give you oh, so much!" She said seductively.
"Give me a week and let's see what my answer is." I amused her.
"Sarcastic are we? Hmph! Well, you've certainly have bad taste in women. To like that plain girl that you're carrying just proves it."
"Yeah, because cloaked girls with dark entities floating around them are really much more my type."
"Oh, well. I tried." She said and raised her hand to the dull gray light that turned into a black hole that started to pull Molly and I forward.
"And you have nothing to grab onto! Such a shame." Just then, one of the vials with Wizard's spell flew into the darkness of the hole and it made a blast of bright light and white fire erupt near the figure. The black hole turned back into it's dull gray and I was now able to see the small sprite with black hair and beady black eyes breathing heavily in the palm of the woman.
"You've made my friend sick! Oh how awful! Those vials of light, that pesky Wizard made them for you, didn't he?" She said with anger.
"Maybe, maybe not. Why do you need to know?"
"I'll teach you!" The woman raised her hand, obviously readying herself for something when there was a sudden blast of light that came from the other end of the opening that frightened her.
I looked to see another woman wearing a witch's outfit with silver hair and yellow eyes. She looked angrily at the woman.
"Go back to where you belong wench! Know your place!" She shouted and the cloaked woman scowled at her.
"HMPH!" She grunted and disappeared along with the dark sprite.
The witch-like woman looked back at me and her eyes settled on Molly.
"Molly!" She gasped and hurried over to where I stood with Molly in my arms.
"What happened? Who are you? Did you do this to her?" She demanded angrily as she inspected Molly.
"Not sure, none of your business, and no I would not hurt her!" I growled at the woman.
"Speak to me with respect or I'll turn you into a toad!" She said angrily and snapped her fingers.
Molly then floated into the air, following the woman to where ever she was headed to.
"You come too!" She ordered.
I grimaced but followed her anyway. She did happen to have Molly in her grasp so I wasn't going to argue with her. Lucky for me, she seemed to be worried about Molly and not wanting to hurt her.
I followed her back to a swamp, in the middle stood a pink house.
"Where are we exactly?"
"My house of course. How simple are you?" She said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. I didn't bother to argue with her so I just followed her in through the door. Molly was lain down on a pink bed.
"So you're that witch that was rumored to live here right? Well, can't say I'm surprised that you exist. Stranger things have been happening anyway."
She went over to a table and sat down with a huge book in front of her.
"She was under a dark spell but it's receding away slowly. Either it wasn't a very strong spell or something weak was used to disarm it." She looked to me for a clue and I held out a vial of the Wizard's potion.
"Tch. The Wizard's doing of course. He can't make a potion to save his life!"
"Well it was pretty damn useful to me. If I didn't have it then Molly and I would be lost in a black hole somewhere right about now."
"I see...maybe it was the way your simple mind used it then?" She questioned.
"Though it would've been nice to use it as ammo against that man I guess this one isn't his fault."
"Excuse me for not being a magic wielder knowing of what to do with magical potions and what not." I rolled my eyes.
"Well since you asked so nicely, you're excused. Don't let it happen again." She said as she ran a hand along pages in her book. I was going to retort back but thought better of it and sat across from her.
"Tell me you're name. And I mean it this time." She asked, not looking up from the page.
"Chase..." I sighed, agitated.
"Not the nicest name but, hey, if Molly can like it I can bear it. I'm Witch Princess."
"What are you doing?" I finally asked her, ignoring her insult.
"Looking for something to help Molly out."
She looked towards her door for a second.
"That fool is on his way here with another mortal. I suppose he sensed you and Molly here...great." She said with irritation in her voice as she flung her door in, waiting for their arrival.
THE LONG AWAITED UPDATE HWUAAAAH!
I'd like to ask my oh so faithful readers on their opinions here. There are a lot of things left unanswered to Molly and Angela's past. Would you like it if the plot involved their pasts or if I make this a two arc story and after this another arc concerning their pasts and their future relationships with their honey's including rivals for affection and such.
(If I were you I'd pick the second one because it involves more story twists and turns XD)
Review and give me your opinion or PM if you want instead. I'll take all opinions seriously and I would set it up as a poll but unfortunately these questions are too long and I'm too lazy to summarize XD.
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