So sorry it took me forever to post this chapter, but my laptop broke and so I was stuck using the family computer which is almost never free and school has been rather hectic. BUT I managed to finish the chapter, and that's all that matters. This chapter is shorting than the others, but not by much, just a few hundred words. I don't really know what to think of it, there were so many things I tried to put into this chapter and I'm not sure if I managed to clearly put them all in. I just don't know.
Anyway, I know this had nothing to do with anything, but I have noticed that one of my most favoritiest books The Maze Runner only has like 13 stories, and I think it has something to do with the fact that people are not reading it. So if you are in a reading funk and just can't find a great book to read I highly recommend reading The Maze Runner by James Dashner. It's awesome. I promise.
Disclaimer: I promise that I don't own the Darkest Powers series, I know some of you have been confused, but I swear I'm not Kelley Armstrong in disguise. Or am I? *Evil smile*
Chapter 6: Warnings
Chloe felt her stomach roll as she looked into Jessa's possessed eyes. She found herself fighting back the breakfast she had eaten hours ago, but she controled her stomach and managed to keep her food inside her.
"Jessa?" Simon said. Chloe forced herself to look away from Jessa's eyes (no not Jessa's, it wasn't her friend inside that body anymore, it was Nadinka.) and to look at Simon.
She could see the heartbreak on his face, could see the pain he was experiencing, could see that he was dying inside, and her own heart broke for him. "Jessa?" He asked again, his voice so weak and pitiful, and Chloe knew he already knew his girlfriend wasn't there anymore, but she also knew he didn't want to believe it, he had to know for sure.
"Simon!" Jessa's spirit, the real Jessa, the one that was really Chloe's friend, the one that was forced out of her own body, squealed his name. She had been watching the past few moments confused, but Chloe was sure that her friend had finally figured out what had happened. "Simon, I'm right here!"
But Simon didn't react to what Jessa had said, because he couldn't hear her, he couldn't hear her because Jessa was a spirit and now only Chloe could hear her.
"Boy," It was Nadinka, and Chloe flinched when she heard her using Jessa's voice, it sounded so cold and cruel, nothing like Jessa herself, "Boy," Simon was watching Nadinka (Nadinka, not Jessa, not her friend, Nadinka, not her friend, not her friend, not her friend) with a look of horror on his face. "Little boy, it has been such a long time since I have inhabitited a human body, such a very long time. The strength of human emotions are so strong, the hundreds of ways they feel, so vivid." Nadinka smiled, and she breathed in deeply, "It's so adicting."
Nadinka took a step forward, she even moved differently than Jessa. Jessa had always moved with unconscious grace, while Nadinka moved purposely smoothly, like she knew everyone was watching her and she needed to show off. Chloe tried to get up from her kneeling position on the floor as Nadinka approached her and Simon, not wanting to be closer to the demon than need be, but she found that once again she couldn't move her legs.
Nadinka walked right up to Simon, who was kneeling next to Chloe. She placed a hand on Simon's face, and he flinched, and Chloe found herself trying to remember that it was Nadinka who was in control of Jessa's body, not Jessa. But still, it seemed to weird to see Simon flinching at Jessa's touch, even if it wasn't Jessa, it was almost preposterous.
"Don't touch him!" Jessa yelled, the real Jessa, the one who only Chloe could see and hear. No, Chloe revised her thoughts, she saw Nadinka jump slightly at Jessa shout, Nadinka could hear her as well. Jessa ran up to Nadinka and tried to grab her arm, but she couldn't, her hand went right through the demon's arm. Jessa continued to try and move Nadinka away from Simom but to no avail.
Nadinka ignored Jessa, running her fingers over Simon's face, and Simon squeezed his eyes shut. "The way this body feels for you, it's unbelievable." Nadinka murmured, "The way it is so familiar to you, how it's connected to you. Even now I find myself wanting to heal your pain, to stop it." Her eyes fluttered and she breathed in deeply again, like she was inhaling Simon's pain, "But that would involve giving up something I have waited for for centuries."
She leaned in and put her lips nexted to Simon's ear, her dark hair brushing Simon's face, "Freedom" she whispered, "I have waited for my freedom and I'm not going to give it up, not even for you, you sweet little boy, even though it hurts this body, therefore hurting me, to deny you something that pains you so. But I am not going to give up my freedom." Chloe could hear Simon's breathing become ragged as he tried not to flinch away and show fear, as he tried not to cry at having his girlfriend so close to him, but it not being her.
"Simon." Jessa whimpered, Chloe had watched her friend as she had slowly accepted the fact that she couldn't touch Nadinka, had watched her listen to the exchange between Simon and Nadinka, and had watched as she saw Simon suffer. "Simon." Jessa tried to touch his arm, but her fingers went through Simon like he wasn't even there.
"Simon," Chloe said, and Simon jerked away from Nadinka's hand, and looked at Chloe, his eyes wild with dispair, "Simon, Jessa is still here." Chloe wanted him to know that his girlfriend wasn't gone, that he still had a chance to have her back, that everything wasn't lost yet. "She can still come back."
"I'm here." Jessa was whispering to him, even though he couldn't hear her; reaching out to him, even though she couldn't touch him, "I'm not gone, I'm still here."
"Yes," Nadinka's lips curled with distaste, "The girl is still here, but don't get your hopes up, boy." She patted Simon on the head and he glared at her.
"Don't touch me." He said quietly.
"No matter," Nadinka brushed off Simon's comment and walked away from him, "The only way your girl is coming back is if I give up her body willingly, which is something I am not going to do, even if it will make you feel better."
"To hell you aren't!" Jessa yelled at her, "I'm gettig my body back whether you like it or not!"
"Girl," Nadinka looked coldly at Jessa, "You are really starting to annoy me."
"Good." Jessa spat, "maybe if you give me my body back I will stop."
"That isn't going to happen for a very long time." Nadinka said, "So accept it."
"And I'm not happy about you stealing my body, so I'm going to take it back, so accept that." Jessa said, narrowing her eyes.
"If it helps," Nadinka said, "I never wanted your body. I wanted hers." She pointed to Chloe, and Chloe did her best not to shrink back from Nadinka's gaze, still overwhelmed at seeing Jessa be possessed.
"She has that innocent look to her," Nadinka was approching her now, studying her face, "It is so much more easier and so much more fun to cause chaos in the bodies of those who seem innocent." Nadinka reached out and put a hand on Chloe's cheek, and she tried not move away, knowing that it would give away just how afraid she was, "So pretty," Nadinka mused, then she turned to Jessa, "Not that you aren't beautiful as well, my dear, but she has this sort of glow that attracts people to her, makes them want to trust her, something that you lack." Nadinka gave Chloe another longing look.
"And to think that someone who looks so innocent and weak is actually so powerful." She shook her head sadly, "It's been many mellina since I have met a necromancer that has had the power to challenge a demon, I thought that it had died out by now. I suppose I was wrong." She turned back to Jessa, "Plus, you're part werewolf, my dear, and I don't know how the combination of two super naturals is possible, but some how it is. I've been the body of a werewolf before, and the Change is more pain than I am willing to experience." Nadinka shuddered, "And I'm not looking foward to going through the Change again, but I have no other choice."
"What do you mean!" Jessa yelled, "What do you mean you have no other choice? There are three other people in this room besides me and Chloe, and I'm not saying that you should go and steal their bodies, but don't you dare say that I'm am your only choice!"
"But little girl, you are wrong." Nadinka smiled, "You are my only other choice. I said eariler that I was sentenced here for five centuries, and that there was no way out. But you see, I lied." Nadinka smiled sweetlly, but it wasn't in anyway sweet, it was cold and calculating and meant to decieve, "I lied when I said there was no way out, because there was, but I was never meant actually to find it." Nadinka laughed coldly, "The council who sentenced me to this banishment wanted to make it so I couldn't escape my confinement here, they were quite jealous of me, but you can't hold a demon as powerful as I am in one place forever without granting them a way out. That is just not how it's done. They had to give me a chance to escape, a chance to be free again before my punishment was up."
Nadinka smiled coldly, "They declared that the only way I could escape was if I possessed a necromancer's body. It was quite clever really, quite clever indeed. Any necromancer that ever actually approached the house would feel my power from hundreds of yards away, and then they would be warned that I am there and stay away." Nadinka looked at Chloe and Jessa, smiling, " The council thought that they had me, that I would indeed be stuck here for a full five centuries, but you two came anyway, you came even after your powers warned you of me."
Chloe could feel the blood draining from her face. Of course. She had felt it, felt the power that Nadinka was giving off from far away, but she hadn't known what it had meant. Neither had Jessa, neither of them had known that want they were feeling was the demon that would come to possess Jessa. If only I had been trained, Chloe thought, If only someone could have told me what this meant. I should have know though, I should have stopped Jessa from entering the house, I was so stupid. She could feel tears coming. After everything she had been through she should have known to stop as soon as she felt something wrong; hadn't her past experiences taught her nothing? She should have known, should have seen it coming, but it was too late now; it was too late for her to change her decision and too late to save Jessa.
"So, as I said, I wanted the blonde one," Nadinka continued, addressing Jessa, "But she proved to be more powerful than I ever imagined, and so I took you instead."
Chloe's lips trembled, and she lowered her head, not wanting to look at her friend. She was the reason Jessa was possessed, she was the reason, it was all her fault, Jessa must hate her, hate her with all her heart, with all her spirit...
"And you can bet that Chloe will steal me back." Jessa's voice was hard and confident, causing Chloe to look up at her, "That's what friends do, when one of us gets possessed, we steal their bodies back, we'd risk our lives for each other." Jessa's voice was rising and she walked slowly towards Nadinka, anger filling her every word, "So you better watch out, demon, because Chloe is one hell of a fighter and one hell of a friend, if I were you, I would be scared right now." The fire glowing in Jessa's eyes had Chloe almost shaking, but she was also smiling. Jessa didn't hate her, she almost wanted to cry.
"No one can best me." Nadinka said coldly, "A whole demon council failed to keep me trapped, you don't even stand a chance." It was so weird. Chloe was watching as two Jessas faced off. They were both glaring at each other, the only difference between them now were their eyes.
"She's right." Chloe said firmly, trying to put as much conviction into her voice as possible, "I will save her, I will steal her back, and you will lose."
"That's rather presumptuous, little necro." Nadinka said coldly, directing her gaze away from Jessa and back to Chloe, "You assume too much. There is no way that you, barely more than a child, could defeat me, one of the strongest demons the human world has ever known."
"She's not going to be alone," Derek, who had been silent through out the whole ordeal, chimed in, "She has us."
"And let's face it," Tori said, agreeing, "We can kick some serious ass."
"And I'm not going to let you steal my girlfriend away from me." Simon's voice was cold, hard, and kind of scary.
"Says the group of kids who walked into a trap." Nadinka said dryly, "Some how I find everything you said hard to believe."
"Well, believe me when I say this," Jessa said, walking back into Nadinka's line of sight, "My friends are going to kick your ass from here to the seventh circle of Hell. I suggest you hand over my body now before you have to deal with the consequences."
Nadinka's face didn't show any emotion, it was unreadable. Silence filled the air, and Chloe could tell that something was going to happen, could feel the tension saying that something was coming.
A slow smile started to spread across Nadinka's face, a cold, hard, scary smile that caused Chloe to shudder because she had never seen something so icy appear on Jessa's face before.
"I refuse to acknowledge your suggestion," Nadinka said to Jessa, then she turned to Chloe, Simon, Derek, and Tori, and spoke, "Goodnight children."
Chloe was just wondering what Nadinka meant by those last two words when her entire world went black.
So this is like what? The second or third cliffy I have written so far for this story? I feel so evil :)
Anyway, you all know the drill, review please. Give me ideas, help me further my story. I do know a bit more about where I am going, but if you have suggestions, I'm willing to hear them.
Thanks- Cheerfully Blue