Chapter 4: Know Your Past To Find You Future
A/N: I hope you'll enjoy this chapter and I'm sorry if what I write is historically inaccurate, I was never good as history, prehistory on the other had was very easy for me to learn… anyway enjoy and leave your reviews and if you go a request for a chapter feel free to tell it to me and I'll try to use it.
Emily's Pov-
Grams had taught me a few basic spells these last few days, I had learnt levitation spells, a few simple location spells and a simple fire spell that I used to light candles.
Everything I had thought about Grams was wrong, every time she would mention anything related to magic I'd just think she was batty and now I'm believing everything she says about witches.
I had learnt that witches are meant to keep a balance in the world between life and death, for every spell there was always a counter spell.
I had just woken up and I got dressed, when I went downstairs I saw Grams looking frustrated at the newspaper, I walked up to her and saw that there had been yet another "Animal attack."
"How long do they think they can keep this up?" Grams asked angered.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Emmy, please don't pretend like you don't know about vampires." Grams said.
"What? How did you know?" I asked.
"I know a vampire attack when I see one." Grams said.
"It was a vampire who killed Alison." I said.
"Thought so." Grams said.
"Why do the vampire attack us?" I asked.
"I have no idea dear. Vampires are very different today from the first vampire generation." Grams said.
"How much do you know about vampires?" I asked.
"Too much." Grams said.
"Please tell me." I almost begged.
Grams sigh and said. "Ok. This happened a long time ago in central Europe two witch tribes were in a feud, one of them was our ancestors and the other was controlled by a power mad warlock named Silas." Grams said.
"Warlock?" I asked.
"Male witches or wizards if you prefer that." Grams said.
"What did you think the magic was exclusive to girls?" Grams asked and I just shrugged.
"Anyway Silas's tribe was much weaker than our ancestors the Fields so he found a spell to make himself stronger, this was blood magic a very dark magic that is much more powerful but it requires a sacrifice. Silas sliced his own throat as his wife preformed the spell so he could be reborn, but once he had returned from the death he couldn't control a thirst for blood, he bit his wife and drained her of all her blood and later he found out that there was another side effect to the spell, he had lost all of his own magic, Silas was the very first vampire." Grams said.
"What did he do after he lost his magic?" I asked.
"He turned his entire tribe to vampires and once he had learned everything he needed to know about being a vampire he started to attack our ancestors this time very successfully under the cover of the night, the witches might have been stronger than him and his vampires but his tribe was now a lot bigger and they killed witches from almost every tribe and compelled common people to think that witches were bad and wanted to hurt them so during the day the witches had to flee from humans who wanted to burn them alive and during the night the witches were hunted by vampires who drank every drop of blood from them and sometimes even biting their heads off." Grams said.
"Oh god that's terrible." I said.
"The few remaining witches traveled north trying to get away from the vampires and hopefully find some place where they could hide from the vampires but Silas was persistent he wasn't going to give up until every witch was dead." Grams said.
"What did the surviving witches do?" I asked.
"They fled north until they reached Sweden where they meet a man named Torbjörn Blodsten." Grams said almost sounding like she made a gurgling sound when she said the guy's name.
"He was a Viking chief and he agreed to protect the witches if they treated his injured men. Blodsten's tribe was mighty warriors known as 'Berserkers' a Viking warrior who fights with anger as a powerful motivator and never stops fighting until either the enemies or themselves are dead." Grams said.
"But the Witches knew that the Vikings wouldn't stand a chance if the vampires would find them so the witches found the spell Silas had used to makes himself a vampire and the witches for a counter spell to even out the balance in the nature." Grams said.
"Another spell the required blood magic." I asked.
"No, they used pure magic from the nature. On the night the vampires were on their way to the village the witches were channelizing the power of the full moon to enhance the Vikings making them just as strong as the vampires to protect them and their next generations if they would lose this war, once the spell was completed the brave berserkers charged out to fight the vampires." Grams said.
"What happened?" I asked.
"The next morning the Vikings returned covered in the vampire's blood, the looked confused and their weapons were clean like they hadn't used them and the Vikings themselves didn't have a scratch on them. When the witches asked the Viking what had happened the Vikings had no idea they didn't remember the fight the just remembered that they charged into battle and then they woke up on a bloody battle field surrounded by dead vampires. When the witches searched the bodies they found Silas, or what was left of him. Then the witches returned to their home fearing the Vikings more than they feared the vampires." Grams said.
"Did the Vikings attack the witches?" I asked.
"No, but they never told the witches what had happened that night." Grams said.
"Do you think someone used the same spell Silas used so they could be a vampire?" I asked.
"No, all evidence of the vampire spell was destroyed and the witches took the secret of the spell they had put on the Vikings to their graves. I think that some vampires left Silas and now the people they turned are the vampires that killed your friend." Grams said I was a bit worried about the thought that there could be more vampires in Rosewood.
"And what do I do if I'd come up against that vampire, I don't really have a Viking friend I can speed dial." I said.
"Well, first of all vampires can't be in sunlight because they will incinerate… unless if they got one of these." Grams said and opened her grimoire and showed me a page of a ring.
"This is a daylight ring, it's a magic ring that makes vampires walk during daytime without burning to ashes." Grams said. "But don't worry child, the rocks that are used in the rings are almost impossible to find and you need someone who can cast this spell." Grams said and pointed to a spell written on the page.
"And vampires don't have any magic." I said.
"Exactly, and witches are naturally immune to compulsion so you don't have to worry about that." Grams said.
"A wooden stake to the heart or decapitation will also kill a vampire." Grams said.
"But what if a vampire would attack me during the night?" I asked.
Grams opened another page of the grimoire. "This is a Pain infliction spell, it will cause strong pain and nose bleeds to the victim, enough to subdue and eventually kill them and for your sake I hope you'll never have to use it." Grams said.
"Just hold out your hand, concentrate on your magic and say Phesmatos Morsinus Pyrox Allum." Grams explained.
"Phes…"
"No! don't say it, that spell is only meant for self-defense and nothing else." Grams said sounding very stern.
"Ok, I'm sorry." I said, Grams was very clam so seeing her getting mad was very scary.
"It's ok dear, just promise me that you'll not go look for trouble." Grams said.
"I promise I won't." I said.
"That's great." Grams said and then I got a text from Spencer where she asked me to meet her at the library because she thinks she had found out something to help us find out who killed Ali.
"I have to go now; Spencer is going to help me with my homework." I lied.
"Ok, dear. Just be sure to be home by dinner." Grams said before we said uor goodbyes.
A few minutes later:
I was in the library looking for Spencer, I had checked everywhere but there was no sign of her.
"Hey McLoser, here is something for you!" I heard Noel Khans voice say and I looked around a bookcase and saw him throwing a book at Paige.
"Leave me alone." Paige growled between her teeth.
"Oh look at this girl, she thinks she is tough." Noel said and his football buddies were now surrounding Paige.
"Fuck off!" Paige mumbled.
"Excuse me?" Noel said and walked up to Paige pushing himself against her.
In anger Paige kicked Noel in his groin so he fell to the floor holding his balls.
"You fucking bitch!" Noel yelled and when he got up a guard walked up to him.
"I'm going to have to ask you to leave." The guard said and Noel grunted a few times in frustration trying to put the blame on Paige but then he just groaned and left with his team.
I walked up to Paige and she still looked mad.
"Are you ok?" I asked as I kept a safe distance in case Paige would try to take out her anger on me.
Paige just groaned and turned her back to me.
I looked down on the floor and picked up the book Noel had thrown at Paige; it was a book of anger management.
"Hey, Noel is a dick just ignore him and he'll eventually go away." I said.
"Or I can kill him and he'll go away forever." Paige said frustrated.
"Don't say that." I said.
"I want him dead, that'd do everyone a favor." Paige said.
I tried to figure out what to say but I wasn't sure what I could say to calm Paige down but I came up with nothing.
"Just leave me alone." Paige said and picked up a few books and started to walk.
"Paige, if you ever need anyone to talk to just call me." I said as Paige left, she did stop in her track again but then she just kept walking.
I wished I could help Paige somehow but she's never letting anyone in, I guess that carwash talk we had was only a one-time thing.
I called Spencer to find out where the heck she was.
As soon as I heard Spencer picking up the phone I asked "Spencer where are you I've been waiting her forever." I said.
"I'm sorry, but young Mrs. Hastings can't get to her phone right now." A strange dark voice said on the phone.
"Who or what are you?" I asked.
"I think you know what I am." The voice said.
"You're the killer." I whispered into the phone.
"I expected you to say vampire and I'll make this very clear for you, last night I kidnapped your friend and I want something from you, give it to me and she's free to go." The voice said.
"What do you want?" I asked.
"I want a daylight ring, you get three days to get me one of those or I'll drain your friend of all her sweet tasty blood, in fact I think it's snack time." The voice said.
"I can't just make one of those rings, it's not like they come from gumball machines." I said.
"Well, that's your problem. Three days or else you'll be down to two friends." The voice said and then he hanged up, a few seconds later I got a pic sent to my phone, it was of Spencer, she was tied to a chair and she was unconscious and there was some blood running down her neck.
I got two text later from both Hanna and Aria, they had also gotten the pic and they were just as worried as I was. I was in dilemma if I'd make the ring the vampire would be able to attack us during the day, if I wouldn't make the ring the vampire would kill Spencer, but first I was going to have to find things to craft the ring.