Chapter Eight
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-Victoria’s POV-
I look down at Isaac and Luke. I throw myself towards them hugging both of them and feeling so happy to see them.
“What are you doing here?” Isaac asks.
“I’m angry at you, you know.” I say still hugging them both. “When I woke up, I made Mrs. Adams send me here. Do you really think I was going to let you guys do all this by your selves?”
I get up finally letting them get up as well.
“Do I get a hug too?” Zach asks, smirking.
“Yea, if you want me to tear you apart after.” Isaac says annoyed and Zach lifts his hands in surrender.
I giggle but then focus on our situation. “Ok, what are we doing?”
They all stare at me like I have two heads.
(… Oh! I do.)
“I forgot. This is Archion.” I say looking behind me.
When I woke up here, Archion's spirit was attached to me on the back. He is almost see-through but with a golden hue glow.
“It is nice to finally be seen for once.” Archion says.
The guys look at me shocked.
“That's... that’s Archion?” Luke asks.
"Yes lover boy, I am Archion."
I roll my eyes. (He is so stuck up.)
"Why can we see him?" Isaac asks.
"Because, grumpy, this is a spirit plane. I am a soul with my own consciousness and so you can see me." Archion says but Isaac looks at him a little pissed.
“We, we have to find the source of the magic. I was going to do a Pertho spell.” Zach says looking curiously at Archion as well.
“Doesn’t that need... what was it... sage?” I ask and they all nod.
I nod. “Oh, so we have to find that then?”
They all nod again.
(Just great, this place is creepy and those things are scary.)
“Well, I could help.” Archion says.
“How?” I ask.
“I can sense magic.” He says.
“Oh, I never knew that.” I say.
“Of course you didn’t. You’re not the brightest star are you.” He says.
I squint my eyes at him.
“What an ass.” Isaac mumbles.
I nod. “Now you see what I have to deal with?”
“Want my help or not?” Archion asks.
“Yes please.” Zach says almost pleading.
“That would be helpful and faster.” Luke says.
Isaac rolls his eyes and looks away annoyed.
“Ok, go that way.” He says looking to our right.
We start to walk until we encounter a hallway.
“That way?” I ask.
“Yes.”
I get chills looking at the darck hallway. Luke takes my hand and gives me a reassuring smile. I smile back and we start walking.
(I know that if those things come, I can easily defeat them but it’s still creepy.)
"Archion? Could I ask you a few questions?" Zach asks.
"Yes." Archion says.
"Why Victoria? I mean, why is it her you are able to merge with and not any of her ancestors before her?" Zach asks.
"Her power is the strongest. Not everyone in a bloodline is borne with powers as strong as she has. They have to have an exceptional ability to be able to use the magic stream to summon an ancestor like me. Once we are summoned, we stay with them until they die or we are summoned by another that is just as powerful and part of the bloodline."
Zach nods and pats his clothes looking for something. "Dammit, I don't have my notebook."
"For what?" Isaac asks.
"To write everything that he just told me down." He sighs and then smirks. "Maybe you can let me interview you later? Just the two of us?" He wiggles his eyebrows and I know he's joking around but Isaac and Luke don't take it well.
"NOPE, we are leaving you here!" Isaac says.
"We can say that he just didn't make it, no one will know." Luke mumbles crossing his arms and looking angry.
"Oh stop it you two, he is helping us so stop being mean to him." I say and they both grumble annoyed while Zach gives me a big smile.
We continue walking through the hallway without any problems until we reach a door.
“In there.” Archion says.
Isaac opens the door and we see stairs going down into darkness.
Luke and I groan.
Isaac sighs. “Down we go.”
We walk down the stairs and get to the bottom, there’s another hall where we can see light coming from the end of it.
We walk through the hall and when we get to the opening, there is a room, it looks like an old laboratory, not old because of dust or anything like that but completely outdated. There are tables and shelves with vials and different liquids, there are glass containers with limbs and creatures inside them. At the end of the room, there is a podium with a glowing crystal on it.
“That’s it.” Archion says.
“The crystal? Makes sense.” Zach says.
We cautiously start walking to it but a black shadow appears in front of it.
“You do not think that uninvited guests get to leave that easily, do you?” We hear a disembodied voice say. A man materializes in the shadow. He has a white coat with a scar across his left cheek and has a creepy smile. His voice sounds echoey.
“Edward Grayham, I presume.” Zach says.
The man gives a nod still with that creepy smile on his face.
“Dude, we just want to leave.” Luke says.
“Perfectly healthy subjects cant leave my laboratory until I have tinkered with them.” Edward says with now a wide grin.
His face and body start to morph into one of those hideous monsters but much bigger. He grows to almost nine to ten feet and is skinny with long arms and claws at the end. The worst part is that smile.
“No! That’s hunting my dreams for the rest of my life! Just, NO!” I step forward and incinerate his ass. He screams as his body almost melts but I don’t stop for even a second, not until I see that there isn’t anything left of him.
“That's... that was it?” Zach asks.
“Why? You want to stay? Bcause I have had enough of creepy for the rest of the year.” I say feeling ready to leave.
"He was disappointing for being the last boss." He mumbles.
"You can stay then." Isaac says.
Zach shakes his head. “No, let’s go.”
We all stand in front of the stone and take deep breaths.
"So we just touch it?" I ask and Zach nods.
“On three.” Luke says and we nod. “One two, three.” We all touch the stone and it gets so bright that it blinds us.
I open my eyes now being able to see again and see the headmaster's face first.
“Are we all back?” I ask.
He takes a deep breath of relief. “You made it back.”
(“And we are back”) Archion says disappointed.
I look at the guys next to me on the couch and they start to wake up.
I sigh feeling relieved.
Luke quickly gets up taking the watch off and throws it on the floor then he looks at me.
“You didn’t give me that did you.” He says.
I shake my head.
“Ok, I think is time that we ALL talked about everything that is happening.” Isaac says looking up at the headmaster. “What aren't you telling us?”
“Honestly, we know just as much as you do.” The headmaster says and Mrs. Adams nods.
“But it seems we are the ones being targeted.” Luke says.
The headmaster shakes his head. “No, there have been others.”
“It seems that the whole school is being targeted.” Mrs. Adams says.
“For what reason that might be?” Zach asks.
Mrs. Adams shakes her head. “That is the question. We don’t know yet”
“Well, it has to be someone that knows the students because they left that watch for me specifically with Victoria's name on it.” Luke says.
(That is true. It pisses me off that someone used me to hurt Luke.)
The headmaster sighs. “Get a goodnight's sleep. Classes will be suspended until next Monday. We will have a meeting tomorrow and I want you all present there. I think that we will need all your assistance to figure this out.”
We all nod.
(Get a good night's sleep? How the hell am I supposed to do that after the horror we went through. Literally a horror movie.) I shiver remembering that creepy smile.
They all leave and the three of us are left quiet and thinking.
“For the first time ever, I want to sleep with both of you at the same time.” I say and they both look at me shocked and horrified.
I laugh. “No weird thing. Just sleep. I want to sleep between both of you. I don’t think I can sleep after what we just went through.” I say but they don’t look too happy, so I give them my puppy eyes. “Please?”
Isaac sighs. “Fine... let me go change.” That’s all he says and heads to his room.
Luke grunts. “Ok, fine.” He says and also heads to his room.
I smile. (That always works.)
I change as well and then they both come into my room with comfortable clothes ready for bed.
They both lie on each side of the bed not looking at each other. I turn the light off, leaving the night light on, then I run and jump on the bed in between them.
We get comfortable. Luke hugs me from behind spooning me with his face on my neck while I hug Isaac who has his lips on my head just resting there.
(This is... amazing. I feel so comfortable.)
I fall asleep with a smile on my face.
- Writer
