Believe me now!

Chapter 21 Sera gets a visit from Amelia.

Sera was dreaming.

She thought that she was in her parents home still in her own bed.

She woke up to a loud bang outside, she remembered she was in Rio.

When she sat up, she noticed that Blaze was gone. She looked outside and saw that there was a thunderstorm and the lights had gone out.

Not feeling sure what time it was, she grabbed her phone and saw a message from Blaze telling her that he had to go out on business. He wanted to be sure that she kept her phone nearby.

Keep the door locked.

Leo had to go with him tonight, so she was on her own.

Seraphina immediately felt a little bit anxious about being all alone in a strange country. She went back to the tendrils of the dream and remembered what it was about. She remembered now that in her dream she had a little baby of her own.

Her father, Dr.Haven was there, he brought in a little girl to her and she was dressed all in pink. She also remembered that as her father handed her the baby, her mother came in and handed her another little girl identical to the first. This one was dressed in yellow. He parents were so pleased to be grandparents. Sera couldn't remember the rest of the dream but she did remember the way it made her feel. She knew that everything was going to be fine.

She took a deep breath and decided she should go back to sleep.

The thunder and lightning continued throughout the night, but she slept like a baby herself.

In the morning she made herself some coffee and put on her shorts and T-shirt and went out to the ocean to get some fresh air.

Sera was approached by the same girl that had found her yesterday and had taken her to get the waxing.

"Hey, Amelia. How are you girl?" She said.

Amelia shook her head, "Not too good, I have a problem." Sera sat her down at her small table outside of her room.

Amelia frowned.

Sera took both of her hands and looked her in the eyes and smiled at her.

Sera was immediately hit by a male spirit. He felt very malevolent. Sera, frowned and immediately tried to let go of Amelia's hands. She didn't want to connect with this spirit.

Amelia held on tight.

Sera grimaced as the male spirit tried to jump into Sera's body. Sera shook her head and screamed," No!"

She closed off her mind and cut the connection immediately, losing the bad spirit. Preventing it from coming in her body. Sera breathed deeply.

Amelia closed her eyes and let out a deep growl, she snarled her lip.

There was a weird look in her eyes, her eyes looked pitch black, even the white parts were black as oil. Sera knew it was bad.

The spirit had gone into the girl instead, it needed a host to manifest. Amelia's eyes closed tight. She showed her teeth.

Sera stood back from the table.

Amelia's eyes popped open, they rolled back into her head. The girl spoke. "olho gordo."

She repeated it and growled again.

Sera saw the necklace around Amelia's beck was changing color. It was shaped like a fig and now was glowing red.

Amelia heard the male spirit laugh.

It was a deep and angry laugh. Seraphina closed her eyes and instinctively touched the girls fig shaped necklace.

It now glowed white in Sera's hand as she held onto it, putting her own light into it.

Sera touched her temple, she was calling spirit.

"Leave this girl, I command you, do it now!"

The girl fainted and dropped to the ground.

Sera could feel that the spirit had gone, as quickly as it had come.

She felt very tired now. She was on her knees in the sand in front of the girl.

Amelia was unconscious.

Sera stood up and ran into her room to get some water for Amelia and help her up.

When she came back outside a few moments later, Amelia was sitting up.

She didn't remember anything. Sera had asked her. "Do you know what "olho gordo" means?"

Amelia nodded. "Fat eye, or evil eye. Why?" Sera asked her about her necklace. "Ah, the fig, it is for protection."

Sera nodded, that's how she had used it against the malevolent spirit.

Amelia smiled," Can we talk about something?"

Sera nodded. "How do you get your hair so blond, do you bleach it, momma would never let me do this."

Sera knew Amelia was making small talk.

She pushed her a little. "Do you know a man that passed, his name started with an S, Steven, Stephen, Stephano?"

Amelia stood up and gasped. "Makumba, witch!"

Sera paused. " Stephano was this, a witch?" Amelia nodded. "He was my uncle. He taught me about my great grandmother who was Makumba, she told me to wear the fig in a dream. She said the third eye would protect me from bad luck. The fig would keep me safe."

Amelia removed her necklace and placed it on Sera's neck. "Sera, momma is sick, will you come?"

Sera stood up. "Let's go!" Amelia took her hand and drug her behind her in the hot sand. "Slow down Amelia," Sera was very weak now.

When they got to the hotel room where Amelia had brought her yesterday, she saw the door was open. Sera entered looking for momma. She walked into the bedroom and saw momma rolled over in her bed, facing the wall.

Sera touched her arm. She was mumbling, she was almost yelling with her mouth closed. Sera rolled her over, her mouth was duct taped shut.

Amelia screamed.

Two men grabbed Sera and kidnapped her. Amelia cried,

" I'm so sorry, they were going to kill momma. I'm so sorry!"

Sera had been set up. She was calm and she didn't fight, she was so drained.

She was looking around at her assailants, they were locals. One man spoke Portuguese to the other, they were assessing her. They pinched her arms. They motioned about her waist. They were looking at her like they were assessing cattle at the market.

Sera smiled then.

She simply said, "Makumba! " They men moved back.

They looked at her and started talking fast to each other.

" Branca Bruxa?" White witch, they yelled.

Sera wore the fig necklace, she touched it, it started to glow white. They two men looked at each other and backed out of the room.

They took off running.

Amelia cried out,"Momma!" She untied her mother's hands and removed the tape.

Sera sat down. She was done. Amelia layed her in the bed and brought her some soup.

Sera shook her head, she couldn't eat.

Sera quickly fell asleep.

Amelia called her father and told him all about the bad men. He came right away. He helped Amelia get Sera back to her room, driving her back.

Amelia stayed with her, she owed her at least this much.

Sera finally woke up. She saw Amelia and asked her. "Did your uncle give you this necklace?" She nodded. "Did you give it to me to save me from those men?" She nodded.

"My uncle was a good man, but he became obsessed with a bad Bruxa. He killed himself a year ago. He tried to kill momma, his only sister. Tried to stab her.

He was a lost soul. For some reason, I felt compelled to give you the necklace." She looked down. "Those men, they made me get you, bring you to momma. They said they would kill her. I love momma." Seraphina got up and hugged the girl. She moved to give her the necklace back. Amelia said,

" No its yours now, it claimed you."

Sera smiled. "Okay, I will keep it for now. Thank you, Amelia."

Sera ordered some dinner and sat outside to wait for it to come.

Amelia's dad came and picked her up to take her home.

Blaze and Leo were gone all day.

She ordered some food for them as well.

Sera tried to assess the day that she had and whether Blaze needed to know about this.

He might send her home.

She wouldn't say anything.

The food arrived and she started to eat her rice and veggies.

Blaze and Leo came home. They looked exhausted.

She quietly fed them.

They spoke about their plans to meet a contact tomorrow, one that would get them in to meet Manuelo Deigo.

They were going to be in very deep after that.

Once Blaze got the meeting with Diego, Leo would stay to protect his wife, Seraphina. That was their deal.

Leo would be sure Blaze wasn't alone, he would meet another CIA agent that was currently with Diego undercover.

The only problem was that he couldn't contact this agent.

The agent would contact him and he had no idea what they looked like.