A True Witch (Part 1)

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Before Emira could say anything, Luz quickly walked off, clutching her backpack straps tightly and leaving a very confused and suspicious Emira behind.

She walked through the tower, just turning wherever felt good, and she had gotten far enough away, Luz ducked into an empty hall and just sighed as she slid down the wall and tucked her head into her knees.

"Well, what now?" Belos asked,

"I don't know. I doubt anyone would consent to letting me test this on them and the second I ask they'll tell Eda who will ask questions and figure everything out."

"Then I suppose you'll have to find some other way to be helpful."

Or you could keep this plan and be really helpful. The voice in her head whispered.

Luz looked up and noticed the hallway she was in. The door right across from her was the one where all the comatose people are. Slowly, she stood up and slipped off her backpack. She grabbed the glove and slid it on, which should have been difficult because it was still invisible, yet she did it smoothly like an advanced robot going through its programmed processes. She looked at the door, then the scanner pad, then her hand that didn't have the invisible glove.

"Little Light, what are you doing?" Belos asked, realizing she was planning something.

"Helping the person who needs it most."

Luz's hand morphed into a rotten green fist and she leapt across the hallway and punched the door, making it swing open and denting it, although not fully breaking it off its hinges. An alarm started to blare, but Luz ignored it, having tunnel vision and focusing on one person's hospital bed.

Raine's.

She used the quick dash she always saw Hunter use to get over to their side and gently took their arm. She took the invisibility off the glove, changed the symbol on the palm to bard, and lowered her hand down to Raine's wrist. However, before she could do anything, she was grabbed from behind and her arms were pulled back.

Emira and Viney dragged Luz away from Raine as she tried to pull out of their tight grips.

"This is what was is your bag?" Viney questioned, "A branding glove?! Where did you even get this?"

"And what were you doing!?" Emira asked harshly, "Or thinking for that matter?"

The alarm seemed to be causing a small crowd to form around the doorway, but Emira quickly threw up an illusion to keep people from seeing what was inside.

"LET GO!" Luz yelled, voice distorting slightly.

She felt her skin bubble and she pulled herself out of Viney and Emira's grip. She stumbled slightly before using the quick dash to get back to Raine. She grabbed Raine's arm and pressed the glove against their sigil. As they held it down, they saw Raine begin to twitch slightly. Luz gasped as she realized this was actually working.

"Raine!"

Luz looked behind her and saw Eda, in her harpy form and furious, got over to Luz before she could move and grabbed her and pulled her off their arm. Luz squirmed and tried to get out, tried to use the curse, but nothing. Eda's grip tightened as she hovered just above the ground, barely being able to fly in the room.

"Luz, you better have a damn good answer why in the name of the Titan you have a branding glove and, of everyone you could have, used it on my ex!"

Luz stopped fighting, tears in her eyes. She looked around trying to find an escape, but nothing. Instead, she saw Raine's sigil start to glow and crack.