Who knew Malakai Parker has a secret daughter? One he only met for a week before getting put in the prison world. Her name is Kaizer, and his legacy is living on.
I sat up on a barrel as I drank from a solo cup. "Kai!" Josie called out and I perked up as she brought over a boy. "This is Rafael. Raf this is my cousin Kaizer." she introduced and I smiled. "Hey" I said and we shook hands.
Afterwards they walk off and I toyed with my necklace sighing. My amulet grew warm under my touch. It wasn't a siphoning warmth. It was more of a comforting warmth. — I sat in my bed with my pajamas on and hair wrapped up into a messy bun.
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I flipped through my history book as Hope walks in closing the door behind her sliding down. I smirked and said, "You like hiiiim." I said she jumped. "Hush!" She said making me laugh. — The next day after they compelled Landon and sent him home. An artifact was reported stolen, but the alarm didn't go off. Alaric came outside to meet with Hope and I. It's obvious by Hope's tone of voice that she doesn't believe what she's hearing
"How do you know it was him?" Hope asked. Alaric scoffs as though he thinks Hope is being naive. "Ancient artifact goes missing, along with too-good-to-be-true hapless human? You do the math, Hope." Hope shakes her head in disbelief
"That would make him a liar, okay? I've known my fair share of those, and there was nothing about him--." Alaric interrupts her to try to get her to see reason. "Hope--" Hope cuts him off before he can continue
"No, you don't understand. There's no way that the one other time that I choose to get close to someone, they turn out to be a liar. It's not possible, okay? I'm not that stupid!" I bit my lip not choosing to chime in, feeling sympathetic toward Hope for the position this puts her in.
"When he walked out that door, we compelled him to go home." Alaric's said and I nodded, "Yeah, So?" I asked, "So, he didn't. It's the first place we checked! And if he didn't go home, that means his memory wasn't erased! He was just pretending that it was. If his mind can't be controlled by a supernatural being, then that only means one thing-- that he is a supernatural being."
- Alaric has gathered all of the students and faculty to an assembly that evening to keep them updated on what has happened
"For ten years, we've gone undetected. Protecting you, protecting our secret, has been our singular mission. Tonight, I need your help to find Landon Kirby... before he exposes us all." The students begin to chatter amongst themselves regarding this news. I turn to Rafael, who is frowning as though he doesn't know what to believe. I looked over at Hope who looked hurt and in misbelief. I took her hand and she jumped turning to me and nodded squeezing it.
—— The next night I sat on Josie's bed as Josie is straightening up her room when Hope appears in the doorway. "I need your help." Hope called out, "both of you."
"Three words more than your annual average. Find someone else." Josie said, but Hope ignores this dismissal and instead walks into the room and shuts the door behind her so she can continue to talk to Josie privately. Josie sits down on her bed next to me with a book, barely even looking at Hope as she stands in front of us.
"This stuff with Landon is my fault. I can fix it. I know how to track him, but it involves using dark magic..." Hope tried to explain but Josie cut her off, "Well, we're not allowed to use dark magic here, so..." Hope's expression turns slightly mischievous as she stares at Josie.
"Says the girl who just lit her ex on fire." Hope said and I chuckled under my breath. Josie's eyes widen in alarm, and her tone of voice becomes accusatory. "Are you blackmailing me?" Hope immediately tries to talk herself out of this mess
"No! I'm just... looking for a kindred spirit in revenge." Josie thinks about this for a moment before reluctantly deciding to join her. They turned to me and I smiled nodding.
Josie and Hope kneel on the floor in preparation to perform the spell. An open spellbook lays on the floor between the three of us, with instructions written in a magical language. Josie strikes a match and begins lighting candles while Hope reaches into a cardboard box and pulls out a rat. She looks at the creature with a guilty expression. "Sorry..." she whispers.
Hope squeezes the rat in both hands and snaps its spine, killing it. Josie begins spreading crushed herbs all over the pages of the spell book while Hope cuts open the rat's stomach and allows its blood to drip onto the herbs and parchment. When they're done, Josie looks at Hope with concern
"Are you sure about this?" I asked, and Hope gets a steely look in her eye. "Absolutely." I nodded and took a deep breathe before the three of us cross our wrists and grab each other's hands, with Josie and I siphoning some magic from Hope before we begin to chant.
"Inveniet hostium et tenebrae. Inveniet hostium et tenebrae. Inveniet hostium et tenebrae."
Landon is briefly seen half-asleep on the bus before the scene cuts away. "Do you see anything?" Josie asked. "Just flashes." Hope and I both answer. The flashes of the bus continue, but nothing informative has been shown as of yet. "Come on, give me something." Hope mumbled, but more flashes of the front of the bus happen and Landon's sleeping face before we finally get some helpful information in the form of a highway sign.
"I got it. Route 29." Josie answered quickly. "Yeah, Near the state line." I said. Suddenly, the vision shows Landon pulling the knife out of his jacket pocket and looking at it. "Is that the knife?" Josie and I asked. "Yeah." Hope answers. The knife's blade begins to glow bright red, as though it is sensing their spell, and Landon looks confused as he squeezes his eyes closed to avoid being blinded by the knife's light. "What's it doing?" I asked. "I have no idea."
—— "We finally make it inside of the bus and its just horrific Kai. Every person on the bus, from the driver to those seated in the very back, have all been burned so badly they resemble mummified corpses. The only rider not present is Landon, who is nowhere to be found!" Hope ranted off as I listened and mouthed 'Whoa.' Hope grunted and sat back on her bed talking out loud, "Landon isn't the hero of my story at all. But, when I hunt him down, I'm gonna be the villain of his" I just shook my head thinking of her father.
