Chapter 31
coven heads?
Y/N
To be perfectly honest I wasn't expecting to be interrupted by a bunch of screaming hexide kids during my first ever date.
Hunter jumps up, golden guard instincts kicking as he reaches for his staff, flapjack transforming before our very eyes. He accidently elbows me in the forehead on the accent, and i rub my head with my hand, the headache from a few days ago comming back.. It's actually been doing that a lot recently these past few days, I'm not sure why.
"Ack, sorry y/n!"
Vix crawls onto my shoulder, comming to my defence. I nod to Hunter, and together we kick the door down, Hunter raises his fists, screaming-
And of course, there's nothing on the other side.
"Let's be strategic about this, the screams are coming from downstairs-"
"and your mouth"
"yes and that. Okay so we'll sneak downstairs and scout the perimeter, unless we figure out what's going on. Then we corner them and- I don't know, we'll figure it out as we go along," Hunter's voice cracks slightly.
I nod.
Pulling a face mask up to his nose (I'm not entirely sure where he got it from), Hunter makes his way down the coridoor. He checks around the corner then gestures for me to follow.
I creep down the coridoor on the tips of my toes, silently as possible. My teeth clench as we walk down the set of steps. The screaming has stopped now, but the fact is it was there. If anyone's hurt... No, no we'll get there in time.
My footsteps quicken, and I practically fly down the stairs.
"Y/N WAIT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO THIS TOGETHER STICK TO THE PLAN."
I won't let anyone get hurt again. Hexide was supposed to be our Haven, I want it to stay that way.
I don't scout out the perimeter, I head straight towards where the sound came from, behind my I can hear Hunter teleporting, desperately trying to keep up.
I slam open the doors to the gymnasium, heart racing, adrenaline screaming. I choke through the oxygen, and take everything in.
The large room is scarse with about five students, including Willow and Gus, and Principle bump. But the most surprising thing are the coven scouts - and Darius.
Someone behind me wheezes for breath, Hunter lowers his mask, staring through magenta eyes at the scene around him.
His eyes narrow, and before I can do anything Hunter's after them. He raises his staff-
"Wait" It's the c.a.t.s. It's the C.A.T.S, they came to find me. I'm not alone-
Well i will be if Hunter kills them all. It's incredible how soundless he can be, like a dancer walking on clouds.
He's behind them before I can even blink, acellerating from the ground with his staff outstretched, a spell already forming, facing Darius. Abomination goo easily snatches him from the air, pulling him to the ground.
Then a wall of the same disgusting substance pushes me forwards until I'm standing next to Hunter. My whole body does a weird shudder; I can't get the memory of it off of my skin, it feels like it's still there. I brush off my arms, wincing.
"Little prince," Darius slowly, slowly, turns around, "Crowling" I flinch but when I see his face I realize he's smiling, a kind smile? "Nice for you to finally join us."
"Just whats going on here?" Hunter steps forwards accusatory.
"I actually came to get you two," Darius nods to me, there's some sort of apologetic appearance in his expression.
I feel the trace of Hunter's hand on mine, under his gloves he squeezes mine for a second, a reassurance.
"I don't trust you," he states, finally.
"Thought so, that's why I brought someone with me," Darius says, he seems slightly saddened by Hunter's words though.
Teal hair emerges from behind Darius' shoulder, thick glasses mark their presence.
"Raine," my face splits into a warm smile.
"I'm so glad you're safe y/n," Raine says, their face a rainbow of smiles.
"Can someone please explain what's going on?" Hunter hisses.
"Let's ahm, go into a different room, so we don't worry the students," Raine whispers (haha), Hunter swallows and nods. This time it's my turn to squeeze his hand in reassurance.
The other room is some sort of staff room, it has comfortable couches and a kitchen area with a coffee machine and a ton of mugs with 'worst teacher' scribed upon them.
We sit down on the couch, across from Raine in an armchair and Darius who's sitting on the floor.
"So," Raine says, "I presume y/n told you about the cats?"
Darius audibly groans at the name.
Hunter nods rigidly, he sits with his shoulders tight and his hands tapping his knees.
"Eberwolf, Raine and I are the only coven heads inside of it, but currently we have a range of scouts, including Steve who I believe you were friends with, the bards against the throne, a couple of escaped prisoners and the owl lady, her dog-"
Raine jabs Darius in the ribs, "the owl lady, King, Luz, Lilith and ahm, the bird tube?"
"Hooty," I mumble, glad to hear of my friend's safety.
Hunter gives me a curious look, there's so much I want to tell him, but we haven't had any time. It's just event after event, even our date was interrupted.
"Well," Darius takes over, "we have a plan to stop the day of unity." He paused dramatically, allowing us a moment to take it in.
My fingers unclench; my shoulders relax. We are saved..
But Hunter starts laughing, "you'll never beat him. He has eyes everywhere, this won't work."
Raine takes over speaking, a crease forming in their forehead, "this is the only chance we have, and i promise I will not let it go to waste.. We're using Eda's curse to change the draining spell's course of action, she's going to replace my spot in the coven heads. During all the confusion, Eberwolf will release their flesh eating spiders, and we will go after Belos. Any questions?"
"Why are you telling us all this?"
Darius actually smiles, "well Little prince, we wanted you to know you're not alone anymore. This whole thing," he gestures wildly, "is in our hands now. You're not the only ones fighting."
Hunter's foot bounces against the floor, shaking his leg, he glares at the floor, "fine, whatever. But you could have told me this earlier, instead of leaving us here, alone."
There's a heartbeat of silence.
"I am so so sorry Hunter," Raine says, softly.
"Sorry isn't good enough," Hunter stands up, he outstretches his hand to me.
I accept it, pulling myself to my feet.
"Hunter," I pull him into hug, ignoring the other two in the room, "they did all they could. Darius saved your neck a while ago, he's the reason Gus and Willow helped us when we entered Hexide. Raine was comming up with a plan to put an end to all this... Isn't that what we wanted? A normal life?"
I feel the warm trace of tears slipping onto my shirt, Hunter moves attempting to hide it, "yeah-" he mumbles, "yeah you're right y/n."
"Fine," Hunter takes a breath, "Fine. I believe you. I'll do whatever i can do help."
Darius nods, his lips pressed into a thin line, "I have one thing to ask you though, Luz the human needs a guard or two. Will you two go with her?"
I immediately nod, Hunter seems more apprehensive, but he agrees in the end.
"It's so good to see you again Raine," I say.
"We can catch up properly after the day of unity," they smile, "and you better tell me about you and Hunter," they wink and my face flushes red, but I can't feel anything other than numbness.
Yeah, everything will be fine after the day of unity. If we succeed that is.
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A/N: we're getting into finale territory!