A/n- this chapter is rough because I kinda rushed it so I'm sorry
The sight in the mirror had left Nova in tears as her breathing picked up. She had her wings outstretched and was staring at the sight in front of her. In the mirror she could clearly see the patch of feathers that was turning black. With shaky hands she quickly ripped the feathers out not caring about the pain. Running to the bathroom she threw them in the toilet before flushing it and falling to the floor while hiding her wings once again.
“This makes no sense, Dad. Why are we being punished?” Lizzie asks after Dad had just told us that we have to do community service.
“Because you started a brawl at a charity football game that risked exposing what we really do here.”
“Well you weren't mad last night.” Lizzie tried as we all followed behind dad.
“I was mad last night. My undying love for my daughters just happened to trump my rage. I volunteered everyone in the game, so stop complaining. You're lucky that it's just community service and not actual jail time.” I wasn't sure exactly what happened at the game last night but I know it must have been bad for dad to say that.
“Can I at least offer a rebuttal in my defense, If it pleases the court?” Lizzie asks as we all just stare at where she is standing.
“First of all, I was provoked. My response was totally proportional considering the levels of abuse that I was forced to endure. And secondly if anyone should take the blame, it's Josie.”
“What?” Josie says offended
“Lizzie!” I yell irritated already at my older sister.
“I'm sorry. I totally cracked under pressure. But if you had just let Kaleb catch the ball”
“You’d still be in trouble” Dad interrupts as all three of us look at Lizzie in shock.
“But nice job throwing your sister under the bus” Hope says and I elbow her side.
“Thank you, Hope” I smile a little as Josie says this knowing that if Lizzie wouldn't have gotten in the way that they would have been good friends.
“Speaking of, the bus leaves in ten minutes and I expect all four of you to be on it working together today, harmoniously without drama. End of debate.”
“Nova and I weren’t even at the game. Why are we being punished?” Hope asks
“You know what you did. Nova’s just there to make sure you all get along and don’t break out into anymore fights.” I nod as he says this as Hope just rolls her eyes. “Alright now, go all of you.”
As Lizzie and Josie begin walking away I go to follow them Before noticing that Hope isn’t coming.
“Hope?” I questioned.
“Go on Nova. Hope will be there in a minute.” My dad says. I look over to Hope and she gives me a small smile. Nodding, I hesitantly make my way to the bus where my sister's are.
“Seriously?” Hope questions Dr. Saltzman.
“What part of what I said needs translating?”
“I want to help you with research.”
“Dorian has a masters degree in library science. I think the adults have it covered.”
“That's not fair. You only play by the grown-up rules when you don't need something from me.” Hope gets closer to Alaric now getting very irritated.
“I am spinning right now, Hope. I can’t drag you or anyone else any further into this until I figure out what's going on, Okay? So right now, I need you to be a kid. Keeping a dragon-sized secret today until I get some answers. Also I need you to keep an eye on Nova. Ever since your little show last night she hasn’t seemed the same.” The two just look at each other. “Understood?”
Lizzie, MG, Kaleb and I stand at a window as MG and I scrub the graffiti off of it.
“Come on guys any slower and you might be going in reverse” Lizzie complains as she stands watching us. The three go back and forth for a minute
“It wasn't fair Were supernatural, they're human” MG comments
“Using your powers to win a stupid game is just selfish.” I add
“Were faster, Were stronger, Were better, And we aint got nothing to apologize for. I mean Nova is only here because her dad knows she's the only way to make peace between Lizzie and Hope.” The four of us just look around at each other Knowing that Kalebs words are right.
“Hypothetical question how bad would it suck if whoever did this graffiti just came back tonight and put it right back up again” I roll my eyes at the teens words and grab lizzies hand know that she might have an attack.
“Well whoever it is, i hope he improves his spelling” The three of us laugh at Lizzies words.”
“Hey MG” Dana says cheerfully as she looks at the vampire.
As MG greets Dana Lizzie isn't happy about it and bites at her trying to get on her nerves Thats when the teen from earlier Spills his drink all over Lizzie on Purpose.
“Thats my bad.” He says with not even an ounce of remorse. Without thinking I quickly Grab his finger and twist it backwards until it snaps.
“Ow! You Bitch!” He Yells before walking away.
Lizzie Angrily grabs my hand and drags me away as well.
“Hey Lizzie you uh.”
“Choose your next words very carefully, Pedro.” With that she continues to storm away. With an eye roll I squat down infront of him
“What did you need, Hunny?” WIth a smile he points to the flower and with a laugh I start helping him finish planting them.
After a while Lizzie comes back but decides to lay on a rock and not help.
“Is she going to help or just lay there?” Pedro asks me. Standing up we both walk over to my sister.
“Aren't you supposed to help.”
“Consider this a life lesson, Pedro. People disappoint” She says but I notice that Pedro seems to be elsewhere. Looking up I look at the stone statue of a gargoyle suspiciously.
“It just moved.” He tells Lizzie and I but neither of us saw it so we just suspected her was pulling a prank.
“Come on Pedro, no jokes. We have to get back to work.” I say
“I mean, I deserve to know what's happening just as much as Hope.” At the mention of my girlfriends name I look back down to Lizzie “I'm his freaking daughter.”
“Its doing it again” He says as he points at it. Looking up Lizzie and I glance at each other as we notice that it has gotten closer.
“We’re being punked, pedro. The sixth grade witches are learning Illusion spells this semester.” As Lizzie keeps going on I look wide eyed at the gargoyle that had just moved.
“Uh Lizzie Its not a joke.”
“Let's guess, it's right behind me?”As Lizzie turns around I Fail to notice The Gargoyle is now behind me but let out a scream as I feel my back being scratched and falling to the floor.
“Nova!” Lizzie shouts as she quickly brings me into her arms. Noticing we can't out run it, Lizzie sits me down on one of the sofas and tells Pedro to give him her hand. I try to watch what's happening but I'm not able to move or talk. The only thing I can feel are the tears running down my face.
“Lizzie? Nova?” Oh what happened?” I hear my dad say as he crouches next to Lizzie on the floor. “They arent moving. Why-Why aren't they moving?”
“The statue hurt them” Pedro says
Lizzie is placed on a couch beside me (Dad having moved them together hoping that it would bring Lizzie and I some comfort) As he gave a speech of being on lockdown. My mind runs back to Josie and Hope praying that they both are okay. Seconds later Lizzie and I are lifted and we both let out a whimper of pain.
With Josie and Hope
“I'm sorry I can't let you leave” Dorian tells the two girls standing in front of him.
“No, I need to go home to see my sisters.” Josie says with her arms crossed
“Your dads with them. And I'm under strict orders to keep you here.”
“What. Why?”
“And why are you researching that?” Hope asks, growing more concerned by the second. She could feel something wasn’t right. The mating bond on her neck burned and she just didn’t have a good feeling.
Back to Lizzie and Nova
Thumbs and Scratches could be heard getting closer to the room as the children trembled in fear.
“Everyone stay quiet. Emma instructed as she used magic to conceal them. It worked as the gargoyle stopped for a second before seeing nothing and moving on.
Bum Bum Back to Hope 🙂
Hope walked down the hallways in the school towards the library hoping to find Nova. What she didn't expect was Dr. Saltzman to sneak up behind her.
“Dorian was supposed to keep you away.”
He tried. He lost. But here. Killing gargoyles 101. He thought you could translate it.” Hope brings her hand up to the mark on her neck that seemed to burn more every minute. “She's hurt, isn't she?” Dr. Saltzmen sighed.
“The gargoyle scratched her and Lizzie. They are both Paralyzed and Scared. But safe for now. We don't know how long that'll last though.” Looking back to the book he flips it over.
“Gaulish. Son of a-” He cuts himself off and opens the book. Hope looks at him expectantly but as he says nothing she gets impatiens.
“So are we on our own, or did the Gauls provide clear instruction?”
“In a nutshell, it says hit it hard, repeat as needed.” The two hear a roar and look around
“Is that?”
“Yeah. Listen, it poisoned Lizzie and Nova. I guess to get my attention. Then It attacked me and took the knife.”
“The Knife? The Dragon Knife. And you're still breathing?”
“Yeah I have a theory about that.”
“Well save it because we had to take down that containment spell to get inside the school, meaning our monster can get out.” Dr. Salztmen looks confused
“A containment spell? Lizzie wanted to make sure whatever attacked her didn’t escape into the world. Good girl. Alright well I guess we better find it before it makes the evening news.
As Lizzie, Hope, and Alaric fight the monster all Hope can focus on is the sharp burning of her neck but as they defeat the statue it starts to die down.
“How's Lizzie and Nova?” Hope asks as she stands in front of Alaric
“Recovering quickly, thanks to Josie.”
“So, how did you know the gargoyle wouldn’t kill you?”
“Gargoyles are protectors. And folklore tells a tale of a gargoyle who once protected a small settlement in France whose villagers revered a powerful relic a Knife”
“Our knife?”
“As the story goes, the gargoyle loved the humans he protected so much, he vowed never to harm humanity. Instead he chose to fight evil on their behalf.”
“Me being the evil one in this scenario Josie, Lizzie, Nova.”
“In its mind, yes. I realized when it didn't hurt me before it saw me as the one who needed protection.”
“Im not sure that knowing that will make them feel any better.”
“Hope.. Theres more.” Hope looks at him with a questioning look on her face. “It also tells of a tale of the Gargoyle having an Angle lover. He loved her dearly and promised to protect her kind because he found them to be much like the humans. He vowed to protect them from their form of evil…”
“Demons” Hope said with a slightly confused look.
“Yes but also of beings called Lost ones. Which is essentially and Angels that has broken the rules but not to an extreme to be deemed a Demon. It was said that sometimes they were more dangerous though.”
“This doesn’t make sense. Novas and Angle so why did he go after her?”
“Im not sure. But we know angels are real. What if our next monster was a demon? Or a lost one? There's barely any books on how to stop them.” The two stand in silence for a moment before Dr. Saltzmen declared he was going to check on Lizzie and Josie.
Hope makes her way up to her room thinking over everything that had been said. Nothing made sense to her. If Nova was an Angel then why would the Gargoyle attack her? Maybe he didn’t know she doesn’t often have her wings out.
Stepping inside she watches as the pile of blankets slowly rises and falls with the breaths her girlfriends lets out. Hope lets out a small sigh and she makes her way into the bed and brings Nova into her arms.