We reached my old house three hours later. Although we didn't talk about it I knew that everyone was anxious. The car ride was quite, too quite actually. Betty, Kyle and Britney stayed quite on the back seat. Yeah you got it well, even Britney. I also quietly sat on the passenger's seat. Luke was busy driving at a very high speed and I was surprised we weren't given a speeding ticket. Nobody even said anything, in fact I internally wanted him to continue with that speed. I wanted to get everything over with. I was growing more anxious as time passed so a five hours ride wouldn't have done me any good.
I got out of the car and stood there staring at my old house
"Woah..this is where you used to stay?" Britney asked in horror. I would have rolled my eyes or say something back if I wasn't so nervous.
"We should get started, it's not safe to stay here longer unprepared. We don't know how regular they check this place, they could have even station someone here to report to them if anyone drop by, so we should be fast," I told them and they all nodded in agreement.
"Okay... So I need a chain, necklace or a bracelet from each of you," I told them.
Luke took off his bracelet. Betty and Kyle did the same too. Britney took her necklace off. They all gave it to me. And I nodded at them and smiled.
"I'll go in and work on them then, this might take a while. I hope they won't be here untill then," I told them.
"We will be right outside, we will try to stall them if they get here before you're done," Luke told me. I nodded and headed inside of a half destroyed burnt house I used to call home.
I placed the ornaments on the same mat I used the last time I was there. I kneeled down beside them. I hope this will work, mother help me!
* * * *
It took me two hours to be able to cast the right spell on the ornaments. I tried every trick I learnt the night before, since I was using them for the first time it wasn't easy. I did a lot of mistakes in the process, there was when I started a big fire, or when I destroyed a whole front wall which was disconnecting me with the rest. I remember the look of shock on their faces, I just shrugged at them and moved on to another spell. Well, what's important is I got it done. I was proud at myself. So the only thing left was to test if it really works. Which is the most important thing! You got nothing done if it doesn't work! I heard that small voice in my head. I ignored it.
I walked to the others to tell them the good news, from the fire and the wall that broke earlier I think they were already starting to lose hope in my spells.
"I got it done!" I exclaimed after reaching them.
They all looked at me then at the ornaments in my hand as if they will be able to see the spell by looking at them.
"How do we know if it's working?" Britney asked. I knew that was what everyone was curious about but I was glad it was her who asked.
I turned around to face her and smiled at her. I could sense she became frightened by my sudden gesture of kindness towards her. She took one small calculative step backward. I moved closer to her and touched her arm, she immediately jolted back and screamed in pain.
I waited till she calmed down a little, she was still cursing at me though. "Now you wear this and tell me if it's working, that's how we will know," I told her with a smile.
"You psychopath!!" she exclaimed, still in shock. I guess she didn't see that coming which made it all better. I smirked at her. The others were in fits of laugher.
I gave everyone their ornaments and they immediately put them on.
"Do you feel anything?" I asked them curious.
"No, nothing changed. We don't feel anything," Betty answered.
I turned to look at Britney who was busy locking her chain and touched her arm again, she jolted back a little bit and looked at me in disbelief. I suppressed the urge to smirk at her again.
"Has anything changed now?" I asked her with an innocent smile.
"You little!" She tried to plung at me but Luke held her back with a simple movement of his hand.
"Are you going to let her do this to me whenever she feels like?" she cried out.
"You wanted to know if it works. Stop being dramatic and tell us already," Luke told her.
She pouted but complied nevertheless, "It works. the shock was less intense the second time," she told us. I smiled happily after hearing that.
"But you! I swear if you do that again I'll-", Britney started but I cut her off.
"So now that we are sure that it works, w-" and I was cut off
"Well well look who we have here," I heard the voice behind me saying. I turned to look at the five people who were few metres away approaching us.
It was them. I could recognise them anywhere, their image was planted in my memories. They looked almost the same from back then.
"If it isn't the little witch and her friends," The middle age looking man who was in the middle said, looking straight in my eyes as they came to a hault a meter away from us.
All of us stood in line facing them. Betty was on my left and Kyle was beside her, on my right was Luke and Britney was beside her. I could feel the nervousness in each of us but we didn't let it show.
I could immediately tell that the middle one was their leader with the way everyone was naturally following his movement, which meant he was Logan.
On the left side of Logan stood a skinny woman who was like a carbon copy of Britney in their sense of fashion, she wore almost exact same makeup and outfit as Britney except for the black pink top. She wore all black and had dark make up on, her hair was trimmed short. She was chewing gum loudly. She looked at us in a tired manner as if she had rather be anywhere but there. She was Jenner, the vampire woman. On her left side stood another middle aged looking man who I could tell he was a werewolf with his well built bulky body, which meant he was Sebastian, Betty's Dad. He had a poker face on so It wasn't easy to read his emotions. He silently scanned all of us.
On the right side of Logan stood a little older looking woman, she looked the oldest among all and I immediately knew it was Bethany because her mortality rate wasn't like the others, she was aging a little bit faster comparing to them. Beside her stood another woman, she had her hairs in a ponytail and she looked like she was all business, that all the talks were boring her. She was Liz, the werewolf woman.
"Wait... I know you," Logan said and paused as if to think, "Aren't you Wilson's son?" he asked. And all the other immediately became interested after hearing Wilson's name.
"What is a wilson doing here? I thought we were dealing with some nobodies," Bethany asked in a small voice but we could still hear her.
"Relax sweetheart," he told her without glancing at her. "Let's put it like this, anyone who want to save his or her life should run now. I only have business with the witch, I don't care about the others."
"No, you should run if you don't want this to be your burial site," Luke told them. They all chuckled, Sebastian only looked at us expressionless.
"I can say you're one brave kid!" Logan told him, getting a foot closer. "Maybe you haven't grasped the situation yet. I'm giving you a chance to save your life. Or perhaps you don't know who I am yet. I-"
"I know who you're Logan," Luke answered him in a bored tone. Logan looked at him in astonishment and he was silent for a minute before he composed himself and went back to his cocky self, "Well what a pity! I didn't want to mess with a Wilson."
"So, seeing as you all know who we are, care to introduce yourselves? I'm mostly curious of the little witch here," he told us shifting his eyes back to me.
"How can you not recognise me!! they say I look like them," I told him.
"Them..? Who are these them?" he asked and it was a nice feeling seeing him being on the dark.
"Don't tell me you haven't figured it out yet?" I asked him.
"Quit the game little witch! Are you trying to confuse me thinking that would help your case," he said annoyed.
"This is frustrating, I mean why else would we call you here? At this place!" I said dramatically.
"You called us...?" Logan said raising his eyebrow, I could see that he was getting frustrated. That's what I was aiming for, even if I was going to go down I should atleast make it memorable, right?
"You don't probably think that you found us! We wanted you to find us, we wanted you here," I told them.
"Why..?" he asked with gritted teeth as he clench and unclench his fists. We're almost there.
"Why else, we have to settle our old score. I have to pay you back for killing my parents," I told him angrily.
"Your parents? Listen little witch, I have killed so many witches before. You have to be more specific. And you think you can take me out, like really? You bunch of little kids think that-", he laughed mockingly "It's funny to even think about it. I was going to have a pity on you and kill you immediately but it looks like I have to make it long and painful!"
"Wait Logan!" Bethany shouted before looking at me "You....how do you relate with Katherine? How did you know of this place? And how come we never heard of you untill now? And what do you mean by you called us here?"
"I though you would have figured it out by now with all the hints but I guess I have to spell it out for you. I performed magic here to call you, I knew you would be stupid enough to fall on the trap. And I am her daughter, I was there that night," I told them trying to push the sad image of that memory at the back of my mind.
"What? Are you trying to say that you're Katherine and Lameck's child? No, this can't be! They had no child!" Bethany exclaimed. I just shrugged.
"Wait...what is this? Haa! Are you saying that you are that stubborn witch child with his hunter husband? And you sought me out to take revenge! Haa! This is becoming more and more interesting, guys when was the last time we had this much fun?" Logan asked, amused. I got pissed at him. How dare he!
"It has been long, this sure was worth our trip here," Jenner answered him.
"Should we get to the funniest part already. I am starting to get bored," Liz said annoyed.
"Yeah, enough of the talk. You.. say hi to your parents for me," he told me with a smile. How much I wanted to rip that smile out of his face!
I glanced back at everyone and nodded at them. Let's get this over with!
I couldn't grasp much of what was happening after, everything was happening so fast and all I could see was blood, so much blood. The werewolves were fighting with the werewolves, the vampires dealt with vampires, I dealt with the witch. It was a pity I couldn't deal with Logan myself, I had to stop the witch. Britney was powerful, she needed another witch to be dealt with.
I wasn't really sure where the fight was heading, if we were going to win or lose, but if I had any doubt the spell weren't working it was gone now, because we would have been dead already!