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| "I don't know. It just kind of happened. I didn't mean to....I...."
"Ellie?" A voice calls from the other room. An older woman with greying blonde hair enters the room. "Who are you?" She looks at Brodrick with disgust . "I should go," Brodrick says as he leaves the kitchen. "I'll see you later, Ellie." The front door slams as he leaves. "Thanks, mom. The only nice guy I've met in this town and you drive him away in three words. Wonderful." She quietly walks upstairs to her room. As she closes the door she feels somone breathing down her neck. "Hello again." the deep voice gives her chills. A tear falls down her face; her body freezes in fear. The windows of the house frost over. A thin layer of ice covers the plants outside. "Come on. Come on." Gwen says franticly, holding her book. "Give me a damn vision." "Gwen, what's wrong?" Alaina asks. "Come on! Come on!" Gwen screams. Her body starts to jerk. She suddenly stops, drops the book on the counter, grabs her keys, and runs out the front door. Alaina follows her. "Where are we going?" Gwen looks at her as she hops into the vehicle. "A young girl, with white hair. Address 339 East Main Street. She's going to be killed," Gwen explains as she speeds out of the driveway. "By her own f***ing council member!" The car peels out on the road as they head out to rescue the young girl. "Jade?" He turns towards the woman now sitting at the edge of a fountian. "Yes, Aileen." "What I must ask of you now is a great crime among our kind: to harm another witch." She looks down at the concrete floor. "I heard them scheming. The very ones meant to protect our kind, and what they plan to do may very well destroy magic as we know it. Arclen, the Counselor of the Center, is the only one so far to act." Jade appoaches Aileen and sits beside her. "What's he going to do?" "He doesn't want to be replaced. To give up his seat to the next in line. To keep the balance as we always have." "Where is he? Aileen? Tell me how to stop him." She looks up at Jade, her warm tears rolling down her face. "You're going to need help." Brodrick walks into a shop in the mall. He slowly shuffles from aisle to aisle, stopping in front of a glass figurine of an angel. He begins to walk away when he sees something strange in the glass. An image. "Ellie?" As her face appears faintly in the skirt of the Angel's dress. "Help me, Brodrick! Help me!" Her soft voice pleads to him. He turns and runs out of the store, knocking other customers over as he rushes out of the mall. Gwen pulls up in her dark blue mini-van. She and Alaina jump out and walk up to the house. "Oh my God!" Gwen exclaims. Before them, the entire house is covered with a thick sheet of ice. "What the hell? What has the power to do that?" Alaina says as she looks over to Gwen. "Center. Come on, we don't have much time." Gwen runs back to her car and starts to rummage through the back. "What are you looking for?" Alaina questions. "These." Gwen pulls out four road flares from the vehicle. "Sweet." Alaina grabs one and runs up to the ice wall. The light pink glow can be seen from inside the house as they both begin to melt their way through the wall. Brodrick approaches the home. "Oh, holy s***. Ellie!" He rushes up to the front of the house, pushing Gwen and Alaina out of his way. "Hey, I'm melting stuff here." Alaina says to him. "How rude." Brodrick puts his hands against the ice and closes his eyes. His hands become red as the ice begins to melt away. "Wow. that is so cool." Alaina's eyes grow wide as she watches the ice melt away into a puddle. Ellie lies frozen in a block of dark ice her family the same. Arclen standing infront of her chanting. "On this day, her blood shall spill. On this day by force of will. Her body cold, and breath grow still. Her soul I banish by force of will." He continues to chant... "We're in." Brodrick says as he sqeezes into the hole in the wall. "After you." Alaina says as she nudges Gwen towards him. They all make it inside as they stand the hole begins to freeze over. Gwen kneels beside it throwing a flare outside of the wall. "What is that for?" Alaina asks. "We're getting help." Gwen says as the hole ices over, looking as if it were never there. "Come on, we have a girl to save." They all rush inside, and up the stairs. "Ellie!" Brodrick cries out. They all stop at the site of the pale man chanting his curse at the girl. Alaina looks, spots a vase on the table at her side, and throws it at the man. "Hey, jackass!" she shreaks. "Nice one Alaina. There goes our chance at a stealthy attack." Gwen says as she jumps out of the way of spike made of ice thrown at her from the man's palm. The spikes continue to come one after another. "Question?" Alaina says to Gwen. "Where is the help you promised?"... Page 1 Previous Page Next Page Home Page |