Drift Warden House, Ashmaine, England, Mid
Corey stepped out the front door, flicking the lock on before closing it behind himself. He slowly stepped onto the front lawn, watching a small group of Grey Army soldiers come up the driveway by foot "My 'brother' sent you to retrieve me?" Corey coldly questioned as the soldiers came to a halt "You're coming with us, Light Carrier" one of the soldiers firmly stated as the boy let out a long frustrated sigh "Unfortunately for you, he sent you to your death" he stated. With a flick of his wrist, he summoned a golden spear into his hand "I'm not letting a soul live tonight" he coldly told them and when they in response raised their guns at him, Corey shadow-walked over to one soldier and harshly punched them square in the chest, hard enough that you could hear some of the poor guy's ribs snapping from the impact.
Kate turned around to look behind her before being punched so hard in the chest that she flew back a couple feet.
One soldier went to shoot at the hypnotic, only for him to immediately turn around and grab the shoulder by the arm.
Corey managed to rip his arm out of Jack's grasp, grab his arm and throw him to the ground, then turned to Masky.
He threw the soldier to the ground, simply stabbing the spear through the soldier's lower back, pulling it back out and whacking the next soldier across the head with the spear.
He stepped on Masky's back harshly before breaking the poor guy's arm, tossing it to the ground.
He grabbed another soldier's arm and with one simple motion, forced the man's arm out of its socket, slinging the same soldier to the ground.
"Holly" Sean pushed as the others could hear the fighting happening outside "We need to drag him back inside-" "And risk the chance of one of them getting inside?" Holly snapped back at the oldest, a horrid glare haunting her eyes as Sean's own narrowed "At least let me go out there and help him" he pushed yet Holly shook her head "You're not a hypnotic, you'll die out there". "Last I checked, I survived and escaped a Grey Army base and wilderness with that idiot" Sean stated, pointing up the basement stairs as though gesturing to Corey "I can survive going outside and dragging his ass back in" "No" Holly firmly answered. The oldest growled under his breath "We can't leave him alone up there, Holly" he said "He's what they're after, remember?" he snapped. She thought for a moment before dropping her spell on the basement door and opened it "Great, let's go-" "You're staying here" Holly told Sean "I'm going out" she stated, stepping out of the basement and closing the door behind herself.
Holly rushed through the house and out the front door, closing it behind herself as she watched a good few more greyed soldiers circling behind Corey "Hey!" she yelled, gaining the attention of a couple of the soldiers who looked around in confusion, Holly's brows knotted 'They can't... see me?' she thought, quickly looking down at the black protection pendant her mother made her that was still hanging around her neck, really looking within the crystal to see a faint rune inside it.
"Keep the protection amulet on, okay?" "I will" Holly assured her mother.
Holly shook her head 'I'll deal with that later' she told herself, re-piercing the tips of her bloodied fingers with the blade on her hip, her hands glowing a dark red-ish pink as she raised them, rooted thorns slashing out of the ground by the magical command and harshly wrapping themselves around the ankles of a few of the soldiers, she flicked her hands back with commanded the roots back into the ground, cutting up the greyed soldiers' ankles bad enough to make them fall to the ground.
As Corey fought, one soldier managed to grab him and throw him to the ground, spear falling out of the hypnotic's hand, the soldier stabbing a white blade through the boy's left hand and sharply stepping on the wrist of his right to hold him down as the soldier kneeled down and leant over the hypnotic, grabbing out a black electronic collar "You're coming with us, Light Carrier" the soldier stated. Corey hissed in pain as he glanced down at the collar and right as the soldier was about to put it on him, the boy's eyes flicked back up to the soldier's as he spoke "What's grey yet red all over?" he asked whilst the soldier looked at him as though he was insane, cracking a joke right as he's being recaptured. But before the soldier could answer, Corey smirked as he re-summoned the spear into his right hand, angled a little, the spear reforming into his hand so quickly that the soldier couldn't move away in time before it shot through his left eye and skull, the blood splattering back onto Corey as the body quickly went limb and the boy hurried to push it off of himself. As he pulled himself up onto his knees, Holly yelled out to him "Behind you!" she warned and as Corey turned his head, it felt too late to move as the soldier behind him was already mid-swing with another bone white dagger, all the boy felt he could do was raise his arms to shield, close his eyes and expect the blow to hurt like hell... yet it never came. Just the sound of a man instantly choking. When Corey opened his eyes, he was met with the soldier's corpse limped in a horrifying state accompanied with an equally more horrifying expression as the blackest thorn bush bloomed itself throughout his body and out both his eyes and mouth in an endless agonising silent scream, his blood pouring out and watering the horrid plant that now made home in his body. "Whew, damn...." a tired voice breathed out in relief as Holly and Corey turned their heads to see Euanthe hunched over on the footpath passing by the house, trying to gather her breath after running from the other side of town to get to the kids "That was close" the princess breathed as the two teens showed slightly horrified and disturbed faces. Holly pushed herself to rush over to Euanthe "Where's Faith?" she instantly questioned the hellish princess "Don't worry, she's at one of the evac camps" Euanthe assured the girl, making Holly feel a little less worried "And mum?" "I don't know" Euanthe answered in the same worry as the girl. Holly's gaze fell onto the road behind the princess, seeing a faint glow of light from the right start to illuminate the tar.
A body covered in red flew back and over the cliff edge, a skeleton wrapped in black and death watched helplessly as he made his horrid descent into the rocky woodland below.
The sound of a car horn beeping knocked Holly out of her state and dragged her attention to the driveway as a silvered car pulled up beside the blood-splattered boy across the lawn.
Edd jumped out of the car "Help" he called to the other three as Matt bolted out of the front passenger and around the car "Corey, back inside" Euanthe told the boy who glared back at her "No-" "Get back inside now" the princess firmly ordered, tossing him her own key for the house, Corey caught in and angrily unlocked the front door whilst Euanthe turned to Holly "Make sure he stays inside" she told the girl who immediately followed after the boy. Euanthe rushed over to the car as Matt carefully lifted Tom up into his arms and out of the car "He fainted, I don't know-" Matt tried to speak but the words were catching in his throat, Euanthe touched Tom's arm and froze for a moment, eyes widening a little before forcing herself to snap back into the moment "Get him inside" she told the ginger who quickly raced off into the house. Euanthe followed Edd to the other side of the car, the brown haired boy opening the back passenger door to show Tord out cold and his arm continuing to bleed out "Help me get him inside" Euanthe asked the other boy, one taking one side of the bleeding boy and one taking the other, wrapping their arms around him and using whatever strength they had to walk him into the house.
Euanthe lead them into the living room as the other kids rushed up from the basement "Sean, Jacob, lock and guard the doors" Euanthe told the two boys, them acting on her order as she turned to Lilly "First Aid kit, sweetie" she asked the ghostly girl who immediately ran into the kitchen to retrieve the kit, no one taking notice of Corey's non-existent presence in the room. The princess and boy laid Tord down on the couch whilst Matt placed Tom down on the other "Holly, I need you to get your mother's potions book and find the strongest healing spell in it and everything you need for it" Euanthe told the girl, Holly shook her head "I can't do potions, I'm still on runes-" "Add a drop of your blood, Holly, that's how it's going to work for you" the princess told the girl. Holly hesitated for a moment before racing out of the room just as Lilly arrived back, handing the kit to Euanthe "Thank you, sweetie, please go help Holly" "Yep" the girl answered, following after the other girl as Euanthe kneeled down beside the bleeding boy who was starting to come to "Tord, I need you to hold still, alright?" the princess told the boy as she nodded to Edd to hold him down "I'm pulling the blade out" Euanthe warned Tord who tightly closed his eyes and gripped the couch and with one swift motion, the princess pulled the devilbone dagger out of Tord's shoulder as the army leader screamed out in pain. "I know, hon, I know" Euanthe told the army leader as she quickly put pressure on the wound whilst placing the dagger down on the coffee table behind her "Matt, I need you to grab out the needle and threat from the first aid kit" she told the ginger who quickly acted on her words "Edd, keep hold on him" Euanthe told the other boy as she took her free hand which glowed a beautiful grass green for a second before an orange purple-laced flower bloomed within her hand. "Sleeping nettles- your giving him sleeping drugs?" Edd questioned the princess who shook her head, beginning to crumble up and smoosh the flower in her hand "Sleeping nettle flowers are different to their nettles, the flower numbs pain and can be a good antibacterial for wounds" she explained to the boy. Tord immediately shot up his good arm "Sleeping drug or not, give it" "Tord" Edd got up at the army leader, batting his hand back down. Matt handed Euanthe a small towel, she lifted her hand off the wound and placed the towel on, cleaning as much blood away as she could "It'll sting" she warned Tord a second before taking off the wound and smoothing the now flower paste in the wound as Tord hissed and yelled out in pain. The paste had stopped the bleeding but it will only be for a moment. Euanthe saw where she needed the sew, Matt gave her the threaded needle and she got to work, Tord screaming out in pain whilst Edd held his top half down and Matt held down his legs.
Holly rushed into the kitchen, turning on the stove and placing a small pot onto the burning plate whilst placing the opened potions book down on the counter beside her.
"You lent me the medicine book, remember-" "Yeah, I remember but why the hell are you testing it on yourself?" Holly questioned him, Vixen shrugged, looking away from her "I'd rather have something happen to me than have something bad happen to one of you guys testing it" he answered, sighing as he looked back at the witch's medicine book laying open on his desk.
"Holly" Lilly lightly tapped the other girl's arm, making the poor thing jump and flinch away, Lilly's brows knotted in concern "...the spell?" she slightly hinted, nodding to the ingredients the ghostly hypnotic had pulled out for the potion they were making. Holly slowly nodded her head "Y-yeah, right" she turned back to the pot as Lilly measured each ingredient to perfection, handing them in order to Holly who added and stirred, and once all were added to the pot, Holly pricked her last good finger and held it over the pot, letting one small droplet of deep crimson fall and mix itself within the liquid. The second the liquid became clear, Holly took it off the stove as Lilly grabbed out a cup, carefully filling it with the mixed potion before both girls raced out of the kitchen and through the corridor, into the living room.
Euanthe had made her sewing fast and as good as she could make it, the wound nearly sealed as Tord laid in sweat with rottenly sore throat from his cries of pain, his eyes half close as Lilly rushed over to their side with the potion "Is it right?" Holly asked, not wanting her friend to suffer thanks to her horrid work. The princess nodded her head "It's right" she assured the girl, taking it from Lilly's hands "This will be the worse of it, it'll feel like your skin is melting but I really need you to hold still, hon" Euanthe warned Tord as he looked over at Tom, still passed out on the other couch, the army leader nodded his head and tightly closed his eyes "Okay" he breathed. Euanthe nodded to Edd and Matt to keep their firm hold whilst motioning to Holly to help hold down his bad arm "Okay... three, two one-" Tord's horrid scream cut through Euanthe's words as she poured the liquid onto his shoulder wound, it seeping in through the sewn threads and deep into the wound. It felt exactly like Euanthe had described it to be but a million times worse; it was like his skin was melting from the inside out, it felt like the liquid was boiling and bubbling and cooking his arm alive, the pain shooting throughout his chest and sending his right arm completely numb.
Bubbling blood spilled back from the seams as Euanthe quickly retrieved the bloody hand towel and held it over the wound, keeping firm pressure on it. Tears were running down the poor boy's face "Få det til å stoppe!" he yelled out, trying to sit up yet his friends keeping him down "Få det til å stoppe... vennligst" Tord begged as footsteps travelled into the room "Få det til å stoppe-" his eyes turned bright green as his gaze met with another's, gentle hands caressing his face as his voice and world around him fell silent and his entire body came numb. "...Corey?" Euanthe quietly spoke as the boy stood over Tord, keeping eye contact with the army leader "No" he answered, the princess's brows frowned a little as she watched the fallen-possessed boy keep the army leader quiet and numbed "He hates it when people scream" was all that Shadow said.
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