March 20, 2015

At the window I saw five of them and none of them used guns. Hugh's axe burned through one of them like a volcano erupting from the inside out.

Ezra's sword shining with light cut one of their heads. 

It didn't take them more than a couple minutes to decimate the opposing side with their weapons. When the fight ended they smiled at each other and Hugh came back in the house and got the same black bag Ezra had stashed away.

"Alright all my weapons are here and yours?" Hugh asked zipping up his getaway bag.

"In the car we left it on the parking lot on the way up."

"Okay then we should get going before more of them team up back here." 

Hugh ordered and the three of us went down the mountain and got in the car as Ezra took off making noises with the tire on the road and heading quickly into Canada.

As the Canadian border came up ahead there was no traffic at all though we also noticed there were no officer's just bleeding bodies of officers on the ground.

"Ezra?" I asked trembling at the bloody sight of the border around the bodies.

"God damn them!" Hugh slapped the side of the car and Ezra tried to keep his cool.

"We have to get out, we need to help them!" I told Ezra.

"Stella only one of them still has a heartbeat and your sister is in danger, what do you want to do?"

"I... I... I can't choose." I began to cry overwhelmed.

"Okay then I'll choose." 

Ezra accelerated to 120 miles per hour and soon I knew we had arrived as the tears had dried on my face.

"It's that house over there with the red oaks around it." I pointed it out to Ezra and Hugh feeling like a failure. 

I couldn't save the one person still left with a heartbeat. What kind of being did that make me?

"Okay let's go get Sybil. You stay here, use this if you need to." Ezra gave me two golden little blades he took out from his bag.

"No let me go with you two."

"Stella it's dangerous do you see those cars, we have no idea how many of them are in there."

"Hugh?"

"We shouldn't leave her alone Ezra." Hugh agreed with me.

"But she can drive away if she has to."

"You're staying Stella." Hugh saw the point to Ezra's thinking but I wasn't about to obey them so I let them believe the argument was done.

As they got out of the car I watched them make their way severing the fallen dark ones. One by one they fell before going into the house. 

Just then another two cars with more of them pulled up. 

I knew I couldn't stay watching this fight so I put my head down on the steering wheel and began to mumble...

"Quoad finem solis. Stellarum. Adiuva me. Iustitia. Auxilium mihi caelum. Invenire viam ad lucem. Ut Eden, et ut in perpetuum bonitate regnare." 

My mouth moved in Latin like it knew the language and something inside my chest was stirred because my necklace set off a white glow.

"God help us." 

I walked out of the car with the small blades and as three dark winged ones came for me the touch of my hand extracted some dark matter from inside of them that left them hollow and unconscious.

"She's here!" The men yelled when they saw me coming.

One after one, I started seeing that the more of them I touched the weaker I became. Like my body could not hold up the darkness being transferred inside of me. So I used the blades to tear them away.

"Ezra! Sybil!" I yelled trying to get to the door.

"Stella get out!" Ezra said as I heard them fighting on the second floor.

"Oh wow my favorite enemy is here! Stella long time!" Marie said from the floor above fighting with Ezra or Hugh.

"Hugh!" I shouted to know where he was trying to climb up the stairs to help them but there were three coming for me. I stabbed them in the eyes and kicked them down the stairs trying to crawl my way up.

"Here!" 

Hugh shouted as I got to the second floor nauseated, pained and almost dead. I saw Sybil was still asleep in the room so I crossed in to the big white circle to see if she was alright.

"Sybil you're okay, you're alright." 

I dropped half of my body on top of her when Ezra and Marie came into the room fighting.

"Oh look we're all together again, how lovely, just a minute." 

Marie came into the circle with me. 

"Atrae circumdabunt nos hic. Tenebras custodi nos prope. Albo circulo conversus nigrum. Tenetur nobis hic, donec finem."

Right there the white circle turned into a black dust around us and a barrier began to form like a bubble so I tried to cross over before I got trapped.

"No I need to help Ezra!" I said trapped into the bubble with Sybil and Marie.

"Oops, you really should have said something earlier." Marie walked over to where I was holding about a foot long branch.

"Stella! Stella!" Ezra yelled out looking for where I was.

"In here darling!" Marie said and once he walked into the room his eyes were so afraid I could tell something about Marie frightened his very heart.

"Stella!" Ezra tried to run to get me but the bubble burned him as Marie shouted a laugh at him.

"You know that is always fun!" Marie said at Ezra who got up from the floor.

"What do you want Marie?" I asked her.

"Oh nothing else than all I've got right here in this very room."

"Let Stella and Sybil out Marie! I'll go with you!" Ezra said.

"I know you will." Marie knelt down and with her branch in her hand she struck the wood object straight through my shoulder.

"No!" Ezra roared.

"Ahhh!" I shouted in pain and the black blood gushed out of my left shoulder.

"See, I have load of use for her, but let's do it in a loop shall we?" She tore out the branch from my shoulder and perforated my lungs with it.

"Oh, oh, oh," I coughed out black blood as if I were drowning in it.

"Stop it Marie! Stop it! What do you want! Just say it and you'll get it!"

"Ezra I told you already, this is everything I ever wished for. You watching me kill your beloved Stella. But don't worry once I'm done with her I'll hand Sybil over back to her coven to where she can properly punished for being a runaway. And as for you I'll keep you as a prisoner because I'm merciful."

"No Marie!" Ezra struck the bubble with his sword and a crack was heard.

"Oh stop it!"

As Marie prepared to strike me for the third time the bubble cracked open twenty fallen ones walked in the room and incapacitated Ezra, Marie, and grabbed Sybil.  

On the floor seeing all the black gush out from me and go back to the dark fallen ones heaving my last breath I saw the scientist step in front of me like a black tower.

"Hand her over!" The scientist demanded them and they offered me up to him.

"No," I asked.

"Let her go Stephen! She'll never be one of you!" Ezra fought for me using his blade to kill the one who held him down but it was too late. 

The scientist picked me up like a pillow and walked out with me. He threw me into a car and drove away with my body...

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