The meal sam had in mind was a simple soup, well it looked simple but it was the farthest thing from it since he was making lunch sam decided on a simple soup with a nice side so he was making a vegetable soup made with beef stock and greek salad side.
After he created the meal plan sam opened the fridge and freezer to grab the ingredients he needed.from the freezer he grabbed stock and a couple of frozen vegetables from the fridge he grabbed more vegetables and a few lemons, closing the fridge and freezer sam opened the cabinets and grabbed the seasonings and the special ingredient of the meal, a powder made from two magic herbs the white dream clover and black waking clover.
The two magic herbs weren't very rare nor powerful but the applications for them were endless, the white dream herbs despite it innocent name it could kill under an hour without extreme caution half the size of a yellow woodsorrel clover it was fresh snow white and had a very calming pleasant smell it was one of the deadliest plants on the plant and some can eat a whale whole in seconds. The white dream clover had the power to put anything that eats it in an endless sleep where they dream in nothing but a white world where there is nothing. In the white world, one will float aimlessly as they quickly lose track of time then the will slowly lose all their senses until they only had their thoughts to accompany them which would slowly drive them mad.
The black waking was just as dangerous but in the opposite way, twice the size of a yellow woodsorrel clover pitch black with a jolting and awful smell instead of putting you to sleep it keeps you awake but it also made you blind, so you could only see black, you were more likely to survive the black waking than the whited dream and you are more likely to keep your sanity as well.
As stated earlier these herbs have many uses, for the white dream, there were two professions that used it the most assassins/hired killers and doctors, curious right. You can easily guess that assassins/hired killers use the white clover as a poison to kill or knock out there targets, doctors use it to put their patients under for surgery and the like.
The black waking was a different matter its most common use was in coffee, yes people added a deadly plant to their coffee to stay awake. It works but it must be incredibly diluted if you wanted to keep a little of your vision.
There were, even more, uses to the herbs if they were used together, because of the ratio meant everything depends on it you can get an array of effect both helpful, harmful and a mix.
The ratio that sam was using was in the third category on the more helpful side well for him. 3:4, this ratio would put the consumer into half-awake state sorta high drugged state. It wasn't a pleasant feeling and it got worse after the effects of the herb wore off as the consumer became violent sick like seriously considering going to the hospital sick. But it was what sam needed if his plan to escape failed epically since he had multiple guests who didn't have the strongest emotional states.
After sam had chopped all the vegetables, half he put them in the pot he had already filled with the beef stock and set it to boil the other half was for the salad put in a bowl and quickly cover lemon juice and then tossed a bit before a little seasoning went on to it as well before he tossed it again. Covering the salad sam placed it in the fridge so it was cool when the was done so he could serve lunch, as for the soup it just needs to cook until the vegetables are soft.
"Now that the salad is done and soup is on its way I have to make the other preparations I need to break out," he said to himself "since I don't know who made the illusion I don't know how strong they are, so it's best if I go all out in my attempt to break out. So how shall I do it." while he thought it out he slowly stirred the soup so the bottom didn't burn or the flavor settled at the bottom. 'Okay, then" taking the wooden spoon out of the pot sam placed it to the side "I will use ghost to draw in angry to cast the blood moon spell using witch to increase the destructive force of demons to the point I can break space, hopefully". Turning the heat to simmer sam put the lid on the pot," okay then to cast to blood moon spell I will need a few ingredients, thank god i am slightly paranoid and have all of them hidden in the house, now where did i hide them again?" closing his eyes sam went over the mental map of his hiding places of stuff around the house. "Let's us the process of elimination under the couch is some valuables I can exchange for quick cash, the pocket in the ceiling I carved put has phones I acquired from my travels, under the loose roof tiles is my emergency runaway supplies, in a different pocket in the ceiling has an old weapon I really should put somewhere else like a volcano….", as he slowly went on the map went sam could help think he really needed to do something about all of this but what he was unsure of but he was going to do something.
Halfway through the list sam found the hiding place of the ingredients for the spell, in a hole dug in the backyard…" now where is the shovel"?
Dipping the spoon in the soup sam pulled up a piece of vegetable and pressed it between his fingers to check that it just the right amount of soft and hard, satisfied sam turns the heat down to the warm setting so the soup doesn't go cold while sam is busy.
As sam walk over to the back door sam call out to Sophia "lunch is ready, the salad is in the fridge if you want some, the soup is vegetables with beef stock, if Tyrone wakes up while I am in the backyard make sure he eats something, you can snack on the leftover waffles if you like." sam then opened the door and closed it behind him.
Only to open the door and stick his head through "also it best for your health that you ignore everything you hear see and feel coming from the back yard, if you enter the backyard I can't guarantee your survival or sanity" his tone cheerful.
Sophia had nothing to say as she starred as sam closed the door again, she didn't know why but she felt a horrible feeling that sam was telling the cold hard truth, then an even worse feeling as a question appeared in her mind "what on earth could he be doing?"
In the backyard after sam had grabbed the shovel from the shed and dug up the drown leather satchel that contained the ingredients for the spell. Sam opened the satchel to make sure everything was in there and in good condition, seeing that it was sam placed the satchel to the side so he filled it in.
Removing the contents of the bag sam placed them in front of him his heart trying to beat out of his chest. Anytime he had to use this spell it was never good not once has it ever ended in anything positive.
Taking a breath sam kneeled on the ground and for the first time in years summoned the full power of his ability the witching hour- the power of the darkest hour and all that thrive in it.
Abilities strange yet amazing phenomenon that happens to very few people in all kinds of ways, no one has been able to explain how an ability happens but the power gained is unmistakable and immeasurable is well known. Abilities come in many forms from elemental to animal types to making white holes, The kinds of people who got were just as varied.
Sam's ability is a pretty simple one it allows for him to summon three forms of power, the power of a ghost, the power of a witch, and the power of a demon. The power came in a form of energy that sam could summon from a place above his heart, but for whatever reason when sam draws on any of his powers his appearance changes like in gym class he used the power of the ghost so his hair turned ash white, this happens for the side effect of his ability the more power he uses the more he becomes, small thing causes the change to revert in a few hours or days big things well sam usually finds a way to minimize or balance it out with the other powers like what he was about to do.
Feeling all three powers flood his body sam felt his body change, all the hair on his body turn ash white with silver moon edges before the hair on his head grew to the point it covers his eyes in the front and cover half his back, his skin became ghostly pale, his left eye turned demonic red with the pupil turned slit, his right eye turned completely sclera and all with a violet star pentagram taking over the area of the iris, his teeth became small daggers that made it difficult to completely close his mouth, his ear gained a rather large obsidian black point to them, four small jagged demonic red horns grew from the side of his head, his nails on both hands and feet grew became an inch and a half long light violent claws, though not visible his vital signs dropped to near death. This was the form his body took when he was at full power.
Sam raised his hands in front of his face and took a long look at them, it had been so long he had mostly forgotten what it looked and felt but he couldn't forget what it was capable of. Pushing down the urge to power down sam raised his palms to the sky and spoke as a pale white aura covered his hands.
"&$*!@&%)@%&@$&%@(&#%_)@*%&%(##&@!&%$
This was a call to all nonliving thing within the range of sam's ability, a very large range sam didn't know the specific number, and from within that rage pale light beams of vast colors floated into sam's backyard where they slowly began to orbit with sam in the center. After about 70 beams entered the backyard sam put his hand on his knees sweat dripping from his body.
"Damn i am really out of practice I used to be able to at least call twice this many lights before I started to feel tired, I also forgot how hard this can be and how the power of the ghost makes it easier to sweat." placing his hand on his back sam stretched back "okay now for the spell."
Kneeling on the ground sam grabbed the ingredient for the spell which consisted of four bottles of ground-up herbs three bottles of questionable liquid and one polished ruby sphere.
Grabbing the first ingredient, a bottle of ground moonlight fern, sam pored the moon hire powder in three sizes the smallest with a radius of three feet the next circle was two feet larger than that and the largest three feet larger than that one.
The next ingredient was a bottle of moon rabbit blood, something that was near impossible to get as rabbits charge an arm and a leg, he used the rabbit's blood to turn the innermost circle red. When he was done sam spoke the first incantation of the spell 'morf emac uoy noom eht hcaer rewop ym pleh tibbar noom eht of doolb' the now red circle glow in ominous light before it floated off the ground and flew to the rising moon.
"That's the first step" Sam whispered as he stared at the red circle on the moon. "Now for the next step" grabbing the ground star petals a glittering silver powder and the ground moonstone a pale white-grey powder, sam used the moonstone to make the four major moon phases at the four compass points of the middle circle, He created twelve small stars on the outside of the circle then he grabbed the next ingredient , tears of a wolf which was used on the moonstone. 'Sdeen ym ot noom eht retla cigam ym pleh noom of enots flow eht of sraet' with the second incarnation said the second circle joined the first on the moon locking it in place.
"Now for the last part"
Grabbing the last two ingredients ground full matured blood vines a dark red powder, and the extract of the blood vines an even darker red. Using the powder sam created a star pentagram identical to the one in his eye the size of the largest circle and the bottle of the extract was placed in the center of the star,' ecnad yam serutaerc leurc os der leurc a noom eht nrut cigam ym yb eniv doolb' the incantation caused the extract turn to as witch fused with the floating magic circle.
With that the last ring on the moon sam spoke the final incantation 'enalp siht no enihs dna noom leurc eht morf won' halfway through the incantation sam drew in the colorful beams that were floating around into his left eye after he lifted his hair out of the way. As the beams entered his eyes the star in it glowed started to glow with black veins growing from it, when the final light entered his eye it shone like a floodlight and the veins covered most of the right side of his face.
Closing his right eye as he pushed down the pain coming from it lifted his head so he was looking at the moon he opened his right eye. The star on the moon changed from red to the violet of his right eye for a moment before both stars turned blood red, the star in his eye removes itself leaving his eye completely sclera placing his hand under the floating star and gently pushed it towards the moon causing it to shoot into the sky. Sam watched as it hit the moon in the dead center of the magic circles on the moon where the moon started to turn blood red in a way that was identical to blood soaking into clothing, as the moon turned red so did the world around him the more the world changed color the more lively the demon power inside sam felt. when the moon was completely red( the magic circle was a smidge darker than the moon) sam felt that the power was about to break out and run wild if he didn't do something with.
Taking a breath to steady himself sam spread left hand behind him and directed all the demon power in his body to it, as the power built up his arm began to change, the small claws on his hand grew to 6 and a half inches long and turned bright crimson, the skin turned pitch black with a few dashes of crimson completely up to the elbow where the black and crimson lessened slowly into thick black veins with spots of crimson that at his shoulder lessened more into thin veins that ended over his heart.
Sam clenched his teeth as the demon power pooled in his arm so he didn't scream in agonizing pain of his arm eroding on a level unseeable to the eye, when the power reached the peak of what his body could handle and not explode sam let out a groan of pain as he swung his arm overhead at full force, his left arm moved with no resistance not ever air until it was stopped cold by something unseen.
"This is going to be harder than I first thought," sam thought as he tried to move his arm to tear the space in front of him, arm not budging for several seconds "sam called out "noom doolb deelb".
Drops of blood slowly began to fall from the moon, with each drop sam could feel the demon power breaking out of his arm more and more causing a faint black smoke to start leaking from his arm, but thankful sam's arm began to move to tear the space.
Inch by inch the hole in space began to grow by the time the fifth drop fell it was two feet long but sam was reaching the limit of how much demon power sam was comfortable with using.
"This is as much space I can destroy with this much power I am using, think Samuel what can you do," Sam thought to himself as a small panic bubbled in his chest. "Damn it, chingada madre , Enculer…" as mentally let loose his long long long list of swears he has picked up over the years as he tried to think of something only for the situation to get worse.
The space was starting to repair itself on instinct sam used his right arm to try and keep the tear open, which was really stupid as all children learn very young that holes in space have a lot of energy in them and could easily cause energy burns, so when his hand touched the edge of the tear sam let out small scream of pain as his skin started to burn.
"Блин, if my mind can't help escape then I use my body" and with that thought sam stopped thinking and let his body take over, half the demon power in his left arm to his right to defend it from the energy of the tear in space, then stretching the space as far as he could sam used both of his arms to throw himself into the hole in space.
Sam could only start swearing this time out loud as he went through the tear in the black void that lies beyond.