The strangers were hundred times more better than DAVID WALKER!!!
Where were they anyway? - Fina thought.
"No worries, Mrs Knight. Bogles can be scary for someone like you" Walker said in a very chilled voice that the girls shivered.
"What is that smell?" Walker asked walking towards the girls.
He walked to the cauldron and frowned so deep it was frightening.
"What are you talking about?" Mrs Knight asked
"It's nothing" Walker said as he inspected the pink flower that has began to fade. "Although I do wonder who is in the lab right now"
Mrs Knight laughed it off.
"Of course not. Students obeys rules here. My students are too scared to move near potions. No one was here before. Wait…"
Fina's eyes widened for the fourth time.
"Oh! I believe the girls were here."
"I don't suppose they were Clark, Jefferson and Alvarez?"
"Yes. Of course" Mrs Knight said "How do you know?"
Fina shut her eyes.
"What do you suppose they want? Do you think they used the cauldron?" Mrs Knight asked
"Why don't we ask them?" Walker asked
"Wh-? Oh. Girls? Come out now! We won't hurt you" Mrs Knight called as if in doubt.
"I have an idea" Fina whispered.
She wrote on the lab table glass plank with her wand.
"TELEPORTASBERRYFELISTUS"
Fina touched the glass and disappeared at once.
Walker was about to look under the lab table when Zo and Shelly escaped.
"Guess the bogle scared them too" Mrs Knight said
Walker waved his wand.
"If you say so" David said, not believing that for a nanosecond.
*******
The girls landed in Serene Berry's room.
"Oh my God. Her roommate" Shelly whispered
"I don't think anyone's here" Fina said
The whole room reeked of death and protection spells.
Serene's room looked dark as if the room could even recognize death itself.
"Aries territory. Again. Are all Aries that bad?" Shelly asked
"You are just saying that because Tyrell Swift is in Aries" Zo said
"Yes. Tyrell Swift is in Aries" Shelly said
Fina glanced around the room instead, ignoring their incessant bickering again.
She moved to the bedroom to investigate while Shelly and Zo continued their useless bickering.
The curtains were drawn close to avoid even the tiniest bit of light. No light filtered into the room.
The room was just exactly like theirs but darker.
Fina walked to the bed and looked at the bedside drawers.
She opened each one of them but it was all empty.
She searched under the bed but came with nothing.
Fina swiped open the bed curtains and froze.
On the other side of the bed stood a dark and cold grim reaper.
The grim reaper ran his scythe towards Serene Berry's body and it disappeared.
Serene Berry was left to the reaper?
Why?
It was all confusing.
"You live a world full of lies and deceptions." The reaper spoke in a hoarse tone.
Fina's heart accelerated wildly.
"You will soon join her but you will have a choice. Choose wisely. Death might just be the answer for you. Choose wisely. You are worthy"
Fina have so many questions to ask but was afraid to ask the reaper.
"Why are… you here?"
"She mustn't be buried again. She's been buried once. Her soul is forever trapped. Dark souls have nowhere to go. Wronged deaths either wander or lucky to leave peacefully. There's a world for the dead too"
Fina could sense Shelly and Zo presence behind and how Zo was struggling to breathe.
"Your superior knows this. When a body is found unworthy, they leave it for the reaper to bury. And she's found unworthy. You can never understand."
"Was she killed?" Fina asked shakily.
She couldn't even see its face because of the hood and Fina knew there was no turning back now for she couldn't ever believe herself ever talking to a reaper.
"Yes but I cannot disclose who. The fact you can see me means you aren't normal anymore. Normal people do not see ghosts or talk to reapers. Be careful, you never experience normality again once you have gotten a taste of madness."
"What do you mean choose wisely? Am I going to die?"
"Death is better for you so the other evil will never wake. Choose wisely" The reaper said again.
Then, it extended a floating paper to her and disappeared.
Fina grabbed the paper.
"I can can see hi…mmmmm… That's….aaa…. Reapperr" Zo said shakily.
"What does it say?" Shelly asked, rubbing Zo on the back in a soothing manner.
"It says…. In dream does it all lay" Fina said and looked up at Shelly.
"I don't understand. What can you get by dreaming?" Shelly asked
Fina eyes wandered to a shadow behind the door. The shadow turned and began to walk away.
She ran out of the room but it was too late. Thr shadow was gone. The room was eerily quiet.
Except… for a message carved on the wall.
"It has already begun."
"The same person?" Shelly asked
"I believe so" Fina answered.
She rubbed her temple absentmindedly.
Everything seems like a huge weight on her. Everything seems out of hand now and she was suddenly scared of where all this would lead at the end.
But in her heart, she definitely knew it wouldn't be good.