Sherry ran as fast as she could without even realizing that she had pushed Zack down the cliff. She only cared about saving her skin. On exiting the forest She thought what she would tell Zack's parents. At last, She decided to lie.
When she reached his house she saw her mother and Zack's mother(Maya) sitting on the steps of the entrance, talking.
"Ohh you are back Sherry. Where is Zack" Her mom said.
"Umm... he said that he had some work to do so he will be a little late," She said but she couldn't look at Maya. When she resolved herself to look at her, she saw that she was intensely staring at her.
"Mom, I am going home." She turned around and started walking slowly as naturally as possible.
"Wait, Sherry. Come here."Maya called out.
Her hand was sweaty now. Her face was getting tense.
"Where is Zack"She was angry now.
"I said he is coming," She said in hesitation.
"I will ask again, where is Zack"
"..."
Her feet could barely support her. In a second Maya appeared in front of sherry and held her head.
"Wait you can't use 'that' on her" Sherry's mom approached Maya to free her daughter.
"Shut up," Maya said as she raised her hand and a strong gust of wind pushed Sherry's mom away.
"Clone memory" She called out the spell. It allows you to see through all the memories of the target by coming in physical contact but it had chances of damaging the soul.
Maya was looking down. Sherry couldn't see what face was Maya making. When she raised her head. Looking into her eyes, Sherry delt terror. She knew that she could be killed at any moment. She understood that the little power which she had bragged about was nothing in front of her.
Maya loosened her grip. Sherry could no longer stand and fell on her knees.
She who was set on getting power had forgotten why she was getting stronger. She realized what she had done to Zack who had been her best friend for a long time. Instead of supporting him, she scorned at him.
She regretted it deeply.
Maya used a spell to share Sherry's memories with her mother. Her mother who had thought that sherry was an obedient child, broke down. She went up to Sherry and slapped her. She didn't speak as she was out of words.
"Get up and follow me to the forest. If something happens to Zack then you will die"Maya said as she started walking towards the forest.
Sherry stood up and looked at her mom. Even she knew that her mother couldn't stop Maya if she were to kill her. Her fate was sealed.
With wind augmentation, they flew at great speed. She could see smoke coming from the part where she had left Zack. They landed and reached the place but they were struck with astonishment with what they saw.
There was no cliff or slope but a mountain. A mountain of corpse burning in endless flames. And the peak was a dead wryven with his wing and body torn apart brutally at various places but that was not astonishing enough to startle them. What startled them was Zack who was sitting on the top of the wryven covered in blood. He looked like a demon. A demon so hungry that he would devour anything that came his way. Even Maya couldn't stand to look at his bloodshot eyes. Sherry and her mother were even suspicious that the Zack which they were looking at was the Zack which they had once known.
He had become a bloodthirsty monster.