Inside the living room which had long couches all black and chairs which were scattered out all over the place. Alice laid on one of the couch still with her eyes closed, Hawaii sat beside her holding her arm.
Nina, Gladys and Amiya sat on the other couch across looking at her. They were overly exhausted from what happened the night before, the night of the ritual which birthed one of the powerful being to ever walk on Earth. All of them were taken by surprise, none expected Nazar to turn into a flying wolf.
Gladys heard a lot about the wolves of Montenegro who could fly. She's also heard a lot of tales for over five hundred years but all came to a conclusion that they extinct. They didn't exist anymore but Nazar proved them wrong. Proved everyone wrong and they were defeated in the long run.
"Is she dead?" Amiya asked, talking about Alice.
"No she isn't. She's still breathing" Nina answered and again they went into a silent moment.
"She's not destined to die from now on. She'll live on forever..." Gladys intervened and then Hawaii grabbed his attention to her. He asked "What are you talking about?"
"The ritual. It's been written that once Nazar turns into a wolf then Lunara's descendant will be relieved of her duty"
Nina got interested in the topic, as so was Amiya and Hawaii. They all stopped paying attention to a sleeping Alice and focused on Gladys. They was still more to figure out and she seemed to know it all.
"Relieved of her duty? Meaning she is not a key anymore?" Amiya asked.
"I didn't mean it like that. Being relieved of her duty doesn't exclude her from her nature. The nature of her existence is to break barriers and open doors. She will still be a ransom for many vampires, for many centuries"
Hawaii grunted for a moment, taking two deep breaths. And then he stood up and walked in circles holding his waist with his arms "It's a curse! Lunara has cursed her to an eternal of pain and leaving in fear. This key thing is just bullshit!" He said and kicked a chair which was near him and the chair broke in pieces.
Nina walked to him "Hey, hey calm down. It's okay"
"It isn't! It will never be" He broke down and start crying in Nina's arms.
"Shshsh"
"She's cursed. Forever and ever"
"We can still figure this out Hawaii. Come on, you need to get some rest"
Nina embraced Hawaii as she helped him to his room upstairs slowly. Gladys and Amiya were the only left in the living room. They hadn't seen each other for what felt like a really long time. Amiya moved closer to her granny and she placed her head in her chest.
"Thank you for saving me last night" said Amiya.
"I had to"
"No you didn't. You could've walked away and left me behind but you didn't. And I owe you one"
"What were you doing with that boy?" Gladys asked pulling Amiya out of her chest so she could face her.
Amiya remained speechless, she knew she made a mistake by hanging out with Steve in the first place.
"I'm sorry" she said to Gladys.
"You need to be very careful Miya. I won't be able to protect you all the time and you are a witch. A very powerful witch"
Amiya shrugged off "Powerful? I doubt it... Nazar had me cuffed up with ropes and I couldn't even get out of them"
"Because they were laced with a herb to prevent magic. Listen Miya you are very powerful and your powers just need to be triggered. Pushed up to the edge a little a bit...." Said Gladys but she whispered at the end as if not wanting Nina or Hawaii to hear what she said.
"Why are you whispering granny? What's going on"
"Shshsh. Follow me"
Gladys stood up and picked Amiya too. She walked with her to the door and from there she shifted into an eagle then carried Amiya away.
Nina came downstairs to find the living room empty with only Alice still sleeping. "Gladys, Miya!" She called out but no one answered. She made her way to the kitchen, toilets and finally to the backyard but there was still no one. "That's weird" she said to herself and returned back to the living room.
There she met Regina standing still beside Alice. She was wearing tall boots, a short skirt with a tshirt and put on a fur leather jacket on top. She looked like she had just come from a party in the midst of a city.
"Have you just come out of the party?" Asked Nina seriously but then she smiled at her and moved closer. Then they hugged each other.
"Ooh how I've missed you all..." Regina said.
"We've missed you too. You just took off"
The hug broke and they stood facing each other.
"I've heard there was a real party last night. A vampire turning into a flying hybrid" Regina started a conversation.
"News do really travel fast"
"It's all over Mississippi. And Los Angeles, Chicago and just anywhere where there are vampires and supernaturals..."
"Well he got lucky"
"Heard he a pack of wolves. I guess we all know who to blame that to"
"Miraj, well it won't be easy right now since she has flown away with his Lordship" Nina joked at the end and then she walked to the kitchen counter where she grabbed two glasses and two bottles. One of Whiskey and the other of Red Wine.
She made her way back to the living room, and handed Regina a glass. "Whiskey or Wine?" She asked with a smirk.
"Whiskey please I've had a wild night"
Nina poured some Whiskey on Regina's glass and then poured herself some too. Before Regina could sip on her whiskey in peace, Nina grabbed her hand firmly with all the power than she had and broke Regina's middle finger. "Ouch! What's the hell Nina?" Regina panicked and stepped back few steps favoring her right arm.
"That was for betraying us. Giving out Gladys location to Nazar"
"Seriously? We could've talked about that"
"Now you know how I'm pissed I am. I don't like talking"
Regina tried desperately to fix her middle finger and until she twisted it over, it's when it returned to normal. But still she grunted with pain and her face showed signs of distress.
"Now we are even Regi"
Regina walked pass Nina and over to a whiskey bottle. She opened it and took a sip, then she looked back at Nina "That wasn't fun!"
"Neither was snitching us to Nazar"
"He threatened me. Threatened Julian and what was I supposed to do. You know I love him more than I love anyone"
"And now we are all going to die. It didn't help obviously"
Regina gave Nina a side eye and then she went to sit close to Alice. "Is she dead?" She asked.
"No"
"Sleeping beauty?"
"I guess so"
"Oh poor soul she must be wondering right now in that scary world of Lunara" said Regina touching Alice's hair and then she shut her eyes and said a few spells.
Unlike what she expected, Alice opened her eyes and sat on the couch. Nina jumped to her "Alice! Alice are you okay?" she asked.
"I'm..." Alice murmured and then she touched her head "I have terrible headache"
"Wait right here I'll get you some aspirin"
Regina shook her head "Some what? Girl she just needs a spell to cure her. She's relieved of her duty that's why she feels heavy without it"
"What duty?" Alice asked.
"The main reason you even exist Alice it's because you were created for the ritual. You and your predecessors but none of them made it this far. None managed to open the door, you are a key but now you are relieved from Nazar. You are free..."
"Free?"
"Well for now at least..." Regina replied to Alice and then she got up and faced Nina. "Well now let's get to business. Who called me?"
"It was Gladys"
"What did she want?"
"I don't know perhaps you could find her. She was here with Miya and when I came down she was gone"
"I don't trust her"
"Me neither..."
Alice seemed confused by everything, her head was spinning and she looked upon Nina and Regina conversing but it all seemed rather uncomfortable and new to her. She managed a simple "Can I go home?"
"Yes sweetie. I'll take you" Nina replied looking at her. But Regina intervened "You? Her father knows you are a vampire and more a dead vampire. Showing up at his house will make him want to kill you right at the porch" she said and then she looked at Alice "I'll take you Ali, let's go"
Regina helped Alice up and they both got out of the house. Took Hawaii's car and off they were on their way. Something was very unusual to Alice, she didn't remember anything or anyone. All the memories and moments that happened before the ritual were all wiped up clean. She was destined to meet all of them, Hawaii, Nina, Amiya and everyone but it was because of the task at hand which was the ritual.
Lunara created her precisely for that. As she created others before her for one reason and one reason alone which was to turn Nazar into a wolf. She wanted him dead during the transformation but as always Nazar was ahead of her when he got his hands into a gene that saved him from the death by transformation. The werewolf gene of Miraj was the only thing that saved him and Jasmine was the only who helped him securing it and told him of all Lunara's secrets from the beginning.
It turns out Lunara was never against the ritual. She almost pushed it forward and every time a Lunara's descendant died she made another one. And another one desperately waiting for Nazar to do the ritual so he could finally kill him. She was waiting on the other side in her world as Nazar turned and a smile escaped her lips knowing fully well he had captured him in her traps. She wanted his strong desires to be a hybrid be the reasons he finally dies but the smile slowly faded when she saw wings coming out of him hence fading all the pain of becoming a wolf.
From there she knew he played her out. Nazar was ahead of her and she was pissed, so pissed that she nearly blacked out from screaming and hitting things inside her magical realm. "No! Noooooo" Lunar screamed as she watched Nazar flew away and not dead as she wished and planned.
Hence with that being finalized, Alice was free and Lunara had never planned on what to do with her. Or assign her to another specific ritual or curse and have vampires running after her, kidnapping her and making her ransom from time to time with the means of breaking it. She was free but as Hawaii placed it "cursed" forever and ever for she will always be hunted for something if some supernatural learned of her existence.
"So we did have sex but it was nothing... I'm sure he felt nothing too" Regina said driving the car and turning to look at Alice who didn't say anything. "Ali? Are you alright?"
"It's all weird. Who are you?" She asked and in that particular moment Regina had to stop the car abruptly and look at her.
"Alice it's me..."
"Who are you?"
"Regina. Regi, your boyfriend's ex?"
"I have a boyfriend? Who is it?"
"Oh no the ritual. You are relieved from your duty hence that means you are relieved from us"
"What ritual? I just moved in yesterday with my father. I don't even know Warlington that much to have a boyfriend. Just leave me here I'll find my way back"
Alice opened the door of the car and walked away as Regina watched in shock and in disbelief. Goodness they said what worst could happen and well the worst had happened and none of them expected any of it.