We were following the car. It has been like hours and Ted is still nowhere to be seen. The sun will be up in a few hours and my faith in this plan was at the bottom low. Prof. Ric was driving for a while and I asked "Do you mind if I drive?"
He smiled and said "I am fine... Lucas, you just relax and be on the lookout for anything unusual..."
Caroline then offered some snacks and I took her up on the trail mix and I asked her "Can I ask you something?"
She smiled and said "Sure."
I asked, "Would you have been as happy if you didn't have Josie and Lizzie?"
"What!?" a familiar voice came from behind. I turned around and it was Josei and Hope. I was sweating buckets. I looked at her and she looked pissed.
Caroline was more pissed though and she said "What are you two doing here?"
Josie looked at me and said, "We came here to support you guys, but it looks like it was a mistake."
Caroline said, "You are damn right it was a mistake."
Josie said, "That's not the point." She looked at me and she said "Why are you asking my mom that?"
I wanted to say something but she shut me up and said "I don't want to hear it."
Caroline said "Jo... at least hear him out, we don't want any problems as we had in the past."
All of the ladies were looking at me and Prof.
Ric said "Good luck."
I cleared my throat and I said "I wanted to ask Mrs Saltzman this because she is a vampire and it is nothing short of a miracle that you and Lizzie are here and I am sure that she is happy... but I wanted to ask if she would have been just as happy if she didn't have kids."
They were looking at me and I said "Because I am not sure if there are kids in my future so I wanted to ask someone who has all this."
Caroline and everyone had very sympathetic eyes and she said "I can't answer that for you Lucas because it is up to you. But I think you guys are still too young to think about all this."
I nodded and said, "Thanks."
Then Caroline proceeded to scold Josie and Hope. And we were still tailing Landon and still no signs of Ted. It was early in the morning and Caroline finally let them off the hook. She at one point made me open a portal for them but they convinced her otherwise.
They finally sat down and I asked them "How did you guys get here?"
Hope said, "We made some good homunculus using some crystals..."
I looked at Josie and I asked "So we can make homunculus for this and not for actual missions?"
She looked at me and I remembered that I wasn't in a good position to begin with then Josie and Hope asked "We have time to think about all of this Lucas a lot of time… we don't need to worry about this for sometime."
I nodded and then Landon's car abruptly stopped and everyone's phone started ringing. Prof. Ric said "Lucas! portal us!"
I opened a portal and we saw a huge mob of zombies, well a lot of zombies and a few individuals who weren't so dead but Ted was not here.
Prof. Ric said "Fuck!" The car was turned over and Landon got out of the car and started to fight the zombies with his phoenix fire. Seems like he has improved. Caroline said "Get him out of there."
I got out of the car and Prof. Ric said "Open a portal for School!"
I opened a portal behind the van and Landon was still burning them but it wasn't stopping them. I looked at him fight and I actually didn't want to intervene but it was talking too long.
I sighed and snapped my fingers and all the zombies and some not so zombies were burnt to cinders. Landon looked at this and turned around.
He wasn't pleased he was walking towards the Van and he said to me "Don't bother doing that. I can handle myself."
I smiled and nodded. I got in the Van. The van went through the portal and I closed it behind us and then as we went through the portal we heard some similar noises. It was another hoard of zombies.
But this time they were in the number of 10000. And they were coming from the forest.
And Ted was leading them and he said "Bow down before the mighty necromancer!"
We saw that MG and Kaleb were outside. They must have heard the noise. Caroline said, "We need to get the students out of here."
I smiled and snapped my fingers and those thousands of zombies were burnt to cinders. I said, "Wouldn't need to do that."
I then opened a portal underneath Ted and he was transported into the school. MG and Kaleb captured him.
I looked at Landon and he had a awestruck face and I said "Oh, should I have not done that?"
He scoffed and then we got out of the Van.
They caught him and knocked him out. Prof. Saltzman said "Good work Lucas, MG and Kaleb. Now get him to the holding cell."
I said "Just a second." I then etched a rune into his forehead and I said "Now that's better."
MG asked "What did you do?"
I smiled and said "Cut off his magic. He won't be able to raise the dead until he has that seal on his forehead."
Then Hope and Josie came out and they walked up to me and asked "You are fine right?"
I nodded and Landon looked at me and just went inside.
They ignored him and Caroline said "Maybe you should go and take some rest. We all should."
I said "I'll be on guard duty… you guys take some rest."
Josie said "But you have also been up all night."
I smiled and said "I can manage now… go and get some rest."
They nodded and they went for their room and I was still confused as to why Ted attacked the school with such great numbers. His main target was supposed to be Landon.
So then why attack here was it for Hope and how did he know that Hope was supposed to be here.
There must be a mole in the school feeding him the information but who could it be? I need to get some answers from him.
I went to the holding cell or the transformation cell. He was being tied up by MG.
Kaleb asked "Why did he attack here? Wasn't he after Landon."
I shook my head and said "No, he wants Hope first so that he can kill her and destroy the only known means to destroy Malivore then get Landon so that Malivore becomes his monster."
MG then asked "But how did he know that Hope was here or not here? Is there someone working with him,"
I touched the head of Ted and said, "That's what we need to figure out."