Jason and her mom; Sherry, went out to visit Eleanor, her friend who just returned from her holiday in Nevada. Getting to Eleanor's place, Jason was so mesmerized by the beauty of the mansion Eleanor stayed in, that he had to ask his mom how her friend could afford such a luxury building. Her mom responded " Jason, you've started again, always so inquisitive. Actually the house wasn't hers, it belonged to her late husband, who also inherited it from his father as the only son. His husband was equally very rich, having several corporations and businesses. This made the family one of the richest in the state. But after the death of her husband, the only legally recognized heir to inherit the wealth was Jonathan, Eleanor's only son, but he hasn't come of age to take full control. So, her mom is taking care of things for him". Jason couldn't quite fathom the creation of such beauty. He was even thinking maybe the house was dropped down from heaven. Most of the appliances in the house were electronically controlled, even the window blinds. The building itself would have also been controlled electronically if possible, but at least the appliances inside were. Jason needed to use the restroom, so he was directed to the nearest one to their location. On his way, he saw a section where several works of art were being displayed. Jason stopped to have a glance at the creative garb. He decided to delve into the secret behind the pictures, being an art enthusiast himself. He stretched forward his hand to steal a touch, but all his hands could do was triggered the alarm system connected to the artworks incase of intruders. Jason was left frozen on the spot, confused of what just happened or what to do to stop the alarm. The house securities rushed in, thinking it was an intruder. Eleanor asked the securities where the security breach was and Mike, the head security stopped to respond while the others rushed to the art gallery. "The alarm is coming from the art gallery and we saw on the CCTV screen, someone standing in the room , but we couldn't confirm the identity yet, " Mike explained and then varnished into the corridor. Sherry, Jason's mom immediately suspected it could be his son, because he knew his inquisitiveness. And hearing the alarm was coming from the art gallery speaks a lot about Jason. She asked Eleanor if the restroom her son was directed to was around the art gallery and Eleanor responded "yes". " I think it could be Jason," Sherry said. " You mean your Son?" Eleanor asked. "Why would he steal from the gallery?" she added. " Jason is very inquisitive when it comes to things around him, and he equally has passion for art works. I think he might be trying to look around the art works on display," Sherry explained. Eleanor then asked her to come with her and they both headed to the gallery.
The security already have Jason on the chair trying to interrogate him when Eleanor and Sherry arrived." what are you doing?" Eleanor asked Mike and his guys. "can't you see that he's my guest?" she added. Mike and the other guards pleaded to Eleanor and left. Jason rushed to the embrace of his mom. " What happened?" his mom asked. " I don't know. I was only trying to touch one of the pieces when I suddenly heard the alarm, " Jason explained." I'm so sorry that happened, but everything in the mansion as a security system attached to them. My son and I are the only persons who can touch them without the alarm being triggered and we are equally the only two people who could stop the alarm once triggered, " Eleanor explained. She moved close to the wall and pressed a button. A console emerged out of the wall, which scanned the finger print of Eleanor and the alarm stopped immediately. Jason opened his mouth in awe and reverence as to the level of control experienced in the building. Eleanor shifted her gaze to Jason and said, " your mom told me how much you like art works." Jason smirked, looking straight at her mom, "well, she lied," he said changing his attention back to Eleanor. " How do you mean," Eleanor asked. Jason looked at his mom again and smiled. " I didn't like art works, I love them," Jason said. Eleanor and Sherry busted into laughter at Jason's remark. " Naughty boy, " Sherry said with a deep smile". Eleanor ramped her right arm around Jason's shoulder and granted him the permission to visit the mansion anytime he wants. Jason was so happy that he gave Eleanor a quick hug. He and his mom left the mansion and went back home.
Boma was in her yard playing with her familiar, training it how to jump and hunt. She had became so sweaty, so she grabbed the sprinkler in the yard and turned it on herself to drop her body temperature. She noticed a flower had became different from the other bunch. She became curious at the sight of it and dropped the sprinkler, then headed straight to where the flower was. Her soaked garment dropped water each steps she took and her body radiating the once confined heat. As Boma approached the flowers, she felt she could hear some form of communications taking place in the flowers, but it's too vague to confirm. She got to where the flowers was and saw two bees, one on the stigma of the flower and the other on the petals having conversations. Boma was shocked at what just happened, because she could hear and understand them. She stood there observing what's going on, then she heard the one on the stigma lamenting, " I have been playing safe for a while, not to overfeed myself and destroy these flowers, but now that the world could be coming to an end, then I have to eat till am dead," said the bee on the stigma. Boma was still wondering what's really happening and if she heard the bee right about the world coming to an end. Then the other bee on the petals began it own lamenting too," I think you're right about that my friend, what's the essence of playing safe in live because you want to uphold the natural orders of the world, but in the end, that same world ended before you realized it should be enjoyed. You know how much i love beautiful things, but I always stay away from them because they said there's harm inside beautiful things. But now, I no longer care. I will live from one beauty to another till am dead, " said the second bee. Boma moved more closer and bent forwards to have a clearer look at the bees." why is she behaving like she can hear us?" the bee on the stigma said, about Boma." Don't mind her, " the second bee on the petals responded." Don't you think human being are a pitiful creation, they're still going about their lives as usual, unknown to them what's coming, " it added." You should know they're a pretty gullible creations. If not, how can they with their complexity and wisdom, come to our abodes to evacuate our faeces all the time. And now they're too blind to see what even we could see as small as we are, " said the stigma bee. Boma was infuriated by their words, she adjusted her posture so the bees would know she heard them." Are you sure humans are that gullible?". " who's she talking to?"asked the stigma bee." who else other than her fellow humans, " the bee on the petals responded." Are you sure humans are the only gullible ones? " the stigma bee asked the petals bee." why are you asking me the same question she asked?" the petals bee responded. The stigma bee was yet to respond, before they realized that they have both been the gullible one, thinking that Boma never heard them. They both shifted their complete attention to Boma at once. They kept wondering how a human could not only heard their conversation, but also understood. " Now that we've established the fact that i heard your conversations, now tell me what you meant by the world is coming to an end?" Boma asked the bees. The petals bee responded, " we can't tell, because it's only a secrete known to the bees and not all organisms. We've also swear an oat never to divulge it to anyone". "But if you reveal to me what's about to happen, I promise never to tell anyone as requested," Boma promised them. The bees wouldn't buy Boma's promise, as they refuse to divulge what was going to happen. Boma then promised again to plant a lot of flowers for them, and a very good perfume to enjoy their lives. The bees were now being tempted to take her offer, the petals bee was about to spill the bean when Boma's familiar ran down to her spot and started crying 'meow!!!'. Boma bent down on her Familiar, " what's it mantle?" she asked, caressing it skin with her right fingers, holding it in her left hand. Suddenly, she began to understand what her familiar, Mantle was trying to communicate. But before she could react to the warning from her familiar, the queen of the bees came around, cutting of the heads of the petals bee and the stigma bee at ones. Mantle came off Bomas hands and ran to the flowers. It found their heads rolled down the flowers to the ground. It started sniffing it before Boma joined to observe the dead bees. Boma bent over the tiny heads of the bees in sadness. The head of the stigma bee started whispering to Boma, but she could hardly understand what it was trying to say, but her familiar heard and understood what it said. The head stopped whispering and Boma stood up, then the familiar narated what it heard the head whispered. " It said it's not safe for you here and the queen that killed them would have informed the others to come and attack you already, it added that the leaders of their cast already had agreements with Salvatore to kill you and they were supposed to report your whereabouts to them immediately they saw you, but they liked how you played with me. So you should find somewhere safe to hide, " Mantle narated to Boma.
Boma! Boma!!, she heard her name called from behind, it was Jason. She looked back with the sadness of the bees death in her eyes." What are you doing here, "she asked." I just came to see how you are doing, since the last time we met was in a very dangerous circumstance," Jason responded." Now is not a good time, "she warned." What's going on?" Jason asked. Boma was so anxious of what she had gotten herself into and filled with the fears of losing any one in her life to the current war with Salvatore. But to rub salt on her injuries, her mom just came home. She was lost in thought of what to do when the bees attack. Her mom started calling out to her, but she could only respond once when suddenly she heard a strange sound. Mantle, her familiar meow repeatedly. She looked into the sky and down at Mantle. " Jason, you have to get into the house," she instructed. Her mom still wouldn't stop calling out to her, so she shouted for her mom to remain inside. Jason was still not sure what's happening, so he couldn't yield to Boma's instruction. Her mom realized her voice was coming from the backyard, so she went there. She was just at the door when they all looked into the sky due to the strange sounds heard, it was the bees in their millions or safe to say billions, covering up the entire sky space. Not even Boma could withstand the horrific sight of the bees coming for her. They all ran towards the entrance with Jason not so surprised of the situation, "I bet there is never a dull moment with you, is there?" Jason commented as they entered the house and locked the door. Boma realized the bees wouldn't give up so easily, considering her fight with the previous messengers of Salvatore who have had confrontations with her. She quickly casted a spell for all the windows and doors into the house to be closed and locked.
They were all struggling for enough oxygen to fill their lungs after the short race when her mom asked her what was happening, She explained everything to her, but she couldn't believe the severity of the dangers her daughter was into. The bees bombarded the entire surrounding of the house, leaving no space whatsoever. They could no longer see the sky from the inside due to the bees covering the entire windows and doors. They thought of what to do to survive the attack, but all seemed like a bad idea. Once they came up with a plan, they later found it reckless before carrying it out. After three hours of being held hostage by the bees, Jason became frustrated and could no longer stand the intimidation, he decided to carry out one of their initial plans without involving them, he got the fire extinguisher and head for the door unnoticed. He was yet to unlock the door when he heard people screaming from the outside. The bees were already attacking nearby houses and passers by. He turned the keys and forced the door open, releasing the fire extinguisher to scare away the bees. But obviously, he had no idea what he was getting himself into. He locked the door behind him, but the bees started stinging him at every available privilege, but he kept fighting. Boma and her mom was still unawared till some bees found their ways into the house through the open space left behind by Jason by not properly closing the door. Two of the bees stung Boma's mom in her eye lids, blurring her vision immediately. She had never felt such an excruciating pain in her life. Boma was still trying to cast a spell to wipe out the bees, but it wasn't working. The bees began to bombard her mom who was left struggling on the floor. Jason already exhausted the gas in the extinguisher and tried making his way back into the house, but it seemed to be a bad idea, he saw a hydrant close to where he parked his car and forced it open. The water from the hydrant was able to ward off the bees behind him. He sat beside the hydrant exhausted, then he remembered Boma and her mom in the house, he reached inside his car and found the duvet given to him by his former girlfriend, he reached for it and ramped himself with it, leaving his head and eyes exposed. He drove the car through the barricade to the entrance of the house. Boma was already stung too, but was still trying to perform the spell. Jason opened the door and saw Boma on the floor mumbling some words not known to him. Mantle started killing and eating the bees on Boma as she continued the chanting of the spell. Jason's head and hands were also completely stung, but he still tried to assist Boma, then suddenly, the bees started dropping dead on the ground. Within some minutes, all the bees dropped dead, but not before killing six people on the street and another two in their own homes. Jason was able to call the emergency line before collapsing to the ground. The emergency services came and took them to the hospital.
Salvatore had just been informed about the failure of the demons of the bees to kill Boma, through the souls of the dead people killed on the streets by the bees, so he called a meeting with his minions to punish their failures. He then sent one of the most powerful witch that ever walked the earth back from the dead to lead the proposed attack by the seven warriors of Nimuel on the living world. The witch's name was Cathrina Spillmore, the first witch of Necrophers. She was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of children in the early 15th century reign of terror when the witches first allied with Salvatore for power. He was so powerful that he couldn't be killed easily, so she was tied to the stakes and poured upon melted iron, which casted and killed her. But since her body was destroyed, Salvatore had just found a way to put her soul in the body of a young boy who stumbled upon her grave site while playing hide and seek in the forest. She already lived for seventy years before the Salvatore agreement of immortality. She channeled her powers directly from the underworld and in return did Salvatore's dirty works on earth. The early leaders of the witches of Gestfield existed by code and operated on principles till one of them; Amanda was about to lose her only daughter, Georgina to a disease. She tried everything humanly possible to cure her, but she couldn't. Cathrina used to visit the cave of spell to practice dark magic, which is where she first encountered Salvatore's projection. She met with Amanda and promised her daughter a quick recovery, should she submit to Salvatore. And in reality, Georgina recovered from a six months sickness in the space of twelve hours. This came as a surprise to the other witches who found it strange and miraculous. Salvatore then promised them immortality and powers without boundaries if they all submit to him and serves as his eyes and ears on earth and willing to yield to his commands, which they all accepted except for Necropher who refused dark magic and stuck with the normal witch practices. But Salvatore wouldn't take no for an answer, not after the others have submitted, so he gave the witches a test of loyalty by ordering them to execute Necropher. But Necropher was never afraid of death, so she prepared herself after she divulged to the villagers the plans of the other witches. Cathrina who was so greedy and dangerous, met with Salvatore to know the true purpose of killing Necropher, and was told her blood would bring them immeasurable powers and some added years to their existence. She went to Necropher and tricked her into the cave of spell where other witches were already waiting. Necropher was killed that night for more powers and more years. Since then, the witches were called the witches of Necropher since their powers came from her death.
Cathrina still wasn't satisfied with her shared powers with the other witches and in order to have more powers beyond human comprehensions, she entered another deal with Salvatore which brought about the killing of hundreds of Children for more powers and immortality. She later got more powerful and assigned herself the head of the witches. She oppressed the people of Gestfield and the witches alike. But when they got tired of her, the villagers connived with the other witches to get rid of her, which was more difficult than they anticipated. Cathrina killed several villagers and witches in the process, till the protectors assisted them for her capture. They crucified and burned her on the stake, but the moment she was completely burnt and the fire was out, she got her skin renewed and returned a living. She was lowered into the depth of the river for months, but when she was brought out, she greeted them with an horrific laughter. Then the protectors suggested a molten iron be poured on her. She realized that would be more painful and deadly, so she called on Salvatore to help remove her soul and mark it for return once anyone stumbles upon her grave the night of a full moon and from her lineage.