"Told you you can't die without my permission, witch" he smiled creepily.
But the creepy smile turned wicked immediately, and he let go of her.
"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Samara screamed as she began falling back to the ground.
"What the hell!" Ruthie started running to catch her, but Aragon was faster.
She fell into his arms, and she inhaled shakily, holding him tight.
"Superior" she muttered as he set her down gently.
"Are you ok?" He asked.
"I should be asking you that, you're wounded" she replied, looking at his right arm
There's blood all-over it, staining his white shirt.
"The demon is a tough one, I guess" he said, and Orion landed on the ground beside them.
"Why would you throw her down like that after saving her? Thought you did some good" Aragon said
"Good? Were you practicing stupidity when I told you I have no you'd left in me to do? And you think if I'd change, I'd change because of the student I hate so much? Oh please Aragon, I was expecting you to be smarter than this but turns out you're some crazy dumbass" Orion replied and walked to Agatha who's currently struggling on the ground blindly.
"What happened to her?" Aragon asked.
"She stabbed me during the fight, and I died" she replied, and he frowned confusingly.
"This is like a family heirloom" she said, raising the pendant of her necklace.
"My Granny Elsa gave me one, it's capable of waking the dead, so it woke me, and she got hit by a beam from it" she explained.
"Nice heirloom" he nodded, and she smiled, but the smile disappeared from her face when she saw the others lying weakly on the ground, all greatly wounded.
She ran to them immediately.
"Ruth! Krishna! Raven wake up! Ceres! Peony! Merlin Kaitlyn!!" She started shaking them one by one.
Aragon joined Orion who's still with Agatha, and he saw the bottle of bottle lying on the ground.
He took it, and Orion took it magically from him, so it landed on Orion's palm.
"Soul snatching poison?" Orion muttered after inhaling it, and he smiled creepily again, facing Agatha.
"She killed my student, that's enough reason for me to rip out her heart" he said and dragged her up.
He made to shove his hand into her chest, but Aragon sped to him and stood between them.
"You must be stupid if you think I can't hurt you right now" Orion smirked.
"She's at fault, but you should let master and the chiefs handle this" Aragon replied.
"I get to handle everything about my student" Orion said stubbornly.
"You're not doing this because you care about Samara, it's because you're angry Agatha hurt her instead of you!" Aragon replied, and Orion patted him.
"You might be smart" he said and walked away from the assembly, leaving Agatha with Aragon.
By now, everyone else got up already, so Aragon led the way, holding Agatha to prestige Hall.
They got to the front of the hall and met Master Duran waiting with the chiefs already.
Aragon submitted the bottle of poison to Chief Water, and he nodded after smelling it.
"Soul snatcher" he muttered, and Chief Feathers sped to Agatha immediately.
She grabbed her neck in her palm, locking eyes with her.
"Argh!!" Agatha winced painfully as her completely white eyes rolled in their sockets.
"You'd be blind for....
Feathers hasn't finished the curse when Master Duran stepped in and took Agatha from her.
"You can't curse her" he said calmly.
"This is her third time of hurting another disciple Duran! She's not fit to be here! She should be sent back to the palace or better still, send her to the demons coven and let her join Bakasura's subordinates!" Feathers shouted angrily.
"She should be punished instead, she hasn't received punishment for hurting Merlin too, so..." Chief Water said
"She'd be sent to the Beastly Territory" Master Duran said, and Agatha gasped.
"No! Master no I promise not to hurt anyone anymore! I'm blind I can't even see a thing!!! Going to the Beastly Territory like this will spell doom for me! I might die!!!" She cried out.
"There's no death in Beastly Territory, only hellish punishments which would help you get back to track if you're ready to" Master Duran replied.
"Isn't that a little too much?" Chief Water said.
"I don't think so" Chief Feathers replied.
Agatha was still begging when Master Duran did two fingers formation, and a white light appeared on top of the fingers which he sent to a spot, and a door appeared there immediately.
Agatha was pulled to the door by an unknown force, and she kept screaming till she went in completely.
The door went shut and disappeared just the way it appeared.
"Good job everyone. Samara" Master Duran said, and she bowed.
"Learning the use of your sword should be easier from now, you're much more powerful than you think" he said, and she nodded.
"Yes, master"
Ceres rolled eyes immediately.
"Y'all get your wounds treated before dawn, there'll be a teaching class tommorow about spells, and Chief Feathers will be handling it" Duran said further.
"Chief Feathers is too strict, wish it was Chief Water" Peony muttered.
"Me too" Ruthie replied.
"It's called laziness" Samara said, and they giggled secretly.
"Goodnight, disciples" Master Duran said.
"Goodnight Master!" They chorused as he left with his chiefs, and they all dispersed to their various rooms.
Merlin went back to the cafeteria for Echo.
He carried her to her room in his arms, and he lay her gently in bed.
She's still so fast asleep, so she made no move till he covered her and left the room.
He went to his own room and pulled off his suit and undershirt.
He was about to start treating the wound on his arm when the door opened, and he gasped when Kaitlyn came in.
"Sorry for barging in, I can't treat my wounds so I came here. Would you do me a favor?" She asked, and he smiled.
"Of course, come"
She sat on the only chair in the room and rolled up her hair.
She got wounded at the back of her neck.
"It'll sting" he said.
"I know" she replied and looked up.
"After this, I can help you with your wound too, right?" She asked, and he nodded.
"Gawd, you're so hot" she said, and he chuckled as he began treating her.
*
CORRIDOR*
Ruthie was about to enter her room when she suddenly saw Cat loitering around, and her eyes brightened.
"Cat?"
She rushed to get the black cat, and she began meowing in her arms.
"Why aren't you with Krishna?" She asked .
"I want something to eat, so I'm on my way to the cafeteria" Cat replied.
"You talk?" Ruthie laughed.
"She does, and she's spoilt" Krishna replied behind her, and she turned to see him.
"Krishna" she smiled, and he came closer, taking Cat from her.
"I'm not spoilt" Cat said immediately.
"Shut up, please" Krishna replied, and she rushed into his pocket, her favorite place.
"She's so cute" Ruthie said.
"Thanks, aren't you gonna treat your wounds?" Krishna replied.
"Peony will help me" she said.
"Alright, I'll see you tommorow morning" he replied, and she nodded as he started walking away.
She was walking backwards as she stared at his backside, licking her lips slowly in admiration till she bumped into someone.
"MG!" She gasped, and it turned out to be Ceres.
"Ceres?"
"I should make this clear red girl, Krishna belongs to me and you can't change that fact" Ceres said.
"That's rich coming from someone like you, but you know what? I don't listen to anyone except my mother" Ruthie replied, and Ceres made to come closer, but Ruthie opened her mouth wide.
A ball of fire rolled out, but Ceres was quick to avoid it so it hit a pillar, and the pillar cracked.
"You can't defeat me in a fight, so stay far" Ruthie rolled eyes and entered her room where she met Peony waiting.
"You like Krishna that much? You threatened Ceres cos of him" Peony said.
"The door was closed, how did you..." Ruthie said.
"I can see through doors, one of my powers" Peony replied.
"How cool, where's Sam?" Ruthie asked.
"Probably with Superior Aragon" Peony shrugged.
*
KRISHNA'S ROOM*
Raven was in when Krishna arrived, and Cat jumped on the bed immediately.
"Aren't you going to your room? Don't tell me you're sleeping here again tonight" Krishna said.
"Why else would I be here by this time?" Raven replied, eating a grape.
"Wasn't Superior Orion cool back then? He swallowed a demon's head" Krishna said with a big smile.
"You might fall in love with him at this rate" Raven shook his head.
"I'm not gay, idiot. I'm just amazed, just how powerful is he?" Krishna said.
"He's a wizard, he can be a vampire if he wants to, he can be a ghost, he can be a beast and even a werewolf. He has so many supernatural personalities so you don't expect less from a mythical being like that, but I have a question for you" Raven stood.
"What?" Krishna frowned.
"Do you like Ruthie?" He asked.
Without replying, Krishna entered the bathroom.
"That jerk" Raven muttered.
*
ARAGON'S ROOM*
"You really don't have to do this" Aragon said as Samara began setting the herbs she got from the apothecary on the table.
Aragon is standing beside her.
"You have a wound on your arm and you're planning not to treat it, who does that" Samara replied, pulling him to sit.
"I don't usually treat my wounds, they heal on their own within three days" he said.
"Well I'm here now, and things will change" she replied, and he smiled, taking off his shirt.
The moment she saw his bare body, she swallowed before starting to apply the herbs on his wounded arm.
"You got wounded by his claws" she said, noticing the wound nature
She was expecting him to talk, but he isn't, so she looked up and met him staring.
"Your Superior, you should thank him. He saved you" he said.
"He threw me down after saving me. You're the real savior" she replied, and he locked eyes with her for a bit before looking away.
"But how come he's stronger than you when you're both Superiors?" Samara asked.
"He's the only child born together with his sword, and the sword killed his mother immediately it came out of her. I bet no supernatural being can face him, not even Master Duran himself, unless they find his weakness" he replied.
"He has a weakness?" She asked.
"Yeah, but don't ask me what, cos I dunno" he replied, and she smiled .
"I won't ask"
He returned the smile, and hers grew wider.
*
Agatha landed in a unbearably calm place, and she stood immediately, tracing her way with her hands as she started moving around.
Gentle breeze is blowing, but even the gentility is awkward. This place is hell and everything about it is pains
Beastly Territory is not for the weak, and now that she's blind, she's hoping she'd be able to make it out alive miraculously, then she can teach Samara a lesson for causing this.
She was still searching for her way with her hand when she stumbled and fell on something.
"What's this?" She muttered, tracing the skin with her palms, and she detected it's a flower tree.
She plucked a rosebud, and immediately she did, the bud began transforming in her palm, and even if she can't see it, she felt the change, and she folded her palm on the bud, but she got stung immediately.
It's a snake!
"Ahh! Father! Father!!!!" She cried loudly as the venom began mixing with her blood.
She threw away the snake immediately, but the serpent crawled back to her, and no matter how much she struggled to shake it off, rolling on the sandy soil, it didn't.
It kept climbing her till it coiled itself on her neck, and it began choking her.
She rolled roughly in the sand, trying to get the snake off, but the more she pulls, the more she gets choked, and she got stung on the neck too.
"Fat...her!!! Help... me!!! Help me!!!!' she cried as another one coiled on her right leg, then another on her stomach.
"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"
*
A RIVER*
Princess Mali could be seen sitting silently beside the wide river, her eyes focusing on the currents.
She's obviously sad, and she looks empty inside as she sat hopelessly.
She slowly dipped her leg into the river, and immediately the water touched her, she got burnt on that spot.
"Ahh!" She winced and quickly removed her leg.
She stood and turned to leave, but her eyes widened when she saw Agares behind.
"Agares?" She muttered, and he grabbed her hand.
"Great Queen wants you" he said, and they vanished together, landing back in the coven where Bakasura is waiting.
"You went to the river again?" She demanded.
"I can't help it! It's my original home mother!" Mali replied, and Bakasura sped to her.
"This is your home, nowhere else so think straight once again" she said, locking eyes with her.
"But...
Bakasura grabbed her head immediately, the eyes lock getting more intense as she communicated with her.
"Listen. Tommorow, you'd go to the streets of Delos and find your way into mystic institute" she muttered.
"Tommorow, I'll go to the streets of Delos and find my way to mystic institute" Mali repeated after her, and she smiled before releasing her.
"How will that be possible?" Karazi asked behind, and Bakasura got her staff.
A single wave of it, Mali transformed into a 7 years old kid.
"It's easier this way" Bakasura smiled.
Agares exchanged excited glances with Karazi.
*
MYSTIC INSTITUTE*
It's already 10pm before Samara returned to her room, and immediately she turned on the lights, Orion could be seen sitting on her bed.
"You again?" She said.
"You got bolder, you didn't jump" Orion replied standing up.
She started coming to her, but she summoned her sword and pointed it at him, and he paused
"Get that shitty sword away from my way" he glared.
"No. Who knows what you might do to me the moment I drop it?" She replied.
"I won't give you an easy death like your mother, you don't deserve that" he said, and her eyes widened.
"My mother? What did you do!" She rushed to him.
"Oh...such a loving daughter she has. But what is this shitty necklace on your necks? It brought her back after I killed her, and it brought you back after Agatha killed you. Is there a legend behind it?" He said.
"So you really killed my mother" she muttered disappointedly.
"She refused to tell me if there's another way to cure this shitty wound!" He yelled, raising his shirt from his arm.
"She left me with no choice, and the fact that she woke doesn't mean she's free, I'm still gonna kill her after snatching that necklace away" he said.
"There's no other way except dipping your hand into my blood!" She shouted.
"Which is why I'm here, to dip" he replied, and she blinked.
"Huh?"
"Yeah" he came closer.
"But I'm not on my period" she replied, and he smiled creepily again, making her step back quickly.
His creepy smile always means danger.
"I can make you menstruate, right now" he said, and her eyes widened.
"What!"
"Yeah. I only have to touch your n**ple, so don't waste much time. Off your blouse, I'll take off your brà myself" he replied.