Chapter 12: New Enemies

Hannah's POV

His deep green eyes were filled with a sudden naughtiness and he suddenly pecked me on my lips. "Gotta be careful next time I might not be here to help you from this fall." It took me a while to gain track of the real life because I was lost in his sparkling eyes. "Well technically you fell on me so you didn't really help me." I teased. His smile suddenly faded as he stood up.

He started removing his gray hoodie,"Here take this." He said while looking away. 'Why is he looking away?' Spark asked. I didn't know how to say it but I finally managed to do it anyway,'My clothes... they are white...' I said, hoping she got the message but she just ignored me. Why am I not surprised?

"Do you know where Luna is?" I asked while struggling to put on the gray hoodie. A smile suddenly appear on his face when he put his right hand in his pocket to reveal my keys. He moved his hand forward to give it to me. "You had my keys all this time?" He nodded with a cunning smile. I was so irritated that I snatched the keys. "I hate you!" I shouted making a sulky face. "And I love you!" My angry face immediately turned into a happy one. I walked out of his room and went to open mine. The chilly air made my feet trembled a little before going to change.

I wandered in my room to look for some other clothes but instead I found a letter on my bed. At first I thought it was Jacob but he was with me the whole time so it couldn't have been him. I opened the letter and read it.

Meet me in the hotel parking lot at seven.

~Your well wisher~

I was totally confused about who wrote it and I didn't dare to ask Jacob. If by chance it's not him, he is going to worry about me. "So I need to meet that well wisher in an hour then." I said to myself. I still had time so I went outside my room to have a family dinner. At the same time Jacob came outside his room. My face was all flushed as I remembered what happened before. I quickly turned away, hiding my face.

"What happened?" He asked suspiciously. "Nothing!" It's not like I'm going to tell him why am I blushing so hard. I walk downstairs while I kept thinking about the letter. 'Maybe it's Jacob.' It couldn't have been him he was with me all the time but it can also be a possibility.

As soon as I finished my dinner I went in the underground parking lot. I waited and searched but found no one. Out of the blue, someone grabbed my hand. I turned around to see Valencia. What's she doing here? "I need to talk to you." She said in a worried tone. "Why would you want to talk to me? Why are you here in the first place? Leave me alone!" I removed her hand that was holding mine.

"Please hear me out! I want to help you!" Help me? As if I'd believe her, all she did was hurt me. "So you want to help me and how is this going to benefit you?" I asked crossing both my arms. "I don't want anything in return. I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry for being a bitch!" She apologized but I couldn't trust her after all that she did. "I still can't trust you." I analysed her.

"Fine don't trust me, I don't care! But at least listen to what I have to tell you!" She begged. Is she telling the truth? Has she changed? I could see a little bit of truth in her deep blue eyes. 'Don't trust her!' Spark warned me. "Why do you want from her now?" Jacob came behind me. He must have sensed that I was worried or something. "I don't want anything from her I just came to warn her about her enemy who's trying to kill her!" An enemy who wants to kill me?

"Oh so you've finally realised that you were trying to kill her all this time!" I turned to see Jacob furiously. His shiny grey hair slightly brushed on his fierce eyes. He was so angry at the fact that she tried to kill me. "That's the problem! I am being blamed for all this! I did not try to kill you!" How could she lie so easily when she, herself showed me that bottle of nightshade a few days ago. "If you did not try to kill me then what about the bottle of nightshade that you showed me in the toilet!!" I snapped. "It was a fake one!"

What a drama queen. For how long is she going to lie like this? "You know what, I'm done with you!" I shouted. 'Let's go Jacob.' I held his hand to calm him but he let's go of it. "It's useless talking to you Valencia!" He turned away and slammed the door loudly. "Valencia please! Leave..." I tried to calm myself while I walk away.

I closed the door to see Jacob furiously standing, trying to calm his anger. "Come on now forget about it." I calmed him. His hands were tightly gripped to the wooden table behind him. In a matter of seconds I heard a crack and just as I thought he broke the table. "Calm down already! She's gone now!" I held his hand tightly which calmed him down a little. "You know, you're the best boyfriend ever!" I smiled cheerfully and he finally calmed down completely.

He suddenly moved his face closer towards me, my heart started pounding ten times faster and I could feel his breath. "And you are the best girlfriend ever!" He tightened his grip as a smirk appeared on his face. "Let's go now! Luna must be looking for me I've got her necklace that I needed to return!" I broke the eye contact between us. I let go of his hand and ran away. 'It felt good right?' Spark asked. 'Shut up Spark!'

I opened the door which lead to the hall but before I could move forward, I felt a pain in my head. Someone was behind me. Is it Valencia? I fell heavily on the ground, everything became blur and eventually became black.

Jacob's POV

I walked back in the hall to see Luka. "Sup bro!" I shook his hand. Just then Luna came,"Hey Jacob have you seen Hannah? I need to ask her if she had my necklace with her." She asked. "She was with me a few minutes ago, I thought she came to look for you!" I stated. "Maybe she's in her room." Luka suggested. We all walked towards her room but it was locked her keys must have been with her.

Mr and Mrs Taylor along with Mr and Mrs Courtney also came. "Luna have you seen your sister?" Mrs Courtney asked. I thought she was with them. Then where is she? "I'll go look for her maybe she's downstairs." I switched my green eyes to the brown ones. All my senses was heightened; I could smell and hear ten times better. Her scent was still here but it was a bit faint.

'Try to mindlink with her' Thunder suggested. I closed and opened my brown eyes again. 'Hannah can you hear me? Where are you?' I stood still waiting to hear something. I waited and waited but couldn't hear anything. She must be tired or hurt if I can't mindlink with her. My worry for her increased even more. I smelt her scent again and this time I couldn't. She has not been here. 'Something is not right here!' I alerted Thunder.

Hannah's POV

'Where am I?' I said to myself. Soon I realized that I wasn't in my human form and everything around me was dark. As if I was prisoned in a dark house. I started to stress out, everything was pitch black. I suddenly switched back to my human form. I could feel the sweat forming on my forehead as I tried to stand up. The moment I moved, I failed; my hands and my feet were tied. My breathing was getting heavier.

'Look! To be able to hold that fear, all you need to do is take a long deep breath or maybe you can think about something that makes you feel happy!' I don't know how but I remembered Luna's advice just at the right time. I relaxed my eyes despite the fear that surrounded me and took a deep breath. I kept on trying but it wasn't working. Even Spark couldn't talk because of that injury in my head made me weak.

'Hannah can you hear me? Where are you?' Jacob is trying to mind link me! 'Yes I can hear you Jacob!!' I replied as tears formed in my brown eyes but he didn't answer back. Is it because of my injury that he can't hear me. I need to calm down first. For the first time I've faced a problem without Spark.

Suddenly the door opened and I saw a shadow but my vision was so blurry that I couldn't distinguish if it was a girl or a boy. That same shadow turned into a bird. Is it Jacob? "Well Hannah! We meet again." The bird spoke. Judging by it's voice, it was a girl but I don't understand what she meant by we meet again? Just behind the shadows I heard another voice. "What took you so long?" It was a boy. His scent was like a fire burning.

As the girl closed the door, transformed into her eagle self and flew towards me. Just as the eagle was about to land near me, the male bird suddenly set himself on fire and came in front of me. It was a Phoenix. "Behave yourself! She is in her human form!" The Phoenix's fire soon revealed that the girl was a Philippine eagle. Is that who I think it is? No it can't be her.

'Hannah try to get Jacob here! We need him!' I heard Sparks weak voice in my head. 'Jacob! If you can hear me please help!' I need to act fast. If not I will remain prison here.

Jacob's POV

It has been two hours since we have been searching for her. 'Jacob... If you can hear me please... Help!' Her voice was extremely faint but I managed to catch it. 'I can hear you but where are you?' I replied as quickly as I could. I don't know what I would have done if she didn't mind link me. 'It's a bit dark here... I think it's a... wooden house and I can smell the forest.' She must be in the middle of the woods.

'Thunder are there any forests here?'

'Yes there are two forest but I'm not sure which one.'

'It's ok at least we know she is not too far!'

I returned back to Hannah's family. "She's in the nearest forest." I shouted to Luka and Luna. Everyone sprinted out of the hotel.

"Wait the girls won't be able to come it's past dusk!" Me. Courtney added. "Then only the males will go look for her!" We stopped as we saw the two path that led towards the darkness. "You two go that way I'll go that way!!" I nodded at Me. Courtney.

Hannah POV

"Don't do anything to her! At least not now." The Phoenix yelled at the girl. The girl transformed back to her human form and walked out of the house. As soon as the door closed, the phoenix looked at me. His eyes were as red as the burning fire. He started flying at my direction so I immediately transformed into my eagle form. "So we haven't met, have we?" He was a few metres away from me when he flew closer. His fire like wings were large and bright.

'Who are you?' I couldn't talk directly so I answered through the mindlink. I gave him a fiece look but he continued moving closer until his beak was just a few inch from mine. "What did you think? I wouldn't know when you were mindlinking him." Behind his eagle I could feel a smug formed on his face. "Just so you know he won't find me even if I am right in front of him." He lifted his head revealing his devilish eyes.

He got out through the window leaving me behind. The room that he once illuminated was now pitch black again. 'Somehow I felt connected to him.' I got out of my imagination and looked around me searching for a way to get out but couldn't find any. Suddenly the door opened again and this time it was her again. 'What do you want?' I yelled in my mind as she walked slowly towards me. "Your powers!"

'What do you mean?' I asked. I don't have any special powers, I only have the eagle power which she also have. "What I mean is to kill you and get all your powers so that I can become more powerful!" She explained as she removed the same bottle of nightshade that Valencia had.

'Valencia?' She started laughing hysterically as she moved closer to me. After a few seconds she stopped and she changed into the Philippine eagle. She looked around, she was nervous as if someone was here. An eagle came flying directly at her. She immediately turned into her defense mode.

She bend a little showing that she can attack anytime. 'Hannah are you ok?' Finally I heard the voice that my spirit had been searching for all this time. 'Yes I'm ok.' I replied while coming out of the shadows. He gave me a quick look and glared back at the other bird. 'Get out of here!' He yelled and flew just above me.

I flew out of the house. It was already dawn so I had to remain alerted in case the Phoenix comes. It seemed that he wasn't aware of what was happening. "Thinking about me already?" I heard a voice behind me. I turned to see a radiant bird on the roof. 'You again!!' Why does he keeps following me?

"You are the one who keeps following me!" Wait can he actually read all my thoughts? "I thought you had already figured that out!" All of a sudden, I loud screeching noise was heard. It wasn't Jacob so it must have been that eagle. I looked back at the Phoenix but saw no one.

I sigh and continued to fly. As I flew closer to a tree, I started seeing a black and a crowned eagle coming to my direction and I quickly landed on the nearby branch. They must have seen me because they changed their directions. 'Are you ok?' Luna mindlinked me. 'Yes I'm fine Sis, don't worry.' I shook my feathers a little to let them know that I was perfectly fine.

They looked at each other and then back at me. 'Are you sure?' Luna asked again. 'Yes!' I said impatiently. 'We have to help him!' I reminded Luna. They gave me a serious face and nodded.

As we arrived at the spot, Jacob was already fighting the Philippine eagle and he was a bit injured. Crystal and Ash were all fluffed up, ready anytime to attack. Just then I sensed someone else in the house. Of course I knew who it was. The Phoenix! Typical Phoenixs always hiding in and coming out the shadows. "So you found me!" As I predicted he came out of his hiding spot.

"Well looks like we're out numbered. What if I join the fight? Let me guess you won't have a chance against me!" He spoke calmly as he looked over to his friend struggling in the fight with Jacob. Luka and Luna were totally shocked, they didn't expect to see the Phoenix here.

"Very well then! Let's make a deal, if I let you go, no fighting between us." Is he giving up already or is he staring our lives out of pity? "Don't worry I'm not giving up but don't assume that the fight ended here! We will always be there and you won't even find us! For now bye!" He bowed and raised his wings and lit them on fire as he burnt into ashes. He finally disappeared.

I turned my gaze at Thunder who looked like all his energy were drained off. He gave me a happy face before flying out of the window. 'You and Luna change inside the house while we'll change somewhere else.' He mind linked me calmly though their was a bit of tiredness in his voice. I transformed to my human self as I closed the door.

Turning around I saw teary brown eyes looking at me; she was relieved but she still had that worried look on her face. Luna quickly ran and hugged me tightly. I couldn't help but cry too. We stood there for at least five minutes hugging until she broke it. "Let's get change and leave from here. Mom and Dad is looking for you!" She said while wiping off her tears and putting her clothes.

Later we joined Luka outside. I looked around but didn't see Jacob. "Looking for him? He is waiting for you over there." Luka smiled as he pointed at the tree near the lake. I walked slowly and stopped to take a look at him. He looked sad while he was looking at his reflection in the water. "Jacob... I'm so-" He stood up and gave me a hug before I even had the time to finish my sentence.

"I'm sorry I left you there all alone." He tightened his grip as he buried his face in my shoulder. "It's okay besides i'm also at fault. I should have been more cautious."

"You've got nothing to be blamed for, I was the one who failed to protect you." I could hear the sadness in his voice. He felt so guilty of himself and I didn't know what to do to stop his sad feelings. "Let's forget about this ok?" He broke the hug and cupped my face. There was still that guilty feeling, I could see it in his sparkling gray eyes. "It's okay Jacob. I trust you." I smiled and I think it made him feel better.