Compulsion

"What the hell went down here?", the familiar voice of principal Bohen sounded.

Everyone in the gym looked towards the broken door and saw three figures run inside. The three figures were Charles, Daniel and the principal, Wilson Bohen.

The three rushed to join the kids. Bryce stood up and Charles took his place beside Jason, who was still hallucinating because of the werewolf venom in his blood.

"Did you bring it?", Charles asked Wilson. Before coming, Charles called him and told him about what had happened to Jason. He also told him to bring along something.

"Yeah, this is what I got", Wilson answered as he took out something from the party inside pocket of his jacket. It was a hibiscus flower.

"Good. Wouldn't be my first choice but it'll suffice", Charles said.

Kyra looked at Charles and Wilson, shocked to see that they both knew about about the supernatural world. She suspected some of the adult in town of knowing about the supernatural world but she didn't expect Charles and Wilson to be part of them. Then again, Bryce turned out to be a witch and he lived with Charles so it should be expected that Charles knew.

Charles pulled up Jason's shirt and gasped. The venom had almost reached his heart.

"Shit! Is he going to be okay?", Mitch gasped. He and Zane had approached them to have a look at what was going on after recovering from their initial shock from what happened earlier.

"He 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 be. But right now, he could died anytime if I don't hurry", Charles answered.

Charles put his hand over the bite wound and casted a spell.

"𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑚"

The infected blood started to come out and formed a ball, floating between Charles's stretched out hands. The bulging black veins became smaller and thinner as the infected blood was extracted from Jason's veins. The blood only stopped when Charles had collected enough to fill one blood bag.

"𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡"

Charles casted a spell and the ball of blood evaporated in only a matter of a few seconds.

Charles then took the hibiscus flower from Wilson. He spat on it, making the faces of everyone around twist in disgust and started rubbing the flower vigorously between his hands. He then spread the mashed up flower on the wolf bite on Jason's side and covered it up with both his hands.

"𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜"

Charles casted a spell. Charles's hands started to burn with golden flames but it seemed like he couldn't feel it burn. In fact, either Bryce nor the others could feel the heat coming from the golden flames. It was as if the flames were harmless. Everyone then backed up to give Charles space to work.

The flames started to spread through Jason, lighting up and burning every part of his his body that had blood in it. Jason's whole body was soon engulfed in golden flames but his clothes didn't burn since the golden flames were harmless. The flames 'burned' every toxins and impurities it could in Jason's body.

The golden flames started to die as the spell came to an end. Charles sigh as he started to clean his hand with a handkerchief. He had used up a significant amount of his magic to cast the spell.

The spell he casted creates golden flames that 'burn' any impurities or toxins in the target's blood. The higher the cleansing property of the herb used in the spell is, the lower the magic the caster needed to used. Charles asked for magic herbs but didn't get any so he had to use what he got.

Jason stopped sweating as his body temperature returned back to normal. He also stopped mumbling under his breath as his was no longer hallucinating. Kyra knelt down beside Jason again. She felt so relieved now that Jason had been cured. Her eyes then fell on the wolf bite and her eyebrows knitted together.

"Why isn't the bite healing?", she asked. The werewolf bite should have started to heal up now that Jason had been cured. The black veins had disappeared yet the bite didn't show any signs of healing.

"Unfortunately, for the bite to heal, we'll have to get him a cure", Charles answered.

"But I thought you just cured him?", Kyra asked.

"The spell I used 𝑑𝑖𝑑 get rid of most of the venom in his blood but not all. The rest have been neutralized for now but it'll started to spread again after about a week. I can only perform the spell for him for only a limited amount of times, so till then, we need to find him a cure", Charles explained.

Kyra slowly dropped her head in disappointment. She really thought Jason had been cured, turns out they were just delaying his death.

"Luckily we do know of a cure. Well, two actually", Wilson said, trying to console Kyra.

"So there actually is a cure?", Daniel asked.

"Yeah! But getting it will be harder or easier depending on which cure we choose", Charles answered.

"What do you mean?", Kyra asked.

"Let's talk about this tomorrow. It's already 3 am. You should call your father and let him know that you and Cashel will both be staying with me for a while", Charles said.

"You two, bring Cashel along", Charles said to Kyra and Bryce as he picked up the unconscious Jason in his arms and headed out to his van. Kyra and Bryce also picked up Cashel who was still unconscious from the Bryce's pain infliction spell, like Charles said and followed him to his van.

Carter, Zane and Mitch were also about to leave for their homes after their bizarre and wild night when Wilson stopped them.

"Where do you think you're going?", Wilson said.

"We're going home", Carter answered.

"Tsk, tsk. I can't let you do that. You can leave after you've been compelled to forget what happened here", Wilson said.

"What?", Mitch said.

"He said you can only leave after you've been compelled to forget what happened here", a voice suddenly said, making the three boys almost jump out of fright.

They looked over to where the voice came from and saw their new history teacher, Alvin, sitting on one of the gym bleachers. The three boys wondered how he got there without them noticing. Alvin smiled and waved at them as he approached them.

"Let's get this over with quickly. I have a class in the morning", Alvin said as his body flashed and appeared in front of Mitch who was the closest to him.

"Forget everything that happened in the school tonight. You're gonna go home and sleep then you'll wake up in the morning and then come back to school like any other school day", Alvin said as he looked straight into Mitch's eyes.

Mitch's pupils dilated for a split second before it returned back to normal. He suddenly turned around and walked towards the door to leave.

"Mitch?", Zane who had been quiet throughout, called but Mitch didn't stop and just left.

"What did you do to him?!", Carter said.

"It's just compulsion. I compelled him to go home and forget whatever happened here", Alvin explained.

Compulsion is skill any vampire can learn. Alvin being a vampire naturally learned how to compel people.

"If you wouldd just stay still and not try not resist. I'll get rid of your memory and we'd get to go home and sleep for the next three hours", Alvin said.

"What do you mean get rid of our memories?", Zane asked, wearily looking at Alvin.

"Exactly what it's supposed to mean", Alvin said as he took a step towards Zane to make him forget.

Zane and Carter instinctually took a step back.

"Come on. Just get this over with", Wilson said.

"You think we're gonna let you take our memories just like that?", Zane shouted as he and Carter bolted for the broken gym door. Alvin sighed and his body flash, instantly appearing in front of the two, making them stop.

"You don't really have a choice", Alvin said.

Seeing this, Zane immediately tried to punch Alvin in the face but he caught it and pulled Zane closer and looked into his eyes.

"Forget everything that happened here tonight. Go home immediately", Alvin said.

Zane's pupils dilated for a split second before returning back to normal. Alvin then let go Zane as he left the gym in a trance state.

Alvin then turn to Carter, who flinched and started backing away.

"What about him?", Alvin asked.

"Try it out. If it works, he goes home. If it doesn't, then he goes with Charles and the rest", Wilson answered. They weren't sure if Carter could be compelled because of his family.

"Okay", Alvin said as he walked towards Carter.

"No, don't come any closer", Carter said as he kept walking backwards.

Alvin's body flashed and he instantly appeared in front of Carter. He held onto Carter to keep him from resisting. He immediately closed his eyes tightly so as to not look into Alvin's eyes.

"Oh, come on! Are you serious", Alvin said with a sigh.

"Oh, Ivan what are you doing here?", Wilson suddenly said making Carter open his eyes wide.

"Dad, help me!", Carter screamed.

Seeing this, Alvin immediately tried to compel Carter. The two locked eyes and Alvin began.

"Forget everything that happened -- ugh", Alvin tried to compel Carter but before he could finish, he suddenly crouched down and and groaned in pain as Carter's knee appeared between his legs, crushing his dead vampire crown jewels.

Carter tried to get away from Alvin, but Alvin still wouldn't let go of him, even though he was still in pain.

"...𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 doesn't work on him", Alvin winced through gritted teeth.

"Yeah, I can see that", Wilson said, not really surprised that Carter couldn't be compelled.