Chapter 11

Amiya saw how scared and trembling Noah was, she invited him in out of pity. He didn't know anything about being a werewolf or a supernatural. In order to break a werewolf curse, one needs to kill a vampire and as soon as he broke it he started to feel dizzy.

"How do you feel?" Amiya asked but he kept spinning and spinning. It was already midnight, but not full moon yet. As he was spinning and losing his mind, suddenly he stopped and fainted.

A young witch came through the door with both of her hands forward chanting a spell silently. Noah was pulled from where he fell to outside as Amiya watched.

"Nothing to trouble your little witchy mind Miya! I came in peace, just collecting my merchandise" she said and vanished with Noah.

Amiya grew conscious and scared. She quickly called Nina but it went straight to voicemail. None of them were available, neither her nor Hawaii. She couldn't sleep that night. Something was wrong and she knew it.

She was right something was going on but she just didn't know what. The sacrifice was taking place but this time spearheaded by Antonio himself with his witch named Maria and a vampire he found out in town and Noah who they planned to use him as a werewolf. It was Antonio who compelled a vampire to fight Noah until he's dead. And he did his work good, tapped into Noah's anger until he triggered his werewolf gene.

"We don't have much time. Is it working..." Said Antonio as Maria was chanting spells while the vampire and Noah were on the spell bounded circle which was surrounded by fire and they can't get out nor can one enter.

Alice was inside her own circle too, but unlike the others she was unconscious. Antonio found her on the airport making her way to Chicago, perhaps to warn Nina and Hawaii from trusting the witch little did she know that Antonio lied to her. There was no witch he knew in Chicago, for the matter of fact none that works for her but he just wanted her out. Out of the house so he can snatch her easily.

"Hirzel tusiyal maamal enuz" Maria said the spell ten times, while she was standing close to Lunara's tombstone which Nina left behind when she fled the city. The tombstone opened up, inside there was a key but made up of flesh.

Antonio smiled just at the sight of it, all that he wanted was to wake his brother although he told everyone he met that it wasn't his intention whilst it was all he needed. The key was tossed into a bowl of Antonio's own blood and it disappeared inside as the blood boils. Growling of the fire and noises woke Alice up only to find her strained and trapped in a circle of fire. She became so scared by it all.

"Nothing to trouble you mi amore. It will all be over soon" Antonio said to Alice.

"What's going on?" She asked panicking and Maria put her to sleep again.

As the key kept boiling inside the blood, Maria looked at Antonio "It's time My Lord" she said.

"You've served his lordship with honor Maria"

"It's my duty to serve. And I shall do so even from the other side"

Antonio got closer to her "Thank you" he said and snapped her neck and she fell to the ground. She was dead and Noah saw it.

"Now my loves, it's happening" He said with an evil laugh and huge wind blew almost pushing everything away. It was the power of the dead witch that was doing that, the circle that Noah was inside broke lose. He wanted to run but in the instant he placed his feet outside, he felt dizzy and fell down.

His eyes started to bleed, he screamed and screamed but no one came to his defense and then he died. The vampire which was inside his own circle saw it all, he knew his time was up and when the circle opened he used his vampire speed to run away but he bumped into Antonio who took out his head. Then silence, Alice woke up to find Antonio holding a head which was dripping of blood.

She panicked and tried to get away but couldn't. She was sealed in the circle. "Don't worry, it'll let lose soon and all of this will be over!"

"Stop" Amiya's voice was heard. Antonio turned back and saw her on top of a cliff looking down.

"Care to join us?" He asked.

"If you even touch her, I will kill you"

"You are too late little witch. It's already done"

"I can reverse it"

He laughed and walked to Alice, the circle lowered and he pulled her outside "I dare you Amiya...I dare you!" He shouted.

Alice's eyes bled and so did her nose. The same thing that happened to Noah was happening to her. "What are you doing to her? Let her go..." Amiya said afraid for her best friend's life.

"I'm not doing anything witch. It's the sacrifice, she must die"

"No..." Amiya moved closer to the circle and performed a protection spell but she was blocked by Maria's magic which was casted there.

She couldn't save Alice nor stopped the sacrifice. It was Antonio's plan whole along he knew Nina would run away and forsaken everything because she feared him. And he wanted it like that, he wanted to break the spell and let his brother roam free. When Alice fell down, everything stopped for a moment. It all grew silent as if nothing happened. Amiya raced to Alice "Ali, Ali..." she tried to wake her up but no response.

When she looked back Antonio was nowhere, he had already vanished. Suddenly her phone rang.

"Hey Miya, you and Alice have been buzzing us all day. We have just arrived in Chicago" Nina's voice came over the phone. But she was met with heavy silence, so she asked again "Miya? Are you still there?"

"Yes"

"Are you okay?" Asked Hawaii.

"Alice is dead!"

"What! How did it...what happened?" Hawaii snatched the phone from Nina.

"The sacrifice. I was too late"

"The sacrifice? Someone broke it?"

"It was Antonio. He played y'all too good, he wanted you out of town so he can do it. Nazar is his brother"

Nina had no clue or whatsoever of the relationship between Antonio and Nazar. All that time she only wanted to rise Nazar so he can scare Antonio away. Make him scared but she never knew those two had a bond let alone brotherly bond and that shattered her to pieces. Everything fell apart and they had failed.

Antonio was on the road out of town, he had passed the banner "NOW YOU ARE LEAVING WARLINGTON" and he smiled at the succession of what brought him to town. He had succeeded in fooling everyone including the coven of witches under Gladys who were late to know that the sacrifice had already happened.

They found Amiya crying alongside Alice with a vampire and a werewolf deceased at the spot. They knew they worst had happened and Gladys hugged her granddaughter.

"She's dead granny. She's dead..." cried Amiya "I've known her for a short time but all I knew she was a good person and didn't deserve that"

"Child no one deserve this. Let's leave now, he could be anywhere right now"

"Him?"

"You know who child. Get up"

"And leave her?"

"She will rise. We casted a protection spell on her without anyone's knowledge. She can never be killed by a supernatural, it's how she wanted. It's what Lunara wanted"

"But she'll forever be held ransom. For whatever the vampires will have against her"

"Miya, she was born to be a ransom. It's her fate. Let's go..."

Gladys took her granddaughter's arm and helped her up. They left Alice on the woods for her to find her own destiny. She wouldn't awake the same scaring girl like before, from the moment the sacrifice took place to the point she died her past had been erased and the future written.

And so it has been told through tales and folklores dating generations back that she will find her way. Her destiny will make sense after the sacrifice and as she laid there on dirt covered by blood. Her soul left her body and travelled to the other side, to the witch realm. The ruler of the realm, Queen Lunara was waiting for her and she's been waiting for a long time to finally have a proper talk with the chosen one.

Alice arrived at the realm and it was a whole new world. At the palace's passage, she was given a black fabric and instructed to cover herself with it from top to bottom and then the doors were opened for her.

As Alice took in her surroundings, her mind refused to accept what her eyes were showing her. Somehow she'd traveled instantaneously to a village plucked straight from the pages of a medieval storybook. People were shopping at a busy open-air marketplace nearby, which consisted of rustic wooden stalls, booths, and tents. No cars were on the road, nor could Alice see any modern machinery of any kind. Women were clothed in long, coarsely woven dresses, while men wore cloth shirts and trousers with hide vests.

When a light rain began to moisten her skin, she focused her attention upward. To her astonishment she saw not one but two moons in between the streaky, gray clouds and there was no sun. One was nearly overhead and the other, much smaller moon was on the horizon. The realization she was no longer on Earth began to sink in.

"Follow me" she heard a female voice but didn't see who it was. She made her way to a huge palace overlooking her from a distance. This was the mansion where Lunara resides.

When she was inside the mansion, she saw covens of witches making spells and looking busy. It looked like a fairytale mansion that Alice always dreamt of in her childhood dreams but only it was colorful. She was the only one wearing a black fabric whilst all the others were in their adorned dresses for females and black or grey suits for males. They were all witches in the Witch Realm.

A male witch in grey suit with yellow scarf walked to her

"She's waiting" He said and offered his hand to her and Alice took it.

A magical elevator appeared and they got inside and it took them up. Alice looked down and saw how beautiful and glittering it was, insects and birds singing beautifully. Fairies flying and some even tried talking to her but she was told to ignore them by her host.

They were on the elevator for sometime until they came to a halt. "We are here" he said but he remained inside as Alice stepped forward.

"You are not coming?" She asked.

"This is as far as I can go"

He looked at her with a smile, and then the elevator started to decelerate downward taking him back. Alice wondered around the place and there was a fairy garden, a huge drawing room filled with flowers and illuminating pieces of jewels which reflected upon her eyes. The place was beyond beautiful and she felt safe for once, then she heard Lunara's voice "My chosen descendant, welcome home." and when she turned back she came face to face with the ruler of the witch realm in a huge attire with a gold glittering crown.