Chapter 29
Mark felt like Alice was struggling to cope in Warlington and he had to step up and see how she was doing. He also asked about Alice's friends, especially Nina who he thought she was dead in the night when Gladys casted a spell to kill all vampires. "I haven't seen her ever since" Alice lied to him and he seemed at ease by the answer Alice gave him.
"And — how about your boyfriend?" He asked.
Alice didn't expect that sort of question, "My boyfriend?" she was stunned.
"Yes, the funny looking guy with the hair and..."
"Oh, we are still going strong"
"Really? I saw him with Amiya and it was a bit weird. They were all alone in the house and I thought maybe..."
"Dad, we are fine" Alice said and Mark nodded, then they all sat quietly watching a movie on the TV screen as it rained heavily outside. But Mark wasn't satisfied with his daughter's answers and he knew he had to do something about it.
He got up from the couch and walked outside in the heavy rain. He drove to the supermarket as he felt the need to buy a drink and just right at the porch of the supermarket there was Miraj standing still with a big coat anxiously waiting for Nazar to show up. She was shaking and clearly cold.
"You okay over there?" Mark called out to her before entering inside the supermarket.
"Fuck off!" replied Miraj without looking at him.
"What'd you say?" Mark scoffed.
Miraj repeated it, this time loudly "I said fuck off!"
Mark was pissed off and he walked right to her, he was in his detective serious face. "Are you on drugs?" He asked her.
"What? Dude, go away"
"I'm going to need you to come with me"
"You a cop or something? I don't have anything" Miraj shouted at Mark and that's all it took for him to arrest her.
He took handcuffs and forced her to surrender, customers who passed through the supermarket just looked curiously but didn't do anything. Mark took Miraj to his car and drove her to the police station, when they reached there many officers had left due to the weather and the station had only three officers in. He left Miraj there and walked away back to his matters only to wake up in the morning and find the three officers he left behind drained off their blood and left to die, while Miraj was nowhere to be seen.
They covered it up silently without warning the citizens or cause any scandal which might scare off the people like that one which happened at Warlington bar. "They are back" The sheriff said and then he took out his phone and dialed Gladys number.
Gladys was on a mission and as an anchor to the witch realm and Earth, she was the mastermind behind everything and with Nazar awake she had to stay far away from Warlington as possible. The ritual to awake Nazar's werewolf gene required her to be present, because as soon as Nazar gets into transition he needs to touch Gladys and get access to his gift which is trapped by Lunara in the witch realm. Without Gladys, there's no ritual and Nazar knew that after Jasmine explained it to him, and he was on a mission to get her.
So he followed her, from the moment she abandoned her coven and tried to make her way further but she needed something which was back at her house, where Amiya and Simon had made camp. So she went back, at noon and when she arrived she got out of the car, then her phone rang. It was the sheriff, she sighed and picked it up.
"What is it sheriff?" She asked.
"Where are you? The vampires have come back to town seeking revenge and they've killed our own people"
"What do you mean our own sheriff?"
"I mean us, they are attacking cops now. Killed three of our good men. Listen to me Gladys, I need you here"
Gladys chuckled softly and then she continued "That is close to impossible sheriff. I need to stay as far away from Warlington as possible"
"You asked for the cemetery access of the witches and I gave it to you..."
"And you asked me to get rid of vampires and I did!"
"They've come back." The sheriff shouted with his breath heavy and possibly he was panicking. Mark looked at him once and he continued with his work, acting like he wasn't paying attention or eavesdropping to his phone call. He later hang up the phone and joined others unfit and unwell to do anything, he was all over the place.
Suddenly Nazar appeared, he was in full black attire with black jeans and black T-shirt. Gladys noticed his presence even when he was behind her back. She smiled and said "What can I help you with Nazar?" then she grabbed her attention to him. They locked eyes.
"You know it Gladys, let's make this easy, shall we?"
"How did you find me? No witch can track me unless she's come in contact with me. For all I know my granddaughter will rather die than help you with a locator spell"
Nazar moved closer to her "She's not the only witch who had come in contact with you"
"Regina..." Gladys bit her jaw as she realized it was Regina who helped Nazar to locate her. She made a vow to kill her next time she comes in contact with her again.
She proceeded with her intentions of walking inside, Nazar intervened her "I wouldn't go inside if I were you, the young love can be so beautiful most of times wouldn't you agree?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"Your granddaughter is inside, with a young boy who's set to ruin her life forever"
Gladys was shook by what she heard, first she didn't expect Amiya to be there at that particular moment, so she settled with "I am not helping you pass through, you are wasting your time" she said to him and opened the door and got inside the house.
Nazar tried to get in too but he got stuck at the doorstep, the house belonged to a human and he needed an invitation to get in. "Invitees only" said Gladys and locked it.
Then she called out "Miya? Miya are you here?" and Amiya who was on bed naked with Simon making love quickly got up, took a towel and covered herself then she raced to the living room half naked and came face to face with her grandmother. But yet still, in that body of a young woman she inhabited who didn't look a day over twenty.
"Granny?"
"Miya? What..." Gladys was speechless when Simon came out shirtless. "Who the fuck are you?" She asked Simon.
"I..." Simon struggled to get words out of his lips.
"I thought you were gone, I was looking for you" Amiya said to Gladys.
"Who is this Amiya?" Simon asked.
"She's my granny"
"Your grandmother?" He asked and then had to look at Gladys, she didn't even fit a role to be a mother let alone a grandmother. She and Amiya looked like sisters.
"I can explain...." Amiya tried to speak but her words were cut shot.
Nazar was outside and he started throwing stones and logs inside the house."Get out witch!" He shouted.
"Who's it?"
"It's Nazar, I can handle him but you need to get to safety and this wolf —" She finished and looked at Simon "What's your intentions wolf?"
"He's human" Amiya intervened.
"Him? I can smell a wolf from thousands of miles away."
Simon took a step back, his secret was out and he exchanged looks with Amiya before the front door was unlocked by Nazar and he had a rope on his right arm. He threw it around Amiya and pulled her outside while she screamed, it all happened very fast and just in seconds he vanished with her. Gladys went nuts, she walked outside to find no one. She shifted quickly into a bird and flew away.
Simon was left alone in the house with his boxers not knowing what to do. He raced back to bedroom quickly, got dressed and took the car. He drove back to Warlington.
Back at Warlington, none of them had any clue of what Nazar had planned on that day. Alice was with Hawaii at a picnic just out of the town beside a river when she was abducted by Jasmine and her four witches.
Hawaii tried to stop them but his neck was snapped through magic and he died. The ritual was to take place and Nazar was busy collecting all the ingredients needed before dark. Before the full moon, and he had Lunara's tombstone, Alice who was the key to the ritual, the leaf of the dead world and all he was missing was Gladys, an anchor of two worlds.
Nina was inside her house whilst all hell broke lose outside and she didn't have any clue. She was in her pajamas even though it was just six in the evening, singing alongside a country music that was bursting through speakers in the living room. Then a bird flew in, she stopped the music and placed a drink she was holding on top of the table.
Slowly the bird grew huge until it transformed into Gladys. She was taken by the entrance because she had never seen Gladys shape shifting before.
"Where's Regina?" Gladys asked with a panic look on her face "Nazar has my Miya, and Alice, the sacrifice is set to happen tonight if we don't stop it"
Nina's jaws dropped to the ground "What!" She exclaimed and took out her phone which was on top of the table and quickly dialed Regina's number. "It's going straight to voicemail"
"I need to send her a message. Do you have anything that belongs to her?"
Nina thought for a minute and she remembered Regina left all her things in her house since she didn't say a goodbye to anyone. She used her vampire speed to collect Regina's toothbrush and then handed it over to Gladys.
Gladys took the toothbrush, placed it on fire and then she started chanting spells silently while her eyes shut. She did that for sometime then she stopped.
"It's done!" She said to Nina.
"What's done? Why Regina?"
"Because she's the guilty one. Maybe this time she might want to undo her bad deed" Gladys replied and then she walked outside, ready to leave but Nina walked behind her. "Wait..." Nina called out to her "You can't just leave after giving me such crucial information. What can we do?"
"I'm sorry, we?"
Nina looked around unsure of the question Gladys has just asked her and then she said "Yes"
"There's no need to complicate matters Ninarivera, I know you well and I'm done being on your team"
"For how long are you going to hold a grudge towards me? It's a thing of the past Gladys get over it..."
"I'll never forgive you for turning the whole town into vampires just for your selfishness. Which led to the death of many of my friends"
"I'm sorry Gladys but I needed protection. What was I to do huh? Antonio was all over looking for me." Nina shouted as she moved around trying to explain herself to her old friend who also used to be her slave. "I saved you Gladys. I could've let you burn but I didn't. They had even set up a pyre for you. Those people calling themselves man of god and not believing in witchcraft. I saved you and I protected you"
A moment of silence fell between them. Gladys kept quiet and Nina thought perhaps she had a change of heart but she suddenly said "Until you decided to destroy me..." and walked out of the house making her way to the porch where she shifted into a bird again and flew away.
Nazar was having the busiest day of his life. Having all three ingredients at hand, he was only missing Gladys but he was sure she would come for her granddaughter who he held captive in the abandoned house along with Alice. His witch Jasmine was ready, as so was the other witches who accompanied Jasmine. He kept spinning around and around watching as Jasmine mixed his blood and blood of Miraj together to form a bond, the bond that he knew would make him not only immortal and a hybrid but also a flying wolf.
He desperately needed Miraj's DNA in his system to make him on top of everything and everyone. "Is it done?" He asked.
"You being here alone keeps me distracted. Nazar please just go outside and let me focus"
"I can't! I want to see it..." He insisted biting his jaws.
"Then you need to let me do my job"
"Fine, I'm stepping back" He said and took a step back and then another. Looking at Jasmine while she chanted a spell, the binding spell. "Herniz zimartup dalar. Herniz zimartup dalar..." Jasmine repeated that ten times until the bloods which were separated on a piece of paper stated to link up. Nazar saw it and he moved closer to Jasmine both stunned by the magic of the spell as the two bloods joined up. He smiled looking at the link completing and then he turned to Jasmine "They have no clue of a god that's about to be unleashed. More powerful than Zeus or Hercules"
"And I am to be your goddess?"
"We shall turn this world red. You and I are going to kill every last vampire or witch who put me down. And then..." He stopped for a moment and took a knife, indulging into it as he touched every inch of it and then he said "I'll kill that bitch my brother is in love with, and I will have my vengeance before taking on Lunara. I will devour her to pieces" He finished and stack the knife into the table.