I'll protect myself

Anastasia body turned cold while seeing her mother in this state.

Claudia's white dress was soaked with blood. Now it's colour was turned red. Her body had few cuts on it, which were left open for days. And the blood on the wounds looked very dry and disgusting.

Claudia was smiling at her creepily. Half of her teeth was broken because she was chewing hard objects when no one was home for whole day.

By seeing her in that state, All the girls except Anastasia became unconscious and falled on the ground.

Someone might have planned this all along. They only want her to be in a right state, that means they want to use her for something.

Anastasia was very scared from the inside but on the outside, she showed like, she was not really effected by all of this.

Because she don't want to make her enemy feel more powerful by letting them think that she is scared of them.

Seeing that Anastasia was unbothered, claudia was perplexed.

She smiled like a pyscho. "What happened Anna baby? Are you not scared of mommy?" Claudia said with a demonic tone.

Anastasia: "You are not my mother are you!? What the hell did you do with her!?" She screamed loudly while warning her. "If something happened to my family or friends then i am not going to let you live in peace!" And she mean't every word of it.

Claudia laughed like a devil. "So much anger? It gotta be from that filthy blood of yours." She sneered. "Go ahead, kill me if you can. But remember one thing, if something happened to me then your mother is not going to stay alive."

Anastasia's eyes turned red with anger. "Who the hell are you!? What do you want from me!?"

Claudia looked up and prayed. "I am the leader of the cult gruplehin. Our only mission in our life is to summon the one and only empress of hell...." She bowed her face while speaking her name. "Our lord Lilith."

Anastasia could not believe what she was hearing. "That means you are freaking cult member!?"

Claudia got angry. "Don't you dare! call our coven a cult!!!"

Anastasia rolled her eyes. "Yeah whatever. Go do your weird stuff. Why are you harrassing me and my family!?"

Claudia came toward while walking slowly by her rotated legs. Her toes were on the back and her foot was in the front. It was very scary sight to see.

Claudia: "We don't want to harrass you Anastasia. We just want to kill you. You should be glad that the empress choosed you by herself to become the next sacrifice. You are one of the lucky one."

Anastasia's mind was blown. "You are crazy!! You should go to a mental hospital. You want to kill me!? You crazy freaking pyscho! I am calling the police."

She picked up her phone to dial 911 but when she tried to call them. Her phone started to levitate on the air and exploded like a light bulb.

Anastasia was frightened by seeing this.

Claudia smirked. "You can't call anyone now. Everyone is under my control." She started to laugh demonically.

Anastasia ran outside from her house and started to bang her neighbours door. "Someone help me!!! Please open the door!!"

Claudia came outside while walking slowly because in her mind. The victory was hers.

"Go! Run wherever you want! This whole town is unconscious now. No one will come to protect you."

Many black hooded guys came and surrounded her from all the direction.

Seeing herself in a helpless situation, Anastasia started to get more angry. "I don't need anyone's protection! I'll protect myself." Her eyes turned purple with rage.

And by seeing that, all the cult followers face turned stunned and scared. They couldn't believe their eyes.

Claudia got frightened. "Are you an incarnation of an angel?"

***

Ezen teleported himself towards the old museum of London.

His mood was very really bad today because Anastasia left the village without saying anything.

She really thought she can get away from him that easily? Now he is also in a same city as her so finding her would not be that hard.

Ezen looked at the neighborhood and noticed that everything was very quiet today.

He looked at succubi while being confused. "I thought cities are supposed to be loud and fun. Then what happened to this place? I can't see one human being here. Did they got extinct?

Succubi was disturbed too. "I don't know. There should be atleast one human being here. Are they in curfew?" She went forward to check and noticed multiple people lying on the street.

Ezen: "Are they dead?" That's impossible, how can everyone die at the same time?

Succubi breathed heavily and smelled and evil mana around them. "Someone used a black magic to make everyone from the town unconscious. But why would anyone do that?"

Ezen was very disinterested to know about it. "Anyway, it is good thing for us only. Now we can easily steal Equinox's body."

Succubi also agreed. "True. Why do we care!?  Let's go inside." She tried to hold his hand but Ezen shrugged it off.

Succubi sighed. "Let's go."

They went inside and noticed that there were many people on the ground, laying unconscious.

Succubi: "Woah! Who did this stuff!? And why!?" She got chills but she was so curious to know.

Ezen ignored her and went towards a glass where inside they have hidden a golden casket which was made by pure gold.

He broked the glass in a second and opened the casket while using his power.

Inside the casket, there was beautiful red haired woman laying while closing her eyes. She looked like a sleeping beauty.

Succubi rolled her eyes at Equinox while giving her a disdain look. "Dear sister. You haven't changed a bit. Are you!?" She said in a mocking manner.

Ezen: "Shutup and help me pick her up." He went closer to pick her up from the casket but his hands got burned in the process. He shrugged the pain off but suddenly his ring started to glow.

That means, she needs him.

Ezen quickly kept Equinox's body on the ground. "Succubi go and buy a expensive mansion and then keep her there."

Succubi: "But everyone in this city is unconscious. Who is going sell their mansion to me in this state?"

Ezen: "Fine then! I'll buy it myself. Now go and keep Equinox's body in a safe place. No one should know about her. I need to go somewhere." He looked very serious.

Succubi: "Alright your highness! But where are you going?"

Ezen: "It's none of your business to know. Just do as i say and if i learned that you tried to use your smartass brain in trying to harm Equinox. Then let's see how long you will survive!?" After that, he stormed out from the museum with hurry.

Succubi was more confused now. "What is wrong with everyone!?" She sighed again and picked Equinox up. "let's go sister. Let me keep you in a safe place. Otherwise your younger brother is going to eat me alive."

***

Anastasia looked at the people around her and started to get stressed.

Can she protect herself from them? She closed her tightly and started to ask for some guidance and suddenly, she heard a voice from her head speaking.

(Kill them all with your power...)

This is what she wanted to hear. But the question is, how is she supposed to use her power? She don't know anything about it.

(Anastasia repeat after me....  Say "adolebitque ea omnia" and after that, send them your red mana.)

Anastasia also did as Mimi said.

Anastasia closed her tightly and tried to keep her mana in control. "adolebitque ea omnia" she sended her red mana at them with rage.

As her power hitted them, All the cult followers started to burn except the demon that was in claudia's body.

Anastasia could still hear their deadly scream from there. But she felt no remorse by killing them because those people deserved it.

Because using her power for the first time. Her body couldn't handle the heat anymore. That's why her nose started to bleed.

Claudia felt helpless while seeing her cult members in pain. She couldn't believe that it actually happened.

She glared at Anastasia. "You bitch! How dare you kill my coven members? Do you really thought that just by learning one spell, you can defeat me!?" She smirked.

Alot of other black hooded guys came from all the directions. She was now outnumbered by them.

She needs to find a way to get away from them because she don't have enough power to fight with them all.

When your power don't work. The one thing that comes in handy, is your brain.

She looked at the large old tree that was on verge of being broken. She just needs to give it a little push so the tree could fall on those people. That way atleast she could run away from this place and hide somewhere where they can't find her.

(Mimi, can you do something so the tree can fall down on them?) Anastasia said while connecting with mimi.

After her request, the tree suddenly collapsed on those people while leaving some of the cult members injured.

Anastasia took her chance and ran away from that place. But claudia saw that. She used her black magic to make her unconscious but it didn't worked on Anastasia because her mana was too pure to get affected by it.

Claudia spoke in her harsher tone. "You can't run far away! Sooner or later your body will become weak and you will get unconscious and in that time, i will catch you. No one is going to save from being the sacrifice. You should have died years ago."

But Anastasia didn't heard any of her nonsence speech. She kept running for minutes and ran into a silent alleyway where no one goes. She wanted to run further but she had no energy in her anymore.

That's why she sat in that place and started to breath heavily.

While she was trying to calm herself. She heard a glass bottle's shattering noise. Maybe someone stepped on it.

Anastasia knew that someone was here. That's why she took a knife from her purse and was ready to attack that person.

She saw a shadow coming towards her way.

So before the person attack her, she pounced on him and was ready to stab him but she stopped, when she saw the person's face.

Ezen stopped Anastasia from stabbing him by grabbing the knife from her hand.

Ezen: "I knew that this town being in a chaos had something to do with you." He looked at Anastasia's nose which was bloody. "How many guys did you beat up? I atleast saw 10 dead bodies on the ground earlier. What? Are you in a mafia gang?"

Anastasia head was already hurting because of what happened before. But in this situation, he is joking? She can't believe his nerve.

Anastasia: "Why are you acting so surprised? Aren't you the one who told those demons to kidnap me!?"

Ezen didn't knew what she was talking about. "Kidnap who!? You? Why would I do that?"

Anastasia couldn't believe that he was acting dumb about this. "Isn't it obvious? You wanted me to resurrector your sister, but i declined your offer. Maybe that's why you are doing all of this."

Ezen: "First of all, yes i was mad that you ran away. But that doesn't mean i will abduct you. And even if i planned on doing it. Then why would i send someone else to do that job?" He rolled his eyes. "I don't know why everyone blames me for their problems. Why? Is it because, i am an easy target?" He said while acting innocent.

Anastasia: "Easy target who? You?" She sneered. "Stop ruining my mood! I need to go and kill that bastard demon right now!" She tried to leave but Ezen stopped her.

Ezen: "Stop it you warrior princess! Where are you going? Look at your condition now, you can't fight on your own."

Anastasia got offended "Are you saying that i am not capable of saving myself?"

Ezen: "When did i said that!? I am saying that you are very weak now so you need someone's help." He gave a dazzling smile. "Do you want my help?"