Chapter 16: Deceit

Gia's POV
"Dianna!!!" I yelled as I rushed into the mansion
"Dia....." I stopped as I saw Eric


"Not who you wanted to see?" he asked


"Where is Dianna? I need the show her something" I said and he looked at the inscription on my bleeding arm


"Me too, I got the same thing as you" Eric said as he showed me his arm with the same inscription


"What kind of bloody witchcraft is this" I asked


"The kind only the Guardian is capable of" Ivan said as he walked in angrily with Dianna


"Yes, obviously our impudent guardian is not dead even after the city hall explosion, she's warning us, the inscriptions on our arms, it means am coming for you" Dianna said


"Not if I get her first Dianna, I'll hunt down that brazen-faced witch and this time around I'll gauge out her eyes for the vulture to feed on and rip out her heart!!" Ivan said wildly


"You will calm down Ivan Hammington!" Dianna said


"Am done listening to you sister, your ideas never gets us anywhere, this time around I'll do things my way!" he said and walked out


"lvan is right Dianna, if the Guardian is still alive we need to hunt her down before she does something again" Eric said


"I know, I..... I just......" Dianna suddenly began falling to the ground


"Dianna!!?" I yelled as Eric and I quickly caught her


"Get the car keys!!!" I yelled at Eric and he quickly ran to get the keys


We carried Dianna into the car and Eric drove at a high speed to the hospital


We got to the hospital and we rushed down with Eric carrying Dianna


The hospital seemed to be in commotion too as several ambulance arrived from what seemed like and accident scene so no doctor was stopping to attend to us


I saw a doctor passing us by and I grabbed him by the collar


"You will attend to my sister, now!!" I said coldly pushing him towards where Eric and Dianna was


"Come with me" the doctor said and we followed him


We dropped Dianna on a bed and the doctor started examining her


"Why is her blood pressure so low! Is there anything I need to know about her condition?" the doctor asked


"She's pregnant" Gia said


"Pregnant?! Then why did you allow her blood pressure to drop so low! Get me a nurse now!!" the doctor said and Eric quickly dashed out and soon he was back grabbing a nurse by the arm and pushing her into the room


"Why...."


"I told him to bring you here, I need an IV fluid now!" the doctor said and the nurse quickly ran out to get it and soon she was back with the IV fluid


"I'll need you two excuse us" the doctor said and Eric and I remained standing


"I need you two excuse us so we can proceed with the treatment!" the doctor repeated


"That's my sister laying there doctor, now until she wakes up from that bed, I am certainly not leaving her side so let's stop wasting the time we don't have doctor and proceed with the treatment because if anything happens to my sister or my unborn niece as a result of your incompetency, I'll make you wish you were never born!" I said and the doctor hesitated a bit, then started the treatment


Ivan's POV
I went round the county and into the bayou in search of the Guardian


"Where the bloody hell are you?" I grumbled


On my way out of the bayou, I bumped into a lady


"Sophie?"


"You remember the pretty bartender today, I thought you only recognized me in the bar" she said


"Not now Sophie"


"Ivan...."


"I said not now!!!" I yelled


She was silent for a moment then she sighed
"Do you usually undergo all this mood swings or something?" she asked


"Sophie...."


"What is going on?" she asked


"I need to find someone"


"Then just perform a locator spell, isn't that how things work in this city?" she said


"How do you know that? Aren't you human?" I asked


"Partly" she shrugged "Dad's human and Mom is a witch, though she's dead"


"So you know how to perform a locator spell?" I asked


"Since Mom died, I had no one to help me harness my witchcraft talent so I lived most of my life as a human but once in a while, I do dabble in....


"Do you know how to perform a locator spell Sophie?!" He asked looking impatient


"Am not sure but I can try" she said


"I need you to perform a locator spell for me"


"Follow me then" she said and I followed to her as she walked into the bayou


We got to an old looking place and she stopped


"What is this place?" I asked


"My granny's home, thou she's not breathing now" she said


She entered inside and I followed


"My granny was a witch too and so she has alot of spell ingredients" she said as she got somethings from the shelf and dropped them on the table


"What is the name of the one you want to find?" I asked


"Aria Dixon" I said


She made a circle with a white powder on a glass and began chanting some spells


The glass suddenly explodes and she flinched


"She cloaked herself, I will not be able to find her" Sophie said


"Damn you Guardian!!" I said furious


"Did you just say the Guardian? Is that who you are looking for? Aria Dixon, guardian of the Hell Gates?" Sophie asked


"How the hell do you know about the Guardian of The Hell Gates and you know nothing about the Hammingtons" I said


"I know Aria Dixon because she killed my mother, don't ask me how or why, I don't wanna talk about it" she said and I nodded


"Okay"


"So about the spell, you are coming to a novice like me to perform a locator spell on one of the powerful witches in this city?! It is obviously going to be a dead end" she said


"I didn't come to you, we just happened to meet" I said and she shook her head


"What you need to do Ivan is cut a diamond with a diamond, I know a very powerful witch down the street that might be able to help you, only problem is she isn't that cooperative" Sophie said


"Don't worry Sophie, I can be very persuasive if I want to be" I smirked


We walked out of the cottage together to an alley down the street


"What is this place?" I asked as we walked down a dark alley


"They call it the witches asylum, it's a place where powerful crazy witches with no control are kept, far away from the humans to avoid them hurting the humans" Sophie explained


We reached a small tiny house down the alley and Sophie stopped


"Ready?" she asked


"Always" I said as I opened the door


A black eagle suddenly flew out immediately I opened the door and Sophie cringed, holding my arm tightly


"It's just an eagle, do you get scared so easily?" I asked


"Am not....scared....who....who said I was scared?" she stuttered still clutching to my arm tightly


"This is why I always go solo on a mission" I shook my head and walked inside


An old looking woman with long unkept hair was seated in the center of the living room with a python round her neck


She suddenly sprang up and walked towards me rubbing her python all over me
Sophie squealed and quickly moved back


"The bloody aura that surrounds you is one like no other, in the history of mankind there's only one beastly enough to have this kind of killer aura and it excites me that such a killer found me worthy enough for a visit, it's a pleasure to meet you Ivan Hammington, I am called Martha" the old woman said


"I need you to do something for me Martha" I said


"Straight to the point, your reputation precedes you" Martha said "What do you need me to do?"


"I need you too perform a locator spell on the Guardian of The Hell Gates" I said


"The Guardian of the hell Gates? That will take a lot of my power, what do I get in return?"


"What do you want?" I asked


"I cannot request anything much from you Ivan Hammington, just the fact that someone as great as you are is seeking for my help is enough payment. Did the Guardian perform a spell on you recently?" she asked


"Yes, she casted a bloody inscription spell on our arms"


"Then I shall need your blood"


"My blood?" I asked


"The inscription spell is a magic that affects your blood and such a powerful magic always leaves a signature, with your blood, I can try to trace her spell back to her and get her location for you" She said and I brought out a dagger from my pocket


"Where do you want the blood?" I asked and she quickly brought a bowl


"Here" She brought forward a bowl and I made a cut on my hand with the dagger and my blood flowed into the bowl


"This won't take long" she said as quickly got a large map, spread some of my blood over the map and started chanting some spells


The blood on the map slowly started to drift and slowly, the droplets of blood all flowed to a particular location


"Here" she said pointing at where the blood had converge "The one you are looking for is downtown, in the house of the head of the witches"


"Head of the witches?!" I asked surprised


"Eva Jones, yes" Martha said


"I am going to kill her" I said and walked out angrily


"Ivan!!" Sophie called as she ran after me


"Go back home Sophie" I said without stopping


"Where are you going?" she asked


"To brutally murder two certain witches that attempted to deceive my family and I" I said


"I don't understand" she said


"I don't expect you to"


"Ivan....."


"I said go home!!!" I yelled and she flinched, staring at me like I had suddenly transformed into some kind of monster


"Go home Sophie" I said trying not to shout anymore


"No, am going with you"


"Sophie......"


"I am going with you Ivan" she said adamantly


"Aria and Eva connived and deceived my family when the were actually working together, I am going to make her suffer and you wouldn't want to witness that, you don't know who I am or...."


"I know who you are, Ivan Hammington, the second sibling of the evil and immortal Hammington family, I know exactly who you are Ivan Hammington" she said


"You told me you didn't know!"


"I lied" She said


"Why?"


"I didn't realize you were really Ivan Hammington at first, I thought you are one of those people that scared people pretending to be a Hammington but I realized you were really a Hammington on our second meeting, I continued with the lie because I thought that would be the safest thing to do, I....."


"You thought I will kill you if you told me you knew my true identity, like everyone else, you thought of me as a beast"


"Ivan...."


"Keep your deceitful self away from me, the next time you come in front of me, I will really kill you" I said and walked out leaving Sophie alone in the dark alley.....