Chapter 19: Blood Spell

Gia's POV
I slowly walked into Eva's Mansion and met the corpses of all the witches we killed laid on the floor with Eva sitting in front of them and staring into the empty space


"Eva" I called and she looked up at me


"Did you guys change your mind, have you come back to kill me?" she asked "If yes then go ahead, am already dying silently from staring at the corpses of so many of my witches"


"Eva...."


"Go ahead, kill me, I won't fight back" she said


"Am not here to kill you Eva! Something happened to Ivan so we need your help" I said


"My help?" She laughed "Did you really come hear thinking I'll help you? After all you've done? After all this?!!" she yelled pointing at the corpses


"I didn't expect to agree voluntarily" I said


"So what? You plan on forcing me?"


"If I have to, my brother's life is more important than any emotional sentiments" I said


"And what about them?!! Weren't their lives important too!!" she yelled pointing at the corpses "They had a family too, brothers, sisters, husbands, children, they had a family too!!! But you do not care do you? Anyone who is not a Hammington is nothing to you lot!!" She yelled with a breaking voice


"Am sorry Eva" I said as I moved closer to her


"Your sorry will not bring my witches back!"


"I wasn't apologizing for killing your witches, the apology is for this" I said as I punched her on the face with my freezing hand and she collapsed


"Am sorry but I have to save my brother and I cannot afford to be sentimental" I said as I lifted her up on my shoulder and walked off


Dianna's POV
"Why the hell is it so dark and silent around here?" I asked as we walked down the alley


"This is the normal atmosphere of the witches asylum" Sophie said


"The witch's asylum?" I asked


"Yeah, like a prison for mad and crazy witches that has the potential of harming humans, such witches are trapped here, unable to go out of the alley" Sophie explained


"Right, am sure if Eva have the chance, she'll lock my siblings and I here too" I said


We got towards a door and Sophie stopped
"Here, Martha stays here but you have to be careful she is....." I pushed door open and I heard Sophie sigh


"You all never listen" she muttered


We walked into the dark and eerie looking room


"What the bloody hell is going on here?" I said as I saw an old looking woman in the center of the room with her hands dipped in a bowl containing blood and chanting something inaudible
The blood in the bowl started moving inside her hand and soon, there was no more blood left in the bowl


"You must be Martha" I said and she opened her eyes


"Oh my, the second Hammington visiting my domain today, how lucky I am!" she said standing up


"What did you do to my brother?" I asked


"What did I do to him?" She shrugged


I sighed
"You know what Martha, few hours ago, I was unconscious in a hospital and immediately I woke up, I heard my siblings were in trouble and I had to go save them, I came back home thinking I could finally get some rest but Ivan collapsed and it was your name he mentioned before he went unconscious, from my explanation, am sure you can deduce that I had a really rough day and am in no good moods for jokes, so Martha, when I ask you a fucking question, you fucking answer me before I loose it!"


"Okay fine, apologies for the disrespect I've shown you, I mean how can I be so disrespectful to the sister of the one who's going save my life and free me from this place" she said


"What?"


"I can only tell you one thing, your brother? He's mine" She smiled and suddenly disappeared


"Martha!!!" I yelled as I heard her loud cackle echoing through out the alley


There was a sudden thunderous sound and the alley became less darker and darker and soon, everywhere was all bright


"What the hell is going?!"


"She broke the boundary spell capturing the crazy witches here and preventing them from leaving, now all the witches in this asylum will escape and no one will be safe" Sophie said


The witches in the alley started coming one by one and when they realize the boundary keeping them prisoners had disappeared, they all ran out and escaped


"Why aren't you stopping them?!" Sophie said


"What will I gain from that?" I said as I walked out and she quickly followed me


Eric's POV
I paced round the room, then looked at Ivan's unconscious body
I hate this
I hate being unable to do anything to save the people I care about


The suddenly flew open and Gia walked in with Eva on her shoulder


She dropped her on the ground and heaved a sigh
"Man, she was heavy!"


"What the bloody hell did you to her?!"


"She was proving stubborn and didn't want to come with me so I just knocked her out that's all" Gia shrugged


"You were asked to bring her here not knock her out!" I yelled


"Yes I was asked to bring her here and I did so mission complete!" she said


"She....."


"Ahhh!!!" Eva suddenly screamed and sprang up
"The broke it, the boundary spell confining the witch's asylum, they broke it" she said looking around at no one in particular


The door opened again and Dianna and Sophie walked in
Dianna went straight to Eva


"Eva"


"What did you do?! How were they able to escape from the asylum?! How did they break the boundary spell?!" Eva asked


"I don't know but I believe it has something to do with Ivan and Martha and that's what I need you to find out" Dianna said


"Martha?"


"The crazy witch in the asylum" Sophie said


"How the hell did Ivan and Martha meet?!" Eva asked


"He was looking for a witch to run a locator spell for him, so I took him to Martha" Sophie explained


"You took him to Martha?! You took him to one of the craziest witch in this city?!" she yelled


"Eva...."


"Martha was confined in the asylum for a reason, she was a power monger that sacrificed children to get more power, Martha doesn't do anything for free, Martha doesn't do favours, when she helps you, she'll definitely get something greater from you in return, how could you be so careless to take Ivan to such a witch!!!" Eva yelled again


"Am....am sorry" Sophie stuttered


"What exactly is going on?" I asked


Eva went to where Ivan was and his hands that was already filled with black veins and she started chanting some spell


"When Ivan met Martha, did she ask him to do anything?" Eva asked


"No, she just helped him with performing the locator spell" Sophie said


"And how exactly did she perform the locator spell?"


"She...umm....she asked for his blood, said Ivan's blood was already tainted by the Guardian's magic, so she could track the Guardian with Ivan's blood" Sophie explained


"Sneaky Martha, no wonder she was able to break the boundary spell surrounding the asylum" Eva said and looked up at us "She did perform the locator spell with Ivan's blood but then she used Ivan's remaining blood to link him and herself together, it's a very powerful blood spell, it's like a parasitic relationship between Ivan and Martha, Ivan being the host and Martha the parasite, she's slowly drawing all of Ivan's powers into herself and that's what accounts for the black veins on Ivan's body, when those black veins extends throughout all of Ivan's body, that means Martha have succeeded in taking all of Ivan's powers including his immortality and Ivan will never wake up again".......