Chapter 22: Whatever Means Necessary

Sophie's POV
I stared at Ivan's unconscious body as the black veins slowly advanced towards his face
I wanted to touch, hold his hand and give him a little bit of comfort but I was scared
One of his hands was still bringing out flames and the ground in which he placed it was reddish hot
Even though he's unconscious with the black veins slowly consumimg him, he still looked pretty dangerous and I felt like the moment I touch him, he'll spring up and scold me for having the guts to touch him and drive me away from his side


"Please wake up, please wake up" I prayed silently


Dianna's POV
I stood in front of the the old city church with the little witch


"It be best if you stay out here and not come in" I said as I looked around and got a stake laying on the floor


I walked into the church and met an all the witches that escaped from the asylum there


"Is this all of you that escaped from the witch's asylum?" I laughed
"You guys are just making things easy for me"


"Whoever you are, I know Eva sent you but you should know this, you are no match for us all" one of the witches said and the other quickly held her back and whispered something to her and she cringed


"You.....you are really Dianna Hammington?" she stuttered


"I didn't know I was popular with you guys too" I said and one of the witches walked up to me


"Even if you are a Hammington, there's one of you and there's 19 of us, we are at better odds of winning than you are" she said and I smiled


"I annihilated a whole city on my own long before your great grandma was even born so think again sweetheart"


"Isn't that all you have to say" she said and turned to her fellow witches
"All the Hammingtons have been doing is live on their past achievements and the fables created for them thereby using it to instill fear on people, if she was so powerful she wouldn't be here working for Eva, she is no match for us all because she is weak" she said


"Weak?" I laughed as I plunged the stake on my hand into her heart and she gurgled out blood and slowly fell on the floor


I pulled out the stake from her chest and stood atop her dead body
"Anybody else got some speech to deliver?"


One of the witches suddenly whispered a spell and I went flying to the floor


"Persistent, I like that" I said as I stood and threw my stake to one of the witches throat and she fell down dead with her blood springing out like a pool


"2 down, 17 to go. Come on witches! Time to join your dead little friends" I said and they all ran towards me...


Eva's POV
I stood in front of the Bayou awaiting Eric's arrival


"I am so going to kill you if you end up going to cause trouble Eric Hammington" I muttered


"Miss me?" I heard Eric's voice and I turned back to see him standing right behind me


"Your are late!" I said then I saw the boy with him
"What the hell Eric?"


"Yeah Eva, meet Caleb...."


"Caleb Baker, Martha's son, yeah I know, why the hell did you get him here?!" I asked


"You knew she had a son?" he asked surprised


"Of course I knew, am the head of witches in this city!"


"Then why the bloody hell did you lead us on a pointless search when this can be an arrow leading us right to Martha!" Eric yelled


"Because I didn't want to risk the boy's life but yet again Eric Hammington, you've shown that you care none the less about anyone except your family"


"Because my family is my life!" he yelled "And if you are unable to use Caleb to get Martha, I will do it alone and I promise you Eva I won't care a tad at whatever loss anyone's suffers in the process!"


"Did you even think for once while saying all that, that the boy you are holding his hand might have heard you saying you don't care if he lives or die as long as you are able to save your brother?"


"I saw you whisper a deafening spell on him before you started talking so he can't here us speak, I am no stranger to witchcraft Eva" he said and I sighed


"If anything happens to this little boy by the end of everything, I will kill you Eric Hammington"


"Fair enough" he shrugged


I let out a slow whistle, breaking the deafening spell and little Caleb was able to hear us now


"Hey Caleb" I said and he looked at me


"Are you my real Mom?" he asked


"No dear, but we are gonna help you find her, first, I'll need a strand of your hair, can I pull it?" I asked


"Will it hurt?" he asked


"I promise you, it won't" I said and he nodded


I slowly pulled a little strand of his hair and I patted him
"Good boy"


I performed a locator spell on the hair since Caleb was directly related to Martha, I could use a that connection and fish out Martha from her hiding place
I casted the spell and I saw flashes of Martha slowing drawing all of Ivan's powers in a bell tower


"What did you find?" Eric asked


"She's at the city Bell Tower but we have to be fast, she's almost done absorbing all of your brother's powers" I said


"Let's go then" he said but I held him back


"We aren't taking Caleb with us, it's too risky" I said


"So what do you want me to do? Take Caleb back home while my brother runs out of time?"


"I do not care...."


"But I care Eva and I refuse to stand here participating in another round of argument with you wasting the time that we do not have so here's how things are gonna play out, Caleb will come with us but he'll wait outside the tower while we go in and confront his mother" Eric said


"There's no arguing with you, is there?"


"Am glad you know there isn't so let's go" he walked with the kid and i followed from behind


Gia's POV
I went towards the old city church as fast as I could
I got there and I opened the large doors
I was welcomed with the head of a decapitated of witch being thrown at me


"Dianna!"


"Sorry, didn't know you were coming in, did you get the boy?" she asked and I nodded


"Yeah but I handed him to Eric" I replied


"What?!"


"He's going to use him to get Martha so I decided to trust him with the boy" I said


"That's weird coming from you considering how you hate Eric" she said


"I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt this time, let's hope he doesn't ruin it"


"Let's hope so" She said as she grabbed a witch's hand and ripped it off


"You look messy! And to think I was coming here so fast so I could help you out" I said


"There's still about 7 of them left so I could still use a hand" she said and I nodded


"No problem but I don't plan on fighting as messy and ruthless as you are doing" I said as I grabbed the witch coming at me and froze her face, then I gave her a face punch and her head went scattering on the floor


"See? Simple, no blood spilled and no blood stains on me" I said


Dianna suddenly threw the heart of the witch she ripped out at me and the blood stains my face and body


"Dianna!! I said I want no blood stains!" I yelled


"Oops sorry" she laughed


"You did that deliberately" I said as I angrily caught one of the witches and ripped out her throat


Eric's POV
We got to the Bell Tower and I turned to Caleb


"You wait here for us okay, we'll go bring your mother down to meet you" I said and Eva held my hand and shook her head


She bent down to meet Caleb and placed her hand on his cheek
"Are you tired Caleb?" she asked and Caleb yawned


"A bit" he said


"Maybe you should go to sleep for a while dear" Eva whispered and Caleb suddenly fell asleep and she carried him


She walked in and placed him down the stairs in a safe place


"I believe this method is safer" she said and I nodded


"I think so too, shall we?" I asked


"You go first" she said and I started climbing the stairs while she followed from behind


We got to the end of the stairs and we stood in front of the door


"There's no time Eric, open the door" Eva said and I flung the door open


Martha was standing by the window side with one of her hands bringing out fire like Ivan's used to


"Martha" I called and she turned back


"What's the point Eric Hammington, am almost done with your brother, I just need to get his lightening power too" she said waving her hand that's still normal "And your brother will be lost forever while I bask and rise in my new found powers and immortality"


Eva's POV
"Stop this madness Martha!!" I yelled


"Don't you dare raise your voice at me Eva Jones! You were the one that condemned me to this life, separating me from me from the only one I love and damning me to an eternity in the asylum, infact you should be scared Eva because immediately am done getting all of Ivan's powers, you won't be leaving this room alive" Martha said


"You were crazy and you still are, if I hadn't separated you from everyone you'll have harmed Caleb in your quest for more power"


"Do not mention my little boy!!" Martha yelled


"You mean this little boy?" Eric asked and we both turned to see him holding sleeping Caleb


"How the hell did you get my son?! You claim to be a benevolent leader Eva but you brought my own son here to threaten me?!" Martha said


"What the fuck are you doing Eric! We talked about this, the boy was not to get involved in this!" I yelled at Eric


"You made that decision Eva not me, I came here to save my brother by whatever means necessary" Eric said and turned to Martha


"Eva is a benevolent leader Martha but I on the other side is the opposite, I care nothing about your son so if you do not want him to die by my hands, you will separate yourself from my brother and give him back all his powers!" Eric said


"You will not do anything to my son!"


"Do you really think I am that merciful?!" Eric said as he moved closer to the window and held Caleb with one hand over the window


"Eric!!!!" Martha screamed


"Release my brother or I'll let your little boy fall" Eric said


"Don't, do not harm my boy!!" Martha cried


"Then release my brother! Give him back his powers that you are stealing!!!" Eric yelled


"Fine, I'll.... I'll break the spell I casted on your brother but in return, you'll let me and my son go" Martha said


"Deal" Eric said


"You better not be lying to me Eric Hammington" Martha said


"You have my word Martha, now break the goddamn spell!!" Eric yelled


"Fine"


Martha began chanting some spells and soon her chant got louder and louder
There was a low blue light emanating from Martha and the light got brighter and brighter till Eric and I had to shield our eyes from the blinding light
Martha fell to the ground and the light disappeared


She stood back up and she was all normal now, she had broken the spell


"Keep your word Eric, get my son away from the window" Martha said


"Sure" Eric said and slowly dropped Caleb on the floor


"You are free to go with your son" Eric said
Martha moved closer to get Caleb but Eric suddenly grabbed her throat and threw her off the window of the Bell Tower.....