Sydney’s POV:
” Her name is Riley. I met her in 10th grade. I don’t know how everything happened so fastly. But we can’t resist each other. She’s been with me all the time. The two persons I can trust with my whole life is Riley and Pheobe.”
“What about your parents?” I interrupted him. The look on his face answered my question. He must have lost his parents. Just like me, but my life is different from his.
” I am sorry,”
” It’s okay. I don’t want any sympathy for me. After I died, Uncle helped me to watch what’s going on Earth from a Magical crystal. That’s when I know, Riley moved on. According to the news, I and Pheobe are missing. The detectives are searching but can’t find a single clue about us. It’s good. They will never find us. What’s there to bother if I have no one to care about me on Earth?” he said emotionally. I want to make him feel better. I don’t know how to encourage Mason.
” Riley must really care about you. You can’t decide she moved on from seeing it through the crystal,”
” Maybe or maybe not. We never got a chance to get close. I went to find my sister on the day when I proposed her. I never returned. We have been friends for three years and that’s it,”
” Maybe your life will get better if you go back to Earth again. You can meet Riley again. Let’s go. I will do anything to help you, Mason,” I said and motivated him to get up. We can’t sit here forever.
” Thanks. But don’t be sympathetic to me. I hate it,” Mason said with his all-time attitude.
” Fine. I don’t care about you. Now come on. Lead the way. Don’t make me say it many times,” I said getting out of the sad mode. I thought he will tell everything about his high school. I can say I want to know about Earth than I want to know about him. What will Humans study in High school? How can they live without magic? I want to experience it atleast for a day. I will do it if I get back with Jacen. Jacen and I living on Earth for a day or maybe a week.
” Where do you live on Earth?”
” New Orleans,”
” Cool. Can you book me a hotel to stay in if we are done with this mission?”
” Seriously, you want to stay on Earth?” he asked like it’s not a good decision.
” Why? What’s wrong with that? I believe I will bring back your life. So will you do that?”
” If I get my life back, I will help you. But why do you want to live on Earth when you have all the magic and facilities in your Paranormal city. Earth must be boring for you,”
” I want to experience something different. Don’t you know that Witches…” Mason slammed a hand on my mouth stopping me from saying anything?
” Shh… Someone’s here,”
‘What? There’s no one here than us’ I thought to myself as I can’t able to utter those words right now.
” I can hear some footsteps. Wait… is it a wheel? What the heck?” he whispered.
” You are hallucinate…” I didn’t even finish the full sentence as I am bringing his hands down from my mouth.
” Hallucinate is my favorite Dua lipa song. But now I am not hallucinating,” he whispered again looking at all the direction.
” Who is Dua Lipa? What’s wrong with you?” I shouted and heard a much louder voice behind us. He’s right. Someone’s here.
” Who are you? Why are you wandering here?” A hoarse voice says. I turned to face the person but that’s not a person like I expected.
My eyes looked at it from downwards. He’s wrapped in a black dress and a hoodie on the head. But where’s the face? I can only see the skeleton structure instead of a human face. There are three of them with a carriage behind them. each one is having an axe in those skeleton hands. The Carriage is tied to two horses which looked lifeless and equal to a corpse. But behind the carriage, there’s a prison cell without anyone.
” We… we are dead,” Mason said including me in the dead list. He brought me closer to him and whispered in my ear.
” Just lie. Don’t make them doubt, you are alive,”
” I will make sure you are really dead,” the hoarse says bringing the axe straight on us. Before it could harm Mason, I lifted my hand sending a crystal blue light that threw the skeleton forcefully. I heard a crackling sound on the one skeleton which approached us.
” I told you not to do anything stupid,” Mason shouted anxiously at me. If I let those skeleton do what it’s doing, it would have killed us with the axe. Who’s stupid here? It’s not me.
” I did the right thing. It’s just a vulnerable skeleton,” I said pointing my hands at it but the broken bones of it joined together again before my eyes.
” Is it vulnerable, Sapphire?” Mason watched me angrily.
” You both are coming with us. Let’s take them to the Queen,” Another skeleton ordered us and approached the prison cell.
” Queen? Lilith? I am coming,” I said like a fairy godmother is calling Cinderella to enter the pumpkin carriage.
” What are you… Sapphire.. stop,” Mason pulled me towards him.
” Why are stopping me?” I yelled as at the right time the three skeletons pointed the Axe at us. There’s no way to go out. Mason and I raised our hands at the same time, telling them we are surrendering.
” You never take anything seriously. Do you?” Mason muttered as we headed inside the cell.
” I don’t know. Do I?” I questioned him about me. The skeletons locked the cell and the horse started moving in a few minutes.
” Clearly, no,”