Light in Darkness - Tammy (learn to read activity book .txt) 📗

was just warm, the perfect blend of the two. I knew it would be pricey but looked at the price tag anyway. Seventy-five dollars, and elegant script read on the back of the tag. I sighed and hung it back up.
“Maybe next month.” I said and noticed Elle glance at the cashier.
“Yeah, next month.”
“Doesn’t matter, let’s go get a rug.”
“Listen you know which ones I like, I have to talk to the cashier girl. I think I know her from somewhere.”
“Okay sure.” I went to the rug area and looked at the three we liked best. It took me twenty minutes but I settled on the multi-colored one. It was kind of a shag carpet but was very soft. It started dark blue on one end and then faded to a purple. From there it faded to pink all the way into a dark red. It was amazingly only twenty-five dollars so I headed to the register where Elle was waiting.
“Decide on one?”
“Yup, I love this one, it’s absolutely gorgeous.”
“It really is.” We paid for the rug and then went to the beauty store. In side of course I ended up buying more than just eyeliner. I also bought new mascara and a twenty pack of false lashes. We headed back to the school and reached the forest when Elle turned to me.
“I’m going to go for a walk. Come get me when you have all the supplies you need for me arranged okay?” I nodded and then left. She went into the forest where I could see her quickly find her favorite trail. When I went back to our dorm Oskan was waiting for me.
“Where’s Elle?”
“Taking her usual walk. I’m arranging the makeup and hair supplies for my work station. It will be a shorter process than if I’m disorganized.”
“That’s nice. Anything else you have to do while she’s out?” He asked as we sat in my room. Well he sat on my bed while I sat on my chair.
“Nope.” I said putting the eyeliner on the table and then whirling and wheeling my chair to my makeup organizer. It had sixteen drawers that were jam packed. I opened the one that I had labeled eyes and pulled out my matte and shimmery silver eye shadows. Then I pulled our my white shimmery highlight and the brown eyeliner. Then I opened the ‘cheek’ drawer and pulled out bronzer and a soft peach blush. Then I wheeled to my bookshelf where I pulled out a photos for inspiration with my left hand while my right fumbled for my curling iron.
“Looking for this?” Oskan asked handing me the exact two curling irons I needed.
“Why yes thank you.”
“Just speeding up the process for you.”
“And why would we be doing that?”
“No reason really.”
“Alright then, put those on the right side of the vanity.” I told him before pulling out all the hair styling products I thought I might need. When I was done I scanned the pictures and circled the things I was going to do with Elle in blue pen. Then I set them in the middle of the organized line of products. “Now what were you rushing me for?” I asked wheeling around to see him.
“For this reason.” He pulled me to him and then muttered a spell. Then he pulled me onto my lap and started kissing me. I knew we shouldn’t but I kept kissing him. A few minutes later I felt a burning on my neck. I pulled back to see Oskan sigh. “Did I burn you?”
“Yup, you sure did.” I said healing it. “Now what was that spell for?”
“It was supposed to keep me under control but it didn’t work.”
“That sucks.”
“Yeah it does.” He said and then I gasped. I felt like the wind had been knocked out of me. “What? Aqua what is it?”
“Elle, come on we have to go.” I said pulling him up and running outside. I ran toward the forest. Leo saw us running and followed.
“What is going on?” Leo asked.
“I don’t know.” Oskan answered. “Aqua what is going on?”
“Elle something is wrong with her. I felt it through the bond.” I said and Leo ran harder. We found her a minute later sobbing a bit in the middle of her trail.“Elle?” I walked over with Leo and he put his hand on her shoulder. Then she whirled around and cried harder than before into his shoulder. She almost fell but he caught her.
“What happened?” Leo asked and she shook her head.
“I don’t know. I was just walking… and then…” She tried to catch her breath and sobbed more.
“It’s okay take you time.” I told her which she nodded in response to.
“Then there was blackness all around me. I couldn’t breathe… then I passed out. Then there was this message.”
“A message?”
“Yeah a guy came out of fog. I was having a vision sort of. Then he well he told me that I had better run. And to stop doing witchcraft. That he was coming for me and that I may be the one to survive out of us in the future but I wasn’t going to again. He said something about being from the future. He showed me pictures of all of your deaths. It was terrible. You died from different things, being burnt, spells and other things.” She shuddered and took a deep breath.
“What did this man look like?”
“He was bald with a black witch hunting sign on his forehead. He was cloaked in black and had long black fingernails. It wasn’t nail polish though, it was his actual nail.” She answered and I looked around. I thought hard but couldn’t get the mental image matched with an actual picture. “Can I have a few moments alone with Leo please?” She looked happy to be in his arms so I nodded taking Oskan’s hand and pulling him into the thicker part of the forest.
“What do you think the thing that attacked Elle was?” Oskan asked but I already had figured out the answer.
“Witch hunters, ones that have witches and dark spirits on their side. Maybe the spirits of those who lost loved ones to the witches. The witches probably don’t like magick and want to renounce magick. If that is the case they probably would tag team with dark spirits. Dark spirits don’t care if they kill humans or have to kill others as long as they eventually get their desired targets.” I explained as he nodded and his eyes grew wider.
“They must be working with someone on the inside of the school.”
“True the school has way to many protection spells to be penetrated by even the darkest and strongest forces.”
“Do you think the teachers would let us do a search of different dorms?”
“Yes but it will be hard. We will have to have some teachers help us. There are too many dorms for the four of us to do alone even if we each did an element.”
“Good point, when Elle and Leo are done we should tell them.”
“Of course.” Then, speak of a twin; there Elle was with Leo, their hands intertwined. I raised my eyebrows and made a heart shape in the air with my hands.
“Yes we are ‘fixed’ if that’s what you call it.” Elle laughed and I smiled.
“Thank the Goddess! I was about to pass out from the drama between you two. Also I’m sorry but I have to. I told you so, I knew you couldn’t resist him.”
“Yeah yeah, now what were you two talking about?”
“What attacked you and what we have to do to start stopping it.” She looked confused so I briefed her on me and Oskan’s conversation.
“That is a good thing to do but the searches would have to be random and secret. Otherwise whatever or whoever is helping them would know to hide their stuff or themelves.”
“True, but when to do it. I know tonight, people won’t notice if we don’t show up for once. “
“Yeah let’s go talk to the dean.” We left for the dean but when we arrived we saw iron filings in a pile in front of his door. I was alarmed and looked at Oskan. We quickly moved the filings with our hands. We would have used magic but iron filings made magic useless unless it was dark. Which of course being lights, we weren’t going to use any dark magic. He opened the door and we saw the dean passed out with a woman standing above him. She had a knife in her hand but then I realized as she turned around that she wasn’t a lady.
Chapter 11: First encounter
“Well hello there children.”
“Who are you?” Elle asked straight off.
“Well well aren’t we testy? I wouldn’t be. However I’ll answer your question. First you have to guess though.” She smiled and I was creeped out. She had no teeth; most spirits had the image at least. But what little teeth she did have was black. I saw Leo sneakily slide out his phone but she knew. She zoned in on him. “No phones! Play fair.” She said and his phone was gone. Then I recognized her face. She was the lady who had lost her husband in my book. I tried for a name and she smiled turning to me. “I saw a light go off in your eyes, now who am I?”
“You’re Amelia. You are the one who lost your husband. I researched you once and it said you died bitterly.”
“Which is why she’s a dark spirit now.” Elle interjected. And then Amelia flew to her and got directly in her face.
“Interrupting is rude witch.” Then she pulled her knife to Elle’s throat. I made eye contact with Elle and mouthed light. She nodded and I grabbed a hand of Leo’s and one of Oskan’s. I focused on my inner light growing and the coming out. Then I thought of how happy I had felt when I saw Elle and Leo get back together. Then I opened my eyes to see four orbs. I combined them and all of us made it start to float toward Amelia.
“Amelia you don’t have to do this. We’re not all bad you know. I’m sorry about what happened to your husband but that was the past. They call it the past for a reason, so that you will put it past you.”
“I don’t care what you say, witchcraft killed him not bad witches. They are all bad.” She pushed the blade in a little further and then the orb hit her in the back of the head. Her hands flew up and the blade up in the air. Then the rest of her disappeared leaving just her knife in the doorway. I ran to the dean’s desk and pulled out salt. Then I quickly poured it around the knife and muttered a detoxifying spell. Then I pulled out a match and threw it on. After three minutes I used water to extinguish the fire. Then I picked up the knife turning to see the principal waking up. I don’t know why but I hid the knife in my shoe.
“What happened? Why are you four here?” The dean asked.
“You were attacked. By an evil spirit.” I answered.
“But how did she become an evil spirit?”
“She died bitterly, after her husband. We destroyed her but I think the school should be searched. There are witch hunters in this school. There is no other way this darkness could get in.”
“Alright well we will announce it.”
“No, that isn’t wise. A surprise inspection at random times of random sections of the school. We should