Chapter Five: Marked a Witch

~Tiffany~

[Late at night]

I was going down the street to get some painkillers, my head's been banging and I really don't know why. Today seems off, I haven't seen my dad since morning, Gina and Zayne didn't come to school, even AJ and his squad were nowhere to be found.

It's like they planned it.

‘Was something going wrong or something had gone wrong?’ I could not help but ask myself these questions.

Lost in my feeble thoughts, I heard a twig crack, my hands started shaking and an uneasy feeling crept over me. My hands do shake whenever I am in danger, I reached for the necklace around my neck, but it was gone.

“Fuck! That necklace had kept me safe since when I was young, and now where did I keep it” I muttered, searching my pocket to see if I would find something useful or not. My legs kept thriving into the woods faster than I had imagined. It was as if some unseen force kept pushing me there.

‘No-no, not here’ I whimpered.

‘This is not where you are meant to go,’ panic hit my chest as I tried to reason with my feet. I felt like a puppet, helpless to resist the will of the strings that controlled me.

Whenever I am in danger my legs always take me to a safe place, but why the forest?

Not the forest.

The danger before me felt so close and surreal that I began pleading with my legs to take me out of there or perhaps move faster. Instead, it did the opposite, walking in the direction that led to death. My heart raced as my legs went into an abrupt stop.

‘Someone should please save me, Dad! Gina, AJ’ I whispered.

‘AJ? Why AJ, why did I think of that name’ my subconscious said as my hands trembled slightly, a metallic tang filled my mouth, the bitter taste of fear, it was near.

I heard some kind of sounds, it was like a song, a very dangerous song.

I blocked my ears trying not to listen and also trying to run out of the woods, but these goddamn fucking legs won't listen, it went to where the sound was coming from, I tried to run, but it was to no avail.

I was losing my mind already and when the creature suddenly came out, I tried to open my mouth to scream, but no sound emerged. I was frozen in terror.

My heart beat faster than I had imagined as I scanned this creature.

This Creature was definitely something else, it was not something I had expected.

The Varmint was extremely beautiful, she had long blue hair, and cold blue eyes which spelled DEATH...the deadly blue-haired girl had fangs but her teeth seemed to be numerous, I could see them because she laughed like I was a triumph.

‘Did I do something to her in my past?’

“Please, don't kill me,” I begged. The deadly extremely beautiful creature didn't say anything.

She sniffs around.

Someone was nearby.

I was grateful.

I thanked the stars for saving me, but an unfortunate incident happened.

I had a panic attack.

How could this happen at a crucial time like this?

I tried to breathe, but my lungs felt like they were on fire. My finger closed around thin air as I struggled to reach for my inhaler, but it fell, I tried my best to pick it up, but it kept moving further; I looked at the blue-haired girl trying to ask for her help, she just growled at me and used her tail to hit a vital part in my neck.

That stings.

I felt extreme pain, choking to death, slowly and slowly I was drifting into darkness. Trepidation hit me hard, afraid that I might not make it out alive; smiling bitterly thinking this was the end for me, but then these dark cold red eyes I briefly saw gave me a tiny bit of hope.

“AJ” I called out and then I blacked out.

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I gasped as I woke up from the bed suddenly, my hands were on my neck.

What the hell happened?

Why was I on the bed?

Is this a dream or did my dad find me?

Scurrying out of my bed, I looked in the mirror, with my pajamas on my body.

Oh! No this is making me feel crazy, I remembered wearing a tank top and a short, not pajamas.

Was I dreaming or insinuating?

The sting on the vital neck, I need to check it.

I hurriedly checked my neck for a mark.

I did see a mark, but it was completely different from the one I was supposed to see.

This looked like a bite mark.

A feeling of uncertainty surges within me.

‘That creature, did it bite me or someone else did?’

I don't remember if the blue-haired girl did so.

Did it?

But who has those red eyes?

As my door clicked open, I threw my pajamas over my neck trying to hide the bruise from view

“Tiffie” Gina called, I heaved a sigh of relief, locked the door, and dragged her to the bed.

‘Maybe Gina could solve this problem, she could tell me what mark was it, but first I need to know if something did happen yesterday’

“Did something happen yesterday?” I asked her the moment her butt rested on the bed.

“What do you mean,” She asked with a confused look.

“Did you go to school yesterday?”

“Oh! That I should have informed you, no I did not and I thought you knew, Zayne and I went out with our family, an urgent situation” Gina responded

“That's good, I thought I was actually insane for a second” I muttered.

“What's wrong?” She queried.

“Something actually happened yesterday, I was almost killed by this kind of beautiful creature, but then this morning I found myself on the bed and I don't know why or how,” I slumped my shoulders after explaining what had happened, my head clicked as I stood up to look for the clothes I wore yesterday.

Seeing my clothes hung on the side, I went to see if my inhaler was intact, but no it wasn't.

Something did happen yesterday, I knew it definitely did.

“A creature? You saw it,” Gina gasped.

“Yes, I did,”

“I need to tell Mom, that might be the creature we were looking for, you need to tell your dad, maybe he could help, did the creature leave any mark or something, and also did you know who came to save you and brought you home?” Gina prattled, her eyes darted from side to side, it was not hard to notice the terrified look on her face filled with concern.

“Yes, it did leave a mark,” I told her as I opened my pajamas to see the bite mark.

~AJ~

“Why the fuck did you leave the pack when we were sorting out a plan,” Dexter yelled at me.

“Dexter, I did something terrible and dangerous,” He took me to the corner, looking at my current situation he closed his eyes and said.

“I'm sure what you did would not surpass the danger coming, that creature is coming to kill all our pack members soon if we do not have a solid plan and we don't know how and what the creature is?” He freaked out.

“What I did was more than that, when I say hordes of witches might come to attack us this instant and we need to save ourselves for the coming war” I inhaled deeply.

“What! Hordes of witches? Don't tell me you killed a witch” He yelled.

“No I did more than that, I marked a witch!” I confessed.