Chapter 5

Kate looked at the clock that was in the living room, something was definitely wrong with Nova.

This was the first time she was waking up late for her lessons, the first time she had missed a lesson too considering how she returned late the other night and how she went to sleep immediately.

She also reeked of a foreign cologne that wasn't hers neither was it used by her.

She had noticed how she went to her room without even checking to see if her grandmother was still up to explain why she returned late not why she missed her demon training.

Perhaps she was rebelling. Or was the wolfsbane she had been giving not enough to expell her wolfy features?

Was she going to wolf out on her Eighteenth birthday which was a few days coming. Was he going to try finding her roots, forgetting the task which she had been training her.

Questions and more swam through out Kate's mind as she wondered what could be wrong with her adolescent granddaughter.

Her attention got shifted by Nova's cellphone that began to ring.

She found it on the floor of the stairs, perhaps it has fallen down while Nova was trying to sneak in last night.

She answered the call.

"Hello Nova, I'm curious whether you saw my message last night" went the voice.

" Like I said in it, I want us to end this. Nothing ever happened between us which is a good thing and I want you to take it that way. You were never my girlfriend, neither were you a friend. You were a substitute like I told you. I don't want you going about telling people that I dated you or anything of sort. I never did. I don't want to hear baseless rumors because I wouldn't want my girlfriend to start having weird feelings about me. No hard issues , but I'd also want you to fuck out of my life. We never knew each other, please respect it that way!" He finished.

" Hello?" He went noticing that she was not replying.

" Hey Nova!"

"Nova you're not replying! I hope you're not getting any funny ideas? You wouldn't like what I'd do to you if you do so"

" Nova" he screamed across the cellphone.

Kate ended the call. She was furious.

Her fingers moved freely on the cellphone as she went to her granddaughters messages.

She saw the message in question.

Truly he had sent her a message telling her that she was a stand-in, but what infuriated Kate the most was the fact that she had sent her granddaughter a video of him making out with the girl.

What did he expect her to do with it she questioned no one in particular.

" Grandma stop looking over people's stuffs!" Nova screamed as she reached out to grab her cellphone away from her.

The cellphone ringing has woken her up and she made to search for it in her room, only to recall that she had misplaced it, which made her go out of her room to look for it.

Kate shot an angry look at her.

"Was this why you came home late yesterday?"

Nova did not respond, instead she made to go to her room but she felt her hand being held by her grandmother.

"I am trying my best to train you for your future, but instead you're throwing it all away because of a man!!!! A human Nova! How many times would I have to remind you that you are the Chosen Seed, the Chosen One!! You are not like other people and shouldn't live in mediocrity like others! Your type are rare! You are supposed to be strong and powerful! But instead you're missing your trainings because of a human?"

Nova did not reply.

She did not have the intentions of replying. This wasn't the first time she was saying this to her nor would it be the last. If it got worse, she'd be locked in her room for a week with no food nor water till she apologized and promised to be diligent in her trainings.

That was it. She wasn't scared of being locked anymore and especially not at the moment.

She was still engrossed by what happened the other night.

Kate said nothing again, instead she dragged her with her as she went of the house.

" Where are we going? I cannot even dressed up!"

" Grandmother!"

" Grandma where are we going?!"....

She kept asking much to the dismissal of Kate who offered her no explanations.

Nova watched as the scenery changed from thick forests filled with leaves and trees to a mansion which she could recognize.

"Did you read my mind? Why did you read my mind Grandmother? Why have you brought me to Lucas'house? "

" I have come here to set things right with you. You better obey me, if you do not want to see my wrath as well!" She fired.

Nova kept calm. She knew this moment. She knew this side of her grandmother's. Nothing could appease her. No one could unless she got what she wanted. This was a part of her she had always prayed not to witness.

Kate knocked at the Iron gated doors of the mansion.

She knocked again the second time.

That was it, she ran out of patience.

Looking at the door lock, she blinked her eyes angrily and the doors went jar with a chilling wind brushing it's way Inside.

Lucas ran out of where he was to check what was the cause and was surprised when he saw Nova.

"To what do I owe this visit? Why have you brought this old hag alongside with you?" He glares.

Kate threw her on the floor.

"I saw the message you sent to my granddaughter's cellphone and I also heard the impunity you spewed to her, while you still have a chance , I order you to apologize to her this instant and in my presence" she ordered.

Lucas looked at her and laughs.

Who did she think she was? He was the only son of the mayor but she was not known, who did she think she was to order him around?

"Mother stop please" Nova pleads as she made to stand from the floor she was on.

" Nova take your old hag grandmother and leave my house. You wouldn't want me to disgrace her, do you?"

By now a maid was coming down from the stairs to check what had caused the noises she heard.

When Kate saw her, she conjured up a killing spell and sent it to her.

Lucas watched her as she held on to her neck, writhing and groaning from pains till she fell from the stairs and died.

Nova looked at her grandmother and noticed she was the one that has done that.

She motioned to her to stop but she knew it was futile.

Her grandma has read Lucas's thoughts.

She has mastered that new power peculiar to the demon's. The power of reading someone's past thoughts.

She was unstoppable now because she had heard his thoughts questioning whom she was since he was the son of the mayor.She hated nothing more than that-- mere humans like she always called them, questioning whom she was.

Lucas watched as the chandeliers fall in his direction. By now he had gotten quiet apprehensive. All the lights had gone off. The windows had been broken too which made more chilling wind and cold to follow the eerie occurrences happening.

Looking up in the darkness, he sees Nova's grandmother burning with fire.

He thought she was going to burn to death but was surprised when a movement of her arms made the fire follow him.

He groans as he wants to scream but discovers he could not talk anymore.

He writhes in pain and panic as he ran in circles hoping to escape from the fire.

He couldn't feel his tongue not his lungs contract, he couldn't breathe. He struggled.

"Grandmother stopped!" Nova screamed and Kate's attention was diverted.

She stopped and noticed that Lucas' father was back .

Holding Nova she disappeared.

It dawned on Lucas.

She was not a normal being.

She had given him a nightmare, a nightmare he couldn't talk about because he had been made mute.

Nova looked at her grandmother, she was becoming more vicious with each year that passed. She killed more innocent people too If she was angry.

She was becoming evil she could tell, this was not what white witches were known for.

The spells she learnt across different supernatural heritages we're wearing out on her.

She was slowly turning into a black witch.

She bit her lips and felt the pains from the bites she received the other night. She remembered the stranger with the crimson gaze.

Would her grandmother kill him too if she found the wound on her lips. She was becoming formidable more than before, she killed anyone who crossed her path more often now than before. Her reasons were unknown but the urgency at which she carried them out scared Nova.

She couldn't tell whether the stranger would be killed too if her grandmother found out and she didn't want it to happen either. Atleast till after he showed her the second greatest pleasure better than a kiss.