Elizabeth was sitting in Ms Philip’s office when she regained her consciousness. June and Meredith were seated next to her.
“What happened? I thought…” Elizabeth tried to speak.
“Well, the three of you just came back from the parabola. The good news is that you have passed the test. You are now ready to be trained as detectives,” Ms Philip said in her calm, unconcerned tone.
“I don’t understand,” Victoria said.
“The Archfiend Monster project was a test to see if the three of you have potential and if you could work together as a team. Of course, we will not put you up against a real monster, Would we?” Ms Philip said in her icy tone.
The three of them looked at her in disbelief. Minutes later they stepped into the hallway smiling.
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Elizabeth entered her room and turned the lights on. She took a few moments to let everything sink in. She thought about the
While Elizabeth and Holly were walking back to the B&B, Kathy and her two friends, stood far away and looked at the two girls who had checked into the diner a few hours ago with a man. Kathy wondered what could possibly have brought them here. They were elegantly dressed and looked like ‘big-city girls.I would love to mirror that one,” Kathy said pointing towards Bonnie.I like the other one,” Meryl said. “She looks quite exotic. Do you think she probably has some Asian blood? I mean, look at her eyes.”Kathy looked at Meryl and both burst out into laughter.The guy who accompanied them was already bored with the conversation, so he decided to take a leave.“I’m off now,” he said. “And you know where to find me, in case…” he said, boredom obvious in his voice.“Good luck Edward,&rdq
They returned to the B&B late at night, but Elizabeth could not sleep at all. Next morning, when she set out to get some fresh air, she met Tessa on the jogging track. They jogged on for a while and later, Tessa offered her a coffee. Elizabeth looked at the time. She was not expecting to see Lady and Holly for two hours, so she agreed. After coffee when they walked back to the B&B Elizabeth realized that she had loved the small talk with Tessa. She was not sure if it was just a change, having a friend outside the supernatural world or it was something more.When Holly woke up that morning, she saw Elizabeth and Tessa returning from their walk. A broad smile spread across her face, but it vanished as quickly as it had appeared when her excitement was overshadowed by concern. Elizabeth came from a world of supernatural and no matter what, she was going to have to return to that world. Holly just feared for the heart break that Elizabeth was going to have, and she
At night Elizabeth once again woke up horrified and sweating profusely. The nightmares were getting worse and Zai was in her head often. She lay flat on her bed and pulled on the covers. She knew she must get some sleep because she had a long day ahead of her.On the other hand, Zai was happy with the creation of the Gemini curse. She was already bound to Elizabeth and with the creation of power of the Gemini, she was becoming able to exercise greater influence over Bonnie’s mind. Zai knew that the curse could be activated every seventy years and she was glad that this time the ones who had chosen to activate it were the soulless Sri-Wilde. It was to her advantage that Elizabeth remained unaware of the fact of activation of Gemini complex. It gave her an advan
After lunch break, Elizabeth hurried towards the main office. Too little time and she had too much to do. Northstar and Alan along with another one of their colleagues had left on a mission, assigning most of the tasks to Elizabeth and Elizabeth. Elizabeth was a newbie who knew far lesser than Elizabeth. This meant that Elizabeth had to take care of a lot more stuff than she could handle, and she was overwhelmed.“Elizabeth!” Elizabeth called out from across the hall.“Yes?” Elizabeth sighed.“Detective Morris is waiting for you in his office,” Elizabeth informed.“Who?... Northstar?” Elizabeth asked with surprise.“Yes, he’s here to see you,” Elizabeth confirmed.Elizabeth looked at the open door on her left and walked in.“Northstar? What are you doing here,” Elizabeth said entering his office? “I thought, you were…”“Alan a
Once inside the hotel, Northstar and Elizabeth waited in the lobby while Agatha checked them in and got the keys to their rooms.“Looks like there is a lot of drama surrounding the whole thing and the press is making a big deal out of it,” Northstar said pointing at a TV screen in the lobby that showed an anchor-person speaking to a police officer in a foreign language. “Anyway, the course of action should be to visit the places like tourists and look for leads. It is really going to be no more than hit and trial.”“I can book us on the tour guide bus,” Agatha offered cheerfully.Elizabeth stared at him sharply.“Or maybe not,” he shrugged, quickly altering his statement.“Well, it’s already late. For today, let us hang around in the vicinity of the hotel to see if we could find a lead,” Northstar suggested getting up to leave the hotel.Once outside, the three of them walked
The figure near the door quickly turned away and walked out of the door. Elizabeth caught a glimpse of the shadowy figure and she wondered if they were being followed but when they stepped outside, everything seemed normal to her. They walked a few blocks and then took a left, heading towards the old bridge and the creek. The road to the creek was incredibly quiet. It was past 5 o’ clock and there was no activity around the post office building and the community school at this time of the day.Suddenly Elizabeth saw a strange figure emerge and disappear quickly in distance.“That’s it,” she shouted.“Finally,” Agatha said with excitement.He too had spotted something vague, more like a shadow.The three of them set out to follow it. Elizabeth fervently tried to cast a tracing spell while running. She shot in the direction of an old building, made up of grey stone. Northstar and Agatha followed her. She stopped in
The Local church was an old building, and the graveyard was right next to the church. When Northstar, Elizabeth and Agatha arrived, the funeral service had ended.Three police officers were going around handing posters with a sketch of the suspect asking people if they had a clue about the killings. Agatha detached himself from a group of locals he had started a conversation with and walked towards Elizabeth holding a poster.“Here, look at the sketch made by the human police. It quite matches him,” he remarked jokingly pointing at the priest who was standing in the middle of a group of people, his back towards Elizabeth.Elizabeth eyed Agatha angrily.“Professor Edward, I am so sorry about Ethan,” a middle-aged woman said to a man standing close by.Elizabeth shoved the poster written in foreign language in Agatha’ hand, quickly walking over to the professor, introducing herself as a tourist. Both Northstar and Agatha
After the crack of the dawn, Northstar, Elizabeth and Agatha made their way back to the hotel, now sure that the creature was dead. Mallory had already departed feeling depressed as she could not find any links to her son. Now she stood in the corner of an isolated building, not extremely far from the creek. Suddenly, a woman wearing a white trench coat with red flames on the bottom materialized in front of her.“Good day Mallory,” Maria said.Mallory acknowledged the greeting with a nod.“Hmmm, Northstar Morris!” Maria said. “Guess he would be really impressed to see me again after a long time. He gave me a few chases, without being successful, of course. And was not that the girl they found instead of me when they were trying to catch me so that I could be the slave of the Paranormal Authority for eternity. I really wanted to surprise him but now wasn’t the time or the place.”Maria’s eyes glared with mean