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My heart stopped and the entire world spun violently. I closed my eyes trying desperately to get a handle on what was happening. "Who? Who has him?" I implored him weakly. "Ernie and Pete," he responded just as weakly. Julia must have known who he was talking about better than I because she spat out a harsh "no". Craig nodded and got back on his feet. "They are held up in the basement and are threatening to kill him unless we bring them all the food."My world seemed to crumble right in front of me and there was nothing I could do to prevent it. My husband was gone, my cousin was gone and now I couldn't even protect my own children. I should never have let him out of my sight, I guess I was still living in a world where if he walked down the hallway then he would been safe. I had to face the fact that the world I once knew was gone. Julia was pacing and running her hands through her hair. I silently envied her ability to do something even if it was as useless as pacing. "What are
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All I could do was stare at him for a moment or two as I considered this. Louis didn't seem like such a bad man and neither did Craig, but I knew their stories. I didn't know Chandlers, but my gut told me he was telling me the truth. In a split second, I listened to my gut and trust him despite all the evidence to the contrary. "Okay," was all I said. Chandler blinked several times then nodded accepting the only piece of approval I could give him. "All right," Craig blurted almost making us all jump. "Let's get this happy little show on the road." I waved him ahead of us since he seemed to know the way. He led us down the right hallway until we came to a group situated around a big metal door. A few of them I recognized, but most of them I couldn't even remember their names. Yet, they all seemed to know me well. "Vicki! What are you doing up?" one asked. "You really should be in bed," another said. I would have been warmed by their concern if my attention wasn't focused on
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Before I had time to wonder what kind of distraction, these men had planned, I could hear a loud cluttering bang coming from the chute inside. It must have been planned because Craig didn't hesitate. He shoved the door open and rushed inside before he backed out again quickly causing us to practically fall into each other. "What happened?" I asked anxiously. "Pete turned around," Craig said frustrated. "Did he see you?" spoke Chandler. "I don't know," he said honestly before turning. "But your son did." I nodded happily. He now had proof we were coming for him and maybe that would inspire him to stay stronger for a little while longer. Craig peeked in the door he had apparently left open a crack. I quickly crawled over so I could see over his shoulder. I recognized the men as the two that had come in with Chandler: Stinky and Lanky. They still looked as terrible as they had when I had met them. Lanky was watching intently as the pile of food grew larger and larger, and Stinky
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I floated in the darkness for hours, days, weeks. I didn't know. Where I was, there were no clocks, no calendars nothing to judge my stay by. There was no past, no present, and no future. There was nothing save for a giant shadow I was floating around in. A sound echoed through the darkness causing me to jump and just as abruptly, I was standing in an unfamiliar hallway. I looked down both corridors searching for some sign to where I was. One end held a bright light that seemed to move yet stay stationary at the same time and the other end held a door that seemed so familiar, but I had never seen before. I felt as if I had seen it somewhere, but every time I tried to grasp the memory it fled into the oblivion it came from. I wanted to go near the light, purely because I wanted some substance in all this darkness, but the door intrigued me. What was behind it? Why did it look familiar? So, I walked toward it slowly and the voices became louder and louder until they were almost recogni
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I laid my head back against the wall and absorbed it all in or tried too at least. My tired mind seemed to tell me that if I tried to shove one more unbelievable detail into it, it would fry. I decided that if all of this turned out to be a lie then I must have lost my mind along the way so why not just go with it. "Ok, so what am I supposed to do?" "You have to go stop her," Avamarie said. "Who?" "The Sorceress that is doing all of this. She must be stopped, and she must be stopped soon." "If she's a Sorceress then, why can't you?" I asked almost patting myself on the back being logical. "As a Sorceress, we are unable to use our Magic on one another. We can lend our powers, but we can never steal them or use them against each other. You can't pit Magic against Magic it cancels itself out," she explained patiently. It made sense; I didn't like it, but it made sense. "So, who is she? And how do I find her?" I asked. "Her name is Jenevive, and she lives in the bayous of
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Hope rose as I listened to her words. The souls would come back if the curse was broken... my husband would return… Melissa's mother would return… the infant's mothers."So, everyone will return once the curse is broken?" I inquired quickly. My voice was breathless with excitement. She nodded emphatically with a broad smile on her face. "What about the ones who have died?" I asked enthusiastically. Her face fell this time, and she looked away. "No, I'm sorry. If their body is alive, they have a place to return, but if not… their souls move on." A sense of urgency came over me. I had to get back and warn the others; I had to find a way to stop this curse before more people died and stayed that way. "When is the next full moon?" "In three weeks." Without hesitation, I jumped up and raced to the spot right before the pain started. I recalled how overwhelming it had been and practically skidded to a stop. I searched the empty space in front of me as if I could find a way around
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Magic is real, whispered an odd voice inside my head. It was mine, but it wasn't. It was foreign, yet so familiar I found myself believing in it despite the alien quality. Once the last of the warmth rushed through me, I opened my eyes and gave Avamarie a small yet utterly grateful smile. "Thank you," I whispered and let my knees finally give away until I was once again sitting on the floor. "I know I've said this a lot since you first came into this… in-between. But, now what?" I asked. "That's up to you," she admitted. "You can stay here and be nowhere. You can go through the light and onto whatever comes next. Or you can go back through the door and live again." My options sounded vast, but they were truly limited. I couldn't stay in this in-between area, who in their right minds would want to be nowhere. I couldn't die, there's no way I could leave my children with no father and no mother. So, it meant sucking it up and brave the cloud of pain so I could make it through the
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The minute I jumped inside the barrier I was immediately overwhelmed by the steady stream of pain. I was surprised that I was still whole since it felt as if I was being torn apart from the inside out. I screamed and screamed and screamed but it did nothing to lessen the pain. My knees fell out from underneath me, and I was curled up in a ball on the ground rocking back and forth. Tears were steadily streaming from my eyes and my limbs were out of my control. Just when I thought all was lost, there was no way I could move much less make it to the door a voice I recognized came drifted through to me. "Mommy," came a whimpering heart-wrenching cry. I looked up and through my blurry pain-filled eyes I searched for the source of it. "Mommy, please come back," came the whimper again. "John-Johnathan," I choked out hoarsely.My eyes finally connected with the door. I saw that, instead of it being closed all the way like I had initial thought, it was cracked a bit. The voices that I had
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The sunlight shined through the gossamer curtains and hit my face. I awoke gently, blinking several times as my eyes tried to adjust to the light. As the window became clearer and clearer, I couldn't place it. I sat up trying to remember where I was. "Vicki?" said a deep voice from behind me. I turned and behind me were the sleep hazed eyes of my husband. Everything hit me at once and I began to shake. He wrapped me in his arms as he had done every morning since our return. We got back to that tiny shore side town to find Craig, Erin and Marcus had been waiting for us at the edge of the pier. They had greeted us like heroes, and I hadn't been able to stop holding Marcus or checking him over to make sure he was okay. Other than the rope burns he seemed physically okay. There was a haunting look in his eyes, but he refused to talk about what had happened while he had been an Eater. I had been forced to let it go after a while, but not before I made him promise to talk to me when
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I laid the ruby on the ground and brought the solid rock down on it as hard as I could. The ruby shattered instantly and the shockwave from the power being released hurled me back to the ground again. A bolt of light shot to the sky and little lights sped out of it so fast that it looked like one light if you weren't as close to it as I was. Souls. I thought. Souls were being freed. They streamed at light speed towards the sky and as soon as they touched the storm they shot off in all directions. So many souls that the sky began to light up like it was noon instead of almost midnight. The roar of the souls leaving their prison was so loud you could hear it for miles. A loud scream from the circle snapped me out of the hypnotic state that the light show had put me in. She was beating against the field still, but this time it wasn't it anger it was in fear. "Let me out! Let me out! She's gonna kill me! Help! Help!" she screamed frantically. I jumped up to go help her, but Jenevive
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Avamarie gradually stood up and wiped the blood off her mouth as she chuckled weakly. "You're right, Mother. You did teach me to duel, and I never did defeat you," she said softly. I watched her closely my gut telling me she was up to something. My gaze flew between the two women trying to figure out what was happening. Avamarie couldn't be giving up that easily. Jenevive was indeed enormously powerful, but it was becoming obvious that Avamarie was truly quite powerful in her own right. Movement behind Jenevive caught my eye. A large boulder that had come out of the ground began to quiver then slowly float up. I glanced over at Avamarie trying to see how she was doing it. One finger was lifting, but the hand was pressed so tightly to her side that from where Jenevive stood she wouldn't be able to see. "Look out!" I screamed. Jenevive spun around just in time to be plowed over by this boulder. She flew across the clearing until she landed brutally on the ground, bouncing once
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"You had everything inside you to make it here. And look you did," she finished with glee.Her reasoning's were horrifyingly simple, terrifyingly easy. She used me plain and true, and I had made it so easy for her to manipulate me."If you hadn't meant for me to save the world, then why did you give me this stone that would save me and keep me safe?" I asked angrily throwing the shards from the stone at her feet.She bent over slowly and picked them up petting them tenderly as if they were the sweetest flower, she had ever seen. She looked down at them with a strange curiosity that held a tinge of regret in her eyes."I gave it to you so that you could bring it back here. I knew Mother would never give me this stone and it was the last piece I needed to complete the spell. A pure soul for sacrifice," she said softly. Then fury boiled up as she turned it on me. "But you! You, selfish bitch! You couldn't help yourself. You had to use it on every bleeding soul that you came across, didn'
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In anger and disbelief, I confronted her. "NO! You're lying! It is you! You killed your own daughter! You sacrificed her to seal your pact with the Daemon!" I yelled at her. She dropped her head and I nodded at the acknowledgement of her guilt. "You're right. I killed my own daughter," she admitted despondently. I straighten my shoulders feeling justified in my anger. She was trying to mess with me to keep me from my goals. Well, she would have to try harder than that. By the end of the night, I was going to have my children back. "But not for the reason you think," she interrupted my thoughts. "And you have no reason to trust me, but I sacrificed her in hopes that I could save her before she finalized the pact with the Daemon. What I didn't know was that in doing so I, myself finished it. Because I took the last piece of good that was in her and sealed it in a stone known as the Black Star Sapphire." She pulled a necklace from under her dress and showed me a stone that was
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The dusk was approaching harsh and rapidly when I dropped in front of a tree wasted. Panting, thirsty and starving. I was lost and had long ago ran out of will power to keep going. My body itself was refusing to keep walking. I had been coaching the exhausted lump of skin for the last few hours just trying to keep going and now my feet finally gave out on me leaving me sitting against the tree. The little nudge inside of me had grown into a constant tightness of the gut. I knew I was getting close and didn't want to give up. Looking around I tried to spot something anything that looked familiar to me. I pulled up the image that Avamarie had given me in my dream trying to find a clue. The cabin was desolate and run down. The area looked like a million other areas that were in the forest. The only thing that stood out was a few odd wooden wind chimes.Wait… wind chimes. Immediately I closed my eyes and tried to slow my breath so that my pounding heart didn't override every other soun
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We waited until we were far away from the shore before beginning to bombard Gerard with questions. "How did you find us?" Was mine. "Why did you come back?" Benny asked viciously. Gerard raised an eyebrow at him. "You're welcome," he replied sarcastically. "Something told me that you guys needed me. So, I found the nearest non-crushed rig and following the carnage. You guys left a lot of banged up rigs behind." He gave a short chuckle as if he could see the image of the wreckage in his head. "Where is everyone else?" he asked changing the subject abruptly. Benjamin and I looked at each other hoping the other would tell the story not wanting to verbally rehash it. I couldn't think of Marcus laying tied to that bed thrashing around reaching for someone to try an ease the hunger inside of him. Just the thought of not wanting to think of it brought the image to mind and my breath left my body in a whoosh as if I had been struck in the gut. "I left him," I whispered heartbrokenl
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The Eaters let out a scream rocking the walls then went straight for Craig and me. I tucked my head down around Marcus' shoulder waiting for the hands to grab me. Two loud thuds then nothing. My ears were ringing making it hard to hear anything more than the pounding of my heart over them. An eerie silence reached me when my ears finally opened again. Glancing over my shoulder into the room I found Benny standing there staring at us with a smoking gun in his hand. Erin stood next to him gripping his arm tightly and horror darkened both of their gazes. Marcus was making clicking noises in my ear and then I heard a response in my other ear. Panic consumed me as I struggled to get free realizing that Craig had been turned as well. Something slammed into the front door before any of us could make a move to free me. It slammed over and over again until we could all hear the wood on the door splintering. "Get him off her," Benjamin order Erin before booking it out of the room. Erin
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"Let me take Marcus," Craig offered. I gave him a grateful look and traded him. Johnny jumped on me wrapping his little arms around my neck with a strangled grip and I felt the wet rain of his tears. My own silent answer fell from my face as I walked behind Craig watching him carry my screeching Soul Eater son in his arms. I felt like a failure, worse than I had when I thought I had lost the world to this epidemic. I had failed to keep my son's safe and now one had been turned. Benjamin opened the door as he saw us approaching. "Oh shit," he whispered. Erin popped out the door with a smile of greeting until she saw Marcus. "Oh, God! No!" she cried racing towards us. "Stop!" Benjamin demanded grabbing her to keep her away from us. She spun in his arms and hid her face against his chest sobbing. Craig pushed passed them and took Marcus to a little room in the back of the house. "What happened?" Benny demanded. I had to swallow several times before I could speak and even
