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01. ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪᴛᴄʜ

Looking up at the blue sky, Aurora Black let out a sigh while closing her eyes. Peace and quiet never lasted long at Camp Nightwing. Perhaps that's why she felt a sense of foreboding, or perhaps it was because she was sitting in the shade underneath Sarah Fier's Hanging Tree. Her gaze returned to the book she was currently reading, 'Salem's lot' had been one of her favourites, the book was worn from how many times she had read the book, but despite this, she was always gripped as soon as she read the first sentence, "Everybody thought the man and the boy were father and son". She would question why this was important to her, why was this very line captivating. Even now she ponders that question.

While continuing to read she could hear chanting approaching her from the distance, heaving another sigh, she recognised the voices of Shelia, her followers and Will. Standing up to greet whatever situation was coming towards her, her brows furrowed in concern.

"Before the witches final breath, she found a way to cheat her death. By cutting off her wicked hand, she kept a grip upon our land. She reaches from beyond the grave to make good men her wicked slaves. She'll take your blood, she'll take your head, she'll follow you until your dead!" The girls chanted as they threw Ziggy to the ground roughly near Aurora's feet.

"Shelia? What's going on?" Aurora questioned in her precise British accent. Aurora had moved with her parents and sister from her home in England to Sunnyvale as her fathers family were originally from there and they needed to escape their demons, but that's a story for another time.

"String her up" ordered Shelia, "Rory just wait, I'll show you all about these Shadysides witch bitches! You can't trust them". Will obeyed and moved to tie up Ziggys hands to the tree, ignoring her pleas for him to stop.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" Shelia smirked while taking the money Ziggy stole out of her pockets. Aurora frowned, she didn't believe they had to go that far for stolen money.

"God damn thief!"

"No, no. She's not a thief. She's possessed by the witch." Shelia smirked wider while walking towards Ziggy. "The only way to explain her psycho behaviour-" Aurora gasped and stifled a laugh as Ziggy swore and elbowed Shelia in the face while cursing at her.

"Guess we're even now," Ziggy stated with a sarcastic smile.

"You know what they did to Sarah Fier, right? They hung her from this very tree." Shelia started, "But she would've died forever if you did what you always do to witches". She walked closer to her face. "You burn them". She snarled and turned to Will, "Give me your lighter".

"Wait-What?"

"Come on Shelia, that's enough! You made your point, you don't need to go this far!" Aurora said frantically, wishing she could diffuse the situation but the one thing she had come to learn from her short time in Sunnyvale was that there was no stopping Shelia once she started.

"You're new, Rory. I'll give you a pass for now because you don't know what these Shadyside bitches are like and how to deal with them. So watch and learn. Will, just give it to me!"

Will fumbled before passing the lighter and holding Ziggy still as Shelia walked towards her with the flame. Ziggy shouted as the flame licked her skin, Shelia quickly pulled it away as someone blew a whistle while running towards them.

"Shit Will, your brother!" Shelia said.

"The hell is this? Let her down!" Nick Goode yelled while running towards the group, Will tried to explain himself but was swiftly shut down as Nick threatened to tell their mum if he didn't let her down.

Ziggy fell to the ground grunting while Aurora rushed forwards to check on her. Not noticing Nick's lingering eyes as he got closer.

Shelia started explaining, "I went back to my cabin, the door was open, the next thing I knew my all money was gone and Ziggy was sprinting away". Kurt continued to twirl his whistle while pacing.