Alchemy Of Abyss

Chapter Nine~2

Aicha left him and walked to the hall. The walls were filled with pictures of both their families and friends. At the far end of the hall, a big white door covered in golden inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Tamazight. Aicha stopped right across it and laid her hand in the middle. Golden light traced her hand, followed by the door opening, revealing what was on the other side.

Loubna looked intensely at Aicha. Both sisters shared the same features. Black wavy hair, almond dark green eyes, and olive skin. Aicha sighed seeing her sister staring at her. Loubna stepped inside, and the door closed by itself. The shiny golden inscriptions faded away and disappeared.

"Did he really see Jalila?" Loubna asked. Aicha didn't answer. She took her hand and walked her to Nabil, who was walking back and forth. Loubna stopped when her eyes saw Nabil's walking body. "What the hell happened to you?!" she exclaimed.

Nabil and Aicha frowned, looking at her. "Are you seeing something?" Aicha said.

"Yeah! His halo is different!" Loubna said and pointed at him. "It's dark and fatal." Nabil's jaw dropped; the halo represents each person's power or ability and sometimes his future. He never had a halo, and now that he had one, it means that the vision is about to happen.

Loubna walked closer to him and gasped as her hand touched something around his face. Her eyes narrowed as she looked at him. "What did you see?! How did you even see?"

"I don't know!" Nabil said and held her hand. She flinched and moved it fast.

"Death!" Loubna said and stepped back. She held her head and sat on a chair behind her. "Your halo and touch are cold like death. We must move fast!" she stood and walked to a space between the sittings and the tv. Nabil followed her and stood a few steps away.

Aicha locked the door of the house. She walked to another room and went back to them, holding a brown basket of glowing crystals. She took seven crystals from her hands, and she whispered words with every crystal she put on the ground around their standing bodies. Loubna told Nabil to sit on the ground before looking at Aicha, telling her to break the circle if needed.

Aicha nodded and looked at the clock on the wall next to her. The seventh crystal was still between her fingers. Loubna sat on the floor in front of Nabil, who was watching them quietly. She breathed deeply and laid her hands over the opened ones on his thighs while Aicha placed the last crystal.

Electric strings were generated from each crystal creating a circle connecting all seven in one strong electric light. Aicha raised her hands along with the raising of the strings. It formed a dome around them. "Done," Aicha said. Loubna nodded and looked at Nabil.

"Breathe deeply and close your eyes... try to recall the last thing you remember, and I'll take it from there," Loubna said, closing her eyes. Nabil closed his eyes as well. He took a deep breath, his mind swirled into his tangled memories.

Sparks ran through Loubna's veins and trickled through his hands. He felt a sharp pain over his opened balms. He almost jerked his hands away, but Loubna held him still. "Don't move... just relax and open your mind," she said calmly.

The electric dome around him shined brightly through his closed eyes. With each spark that went through his palm, the brightness of the dome slowly disappeared.

In a matter of a few seconds, the light somehow faded, and it seemed like he was inside a dark place. "Breath," Loubna said, the last spark left her hands to his.

His nose itched. A distinctive smell filled his nostrils. Burned blood mixed with gunpowder. The smell of death.

The small, shy brightness slowly disappeared when a dusty wind hit his face. Loubna told him to open his eyes. Both looked at each other at first, then at the surrounding place. Loubna looked hunted by the view before her eyes. She stood up and looked around more. She looked back at Nabil, who seemed more hunted than her. "It's a vision... what happened here?!"

"A massacre," Nabil said gravely.