Apocalypse Love

Boy Wonder

It had been a whole month since I've been at this school and I swear it was getting to be like hell. The only thing I enjoyed was begin in the garden. Mostly because the roses were there, they reminded me of Michael. I tend to the plants in the green house, using my magic to heat up the plants enough to bring them to harvest. "This used to be my favorite place to be" I hear Cordelia say from the door. "Used to be?" I repeated, slowly turning to her. "Before you became Supreme you mean?" I asked her. "Yeah, being Supreme isn't just about fancy parties and powerful magic" she informed me. "Well, I don't want to be a witch. Let alone be Supreme" I tell her. "It sounds boring and a water of time" I added before turning back to the plants. "I definitely didn't want to be Supreme either, but it happened and I want other girls to learn. Which means you have to go to your classes" Cordelia tells me. "What's the point?" I sighed. "I'm supposed to learn to control my magic, not use it. I want to go home and that's the only reason I agreed to not run away" I reminded her. Her reaction tells me everything as he face is sorrowful. "About your parents...Athena, I'm so sorry" she spoke. "Wh...what?" I asked her. "They...don't want you to return back" she informed me. "What?" I felt the sting I my heart. Like someone stuck a blade through it. "Even if I control my magic? They don't want me to come back home?" I knit my brows together. "I...I don't believe you" I shake my head. "I wouldn't lie to you, Athena. You have to remain here" he tells me. "No! You promised me Cordelia that if I learned to control my magic that I could go home" I reminded her. "You have a whole school here, sisters who want you here" she tells me. "I want my old life back!" I shouted at her before waving my hand. Suddenly fire shot out and burnt a plant to ashes. "Well, either way you clearly need more work on controlling your magic" he says. I scoffed before walking out of the green house. "Cordelia..." Myrtle Snow appoarched us. "We've been summoned to the Hawthorn school for exceptional young men, emergency meeting that requires the council" Myrtle informed her. "But...Queenie. We're one member short" Cordelia stated. "Maybe this is an opportunity to give Miss Black here some responsibility?" Myrtle suggested. Cordelia turned to me "Can you handle this?" She asked. "Returning back to your home town?" She added. I nodded "Yeah, I am" I smiled to her.
   We drive up to the circle and men wait outside of it. It was hot and they two drivers climbed out of the van before walking over to our doors and opening them. The one man extending his hand to me and I take it, stepping out of the van and walking to the front of it and joining Cordelia and Myrtle Snow. Zoey is the last one to join us. "Are you sure we couldn't make them come to us?" I asked Cordelia. "Rules are Rules. Besides do you really think we want all those men trampling about the house?" Myrtle pointed out. We reached the entrance and the Asian men gestures for us to go inside a head of them. We walked through the metal door and walked down the staircase before coming to another set of metal doors. I immediately smell the scent of roses that caused my heart to pound in my chest.  "What kind of boys school is under ground?" I whispered to Zoey. "One that wants to remain hidden..." she responded. It dark with candles lit everywhere. We past the a big room that was lit with a large fireplace in the center and a grand stair case going up to another floor. We walked down a hall before reached an archway and the doors were shut behind us. We all sit down at dinning table and four men sit across from us. "Let the record show that, at the request of Hawthorne, that we have assembled a emergency meeting of the council" Cordelia tells the warlocks. "In order to address what must surely be a matter of grave and pressing importance" Myrtle says in a bored tone. "Proceed" Cordelia instructed them. A short asian man stood up from his chair. "Illustrious members, I want to thank you for coming and giving us the opportunity to share with you what we've discovered" He spoke with a warm smile. "We recently took in a boy at our school" he went on. "At first we thought he simply was one of us. A warlock who needed our help and training" he explained. "But?" I asked, hunting for him to get to the point. He looked at each one of us before going on. "The things he did was extraordinary and after conducting the recommend test of his powers, we came to the conclusion that his abilities are so impressive that they rise to the level of Supreme" he announced. The room fell silent as he then sat down in his chair. Cordelia finally let out a light goggle. "Did you say that this was a boy? Like as in male?" Myrtle asked him. "Ariel..." Cordelia looked at the Asian man. "You actually believe this?" She asked him. "We wouldn't have summoned the council otherwise" he informed her.  "In all recorded history, no man has ever appoarched the level of Supreme. Men are simply not equal to woman when it comes to magically abilities" Cordelia tells them. "Not to mention everything else" Myrtle chimed in, yet again being a bitch to the warlocks. "Testosterone is a known inhibitor. It impedes access to the magic realm." "Frankly, I question your judgement by calling us here for this" Cordelia tells them. "You're not even hearing is out" The other man spoke up. "There's nothing to hear. There will never be a male supreme. It will simply never happen" Myrtle hissed out, getting annoyed by them. "Listen to yourselves, you say that something hasn't happen therefore it won't ever happen" Ariel pointed out. "What exactly do you want from us?" Cordelia questioned. It was a good question, what did they want then? "We want you to administrator the test of the Seven wonders" Ariel bluntly tells us. I've read about the Seven wonders, it's seven test to prove the next Supreme. In order to become Supreme you must pass them all. They're not taken lightly though, it has cost many witch their lives. "That is out of the question" Cordelia says harshly to them. "Why?" The colored man asked. "Because I'd be condemning this boy to his death. I lost one of my most promising witches, Misty Day. By sanctioning the test before her time and I won't make that mistake again" she tells them, her voice breaking a little. "I take care of my own" Cordelia added. "At least the ones you care about" Ariel interrupted her. "What do you mean by that?" Cordelia hissed out. "One of your own. Who you abandoned, Queenie" Ariel spoke. I only met Queenie once before she had disappeared. "Of course it's the black girl you leave behind" The colored man shakes his head. "I see you, Miss Supreme" he then hissed. "You don't know what you're talking about" Cordelia tells him. "Queenie was missing she traveled to Los Angeles and never came back" Cordelia went on. "We knew something awful must have happened when I felt her life force just vanished" Cordelia explained. "So I went searching for her and when I found out she was trapped in the hotel cortez I went right away to bring her back from that monsteroious place" Cordelia tells them. "I had no illusions that it would be easy. That hotel is a place of evil. A hell mouth." "I could hear the souls screaming for a desperate way out" she explained. "I realized only then that the hotel wasn't just merely haunted but an entry way to everything dark" she tells them. "We went through every door, every window but we couldn't escape the hotel" she informed them. My stomach turned at the thought of being trapped in there. Cordelia begins to choke up "All my spells and incantations we're useless in that dark realm" she sniffled. "The light from where we witches draw our powers was extinguished by the darkness itself." "My efforts to rescue Queenie is by far my greatest failure as Supreme. But I tried" she choked out. "And I do care about all of our people...all of our people" she stated, proving she cared about the warlocks. "So I will not throw this boys life away on some useless endeavor. There will be no test and that is this council finale decision" she announced to them. "Why do you get to decide that?" Ariel asked. "Because I'm the fucking Supreme!" Cordelia raised her voice at him. Ariel shook his head "No! You're just a scared bigot" he accused her. "Scared of what?" She hissed out. "Of the Alpha" he stated. "Of a man rising the the level of Supreme. This, the end of ages of female dominance" he raises his voice louder.  "I'm telling you that time has come!" He added. "And your time is up" Cordelia cut him off. "This council is close and the decision is finale. There's nothing more to say" Cordelia tells them all.
   Suddenly As we waited for the car to arrive back Cordelia shot up from her spot. "Cordelia, the car is ready" Zoey says as she entered the room. I appoarched Cordelia "Are you alright?" I asked, knitting my brows together as I sense the sickness she's feeling as a sudden rose scent hits my nose. "Yes, I'm fine" she lied as Myrtle then stepped into the room. "The air in here it's..." She paused. "It's feet stench and unwashed boy, I think it's high time we leave" Myrtle suggested. We leave the room, walking down the long hall and getting to the entrance where all the boys stood tall around the fire pit that lit the room. Soon as the light hit our faces from outside my heart dropped. I see the golden blonde hair of the boy that has disappeared on me months ago. "No....fucking way" I hissed out, crossing my arms against my chest as he walked with Queenie and a girl name Madison. Suddenly I felt the weakness from Cordelia as her body just collapsed. "Cordelia!" I shouted, rushing over to her side. "We've got to get her back inside" I tell Myrtle. This was bad, not only did Cordelia pass out. Boy Wonder made his appearance.