The Witch And the Beasts

Chapter 1 : The world is too cruel for a Witch

The world is too cruel for a Witch!   No matter what kind of witch you are, no matter how big the Coven is.  

You always have to be hidden like a criminal who committed the worst crime of humanity.  Humans can't accept someone different from them, unique, or even better than them. They see them as a threat and eliminate them, that's why we have to hide our true selves.

The petty rivalry didn't make things better for witches who need the coven for protection.   If they want to kill each other why would I bother to help them? They should work together not against each other. 

Stupidity is really annoying.  

No wonder Blessing witches are isolated.  We are the strongest of all witches, we adapt almost instantly, and we can blend among humans.  Of course, we don't trust everyone we associate with, but is not impossible to make friends among humans.  You just have to choose wisely

Thank goodness I was wise enough and it saved my life.

  One day I got an emergency call from one of my friends.

- Arthur, are you... ok? 

I have known this guy for years now, we met when he was still living in Greece,  and later he was recognized as one of the geniuses of physics and moved to America.  The moment he called I ran immediately since it was not the first time he got into trouble. Being a genius is not always a good thing.

The last time, he discovered a device that you could travel into parallel worlds, some people found out and wanted the device.  Luckily an old friend of his came for a surprise visit and managed to get rid of it.

But this time he looked completely calm but I could still see the concern in his eyes.

- Oh god! What have you discovered again Arthur?

- Nice to see you too Sofia. 

- why didn't you become an actor just like your mother? You will be in less danger.

- It's not me that is in danger, it's you.

- What are you talking about?

The conflicts of witches cost the attention of people who believe that we shouldn't exist in the same world as them.  Arthur didn't know much about their knowledge about our kind, but he was prepared for my escape.

That was also the reason he was researching parallel worlds, and it wasn't the only thing he was preparing.

- Did you make a .. time machine? You must have watched a lot of sci-fi movies.

- You can't go to a completely new world without help and hope for luck to survive. We don't even know where you will end up.

- When am I ...

- Right now! That's why I told you to get everything, we don't know what you are going to need.

I didn't respond, what could I say? He was right. Soon I will be in a world, and god knows what kind of world it will be. It's just... I never thought that I would have to end up hunted because I was born differently.

 That's how life works. No matter what I have to survive. 

I hope I won't end up in a zombie world.

Arthur started explaining to me about the time machine, or the teleport machine, whatever it was.  I was just nodding pretending that I could understand everything when everything was all Chinese to me.

The only thing I did understand is that I wouldn't have to worry about food and other supplies, and tools, and the machine could fly and become invisible and some other stuff.   

He watched a lot of sci-fi movies indeed.   But his intelligence is really scary, I'm glad I'm not his enemy.

- So, this is it, we won't meet ever again.

- I guess ...

It was just awkward. We didn't know what to say. I just entered the time machine or space ship and waited until the world I once know will change forever.

The engines started and closed my eyes and waited until the ending of my old world and the beginning of the new one.