City of Lies

Chapter 24 - His Mission Her Mission

"Rise and shine," Jane shakes me to wake up. "You do realize it's about lunch time?"

I open my eyes slowly. I'm still tired. "Your joking, right?"

She shakes her head and then leaves the tent. Why am I always the last one up? I bolt up right and quickly shake out of my sleeping bag. I rummage through the tent to try and find and intex shower. When I do, I press it to my chest and I instantly feel refreshed. Today it gives me a floral dress, black leggings, brown boots with a white mini jacket.

When I step outside its a bright day. The weather changes all the time. "You finally decided to get up, huh?" Chase teases.

"Haha," I grab a sand-which from the infinity pack. "I was tired."

"I can tell," he laughs and so do I.

Nathan comes up from behind me and accidentally shoulder bumps me. He mutters a quick sorry before passing along. When he touches me I get a vision. It's not a normal vision that I usually get, it's more like flashes.

I see fire. I think it's hell.
Lilith makes black flames appear.
Out of the flames pops out a boy...the boy is Nathan.
"I give you a mission, Nathan Hail," Lilith smirks.

I gasp a bit when the flashes are over. "Did you see something?" Chase asks starring at me.

"Yeah. How can you tell?" I ask eyeing Nathan. He is a lair, Chase was right about not trusting him. Why did I trust him?

"The same twinkle in your eye that I saw in Nathan's."

I nod then explain what I saw. "So he's a lair, but what does that mean?" I eye Nathan again to make sure he can't hear us.

He shrugs. "I think Lilith sent him to maybe watch you for something.

Lacey comes to approach us. "Hey so how much time do we have left to finish this journey?"

"I think a week and a half. Why?" Chase says.

Lacey shrugs and pulls out the map. She comes to sit down next to me. Chase leans a bit closer to me to see the map better. I'm getting butterflies in my stomach. "So there's a cave up here," she points to a spot on the map. "We can camp there. Plus it might have some juicy papers."

Chase laughs. "Juicy papers?"

Lacey giggles. "Warlocks created this mountain. They might have his something that's valuable."

"Ready everyone?" Matthew asks. He and Jane have packed everything up. Sneakily Nathan sneaks back with the rest of us. I don't think anyone but Chase and I noticed.

We continue to walk through the mountain. I feel like I left my old life completely behind. To be honest, I don't know if I want to go back to Colina. I'm a completely different person now. I know things I didn't before, I've seen things I've never seen before, I'm feeling things I've never felt before. I think I'm falling in love with Chase.

Time is slowly coming to an end. What's going to happen when I go back to Colina? What's Ethan going to do to me? Will I still be princess? Do I want to be princess?

I hear a scream coming from the trees and I jump back shaking out of my thoughts. Chase steps up and so does Nathan. I want to go too, I'm tired of staying back for everything. I scurry a little to go to Chase's side. Jane hisses at me but ignore it not entirely sure what she said.

Chase puts out his arm in front of me. He keeps me behind him like he's a shield for me. "Stay back."

We hear another scream. It sounds like a girl. When we go farther into the trees we find out it is a girl that was screaming. She's sitting on the ground with her back arched. The girl has long red curly hair spilling down her back.

"Are you alright?" Nathan's calls out to the girl.

The girl twirls around to face us. She stunning. Tears pour down her big teal eyes and shower over her tiny freckles. I can see that her leg is completely jacked up. Her bone is nearly sticking out and blood is spilling everywhere.

I look away quickly and gag. I have never been good about seeing blood. "Help me, please!" The girl cries out clutching her leg getting blood all over her hands. "Please help me!"

Chase and Nathan run up to her and kneel by her side. I clutch my stomach and continue to look away. The girl continues to plead and cry. When I finally have the guts I turn around and look at her. She looks more pale because she's loosing a lot of blood fast. I rush to her side smelling the blood more clearly now. It smells like metal and I fight the need to gag.

"Okay we'll help you but calm down," Chase says in a reassuring voice.

She sniffles and continues to sob. "They killed my sister," I whispers as she clutches her leg still. "I barely made it out alive."

"Who killed you sister?" Chase asks.

"The Hunters," she stares at all of us. Her eyes glitter with her tears.

The Hunters are like rebels of Colina. Their people who can't choose a side, all most all of them are human without any power. They use extremely powerful weapons and tools to kill. Usually they hide out in forest or mountains and kill for people's hearts. They believe that hearts of Immortals power their little village and weapons.

"Please help me," she begs. "My name is Claire Beckhom by the way," she sobs again. I think it's more because of the physical pain she must be feeling.

I sit on my knees in front of her. "I can heal."

Claire's eyes fill with hope. "I wouldn't ask you too-"

I cut her off. "It's fine, I'd be happy to help you," I force myself to smile. I'm still uncomfortable with all the blood spilling.

Nathan and Chase stare at me. Chase looks worried. I'm worried too, I can't control my powers that well. I've actually made a lot of progress with my powers since I left Colina though.

I hover my hands above her large wound. I can feel the power running through my veins. It feels like bells are ringing in my head and there's tiny invisible strings pulling my hand toward her would. Soon I'm touching her would, her blood. Slowly Claire's would begins to patch up and her bone goes back into her body. She screams out loud.

When the process is done I feel light headed and small black dots bout my vision. That took a lot of energy. I shake my hands disgusted that it's covered in her blood.

"Oh my God," it's Lacey's voice. The rest of them came. "That was incredible," she pulls out a water bottle and hands it to Chase.

Chase opens it and pours all the water over my hands. Thankfully the blood comes off. I feel weak and dizzy. He gets up then helps me up. "Are you okay?" He whispers so only I can hear.

"I think so," I whisper back.

Claire slowly gets up. "Thank you so much. How can I repay you?"

I just smile because I feel to dizzy to speak that I might slur my words. Chase holds my shoulders to help me stay straight.

"What's your name?" Claire asks.

"Bree Ritcher," I answer before thinking. Oh no. I'm about to correct myself but Claire speaks first.

"Well thank you Bree Ritcher. I'll always remember this," Claire smiles and extends her hand. I take her hand and I get visions.

Hell. Lilith. Claire.
They're standing side-by-side. Both of them smiling an evil little smile.

After the vision I pass out. Chase catches me in his arms. My head feels heavy and I can hear the waves crashing on the shore. Claire and Nathan are both working for Lilith. And I just healed Claire!!