Shadowforce

CHARLIE

After leaving Josh behind, we went outside the school campus. There was a large oak tree just outside the campus; under which we six sat there waiting. It was at that time that i noticed that Emma had gone pale, I mean deadly pale and she seemed to be shaking slightly. Emma noticed that as well,

"Emma ... Is everything alright!?"
She did not reply but just stared up at the sky breathing deeply.

"you know" Lucy said." I think that the school is being attacked by ghouls. We should get away as fast as possible, where are they?"

"They both must be on their way back."Drake replied.

Suddenly a little gnome showed up out of no where... yes a little gnome. He made his way straight toward Emma.

"Mistress you need to return to the mansion right now! It is not save for you to stay here.. Please mistress!"

"Alfred! You are not supposed to be here. Return back to the mansion. I will be coming shortly."

Seriously...mistress? Who on earth would call anyone mistress! It's the 21st century! . anyways, Alfred or whatever Emma called him continuously insisted his "mistress" to return and Emma refused , this went on for quite a lot of time till it started getting on my nerve,

"Seriously Emma, there is no need of your drama; acting as if you care and that you are looking out for us. Just go already."

"Charlie, I don't need an opinion from you about what I should and should not do. And Alfred I think I am going to be quite fine this time..."

"You seem to be in a horrible state now only mistress. Please, if Mistress Alice would have been here she would have wanted you to be in the mansion."

"Yes Alfred and she would have also locked me inside a room, all alone. Anyways, you didn't let me finish my sentence return back to the mansion, get seven rooms ready exactly as I had told you before. We will be having guests today. Now go back."

"What was that supposed to mean Emma?"Scott asked.

"Hmm... Wait and watch"

Alfred, quietly and sadly disappeared. Emma sighed as she if she was extremely exhausted. She was still shaking slightly and was as white as sheet. It was then that I noticed that none of the wounds Emma had got earlier after she had returned from the dark forest were visible. They seemed to have vanished without any trace. Emma noticed me staring at her,

"What are you staring at Charlie?"

"I just noticed that all of your wounds have healed. And that also so fast, did you use a healing spell or something?" I asked curiously.

"No I heal fast. Anyways do us a favour, go Get Josh and Catherine. I have a feeling something is wrong."

"And from when did you start see the future 'Mistress'?"

"Why from now Charlie, go already"

I was about to go but then Brittney spoke up,

"Emma I know that you are the leader here but I don't remember agreeing to follow your orders."

"And you are not actually. If you are not worried about why both of them are so awfully late? So Charlie this is not a order, do you or do you not want to check on your best friend" I quietly nodded, I didn't have much to say.

'Well then what are you staring at, Go already!"

"Yes Mistress!"

And I took off to look for Josh and Catherine. I was glad to be out of there. It was so awkward to be around them it is actually hard to breathe. No one actually talked and with Josh not being around I felt worse. Their smell was leading directly to the head cabin. When I reached there I found the passage which has earlier had led to the divine room open. I heard a lot of noises coming from that circular room. It sounded like a fight was going on in there. I was getting worried that Allen and George may have ambushed Josh regardless of the fact that the school was under attack by the soul eaters (I mean no big deal, right, they are just SOUL EATERS!)And that he Might have been in trouble. And so I rushed into the room. I found that Josh was in trouble but not from Allen and George, but from Catherine.

It was impressive how awesome Catherine was fighting. And I would have stayed back and enjoyed seeing her fight but the only problem was that she was fighting Josh and so I (read: unfortunately) had to stop the fight. I slowly went behind her and was about to get her away from Josh when she suddenly turned towards me. She seemed extremely angry for some reason,

"TRAITOR!" She shouted.

"No traitor! Just a sweet, handsome, cute, SWA student. Now... Get off me please!!! Josh!"

"Coming!"

Josh seemed fine except he was bleeding from his left shoulder, but he seemed pissed.

"Get off him! You!"

And both of them forgot about me, and started to think I was some battle field or something. Cause I was lying on my back and Josh and Catherine were fighting guess where!?

RIGHT ON TOP OF ME!

I kept shouting to them to stop fighting and to get off me. Suddenly the struggle going on top of me stopped. I lifted my head a little to check if both of them had made their peace or killed each other. I really hoped it was not the latter despite the fact I was squashed beneath them.

So I looked up to see what really had happened. Meanwhile my body was (mainly my chest and gut, which was Josh and Catherine's battle field) seemed to be throbbing vigorously as I was relieved of the weight of the two idiots.

What I saw next was quite confusing. I saw Catherine and Josh were... flying? No, then I looked more closely, they were floating and both seemed to be unconscious. Then i saw Brittney standing in the entrance of the Divine room with her wand out.

"Thanks Britt" I said as I was trying to get up.

"Mention not Charlie, But what was going on here! And don't worry about those two just put a sleeping spell on both of them. But they both will need a healing spell and so will you Charlie"

"What are you talking about? I just healed."

Then I did the mistake of looking at myself. I found that I was wounded everywhere. So while the idiots where fighting they were wounding me as well. I was feeling very dizzy and was about to fall on my face same as Josh had earlier but Brittney caught me.

"Charlie! Just sit down. I will call someone to help us."

I sat down on the floor feeling very sick. Brittney had put the idiots down and was going to use a teleportation spell or telepathic spell, I don't know. Then I started to see everything red, I was bleeding everywhere. Then both my ears and eyesight failed me. And the last thing I remember before going unconscious was Brittney's distant voice saying,

"Woah! That's a lot of blood."