Shadowforce

CHARLIE

May Josh accept it or not, he was really upset about Emma. I know that why? Because I know him more than he thinks I do. I have known Josh for six years now, I had first met him... well my mom had found him from somewhere and had brought him home. He had zero memory as to where he was from, where his family was and all. All of us searched for his family continuously for many months, we even searched the mortal world, until mom dropped the idea to kind of adopt him until his family were found.

Well, neither did his memory come back to him nor did we find his family. And soon a year went by and it was time for me to join school, (School start for us from the age 12, before that we can either train or go to mortal school) turns out even he was a supernatural being and so mom even admitted him with me. Josh did not usually speak much but when he did it was always worth listening to. Josh was always beside me in all the situations and before I could even realize we both were sixteen and as close to each other as real brothers. Josh was always good in combat; too good to be honest he was an absolute natural when it came to training. I was always into to mischief and so was Josh, he always loved breaking the rules of SWA and soon we joined the underground gang and Josh reached his way to the top became the leader of the Werewolf Packs and I became his right hand man

So to sum up I know Josh really well, and I really trust him and depend on him it is the same for him as well but he can be shy in expressing his emotions. Anyways, I was always beside Josh wherever he went, whatever he decided to do, so I strongly supported Josh when he said that we should not let Emma's sacrifice go to waste.

Somehow he even convinced the others as soon we found ourselves deciding as to what to do next,

"First we have to find the hideout, where the enemy went... It can be a cave, a building, a..." Catherine was saying until Lucy interrupted her.

"You mean like that one outside?"

"What one outside?"

"The cave... right outside Octave...right in front of her is a huge cave."

"Her?"

"Oh, I was talking about Octave, anyways; I saw a huge cave outside from the cockpit when I had gone to the kitchen."

"Well...um... then we have found the place... ok... so I guess next move will be just going into the cave, and all of us will be going in together and remember never split up, it's usually horrible to split up according to the movies I have seen."

Everybody agreed and decided that we would leave after sunset. I went into my room to get ready... I mean there wasn't anything to do except change into my combat clothes. After changing my clothes I just lay there in my bed looking at the ceiling trying to keep up with the things going around me.

It was then that a horrifying feeling hit me. It wasn't like that raspy scream of Bloody Mary but still I will say it was horrible. It felt like my whole body was burning, I looked at both of my hands it felt as if someone was driving some nails through my entire body. But as fast as that pain had come it just vanished.

So now I lay there in the bed suddenly exhausted. There was still a few minutes left before all of us met in the basement. I wanted to rest as much as possible we have no clue as to what may lay inside that cave that Lucy described. I was about to leave when Josh entered the room,

"Hey there" he said standing there by the door as if too shy to come in.

"Hi Josh. Why are ya standing there? Come on in. I was just heading for the basement. How are you holding up man?"

"Charlie for the last time I am fine, she didn't mean that much to me."

"Ok... now you don't need to lie to me."

"Anyways, I did not come to argue with. Tell me something, has something weird happened to you?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Um... nothing just tensed as to what will happen next, come on let's go, others might be waiting."

I wondered as to what Josh meant by something "weird" but I could not be worried about that, I mean we would have plenty of time to discuss such things later.

So anyways all of us met in the basement all ready for combat and to be honest it did actually felt weird without Emma around. We had absolutely no clue as to might have been inside that cave and it was in no way safe to go to an unknown cave (And we though aware about that were not happy about it). Even Octave was not able to give us any information without some password which we did not know and could not guess.

As we got out of Octave the doors closed by themselves and somewhat dissolved within the ground so no one instead of us could find it. We had looked though the instructions box and had found eight black wrist bands. According to the instructions when Octave was in hide mode i.e. hidden somewhere three taps on that wrist band Octave would appear in front of us. And so now since we at least knew how to find Octave we decided it was high time we looked for maddam.

There was not much to make out from the scenery around us, we walked straight into the cold and surprisingly very cold fog. The cave was somehow luminous, though it was pitch dark outside the walls of the cave had this weird silvery glow. As we walked in the fog became thicker and thicker until it was almost impossible to see what was in front of us.

The wizards, all three of them together used a spell, speaking in a weird language unknown to me, which cleared the fog. As the fog cleared we saw a figure in front walking towards us with his or her shoe clacking loud in the luminous cave. As the person came near all of us stood in guard half expecting an attack any moment, even you may have mistaken that figure to be Emma's but she was wearing a hood,

"Well, look at that! Our guests have arrived" she said as she slid the hood backwards. I recognised her face immediately and it gave me a shock... It definitely was not Emma...

It was Emma's sister, Alice.