The Village: Secrets Of Goldengate (Book 1)

Chapter 8.1

We went to the mansion and by we, I meant me, Bella, Nick, their mum and mine. Once again I had to walk through the woods without any choice, and once again I felt nervous walking through. My fear wasn't going to go away so easily.

The five of us sat in the living room with Emma, trying to come up with a way we could stop the evil vampire.

"We need you to have another vision of him, to tell us what he is going to do next," my mum said.

"I don't know how to control them. My visions just happen. They just come when I don't know they will," I told her.

"There will be a way that we can aid them, I should be able to find a spell. I will go look through some spellbooks. I will be back soon," she replied.

"Do you want me to come to help you?" Emma asked her, my mum said "Yes" and then they both left the room.

"I don't know if it was a vision but I saw that I would meet you for the first time on the bus. I also knew what you looked like before I saw any pictures of you because of it," Nick told me.

"So did you know that I would fall?" I asked feeling embarrassed

"Yes I saw that you fell," he answered.

"That's how you got to me in time, to catch me," I pointed out.

"Yeah."

"You can try and help us with seeing what that vampire is going to do next."

"Okay, if it was visions that I had."

"It sounds like a vision but vampires don't normally have them, it might have something to do with destined ones. It might be one of your powers," Jane said.

Emma and Sally came back with a cardboard box. My mum set it down on the table and took out some white candles. She began moving furniture so there was space on the floor, and we helped her. "Go sit in the middle of the floor, Vicky," my mum told me.

"Can Nick help me, I think he had visions too. I think it might be easier if the two of us are going to have the vision," I told her.

"I don't see why not." She handed me a candle and a lighter. "Sit opposite each other." We did as she said. I was excited as this was the first spell I had ever cast. Although I was nervous. Hopefully, I didn't do something wrong. I put down the candle on the floor in front of us along with the lighter. Then my mum began to set out the candles in a circle around us.

"Alright, light the candle," she told me and Nick. He picked up the lighter and lit it. She then began to light the candles surrounding us.

"Everyone hold hands." My mum, Sally, Jane, and Bella held hands around the candles. "Hold hands," she said again, which meant Nick had to hold hands too. He held out his hands, I slowly put my hands in his.

"Don't worry I won't bite," he said.

"How do I know? You're a vampire after all," I joked. I wasn't scared he would bite me because if he was going to, I'm sure he would have done it already, but I was just nervous to hold them like I would be if it was anyone else.

"Maybe you don't but I won't bite you."

"I know."

"Everyone closes their eyes," my mum said, and I did as she said. "Earth, air, water, fire, and spirit we call you to our circle. Please help us in our time of need, evil has risen, see we need, where evil strikes again, Visions we seek to help us stop their evil deeds," she said poetically.

I could see the flames of the candle dancing behind my closed eyes, the colours illuminated in my eyes, and I could see the oranges, and reds moving around."Alright everyone now concentrates on finding the vampire and on stopping him."

I thought about him, and how scary he had looked in my vision in my room. I thought about his dark, red eyes and bloody, white, fangs and how scared I had been. Then suddenly I could no longer see the flames but I could see houses and buildings whiz past me, I felt dizzy.

My head was starting to hurt but then everything slowed down, so I could see the sign. It said Goldengate Nature Park and then I went through the gates until I stopped near two people. Everything looked brighter and bolder than in real life like everything had become high definition. There were trees and flowers and a park bench, but I couldn't see them because it was too dark.

One of the people I recognised. One was the Vampire and the other was a girl who looked a little familiar but I didn't know her. She stood in place terrified as the vampire neared closer to her. He was going to bite her as he had done with me but he was going to take a lot more blood, there was no one around to help her. I wanted to shout, to tell her to run but she wouldn't be able to hear me and it hadn't even happened yet. It was dark in my vision and it wasn't yet.

The vision ended and I started moving backwards and everything whizzed past me again until once again I saw the radiant dancing flames.

"Open your eyes," I heard my mum say so I did.

"We will have to wait till later until we stop him, I just hope we get there in time to save that girl," Sally said.

"We will but we need to find out why he is here. He must be here for another reason, other than to attack people and drink their blood seeing as there aren't many people living here," Jane said.

"He is here for me. He was at our school today and he said he wanted me to join him in ruling the world because I had great powers," I told them.

"Then we're going have to keep you safe. You will have to stay here," Jane said.

"I can't stay here I need to stop him. To help that girl, I can't let him attack anyone else and if it's me he wants we can trick him. I can say that I want to help him take over the world and then you can come and grab him."

"I don't know, we need to keep you safe."

"She's right. We're not going to stop him if we all go charging at him, he could just run away, we best catch him off guard," Bella agrees.

"Yeah, I will be fine, I will have you all standing by watching," I said.

"And I will be able to hear you shout for help in my head if you shout loud enough," Nick added.

"What you two can hear each other's thoughts too?" Bella asked.

"I think so but only when we want each other to hear," he explained.

"That's not fair why does a freak like you get to be a destined one with amazing powers? Why not me?"

"Because you're horrible."

"Am not."

"Are too."

 "Will you two stop arguing? You're like little kids and we have more important things to do," Jane told them. We put all the furniture back in its original place. Then we started to get ready, I put on my coat and made sure I had my jewel. I sat down on the sofa next to Bella waiting for the sun to set before we could finally set off.