Sleepy Hollow 🔖

Busted

My heart raced, wolves were after us too. The shadows can't hide anything from their keen sense of smell. A few trees from my hiding spot, a figure moved and I guessed it was one of the other girls. How were we going to get of this one?

A scream echoed a few yards from my spot, they'd found someone. Something tapped my shoulder and I had to control my own scream.

"Why did you scare me like that?". I asked angrily.

"Sorry". Tony replied. "They're not going to harm us, they just want to 'return' us".

"That doesn't mean I'll willingly give myself. How are we going to get out of this?"

"Can't you use your magic?". He asked.

I thought for a moment. "Oh, I could try cloaking. Prince George told me about it once, but I've never tried it"
He nodded. I raised my hands, gesturing to him to come closer and willed it. Soon, a dark mist was clouding us, slowly, but it was working.

I stopped when I felt it was strong enough.
"Did it work?". Tony asked.

I frowned. "Can't you see it?". He shook his head. "Then I guess it's only for my eyes. Let's go find the others"

We looked around and took small steps. We might be invincible but they could still pick our scent. A figure whizzed past us, brushing my elbow and my heart stopped when it came back. It stopped and I understood it was a human figure. Vampire, my alarm bells rang in my head. I gave Tony a little nudge as the vampire stared at the spot we were standing. He sniffed, shrugged and ran off at superhuman speed.

"Let's go". Tony whispered, I could see him and he could see me too. I nodded and we continued walking. We spotted two figures to our right and tiptoed to them. A twig snapped under my feet and they jumped.

"Who's there?". Alexa asked.

"It's us". Tony said.

"Tony?". Elena, the other girl whispered. "But we can't see you"

"Yeah, Rebecca's magic". He replied and I couldn't help but feel pride. Another shout busted my bubble.

"Walk towards my voice and you'll be cloaked too". They did as I instructed and we went on in search of others. We heard shuffling and on investigation, we found Richard and Judith, they seemed to be carving sticks.

"What are you doing? Do you want to get caught?". Elena asked and they jumped in fear.

"Elena is that you?" Judith asked.

"Yes". Elena replied. "What in the world are you two doing?"

"Weapons. Where are you?". Richard asked.

"We're cloaked". I answered. "Those sticks are just what we need".

A howl a short distance away from us ended our discussion. Richard and Judith ran to hide behind some trees. Soon, the wolf came into view. This one was much larger than the ones we fought during our journey. It sniffed the path we had followed a few moments ago and growled at intervals. I sucked and held my breath as it approached.

A twig snapped as Elena took an anxious step back and the Werewolf's huge head whipped to our direction. Another one had come to join the party and I silently cursed myself. From the corner of my eye, I saw Richard raise his javelin. He threw and it stabbed the second wolf in its side.

Alarmed, the other Werewolf barked, glancing from the injured one to the spot we were standing. In a matter of seconds, we were surrounded, vampires and other werewolves had come to see what the commotion was about. The Luna walked in her human form. She seemed to be picking our scent too because she looked in our direction and tilted her head. She whispered something to the ear of a Werewolf and he ran off.

Two vampires wrestled Richard to kneel before her, along with Judith. More brought the other captives. All, except Vanessa and Rita. The wolf returned with a man I hadn't seen before.

"We're sensing more here. But we also sense stronger magic". Beatrice, the Luna said to him. "Fish them out".

The man nodded and walked around slowly. I gulped and willed the magic more. He seemed to look at me in the eye.

"Hazy atmosphere". He muttered. "Cloaking"

He turned on his heel and whispered in the ear of a vampire. The beast nodded and before I could register anything, we were sent flying a few feet away. I landed on a hard rock and as soon a the magic faded away I felt weak. The cloaking had really drained my energy and I laid limply as they grabbed my arms roughly.

The Luna laughed. "Thought you could hide. Stupid. Grab them". She barked orders. "You! Set the forest ablaze, we'll smoke the last two out from hiding, like rats"

"There wouldn't be any need to destroy nature". Vanessa said as she and Rita approached with their hands raised. They were tackled and restrained.

"Well, this was fun but we have a castle to get back to". Beatrice said and we were picked up by Vampires and Werewolves and we travelled at insanely fast speeds.

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Sorry for the wait. Still having exams.
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I want to enter the wattys, keeping my fingers crossed.
#VCF
Love, Vicki.💟