24 Dreams Of You And Me

70) The Bad In Us

"Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an Angel."

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Robb and Rachel walked away from their car with bags on their shoulders. They used flashlights to navigate themselves.

"But will we do it?" Rachel asked.

"I got no clue. His phone is off, we can't tell the Angels his location."

"Even if we find out, will we tell them?" Rachel anxiously asked.

"What, you don't want to?"

"The Angels will kill them both, Robb. You have to care a little."

"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. First we need a plan to break Ian out." Robb said as his eyes roamed around from the cemetery's entrance.

"Can't we come back in daylight?"

"The sooner, the better. He knows a lot more than me. Surely, he'll be an asset."

Rachel hesitated a little before saying, "I think this is the first time I'd be meeting your family.."

Robb turned his head to look at her. His calculative and serious expression melted down to a soft one. "Yeah.." He chuckled a little.

She cleared her throat and flashed her light at the gate sign.

Moonrise Cemetery

"Are you sure this is the place?" She asked.

"Yes, I've been here."

"What? When?"

"The portal brought me to Ian's location, the prison. I met Aradia there and she offered the deal, ingredients in exchange of Ian. I had to pass through these gates to enter the spell world and get near Alyssa and Levi."

"But they told me you found them because your portal landed you there."

"That's what I had told them. Even after I told them that I had a deal with Aradia, I never got to tell that the portal opened in the prison. But the rest was true. It's closed and I can't reopen it. Only Ian can."

"Then why is it so empty? It's the only gate we know out of the spell world and into the prison. Shouldn't it be flooding with soldiers? Even Aradia passes from here, for crying out loud."

"Guess we'll just have to see." Robb said and tightened his grip on his bag.

The thing he had came back for was happening. This was what he risked everything and the process made life changing scarifies.

This was it.

"Wait, don't!"

They turned around quickly at Crystal's voice. Rachel even reflexively held the gun up.

"Crystal?" She gasped.

"You can't step in there, it's casted by a spell that will kill you if you set a foot on it without Aradia's knowledge."

Rachel looked at Robb. "That's why you could pass by that time. Because she sent you to the ingredients."

"Maybe.. then how do we go in?"

"What I'm about to tell you will make you change your question." She said with a worried expression.

"No time for suspense. Say it." Rachel braced herself.

"One of the two ingredients left is fruit of the fallen." Crystal said.

"We know that." Robb said impatiently. He just wanted to find a way to go in. He was steps away from his brother and he couldn't go in.