Powerful

Chapter 9- An Insider Attack

Chapter 9- An Insider Attack

Miranda's pov

She begged for mercy, pleading and crying. "Isn't so great when it's on the other hand, now is it?" I ask, smirking with a ball of fire in my hand. I shove it into her stomach burning through her clothes to her skin. She screams in pain. Her father cries behind us. "That's enough, honey." Jason says annoying me. "But-" He gives me a stern glare and I vanquish the flames and close my locket. "Why?" "Because Harriet from now on will your special slave." "What?" I ask confused. "She'll wait on you hand and foot, do whatever you tell her to." I smile. "Thanks Jase you're the best." I say kissing his cheek. He smiles. "I know." He says smugly. I laugh and playfully shove him. He quickly wraps his arms around me and kisses me. We pull apart hearing her father shout her name. He smiles. "This will really hurt that little bitch." He whispers in my ear, pulling his staff out from under his cape. "Ooh what ya gonna do badboy?" I flirt. He smirks and kisses me again. "Wait and see gorgeous." He lets go of me and chants a spell I don't recognize. The man suddenly screams bloody murder. He rips at his hair, screaming nonstop. Harriet yells for her father. Blood pours out of his eyes and ears til he kills over dead. "DADDDY!" She yells sobbing. I laugh at her misery. "Come on babe. Let's go get some breakfast." We go to the dining hall where mother was serving. My father sat at the table with my siblings. "Aww it's just like back home isn't it?" I say smugly. My mother shoots daggers at me. But why should I care if she is mad at me? She was glad to get rid of me.

Jason's pov

We sit down to eat when I heard Joshua reciting a prayer. I stood up angrily. "We will have none of that." I say, grabbing his shoulder as hard as I possibly could without breaking it. He cries out in pain. "Right Joshua?" "You worship your deity, I'll worship mine." He says, stubbornly. I grit my teeth in rage. "Not in my presence, boy, unless you want to end up like Harriet's father." The girl starts crying in the corner. "And trust me you don't." He bows his head in defeat. "That's what I thought." I say sitting back down at my seat, by my girl. "Cheers." I say smiling and clinking our glasses. "Cheers." She replies and takes a bite of food. I was about to when she started choking. I stand up quickly and rush over to her. "Miranda!! Speak to me what's wrong?!" I cry desperate. She stopped choking and was convulsing. "WHAT.... WHAT'S GOING ON?!" "Holy water." I heard Mary say. I looked up confused. "What?" "It's holy water. I was just hoping you'd eat it first." She growls. "YOU POISONED YOUR OWN DAUGHTER!!?!" I yell infuriated. "THAT THING IS NOT MY DAUGHTER!" She yells back just as enraged. I grit my teeth in rage, my staff getting hot in my fist. But wait... I can't attack her. Or she'll revert back.i quickly drop to my knees beside her and pick her up. There isn't a thing I can do. Not even the master is strong enough to stop holy water. I've just got to wait till it runs through her system. Which means I'll have to keep her hydrated. It'll make her lose fluids at an alarming rate. I shudder at the thought. "Just like cholera." I whisper, carrying her to our room. I wonder if ordering her execution counts as harming her since I didn't do the actual harming. I'll have to have a talk with the master. "Jason?" She whimpers weakly, sweat glistening her forehead. "You're gonna be alright. It's just gonna take a little while." "What happened?" "Your mother poisoned you with Holy water." "Holy water? How?" "We work for Satan of course it's gonna fucking poison you." I fill a glass with water. "You have to stay hydrated." I say helping her drink it. "How long will this last?" "About an hour." I say, worried. "You'll be okay though."

~flashback~

I rushed back inside with a bucket of water from the river. Mama was sweating and dehydrated, having come down with the same mystery disease the rest of the town had. I wet a rag for her and pressed it to her forehead. "What are we going to eat?" My youngest sibling 7 years younger than I asked. I forced a smile worried about mother. "I'll fix something with that fox from earlier. Peel some potatoes for me."

*A few hours later*

I had made mashed potatoes and fox stew for the kids and mama. I had a plate but didn't eat. Was too worried about her. As I watched my siblings eat, I filled their cups with the water from the creek.

~flashback over~

Little did I know, the cholera was in the river. What killed mama was in the drinking water. It killed my mother and my younger siblings. Every last one of them. I dab a tissue on her forehead. I won't lose anyone to disease again. Especially not her.