Amber

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Amber

I looked at Freddy, "Now you should see why I smiled when you sedated me. Ready for the once in a lifetime, deadly dance?"

"You can activate? You have a circle?" He begins, looking like he saw a unicorn just sprout 3 sets of wings.

I smile, "I can, and I do," I look at my friends with a big smile.

"But you had no sign of power! How?"

I grin and pause a second, "Magic."

With my conclusion, I sucker punch him in the sternum. He stumbles back, tripping over his feet and falling. I look up and my smile falls.

A large syringe filled with violet liquid meets my vision.

Wolfsbane.

"Jace! Wolfsbane!" I yell. Jace jerks his head to see what I was talking about, but the needle pierces his skin and the liquid is pumped in. He howls in pain and grabs his shoulder. He crumples to the floor.

Ana jumps towards Jace in a panic, "Do I bite him? I might be able to filter the blood!"

"Will he turn?" I ask.

"No, he should be fine!"

"Okay, go!" I say, casting a barrier around them that lasts for three minutes. "You have three minutes! Hurry!"

I hear Jace bite back a yelp when Ana bites him. I look at Aris and he turns towards someone and blinds them. I rack my brain on spells. I watch Juliet tell Ana something then to disappear and mend with Jace's soul, like what she did with me.

He suddenly growls and stands up, his iris yellow and everything else black. He lumbers towards who gave him the venom. In a flash he attacks, slashing at the man, hitting him in the stomach. The man screams in pain.

Aris says something in a language I couldn't understand, and multiple lights shatter. Any fire blew out.

It got quiet, far too quiet for my liking.

My eyes didn't focus in time to fight an attacker.

They slashed at my face, cutting my eye and cheek in a criss-cross. I yelped and another 'X' cut on my thigh, deep.

"Ouch!" I hiss. They grab my hair and pull me backwards. I growl, spinning around and lunging. I knock hard into someone. I land on top of them, straddling their waist and punching them several times. I whisper a spell and Greek fire appears in the palm of my hand. The fire lights up the attacker's features. It was Issac. She had tears streaming down her face. It mixed with blood I had broke open in the skin.

"I'm sorry, I just wanted justice," She whispers weakly.

Immediately I get aggressive, "Justice for what? Ultimately trying to ruin my life for power? That's not justice. That's greed," but instead of killing her, I knock her unconscious with a smacking of a vein in her neck.

I stand up and look into the darkness, now being able to see fighting, blood, and bodies. Ana just killed that old man, with a bite on the neck and claws to the heart.

Someone suddenly knocks me backwards. It was Freddy. He looked bad, and crazy. He was covered in blood. That normal, clever persona was nothing more than that of a facade. It was now clear to me that he was a genuine psychopath.

"Amber, kill me."

I looked at him with wide eyes, "Are you insane?"

"Just do it. You won. I underestimated you and I'm utter failure. My only job was to kill you, but even if I had calculated so precisely, there's no science in magic. Just kill me."