The Mystics

Chapter 2 - The Witch Hunt

Wanda

"Capuccino for Sir Marc," Wanda called behind the counter. She's wearing a chocolate brown blouse, slacks, & black leather doll shoes.

She'd been working in Café Alfredo for five years now. It doesn't earn much but it helps her afford to live under a roof, to eat thrice a day, & to buy her necessities.

When she escaped Raft prison where she, Clint, Sam, and Lang were imprisoned for siding with Steve and going against the government, she decided she needed a clean start. She wanted to start her life anew somewhere far far away where trouble wouldn't find her. She needed silence and peace. Being with the team, all it did was hurt her. So she made a life in Denver.

"Here's your order, sir Marc," Wanda smiled at the man.

It was the last order she took before she ended her duty. She wanted to work day and night in the coffee shop but they wouldn't allow her. Her duty is about to end and she doesn't want to go home yet. But rules are rules so she passed the next customer to the other server, Catherine. Catherine works for the graveyard shift. The owner of the café hired her a year ago.

After Wanda bid farewell to everyone in the café, she made her way to the door. Wanda stays in a motel room five streets away from the coffee shop.

Being alone at home, no matter how much she busied herself with any task, made her think about her twin brother who just passed away - Pietro.

Today marked the sixth year since the battle with Ultron in Sokovia. Six years since Pietro was shot dead. Six years since she wished she was dead. It was something she wished she could forget but that's impossible. Her brother's death punched a hole in her heart that no one could ever fill. Pietro was a part of her, and now she feels incomplete without him. Without Pietro, she feels cold and dead inside.

Wanda was going through this thoughts in an empty street when she heard running footsteps behind her back. She turned and meet whoever it is with a hex. It knocked Wanda's attacker off its feet. Except that...... it was a her actually. She has devilish horns on her forehead.

The woman got up quickly and picked up her fallen weapon. It was a silver trident.

The horned woman went for Wanda again, her eyes blazing with fiery anger. She swung the blade of her weapon at Wanda with both of her hands, Wanda's telekinesis caught the blow of the weapon. The woman swung at Wanda again, but this time, when Wanda caught the blade of her weapon, the woman pointed the other tip of her weapon and it fired with a white hot beam. It launched Wanda across the empty street like a bullet, landing on her back. Wanda recovered herself with telekinesis, levitating off the ground.

Then she heard running footsteps. Wanda was about to hurl with whatever she can reach with her telekinesis when something hit her on her back. The force sending her crashing in a store's window.... She got up and looked at the other attacker. It was a woman wearing a black cloak. Her hair is black and curly. Her eyes are wide and crazy. The alien has a friend, Wanda thought.

The woman in black cloak pointed her wand at Wanda, and cried "Crucio!" Something red came out from her wand. Wanda ducked to avoid the spell. Wanda shot hexballs at her attackers.

They sidestepped the hexballs.

Wanda whirled and heaved another set of hexballs into the air, putting her whole body into the effort. Each hexball hit both of her attackers in the chest, sending them lying flat on their backs on the cold hard ground. Then, Wanda grabbed both of them in a telekinetic grip. Wanda clapped her hands, causing their heads to clap together.

Seizing the opportunity, Wanda levitates herself from the ground, then flies away to escape her attackers. She didn't stay flying for so long as she was hit with something on her back. It felt like her whole body was shocked with a taser gun. Wanda crashed through the roof of a train station. She used her telekinesis to slow down her fall and she landed on her stomach with a thud.