Black Magic Women

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Zelda's eyes opened and all she could feel was agonizing pain shooting through her entire body, showing no mercy to her screaming muscles. All she could feel was pain. Hot, throbbing and unbearable pain.

"Auntie Zee," Sabrina said next to her, clutching onto her hand, while her sister was wiping away the blood that came out of her nose. She didn't even register the thick texture on her lips until the metallic taste hit her taste buds and made her snarl in dismay.

She had to close her eyes again almost immediately, the intensity of everything that came crashing down on her too much for her systems to handle. Before she could do or say anything, she was pulled back into the soul consuming darkness and her head fell back against the floor with a soft thud.

When Zelda came back to her senses for a second time, she kept her eyes closed, knowing fully well that the brightness of the room was too much for her weak body to handle and she moaned in pain. She didn't know what had happened, all she knew was that what she was experiencing wasn't her pain.

All this time she had wished that Mary would stop shielding her thoughts and emotions, feeling the overwhelming emptiness where Mary's mind would usually be nuzzled against hers, but now that the brunette did share it, she wished for it to just stop. The emotions and brain wrecking pain was consuming her like a burning flame, ready to leave nothing behind. Too many emotions, too many confused thoughts, too many blurred images and too much going on to make anything out.

Only one word stood out and Zelda didn't like it at all.

Adam.

She knew that Mary was in pain. Heaven, her entire body screamed in pain and she was feeling the wet blood sticking to more than just her face. She felt Mary's fear creep up on her like the shadows that kept following them and she couldn't stand knowing that Mary was in danger. It drove her insane.

Satan knows what he was doing to her and Zelda tried pushing past her own pain in order to rush to Mary's side, taking her pain away as well. She'd never forgive herself if anything bad happened to her.

She tried to lift her upper body but a set of hands pushed her shoulders gently back down immediately. She tried to protest but found herself unable to speak, her state too bad to move anything.

"No, you stay there. We don't know what happened and as long as you're shaking like that, you're not going anywhere," Hilda said and Zelda didn't even register the concern in her voice. Everything that mattered was Mary and what she had to go through. Zelda didn't even consider her own health for one second.

The pictures came in blurry and confusing, so Zelda had no real overview of what was going on and all she knew for sure was that she didn't have a lot of time left. She couldn't waste any more on being talked into staying still, when the brunette was out there... alone. She would never stay still when her soulmate was calling for her, even if Mary didn't seem aware of it.

Zelda heard her name in the silent pleas over and over, each time getting more desperate and strained. She felt her entire body aching for the brunette and she just physically needed to get to her. She felt as if her body would burst in a bright flame if she didn't. There was no way around it, not that Zelda wanted there to be.

"Mary," was all she said before her back arched upwards, the breath being sucked out of her lungs. She felt an invisible force pressing down on her throat and she clutched at it, desperately trying to get it off.

"What is happening to her?" Sabrina asked and if Zelda hadn't been too focused on getting some air back into her lungs, she would have noticed that her niece was crying.

"I think something is wrong with Mary. They are one now. Whatever happens to one of them, happens to the other one as well," Hilda tried to make some sense of the entire situation and didn't know if she liked her version of the truth. After all that would mean that somewhere out there the same thing was happening to Mary and knowing what she did, it couldn't mean anything good.

"Zelda listen," Hilda said but the eyes of her sister kept rolling around in their sockets, her body falling in and out of consciousness.

"Okay, I need your help Sabrina. We need to do something against this. Give me your hands. We need to cast a protection spell and shield anything coming from outside," Hilda said and took the hands of her niece, pressing them against her sister's chest in a hurry. They didn't have a lot of time left and so she murmured the spell that would form a wall of protection around the three of them.

She felt the magic being sucked out of her but Zelda wouldn't stop tossing and turning underneath their steady hands until she heard Sabrina murmur the same spell along with her.

Zelda's body fell limb and the blonde witch exhaled in relief. At least they didn't have to keep watching her face contort in sheer pain.

When her eyes shot open, all of them released the breath they were all too painfully aware of holding. Zelda tried to get up immediately, her face one of pure terror, but Hilda held her in place.

"Let go off me, Hilda," Zelda hissed and tried to shrug her off but Hilda was persistent. Her sister wouldn't go through this alone.

"Shut it. Whatever is happening right now, you won't go through it alone. We are family and we need to stick together," Hilda said and Zelda looked at her surprised for a second.

"Don't you ever doubt that I would jump to your aid. I will always stand by your side," Hilda added at the face of her sister and both of them knew that there was no time for being sentimental, so Zelda refrained from saying anything to that.

"It's Mary. Adam is back. We don't have a lot of time. He's hurting her and she won't pull through for much longer. They're in the woods," Zelda said and Hilda just nodded. Both women sprung to life, running out of the house in a rush.

As much as Sabrina was angry, watching her aunt terrified her and knowing that the brunette was going through the same made her skin crawl. She just had to help, so she followed the two women leading the way.

Zelda didn't know where she was going but somehow she knew that she was on the right way. With every step she took, the feelings got more intense and at some points she felt like breaking but she couldn't allow herself to break when she was so close to Mary. She couldn't give up on her, when Mary had done so herself.

She knew she was getting close and she couldn't hold back her own anger anymore. How dare someone hurt Mary? Adam would pay for that. She would make sure of that and if it was the last thing Zelda did.

Her heart nearly jumped out of her chest when she saw Mary on the ground, tackled and pinned down by her capturer. She wanted to say something but his lips pressed against hers, made her halt and stomach turn.

She knew the nausea was mutual as Mary had a hard time keeping her tears in. Zelda's heart broke at the sight of Mary so down and she damned herself for not getting there earlier.

Only when she heard him talk, did she find her voice again.

"Too late. She already knows."

And she was fuming.

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