The One Who Saved Us

Chapter 11

"Please tell me you didn't resurrect your mother Valencia! Did you sacrifice someone too? Oh my God. Valencia." Conrad was in complete panic mode and some part of Valencia enjoyed it. She shook her head.

"No. I'm not crazy Con. I didn't resurrect her, I wish I did though, but someone else did. Do you really have to sacrifice someone to bring a person back to life?"

Conrad nodded gravely as if remembering a horrid memory.

"Why do you have to kill someone to bring a person back to life?" Valencia inquired intrigued by that new piece of information.

Conrad sighed. "Bringing people back to life upsets the balance of nature. Someone is killed so that death comes after them and in the short amount of time death is distracted we get the person we want. It's very rare that this happens. Most of the time everyone performing the spell along with the sacrifice and the person being brought to life get captured by death and then there's only eternal..."Conrad looked over at Valencia's mom and said, "whatever. This isn't important. What's important is your mother. Here."

"I agree, my mom is important. But what else are you trying to say?" Valencia asked, her voice defensive. She moved closer to her mom who was just standing there, probably lost between all the words that had just been shared. She didn't understand much of them and she was still trying to process them.

"We have to send her back." Conrad said in a low voice.

Valencia looked at him incredulously. "You're kidding me right? That's not gonna happen. We are out of here if you actually mean that." Valencia looked ready to fight as anger built up in her voice. Her mother, noticing this, placed her hand on Valencia's arm as if to calm her down.

"Think rationally Val. Who is willing to risk their life to bring your mother back to life? That's right, no one. I mean, no offense. But that's the truth. So why else did someone bring her back?" Conrad's calm voice annoyingly made Valencia listen to him and she saw the point he was trying to make.

"Whatever, it doesn't matter. I'm just glad someone did what I couldn't and now I'm happy. I don't need to be scared."

"Valencia," Conrad sighed. "The person who did this didn't do this to make you happy. They want to get rid of you. Didn't I just tell you death comes after the person we are trying to sacrifice in the process? Yeah well if by some miracle you succeed, you only get limited time with the person you brought back. Then death comes after them too. In the worst possible way. The fire from the fireplace could swallow your mother up any second and we wouldn't be able to do anything about it."

"We can outrun it. The fire." Valencia said, her hope crumbling to bits.

"Sure. But can you jump over a ground that's going to split open and take in your mother?  Or the sea that death suddenly decides to control and it gobbles up your mom? The answer to all of that in no."

"I'm not killing my mother. And I'm not going to let you do it eith-" Before Valencia could finish her sentence she was suddenly pushed to the ground as the entire house shook violently and a crack appeared on the floor. Valencia stared in horror as the crack spread through the entire floor and made its way to the top of the house, she looked over at Conrad and saw him on the floor too. She looked around for her mom and saw her moving away to the corner of the house. She didn't look like she was scared. She was just moving away.

Valencia got up and performed a levitation spell on her mother. And then her mom was flying through the room and towards her. Valencia held her in the air as Conrad patched up the cracks after the shaking of the house stopped.

Soon everything was back to normal and Valencia set her mother down on the floor. She did this very carefully and breathed out a sigh of relief when nothing happened. As soon as her mother's feet touched the ground, she came running to Valencia and hugged her with all her might. Valencia fell into it breathing heavily, kind of tired from the spell she just performed.

"You okay?" She asked her mother in a whisper. Her mother just nodded.

"You should listen to your friend Val. This was death coming after me wasn't it?" She asked.

Conrad nodded. "This is what I'm talking about Valencia. This will continue to happen. You can't escape this. Just let her go peacefully." He said moving towards her slowly. He lifted his hand up, as if to do a spell.

Valencia's anger fueled up as she realised what he meant and before he could do anything, she threw a spell at him. She pushed him up against the wall and ensured his head slammed against it. "You won't touch a hair on her head. She's my mother and she's with me for as long as possible."

With that she left him, shocked and still against the wall. She grabbed her mom's hand and moved towards the door which she yanked open. It closed on her and just kicked the lock off the door while muttering a spell for strength. The door opened and she walked out and then felt her mom resisting her when she realised her mother had been saying something and she hadn't been listening.

"Dear, hey, listen to me!" She said and pulled Valencia. Valencia stopped and looked at her, her arms crossed in front of her.

"Listen, Conrad is right, I can't be here and not put you all in danger. I don't want to do that baby. I love you and I want you to live happily."

"I'm not happy without you all here." Valencia replied stubbornly hating that her mother agreed with Conrad.

Her mother sighed. Then moved towards Valencia and took her hands in hers. "You will be. Happier. One day, but you have to let me go. I can't put you in danger. You're my daughter and it's just not fair to you to live your life fighting for me and not doing whatever you want to do."

"I want to be with you. That's how I'm happiest. I don't want anything else." Valencia's voice broke as she knew she'd lost this. Her mom wouldn't listen to her and she started crying. She didn't want to but she couldn't control it.

"The next time something comes after me, promise me, you'll run the other way and leave me be. Promise it Valencia." But Valencia just shook her head.

"I have a better option you know, a less painful one. You know the spell Valencia. You just have to do it." Conrad's voice appeared from behind them and Valencia stared at him, a mix of emotions running through her.

Conrad came forward and pulled her into a hug. She didn't do anything to hug back but at the same time didn't resist. She then realised he did that to slip a piece of paper into her hands. He moved back and nodded as if to convey the message through his eyes.

Valencia moved back crumpling up the paper as she looked at him walk away. Then, before she could think about it, she ran to him. "You do it. I can't. It's not possible for me to do it." She said trying to hold her composure.

Conrad sighed and moved towards her mother and did a spell. Valencia screamed and pushed him slightly to stop it only to see he had just spelled her to be frozen in place.

"You see, I can't kill you mother for you Valencia. That'll have to be you. If I do this, some part of you will never forgive me and yourself. That can be used against us, to manipulate you into hating me, harming me. I can always fight you back but I don't want to. So you have to do this by yourself. I'm sorry."

Valencia couldn't argue with this, she knew he was right. She had just tried to hurt him for just suggesting to kill her mother, if he actually did that, she didn't know if she could forgive him. She nodded and then walked away and saw the spell lift off of her mother. She took her hand, and they walked quietly for a while.

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Woah, Valencia actually listened to Conrad? Or did she? What do you think? Is she gonna kill her mother and let her be in peace or just live the rest of her life running away? Also what do you think of Conrad so far?

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