The New Legend

Chapter seven

John's POV
"John," Louisa says as she walks into the kitchen. The moment she sees us, she holds one hand in front of her nose. "Jesus Christ, how much did you three drink?" She asks. "Not that much..." Charlie says with a little smirk on her face. "What is it, love?" I ask Louisa back before she can say something. "Neron, you defeated him didn't you?" Louisa asks.

"We did," I answer her. "Whatever Neron was planning, someone's here to finish what he started." She continues. I'm going to do what Neron never succeeded in doing. That's what Astra meant. "Astra..." I mumble. "What?" Ray asks curiously. "When I was gone, I was in a different realm. I saw Astra and Belial. They told me that they were planning something." I say.

"So you think Belial is behind this?" Louisa asks. "No, dear. I think Belial is just helping Astra to reach her goal." I reply. "So, what do we do to stop them?!" Louisa asks back. "I guess we just have to wait to figure out how they're planning to do what they're planning," Ray says while raising his shoulders.

Louisa's POV
"So, who's Astra?" I ask. "Well, sweetheart, there's a lot that happened before you came here," John answers me. "Maybe we should work on making Lou feel part of this team," Nate says with a smile while pointing his hand at me. "I mean, she doesn't know much about us and we could use some team bonding." He continues.

"Gideon, call the rest of the team," Ray says. "Of course, Mr Palmer. I will try contacting them to bring them here." She answers. Not even a few seconds later, Ava, Sara and Nora walk through a time portal into the bridge. "What's up?" Sara asks. "Game Night," Charlie says while giving a fast nod to me.

"So, what game should we play?" Ava asks enthusiastically. "The best game possible! Cards to save the timeline!" Ray says proudly with his hands on his hips. "Cards to save the timeline is a game that Ray created, it's like cards against humanity but with our scenarios," Sara whispers.

"What would you do when you're trapped in an avalanche?" Sara says after reading the card. I look at my cards. I don't understand most of them but I pick 'spend time with each other and hope for the better.' I put the card in the middle of the table. "'Spend time with each other and hope for the better' wins," Sara says after reading all the cards. "Wow, that's my card," I say back.

"Well, what happened?" I ask curiously. "So, not long ago, we tried to stop Neron after he abducted John. We tried to shoot but Neron had everything planned out. We were in the ice age so a huge avalanche hit us, but we had hope." Sara answers. I can't help but laugh. "So you didn't think that Neron was smart or something?" I ask while still laughing. "Well....." Sara says as she starts laughing too.

Four hours later

"Guys, we've been doing this for hours," Nate says. "Well I can't argue with that, you people have endured a lot," I say. "Captain Lance, there is a suspicious rumour going around about humans dying after trying the bloody mary challenge." Gideon suddenly says. "Another bloody soul." John answers. "But I thought it was real before," I mutter out of confusion. "No, sweetheart. That was just kids playing. This is some real demon hunting." He answers.

Sara's POV
"Okay, we need the two demonologists, Nora and John, to send it back to hell. We do need someone as bait..." I say. "I'll do it." Louisa answers. "Hell no, dear. This is not a bloody children's game, this is real." John says, denying her request. "Well, you already said that and I know the danger out there. I can protect myself if needed and I'm the perfect bait for all those souls, right?" She says. "She has a point," I add.

"This isn't easy. Once you summon her, she tries to kill you. If you don't run away in time, it's over." John says with his arms crossed. "I'm going to be fine," I say to calm him down. "Okay. Nate, Ray, I need you to be backups." Sara says. Nate nods. "Wait, what if we go stand in front of Louisa after she summoned Bloody Mary," Ray says.

"Got you two things there, mate. One: her real name is Mary Tudor, cruel queen of England. Two: you can try, but it's not my fault if one of you gets stabbed." John answers Ray, still with his arms crossed. "Well, what are we waiting for, more casualties?" Nora asks sarcastically. "Nora's right, let's go," I add.

John's POV
"Okay, this is going to be predictable. We need a mirror in a bathroom and some candles, red preferred." I tell them. Louisa nods. "I'll get the candles," Ray says. "And we could use the bathroom in my old house, my mom moved to another country after that demon and she just left the house there," Louisa says. "Okay then, let's go," I say as I walk to the jump ship and gesture them to follow me.

"Okay, back to 2020 it is then," I say while pulling the handle. The jump ship's engine starts and we fly off into a breach to 2020. "Are we-" Nate asks before I cut him off. "We're cloaked, mate," I say, knowing what he would ask. Nate nods, I smile a little. We land in front of Louisa's old house. I open the door of the jump ship and we walk out. It's dark out here. "It's night time, why is it night time?" Louisa asks me.

"Bloody Mary is more likely to come at night time, dear," I answer. We walk into the house, I set it to a month after we got Louisa from that demon. We walk straight to the bathroom and Nate puts the candles down on the sink. It's not a small bathroom, so everyone fits. "Now let's summon that bloody hellish would, shall we?" I say. Louisa nods. I grab my lighter and instead of lighting a cigarette, I light the candles.

"You know what to do, right?" I ask Louisa after lighting the candles. "I've played this game once but nothing happened." Louisa answers and looks at me. "Go on," I say while gesturing her to say those bloody words. "Okay..." Louisa mumbles and sighs shakily. "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary," Louisa says, her voice decreasing every time she says it.

It takes only a few seconds before we hear snarling and screaming. "Get behind us," Nate says to Louisa as him and Ray step in front of her. "Show yourself!" I say loudly. A face with red glowing eyes appears in the mirror not a second after. Louisa jumps a little. The woman in the mirror looks at Louisa, sharply. "It's you... The girl." Mary says in a demonic voice.

"What?" Louisa asks. "Don't you think that Belial has already told us who to bring to him?" Mary asks back and laughs. "As for the rest of you, he ordered me to kill one John Constantine." She adds. "Oh, bloody no," I mumble and nod at Nora.

Nora's POV
That's my sign. I use my powers to concentrate on holding Mary still while John does his casual chanting. Per júdicem vivórum et mortuórum! Sed enim mundi Creator! Qui habet potestatem mittere in infernum! Ut abire ex regno protinus! He chants. Mary starts screaming in pain as flames start to burn from the candles up the mirror. The flames spread to the ceiling. Bloody Mary's gone.

Although she's gone, the flames spread further and further. "We gotta go, this house won't be standing here much longer. I'm sorry, dear." I hear John yell through all this smoke. We burst through the door, run through the hallway out of the house. A neighbour sees us as we run. Damn it. We run further towards the jump ship. Fortunately, everyone is focussing on the burning house.

Once John opens the door, we step in quickly. "That was one hell of a night," John says while breathing heavily and chuckling. "I never expected that to go up in flames," Louisa says while pointing at the burning house through the window of the ship. "I'm sorry," John says. "No, it's okay. No one lived there either way." She answers. "Well, at least I can say I tried the Bloody Mary challenge." She says with a smile.

Note:

You guys, sorry this took so long. I hate school so much 😂. I had to learn for some tests and I was watching season two of LOT again for a little. I totally forgot what happened there. I saw that this story had gotten so many reads. I was like OMGSJSJFHSJS. It's not that much in comparison to other stories, but much for me.

See ya, -UnknownWriter