The Protectors

A Story To Tell

At the split second Maria-hope appeared "what's is going on here" she shouted in frustration. The vampires stopped and one of the vampire voices in the crowd said in innocents "Gemma said hes our dinner", angered by this information Maria shouted "GEMMA" and told the vampires to get back into their coffins. It's not time for them to be out yet.

In a rush, Maria-Hope hovered her hand over my knee and it was healed. We walked back up to the the main hall, to find that Gemma was sat at the same table i was. "You called" Gemma said sarcastically, angered Maria-Hope shouted "what do you think your playing at your supposed to be keeping him alive and safe, how is this keeping him safe, i was this close to finding his mother" i interupted "woah wait you found mum" Maria huffed "well, we think we've found our way to her" she turned to Gemma angered and told her "we was in the middle of a fight and now thanks to her our mother is now fighting on her own" just as Maria was about to swirl off again, Tina came back in with a swirl of air, she was injured and also very angered, she looked at Maria and shouted "we almost had them and then suddenly you disappeared" "Gemma" Maria-Hope argued " had the vamps chase Brendon all over the place, she told them he was there dinner".

Tina seemingly i huge amounts of pain and barly standing asked Gemma to take her to her office.

Tina walked off to the office with Gemma, while i escorted Maria to the chair that Gemma was sat in, i told her "sit, have a rest i'll get you a drink, what would you like" jokingly doing her impression of me, in a deep voice "coffee". Realising the joke i gave a little giggle.

I made her coffee and told her "i was so scared when thoughs vamps came chasing me", i asked "why did you not say there were vampires here and why is she so evil", Maria paused for a while and stated "i was going too tell you about the vamps but i didn't think you would come in, becaus of the scary nayure films have put around then, and in regards to Gemma, our dad was a human" she happily remembered "he was a brilliant father we loved him so much, mum was always caring for him their love was so strong, the room brightened up when he walked into the room", she took a deep breath and held back the tears "but he didn't know mum was a witch", curious i asked "how did he find out?" Slowly saddening more she cried "it was all my fault, it was when i found out i had powers, i showed Gemma, she told me she had them too but she developed her weeks earlier then me, she kept it a secret, thinking she was a freak. So when we was around the dinner table that night i proudly showed mum and dad what i could do, dad freaked out. He dragged Gemma and mum away, calling me devil child, mum tried to defend me but he wouldn't listen, so mum retaliated and threw him across the room with a wave of her hand". She paused for moment and put her face into her hands. I told her "you dont have say anymore", determined to get this off her chest she pulled herself together and stated "no i need too, he ran to grab Gemma and took her away to her safety from mum and me, i shouted Gemmas got powers too, of course she denied it. He pulled Gemma up the stairs and locked her in her bedroom, he came back to mum and me with a gun and pointed it at mum and me, he shot my mum in the leg, i then retaliatiled and found some power that i was still yet to learn and threw him away, Gemma heard the gun shot she let herself out of her room with her newfound powers, she saw mum had been shot and she had some sort of mental break down and blew all the windows out of the house". Saddened by her story and curious i asked "so did he just walk away or something?" She looked me in the eyes and cried "dad was living 2 lives, when he told mum he was at work, it turned out he wasn't", fearing the next part of our conversation i had to ask "what was he doing" she answered "he was out hunting witches" surpised with her answer, she cried into my shoulder "my father was a witch hunter, in a fit of disbelief he walked out the door and we never saw him again". I asked "so he let you go" she told me "my father may have been a witch hunter, but he was still mums husband, Gemma and my father, he shows witches no mercy usually, but i dont think even he could kill his wife and daughters although he tried with my mum, but i think reality hit home for him, this is his family he's pointing his gun at, so we never saw him again after that".

From what i am led to believe what those witch hunters do was unhumane. Maria-Hope took me to the library to find a book, she did not tell what the name was as she knew what she was looking for and used her powers to locate the book. The book took itself from the shelf and presented itself to us.

With no effort Maria waved her hand and it turned to page 274, entitled "The Hunters". We scrolled the page and it told a chilling, digusting story of a hunter called "Adilade". It was written "Adilade was the hunter of all hunters. A family of witches that lived their lives in peace. It was them that produced him by dark magic, to protect them from the evils of the world, but something went terribly wrong with the spell.

He turned against his producers and whealded a sword from the flames of which he was born, he cut small various slashes in the bodies of the witches and strung them from the nearest trees, he done so many cuts to find that even with the loss of blood from the witches, they would not die. Thats until his birth fire spread in the wind towards the trees where they were strung and found the fire was more effective, for killing the witches.

He ran sacked villages to find witches to slaughter and torture. When he got to one village, Adilade was attcked by a werewolf, he fought with his sword, he swung for the werewolf but missed. The wolf pounced and took him down to the floor. Adilade reached for his sword and stabbed the werewolf up throught the jaw into it's brain, the wolf was dead. He struggled and wiggled to get the werewolfs body off from him, he pushed it off and stood up, covered in blood, dirt scatches and bites, he took the sword from the wolf jaw sliding the blade down the tongue.

He went into the village and tracked down the witches the werewolf was protecting, with intensions of stringing them from the nearest tree and making various cuts, whilst getting some information from them, as to where the other villages are that hold other witches. Before long he found the three witches and strung them from a tree, he used red hot pokers and maked them with the devils sign, he took his sword and made a small cut to one of the witches hand. Her hand started to fade black, to much of his amazment he took the sword and ran the witch through the gut, her whole body faded black and turned to ash.

Adilade soon realised it had to be something to do with the werewolf, so he went back to the wolf and took some of its blood, took it to the second witch and poured some onto the second witches cut hands, but nothing happened. Frustrated he went back to the body of the werewolf again and swabbed the blade of his sword over it's tongue. He went back and stabbed the second witch with the syliva infested blade, she then faded black too and turned to ash.

Realising that this was another effective weapon he set about making wooden bullets and coating them in the wereolf dribble, he shot the third witch and she quickly turned to ash.

Upon hearing of the three witches demize, two witches from another village, braved looking for him, and found him. He turned to capture the witches and using their powers they threw him across the woods,

But they could not kill him, until they managed to cut some of his hair, blood and clothing.

The witches pinned adilade to the floor of the woods with magic, they wanted to torture him, in revenge. They cut his hand and took a vile of his blood, they then grabbed his head and cut his hair, and ripped his sleeve from his jacket.

The witches set about making a voodoo doll of Adilade. They used the doll against him and controlled his mind to stab himself and walk to the nearest lake to drown himself, Adilade was no more".

Confused as to why this had any relation to her father, Maria-Hope told me " after my dad left i found loads of his research in his office where we were never aloud to go, Adilade influenced alot of people to go out and capture, torture and kill the witches", understanding now what Gemma meant, i informed Maria-Hope "Gemma said when she was turning me into every animal she could think of, humans are weak, so that's what she means".

Shocked that Gemma used her magic on me again Maria-Hope angerily stated "right, if she uses her powers on you again let me know, you are under our protection, i'll sort her out for you".

Just then Gemma ran out from Tinas office she said with concern "somethings wrong with mum". We ran into the room and Tina's hands were fading black, jist as it said in the book, we looked at her wounds, that was also fading into a dark shade. Maria-Hope informed us "shes been bitten by one of the soul keepers followers" she asked Tina "mum what was it", Tina replied "it was one of our werewolves". Gemma and Maria-Hope had a look of shock and devastation on their faces. We tried to find a cure for Tina but there was nothing of any help in any book

We took Tina to her room and laid her on her bed, her room, wasn't much to similar to mine, these guys looked as if they've lived like prisoners all their lives. Tina lay on the bed, and with a quiet whisper she told Gemma and Maria-Hope "stay strong you too, you need to help Brendon get his mum back, i'm so proud of you both, i love you, promise me you'll make this a safe haven for them, you know people like us, please", Gemma and Maria-Hope cried "we promise, love you" they both dropped to their knees at her bedside as she slowly drifted away into a sleep and as if written in the book she then slowly turned to ash. I watched helplessly as they both cuddled each other crying into each others shoulders. With haste and determination i grabbed a bag and what ever i could find, books to find the way to the dimension my mum is in. I packed a bag ready for the morning and tried to get a good night sleep. Ready to find for myself away of getting to my mother. No one else was going to die for me today.