The Protectors

Gemma's Return

The morning drawed in and the birds started singing, i woke up and laid listening to the birds, i felt relaxed and chilled. Eventually i decided to drag myself out the tent and start cooking some breakfast, as i rummaged the bags for some food Jessica emmerged from the tent.

I finally found some food for breakfast and started cooking. As me and Jessica sat around the fire, we sat in another awkward silence. As i was cooking our breakfast i suddenly realised that food was getting low. Jessica looked at me and asked "what's wrong?" I told her "we're running low on food". She stood up and walked over to me, with no prep or determination she waved her hand over the bags, and with great ease the food that was already in the bag doubled up. "Your mum and dad must have loved you doing the weekly shop" i said jokingly. She went to sit back down with a smile on her face.

As we sat away from each other, we heard foot steps coming from the other side of the rocks. Me still unable to do anything, i sat anxiously, Jessica decided to climb around the rocks. While Jessica peered over the rocks. She said "it's a woman, with black hair she looks like shes in trouble". Jessica climbed around the rocks and helped the woman climb back around the rocks, to my shock it turned out the woman was Gemma, all battered and bruised with blood on her hands, she was so tired and injured that she collapsed on the floor. When i realised it was Gemma i exclaimed "that's Gemma" I tried to get up to assist but i couldn't, Jessica helped her up off the floor and took her into the tent so we could attempt to treat her.

Jessica covered her over with a couple of blankets to keep her warm, i took off my jacket to put under her head for comfort, Jessica then helped me up and helped me into the tent so i could tend to Gemma. I picked up Gemmas bag, took out the first aid equipment, i found some sterile cloths and bandages and started to apply pressure to her cuts and lasorations, in hopes to stop her bleeds. As we tended to her but all Gemma wanted to do was sleep, it was apparent to me she had to get to a hospital, but she didn't want to go. I didn't want to force her as we had the bleeds under control.

Within all this worry about Gemma, i was trying to listen out for Toby but there was sound of his approach, is he stuck out in the woods someehere due to falling over? also another question was, were they successful with their mission, but these questions would not be answered until Gemma was able and awake, so we left Gemma to sleep and gain some energy. We left the tent and went to sit around the fire and chill abit after all the commotion.

"Who is she?" Jessica asked, "that is Gemma, she's just come back from a mission, but there was another person with her, we need to wait until she comes too, to find out what's happened". I answered. I told her "she's a witch too", with a smile of gladness on her face, Jessica seemed happy she wasn't the only one.

After a couple of hours, Jessica and I was sat outside the tent around the fire chatting about random stuff while Gemma slept.

As the evening was approaching i was thinking of what to cook to gain our energy, it was then Gemma immerged from the tent. "Who is she?" Gemma asked "This is Jessica, she was lost in the woods and stumbled into the camp the other day, she's a witch too". Not impressed Gemma walked around the fire and sat the other side not taking her eyes off of Jessica.

As she sat glaring at Jessica i tried to break the ice a little, "Wheres Toby?" i asked, Gemma sat thinking and preparing how to say what she wanted to say, as tears built up Gemma cried "Toby's dead, we were ammbushed by Maria-Hope and her minions". "Why? she was the one who wanted us to get it?" i asked, "yeah on your own, shes been watching us all the time. That werewolf was supposed to attack me and put me out not you" she replied.

"So what happened" i asked. She told us "As we walked over the rocks we were walking for what felt like hours. Until we found a small cave, Toby went in first and saw the chalis at the back of the cave, Toby grabbed it, brought it back out of the cave and put it in the bag. Everything was going well, that was until we started making our way back, happy with the find, we got to, what looked like a meadow place, when we got trapped in her barrier spell. Maria-Hope appeered from the mist and used her magic powers to torture Toby, she pinned me against a rock, so i couldn't do anything. She asked us what we were doing with the chalis, Maria said that you was supposed to do this on your own and asked why i wasn't dead. The werewolf should have attacked and killed me not attacked you, so when we didn't tell her anything she went up to Toby and used her magic to put Toby in extreme amounts of pain torturing him. I cried and tried to tell her what she wanted to know, so she let Toby down and froze him still, and came over to me and demanded to know what we were doing helping you. I told her it was because we're going to stop her and bring her down. She turned and walked over to a small tree and snapped it in half with a turn of the hand, she then levitated Toby over the tree, putting the sharp wood splinters in line with his heart. I shouted, screamed, i pleaded with her but she wouldn't believe what i told her. And then she dropped him on the tree stump" As she tried to keep it together she sniffed and continued "he was gone. She told me to go home and leave you to it or i'll end up like Toby, but this time the werewolf wont fail".

I pulled myself over too Gemma to comfort her, as i cuddled Gemma tight, i let her cry into my shoulder, i looked over at young Jessica. Gemma's story obviously scared her, I told Jessica to come over and join the group hug, so she did in relief.

We hugged for a while and when we finally parted from each other, i asked "where is the chalis?" "In the bag"Gemma replied, i was confused so i asked "but it's not, i emptied it for all the first aid stuff? "i've put an invisabilty spell ober it i'll get it in a sec" Gemma replied. Gemma asked "whats the plan?" "Well, things have changed now" i replied, "we now have a second witch on our side". Gemma and I looked at a concerned Jessica. "How old are you Jessica?" Gemma asked, "13" she answered. "How old were you when you found out you had powers?" "10" she replied. Gemma continued "have you explored your powers much", unsure how to reply Jessica said "i have used my powers for good, but, i didn't tell anyone, until i was seen by a village priest, and he condemned me as a demon. I was arrested but i broke free, ran away and got lost in these woods, i saw the fire and decided to warm myself up, that's when i met Brendon". "Yeah she pinned me to the floor,, she very powerful" i informed Gemma. Gemma looked concerned, and still had trust issues.

"It's too late to do anything tonight we may aswell get ourselves sorted for another night of camping" Gemma said. "Do you recon that you could heal me now you have another witch?" i asked. Jessica churpped up "worth a try" Gemma and Jessica help me up and walked me over to an open part of the woods, as i limped along leaning on Jessica and Gemma shoulder's Gemma looked at Jessica's feet and asked "wheres your shoes and socks", Jessica innocently replied "i left in a hurry and blind panic the last thing i thought of was my shoes and socks". They laid me out flat on a sleeping bag and stood either side of me. They both started to chanting a healing spell, but there was no result. I looked up at Jessica and told her "it's a werewolf bite". An idea suddenly flew into Jessica's head and she asked Gemma "do you have any spellbooks at all", intrigued Gemma replied "yeah, 2, why?" Gemma took them out of her bag and gave them to Jessica, she read through one and explained "theres a spell i read before, somewhere and it said that if you mix the blood of a witch and the syliva of a werewolf it should heal the werewolf bite, these books must say the same spells if not similar, it should work, well, on a human anyway".

After looking through the spell book, Gemma said "it's a good thing we got the chalis, because thats what we need to spill the blood into and pour it on your wound". After a while of searching and getting everything ready Gemma held her hands out and chanted a latin spell, which relealled the chalis on the woodland floor, i sat at the side as Gemma and Jessica placed the chalis in the middle, "where are you getting the syliva from" i asked. Gemma replied "it should still be in your leg so we just need my blood". I sat and watched as they chanted the spell, as they were chanting Gemma took a knife and cut her hand, and squeezed her blood into the chalis, still casting they both walked towards me with the chalis in hand which contained the drops of blood. They both crouched down and poured the blood onto the werwolf bite, to my surprise the pain that followed was immense, uncontrollably i flicked around in pain and reached out and accidently knocked Jessica off her feet. Gemma crouched down to me and placed her knee on my chest to try and keep me still, as Gemma took pressure off my chest, i was able to have a look at my leg, and much to my surprise my leg started to heal.

Now the healing process is complete, i was feeling revitalized. With much appreciation i set about helping Jessica with her cuts on her hands and feet. After doing abit of first aid and covering her hands and feet in plasters, we gave her some spare shoes and a change of clothes.

After Jessica got dressed we started setting down the tent and clearing up the camping equipment, ready for our trip to the next location, and that was finding away into the hell dimension. So we set about climbing back down the mountain to start coming up with a plan to get into the dead zone, on my own, how we're going to take down Maria-Hope? Also How we're going to get my mother out of there?

As we walked down, i started thinking of ways to get into the dead zone. I thought the girls could maybe use some sort of untracable spell to get all 3 of us in and not just me. "because Maria-Hope seems to know our every move can you do a spell to cover us, so we can give her the element of surprise?" I asked. Gemma replied "there was a spell that made a person invisable to the evils of the world".

Gemma told us "We need to get the dagger and the chalis back home so we can go back to the library of dark magic, to see what spells can get us in and out, with your mother alive".

As Gemma and I were talking Jessica looked confused and concerned, i told her" "we'll explian on the everything on the way back. Our desebt down snowdonnia was a long and hard one, but we finally got too the bottom.

When we arrived at the base of the mountain, i noticed something alarming, as we were approaching the car, it had been tampered with, i unlocked the car and climbed in, i told the girls to wait so i can inspect the car before we drove off and something drastic happened.

This made Gemma tetchy, so she argued "why are you getting in?" in turn she also made me become annoyed so i replied in anger "because of 2 reasons i know a thing or 2 about cars, and if anything happens to me whike i'm in the car you 2 have magic powers that you can use to help me, if i lose you too, i'm stuffed". Gemma thought for a while and realised that i was speaking sense, although she was angry.

I sat in the car, made sure everything was ok and it seemed to be in order. i then got out and gave it a thorough inspection underneith the car and noticed that one of the brake lines were leaking. As i got out from under the car again and stood up, suddenly i was pushed against the car by my throat and lifted into the air, but there was no one there. I looked over at Jessica and Gemma and seen Gemma with her hand pointed at me as if she was force choking me, Jessica was trying to stop her, But all Gemma said through gritted teeth was "don't you dare ever talk to me like that again". Gemma lowered her hand, and i dropped to the floor. Jessica ran over to my aid, while Gemma walked back into the woods.

Me and Jessica ran in after Gemma and shouted "GEMMA". she stopped and turned towards us crying her eyes out. She told me "I'm sorry Brendon, i don't know what came over me".

Feeling sympathetic i told her "don't worry about it, it's fine, but we can't be turning on each other not this late in the game, we arw close to getting into that place and saving my mum, i understand you were frustrated but we are a team, we can't fail now".

We went back to the car and i showed Jessica where was wrong, so she got underneith and used her magic to fix the issue with the brakes.

With the car now fixed and the boot loaded up to the top with all the equipment way started our 3 hour journey back to the safe haven willow, to investigate the library of dark magic again.