Stronger Together

Chapter 4

Indyleigh’s POV

We were pushed through a portal and I thought for a minute the dark witch had injected us with more serum. “This must be the isolation pit you said your great-grandmother spoke about”, Paige said as I jumped, hearing her in my head. I can’t see my hand in front of my face, but there was a red light in the corner of the room.

I took in a deep breath to make sure Joslyn and Gemma were with me and breathed a sigh of relief. I could smell them. “Are you girls alright?” I linked the pair and could feel them both startled by the sound of my voice. “You thought we had been injected too?”

“For a minute, until Chloe said something to me” Joslyn replied, and I felt around the floor for their hands, to give them a squeeze. “What’s that light in the corner?” I’m not sure what it is. I don’t like the thought of being watched if it was a camera, not that they could see me anyway, but you never know when it comes to the dark witch.

“I’m not sure” Gemma says, letting go of my hand, and I could hear her stand up from the floor. “It’s not a very big space. Grandma said the isolation cell was only tiny, I think that’s where we are” I move my hands around the area, there isn’t much space and I can’t stand up properly. I heard a loud crack and something falling to the ground. “It was some sort of camera. No watching us today, dickweeds”, Gemma added, and I stifled a laugh.

The last thing the vampire said to us before being pushed in here; he wanted to make us his maidens like Ezekial had done to our great-grandmother and attempted to do to Aunty Elizabeth. Goddess Selene, Goddess Hecate, if you are going to answer my prayers, now will be a good time to do it. Let Scott, Ezekial and Cornelius find where we are and let us go back to them.

‘What do you mean the vampire wants to make you, his maidens?’ Uncle Kyle’s voice came into my head. “Did you hear that or was it my imagination?” I asked the other two.

“Daddy, you need to mind link. Indy can’t hear our thoughts”, Joslyn says, including him in our mind link. Is he using astral projection?

“No, I opened a porthole. We are just seeing if Gypsy put something in place to feel one open since she can sense portals opening”, Uncle Kyle explains, answering my question. My collar isn’t being yanked backwards. I guess she doesn’t think portholes are important enough. “What is the collar for?”

“To answer your first question, before we were pushed in here; the vampire told us he was going to make us his maidens, I think that’s why we came here.” Joslyn began the explanation to Uncle Kyle.

“The second question, dark magic was placed into a collar to stop us from using witchcraft that will cause us to leave and shifting” Gemma continues. “It’s why we couldn’t send messages back about where we were. We would write something and the words would disappear. We can only tell you general things.”

“It hasn’t stopped all our magic; we can still heal ourselves and defend each other. I can’t use my tail; Joslyn can’t use a portal and Gemma hasn’t had a premonition. She said it was weird her or grandma never got one about being taken. We think the dark witch made sure she didn’t get one”, I concluded.

“She did get a premonition about being taken. We didn’t know it was about you at the time”, Uncle Kyle says as we gasp through the mind link. “The day we found out about Cor, she told everyone Ezekial, Scott and Cornelius were going to fight the bad men. We saw Julius and Gypsy disappear like they do with you. Ezekial told us about the dreams you told him you were having. Why do you have your wolves speak for you?” “Hey, we made the questionnaire” Paige says, wagging her tail.

“Not now” I fumed at her.

“The dark witch enchanted us to give the vampire a new arm. That was what they took for it to work. Chloe is my voice when I need something said to the assholes they have around. The dark witch said she got the idea from Titus”. Joslyn tells her father, and he lets off a little growl.

“Did Julius have a camera installed in here?” “The one I just ripped off the ceiling?” Gemma cuts in, answering his question.

“They did, but they don’t now”, I heard him yell at someone.

“I have something special for the three of you, but you need to come closer to the porthole’, he tells us as a light is turned on to the far wall with four arms sticking out of it. Uncle Kyle must be the one holding the torch. Which means;

“Scott, Zeiky, Cor” we say together, and we rush over to them. We can’t stop the flow of tears escaping our eyes.

“Shh, don’t cry little one” Ezekial’s voice whispers through the porthole as Scott wipes my tears from my face.

“Kyle told us you can’t speak. We will get you out of there”, I move my face and kiss Scott’s hand as he brings his fingertips down my cheek to my neck, locking them under the collar.

“They have them. Liz now. Sorry girls, this is going to hurt a bit”, Uncle Kyle says, as Scott pulls me forward by the collar and the chain starts pulling me in the opposite direction. The torch shined in my face as someone came over, grabbing me around my waist, stopping me from going backwards. Dad? “It’s OK, Indy. We are getting you out of here.”

Two more people come behind us; “Do you have her?” I hear Beta Hunter behind Gemma.

“Of course, I do”, someone who sounds like Uncle Kyle answers back. “It’s Nicky, Indy” he says.

I feel the collar pulling me in three different directions; Scott and Dad’s grip tightens around the collar and the chain keeps trying to pull me backwards. I hear a grumble from the portal behind me as a loud crack is heard. “I’ve almost got it” Ezekial shouts when a light flashes through the portal into the room.

“I don’t think so, b***h” Aunty Elizabeth says, deflecting whatever light came towards me and throwing something else back through the portal. There’s someone else throwing lights behind me, but I can’t move to see who it is, and this place is tiny. Dad is on his knees steadying me closer to Scott so they can break the collar, Aunty Liz is standing hunched over beside him with…

“It’s me” Aunty Helen says, as my head is thrown forward into Scott’s arms with the collar snapping around my neck.

“She’s free, bring her home” Ezekial screams.

“Indy is too”. “So is Jos”, Cornelius and Scott say at the same time as I am dragged through yet another portal. This time by my father. The moment I was on the other side of the portal, strong arms wrapped around my shoulders and a tender kiss landed on my head. “I’ve missed you”, Scott said, planting his lips on mine. Goddess the mate bond is making me feel weak at the knees.

“Stop hogging her” Dad squealed as he and Mum came over, hugging me as tight as they could.

“Lizzy” Uncle Isaac screamed, coming into the room with Uncle Cody, holding Uncle Nathan under each armpit. “You were right, they stayed in your office. We were fighting 6, maybe 8 rogues, while Julius was trying to pull Gemma through the portal and Gypsy was throwing hexes through it. When you broke the collar, Nath was grabbed by Julius’ new hand around the neck; it’s made of silver and Gypsy threw a number of hexes at him before they left.”

“Damn, I didn’t get either of them?” Aunty Helen says, giving a little smirk.

“No but you hit the rogues” Uncle Cody answered as Aunty Lizzy started mumbling under her breath. I walked over to her. We have had to deal with her hexes before, and I placed my hands on Uncle Nathan. Grandpa, Dad, Uncle Kyle, Nicholas, Aiden, Joslyn, Gemma, Robert, Cameron, Aunty Helen and Uncle Hunter do the same. I didn’t realize how many people were in the room. Everyone is here. We start whispering our anti-hex incantations. Gemma, Joslyn and I can only move our mouths, saying the words in our minds as all our hands start to glow and a hissing sound starts to echo in the room.

A few minutes later, Uncle Nathan sits up suddenly, gasping for air. We did it. Thank you goddesses for listening to my prayer. Scott comes over and puts his arms around me, kissing my temple. Cornelius is giving Joslyn a tonsillectomy and I know Gemma is having a thought conversation with someone; she gasps as Ezekial moves with his vampire speed and plants his mouth on hers. I’m guessing it was about him staying. “OK, that’s enough. She’s not 18 yet”, Uncle Hunter’s voice calls over the top of them and they break apart panting. Gemma must have told him something in her thoughts; “I don’t care. 18 young lady, and not a moment before. The same goes for you, so stop smirking at me.” I didn’t look at Ezekial’s face, he was smirking at Uncle Hunter.

“We need to work out if the mate bond will lift the enchantment on Gemma” Ezekial says, his grin getting wider as Uncle Hunter’s frown gets deeper.

“I told you all, I added the mate bond in the enchantment to give back their senses. I don’t know if it will work on Gemma, Indy or Jos. Did she add something in her enchantment?” Grandpa asks and I shrug my shoulders.

It was a few days after they took us. I remember… “No, but I know the enchantment word for word. Grandpa, Gypsy said you can’t reverse an enchantment. You tried to reverse ours and couldn’t. Can it be reversed?” Elizabeth says and I glance over at her. “I looked at your memory, sweet pea.” Der, why didn’t I think of that.

“It can be done by someone from the royal line” grandpa said with a smile on his face and I inhaled a deep breath as Scott grabbed hold of my hand and gave it a squeeze. “It should reverse everything that was done.”

“That must have been the light the three of you produced. Your magic was trying to reverse it before she injected you with something” Aunty Elizabeth says as she gets us to sit in a chair and stands behind us. “The enchantment on these girls was forced. Lift it now and forevermore. Reverse these words that were spoken, to give back the voices that were stolen. Replace the arm which was taken, for the young girl’s voices be not mistaken. They don’t need them nor use it much; and give the vampire an arm of silver, making it stronger than before.”

Aunty Elizabeth’s hands started to glow red as she touched our shoulders one at a time. A high-pitched squeal radiated around the room. I don’t remember anything else as the room spun around me and everything went black.