Cursed Daughter

Chapter 18

    "What?" I snapped out of my own head and looked down at her.

    She held up a book that was almost falling apart. "You found it! This is the book because the first entry was Trina's. She was the one who did the research behind the spell."

    "Wait I thought you said you bound my power not Trina?" I asked confused

    "Yes, I did but Trina was the one who figure out how. She didn't do much magic back then so she helped me figure out mine better."

    I looked at the book over her shoulder. The notes looked like gibberish to me and it looked ready to fall apart. "Didn't you say that this was updated? Why does it look like it's falling apart?"

    "That's because it was updated in the eighteen-hundreds. So not the most recent but still newer than when the original one was written."

    I shrugged, "Ok, so where do we start?"

    She didn't respond for a few moments skimming through the notes then looked at me with slight pain in her eyes.

    "What?" I asked

    "Austin, half the ingredients listed no longer exist. Humans or nature made them extinct centuries ago."

    "So what does that mean? There is no other way to break this? You can't just pick my mind again and release whatever hold was placed?"

    Dimitra thought for a second about what I said then called out to Trina. Trina came into the store and instantly turned red seeing the mess of books we made. She was about to yell at us when Dimitra cut her off.

    "Ignore the mess we'll fix it. Now the notes you made to bind her power says that half these herbs or animals no longer exist and Austin brought the point of someone digging through her mind to break this 'wall' that was placed on her."

    Trina thought for a second then she caught onto what her sister was saying, "No! No I will not do this again! Dimitra I have told you several times I refuse to wander minds again I am not going to do this. Find a way to do it yourself I will even tell you how but I refuse to help in this."

    "Trina please."

    Trina glared, "no, that is my final answer."

    She turned and left the room before any of us could protest. Dimitra yelled after her and threw the book at the doorway. She turned to me and abruptly got up. "Fine, Trina won't help then, we will do this ourselves, follow me."

    I fumbled over the book stacks and quickly caught up to her. She walked down the hall and stopped right in front of the stairs. I was confused but I stay behind her and watched as she ran her hand across the wall then pushed a spot in slightly. All of a sudden the wall opened like a door a revealed a narrow staircase. I gasped as I watched what looked like a solid wall turn into a doorway. She  motioned for me to follow her down the stairs and I cautiously did. There was lights along the walls keeping the staircase well-lit.

    The stairs were a dark wood and looked pristine. The walls were a bare white and we descended several feet before we reached another door. This was made of steel and looked very heavy. There were no locks on it, only a family insignia near the top, which I recognized as Dimitra's family crest. She whispered something under her breath and the door opened on its own. I walked in behind her and ducked as a fireball almost hit me.

    I looked up and saw Kyle surrounded by fire. The walls were lined with massive planters that had flames roaring several feet high. The walls were steel also and the floor was concrete. The same lighting that was in the hall was all around the room making it as bright as midday. Katerina was on the other side of the room throwing fireballs and literal walls of fire at Kyle. He managed to cut through them like they were air and caught the fireballs with ease.

    "Austin watch out!" Kyle yelled

    Another stray fireball flew right towards me and I placed my arms up out of habit. I felt the heat pass by me but not touch me making me look up. Everyone looked at me with wide eyes. I thought someone had deflected the fire but glancing around not one person had moved. I looked down at my arms not seeing any new marks on them. I looked over at Dimitra with a confused look on my face.

    "Maybe the Academy actually did do some good," she said shocked. "You used one of your powers."