The Alpha's Keeper

CXIV: Danger

        While on the mountain of altars, the group decided that they had to find Margaret, she was having problems that none of them could imagine, and without a doubt, they would need to help her out of these.

She ran her short yellow hair at full speed in contrast to her blue eyes, and next to her, a young man in ripped jeans and a black sweatshirt tried to keep her from losing her step. She ran as she could and tried to avoid the obstacles of that place.

The warehouse where they moved had many boxes and different objects stored, and moving around it was difficult for Margaret, who saw her partner jump and move with such freedom that it never ceased to amaze her, she had seen him do these things on many occasions but witnessing it, it was still amazing.

“Margaret, keep running, and I’ll catch up with you after I slow them down a bit.”

Margaret accepted and kept running. Her legs felt the cold of the night, and she did not expect this situation to go so terribly wrong. Her sleeveless arms tried to efficiently dodge the objects in the cellar to escape while she looked from time to time at the bright blue circle in his hand.

“Damn it, stop shining!” The young woman said while she kept running. Fireball passed near her but missed by a wide margin, and when Margaret looked up from her, she saw how her partner fell on this woman who was trying to attack her and placing her hand in the mouth of her enemy—rendered unconscious.

Smiling, she kept running when she said, “What would I do without you, Clint!”

Through the other door of the cellar, Margaret came out, just leaving the cellar. The blue bracelet that she had around her wrist lost its shine and said while screaming, “Ready! I stop shining!“

Clint jumping through the window of the next floor slowed him down in the air and landed calmly next to him. Seeing his bracelet, he smiled and said, we must keep gaining distance.

With total calm, both continued running and away from the people who were chasing him. A boat was ready for them on a pier when a person came out of the water surrounded by large amounts of water, this accumulated that water in his hands and strongly attacked Margaret He released a powerful whirlwind of water, but just before it hit Margaret, Clint jumped on him, and with a firm touch of his hand the water turned into a large quantity of salt.

All the water that this person threw turned into salt even in the one that rose above the ocean, and once all the water that surrounded this man turned into salt, he fell facedown into the sea again.

Margaret and Clint got on the boat, and she started with speed, several people came out of the hold chasing them, and one of them with short shaved hair and a look of few friends raised his hand, a blue bracelet in his hand shined and when he closed the hand the shine intensified.

The boat did not stop, and nothing happened. Clint was watching everyone on the dock, thinking that someone might attack them, when Margaret calmly said, “Clint! I came into range at the last minute, and it took my sight!”

Clint, without giving credit to what her friend said, turned to her and when he saw her he asked with a frown, “What did you say?”

Margaret, with an almost sickly calm, moved her face towards Clint, and her white eyes showed when the young woman said, “I can not see!!”

Clint looked at her and angrily cursed under his breath before taking command of the boat and continuing to navigate the marina, things had turned out terrible.

Margaret sitting in the seat next to her, said, “Dammit! Also my sight, I take away my magic several important memories and my sight. That power really is insane!”

Clint was driving and calmly put his hand on Margaret’s forehead, activating her spell, and she said, “You can do it?”

Clint shook his head when he said, “Sorry! You did not lose your sight, and in fact, he has it. I have nothing to repair. What he does to your eyes is irrelevant. The effect will be effective on his bracelet!"

Clint kept driving, and next to it, Margaret said, “He also put one of these on your wrist, didn’t he?”

Clint calmly said, “He did it! But I took it from me before he could take anything from me, and when you break, it all comes back to you… I think we’ll have to finish him off if you want to get your things back!"

She kicked hard on the dash of the boat in frustration when she settled further into the seat, she said, “You’ll have to do it yourself, and I’m obviously useless now!”

Clint shook his head, remembering that she couldn’t see him, and calmly said,“You are not useless for losing your sight. A lot of blind people do all kinds of things, and you just need to make an effort!”

“Shut your mouth Clint, and your optimism doesn’t help me at all now! I can’t see what you think he can do now!”

Clint, smiling, stretched out his hand and placed it on the head of the young woman. She used her spell, this was a particular spell, and Margaret felt how hearing her made greatly improved her smell. She could perceive incredible things, her taste, she could feel the taste of things without touching them, her skin acquired a great sense of touch, and with those things, she was able to position herself perfectly where she was without the need to see. Smiling, she said, “Wow! Your spell is incredible… What did you do?”

Clint with a soul as he headed to a port far off the coast, he said, “As you have no sight, increase the rest of your senses, you can hear, feel, smell and taste things with a wide range, also increase your intuition, in case you need it!”

Margaret smiled and, feeling everything, and began to see her sister in her mind. Edith’s face played over and over again when she calmly said, “This insight you gave me. I think I need to talk to my sister!”

Smiling, Clint said, “If that’s what she feels, maybe she’s trying to contact you about something important. Any idea how to do it?”

Margaret calmly nodded, and pointing in the right direction made Clint laugh when she said, “At home, I have a way of communicating with her! We just have to get to that place!”

Clint nodded and, driving calmly, and arrived at a distant house with its own port on the coast. Clint touching his own body increased his hearing capacity to scan the whole place like a sonar.

When he did, he saw that a person was in the house and taking a deep breath, he said, “Stay in the boat. There is someone home!”

Margaret nodded, and he returned to normal down to the dock and walked slowly. As she approached the house, a person stood on the second-floor balcony saying, “You have to be Clint! I want to hire you!”

Clint calmly heightened his senses and analyzed the man, he was not lying, and he was not human. Seeing it, he asked confused, “What are you?”

The man calmly was surprised, and it seemed incredible to him that Clint discovered that he was not a human just by saying it and smiling he said, “That is amazing! My name darling is Rigoleto, and I need your help to hunt someone down!”

Clint stared at him, he didn’t understand what it was about, but he couldn’t waste time at that moment, seeing the man he said, “Sorry, I have a business to attend to!”

Rigoleto calmly said, “I assume so, my friend, but this matter of which I am giving you a part has to do directly with your dear friend ... She is in danger!”

Clint looked at the man and said with some apprehension.

“What a danger!”

Rigoleto calmly said, “She is the prey of a ruthless witch and her friends of hers… I need you to please take care of them.

Clint looked at the ground and smiled, he said, “You’re lying to me, and I don’t like that happening ... You’re a witch hunter, you suck at the organization, and now I personally don’t have time for this!”

Rigoleto smiling said, “I’m not lying to you, she is being chased by her sister, and one of her sisters died from her, and now it is her turn. Think about it. Why would she invent something like that?”

Clint looked at him and kept scanning the place in case it was a trap, smiling, he said, “Witch hunters always find a reason to lie, and it wouldn’t really surprise me. But I understand what you say!”

Rigoleto calmly turned around and said, “I’m not saying believe me, but at least be alert. If you change your mind, you know how to find me!”

And disappearing, he left his card on the railing of the house. Clint heard Margaret walk when she said, “What did that guy want?”

Clint saw her and said, “Did he say your sister wants to kill you?”

Margaret stopped and saw Clint say, “It’s possible there is someone killing us, but I don’t know who she is. Maybe she’s already dead, and I’m still.”

Clint seeing how Margaret took that lightly, was confused. She was a strange person, and since she had entered his life, things were no longer as simple as he liked. Calmly they would have to meet his sister and see what the real reason for that search was.