The Final Hunt

Chapter Six - Maggie

I felt for Annie, my heart broke for her and the whole while she talked I clung to Kyle, never once letting go of him.

As she talked of her pain and feeling Taliah die, the wind outside picked up, howling as if it were autumn and not summer. The trees blew viciously and my heart thudded in my chest.

Annie said that she could feel her own airway closing over; she could feel hands around her throat and the life slipping away from Taliah as she tried to call out to Annie. Everything inside me shook and shivered; Kyle snaked his arm around me and kissed the side of my head. The wind slowed as I breathed out a big sigh, blowing away the fears.

Annie stared at me, her eyes wide with curiosity.  "Did you do that?" She gasped,  "Maggie, did you just control the air?" She demanded.

"I... I don't know, it's been happening a lot." I shift in my seat, fidgeting side to side under her stare.

"Is it just the air?" She pried, I shook my head.

"It's happened with the ground as well, and erm,"

"And the water." Kyle interjected, looking at me as I lifted my eyes to him, he smiled softly.

"I read about this once!" Annie jumped up and ran out of the room, up the stairs and clambered about in the room above our heads, "stay there I'll be down in a minute!" She shouted; I looked at Kyle.

"Have we ever found anything?" I ask, searching his eyes for any kind of sign, he just shook his head.

"I've done hours and hours of research baby, I've not found anything about extra powers." He said, defeated.

"I've got it!" Annie called as she thundered down the stairs and came crashing into the kitchen holding an old leather bound book. It looked like your typical witches spell book; it was worn brown leather with strand fraying at the corners and the pages looked as though they'd either seen about 500 years or they'd been dyed with teabags. I assumed the former of the two.

She frantically turned the fragile pages and flipped through pages for what seemed like forever until she skipped a page and stopped, turning back three pages and slapped her hand flat down on the page, turned the book to me and looked at me, eyes wide.

"What is it?" Kyle demanded, shaking my shoulder before I'd even had chance to read.

My eyes skimmed over the page and a breath caught in my throat.

"Maggie what is it?!" I shushed him and kept reading.

"It has to be, I've never known any Seer's other than Taliah but she thought they'd all gone, the High Seer's, wiped out long ago." Annie shook her head in disbelief.

"What? Will someone please tell me what's happening?" He was so tense, I could feel the room change as his anxiety grew.

"It's not possible," I whispered out and gazed at him, he completely changed persona.

"Maggie honey, that's what I thought when I first met you, when I knew you were magic, and here you are." He lifted my chin to look into my eyes and smiled, "there's nothing we cannot face." He kissed my lips softly and I calmed right down.

"The High Seer's,  they had abilities, affinities with different things. Some could read minds, others could know the future; when good and bad events would happen. But the rarest of all was the ability to utilise and bend the four elements; air, water, earth and..." Kyle and I looked at each other, both knowing I'd not experienced the fourth elemental ability; I couldn't be a High Seer, I don't have that ability.

"Maggie, have you ever?" They both looked at me, I shook my head, no.

My mind flashed back to a memory of when I was first thrust into life with my parents, attempting to deal with my grief from the death of my Nanna.

I lit a candle in remembrance and placed it on the windowsill in my bedroom, a small token of love to send to my beloved Nanna with our Goddess.

Jade had just left my room, and left a hand mark right across my face and a cigarette burn on my left forearm. I'd cried and cried until eventually I'd silently screamed and the flame licked up the centre blind panel, burning the edges and lighting up the room with its blinding fire. I'd jumped and it had been gone as fast as it was alight; I'd almost thought I'd imagined it.

"There was once, a few years ago, it was small, and once, I thought it was a dream but..." I trailed off at the end as the realisation hit.

"Maggie," Annie and Kyle said simultaneously, both equally as shocked as I felt; it couldn't be true.

"Love?" Kyle laid his hand on my shoulder.

"You're a High Seer, Maggie." Annie said matter of fact, she pulled the book away and closed it over.

"I'm a...I can't be. Can it?" I looked at Kyle, tears in his eyes and pride slapped across his face, "I'm a H...High Seer?"

A whoosh of air flew through the apartment and I was washed with light, flowing through me as if I was the sun. Kyle and Annie gasped and grasped the countertop as I was lifted in a twist of cool breeze into the air and the ground hummed underneath us; it was the Goddess, telling me that she was happy I had finally realised my gifts.

'My child,' her beautiful voice sung through my head and I fell into complete comfort; it was like I was home, 'Child, you have been so blessed, and so equally so tried, in your life; you have never failed to see the good and provide good for others. There is more to come, more trials for you, but you will succeed and prosper, my darling daughter'.

I sunk back in my chair and was full of contentment, bliss and peace.

Then I passed out.