“Isabella, you have to run to save your life or they will kill you!” The distant voice made Hazel frown as she tried to open her eyes but felt like it had been glued and no matter how much she tried, she could not open them.
But the voice was creating a strange sense of loss and pain in her heart. She felt like someone was clenching her heart tightly in his fists that was making her feel suffocated.
“Let her go! She is just a kid. She had done nothing!” She heard the same person crying and shouting but the sound of footsteps did not budge.
“You filthy girl! Did you not know that she is an abomination! If we let her live, she would be the end of ours. Get away from us!” The sound of footsteps only increased and then cries and shrieks resonated in the air.
Hazel was sure that they had beaten or killed the girl who was trying to stop them but she did not understand whom they were talking about?
Could it be her that they wanted to kill! She could feel her body panicking but she did not understand what they all were talking about!
Forcing a lot, she finally opened her eyes to see more than twenty women with silver hair looking at her with scorn and hatred.
Their eyes were filled with disgust and they had large sticks in their hands burning with fire.
Dread filled her heart when she realized that it was not for giving light or keeping themselves warm but to kill her.
She tried to stand up, but her knees felt weak and she staggered back and fell on the ground again.
But instead of seeing worry in their eyes, she saw them smirking as if they were happy and joyous at her demise.
She had never felt so much hatred even when she was in the palace. Most of the time she had stayed hidden in the annex building, but even when she had met her sisters a few times, they all had only given her a look of disgust and then ignored her presence completely.
But this was completely different, she could see the desire to kill her in their eyes. They all looked at her as if she was a stain, a disease, something filthy they should get rid of.
“I told you, the spell could keep her on her knees for a few hours. Now she would not be able to run away.
Now kill her and get rid of her at once!” tears brimmed in her eyes and so did fear.
“No! No! Do not kill me, please!” surprised by hearing her own voice that sounded so different than usual she shook her head as she crawled back but it only boosted their confidence and hatred for her as they sneered and scoffed looking at her pathetic state.
“No! I will not die here” she shouted again with resolution as her hands clenched into a fist. She would not give up after coming this far.
She felt a strange sensation in her body and then she saw dark smoke coming out of her body shocking her.
The eyes of every woman around her widened and soon the sky that was still orange a second ago turned dark or it vanished would be better to say.
All the trees, roads, birds, insects, everything around them vanished, only darkness remained.
As if the dark smoke had spread its arms and engulfed all of them in his girth.
There was nothing but then covered in a dark layer of smoke that took away every sign of life around him.
“Ahhh”
“No!”
“Ohhh”
She heard all of them shouting while looking around with fear in their eyes. Though Hazel was afraid too, she felt better when she looked at their dreadful faces.
The torch in their hands had long gone while they were running around to find a way to run out of that darkness like insects struggle after getting entangled in the cobweb but there was no way that they would succeed.
A futile way to save themselves from their death. Everything was in vain.
“No! Let us go! We are the elders of your coven!”
“What the hell are you doing? You evil being! Let us go right now!”
When they realized that there was no exit from the dark, they all turned to look at her and started shouting.
Though their voice was not as strong as before, they were still trying to show authority as they glared at her with their scared faces.
The whole scene was confusing but Hazel felt a gush of anger and disappointment.
She did not know why she was feeling so much attention while looking at these strangers.
She had never felt that emotional before!
“See! That is why we all wanted to kill you! You are the part of evil, a monster, you are not like us. We all have pure energy while you are dead, a sign of death.
You should die! Die this instant!” they all started shouting while covering her and hazel covered her ears.
She shook her head miserably telling she was not a monster but nobody listened to her. The pain intensified every passing second and she felt that she was so suffocated that she could not breathe anymore.
“Stop it!”
“Stop it!” she shouted and felt a strange roar beside her. It felt so close as if the voice had come from her and just in the fraction of second all the women that were shouting held their necks with their eyes widened.
Their faces started to turn ashen and they all coughed and if they were getting strangled but hazel could see nothing except their own hands on their neck.
She was shocked to see all of them falling one by one on the ground with their body turned limp. But each of them were still staring at her even when they did not have any breath left.
“No! No! I have not done this!”