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<blockquote data-quote="Ulfgeir" data-source="post: 7809281" data-attributes="member: 7015719"><p><strong>Book 3: Fallout</strong></p><p></p><p>During the weeks after the incident with the ritual, Star asked me to first show her to the tattoo and piercing studio and introduce her, and then later asked me to accompany her to the studio for one more piercing, which I gladly do. She said she wanted some emotional support for a daring piercing. I felt the need for more ink and more piercings. I had though about doing intimate piercings before, and this was a perfect opportunity as that was what she was doing as well. Star thanked me for accompanying her by giving me a wonderful set of enchanted piercing jewelry that looked like ice but would not melt and were as strong as the metal ones I had before. They were indeed cold to the touch, which felt very erotic and gave me lots of very interesting thoughts as I put them on. I was such a naughty girl, and I liked it. I was a bit wary of accepting them at first though. Star is after all some kind of supernatural being. I am not entirely sure what she is, but I would hazard that she is a spirit of some sorts. Accepting gifts from faeries is said to be dangerous, but in this case I think I were safe. </p><p></p><p>During spring break most students left town. Yukimi and I was no exception and we went away having lots of fun together. Sadly not everything was going as well as our relationship. As I had feared, the tension between Yukimi and Angelica, had led to a division of the sorority. I tried my best to make sure that it didn’t get worse. Being Yukimi’s girlfriend, I of course supported her in almost everything. The war between the various gangs in Boston escalated, and the police seemed helpless to stop it. We also heard rumours that some people had gone missing by going too close to the strange mist surrounding the sacrificial tree.</p><p></p><p>In the magical community, I met a young girl named Lisa, who was quite bubbly and talkative. It felt nice having someone roughly my age as a friend there, as all the others were older. I talked a lot with Lisa, giving her what few pointers I could about both her talents and her love life where she said she had some problems. She said she was in love with another girl, and the feelings were mutual, but that the other girl was too shy to do anything. I hope for her sake that she gets the courage to act on her feelings. As for her talents, well it seemed she needed to practice on her control. I told her to do it somewhere where there wouldn’t be any people around. Getting control over your talents are tough especially when you’re young. Heck, being young is tough enough. Add the weirdness of magic and you got a potential disaster on your hands. I was lucky in that the powers I had wouldn’t pose any dangers to anyone else. Of course at times I felt like I was losing my mind by the strange visions I saw back then I came into my powers. We heard some rumours about a large group of Wardens going to hit town later on. Why hadn’t they intervened during the murders last year? It felt like a dollar short and a day late. Of course might be good to hold a low profile for a while.</p><p></p><p>I am not sure if Star let her monkey escape or if she herself took it away, but during the spring the monkey was suddenly gone. There were reports of weird sightings in one of the parks, but not sure what happened to it. She wouldn’t talk about it though. I was not going to press the issue, but I did wonder.</p><p></p><p>I spent my birthday relaxing and going out eating and going to the movies with Yukimi. The movie wasn’t that good but the company more than made up for it. My parents sent a few presents. Of course they didn’t send the kind of stuff I wanted, they never did. I had looked forward to celebrating 4rth of July with Yukimi, but she had to leave for Europe a few days before on some urgent family matters. </p><p></p><p>I was a bit afraid to have to spend 4rth of July alone, but then Mirou decided to invite us all for a dinner at his place on the third. I was the only one that didn’t have a date sort off, so I felt a bit out of place. Mirou hade a good looking girl called Nathalie, Karl brought the Asian girl from Avalon that Antonio had first had a fling with. She introduced herself as Peggy. Antonio true to his style had two girls with him. Luckily for him he hadn’t broken Melissa’s heart. Tim had started dating some European girl. I think she was called Jen and was into photography. Star always being the weird one, she brought some old geezer. Didn’t think that was her type. Even though Imogen didn’t have a date with her, it seemed that Mirou had invited some young single guy named William LaFayette from his class. It seemed that he and Imogen hit it off quite well, but I think Star was trying to steal him away from Imogen. I must say that the various dinner guests were quite interesting as I got the vibes from most of them that they were not mere humans but rather supernatural beings. In fact, I think only Imogen, Tim, Jen and Antonio’s two girls were purely human. It would have been rude of me to use my Sight to verify it during dinner, but I was intrigued. If I understood a comment Star made, then her date was the guy that had made the jewellery she had given me. I must say he had done some very good handiwork. After dinner, Imogen excused herself and went home to study while the rest of us went out to a nightclub. When I discretely asked Mirou if he knew that his friend was a supernatural being, he looked quite surprised. He had apparently no idea. Wonder how large the supernatural crowd was in Boston.</p><p></p><p>The day after was the national day. I had been told it would be interesting with lots of fireworks throughout the city. I spent most of the day walking around the city and visiting the parks just to feel the atmosphere. Lots of people had picnics there, I so wished I could have spent the day with Yukimi. Karl, together with Star, Antonio and two others that I didn’t know very well spent the day doing the final touches on their entry in the fireworks-competition on campus. I think the other two were called George and Linda. As a safety precaution, I was asked to keep my distance from the stuff they worked on. Explosive material with fidgety electronics and magic was probably a very bad combination. I had at least no wish to test whether it was safe or not. </p><p></p><p>During the evening we all watched the fireworks competition. Everyone was quite surprised by the entry that Karl and his team had done as it played the national anthem. Sure there were a few others that were more visually spectacular, but having fireworks play music was something else. So of course they won the contest, and got a nice price. We then went down to Avalon, which was totally packed with people. Mirou worked in the bar and was quite busy. He asked us if we had seen his girlfriend but no one had. Outside the bar was lots of barbecues with delicious food. I took it a bit easy with the drinks, but a lot of the other students there went wild. For a brief moment I even though I saw a Zebra there. Some one was apparently having fun.</p><p></p><p>The day after was relaxing. Karl came up with the wonderful idea that we all should go swimming at the beach, and even managed to get a few others to join. Seeing Karl in leopard strings felt weird. Sure he worked out but still. Antonio had more classic bathing shorts. I knew Star was extrovert but she went topless which got some looks. I preferred to wear a small black bikini. Later on when it wasn’t that much people around I too went topless to sunbath for a while. However I found that bathing while wearing the jewellery Star had given me had its own weird effects. I hadn’t realised just how cold they were until I came up from the sea with a thin layer of frost and ice on my nipples and my nether regions. Very kinky indeed. Had someone kissed me deeply then and there, I think I would have had an instant orgasm. What can I say, I am a wicked girl. And no, I sure as hell hadn’t noticed this effect when showering before as I like to shower very warm.</p><p></p><p>From my contacts in the Paranet, I heard that some girls had mysteriously disappeared over the past months. According to rumours, the Wardens had for some unknown reason taken those girls. I heard some names but I didn’t recognize most of them. The only ones I did recognize were Lisa Green, Dawn Watley, and Regina Spektor. Dawn had apparently been hospitalized since early February and been insane. I decided to take a trip to Starstone to get some more materials for my magic workings and check out if they had anything new interesting there. Most of the stuff they sell are harmless trinkets for those that like the new age stuff, but they do have some real good stuff if you know what you’re after and can pay for it as it is quite expensive.</p><p></p><p>In the evening we went down to the beach again for a barbecue. Some of the girls form the sorority joined. Star decided to bring out some weird string-instrument and play. She is good at it, but it did have a haunting sound. All in all we had good fun and a good ending of the long days of around our national day. Then it would be back to summer studies.</p><p></p><p>The day after, at campus, I noticed that someone had put up a high iron railing with barbed wire on top around the sacrifice tree near the library. Given the rumours that some people had vanished into the mist that was still present, and I for one knew that it was stretching the fabric of reality and probably were a gateway to Nevernever, it felt like a good idea. Wonder when it came up though. I think Karl had something to do with it, but I am not certain.</p><p></p><p>Antonio came and asked me about the girls who had disappeared. I told him what I knew about the rumours of wardens, and after we looked in the school catalogue, we found that all the girls that had disappeared had been involved in the summoning ritual in February. Three of the girl, Bethany Consentino, Carla Gillis, and Amanda Braden had died in the explosion when Imogen had apparently broken their magical circle. After that the wardens had taken care of another seven. Some of which had been in hospital since then. That still left three of them unaccounted for; Lynette Gillis, Natalie Adams, and Roxy Richter. Karl and Star decided to go try finding more info about the girls. Apparently what they could find, the girls had left their rooms in great haste. Not sure if that was good or bad. They did manage to find though that one of them had had a small secret compartment in her room, but whatever had been there was gone.</p><p></p><p>Antonio was a bit scared that he had misplaces his pants and a t-shirt earlier, and asked me if I could track them down as he was afraid of someone using them as a material link to him regarding magic. I tried, but couldn’t find them as the link was too weak, besides there were traces of him all over town. I told him that if he wanted to I could of course create a ward in his room, but that would mean that he would have to stay there until we could be sure no one was using the clothes as a link. He wouldn’t agree to that and begrudgingly told me that he didn’t have a room of his own. He had earlier been sleeping either at the old sorority house, or every night in some new girl’s room. I just shook my head at that. That is what you get for being a playboy. Of course another option would be if he could manage to get invited inside some house with a heavy threshold. We quickly scrapped that idea as well. That was not going to happen. Other options included having him submerged in running water or maybe staying at some holy place. Neither of those options seemed viable either.</p><p></p><p>Later that night was I woken up by Star who banged on my door. Apparently there was some kind of magical problems. Took me a while to understand what was going on. Karl had gotten a frantic call from Peggy that someone was attacking them. So Antonio, Star and I set out to go help her and her friends. We met up with Karl a bit further away as he had rushed ahead. We then met two large wolves dragging a naked unconscious man behind them. He was bleeding a lot from various wounds, and missing a large chunk of his thigh. I recognized him as one of the guys that had been down to Avalon before together with Peggy. I could tell that the two wolves were injured as well. Behind them came three large ferocious hounds that seemed ready to attack.</p><p></p><p>Karl turned into a wolf, and Star drew her big sword and suddenly flames erupted around her making her look very ferocious. Antonio drew a started using his magic to make the ground beneath the dogs slippery as if it had rained heavily. I turned my attention to the wounded man trying to stem the flow of blood, sacrificing parts of my skirt to use as bandages. The wolves also attacked the hounds. As far as I could see in the corners of my eyes, Antonio’s magic worked quite well. Sadly just as I finished bandaging the wounded man, one of the other wolves went down from its injuries and instantly transformed into another of Peggy’s pack. I quickly eyed him over after yelling at the hounds to lie down. I am not much of an animal handler so of course it didn’t work. It was worth trying though. His injuries didn’t seem as bad as the other ones, but I quickly went to work bandaging them. In the meanwhile, Karl, Star and the last wolf whom I guessed was Peggy managed to kill the hounds.</p><p></p><p>An exhausted Peggy turned into human form. I could tell that she too was hurt, but she claimed to be fine. She said that they had been attacked further on, and had had to leave two of the pack-members. Karl still in wolf form set off to investigate. I called an ambulance for Peggy and her pack members after we moved away some from the area. Star made sure to look as human as possible. When the ambulance came, Antonio true to form, chatted up the female EMT and rode in the ambulance with Peggy and her guys. We told them that we had come upon thee victims of dog attacks, but that the dogs had continued on chasing something else. Star and I quickly headed home to the dorm to clean up and recover. About an hour later Karl came back. He said that he had backtracked the way Peggy and her pack had come, and had found the other two pack-mates dead as well as a number of dead hounds. When he continued on he found himself back at the strange clearing, to which I had sleepwalked earlier. There he saw what he took to be the herald of Hecate, and at least twenty dogs. The herald ordered the dog to attack, and they chased Karl all over town for almost an hour before suddenly giving up and returning.</p><p></p><p>The day after we learned that Karl and the hounds had been seen by lots of people, and they had found the bodies of a large number of people that had been killed by animals. What was strange was that most of them apparently didn’t come from the US, and some seemed to have fillings in their teeth and injuries that indicated that they were hundreds of years old. And the police hadn’t found any dead hounds, so we figured that the hounds had been humans transformed into hounds, and that the spell had broken some time after they died. That didn’t sound good at all. Sure I had read stories about the fair folk kidnapping people and holding them for hundreds of years just for amusement, but I had thought it was just myths. We also learned that one of Peggy’s pack-members had died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.</p><p></p><p>Later that day, I got a call from Yukimi who was at the airport and who wondered if I could pick her up as she had lots of stuff with her from Florens. I went and asked Star about the keys to her van, but Karl had them. Not sure why she bought it when she didn’t know how to drive. He offered to join me, which I thought was nice. When we came to the airport, we didn’t see her, but then she emerged from some service-entrance with two huge suitcases, and dressed in full winter gear even though it was high summer. I know, a bit weird to say the least.</p><p></p><p>Karl had to help with her suitcases as they were really heavy. Yukimi claimed that she had had some problems getting them through customs. What exactly had she brought with her? She couldn’t get out of the heavy winter clothes quickly enough. Not that I blamed her.</p><p></p><p>On the way back from the airport, Yukimi asked Karl who was driving if we were being followed. Apparently some black beamer or something was following us, but Karl managed to shake it off on Yukimi’s request. She said that she had expected her family to act, but not so soon. She had gotten tired of being told what to do, and they didn’t seem to take no for an answer. So instead of going to the sorority house where she had move din, she directed us to an apartment in a well-to do region of town that she said was a safe house. I realized that there were lots of things I didn’t know about her. Obviously she had lots of money.</p><p></p><p>The apartment was almost devoid of furniture. Yukimi said that she hadn’t been there since she bought it, and that she had another in Chile. Why would she need a safe house? But it wasn’t until she started unpacking that I really started to wonder. In her suitcases were lots of automatic weapons and pieces of armour. And then something she claimed to be some kind of mine. Karl seemed a bit impressed with the hardware. She then asked me to get a large case that was under the sofa. That turned out to contain a rocket launcher and a long white wooden staff with some ornamentation on it. I could possibly understand the assault weapons for self-defence, but a rocket launcher? In my mind, I started thinking Yukimi belonged to some kind of crime-family. And the staff, well to me it seemed like a magician’s staff but she didn’t have any powers as far as I knew.</p><p></p><p>Yukimi said that her family would try to attack, and that she could use some help. Karl suggested Antonio and Star, so she called Antonio while Karl called Star, whom both agreed to come as quickly as possible. I asked her if she wanted me to ward the place, but she said it was already warded. Intrigued I opened up the Sight, and found that indeed was warded, and that the wards seemed more powerful than something I could do, at least not without a lot of preparations. Dear Goddess, what was going on? I felt out of my league.</p><p></p><p>I stop and asked her who she really was. At first she smiled, and said it was complicated, but she would tell me. Would I like the short version or the long version, she wondered. I settled for the short version for the time being. She claimed to have been born in 1171 in Florens, and that she had been Italian nobility. Her real name had been Margrave Isabella de Este. When I pointed out that no human could live that long, she said that it was true, but that she changed bodies. A year ago she had been a man named James Green, and that she had been sent here to hurt the magical community here in the US. But then she had fallen in love with me, and wanted to out. I could hardly believe what she was telling me, but she seemed utterly sincere. It was then I realized that this was the first time I had looked into her eyes for such a long time. Suddenly the world was spinning around me, and I saw Yukimi as a European noble lady, dressed in fine clothing from the 12th century, and standing in a grand ballroom. The expression on her face was innocence and joy. Behind her I saw an almost identical version of her but with hatred in her eyes. The lights from the large crystal chandeliers hanging from the roof suddenly seemed to grow and the woman who radiated evil faded away. I fell to the ground clutching my head as I got a severe headache, and I felt weak as a kitten.</p><p></p><p>Both Yukimi and Karl doted on me and asked how I was doing. Yukimi explained to Karl that I had just experienced a soulgaze. I had heard about it before, so I knew without a shadow of a doubt that Yukimi had been telling the truth about who she was. What had she seen in me? She seemed a bit surprised when I told her I had never experienced a soulgaze before. As I tried to gather my senses again, I could not help but wonder exactly how much had Karl overheard of what Yukimi had told me. What do you do when you learn that the person you love has done horrible things in the past that most would consider unforgivable, and that the only thing redeeming them was your love? Dear Goddess, I could not let anyone else know about it. Not now. I needed to learn more first. And I knew without a doubt that Yukimi, or Isabella as I now knew her as, was a powerful witch. If she turned back to her past, how would I stop her? Could I even do so? Or would I turn to darkness as well? That thought troubled me, but there was something seductive about the power I could see.</p><p></p><p>I was unsure of how much time passed before we could hear the rumbling sound of a motorcycle. Karl seemed a bit disturbed about it. Why? Then I realized that either Star or Antonio must have taken his motorcycle. And sure enough, it didn’t take long before they came up to the apartment.</p><p></p><p>My head still hurt. Sadly no one had a headache-pill. Karl wasn’t exactly happy when Antonio gave him the keys to his motorcycle. After a while Mirou and Tim also showed up. I knew that Mirou could fight, but I thought Tim was just about as bad at that as I am, but then again he might surprise me. He did seem less than pleased about the weapons, and I must say that I was quite sceptical as well. Karl took a short moment to go and move his motorcycle, and then came back to the apartment in wolf form. Wonder how many he freaked out by performing that stunt.</p><p></p><p>Tim was quite sceptical of what he was doing there, and asked Yukimi that specific question. She answered that she was actually protecting us from death as we had apparently gotten ourselves involved in some plans they had, and that they had sent mercenaries after us or more correctly her. But we were there to keep her from taking the whole block with her when she would defend herself. I really did want to believe her, but I was concerned about the possibility of the innocent neighbours in the house getting caught in the crossfire. Mirou and Karl rigged up some nasty traps while we debated what to do. I don’t even want to know how they came up with that idea. I performed a quick low powered ritual that would enable us to get some warning if someone tried sneaking up on us.</p><p></p><p>After some debates, Yukimi said that she had intended to open a portal to the Nevernever and use that as her most likely way out. When asked whether her family knew about the safehouse, she said that they shouldn’t but that they had ways of finding out. Mirou didn’t seem to appreciate the idea of going into Nevernever, as that was filled with nasty beings wanting to kill you. That was indeed a quite fitting description as far as I knew, but it might at least give a safe way out sort of. Apparently Yukimi had hired two trolls to stand guard on the other side so that no one would be able to attack us from there. </p><p></p><p>Suddenly the warning spell I set up earlier flared up. Something had triggered it. I quickly told the others that someone or something was coming for us. We quickly agreed to go to Nevernever. Just we were starting to go through the portal, Tim and Antonio suddenly collapsed to the floor. Mirou threw Antonio through the portal and then carried Tim through. We suddenly heard the sound of a helicopter real close. We all hurried through the portal, and just as came though the windows and one wall of the apartment literally exploded behind us. I am not sure if it was the trap that Mirou had set up earlier or if grenades were thrown in through the windows, but we felt the shockwave and the flash of heat as the portal closed behind us. And we were indeed met by two huge trolls on the other side.</p><p></p><p>I turned my attention to Tim and Antonio, who both had a pulse, but their unconscious state confused me. Antonio had though said that he feared someone would use his missing clothes as a link to him in a ritual and that seemed likely. The wards in Yukimi’s apartment would have protected against that, but as we opened a portal, that must have breached the wards and made them vulnerable to attack. Karl, who still was in wolf form licked Antonio’s face as away to see if he would wake up. That didn’t work. I was just about to use my Sight on them to check if they were indeed under some spell, when Yukimi said that their souls had been ripped from them and were still in the apartment, and that they would indeed die very soon unless we could get them back.</p><p></p><p>Star took her fire form again and opened a small portal of her own and went back to scout the apartment. I still don’t quite understand exactly what she is, but I am quite certain that she is some kind of fae or spirit. We could see the apartment through her portal, and we saw that it was on fire, but we didn’t see any of the persons that had attacked us. We quickly went through the portal again, and once there Tim and Antonio woke up again as their souls returned to their bodies. When we looked around we saw that there was a large hole in the floor to the apartment below as well as one of the walls.</p><p></p><p>We could hear people moving in the staircases. Karl had apparently seen a fire extinguisher outside the doors and went and got it. I started using that to stop the fire, while Antonio, who had recovered used his water magic on both the front staircase and the one leading up to the attack and the back entrance to make them slippery. The others set out to ambush whoever had attacked us. I heard crashes as people fell and then the sound of automatic weapons along with some yelps. Behind me, I heard Yukimi shouting something, and the muted sounds from the helicopter right outside the apartment suddenly changed into a high-pitched shriek as the engine suddenly developed a severe problem. I looked up and saw in slow motion how the rotors failed and the helicopter started spinning out of control before gravity took over. A loud ominous crash could be heard a few seconds later. </p><p></p><p>After a short while I had stopped the fire in the apartment, but I could now see that it was burning in the apartment below, so I tried to stop that fire as well by leaning down through the hole in the floor and letting the fire extinguisher work. The old woman who lived downstairs was totally oblivious to everything that happened around her. She was sitting watching some old tv-show from the eighties about some pathetic guy with a mullet. She didn’t seem to notice at all that it was burning a lot behind her or that her ceiling had a hole in it. I had to get her attention by spraying her and the area towards the door. Frightened she noticed the fire and started slowly walking toward the exit. Luckily, Antonio saw what I was doing and came to my help with his magic just as the fire extinguisher went out. He summoned a heavy rain inside her apartment, which was enough to extinguish the flames.</p><p></p><p>As we finished up that, Yukimi worked some magic on Tim who appeared to have gotten shot. At least he wasn’t bleeding all over the place now. When I looked out through the window I could see the wreck of the helicopter as well as a mysterious black car that had gotten totally flattened. I really hoped no innocent people had been hurt or killed. I was so out of my league. Explosions, and gunfire was not my thing at all, at least not when I was in the middle of it. It is one thing in the movies, but it is totally different in real life.</p><p></p><p>As I looked around I saw all the blood around us. Karl in wolf warm was near the front door gnawing on someone’s arm, and just then Mirou came back the other way dragging an unconscious soldier behind him. Apparently we were safe for now. Or so we thought. That thought had barely crossed our minds as we heard lots of sirens approaching. This place would be crawling with police soon, which meant we should make ourselves scarce and also dispose of the stuff that implicated us. Yukimi opened her portal again to Nevernever and we, or rather the others quickly got everything we had touched in through the portal. As we went through it, Yukimi used some kind of spell to clear the apartment from all signs of us being there.</p><p></p><p>In the Nevernever, the troll seemed intrigued by the dead bodies and stared eating them. Eugh. That was totally gross. Mirou tried interrogating the soldier who had awoken. I couldn’t understand a thing he said, as he spoke some other language. I don’t think Mirou got the answers he was looking for. He then beat up the soldier some more and after wiping the weapons clean of fingerprints, he asked Yukimi to open the portal, and then threw the dazed soldier and the weapons back into the apartment, letting the police deal with him.</p><p></p><p>We decided to head back to the dorms, and then later on pick up our vehicles when everything had calmed down. Seemed like a good idea to lie low for a while. I was still a bit chocked of what had happened, and about what I had learned about Yukimi. Sadly she realized that if she stayed, I and everyone else around her would become targets for her family, so she had to leave for a while in order to keep me safe. She did promise to stay in touch and that we would see each other now and then. Such bittersweet kisses. I knew in my heart that it was the right thing, but it still hurt a lot. I would be alone, fearing every day that her family had found her. Oh Goddess, I loved her, but her past made things complicated to say the least. If only I could do more. The worst part was that she would have to use magic to block anyone from finding her with magic. If I could find her, then her family most certainly could if they were as powerful as she was. It was with tears running down my face that we kissed goodbye. At least for now.</p><p></p><p>A bit later Tim got a call from a contact he had among the police; apparently Imogen was lying in a coma at hospital. She had been hit by a car as she crossed the road. It might have been pure coincidence, but it had taken place at roughly the same time as when Tim and Antonio had fallen victims to the curse that had ripped their souls out from their bodies. Sure, we might not see eye to eye on a lot of things, but I hoped she would recover quickly. No, the question was who and why? Could it be the three missing witches that did the large winter ritual last February?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ulfgeir, post: 7809281, member: 7015719"] [B]Book 3: Fallout[/B] During the weeks after the incident with the ritual, Star asked me to first show her to the tattoo and piercing studio and introduce her, and then later asked me to accompany her to the studio for one more piercing, which I gladly do. She said she wanted some emotional support for a daring piercing. I felt the need for more ink and more piercings. I had though about doing intimate piercings before, and this was a perfect opportunity as that was what she was doing as well. Star thanked me for accompanying her by giving me a wonderful set of enchanted piercing jewelry that looked like ice but would not melt and were as strong as the metal ones I had before. They were indeed cold to the touch, which felt very erotic and gave me lots of very interesting thoughts as I put them on. I was such a naughty girl, and I liked it. I was a bit wary of accepting them at first though. Star is after all some kind of supernatural being. I am not entirely sure what she is, but I would hazard that she is a spirit of some sorts. Accepting gifts from faeries is said to be dangerous, but in this case I think I were safe. During spring break most students left town. Yukimi and I was no exception and we went away having lots of fun together. Sadly not everything was going as well as our relationship. As I had feared, the tension between Yukimi and Angelica, had led to a division of the sorority. I tried my best to make sure that it didn’t get worse. Being Yukimi’s girlfriend, I of course supported her in almost everything. The war between the various gangs in Boston escalated, and the police seemed helpless to stop it. We also heard rumours that some people had gone missing by going too close to the strange mist surrounding the sacrificial tree. In the magical community, I met a young girl named Lisa, who was quite bubbly and talkative. It felt nice having someone roughly my age as a friend there, as all the others were older. I talked a lot with Lisa, giving her what few pointers I could about both her talents and her love life where she said she had some problems. She said she was in love with another girl, and the feelings were mutual, but that the other girl was too shy to do anything. I hope for her sake that she gets the courage to act on her feelings. As for her talents, well it seemed she needed to practice on her control. I told her to do it somewhere where there wouldn’t be any people around. Getting control over your talents are tough especially when you’re young. Heck, being young is tough enough. Add the weirdness of magic and you got a potential disaster on your hands. I was lucky in that the powers I had wouldn’t pose any dangers to anyone else. Of course at times I felt like I was losing my mind by the strange visions I saw back then I came into my powers. We heard some rumours about a large group of Wardens going to hit town later on. Why hadn’t they intervened during the murders last year? It felt like a dollar short and a day late. Of course might be good to hold a low profile for a while. I am not sure if Star let her monkey escape or if she herself took it away, but during the spring the monkey was suddenly gone. There were reports of weird sightings in one of the parks, but not sure what happened to it. She wouldn’t talk about it though. I was not going to press the issue, but I did wonder. I spent my birthday relaxing and going out eating and going to the movies with Yukimi. The movie wasn’t that good but the company more than made up for it. My parents sent a few presents. Of course they didn’t send the kind of stuff I wanted, they never did. I had looked forward to celebrating 4rth of July with Yukimi, but she had to leave for Europe a few days before on some urgent family matters. I was a bit afraid to have to spend 4rth of July alone, but then Mirou decided to invite us all for a dinner at his place on the third. I was the only one that didn’t have a date sort off, so I felt a bit out of place. Mirou hade a good looking girl called Nathalie, Karl brought the Asian girl from Avalon that Antonio had first had a fling with. She introduced herself as Peggy. Antonio true to his style had two girls with him. Luckily for him he hadn’t broken Melissa’s heart. Tim had started dating some European girl. I think she was called Jen and was into photography. Star always being the weird one, she brought some old geezer. Didn’t think that was her type. Even though Imogen didn’t have a date with her, it seemed that Mirou had invited some young single guy named William LaFayette from his class. It seemed that he and Imogen hit it off quite well, but I think Star was trying to steal him away from Imogen. I must say that the various dinner guests were quite interesting as I got the vibes from most of them that they were not mere humans but rather supernatural beings. In fact, I think only Imogen, Tim, Jen and Antonio’s two girls were purely human. It would have been rude of me to use my Sight to verify it during dinner, but I was intrigued. If I understood a comment Star made, then her date was the guy that had made the jewellery she had given me. I must say he had done some very good handiwork. After dinner, Imogen excused herself and went home to study while the rest of us went out to a nightclub. When I discretely asked Mirou if he knew that his friend was a supernatural being, he looked quite surprised. He had apparently no idea. Wonder how large the supernatural crowd was in Boston. The day after was the national day. I had been told it would be interesting with lots of fireworks throughout the city. I spent most of the day walking around the city and visiting the parks just to feel the atmosphere. Lots of people had picnics there, I so wished I could have spent the day with Yukimi. Karl, together with Star, Antonio and two others that I didn’t know very well spent the day doing the final touches on their entry in the fireworks-competition on campus. I think the other two were called George and Linda. As a safety precaution, I was asked to keep my distance from the stuff they worked on. Explosive material with fidgety electronics and magic was probably a very bad combination. I had at least no wish to test whether it was safe or not. During the evening we all watched the fireworks competition. Everyone was quite surprised by the entry that Karl and his team had done as it played the national anthem. Sure there were a few others that were more visually spectacular, but having fireworks play music was something else. So of course they won the contest, and got a nice price. We then went down to Avalon, which was totally packed with people. Mirou worked in the bar and was quite busy. He asked us if we had seen his girlfriend but no one had. Outside the bar was lots of barbecues with delicious food. I took it a bit easy with the drinks, but a lot of the other students there went wild. For a brief moment I even though I saw a Zebra there. Some one was apparently having fun. The day after was relaxing. Karl came up with the wonderful idea that we all should go swimming at the beach, and even managed to get a few others to join. Seeing Karl in leopard strings felt weird. Sure he worked out but still. Antonio had more classic bathing shorts. I knew Star was extrovert but she went topless which got some looks. I preferred to wear a small black bikini. Later on when it wasn’t that much people around I too went topless to sunbath for a while. However I found that bathing while wearing the jewellery Star had given me had its own weird effects. I hadn’t realised just how cold they were until I came up from the sea with a thin layer of frost and ice on my nipples and my nether regions. Very kinky indeed. Had someone kissed me deeply then and there, I think I would have had an instant orgasm. What can I say, I am a wicked girl. And no, I sure as hell hadn’t noticed this effect when showering before as I like to shower very warm. From my contacts in the Paranet, I heard that some girls had mysteriously disappeared over the past months. According to rumours, the Wardens had for some unknown reason taken those girls. I heard some names but I didn’t recognize most of them. The only ones I did recognize were Lisa Green, Dawn Watley, and Regina Spektor. Dawn had apparently been hospitalized since early February and been insane. I decided to take a trip to Starstone to get some more materials for my magic workings and check out if they had anything new interesting there. Most of the stuff they sell are harmless trinkets for those that like the new age stuff, but they do have some real good stuff if you know what you’re after and can pay for it as it is quite expensive. In the evening we went down to the beach again for a barbecue. Some of the girls form the sorority joined. Star decided to bring out some weird string-instrument and play. She is good at it, but it did have a haunting sound. All in all we had good fun and a good ending of the long days of around our national day. Then it would be back to summer studies. The day after, at campus, I noticed that someone had put up a high iron railing with barbed wire on top around the sacrifice tree near the library. Given the rumours that some people had vanished into the mist that was still present, and I for one knew that it was stretching the fabric of reality and probably were a gateway to Nevernever, it felt like a good idea. Wonder when it came up though. I think Karl had something to do with it, but I am not certain. Antonio came and asked me about the girls who had disappeared. I told him what I knew about the rumours of wardens, and after we looked in the school catalogue, we found that all the girls that had disappeared had been involved in the summoning ritual in February. Three of the girl, Bethany Consentino, Carla Gillis, and Amanda Braden had died in the explosion when Imogen had apparently broken their magical circle. After that the wardens had taken care of another seven. Some of which had been in hospital since then. That still left three of them unaccounted for; Lynette Gillis, Natalie Adams, and Roxy Richter. Karl and Star decided to go try finding more info about the girls. Apparently what they could find, the girls had left their rooms in great haste. Not sure if that was good or bad. They did manage to find though that one of them had had a small secret compartment in her room, but whatever had been there was gone. Antonio was a bit scared that he had misplaces his pants and a t-shirt earlier, and asked me if I could track them down as he was afraid of someone using them as a material link to him regarding magic. I tried, but couldn’t find them as the link was too weak, besides there were traces of him all over town. I told him that if he wanted to I could of course create a ward in his room, but that would mean that he would have to stay there until we could be sure no one was using the clothes as a link. He wouldn’t agree to that and begrudgingly told me that he didn’t have a room of his own. He had earlier been sleeping either at the old sorority house, or every night in some new girl’s room. I just shook my head at that. That is what you get for being a playboy. Of course another option would be if he could manage to get invited inside some house with a heavy threshold. We quickly scrapped that idea as well. That was not going to happen. Other options included having him submerged in running water or maybe staying at some holy place. Neither of those options seemed viable either. Later that night was I woken up by Star who banged on my door. Apparently there was some kind of magical problems. Took me a while to understand what was going on. Karl had gotten a frantic call from Peggy that someone was attacking them. So Antonio, Star and I set out to go help her and her friends. We met up with Karl a bit further away as he had rushed ahead. We then met two large wolves dragging a naked unconscious man behind them. He was bleeding a lot from various wounds, and missing a large chunk of his thigh. I recognized him as one of the guys that had been down to Avalon before together with Peggy. I could tell that the two wolves were injured as well. Behind them came three large ferocious hounds that seemed ready to attack. Karl turned into a wolf, and Star drew her big sword and suddenly flames erupted around her making her look very ferocious. Antonio drew a started using his magic to make the ground beneath the dogs slippery as if it had rained heavily. I turned my attention to the wounded man trying to stem the flow of blood, sacrificing parts of my skirt to use as bandages. The wolves also attacked the hounds. As far as I could see in the corners of my eyes, Antonio’s magic worked quite well. Sadly just as I finished bandaging the wounded man, one of the other wolves went down from its injuries and instantly transformed into another of Peggy’s pack. I quickly eyed him over after yelling at the hounds to lie down. I am not much of an animal handler so of course it didn’t work. It was worth trying though. His injuries didn’t seem as bad as the other ones, but I quickly went to work bandaging them. In the meanwhile, Karl, Star and the last wolf whom I guessed was Peggy managed to kill the hounds. An exhausted Peggy turned into human form. I could tell that she too was hurt, but she claimed to be fine. She said that they had been attacked further on, and had had to leave two of the pack-members. Karl still in wolf form set off to investigate. I called an ambulance for Peggy and her pack members after we moved away some from the area. Star made sure to look as human as possible. When the ambulance came, Antonio true to form, chatted up the female EMT and rode in the ambulance with Peggy and her guys. We told them that we had come upon thee victims of dog attacks, but that the dogs had continued on chasing something else. Star and I quickly headed home to the dorm to clean up and recover. About an hour later Karl came back. He said that he had backtracked the way Peggy and her pack had come, and had found the other two pack-mates dead as well as a number of dead hounds. When he continued on he found himself back at the strange clearing, to which I had sleepwalked earlier. There he saw what he took to be the herald of Hecate, and at least twenty dogs. The herald ordered the dog to attack, and they chased Karl all over town for almost an hour before suddenly giving up and returning. The day after we learned that Karl and the hounds had been seen by lots of people, and they had found the bodies of a large number of people that had been killed by animals. What was strange was that most of them apparently didn’t come from the US, and some seemed to have fillings in their teeth and injuries that indicated that they were hundreds of years old. And the police hadn’t found any dead hounds, so we figured that the hounds had been humans transformed into hounds, and that the spell had broken some time after they died. That didn’t sound good at all. Sure I had read stories about the fair folk kidnapping people and holding them for hundreds of years just for amusement, but I had thought it was just myths. We also learned that one of Peggy’s pack-members had died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Later that day, I got a call from Yukimi who was at the airport and who wondered if I could pick her up as she had lots of stuff with her from Florens. I went and asked Star about the keys to her van, but Karl had them. Not sure why she bought it when she didn’t know how to drive. He offered to join me, which I thought was nice. When we came to the airport, we didn’t see her, but then she emerged from some service-entrance with two huge suitcases, and dressed in full winter gear even though it was high summer. I know, a bit weird to say the least. Karl had to help with her suitcases as they were really heavy. Yukimi claimed that she had had some problems getting them through customs. What exactly had she brought with her? She couldn’t get out of the heavy winter clothes quickly enough. Not that I blamed her. On the way back from the airport, Yukimi asked Karl who was driving if we were being followed. Apparently some black beamer or something was following us, but Karl managed to shake it off on Yukimi’s request. She said that she had expected her family to act, but not so soon. She had gotten tired of being told what to do, and they didn’t seem to take no for an answer. So instead of going to the sorority house where she had move din, she directed us to an apartment in a well-to do region of town that she said was a safe house. I realized that there were lots of things I didn’t know about her. Obviously she had lots of money. The apartment was almost devoid of furniture. Yukimi said that she hadn’t been there since she bought it, and that she had another in Chile. Why would she need a safe house? But it wasn’t until she started unpacking that I really started to wonder. In her suitcases were lots of automatic weapons and pieces of armour. And then something she claimed to be some kind of mine. Karl seemed a bit impressed with the hardware. She then asked me to get a large case that was under the sofa. That turned out to contain a rocket launcher and a long white wooden staff with some ornamentation on it. I could possibly understand the assault weapons for self-defence, but a rocket launcher? In my mind, I started thinking Yukimi belonged to some kind of crime-family. And the staff, well to me it seemed like a magician’s staff but she didn’t have any powers as far as I knew. Yukimi said that her family would try to attack, and that she could use some help. Karl suggested Antonio and Star, so she called Antonio while Karl called Star, whom both agreed to come as quickly as possible. I asked her if she wanted me to ward the place, but she said it was already warded. Intrigued I opened up the Sight, and found that indeed was warded, and that the wards seemed more powerful than something I could do, at least not without a lot of preparations. Dear Goddess, what was going on? I felt out of my league. I stop and asked her who she really was. At first she smiled, and said it was complicated, but she would tell me. Would I like the short version or the long version, she wondered. I settled for the short version for the time being. She claimed to have been born in 1171 in Florens, and that she had been Italian nobility. Her real name had been Margrave Isabella de Este. When I pointed out that no human could live that long, she said that it was true, but that she changed bodies. A year ago she had been a man named James Green, and that she had been sent here to hurt the magical community here in the US. But then she had fallen in love with me, and wanted to out. I could hardly believe what she was telling me, but she seemed utterly sincere. It was then I realized that this was the first time I had looked into her eyes for such a long time. Suddenly the world was spinning around me, and I saw Yukimi as a European noble lady, dressed in fine clothing from the 12th century, and standing in a grand ballroom. The expression on her face was innocence and joy. Behind her I saw an almost identical version of her but with hatred in her eyes. The lights from the large crystal chandeliers hanging from the roof suddenly seemed to grow and the woman who radiated evil faded away. I fell to the ground clutching my head as I got a severe headache, and I felt weak as a kitten. Both Yukimi and Karl doted on me and asked how I was doing. Yukimi explained to Karl that I had just experienced a soulgaze. I had heard about it before, so I knew without a shadow of a doubt that Yukimi had been telling the truth about who she was. What had she seen in me? She seemed a bit surprised when I told her I had never experienced a soulgaze before. As I tried to gather my senses again, I could not help but wonder exactly how much had Karl overheard of what Yukimi had told me. What do you do when you learn that the person you love has done horrible things in the past that most would consider unforgivable, and that the only thing redeeming them was your love? Dear Goddess, I could not let anyone else know about it. Not now. I needed to learn more first. And I knew without a doubt that Yukimi, or Isabella as I now knew her as, was a powerful witch. If she turned back to her past, how would I stop her? Could I even do so? Or would I turn to darkness as well? That thought troubled me, but there was something seductive about the power I could see. I was unsure of how much time passed before we could hear the rumbling sound of a motorcycle. Karl seemed a bit disturbed about it. Why? Then I realized that either Star or Antonio must have taken his motorcycle. And sure enough, it didn’t take long before they came up to the apartment. My head still hurt. Sadly no one had a headache-pill. Karl wasn’t exactly happy when Antonio gave him the keys to his motorcycle. After a while Mirou and Tim also showed up. I knew that Mirou could fight, but I thought Tim was just about as bad at that as I am, but then again he might surprise me. He did seem less than pleased about the weapons, and I must say that I was quite sceptical as well. Karl took a short moment to go and move his motorcycle, and then came back to the apartment in wolf form. Wonder how many he freaked out by performing that stunt. Tim was quite sceptical of what he was doing there, and asked Yukimi that specific question. She answered that she was actually protecting us from death as we had apparently gotten ourselves involved in some plans they had, and that they had sent mercenaries after us or more correctly her. But we were there to keep her from taking the whole block with her when she would defend herself. I really did want to believe her, but I was concerned about the possibility of the innocent neighbours in the house getting caught in the crossfire. Mirou and Karl rigged up some nasty traps while we debated what to do. I don’t even want to know how they came up with that idea. I performed a quick low powered ritual that would enable us to get some warning if someone tried sneaking up on us. After some debates, Yukimi said that she had intended to open a portal to the Nevernever and use that as her most likely way out. When asked whether her family knew about the safehouse, she said that they shouldn’t but that they had ways of finding out. Mirou didn’t seem to appreciate the idea of going into Nevernever, as that was filled with nasty beings wanting to kill you. That was indeed a quite fitting description as far as I knew, but it might at least give a safe way out sort of. Apparently Yukimi had hired two trolls to stand guard on the other side so that no one would be able to attack us from there. Suddenly the warning spell I set up earlier flared up. Something had triggered it. I quickly told the others that someone or something was coming for us. We quickly agreed to go to Nevernever. Just we were starting to go through the portal, Tim and Antonio suddenly collapsed to the floor. Mirou threw Antonio through the portal and then carried Tim through. We suddenly heard the sound of a helicopter real close. We all hurried through the portal, and just as came though the windows and one wall of the apartment literally exploded behind us. I am not sure if it was the trap that Mirou had set up earlier or if grenades were thrown in through the windows, but we felt the shockwave and the flash of heat as the portal closed behind us. And we were indeed met by two huge trolls on the other side. I turned my attention to Tim and Antonio, who both had a pulse, but their unconscious state confused me. Antonio had though said that he feared someone would use his missing clothes as a link to him in a ritual and that seemed likely. The wards in Yukimi’s apartment would have protected against that, but as we opened a portal, that must have breached the wards and made them vulnerable to attack. Karl, who still was in wolf form licked Antonio’s face as away to see if he would wake up. That didn’t work. I was just about to use my Sight on them to check if they were indeed under some spell, when Yukimi said that their souls had been ripped from them and were still in the apartment, and that they would indeed die very soon unless we could get them back. Star took her fire form again and opened a small portal of her own and went back to scout the apartment. I still don’t quite understand exactly what she is, but I am quite certain that she is some kind of fae or spirit. We could see the apartment through her portal, and we saw that it was on fire, but we didn’t see any of the persons that had attacked us. We quickly went through the portal again, and once there Tim and Antonio woke up again as their souls returned to their bodies. When we looked around we saw that there was a large hole in the floor to the apartment below as well as one of the walls. We could hear people moving in the staircases. Karl had apparently seen a fire extinguisher outside the doors and went and got it. I started using that to stop the fire, while Antonio, who had recovered used his water magic on both the front staircase and the one leading up to the attack and the back entrance to make them slippery. The others set out to ambush whoever had attacked us. I heard crashes as people fell and then the sound of automatic weapons along with some yelps. Behind me, I heard Yukimi shouting something, and the muted sounds from the helicopter right outside the apartment suddenly changed into a high-pitched shriek as the engine suddenly developed a severe problem. I looked up and saw in slow motion how the rotors failed and the helicopter started spinning out of control before gravity took over. A loud ominous crash could be heard a few seconds later. After a short while I had stopped the fire in the apartment, but I could now see that it was burning in the apartment below, so I tried to stop that fire as well by leaning down through the hole in the floor and letting the fire extinguisher work. The old woman who lived downstairs was totally oblivious to everything that happened around her. She was sitting watching some old tv-show from the eighties about some pathetic guy with a mullet. She didn’t seem to notice at all that it was burning a lot behind her or that her ceiling had a hole in it. I had to get her attention by spraying her and the area towards the door. Frightened she noticed the fire and started slowly walking toward the exit. Luckily, Antonio saw what I was doing and came to my help with his magic just as the fire extinguisher went out. He summoned a heavy rain inside her apartment, which was enough to extinguish the flames. As we finished up that, Yukimi worked some magic on Tim who appeared to have gotten shot. At least he wasn’t bleeding all over the place now. When I looked out through the window I could see the wreck of the helicopter as well as a mysterious black car that had gotten totally flattened. I really hoped no innocent people had been hurt or killed. I was so out of my league. Explosions, and gunfire was not my thing at all, at least not when I was in the middle of it. It is one thing in the movies, but it is totally different in real life. As I looked around I saw all the blood around us. Karl in wolf warm was near the front door gnawing on someone’s arm, and just then Mirou came back the other way dragging an unconscious soldier behind him. Apparently we were safe for now. Or so we thought. That thought had barely crossed our minds as we heard lots of sirens approaching. This place would be crawling with police soon, which meant we should make ourselves scarce and also dispose of the stuff that implicated us. Yukimi opened her portal again to Nevernever and we, or rather the others quickly got everything we had touched in through the portal. As we went through it, Yukimi used some kind of spell to clear the apartment from all signs of us being there. In the Nevernever, the troll seemed intrigued by the dead bodies and stared eating them. Eugh. That was totally gross. Mirou tried interrogating the soldier who had awoken. I couldn’t understand a thing he said, as he spoke some other language. I don’t think Mirou got the answers he was looking for. He then beat up the soldier some more and after wiping the weapons clean of fingerprints, he asked Yukimi to open the portal, and then threw the dazed soldier and the weapons back into the apartment, letting the police deal with him. We decided to head back to the dorms, and then later on pick up our vehicles when everything had calmed down. Seemed like a good idea to lie low for a while. I was still a bit chocked of what had happened, and about what I had learned about Yukimi. Sadly she realized that if she stayed, I and everyone else around her would become targets for her family, so she had to leave for a while in order to keep me safe. She did promise to stay in touch and that we would see each other now and then. Such bittersweet kisses. I knew in my heart that it was the right thing, but it still hurt a lot. I would be alone, fearing every day that her family had found her. Oh Goddess, I loved her, but her past made things complicated to say the least. If only I could do more. The worst part was that she would have to use magic to block anyone from finding her with magic. If I could find her, then her family most certainly could if they were as powerful as she was. It was with tears running down my face that we kissed goodbye. At least for now. A bit later Tim got a call from a contact he had among the police; apparently Imogen was lying in a coma at hospital. She had been hit by a car as she crossed the road. It might have been pure coincidence, but it had taken place at roughly the same time as when Tim and Antonio had fallen victims to the curse that had ripped their souls out from their bodies. Sure, we might not see eye to eye on a lot of things, but I hoped she would recover quickly. No, the question was who and why? Could it be the three missing witches that did the large winter ritual last February? [/QUOTE]
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