Chapter-
"What happened!?" Ravi's body trembled, as the ice slowly melted onto the grass
"I don't know, Nerina just stopped moving…" Thalia huffed in pain.
"You idiot, you get yourself hurt all the time, did she look in her eyes?" Ravi ran towards thalia.
"I can't heal like Nerina can, I'll just close your wounds" Ravi gently stitched Thalia's wound with his vines.
Thalia clenched her fists as the vines tightened around her wound.
"Don't move too much or it will open" Ravi screamed.
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"You have so much darkness in your heart" a shadow appeared in Nerina's conscious . You should give in" the voice coaxed
"They'll hate you when they find out about your power" the voice changed.
"You won't free your so-called people."
"You'll be all alone with no one to help you"
"You're lying… they won't hurt me… my friends love me…" Nerina responded quietly.
"Aww do they? Are you sure?" it laughed
"you always leave them, they spend more time without you, and probably make fun of you" the voice continued "do you really want them as friends? Embrace the darkness and break free from the cycle."
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"Shit!" Ravi screamed. "I wish I remembered in time, I read it" he paused "the basic knowledge about dark magic, it's about control" Ravi exclaimed
Ravi used his magic to block the music coming from he headphones.
"What's her magic then?"
"I'm actually not fully sure, since forbidden magic is banned I can't understand, however I think it's a mind control spell, once you look in her eyes, she can control you through your fears" "he explained.
"Some power" Thalia laughed weakly.
"We need to find the teachers, and get help." Ravi looked around. "no one will be able to find us from here. we're too high up"
"And Nerina still isn't moving…"
"Stop ignoring me!!!" Kento screeched as he attacked them once more.
"Urgh, stop it, I'm trying to figure out what to do. Plant magic! Cannabis!" Ravi chanted as many coloured cannabis flooded around him. "That should keep you in your head for a while.
"Right… this isn't good" Thalia took a shaky breath.
"Embrace the darkness. Free yourself. " the voice repeated in Nerina's head.
"We have to try bringing her back" Ravi said
"Nerina! Don't listen! Think about the positive!" Ravi shook her body.
"Rina, think about Kian," Thalia trembled.
"Kian?" her hands twitched slightly, her conscious slowly coming back to reality.
"Kian?..." her conscious faded in and out. "is he here?"
"Who's he? Another person who will leave you?" the shadow continued. "They are all using you for your gem, and your power.. Just embrace the darkness and free yourself from this misery"
"Kian.. doesn't know?" Nerina muttered.
"he will when he's older, he'll be influenced by everything and everyone"
Nerina was brought back to the spell forcefully.
"It nearly worked. I think we can do it" Thalia cheered.
"wait, something' happening" Ravi pointed.
her breath tightened.
"Embrace the darkness. Free yourself" Nerina whispered harshly.
she looked up, her familiar warmth that flooded thhrough her emerald eyes were gone.
empty.
cold.
her features grew colder, her voice rasped painfully as she spoke,
Like she was staring through them instead of at them.
A thin veil of darkness crept over her sleeves, swallowing the pale fabric inch by inch.
For a heartbeat—
She looked exactly like Sabina.