the imprecation of wizards (12 page)

Eliza was moving in front
them as was looking carefully to the trees. After a while she saw
something on a tree and stopped and she looked at it. A shape of a
star was on the tree which had drawn with a sharp thing. Eliza
looked to the others and said, “I found it.”

All of them went happily
toward the tree and watched it. At this moment, they heard a voice
and everybody came back and looked around. Behind their head were
three young people who had gun. There were a young girl called
Belinda who had a circular sword which had a handle in its center
and two young boys called Edwin and Grover who had sword. Eliza
went forward and Belinda did it too. They hugged each other and
Eliza said, “What are you doing here?!”

Belinda, “We are looking for
some medicinal plant.”

Eliza looked to the boys and
said, “With them?!”

Belinda smiled and said,
“They volunteer.”

Eliza smiled and said, “I
know that, well, be chirpy.”

At this time, they heard a
strange voice and all of them became silent. A strange person was
walking slowly between the trees and was becoming close to them as
all of them had feared and they had prepared for attack.

That person was very tall,
thin and naked as had not hand and his body was hairless and black.
He had not genital organ and in his head had two narrow eyes and a
big mouth as instead of nose had two holes on his face. He could
not move rightly and he was walking very slowly. When he reached
near them, stood and said, “You are under arrest, drop your
weapon.”

Catlin inserted her dress
under her pants. On her girdle were many daggers and she removed
two daggers and said, “What respectful hunter. Shut your
mouth.”

Hunter, “So all you should
die.”

Suddenly the hunter jumped
on the ground while was transforming at the air. Soon he became a
very big, black snake and attacked to them. The snake's body was
very tough as their weapons could not hurt him. The only Achilles
heel of him was his under belly that hitting to it was almost
impossible, because the snake was moving very fast and he was
attacking to them constantly as they just could defend of
themselves, just for Weston's helps which was causing the hunter
could not attack faster to them. Of course Weston's magic could not
scotch him and his reducer magic could not decelerate
him.

The first person who killed
was Edwin that the snake had ripped his belly. This occurrence
effectuated that the fright dominated to them. They were fighting
hardly while the snake was attacking cruelly to them and nobody
could hit him. Their strokes just were hitting to his back and
there was not vulnerable. Weston threw toward him a red, magic
snake but the hunter devoured it as Weston went back from
fear.

After a few seconds, the
snake killed Aiken and Catlin finished her twelve daggers so she
ran toward their places until collected them. At this time, the
snake went after her and Weston threw very fast toward him three
blue magic which it could decelerate him for few moment and it was
enough that Eliza could throw her whip toward his head and it
locked around his neck and Eliza pulled back its handle. The
snake's neck went up with this action and Belinda attacked quickly
to his belly and she could scotch him, but the snake escaped with a
fast move and came back toward them and attacked to
them.

But they had become hopeful
now, and they were fighting better as the snake was ulcerous and he
could not attack, like his first. After a few seconds, the snake
attacked to Grover and bit his belly. Grover hit to his eye with
his sword before they fall on the ground and the snake threw him as
his blood diffused in the air. Grover struck on a tree and he
died.

The snake wanted to escape,
but Weston threw toward him a big blue magic as the snake’s speed
became slow and Weston jumped toward him and he caught the sword
which was in snake's eye. Weston pressed it inside snake’s eye as
came out of the other side and the snake collided with a tree and
stopped. Belinda moved quickly toward them and when Weston raised
snake's head, she rotated several time as was cutting his neck with
her sword. When the snake's head severed from his body, Belinda
stopped as had become completely bloody. The snake died but nobody
was happy.

Eliza went toward Weston and
got his hand and said, “Are you ok?”

Weston came down and said,
“Yes, thanks.”

Eliza looked at Belinda and
said, “You are the best, like always.”

But Belinda looked at the
bodies and said sadly, “Don't say this! If he wasn't here, we will
die.”

Weston looked at her and
said, “The hunters are very powerful and you did a great
work.”

Eliza looked at the others
and said, “We have to go; do you want to come with us?”

Belinda, “No. I must take
their bodies. You go.”

Jasper went toward Eliza and
said, “But may be hunters arrest us!”

Catlin looked at him and
said angrily, “Be quiet Jasper. Mitra said he is a survivor. He
wants to deal with us. It deal is so valuable. So we should
go.”

Jasper took a deep breath
and said, “The white witch mercy to us.”

Eliza took out a small
bottle from her pocket which was inside it a red liquid. Eliza
poured some of it on the snake's body and it started to ignite as
the rain could not extinguish it. Eliza looked the others and said,
“Follow me.”

They went as Belinda started
to take the bodies. After a while they arrived to a tree which was
on it two stars. Eliza looked at it and said, “We are near it, so
be careful.”

At once they heard the sound
of bough breaking from over their heads and they quickly looked at
it. Above the tree, on one of the boughs was an informant who was
staring at them. Jasper looked at them and said, “I told you! He is
an informant.”

Eliza said angrily, “I
know.”

Weston fired to him but the
informant flew. Eliza looked at the others and said, “You stay
here.”

She ran toward him as the
informant was flying at low altitude. When Eliza became close to
him, he tried to soar. Eliza jumped quickly on a trunk of tree and
jumped again toward the informant. She threw her whip toward him.
The dagger of whip hit to right wing of informant as the informant
lost his balance and fell on the ground. But before Eliza could
become close to him, he pulled out the dagger from his wing and
flew.

This time he could not fly
fast. Eliza went quickly after him and when became close to him,
threw her whip again and this time it locked to his leg and Eliza
pulled back quickly it as cut informant's leg. The informant's
scream rose to the air. The informant tried hardly to flew, but
Eliza threw her whip again. The whip locked around his body and
Eliza hit him toward a tree as the informant hit to the tree and
died as his body had become bloody. Eliza fired him and ran toward
the others.

They started to move again
while they were looking around. All of them were tired for their
battle, but they should continue their way. Finally they reach to a
tree which was on it a circle and Eliza said, “We must separate
from each other until find the lake.”

They separated and started
to search, until finally Weston could find it and he whistled three
time. The others came quickly toward him and looked at the lake
which was among tall grass. Eliza stopped near it and took out of
her pocket three very small, metal globes. She threw one of those
globes inside the water and waited.

After a few moments, the
water started to become turbulent and then something came out of
under the water. That was a small room like an elevator room. When
the room stopped, its door started to open slowly. Eliza looked at
them and said, “We should hurry.”

They hid their weapons among
the grass and swam toward the room and they went inside it as there
was small for them. After a few moments, the door started to close
and then the room went slowly down. There was quite dark and the
sound of elevator was hearing. After a few seconds, the elevator
stopped and its door opened and they saw a small corridor which was
reaching to a large room. They went toward the room, but when they
arrived to the carpet, suddenly they heard a mannish voice who
said, “Wait. You are wet.”

There was almost great and
had simple stuff. Carpet, sofa, chair, bed were on one side and
kitchen stuff were in the corner of the room. In the room ceiling
was a big luminous globe. Their clothes were completely wet and
water was dripping from it. They were looking carefully at the
room. In the room one person was on a wooden chair. The chair was
near a small library and it was moving slowly and they could just
see a white hair from behind it. First of all Jasper wanted to move
but they heard again same voice which said, “I told you wait! Why
don't you listen?!”

Soon an old man called
Iakovos rose. He had a kindly face and had worn green robe and in
his hand was a beautiful, blue wand. Iakovos went toward them as
suddenly a strange wind started around them and they dried soon.
Weston gave hand with him and said, “Hello my Lord.”

Iakovos looked at them
carefully and said, “I told you, you must send several
survivors!”

Weston, “I'm a survivor my
Lord.”

Iakovos smiled and said, “I
know. But they are ordinary!”

Eliza who had became angry,
said, “how you understood?!”

Iakovose went toward his
chair and said, “Because I knew that they will not send their
survivors, and he said I'm a survivor.”

All looked at Weston and he
went quickly toward Iakovos and said, “Please my Lord. We lost our
men for this deal.”

Iakovos turned his chair
toward them and said, “Please sit.”

They entered the room and
Jasper sat beside Eliza and Catlin sat beside Weston as Iakovos was
looking them. He took a deep breath and said, “I'm sorry for your
friends. But when you lose your men for find me, so think, what
will happen if you go for a dangerous work?!”

Weston, “You are right my
Lord. We just came for a deal.”

Iakovos, “But you don't have
time, and your Lord must hurry.”

Weston, “Ok.”

Iakovos, “I know where the
key is. But you must kill Key Holder of the Green
village.”

Weston said surprisedly, “Do
you mean, you want to give us the key for kill a
wizard?!!!”

Iakovos smiled and said,
“You are a child yet and you don't know anything!”

Weston, “But I'm a fifth
year.”

Iakovos laughed and said,
“Oh my white witch! Do you can disappear?”

But Weston had not any
answer and said ashamedly, “I will learn this year.”

Iakovos continued, “Do you
can become smoke?”

Weston said angrily, “This
is a black magic!”

Iakovos took a deep breath
and said sadly, “Your Lords are very coward. I can't understand
them! They think the world is in the peace and you are just an
ordinary student! The black wizards are our enemy, and they are
black magic! How you want to fight with them when you don't know
the black magic?!”

Iakovos became silent and
Weston looked at the others and said, “You out of the group for
this minds! We are not like them.”

Iakovos looked at them and
said, “Never mind. You utterly don’t know anything! I tell you,
what I want. So you can go and you must do it until before noon of
tomorrow. Otherwise this deal will be invalid.”

Weston got up and said, “He
will die before noon.”

The others got up and
Iakovos looked at Weston and said, “Well, open the
door.”

Weston, who had become
scorn, aimed his wand toward the door and it became open. They went
out as Iakovos was looking them sadly. When they came out of the
water, went toward their guns and they went from there as the rain
had finished and the air was dark. Catlin took out four flashlights
from her bag and gave to them. Jasper became close to Weston and
said, “What you want to do, now?!”

Weston said as was moving,
“We must report to Lord Elgin. But I know that he don't trust to
any traitor survivor.”

Eliza, “Do you mean this
mission will be canceled?!”

Weston, “May be.”

Catlin said angrily, “No! We
can kill a wizard. We lost my friends and must not disregard their
blood.”

Eliza, “Be calm sister.
First we should go to the garrison.”

Jasper, “She is
right.”

Weston looked at them and
said, “We should separate.”

Catlin, “For
what?!”

Weston, “When we are alone,
we will have more chance for passing from here.”

Eliza looked at him and
said, “No! We must be two.”

Weston thought and said,
“Ok. I and Catlin, Jasper and you.”

Eliza looked at him and
said, “This is better.”

Catlin looked at her sister
surprisedly and did not say anything. Weston took a deep breath and
said, “We must hurry.”

Eliza went toward Jasper and
said, “We will meet each other at the garrison.”