《Sierra》

"Each one of you take these." As soon as we reached the quiet laboratory, Medea opened her palm, showing us three white rocks.

"White rocks?" Sachiel asked, "Where are you getting those?"

"That's not important. Just take it. There are three of them down there, guarding Eryn's room."

Without any choices, we picked one and took it.

We became invisible but I could see Angelus and Sachiel, a bit transparent now. I guess I could see people using invisible stones.

"And you three should be quiet since your voice can still be heard."

"Medea," I said. "Give me one white rock. I'll keep it."

"What for?"

I rolled my eyes, "It's not important." I said, mimicking her. "Just give me one."

She frowned for a second but took a rock from her pocket which I immediately took.

Isabel pointed her wand at the vacant space on the corner of the room and said, "Revelio Secritio."

A Trapdoor appeared.

"That's the trapdoor." Said Isabel, "I'll go down the ladder first, then Sierra, Angelus, Sachiel, and Medea will be the last one to go down and close the trapdoor."

She didn't wait for our reply. She immedietly opened it and quietly opened the trapdoor and climbed down the ladder. I went after her. Angelus went after me and Sachiel went after Angelus. Just like what Isabel had said.

As I reached the end of the ladder, I looked all over the place. It wasn't too dark but it's dark. All I could see were the people I went with and a witch. I could not see her face though. It was too dark.

"Litio," Isabel said as the tip pf her wand glowed.

"Isabel." The witch said in a low voice.

"How's Vesta?" She asked.

Isabel raised her wand a bit, enough for me to see the witch's face.

Parodia.

No wonder.

"She's asleep, I guess. I didn't check. I was reading this book." She said as she opened the book she was talking about and it lit up.

Then she walked away.

"Follow me." Isabel whispered.

We walked to the right and saw a door at the end of the hall. It must be where they kept Eryn.

The door was strange. It was pure black but there was a message on it which I didn't know since it was written in other language--

"He who must be ressurected should achieve victory. He who contains great power must rule both the world of the others and the wizards." Isabel spoke.

"The massage was written in our own language. Only Dark wizards and witches can read and unlock the door." Isabel said then she placed her palm on the door. The message glowed and the door slowly opened up.

My eyes widened as I saw someone through the small hole of the other door. I was pretty sure it was Eryn.

"That's Eryn." Sachiel said.

"I know." I replied.

But there were two witches sitting on two chairs, facing each other, outiside the room she was in. It was Mia and the other one was... Jana?

"Jana... is a dark witch?" I whispered.

Isabel showed no answer.

I couldn't deny that I was hurt. You can never really trust anyone these days.

"What's wrong?" Angelus asked, whispering.

I shook my head slightly.

As we walked forward, we started hearing what they're saying.

"... Yeah, I'll finally dance with him!" Jana exclaimed excitedly as if she was innocent.

"Pathetic. Jana, you know you can't end up with him, right? He's not a dark wizard and you're a dark witch. Unless he joins the army. Evils shall not marry the good--"

"I know, I know. But what could go wrong if I dance with him? Atleast I could hold his hand and--"

"Jana, I don't want you to hope... for nothing."

Jana's face was blue, but it disappeared as she saw Isabel and Medea, "Oh, hi there," She said, forcing a smile.

"Jana, go to the ball, dance with him." Isabel said, smiling back at her.

She nodded her head happily as she ran with her beautiful purple dress.

"Mia, don't say those things to her." Isabel firmly said.

"What? I'm just telling her so she won't get hurt-"

"Don't make her a bitter person like you are. In fact, what you told her wasn't even true. What you made her believe wasn't true."

"It's true, she can never marry that boy she loved--"

"No, you can't marry anyone because you're just a duplicate. And I don't even think you know what that is. You're made with anger."

Mia gaped and let out a sigh as she stood, "Isabel, she can't quit the army-"

"Yes, she can. She still hasn't killed anyone. Just because her parents are in the army, doesn't mean she's a dark witch. She's in the army but she is never a dark witch." She shook her head, "Never."

Mia took a step forward, raising her right eyebrow, and crossed her arms, "She's not innocent anymore. She knows who the dark wizards and witches are and yet, she doesn't tell anyone. She doesn't tell Sierra. I know she will join us." she said.

"No, she loves Lance. She's smart enough to avoid the army--"

"Yet she's still not avoiding us."

"You'll see. They will end up together-"

Mia frowned at her, "No, I won't make that happen."

"I knew it. You like Lance too." Isabhel said, smirking.

Mia's face darkened, she didn't reply, she opened the door and walked out.

"Isabel, Eryn.." I said. No one could hear us now anyway.

"You may show yourself now." She said.

We started getting less transparent and more opaque slowly.

I immediately formed water guns on both of my hands and shot the locks that locked the chains, it got broken and it opened.

"Sierra, don't!" Both Isabhel and Medea said.

I touched the door to open it but it burnt my hands, I hissed, "What happened? Why can't I touch it?"

"Only dark wizards can open it," She said as she opened the door.

I gaped, "Oh, Eryn, oh, God." My eyes were teary as I ran towards her. Her hands and feet were tied with ropes, her skin had tiny cuts, her hair was a mess, there were bags under her swollen eyes, her lips were busted. She was tortured. She was wearing dirty ragged clothes.

She was unconscious, lying on the cold floor, I knelt and placed her head on my lap, "Eryn, Eryn wake up," My tears started flowing, "Eryn, it's me, Sierra." I started crying.

She slowly opened her eyes as she let out a small smile, "Si-Sierra.. You're... here. After all... you've... done."

I didn't understand her second sentence yet I nodded, "Yes, yes, you need to open your eyes, We'll get you out of here."

She looked outside then looked back at me, "Sachiel and... Angelus... are here... too?" She asked and I nodded, "Thank you."

Sachiel ran and offered me a healing candy, "She needs this." He said.

I immediately took it and with my shaking hands, I fed it to Eryn. She swallowed it as she closed her eyes.

The wounds started healing.

I sighed.

But she didn't move.

"Eryn?" I said, I squeezed her hand. "Eryn, you need to open your eyes."

But she showed no response. There was a defeaning silence.

"Eryn," I said between my sobs, "Eryn, you need to open your eyes,"

But I felt her pulse stopped, I can no longer hear her breathing.

I hugged her and whispered, "We were too late aren't we?" Tears were uncontronably falling from my eyes that held grief.

Unexpectedly, she gasped for air, I happily smiled, "Eryn!"

The beautiful Eryn smiled back at me with equal strength, "Sierra!" Then she hugged me tightly.

As we part, she said, "Thank you,"

I stood and helped her stand, "You're welcome."

She looked at Sachiel which was at my back, "Sach."

Sachiel smiled, "Glad you're back." then he smiled wider.

But her smile disappeared as she saw Medea, "Eryn, I'm sorry."

"You hated me so much that you did this to me?"

"I know I was wrong, Eryn, I apologize,"

"I don't think I could forgive you right now." She said, "Let's get out of this place."

But something stopped us all from moving.

"Where are the flasks?" Angelus asked theatening to pour the blood of Isabel on the paddle of water I made when I broke the locks.

"Angelus, what are you doing?" Sachiel asked.

Eryn remained confused.

"The only thing that could heal the wounds that they caused is when the owner of the blood touches that flask, right? Just like what happened to Medea earlier." Angelus said,

"Angelus, give me the flask-" Isabel was cut off by Angelus.

"Give me the flask that contains my mother's and Penelope's blood. Then I'll give this back to you."

"My mother? What happened to my mother?"

Using Angelus' vacant hand, he opened his hands towards Isabhel as a visible air spear appeared and stopped infront her neck.

"I didn't do anything to your mother nor Penelope."

The spear came closer to her neck, she backed off but the spear followed her until she reach the wall.

"Liar."

"Angelus.." I spoke, his face was dark.

But Isabel smirked, "You can't kill me-"

She stopped when Angelus titlted the flask, "One wrong move and I'll pour it."

The smirk on her lips disappeared and the wickedness in her eyes turned into pleading, "Don't.."

But Medea's move was faster as she pointed the wand towards the flask and said, "Summio." The flask flew towards her hand without spilling the blood.

My eyes widened.

Isabel smirked, "Give that to me, dimwit"

The air spear didn't disappear.

Medea took a deep breath as she stretched her arm towards Isabel but immidiately backed off,

"Medea, give it to me." Isabel firmly said.

But she didn't listen. She stretched her arm towards her side where there was a paddle of water beneath.

"What are you doing, prat,"

Medea looked at Angelus who seemed surprised, "I don't know who did that to your mother nor Eryn's mother but I know Isabel knows." Then she looked at Isabel, "I told you, I regret joining the army."

"What are you saying, Medea? You fool! You can't quit!" She smirked, "You're already a monster."

She flinched at the last word and was rather hurt, "Angelus can't kill you, you know that. But you're right, I'm a monster. And I can kill you.

"Traitor," She mumbled and laughed, "Go ahead, kill me."

She titlted the flask, pouring half of the blood, "Aaah!" Isabel screamed in so much pain, she fell on the floor. She continued screaming, "It hurts!" She shouted then screamed again.

"Tell us, and I'll spare your life."

"Never," She smirked again as she fastly took a knife from her back and threw it at Medea's foot.

It hit her, causing a slit, she screamed in pain as she fell down.

But it was a wrong move for Isabel as the flask was dropped on the water, causing it to break.

Isabel's eyes widened as she gasped for air.

And stopped breathing, with her mouth and eyes opened widely as if she saw something terrible.

Watching your own life end is terrible.

"She's dead." Eryn said.

"Holy mother of cats," I said, "She's dead!" I was rather horrified.

Even Medea's face was surprised for Isabel's sudden death.

Sachiel offered her a healing candy then she ate it and the wound disappeared.

The door opened, Parodia came in, we were all surprised as her eyes widened, "Woah, what happened here..." She looked at the side and saw Isabel's body.

"I killed her." Medea confessed, "Don't tell anyone." She pleaded with her teary eyes, "Sierra, Get outta here, go somewhere safe."

I nodded as we ran away, Parodia didn't touch us.

We safely got out the trap door.

《Medea》

My tears streamed down as I knelt infront her body and closed her eyes and mouth. There. She looked like she's just peacefully sleeping.

"Why did you kill her?" Parodia asked.

"I didn't mean to." I said between my sobs.

Despite my mother who never treated me as her daughter, she stayed with me since I was young. I joined the army because she forced me too. But she only did that because during the war, Damianos caught me and was about to kill me when she protested and told Damianos tthat i wanted to join the army. During he war, I killed a girl named Charaine Wong to join the army. And I was present in her funeral. I saw how his father cried. Just like how I cried when father was killed by my own mother. Because of insanity. I avoided my mother since then. She tried to kill me many times. Yes, Isabel was rude but she stayed beside me. She wasn't even rude when we were young. She was a good, smart, hardworking girl who I treated like a sister. She just started changing when she was 17. At first, I didn't know since I was fourteen that time but I figured it all out during the war. She saved me. Many times. And now she's gone. Because of me.

Though I never knew her past since she doesn't like talking about it.

"She'll never like what you did to her." Parodia said.

I held her hand tightly. "She's right. I'm a monster."

"We all are." Said Parodia. "Let's bury her."

I nodded.

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A/N: For everyone asking what the spelling of Bhear's name is,

It really is Isabel but it can also be spelled as Isabhel since *Spoiler* Hell is what her parents call her so it is kind of her nickname. Why? I don't wanna spoil it since I already wrote a special chapter about some of the character's backstories. M'kay?

Also, just comment whose backstories you want to know and I'll try to make one!