Lies and future past.

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Roman.

He was sore, every part of him was sore, he didn't want to rely on magic to heal him all the time, and Marc had placed a curse on all of them to heal at a human rate so that their endurance is heightened, the curse worked of course, along with a few niches he put in there to make it activate and deactivate when he felt like it, now it was active and he was sore, having Lex sleepover wasn't a good idea at all, he contributed to him feeling like trash that went through all the elements. "Are you okay?" Thalia slurred and he scoffed. "Ask yourself sis." He shot back and the girl chuckled. "Next time you tell me not to let Amon sneak into the house, I will take your advice." She confessed as they began walking toward the outside of the school where the picnic tables were set, it was a fundraiser day at school, so learning took up half the school hours, the rest they were free. "Always listen, I take it your pops found him." Roman pointed out and she nodded with a sigh. "We had a great night, and I mean some really good love making, he wore me out, then when the idiot was supposed to vamp speed out, he crashed into a barrier my pops had placed. "Oooh, I feel for Amon, those barriers your pops creates aren't fun." The golden haired witch commented as Thalia laughed.

"He was electrocuted for about ten minutes, then burnt in concentrated light, then an illusion of his junk being torn off was placed in his mind and played on repeat for the rest of the night." Thalia explained and with each added punishment Roman shivered. "Your father is dangerous." He asserted as they left the muffin table. "You know that's right, I'm also banned from seeing Amon for about two weeks, if he tries getting near me, my magic automatically sets him on fire." She concluded with a sigh and Roman moved to hug the girl. "I'm sorry you didn't listen, I'm also not sorry that you got caught, next time don't shag a boy in your parent's home when he's not been properly introduced and even so don't do it." Roman comforted as he let go of the girl. "I've learnt the lesson, my dad also beat my ass in magical combat this morning as punishment, its why I look like a hot mess, along with blocking my magic, it's weird knowing its there but there is a valve on it." She joked as a small grey fire danced in her hands, its all she could conjure with her magic making Roman burst out laughing. "I don't mean to, oh it hurts, but I can't stop laughing." He wheezed out as they sat at an empty table. "Laugh at my ass, I should've known better." The girl accepted as two other people showed up at their table.

"Hey guys, what's good?" Allysa muttered as she sat next to Thalia, a banshee sitting next to Allysa. "This is Kay, the one I told you about a while ago." She explained and the two witches looked at Kay with bright smiles. "Nice to meet you, Thalia Yasmine Thorne, and he's Roman Ahmad Rose." She introduced herself but never extended her hand, Roman was skeptical until the banshee spoke. "Nice to meet you both." He replied with a dashing smile, his voice filtering the air around them and Roman along with Thalia were thrown into a vision.

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The world was burning, these were the old times, before the humans knew of the mystic world, the smoke rose high into the sky, thick, black and suffocating, several huts were on fire if not all of them. Roman coughed as he got to his feet, as did Thalia a distance from her. "Where are we?" She asked as the smoke passed through her intangible form, as it did the gleam of her flames protected her as it happened with Roman, as his skin was golden. "The olden times, I know this place, its just by the shore of the bay, we are in the past." Roman explained as Thalia held his hand. "It seems the spell worked." Thalia mumbled as she looked around, humans running in fear, what seemed to be ghouls, chasing them, rotten teeth and fangs protruding from their mouths, devouring dead flesh, but these weren't eating flesh alone, they were devouring souls. "I tied your curse to my own, and instead of just hearing voices, we can now see through my curse, where the voices lead.

"Bring mother her victory!" A voice yelled in the darkness, it was so familiar, just as a ghoul appeared from the smoke, but instead of looking like the rest, this one looked human, even more so than the ones they were killing. "Kaden, feast with us." Another voice called out, as she too appeared from the darkness, much like the man Kaden, she was human in form. "This is, it can't be." Roman mumbled as they finally put two and two together, the reason why Kaden looked so alike to the boy they had just met, he was Kay, and Kay was Kaden. "To think I liked his accent, how do we deal with this." Thalia mumbled as she looked at the man change into a soul eater and lunge for the human near him, it was a gruesome sight to see as he pulled out the soul of the human and ate it.

Then their eyes snapped to them, rather they passed through them to see a group of mystics gathered together in armour to fight them off. "Spawn of death and evil, die for your kind is not welcome here, you're tainting the land with your curse and death." The leader spoke as fire and magic began to fly before Thalia and Roman could see what happened they were transported to a carven deep underground. "We've hidden for centuries, surviving on blood and flesh they bury, now they have tainted the land with death and malice, feeding us, corrupting that witch's mind was a good idea, can you feel it in the land, in our bones, in our beings, the malice, we shall rise again and the time is close." The mother spoke, a woman whose beauty was radiant, her evil rolling off her in perverse ways and her eyes hollow and hungry.

"Kaden, I felt them, I felt their power from afar, the gifted, they are powerful and they can stop us and kill us, you're the strongest one of us all, rise to the surface, dismantle them, kill them and feed, don't forget your brothers and sisters, feed them aswell and they will help you rise, and once you've done so, I will rise and we will reclaim what is ours, what truly belongs to us, now go my child, and kill."

"Oh that's not exactly encouraging." Thalia mumbled as they looked at the man they had just met, in the skin of a banshee. "What do we do about that, or him, we can't break Allysa's heart." Roman asked stunned in shock. "I have no idea but we need to gather everyone and that dinner might need to happen, as much as I hate to admit it." Roman expressed and Thalia sighed, he knew she hated the idea but it had to happen at some point.

A creature growled coming into being, this one seemed to actually see them meaning someone was breaching the vision, which wasn't supposed to happen, unless they had very strong magic. "Need to wake up now right?" Thalia asked. "Yeap!" Roman replied as their flames roared to life.

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And just like they hadn't left at all, the two witches were looking at Allysa and Kay. "Great, so what are you guys having?" Roman quickly picked up the conversation and Thalia nodded. "We hadn't decided, Kay was picky." Allysa replied with a blush. "Oh then you should get the muffins, they're to di- so great." Thalia held her tongue just looking at Kay made her sick. "Okay, come on." Allysa cheered as she got up and left with Kay, Roman whispered a protection spell on the girl just as he clasped his necklace calling on the coven, they all showed up in an instant, less flashy though. "Call Amon, I will get Lex." Roman ordered as Ember showed up at their table from the crowd.

"Before you say anything yes, we'll attend." Allen asserted as Ember had her lips parted, he had read Roman's feelings and he didn't need to be told twice that something was wrong and they needed to have a meeting. "Alright, great, tonight, seven thirty ish?" The girl asked and Allen nodded. "Perfect." He replied as Amon walked to the table, glared at Ember then looked at Thalia longily but kept his distance. "We are here." Vincent announced as he appeared from a portal with Lex and Zach, luckily there weren't humans around. "Hey what's wrong?" Lex asked holding his mate."We have a problem."

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