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WOLF BOY
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chapter twenty
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❝ KALON
ᵇᵉᵃᵘᵗʸ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ⁱˢ ᵐᵒʳᵉ ᵗʰᵃⁿ ˢᵏⁱⁿ ᵈᵉᵉᵖ ❞

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"YOU FUCKING HYPOCRITE!" yelled lilith as she walked down the stairs towards jack. she had seen jack helping to bring five people with kyle to the orders base so that they could all die.

"okay, let's take a breath." remarked hamish but lilith continued, "you have the nerve to give me shit about eating some monsters heart, but you turn around and drive a van full of people to their death!"

"you what?" questioned randall as he sat reading a book. "it's the elemental transference. the spell needs willing sacrifices. five of them."

"you're supposed to be sabotaging it. not helping." reminded lilith and jack shouted, "i did sabotage it! okay? and we were up and running again in twelve hours."

"dude... we're your "we." frowned randall and lilith looked at jack, "so you failed. you admit it."

"no. look, i talked to coventry. i saw it in his eyes. he's so desperate for this spell, he'll do anything. he'll risk the entire order, and we need to know why." explained jack and hamish looked towards randall, "we know why."

randall stood up, "this spell cures sickness by passing it on to other people." he shoved the book he was holding into jacks hands while hamish spoke up again, "and they don't just die. the disease has to kill them, or else the whole thing reverses. it's torture, jack."

"when did i learn latin?" mumbled jack to himself as he read the book. he looked up, "look, no! if he's doing this spell, hes doing it for a reason. there has to be something big at the end of it. if we play it smart, i can figure out what coventry's after, what his plan is, and then at the right moment-"

"the moment is now! this is the reason we became knights!" interrupted lilith and jack looked her way, "what if we make it worse? what if we save these five people, and then he kills a thousand?"

"i won't let that happen."

jack turned to hamish, "he lit his hand on fire as a parlor trick. you go at him, he's gonna put you down. and then none of this is gonna matter."

"it's gonna matter to those five people."

"oh, whatever, "kill-ith."

lilith took a breath, "okay, i love that nickname, but this is still wrong." everyone was quiet for a second before jack turned to randall, "randall, you wanted an inside man. let me do my job as a knight."

randall pauses for a second, "do you think cass knows what's gonna happen?" jack shrugged, "i don't know but i think if she knew, she'd be in this room right now complaining about it."

randall stayed silent and jack turned to hamish, "hamish, no one can save those people, but we can stop edward coventry for good."

"you see a chance to stop this spell, you take it."

"i promise i will." promised jack and hamish nodded, "then go."

the three remaining looked at each other and lilith shook her head in disappointment towards hamish while randall stood there hoping that a certain blonde knew nothing about what she had gotten herself into.

IT WAS THE DAY OF THE ELEMENTAL TRANSFERENCE AND CASSIDY COULDN'T BE MORE NERVOUS. she wasn't even nervous about the spell, more that her parents would be in the same room as her.

everyone stood around the room chanting in latin. cassidy looked around as she chanted and wondered what was fully going to happen. she knew that five other people needed to be apart of the incantation but no one would tell her why.

they continued chanting and cassidy looked over to see jack with his mask lifted. she rolled her eyes but her focus was soon taken when the grand magus pointed towards the doors and alyssa came out, mask up.

she seemed to have also noticed jack because she put her mask down and he followed. alyssa walked around the room until she made it to renée marand, the person the spell was for.

alyssa put an amulet on renées head and made sure everything was placed to perfection. the group finished their latin chanting and vera spoke up, "ex... tenebris... lux."

cassidy watched as everyone in a chair opened their mouths. suddenly renée began screaming as something red pulled itself out of her body and onto the chain above her.

cassidy watched as the red substance made its way onto the other chains and into everyone else's mouths who were in a chair. everyone the spell was working with passed out once it was finished.

everyone began looking around at each other wondering if the spell worked. they knew it did once renée quickly woke up and let out a breath.

cassidy looked around at all the sleeping subjects and scrunched up her eyebrow in slight confusion. renée began laughing before letting out a breath in contentment.

everyone pulled their masks up and cassidy went over to jack, "what's happening to them?" he looked at her kinda shocked, "you actually don't know?" she shook her head and he continued, "when i told randall you didn't know i was just giving you the benefit of the doubt wow."

cassidy rolled her eyes, "morton just tell me-"

"hello darling."

jack watched as cassidy grew quiet and stiff, they both turned around to see a very serious looking blonde women standing next to a man with broad shoulders and a clean shaven face, cassidys parents.

cassidy was frozen. she had known they'd be there but that didn't stop the fear of her parents standing right there leave.

all the disappointment, long nights, yelling, and training that cassidy had tried to move past game crashing back down on her like a load of bricks as her parents just smiled down at her.

"well aren't you going to give your mother and father a hug?" questioned her mother with what she would say was a genuine smile yet to everyone else seemed entirely forced.

cassidy put on the fake smile she mastered years ago and hugged both her parents before going back to stand next to jack, her arms now wrapped around her stomach as a comfort.

her father smiled down at her, "how has school been, casserole?" jack watched as cassidys smile left for a split second before coming back and he automatically understood why she stopped randall from calling her by that nickname so quickly that day they met.

"it's been good, father. very... educational." her father smiled down at her again, or at least tried before his attention and her mothers were brought to jack.

"i don't believe we have met. i'm helen montgomery, cassidys mother and this is my husband and cassidys father patrick." helen extended her hand out for jack to shake and he quickly did so before also shaking patricks hand.

"it's very nice to meet you mr and mrs montgomery, my name is jack morton." helens eyes lit up in recognization, "ah yes. the scholarship boy who brought in the head of the murderer who was killing neophytes. now i remember. it is a pleasure, mr morton."

jack smiled, "uh, the pleasure is all mine." cassidy looked at her parents, "mother, the people who helped with the spell... what's going to happen to them?"

her mother laughed a bit, "well, if all goes according to plan, they'll die soon." cassidys eyes widened, "what?" her father nodded, "well yes, the spell was to take the sickness renée had and transfer it into those five so that they die instead of renée. i'm surprised no one told you, cassidy."

cassidy sent jack a small glance, "yeah no one thought to mention it." she thought for a second, "but what happens if the five die from other reasons?"

helens face got serious, "while i don't see that happening... if one or any were to die before the spell was finished... than renée dies and her sister comes for what will be given to us."

cassidy scrunched her brows in confusion, "and what is that?"

cassidys father sent jack a look and jack quickly got the message before walking away. patrick turned to his daughter, "a device that will allow the grand magus to communicate with the dead."

AUTHORS NOTE!
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