8. Maybe I Should Start From The End

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"The Salvatore School. That's who I called. That boarding school I was telling you about? It's a school for vampires, and witches, and werewolves and... because they're real. And so are dragons and gargoyles and freaking talking trees and I don't know what else!" She backs away from him. "You got to be kidding me. You believe that but not that I'm your son?" Landon said and the lights go out. The woman puts her finger over her lips telling Landon to be quiet. "They're here. They must have followed you." The woman said and she walked out the room.

"Wait. You got... you have to cut me loose. Alia, can you help me?" Landon asked "I'm still new to this spell. I don't know what I can do." I say and there's a noise on the stairs. "Seylah, is that you?" Landon asked and I hear bones start creaking and something or someone heaving for breath. A lizard looking thing grabs onto the wall and starts walking down the stairs. "What the hell?" I ask "Holy smokes. We can talk about this." The monster crawls down the stairs. It crawls over to Landon and stands up beside Landon. "If you have a mouth." Landon said before the monster roars. Half of its head gets chopping off and as its body falls, Seylah is standing behind it holding a sword.

I open my eyes gasping for breath like I woke up from a bad dream making Hope and Dr. S turn to look at me before Dr. S focused back on the road. "What was that?" Dr. S asked "I did a spell that I got from our Aunt Davina and I was able to see Landon." I say "Where's he at? Is he okay?" Hope asked "He is with his biological mother and they looked like they were in her house. But Dr. S," he turns to look at me. "I think she's on the run from someone." I say "What makes you say that?" Dr. S asked "She was panicking when Landon pressed the button for Hopes bracelet and just her body language during their conversation." I say

"Spoiler alert. Our story's about to take one hell of a turn. A monstrous turn." I say "I used Landon's bracelet to do a locator spell and Lia did a spell where she could see him... but all it located was more trouble." Hope said

We get to Seylah's house and there's a gas company at the house. I could tell it was a cover up before we even got out of the car. A gas company just happened to be at Landon's mom's house right after a monster appeared? That's not normal. The three of us get out of the car and I walk behind them not trusting the people around us. A guy walks up to us as we walk towards them. Flashes start playing through my mind when I look at the guy. I see flashes of Hope and the guy standing on a railing in a warehouse looking building. She's controlling him with a mimicking spell. Hope throws herself over the railing into the black pit under them with the guy following. I gasp after the vision passes and the guy is the only one to look at me. I quickly look away from him and look at our surroundings.

"Can I help you?" The guy asked "Yeah, I hope so. Uh... say, what's going on here?" Dr. S asked "Gas leak. Don't worry, though, we have it under control. You wouldn't happen to know who lives here, would you? We tried knocking, but no one's home." The guy said and I released the breath I was holding. They don't know about Landon. "Um, we're looking for..." Hope said before I quickly cut her off. "The highway. See, we got lost, and we... well, we saw you guys, and we thought we'd ask for directions." I say and he looks at me. "Yeah, at the end of the road, you make a right. Can't miss it." The guy said "Cool. Thanks. All right, let's go, Jessica, Allison." Dr. S said and I roll my eyes but follow them to the car. "Jessica? Really?" Hope asked "I've been part of enough cover ups to smell one from a mile away." Dr. S said

"Good to know I wasn't the only one who thought so." I say "Do you think they're after Landon?" Hope asked "This was the house that I saw him and his mom at, so probably." I say "Well, all I know is they wouldn't have asked about him if they had him, so... we gotta find him before they do." Dr. S said and he starts driving away. I feel someone watching us and as we drive by the guy, he's staring at me. We lock eyes and once again I see flashes. But this time the guy was crawling out of some clay and calling a clay monster looking thing Father. "Oh fuck." I say out loud. "What?" Hope asked turning to look at me. "They're damn sure after Landon. When I looked at that guy when he started walking towards us, I started seeing flashes of a vision. We were in a warehouse and there was a pit under us. You had that guy controlled by a mimicking spell and tossed yourself and him into the pit. And the second time when we were driving away, he was staring at me again. This time I saw him calling this clay monster thing Father. Now if I'm right about what that thing was then he's definitely after Landon." I say "Malivore." Hope said "Exactly." I say "Use that spell again to find Landon." Dr. S said glancing at me through the rear view and I nod.

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