This had Carmen grunt from the pain and quickly Elise pushed her away. She ran toward the door trying to open it but the bolt was locked hard which make it impossible for her to open the door.

She turned to see Carmen had stood up. For a human to defeat a vampire, a kick was never enough to bring the vampire off the feat for longer than a minute. Carmen went again to attack her. 

Elise tried to dodge some but she wasn't able to dodge everything perfectly. When the wooden came across her head, Elise ducked her head but the sharp end of the wood grazed her cheeks. She opened her mouth, ready to scream, but nothing came out. Her voice was gone!

Elise's eyes then snapped at Carmen who spoke at time when noticing Elise had understood her voice had been gone, "This is magic. Have you tried it before?"

How can Carmen use magic she wasn't a sorcerer? asked Elise in her mind. Carmen as if knowing her thoughts said, "Magic doesn't need to be activated with a sorcerer, all they need is the magic circle and blood to provide the magic a power to manifest. It's been done," Carmen pulled a torn parchment from her pocket, showing the magic circle written with charcoal and a swipe of blood over it.

"I brought this because I didn't want to hear you scream before you died," Carmen threw the paper from her hand and she wiped the tears that had settled over the rim of her eyes, "Please, let me end this quickly. I promise I will not kill you painfully if you do."

But she can't die, not now, thought Elise. There was a simple wish in Elise's life that she prayed to happen. She wished to have a child, to grow old, and wait for her hair to turn gray with the husband she loved. It was a simple wish that her parents also hoped for in her. Before it happens, she couldn't die here, not today. 

Elise saw Carmen getting closer. Seeing that the vampire had stepped on a fabric that had gotten black from dust, Elise waited for Carmen to come closer before she bent down to pull the fabric. Carmen toppled from her standing and Elise quickly run past her.

After kicking the wood in Carmen's hand, she took the parchment that was laying on the floor. It came to Elise's question of how she could undo the magic and speak. If to manifest the magic the paper is needed, to destroy the magic would need for the paper to be torn. And she did what she thought. 

When the paper was torn, her voice came back, "I can't die today, Carmen."

"HELP!" There was no use screaming but Elise hoped someone would hear her voice. She screamed as loud as she could until Carmen ran toward her. This time, in her hand, wasn't wood but the knitting stick that had fallen off from Elise's pocket during the time she had fallen to the ground earlier.

Seeing the knitting stick, Elise stopped Carmen by holding her arm. She then stared at it and felt her blood running cold. Wasn't this exactly like what she had seen from her vision? Two women fighting in the dark. One was pushing the knitting stick to the heart while the other tries to shield themselves by putting a stop to it. Which mean Vella screamed after-

"Carmen, Vella is still alive! Please, don't do this!" If Carmen still hadn't killed anyone, she could still be free from the guilt. There was still a chance for her to put an end to her mistake before it gets worse.

"No, she died," Carmen said, her eyes bleak as she shakes her head with more tears drenching her face, "And all is because of me, but you— partly shared the guilt, Elise."

"You are wrong," Elise knew what Carmen tried to do, to push her to feel guilty. "I'm not a Demon. Ian might be one, but you can't kill a Demon they are just like you, they have emotions and kindness. I know that outside there must be Demons who had built their family, you can't rob them of it."

"But death has robbed my family! I can't care about other's family when mine is gone!" Carmen bellowed, her voice was loud that Elise can't help but to close her eyes at it. "This is to bring them alive. If it is for my family I can do anything. I know you could understand what I feel Elise, you also wanted to save your family didn't you? So please, please die."

It breaks Elise's heart when she realized she can't help or stop Carmen. She didn't want this to happen to them. They were friends, and Carmen was one of the first two friends Elise had ever made in her life. She never wants them to ever be in pain.

Elise then heard a crack, she looked down to see the knitting stick had cracked. The edge had turned darker in color and breaks into dust. This was her power activating. Elise raised her knee to push Carmen's hand away and knocked the knitting sticks off the place.

Carmen didn't stop she clawed her hand to her neck. Elise didn't want to touch Carmen but if she didn't Carmen would kill her. "I'm sorry," whispered Elise when Carmen's hand grew closer to touch her palm. Tears fell from her eyes when she watches Carmen backing away in pain.

Carmen stood in trance for a moment, she stared at Elise as her mouth spewed blood to her hands, "What did you do?" 

Elise knew Carmen wasn't questioning her, but Vella who stood behind them. Vella had escaped from the door made under the floor when she saw Elise in danger. Her black hair had gathered together, forming into several thick locks that turned to body scales of snakes when reaching the edge of her hair.

One of the snakes had taken a bite on Carmen, forcing poison to enter her body.

"Please wake up Carmen," Vella held her head that was bleeding with one hand and another was holding her shoulder, "By doing all this, no one could come back alive. They've died and you've been lied to!"

Merry Christmas my dear readers! Exciting news on the first day of new year, I will be doing a mass release of six chapters, look forward~

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