Chapter 7 -- Charles comes back with a sexy aunt.
I woke with a gasp and looked at the clock, it was 4:41AM, and my energy links were telling me my house was being invaded by 6 of those bastards. I was naked and knew I looked thoroughly fucked and was a hot mess. But I had no time to waste. I did throw on a robe though, worth the extra 2 seconds. I wove a protective purple shield hoping to hell it would work. It really should, then ripped a hole in the universe and stepped into my back yard.
I heard the warning yells in the house, they weren't even out here yet, and there were six men in black robes, and a young boy. I stood stunned and frozen. He must have been 7 or 8.
The necromancer ordered, "Kill her, NOW."
To my horror his hands glowed purple and a bolt shot out at me. If my shield hadn't worked I would be dead, that is when my parents arrived. I quickly looked at the boy's mind. He was an experiment, and now simply considered a weapon. He was terrified but was held by spells. He could easily burn them out with purple energy, but the spells wouldn't let him. They must have been set when he was a baby.
I sent a blast of purple back, but concentrated on the controlling spells only. The energy flew through the slaves body, and freed him.
"Dad, open to me please!"
God bless my father, he didn't even ask, just trusted me and fed me a crazy amount of power, I didn't use it to attack though, I needed it to purge the evil from their dark energy. I intended to steal it, leave them powerless.
They all shot energy at me, every one of them. It simply ceased to exist when it hit my shield. I shot the darts at them taking down their wards, then as harshly as I could I ripped out their power, and it was a lot of power. I needed almost all of what my father sent to clean the energy as it came toward me.
I wasn't sure what would happen if I absorbed greasy energy, and I never wanted to find out, so I cleansed it. I would have just dissipated it if I lacked the means to steal it though.
"Ok dad, that's enough. They are powerless now. Not sure if you ever got to question one, now you have the bunch."
Necromancers are like vampires in that they need blood, except necromancers are always evil, unlike vampires they have to kill the victim to receive the energy. Sacrifice them actually.
I gently connected to the boys mind, "
Hi, I am Mina, I got rid of those bad spells on you. You don't have to kill people anymore."
He replied,
"Wow, that was awesome! I'm Jeremy and I never killed anyone, they brought me here first, said no one could resist the mixed energy. Hey, how come you drew the light energy from your dad? Can't you open portals?"
I said confused, "
What does one have to do with the other?"
As a typical know it all 9 year old he rolled his eyes at her and said, "
Watch me silly."
I watched him open a portal with purple energy, but not a travelling portal, it was different. My mouth dropped open as he filled with light energy and I looked at the portal more carefully. Holy Shit! This kid opened a portal to the dimension of the afterlife and is drawing directly. That will change everything!
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Impressive kid, so you want to hang with my family, the reason they want us dead is because we free slaves like you and the vampires to live free. You just need to be careful with the energy. It is easy to hurt someone with it. In fact I am the only other person like you I know that can actually stop it. And you me of course."
He nodded and looked scared, "
I know, I don't want to hurt no one, honest. I just couldn't stop myself, I am happy you freed me. Umm, why are you wearing a bath robe?"
Oh shit, I forgot. I blushed and ran into the house and heard the little boy giggle at me. I connected to my family and sent the conversation in a quick memory transfer so they would know he was safe.
I knew I needed to get back to Tracy, if she woke up she would worry. Probably be mad I didn't take her with me. I got dressed in a pair of jeans, t-shirt and flip flops that I had left behind at the house and went back outside.
I reset the energy hooks, not bothering to hide it, since they must know I did something already. My father raised an eyebrow but his face was filled with paternal pride. My mothers were torn between pride, worry and looking like they were going to give me a lecture and send me to my room. I almost giggled but that would have really gotten me a lecture.
"I have to get back to the college. Jeremy, these are my parents, you will be safe with them. I'll come and visit though, if you want me to. I may be far away but it's just a portal. But I have school in a couple of hours, plus my roommate will be worried if I don't get back."
Part of me was terrified at leaving a child that could slaughter my family at a whim without my protection, but I was in his mind, and I knew he was a bright gentle kid that would be honestly disgusted and traumatized by such an action. Hopefully he would stay that way.
"Hold up!" Sara said coming out of the house, holding hands with Charlie. "Can you give us a lift since you're here, the sale went through yesterday, just need to sign the papers, we were going to take the morning flight but..." she trailed off.
"Of course I'll take you, hotel in town?"
They nodded at me so I ripped open a portal to a nearby alley and we all went through. I gave them a quick hug.
"I really need to run, if Tracy woke up she will be worried, and probably pissed I left without her."
"Thanks honey, go ahead, we can catch up sometime later," Sara said.
I ripped a portal to my dorm room and stepped through. Tracy was pacing by the bed. Oops.
"Hi baby, I'm sorry, my house was attacked, I grabbed a robe and went."
She nodded. "I get it, you felt an attack and you didn't even have time to get dressed, much less wake me up and wait for me to get clothes on. But I'm still upset you left me behind!"
I went to hug her and she resisted for a minute, and then she broke down pulling me to her tightly with a sob. I just held her and let her get it out.
She said, "I'm not mad, I was just so scared, I knew you wouldn't disappear without an emergency and I didn't know what or how bad or if you would be okay, or when you would be back."
"I'm sorry, next time I will let you know what's going on through the link. I was hoping you would still be asleep."
We talked a bit more, I played back what happened for her and then we cuddled up and went back to sleep.
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There were no more attacks on the house in the following days, though I went back at least once a week to refresh the hooks and hang out with Jeremy. Besides accessing power he really didn't know much except how to kill, so he learned a lot from Wade, Ariel and I. I am not sure what dad found out from the captured necromancers, hopefully taking out such a large group will make them back off for another 20 years.
I spent a lot of time with Sara and Charlie. I already knew Sara well of course, and Charlie was great, he would have to be in order to catch Sara after all. I used my mind and perfect recall trying to figure out what the jealous was, and it was all three of the possibilities I thought of at the house all mixed together, which is why I had trouble with it to begin with. I do not feel jealous anymore.
Tracy, Tom and I started spending weekends at the big house Sara and Charlie bought, we pretty much had run of the place during the day. It had a nice theatre system and a hot tub I wound up cleaning on a regular basis. The evenings we would spend with Sara and Charlie after they woke up with sundown.
They asked me if we would want to move in as they had plenty of room and liked having the three of us around. The house felt empty to them after the craziness of so many in the same place back home. The college wasn't that far after all and we all had cars now. I told them I would talk to Tracy and Tom about it.
We were studying in the dorm when I asked, "Hey, Sara and Charlie asked if we would want to live there off campus. Said the house felt to empty after the move here, plus they like having us three around."
Tom raised his brow, "Was that all the reason she gave?"
I tilted my head, "Yes, why?"
Tracy snorted. "Seriously? How did you not notice?"
"Not notice what?"