Chapter 23: Revealed

Sam and Kate charged towards James including the elders who were able to get on their feet as they muttered some spells.

"Those incantations doesn't make me happier." James yelled and as Kate lurched at him, he ducked and sent a punch to Kate's forward.

Sam was the only one out of the three that was still on his feet and he pondered on the best way to approach James and disarm the shadow.

They all knew that it was through spells but the shadow in him would definitely try to retaliate and distract them.

"The air is free of calamity as we mutter these chants." Kate and Alec be ga whispering as they stood up.

This was exactly what they wanted.

To be in the right cardinal point!

Kate was representing south as she stood in the south direction.

Alec was at the east as she stood and continued muttering the spells while Sam represented the west leaving James who stood towards the north.

Shutting their eyes, they tried to connect with James spirit as they continued their fervent chants but the shadow kept laughing like it was been ridiculed.

"You can't chase me out..I'm James now!" He screamer in a dark voice filled with terror and instant silence fell upon the room.

Whatever spell he must have used had a deep effect on the teenagers because they immediately fell like they were stripped of energy.

They had failed in trying to expell the demon from James body and now the shadow was approaching Kate with a sinister smile on its face.

"Why don't you pock out someone your own size?" Sam yelled throwing a chair at James and he staggered, swerving swiftly to glare at Sam who had already taken to his heels.

"Fine then, as you wish." The shadow growled and pursued after him.

"When I said someone your own size, I never for any moment say I was eligible for that enthronement." Sam yelled as he kept running in circles as he signalled for Kate and Alec to leave the room.

They were reluctant at first because they knew that leaving him alone with a high ranking shadow was equivalent to sacrificing him.

"Sam, if we're running...we would all make a move. We are not leaving anyone to die." Kate stated with a weak voice as she tried getting up.

"Do you prefer we all die here? If two are alive, the mission would still stand." Sam stated as he kept racing around the room.

"Do. Not. Mention. The. Mission. In. Front. Of. A. Shadow." Kate yelled and Sam immediately bit his lips unconsciously, more like he was reprimanding himself for having such a loose mouth.

"Guys, we all know that there's no leaving this premises if we don't chase the shadow out of James. It would never let us." Alec reminded and Kate bit her lips.

It was true!

So its either freeing James or dying!

"James, we know you're in there. Just hang in and we'd help you out." Kate soothed and James face softened as he clutched his chest.

"Guys, I'm dying in here. It wouldn't be long before the darkness breaks me entirely." James begged as the real James surfaced.

Almost immediately, the shadow resurfaced;

"There's no way you can free this man. I am him and he is I. Strike me and kill him." The shadow growled whilst chuckling at the same time and his voice was like a clap of mighty thunders.

"Let's try this again." Alec suggested standing as she tried to channel her inner energy.

"No, we can't. I'll try to see if I cab do it alone." San suggested and Alec shook her head in negativity.

"No! Earlier, I wasn't concentrated while reciting the spells and I think that is the problem." Alec said and immediately the shadow lunched an attack at Alec who was swift to duck.

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Meanwhile, Carly was able to teleport to a father place in the brambles and let her demons finish the work but she Vega to wonder what was going when Lord augus beast showed up and sided with the demons.

It wasn't supposed to do that!

This led Carly to changing her mission for a while and going back home to find out something from her granny's home.

She knew that there was something more to why Lord Augus beast appeared on the side of the demons.

It was absurd.

Hurrying back to her granny's place, the only thing that settled in her mind was going through her grandmothers fantasy books and see if there was anything she could grab hold of that would connect lord Augus and the demons.

As she got to her granny's home, she rushed into the house leaving the front door open and her only saving grace—not that it was any much problem anyways— was the fact that her mother wasn't around.

At least, she wouldn't get nagged at before eventually pulling through the situation and ending up in her granny's study room.

On getting to the study room, she gently pulled the door open only to be met with heaps of books on different topic and vast priorities.

They were all nicely arranged in each set according to their categories and Carly was in confusion on where to look.

There had to be a book that should talk about lord Augus and the demon alongside.

There just had to be!

The only obstacle was, where to look?

Whenever she entered into this room in time past, it had always brought out the evil side of her granny and that made Carly all the more sure that there was something that triggered the surfacing of the demon.

Would the demon be able to know anything of such sort.

Better try than stand idle.

Placing one hand on her temple and the ither hand on her chest, she tried calling out to her granny's demon.

"Hear my call and answer to it." She said as she heaved a deep breath of relief.

And...

Nothing happened.

Damn it! She had forgotten that she had sent her granny's demon back to hell the instant she got the information she wanted at that moment from him.

Dang it!

Just then,her eyes fell on the book het granny was written.

The words written in bold was enough to draw her to take a peek at the books content.

A Tale Of Augus.

It was fantasy but no one can tell where the would get the rightful information from when they needed it.

Picking up the book, she hurriedly leafed through the pages and as she searched for something that she wasn't sure was even in the book, she finally found it.

It described lord Augus and his great fame that buzzed around.

She saw a drawing of his demon and the words that had been highlighted with red shade.

LORD AUGUS CREATED THE SHADOWS!!

Dropping the book dramatically as a gasp escaped her mouth, Carly took a step backwards as shock overwhelmed her.

That now explains why Lord Augus Demon has showed up and instead if fighting against— it was fighting alongside the demons.

As she came to the realization of this, the door creaked open as heavy footsteps was heard.