Chapter 315

Chapter 315
Book #02:Chapter 315

Kala lay completely unresponsive her eyes stared straight up at the ceiling.

"Kala," I tried again, "Please help me save Stephanie, tell me what to do. I don't know. Please Kala. Break through the surface, please."

Kala blinked once and for a second her eyes flickered.

"Kala come on, help me, help me, please Kala, please." I asked.

Kala lips parted and she whispered, "Mandrake root."

Everyone stopped. Jac and Casper stopped fighting and everyone turned to Kala.

"What do I do? Should she eat?" I asked

"Make her hold it." She whispered croakly.

"Thank you Kala." I said moving away from her but as I did so Kala hand snatched at my wrist.

"I am not Kala," she said. I stared at her in utter dumbfoundment, "I am Skyler's Grandmother. Kala is safe with me for the time being."

Kala's eyes rolled back in to her head and she was gone. Jac ran to Kala's bedside and grabbed her hand and began to speak softly and incoherently to her. Nico, Casper and I backed out the door and ran back up the corridor.

"Where the hell are we going to get a mandrake root from at such short notice?" Casper asked.

"The several hundreds of acres of garden that you own your majesty." Nico replied sarcastically.

"Well I don't know what the damn thing looks like it!" Casper snapped.

"Stay with Stephanie, I'll grab one from the gardens. I'll be a few minutes." Nico said.

Skyler POV

Kai sat at a circle table with his tarot cards and crystal ball. Greg, Bea and I sat opposite him entranced by his little warm up routine where he grounded himself and opened up his psychic senses. Kai had already warned me, he was not an oracle. You see an oracle has vivid detailed clear visions while Kai's vision was a little more fuzzy. I didn't care. I needed advice. All of watched in anticipation as Kai said a little prayer and then turned out the main lights. A small dim glow from behind him darkly illuminated the room and Kai leaned forward and stared into the crystal ball. This was called scrying- the process of looking in to a reflective surface and seeing images unfolding.

"I can see Rayne running away from a terrible stench," Kai said deathly serious.

Bea and I looked at each other and our faces cracked up.

"One more laugh and I'm not doing this!" Kai snapped.

Face forward we tried not to laugh or even look at each other. Kai leaned over the ball and peered into the depths of the crystal ball. He waved his hands around in a mysteriously motion,

"What I am doing here today is the ancient art of scrying," he explained softly. "I am using this crystal ball as a vessel to see in to the future. First things first, lay my palm with twenty dollars."

"Are you kidding! I'm the flipping saviour of mankind!" I snapped.

"And his dad," Kai nodded at Greg, "Is the meanest tight fisted landlord in this town."

"Greg can take it out of my earnings today." I sighed.

"Perhaps paying for it might make you take it more seriously." Kai said and then continued gazing into the crystal ball.

For five minutes we all watched Kai staring into this ball, waiting in anticipation for him to say something- or anything. Occasionally he would make a slight noise 'ummm' noise and then go deathly silently again. Bea rolled her eyes and began to drum her fingers loudly on the table. Kai looked up from his ball gave her a look that could kill. Bea immediately stopped and sheepishly looked away. Kai brought his attention back to me.

"We need to keep Gwendolyn's army firmly in hell. If they are allowed to enter on to our earthly plane humans, vampire, elves, wolves and every creature are going to get slaughtered." He said.

"But's Rayne's plan is to wait until they attack." I said.

"Rayne's plan is to keep you safe. He couldn't care less about us or the rest of humanity. Fighting on this plane of existence would be a lot easier than fighting in Hell. Anybody who is killed in the cross fire is collateral damage as far as Rayne's concerned."

"This is not good news."

"Oh, it gets better. If you want to defeat Gwendolyn, you have to go into the belly of the beast- straight into hell and have a stand up fight."

"Are you serious- I can't go into Hell!"

"Demigod- daughter of Death, you can go and so can we."

"You would come with me?"

"I'd rather have the humans destroying the planet than the demons." Kai said.

"Rayne is never going to let me fight."

"Why not go into the Hell kick some demon ass and before Rayne get the opportunity to wrap you up in cotton and lock you in tower?"

"I guess we could give it a go. Matthias would know how to get us into Hell and I already have an alley in a vampire called Owen. He would aid us."

"I can call on my fairy friends for help," Bea chipped in, "They're not mad on humans but they would definitely prefer humans trashing the planet then vampires."

"I wonder if Aidan would fight for us?" Greg said.

"No way- Aidan and his pack of mongrels can keep out of this."

"So how are we going to get Rayne out the way?"

"I'll think of something." I said.

Sophie POV

Nico rushed back with a mandrake root. It was the weirdest looking root I'd ever seen in the world. It looked like one of those comedy vegetables that grows in a weird way so it looks like person. The mandrake root looked like a baby. We banged on the hospital door and told the nurse to place it next to Stephanie. The nurse scurried back in and we heard Stephanie yelling,

"Is that supposed to help me!?"