Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:59:00 -0600
From: rony pineda <roxjart@hotmail.com>
Subject: Sorcerers, Chapter 3

HELLO HELLO CAKE BABIES!

I am so sorry to be so late for this so chapter b-but school had been
crazy! I swear to cake! that's why this is so late and is such a short
chapter but I Hope you enjoy.

some things to say before we start: 1 THANKS BABES for all who had been
writing to me and supporting me, you make me extremely happy and i love you
all. 2 Some has been asking about the town where the story takes place, i'd
like to make clear that is up to your imagination i might make a name for
the town or not but it's deffinetly on the USA.

3 same warnings as always. If reading this is illegal where you are then
stop baby, i wont be held responsible for you ending up in jail. Also this
is all fiction so if anything seems familiar to you i swear is a
coincidence, i am not stalking you, i swear....

ANYWAYS let's get started!

Chapter 3. Where there's smoke...

I don't dislike hospitals, neither I like them, after all my mother is a
nurse and I was bound to spend my time in the hospital every now and then
when she couldn't find a babysitter to take care of me or my father was too
busy with a bottle in his hand to do anything useful.

But I never really disliked it you know? Maybe it was because my mom's
co-workers were never mean to me and they actually gave me lots of candy
and took care of me, so it was never really a dark place for me except for
the part of seeing sick people all the time.

That was the bad part of being in a hospital, seeing all that sick people
it always made me feel sad and fearful of death.

The first death I ever saw was when I was nine years old, I managed to
sneak out of my mother's watch and walked around the hospital until I came
into a room with an old man. He had tubes all over himself and when he saw
me he smiled at me and made a gesture for me to come closer to him.

I knew that I should not talk to strangers but I got closer to him because
I felt like I was supposed to do it... he then lifted his hand and caressed
my cheek softly and whispered in the last seconds of voice he had
left. `'Charles... you came'' and then with a smile on his face he let out
his last breath.

Later that day I learned that Charles was his son, he was 34 years old and
didn't make it in time to say goodbye to his father, but still his father
saw me like I was him and he died happy anyways so after I stopped crying
for him my mom hugged me and told me that since I made him happy in his
last moments I should be happy too, because I did a nice thing for him.

Now I wish I could do something nice too, but I unlike that time right now
I'm stuck and can't do anything to help Seamus, we've been in the hospital
for hours now, after interrogations, questions, check-ups and more
questions... we were finally released and were now on the waiting room of
the hospital.

Right now it was Sean, Vincent, Samantha, Linda and me in one side of the
room and on the other side were Seamus's parents and that dark skin boy
Marcus who was fighting with him earlier.

We were waiting for the doctor's news, it was weird we weren't exactly
friends but he did score some points when he wanted to sacrifice himself so
we could escape from that monster, maybe he wasn't that much of an asshole
I guess that was the main reason we were here waiting to see if the doctors
could save his arm. He tried to do something heroic even when I didn't let
him do it, he did tried to get killed by that clown to let us escape alive.

I shuddered at the thought of that clown and his twisted smile but then I
felt an arm around me and I realized it was Sean putting me closer to
him. `'Are you ok?'' He asked with a faint smile and I nodded and let my
head rest on his shoulder and then I felt someone taking my hand and I
realized it was Vincent, he didn't said anything he just squeezed my hand
and tried to avoid looking at me, I think I could see him blush hard and I
smiled to myself.

Soon, somehow even Linda and Samantha managed to pull some chairs around me
and took a little hold of me, they were comforting me and even when I
thought I didn't really need it, it was nice to have them close to me, it
felt like an actual family... I had my family in mom that was obvious but
I've never had the warm feeling of a big family until now.

Shortly after the doctor showed up, he told us that they were able to save
his arm and we all sighed in relief, he let his family get inside to see
him and we stayed on the waiting room until my mom showed up.

`'Come with me, let's get something to eat'' she said and we all got up
then she looked at Marcus who was sitting all by himself since all of
Seamus's family went to see him. `'You too young man, you'd been here all
day'' she said and he looked at her with wondering eyes. She smiled at him
and he got up silently to follow us.

My mom took a hold of me, I guess she felt really protective of me right
now, her face was calm but I knew her better than this, I knew that she was
wearing a mask for everyone but she is my mother and I know her better than
anyone. She was worried for me and for what happened. I took hold of her
hand and smiled, she smiled back feeling a bit better now... yes I was
ok... she didn't need to be worried about me... I was ok.

Soon we were on the hospital's cafeteria eating some pizza, it was
surprisingly good I guess not all hospital have horrible inedible food. The
only thing bad about it was the silence around us.

But I guess Samantha can't spend too much time with her mouth shut so she
was the first one to speak. `'Great pizza huh? Goes well with a lifetime
trauma'' she said and I looked at her with an expression that said
`Samantha what the fuck man?!' but then I couldn't help but to laugh a
little, then Sean started to laugh to and then Marcus, soon the whole table
was bursting on laughs.

`'Jeez Samantha you're horrible'' Said Linda, I looked at Sean who was
still laughing. `'You ok big man?'' I said and he shrugged his
shoulders. `'Hey, it's not the first time something horrible happens to
me'' he said and I thought back when Samantha told me about his power of
bad luck, she said he encountered bad people on his life I guess some of
them did horrible things to him, it seemed he got used to it...

Getting used to horrible things happening or having one huge horrible thing
happening to you. I didn't knew which was worse.

`'What did you saw, exactly?'' Said Marcus and we all looked at him, he
then took a deep breath and apologized. `'Sorry, I guess I haven't
introduced myself yet'' He said and then took another breath `'my name is
Marcus Morales, I'm a sophomore'' He said and Samantha introduced us
all. `'Samantha Smith, this is my brother Sean Smith, that one is Linda
Lucinda and yeah that's her last name. The big hipped male over there is
Henrik Roberts and that's his mother Sophia and the one with no eye
situation is Vincent Vans'' She said and I face palmed at her last
introduction but Vincent just reached over the table and smacked her
lightly on the head and smiled.

Then I noticed he was still expecting for an answer, I sighed `'Well, I am
still not sure about that myself... it was a monster that's for sure, he
was dressed like a clown but his face wasn't normal it was huge and scary
and his teeth looked like fangs... he called himself Mr. Cheers.'' I said
and I heard a little crash of something being dropped and I saw my mom
trying to pick up the pieces of the glass the just dropped.

`'Oh, look at me I'm so clumsy, I guess I'm just tired'' she said and I got
down to help her and looked at her in the eyes. `'You know something,
right?'' I asked in a whisper and she just smiled `'Henrik don't be silly''
she said and took the pieces of glass from my hands.

`'Ok, I'll go throw this. And children, Madame will be here in a moment she
wants to know what happened'' she said and then she left.

I sat on the table looking at her go, there was something she wasn't
telling me, like I said before I knew my mother better than anyone so I
knew when something was wrong with her. The sound of Marcus phone going off
made me turn my head back to the table, he looked at it and excused himself
saying he had to go.

`'Ok then, I guess is time to see if we can slip into Seamus room'' I said
and got up and Linda looked at me weirdly. `'Excuse me, slip into his room
you said?'' she asked and I nodded my head. `'Yeah we are all here because
we are worried about that asshole, so let's see him already and go'' I said
and Sean rolled his eyes smiling, Linda spoke once again. `'But your mom
said that my mom was going to be here any second-`' `'It won't be long, we
can talk to Madame later'' I said cutting her words off and after she
thought about it for a second she decided it was ok.


We were in front of his room when we saw a doctor coming out, I recognized
him, since my mother began working at this hospital since the summer I got
to spend some time here and already knew some of the staff, that include:
janitors, nurses, doctors, etc. so I recognized this man, he was
Dr. Conwell from trauma, he looked at me and smiled `'Oh hello Henrik, what
are you doing here?''

`Fuck, busted' I thought but then thought about something. `'Well we are
here to see our friend'' Dr. Conwell looked at the door and then looked at
me. `'Henrik you know very well that I can't let you do that, only family
right now'' he said and I put on one of my best puppy faces. `'Please
Dr. Conwell, we promise to be quick'' I said with a whiny voice and he
rubbed his temples.

`Damn this isn't working' I thought and then tried another
technique. `'Well, guys I guess my mom will be just as disappointed as us
when she knows we didn't got to see him, even after spending most of our
day here... well there's no other choice, let's go tell her'' I said to the
guys and then the doctor took me by the shoulder.

`'Y-your mom is expecting news about this boy?'' He said awkwardly and a
deep blush formed on his face, I wanted to laugh but I put on my best
disappointed face. `'Yeah, she wants to know as much as we, we just wanted
to see how he was doing'' I said and he fidgeted on one place and looked
around before whispering `'Ok but just for a couple of minutes then you
need to leave'' he said and I smiled.

We all got inside and Samantha got close to my ear `'you little lying
bitch'' she said and I just smiled innocently.

The room was dark but I could see clearly, then I looked at the bed where
Seamus was sleeping. I got close to him and he noticed me, I didn't expect
him to be awake, he looked surprised for a second and then smiled stupidly.

`'Fuck, well look who is here. Is the cute new guy'' he said laughing and
stared deeply at me. `'You know... you know? You are so fucking cute, you
know why I threw a ball at your head that time? Because I wanted to catch
your attention somehow because fuck you're hot'' he said between laughs and
had to wear the biggest what the hell expression ever.

Then Samantha look at his chart. `'Well damn boy, he is under some pretty
heavy stuff'' she said and I let out a sigh of relief, it was the drugs
making him say all those things. `'Hey, Seamus... I've been thinking if
this was not a random attack, did you knew about that clown guy?'' I asked
and he kept looking at me and I think he was drooling a little but then he
shook his head. `'Nope, no, never seen that freak in my life'' he said and
I took my fist to my lips, it was a habit of mine to do that whenever I was
thinking about something.

`'What makes you think it wasn't a random attack?'' Vincent asked and I
looked at Seamus's arm, it was wrapped in bandages. `'Well, think about it
the boy who died, it was someone he knew and then he was attacked, there
must be some kind of... connection'' I said and Seamus put on a grim
face. `'Who was he, Seamus?'' I asked and he avoided my question by not
looking at me.

`'His half-brother'' Said Linda, and I looked at her just in time to see
her eyes turning from purple to her normal color. I remembered then, she
was a telepath she could read thoughts and she used her ability on Seamus
who didn't even looked at her before nodding.

`'Wait, still that could be coincidence, I mean the knife was thrown at you
first, remember?'' Said Sean and I put my fist on my mouth again before
answering. `'Yeah but that might be because I was in the way. I was
following Seamus, I guess he was to the way to his car, the clown knew
that... probably, and he was waiting for him to pass through that hallway
to attack him, but then he saw me from the window of the classroom
following him and decided to attack me too, you know... to not let any
witnesses'' I said and saw that Seamus was drifting to sleep.

I got closer to him and kneeled besides him `'Seamus please, stay with me
for a second, I need to know if you remember that clown from somewhere or
if there is anyone who might want to hurt you or your brother'' I said to
him and he stared at me with sleepy eyes. `'I should've be there... now he
is gone... Marcus was his best friend and he promised to me, when I
couldn't look after him anymore... he promised me that he was going to look
after him...'' he started to fall asleep and a tear escaped from his left
eye.

`'...He doesn't know anything'' Said Linda who has reading her mind again
and Seamus then fell asleep. `'I couldn't read anything about the
clown... there was just darkness and sadness'' she said. I got up and then
Vincent took my hand. `'let me try something'' he said and he started to
feel the bed to locate him, when he took a hold of him he reached for his
face and with his right arm he pressed his forehead.

Suddenly, he turned his head upwards and opened his mouth like he was
grasping for air and I knew that he was using his powers to look into his
mind. Vincent could see into someone's past with his power of Eternal
Vision so I guess he was searching for something. When he came to his
senses he almost fell back but I was able to take a hold of him with the
help of Sean.

`'We should talk somewhere else'' Samantha said and we got out of Seamus
room and didn't said a word until we reached the cafeteria and saw Madame
sitting in one of the tables drinking tea.

I couldn't help to notice just how elegant she looked, the whole room
looked more expensive and refined just from having her there sitting
drinking tea from a cheap cup. She noticed us and got up quickly and ran
towards us then she took me and Sean on her arms and sighed.

`'Thank Versace, you are alright!'' She said in an overly-dramatic way and
then she looked at us with her clear eyes behind her thick glasses and she
smiled. `'This will not stay like this, someone messes with a member of our
family then they mess with the whole tribe. I will find this monster and
take him down myself'' she said and just for a moment... just for a small
moment I felt safe... it was just a moment of course...

...

...

Today is a day for rotten luck, I've heard from Madame that some of the
members of the tribe got attacked today so she went to see them. My mother,
Martha went with the butler to get some groceries and now I'm stuck here on
the living room taking care of Pumpkin, Julian, Maria and Lucinda since her
parents went out for dinner.

I still don't get why I need to take care of Lucinda, she is actually 23
years old, but her power of immortality stopped her body from growing up
when she turned 11. She doesn't need a babysitter I always wondered why her
parents always wanted a constant watch on her, and also I always wondered
why she shared a name with Madame, I guess it was coincidence.

The sound of the door opening brought me back to the real world and I saw
Sergio coming through the door, his lacrosse stick thingy around his neck
and his uniform all dirty and wet from practice.

`'Hey little Tim'' He said to me and I glared at him. `'My name is
Timotheus'' I said with a serious tone and he smiled at me with his pearly
white teeth at me and got close to the children who were playing a board
game in the middle of the room.

`'Hola, babes what are you doing?'' He said to them and sat down between
Pumpkin and Julian. `'Playing Clue'' Said Pumpkin and Lucinda glared at
Sergio. `'You stink, aren't you supposed to take a shower after practice?''
she asked with a scowl on her face and he smiled like an idiot.

`'Yeah you're right pretty princess, I'll be right back'' He said and got
up while Lucinda made an annoyed face at him. He walked around the couch I
was sitting and when the children were looking at the game he kissed me in
the cheek and ran upstairs.

I felt my face grew red, I wanted to make him explode in little tiny pieces
but got back to the book I was reading and tried to get back to normal but
I noticed that Julian was staring at me with those huge beautiful eyes of
him.

I try not to talk too much, I tend to lose my temper quite easily and since
my power is really destructive, it can get really dangerous sometimes. But
for some reason when Julian looks at me or pays attention to me I get happy
and sad at the same time... it's actually not a bad feeling, but a weird
feeling that I cannot explain.

`'What's up?'' I asked and he just shook his head and got back to the game,
I can't never figure out what he is thinking.

I tried to concentrate on my book when I heard someone yelling
upstairs. `'Maria!'' He yelled and I recognized that growl immediately, it
was Pete... or Moon Shine. He came running downstairs while looking around.

`'Where is she?!'' He yelled and then he saw her sitting with the rest of
the children, she had a puzzled expression on her face and Pete blinked
twice looking at her weirdly before he spoke. `'You... are here?'' He asked
like he was surprised from that fact and Maria just nodded.

`'What's wrong? Did I do something wrong?'' she asked with little tears on
her eyes, I remembered then that Maria is a really shy and nervous girl,
any sound can make her flinch and jump. I was about to say something but
Pete got close and kneeled besides her.

`'N-no, sorry it's my fault, sorry, sorry'' He kept saying with a red
face. Pete is really weird around people, he hates noises and gets sad
whenever someone cries, even when he is such a huge guy with a handsome bad
boy aura he is actually really sensitive, clumsy and awkward... just like a
dog.

`'It's just that I smelled smoke so... I thought that you were hurt or
something'' he Said and Lucinda started to laugh. `'Please, she learned to
control her powers way better than you can. She won't lit herself on fire I
can assure you that much''

Pete started to smell around the place and then he growled like an
animal. He looked at me and pointed towards the door `'you, take the
children out, I will go for the teachers and meet you outside'' he said and
I nodded.

As he was running towards the stairs I called back to him. `'Sergio is in
the shower, call him too'' I said and he nodded his head. I put on my shoes
and took Julian in my arms, it's been a while since he woke up but he is
still weak on his legs and big commotions like this one can frighten him
easily. The other children followed me outside and he walked at least 30
meters away from the mansion when we saw Pete with both our teachers and a
half naked Sergio on his arms.

`'He is absurdly strong'' Said Lucinda with another annoyed expression and
I had to agree with her.

As they approached us, Maria looked towards the woods and pointed with her
little finger. `'Smoke'' she said and we all looked towards where she was
pointing us. There was a little cloud of smoke coming out of the woods.

We heard cars arriving and the people that came out of there were Vincent,
Linda, Madame, Sean, Samantha and that new boy Henrik. Madame came towards
us. `'What's wrong, why is everyone outside?'' she asked and Maria pointed
towards the smoke once again.

`'There, Madame... There is smoke in there'' She said in a small voice and
then she looked at Madame with a nervous expression. `'Oh but it wasn't me
I swear to pancakes!'' she said and Madame patted her head.  `'I know it's
not you baby bird'' she said and looked towards the smoke.


`'...I'll go check it out'' Said our teacher Smith and took out a dagger
out of his pocket and cut the tip of his finger, a drop of blood fell on
the ground and stained the floor, after a second the stain lit up on fire
and from the flames came a little devil.

Our teacher has always been skilled on the art of evocation, he can summon
demons, devils and a diverse variety of creatures while most of the witches
and sorcerers struggle to make a single contract with a little imp.

He walked towards the forest and we all stayed in silence until Madame
spoke. `'Alright, everyone let's get back inside, we are stronger on our
home and Sergio needs some clothes''

As she said that I stared at Sergio who was wearing nothing more than a
towel wrapped around his waist. He laughed making his thick abs
look... well... thicker... and I was the first to leave that goddamn place
before I lose control and make something explode in pieces.

As we approached the mansion I looked at Henrik, he had a look of despair
and fear on his eyes, he was a member of our tribe now, that made him
almost family and I wanted to talk to him but my brain was a mess and I
needed to get again. I did my best and patted his shoulder and ran towards
the library... I need some books to relief myself.

...

...

Timotheus patted me on the shoulder and walked hella fast towards the
library and most of the tribe went inside as well. I smiled and I felt like
he was trying to be supportive and that made me smile a little
bit. Honestly I still felt shaken about that freaking clown.

Suddenly I felt a little bit of air blowing at the back of my neck, I
quickly turned around and there was Moon Shine looking at me with a serious
expression. He took a hold of me and started to sniff my hair, then my face
and my neck. `'W-what the hell are you doing, Moon Shine?!'' I nervously
asked and he growled like an angry animal.

`'Go take a shower...'' he said and then went to where Sean was and started
to smell him all over too. `'The hell?!'' Said Sean and when Moon Shine
stopped he growled again. `'You too, go take a shower right now... you reek
of fear''

I was shocked but then again, it seems like I always need to be reminded
that Moon Shine was a wolf for a long time that combined with his shape
shifting abilities must give him some kind of superhuman sense of smell. He
could smell the fear on us, we were scared for what happened to us with the
clown and I guess that... on his own way, telling us to go take a shower
was not because he was bothered about our smell... but he was worried about
us. Like, he wanted us to stop smelling like we were afraid and he wanted
us to try to calm down a little bit... at least that what it seemed to me.

I couldn't help it when I thought about that and I went and hugged him
tight burying my face on his chest and smiling deeply. `'...Thanks Moon
Shine... I'm sorry we got you worried'' I said to him and I felt his body
go tense. I looked up and he looked at me surprised, his face grew a little
bit red and he avoided my gaze.

`'Shut up... I'm not worried'' he mumbled and I couldn't help but
wonder... if he were to be in his wolf form right now, would he be waving
his tail right now? I smiled a little bit at that thought and then he
lifted me up with an arm and took Sean with the other. `'A-at any rate I
will be throwing you in the shower right now!'' he said and I laughed out
loud. Sean on the other hand was protesting and wanted to be put down.

He started to walk towards the stairs when the front door flung open and
Mr. Smith came inside the mansion and he looked at me. `'Moon child, leave
that boy down I need to talk to him'' Moon Shine looked at me for a moment
and let me down. He made a small gesture to the teacher like he was saying
`there you go' and left with Sean on his arms who was still yelling, asking
to be put on his own 2 feet. `'

Madame, who had been in the living room since now approached us
quietly. `What's wrong, Smith?'' she asked to the teacher and he sighed
tiredly and took off a small box from the pockets of his coat.

The box was small and black, it had a red ribbon wrapped around
it. Wherever you looked at it there was not denying that it was a present
box.

`'When I got to the woods I found traces of a fire that had been recently
put off... In the middle of the ashes I found this box'' he said and then
he looked at me. `'It's yours'' he said with a serious tone and I looked at
him weirdly.

`'I don't understand.'' I said and he looked at Madame for a moment before
answering. `'The fire wasn't ordinary, it seemed like someone made it so
that when it was put off, words would appear on the ground... the words
that were written in the ashes were... `'Happy Birthday, Henrik''

I looked at him surprised... I didn't told anyone that my birthday was due
tomorrow, no... the thing is that nobody else besides my mother knew that
my birthday was due tomorrow... Only her and of course, my father.
........



Well I hope you all liked this one is really short I know but there's more
horrors and sexyness to come so be sure to keep reading *takes a gun* READ!

Anyways, next episode there will be another death for sure and we will know
more about Seamus and Marcus secrets ;D