[Leena's POV]
We were chased for a long time but…
How did it start again?
Was it when it was revealed that the natural weakness of the witches does not apply to us?
Not really, I guess. I mean, it did surprise people that we were special, but since our power levels were pretty average in front of the real power holders of this world; we were just considered an anomaly.
Maybe it was the genius of Anna? That she was pretty smart and could learn a lot of things at once sounds threatening.
But it's not that either. For one part, there were few who understood the potential of Anna. And those who did, kind of failed to live a long life. Either killed by us or by our enemies, friend of foe, this fact is pretty much a secret.
That Anna is a baffling genius in small things that are considered 'secondary' to many. So it wasn't this either.
Then what was it again? Ah!! The damned array. And the creator of that Array, our father.
Our Father is an array master. One of the handful of people that has reached the peak of Array knowledge in this world.
It all exactly began when people found out about the weakness of our mother, and the array of imprisonment.
The Array of Imprisonment.
It was an array originally created by our father to trap and marry our mother. He created that array because mother was a dark witch. She could manipulate the energy of darkness around her much more flexible than normal mages.
Heck, she was considered special even among the dark witches.
Which exactly became the reason why father was interested in her. Why he bound her, made her do all sorts of things, and made her life as miserable as it became.
It's a sad story. Honestly, it is cruel. But that doesn't even amount to what the greed of people did to us.
An Array that can control someone? Which dark mage won't be interested in it? Forget about dark mages, even other mages, witches, warriors etc, everyone wanted it.
If they could get our mother in their control, that would be like a cherry on top.
And this became a reason for people to actively look out for her.
And obviously, many times she was captured, tortured and abused, and every time we sisters had to formulate her escape from a different hell.
Our mother is famous now… it would be weird that people haven't heard of her. But we somehow managed to erase the connection between her and us. Even if we are together, we aren't recognized as much.
And that gives us a chance to protect her from a distance.
But as times passed, our name began spreading as well. It won't exactly be long till our names become known enough to create problems for us as well. Especially for Anna.
For now, our goal is to find a safe place where we can survive and live a bit more peacefully than we are. Another goal is to find a solution to the imprisonment array.
While it is not as important, there is one more thing that we are searching for. To find our father and kill him with our own hands. That would be one way to erase the mark on the array and let us replace it.
I'll let Anna replace the control mark, as she is better suited to it.
But for now, let us handle these Witch hunters. Hopefully, it will be over soon and we can go back to sleep as well. I'm tired because of all the walking we did today.
My eyes drift back to the hunters in front of us. There were 12 more remaining, each of them seemingly stronger than the others.
"Ignite," I spoke again as I created a ring of fire around us that soon started increasing in radius. It spread slowly towards those people, making them choose their defensive spells, while a bunch of them jumped above it.
"Bright," and I spoke again, as I increased the intensity of the spell at the last moment.
5 of the 12 jumped up, while the 7 took out their defensive spells.
And among the 7 that took out their defensive spells…
"Wait- AAAAAA!"
"This isn't fire-"
"AAAAA!"
"It's COLD DD!!!!!!!!"
"AAA!"
"WHAAAAAA!!!!"
"YOU FUCKAAAAAAA!!!!!!"
None of them survived.
"There goes the legend of the Barbados," I smirked as I looked at the shocked faces of the 5 that survived by jumping. To be fair, it was fucking satisfying.
"How?" one of the surviving 5 asked, while 3 of them stared at me with a horrified look. They observed me with shock and terror, the fear written all over their face.
The last of the 5, started running away. While I would love to have no survivors, I guess I am still tired from all the walking I did today.
"Be careful," one of them said as he turned invisible, while the rest three prepared their weapons towards me.
2 Crossbow users and a sword user.
The crossbow users shot their arrows at us without any delay. And unlike before, where they shot only one arrow, this time they were rapidly firing.
Each shot was followed by another as they kept attacking and attacking, but to be honest… It wasn't the first time someone tried that on us.
"Flame wall," I mumbled again, a bit bored with this while I looked at Anna, who stood there without making movements.
The arrows burnt continuously while the sword user vanished from sight, making me wonder where he goes. I looked around but couldn't find him, making me wonder if he ran away or something.
"Well… whatever… burn," I said, as I burned down the last of the two crossbow users, as well. All that remained were the two who had gone invisible.
"Should we wait for them?" I asked Anna, but the answer came from behind….
"Die you whore!!!" the sword user shouted from behind before I smiled a little.
"Huh?!! WhAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!" He shouted as he burnt in flames behind me.
"Nobody said that I needed chants to use my spells," I chuckled as I looked at the charred body of the person behind me. Now only 2 were left that needed to be checked.
"They ran," though Anna's confirmation made me relax as I nodded at her and moved closer to her. Patting her head, I then moved towards the door.
It has been such a long day… man, I am tired.
But a weird sensation crawled all over my body, making me turn around, as I immediately turned around.
It wasn't just me, but Anna too had her eyes wide open. She was panicking as she looked on the other side of the road.
I turned in that direction, and found someone standing under the shade of the night lamp, under the dark gloomy atmosphere.
It was a fat lady, dressed in heavy purple. She looked like a rich Nobel or something, but something about her was rather creepy. It made me want to run away from there.
"Anna… let's run…" I decided immediately as I took a step back and turned around but…
"Ha?!" I took my breath in as my heart beat stopped for a second.
That fat lady in purple was standing there, as she observed me with a rather odd smile. Her eyes seemed half curious, half confused as she tried analyzing me.
"Anna-"
"Hush!" I was about to speak, but she put her index finger on my lips, making me turn silent. I tried speaking, but my voice was gone. Something overcame me, making me confused enough to not utter even a single word.
And slowly she then looked at Anna as I did too.
An ugly smile crept over her face as she looked at Anna. She then slowly stepped back away from me and began walking closer to Anna.
I wanted to move, but my body failed to respond. I wanted to cry, but tears weren't coming out. I wanted to jump and take Anna away but I couldn't.
And Anna too stood there without making any movements.
Anna…. run… you must run….
I was afraid my face was silent. I was crying, but my eyes were numb. I was breaking, but I was standing without any movements.
"Aren't you such a beauty doll?" She spoke as she walked closer to her, licking her lips like a sexual predator. And Anna stood there shaking in fear, but not being able to make even a single movement.
So… is this how it's gonna be now?
"Mrs. Thompson. This one is under my protection," and came a familiar voice from a bit far away. As a man slowly walked towards us with a smile on his face.
His eyes were as calming as before, and not a single trace of fear on his face.
He walked closer to us. In his hands were the heads of the two witch hunters that ran away from us. And as he walked closer to us, he looked at that fat woman who didn't hear him yet..
"Mrs. Thompson…. They are both under my protection," he spoke again, this time a bit more dominating than before. A bit more scarier than before.