Light in Darkness by Tammy (motivational books for students .TXT) 📖

not then don’t.” I told him and turned to go but he grabbed my hand and pulled me over to him.
“I go anywhere you go okay?” I looked in his eyes and saw a protective mode. I didn’t understand.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, I just got a bad vibe. Like something bad will happen if I let you go alone.” He said honestly. I nodded even though it seemed far-fetched even to a witch.
“Okay then, let’s go to the library where something bad is going to happen.” I said, a bit more sarcastic then I meant.
“I’m serious, something bad is going to happen and I need to be there for you.” He said and I knew he believed it so I just nodded. When we got to the library, there wasn’t anyone there, not even the librarian. How odd, oh well. She’s probably on break or something. I took out my pass for the restricted section. I was given one when I became the most advanced water on the grounds. I scanned it and walked in. I turned around to see Oskan just outside the door with a book.
“I’ll be in the reading area if you need me.” He said, heading to a chair that faced away. Good job protecting me from your bad vibe. I looked around, finding the S’s. Then I found the only two books in the library about the Salem Witch trials. As I pulled one out someone covered my mouth and pulled me back. I struggled for a second before realizing that I had taken a human self-defense class. I grabbed his hand and twisted it around, flipping him over and onto his back. Once he was on the ground I thought. Bind the joints and the joining bones. Make them immobile for everyone to tread. I thought the incantation quickly and then thought of his joints locking and melding with the bones they were joining. I saw him go stiff and walked over. I loosened his mouth so he could speak. He was dressed like a human robber. He had all black on, complete with the ski mask. “Who are you and what do you want?” I asked him.
“No way! I’m not telling you anything.”
“Fine then, we can do it a much easier way and I could raid your mind.” I said simply and he shook his head. “Okay then tell me who you are.” He shook his head no again so I bent over and pulled off his mask. I knew who it was before I had pulled off the mask completely. “Dover?”
Chapter 7: Meeting Dover again
“What the hell are you doing here? What were you trying to do? Who put you up to this? What do you want from me?” The questions poured from me before I stopped myself.
“I’m doing a job. I was trying to kidnap and kill you but I guess that’s not going to happen. I want to kill you, so your life is what I want.” He answered all of my questions except one. Who put him up to it.
“Okay then, but who put you up to it?” I asked him.
“Well I can’t tell you that.” He said, stubbornly. I called Oskan to me.
“Oskan! I need your help please.”
“You have someone with you?”
“Yes, didn’t think of that did you. Where did you put everyone else?”
“Sleeping drugs, they’re actually in a pile at the back of the library.”
“Oh nicely done, with class to. I missed that so much.” I said sarcastically. Oskan came jogging in and his eyes widened.
“Who is this?”
“Hi nice to meet you Oskan, I’m Dover and just tried to kill your little girlfriend. Right now she wants to know who put me up to it.” He said like they were old friends and I rolled my eyes.
“Thanks but I could have done that.”
“Well you know how I’m ever the gentlemen.” Then Oskan surprised me coming over to him and decking him right in the nose.
“That is for hurting her before. Unlock him Aqua, I want to kill him.” He looked at me and at first I thought he was joking before I realized he was serious.
“You can’t kill him!” I shouted, as much as I hated him it wasn’t right to kill him.
“I certainly can, especially if he won’t tell us who he’s working for.” He said fiercely and Dover shook his head.
“I’m not working for a person per say.” He said and I felt my eyebrows raise. “That’s right little beautiful. It’s not a person.” Then Oskan decked him in the face again.
“Don’t call her beautiful, you don’t deserve to.”
“Whatever.” Then it hit me, he could very well be working with the force that attacked the school.
“Are you working for the force that attacked the school?”
“In a way.” He said and I started to get annoyed.
“What do you mean in a way?”
“Sorry but I can’t tell you that one baby.” He said and I rolled my eyes and kept Oskan from breaking anything else on his face. However it didn’t stop him from blacking his eye.
“You really would stop calling me things if you knew what was good for you.”
“Can’t do that either I’m afraid. However I must go, if you don’t mind.”
“Sorry but that’s not bound to happen she has you on a body bind spell.” Oskan spat at him.
“That’s not necessarily true.” He answered and before I could ask how that was true a giant black mass came and grabbed him, then vanished. I fell in a chair and put my head in my hands.
“I let him escape.”
“It’s not your fault. He’s controlled by the dark force now.” Oskan tried to comfort me and I looked up.
“What do you mean?”
“Well why else would he come to kill you? You’ve heard of dark forces controlling people before. They control for their needs and then take the soul. There would be no other reason for him to come back to kidnap and kill you.” He gave me the logic and I thought. I had read of the dark spirits and forces using the human body to do it’s bidding before taking the soul. It would make sense seeing as one had just came and taken him.
“Yes that does make the most sense. Well, I suppose we have to take these books and then wake up everyone. Then I guess we should tell Elle.” I said and he nodded. When I stood I was still a bit shaky from seeing Dover again and what happened. Oskan came over and held my hand as we walked to where, shocker, a few students and a librarian were in neat little pile, asleep. I sighed and bent over the librarian. “As fast as you fell you must arise. As tired as you became you must become awake. Mend the mind and lighten the eyes.” I said it twice and made a circle around her head clockwise once. Then once around her whole body clockwise. She sat up with a stir and looked around.
“Aqua, what has happened? Why am I on the floor with students sleeping around me?” She asked and I told her.
“You were knocked out but there is no need to worry I have gotten rid of the person who did this to you and my fellow students.” I calmed her and she nodded.
“Good, well I’m glad that no one was really hurt. If you’ll excuse me.” she got up and although I didn’t think she would she might have gone to alert the teachers. For some reason however I didn’t want them to know.
“Vanquish the memory of recent. No more will the morning be reminisced. “ I said pointing to her head and she stopped and walked to a book shelf. I woke up the other students and then explained to them that it was a new drill the school was trying and then as they departed did the same memory vanquishing spell as the librarian had gotten. It wouldn’t totally vanquish their memory. As I said it I thought of what I wanted to be erased there for erasing only what could put them in danger or what they could tell a teacher. The most recent memory they would have was walking around the library. Oskan leaned toward me and whispered in my ear.
“Why a memory vanquishing spell?” He asked and I turned to him.
“I don’t want any teachers to know about this. It is our responsibility and I don’t want to be hassled about this, do you?” I asked and he shook his head.
“No that is a good point.” He said and I stood with him. We left to tell Elle about what had happened. I was still a bit shaky and he wrapped his arm around my waist to help me calm. I was still holding the books as I entered the dorm.
“Hey, you got books on the Salem Witch trials?” Elle asked as I sat down and I nodded, still a bit shaken. Oskan took my hand and gave it a squeeze.
“Yes but I need to tell you something first.” I said staring straight ahead. I could feel the concern flood her as she sat down.
“What is it?”
“Something happened today and before I tell you I didn’t tell anyone. The only other person that knows is Oskan because he was there. I don’t want a teacher to know because I don’t want hassled about it okay?” I asked and she nodded.
“Just tell me what happened.”
“I was in the restricted section of the library and came across the books about the Salem witch trials. Then out of the blue someone grabbed me covering my mouth. I remembered self-defense and flipped him over onto his back. Then I thought the incantation to keep him stiff and loosened his mouth so he could speak. He was dressed was like a human robber. I asked him who he was and what he wanted but of course he didn’t answer.”
“You keep saying he, how did you know it wasn’t a girl?” Elle interrupted and I looked right in her eyes.
“When I pulled of the mask to see if I recognized the face, I could. It was from the past. It was Dover.” I said and she looked confused.
“But why would he be there and trying to attack you?”
“I think he was taken over by a dark spirit. One came to get him after a few minutes. He wanted to kidnap and kill me. It’s really the only explanation that makes sense.” I said and she nodded.
“Yes it really is because he would have no reason to come back.”
“Yes, he gave everyone in there sleeping pills and piled them behind a book shelve. So after the spirit came for him I woke them up and explained that someone had attacked but not to worry that teachers were already aware. This way they wouldn’t be suspicious when they had their backs turned I vanquished their memories up until the last memory they would have was walking around the library.” I told her and she smiled.
“Sneaky but that’s okay. You need to be in a situation like this. Hopefully something like this doesn’t happen again. What do you think we should do about this?”
“I don’t know, I don’t think there is anything we can do seeing as we don’t know what the dark mass really is.” I said and she nodded.
“True, true. Well, I’m going out for a walk okay?” She asked because she knew I was still shaky from what had just happened. I nodded and after she left Oskan pulled me onto his lap.
“Are you sure that you’re