The Crystal 2 by Jones M (reading cloud ebooks .txt) 📕

Selena and I were the only ones who lived in the apartment.

It became clear who had rented out the apartment.

I was angered by that. Add that to the other reasons I was angry, and that could cause an explosion strong enough to wipe out an entire city.

My secret stash...

I moved to get out of the enveloped hug. Ashley and Josh were confused about this, and so they retracted from the hug. I quickly levitated to the ceiling.

I felt Ashley's and Josh's eyes on me, no doubt wondering what I was doing.

One of the advantages of levitation was the ability to reach the ceiling. I had created an easy-to-cover hole where I would hide important things.

That included documents.

I went to the hidden hole and took out a large brown envelope.

Levitating back to the floor, I opened the envelope and took out one of the documents.

"What is this?" Josh asked as he stared at it.

"My new credit card," I explained, earning a look of confusion from him.

"Credit card?"

After my mother's passing, there was the issue regarding her life insurance and savings. She deposited them in my account with a note explaining that I was in charge of them and that I could share with Selena.

I emphasize on the word could.

That bitch wasn't getting any, especially after what she had done to me and the house.

Also, she was starting a career in music. That career paid more money than the amount my mother had left me.

"Let's go," I told Ashley and Josh, wiping the drying tears away. There were more threatening to come out, but I forced them back.

While leaving the house, I took a look at my empty apartment one last time.

If I ever saw Selena again, she better hope I wouldn't beat her up for selling the apartment.

 

 

CHAPTER TWO

Third Person's P.O.V

 

It was night in Crystalia, and the sky brought a dim lighting that barely illuminated the objects that were around the castle. 

It had been hours after the talk that Elizabeth had with her son. Erick was still in his seat, his mind not moving on from what his mother had said. He was also saddened because his mother was angry with him.

Why should I doubt my actions? The dreams were specific!

It took him a while to conclude the issue with Emery. Erick decided his mother was wrong. He was standing firm with the dream, and he was not going to allow other people to sway him from being certain.

Then suddenly, an earthquake interrupted his thoughts. There was a groaning sound in the room that was accompanied by rattling from the shelves. Erick lost his footing, falling and landing on his front. 

He grunted on impact as he turned to look at his table. The book he had been was vibrating. It was maneuvering towards the edge of the table, threatening to fall.

Erick went down under his table and took a squatting position, waiting for the tremors to subside. They lasted a few seconds, and when they ceased, he crouched away from the table.

Once he stood up, he heard footsteps approaching.

"Did you feel that?" it was Justin who asked, and he had entered with a frightened Selena.

Erick took a short moment to stare at Selena before bringing his attention to his brother.

"Yes," he replied. Justin and Erick's mother graced them with her presence as she entered the main study room.

"Your Majesty," Selena greeted her, but Elizabeth ignored her. She was angry with her and her sons for what they did to Emery. Selena frowned at the lack of response from her.

"Your Majesty?" Selena said.

"Don't even bother," Erick replied. "She knows what happened with Emery, and she is angry with us for doing what we did."

Selena frowned, moving away from the Queen and towards Justin.

"Anyway, what could have caused the earthquake?" Selena asked.

The Queen stared expectantly at them, waiting to see if they would figure out the issue.

"Maybe the erwiches did this," Selena suggested. In the background, the Queen rolled her eyes.

"It wasn't the erwiches," Justin said. "It couldn't be. This only happened when they were trying to revive Eva, and as far as we know, Eva is dead."

"Yes, but what could it have been?"

They all remained quiet, thinking about the issue, while the Queen stood silently, watching them with an exasperated expression. She decided to give them a minute.

Two minutes had passed, and they were still pondering. Elizabeth slapped her forehead, the sound making everyone in the room turn to face her.

"You people can be such idiots at times," she said with a bored look. "What else do you think could have caused the earthquake?"

They all remained quiet. The Queen became frustrated. Then a look of horror dawned on Selena's face.

"That was what I was looking for!" Elizabeth shouted while pointing at Selena before swiftly leaving the room.

"What is it?" Justin asked Selena with a worried expression.

"A witch has left us."

The words had everyone in the room tensing. 

A witch stripping off their identity as a Crystalian was a huge deal. They were known to bring earthquakes everywhere, especially since they would be also stripping off their powers and becoming human. 

Witches never wanted to become human; they feared vulnerability, and they were content with their lives. The fact that a witch had rid themselves of their identity worried the King.

"Do we know who could have left us?" Erick asked.

"Your Majesty," a guard called out to Erick as he rushed into the room. "The witches in the land have gathered outside the castle to seek your word on what has occurred."

"I'll be right outside," Erick replied. The guard bowed before leaving the room.

"We have a problem right now. Justin, I need you to find any news about a recent earthquake on earth."

"Sure!" Erick's brother said before leaving the room.

"I may need your presence with me when I address the people," Erick spoke to Selena.

"Why?" she asked with furrowed eyebrows.

Erick smiled, choosing not to answer her question. He still had feelings for her.

Selena did not know this.

The two of them exited the castle, finding a crowd of people standing near the entrance. The newly-installed lights had been switched on to illuminate their surroundings, and Erick could tell that almost all the witches had come to the castle.

The people were speaking to each other, no doubt gossiping and wondering what had truly happened in Crystalia.

"Fellow Crystalians!" the King shouted, having every eye focused on him and every mouth shut.

"You do not need to worry. We have confirmation that it was not an erwich attack."

As if on cue, everyone sighed in relief.

"However, a witch has left us."

That spiked up mumblings among the fellow witches.

"We are working on discovering who it is."

"Erick!" Justin screamed. He appeared beside his brother in a matter of seconds. By the look he had on his face, Erick knew that the information his brother had was not good.

"There was a recent earthquake in Australia," he whispered to him.

Erick tensed as a reaction. He wasn't sure if there were any other witches apart from Emery in the continent. He knew he had to deal with the problem before it got out of hand.

"We are still gathering the information. We'll keep you informed!" Erick shouted to the people before swiftly going to the castle. The crowd shouted their questions, but he ignored them. His brother and Selena followed him, curious about what he was planning to do. Once they were in the main study room, he closed the door behind them.

"It was Emery," Erick replied. Everyone in the room looked shocked. "She was the one who stripped off her identity as one of us."

"That's impossible!" denied Selena. "There must have been some other witch--"

"The earthquake was mostly felt at a prison station," Justin cut her off.

Selena remained quiet for a while, not knowing what to say.

"We should go see her," Selena said.

"Are you kidding me?" asked Justin with raised eyebrows. "We placed her in jail, and you want to go see her?"

"We should," Erick said. "We need to bring her back to us. As far as we know, everyone does not know what happened to the crystal. We need to be certain about the presence of other witches in that prison. If word got out that Emery left us, every witch will panic."

"I can't believe I forgot about this," Selena said with furrowed eyebrows. "We need to get her out of there."

"Why?" Justin questioned.

"Well, we are witches, and we live for 200 years..." 

Erick's form tensed. Witches could live for two hundred years, and they took longer to look like they were forty. 

"We could give her the next year, and then we could bail her out and bring her in one of the dungeons," Justin suggested. Erick visible relaxed, seeing the minor problem solved.

"Justin, do you hear yourself?" Selena stated. "She's a crystal... maybe she still is. I don't know. I have no doubt that she did this because we placed her in a cell. Now you want to take her out of the one she is currently in and place her here?"

"She doesn't have her powers," Justin replied.

"Seriously? Babe, have you forgotten that this has adverse effects on crystals?"

"What are you talking about?" Erick inquired.

"She may have stripped off her identity as a Crystalian, but she may still have her powers."

Erick swore.

" And if you try to pull off what you're thinking, don't you think she wouldn't hesitate to kill you?"

"She wouldn't," Erick stated.

"Dude, may I remind you again that she stripped off her identity as a Crystalian? You have no power over her. Crystalia no longer has power over her. She is free to do whatever she wants."

This is not good, Erick thought.

"Okay. We may have to go visit her."

"We'll do it tomorrow," Selena stated.

"Why not now?" her boyfriend asked.

"It's night. I doubt anyone will be allowed to visit a prisoner at night."

Selena made sense. Erick and Justin were forced to agree with her, and so they planned to visit Emery in her cell on the following day.

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"She's not in," a guard replied, chewing her gum while typing on her computer.

"What do you mean she's not in?" asked Erick in a shout. He was with Justin and Selena. They were in the prison building, requesting to see Emery when they were told of the news.

The guard was unfazed by Erick's shout, still typing on her computer. She, on purpose, chewed her gum for a few seconds before speaking.

"You are asking to see Emery Davis, right?" 

Erick, Justin, and Selena nodded.

"She's not in," the guard repeated.

"What happened to her?" Selena asked.

"She got bailed out a few hours ago."

"By who?" Justin asked.

The guard sighed, pausing her typing to face the three.

"I don't know. Some cutie with black hair and a blonde girl with him. Besides, I'm not supposed to be giving you any information."

Then unexpectedly, three erwiches teleported into the prison station. The guard shot up from her seat, frightened by the presence of the three evil beings. She stood up with a gun, pointing it at the erwiches.

"Police! Put your hands up!"

One of the erwiches, a girl, rolled her eyes. With a flick of her wrist, the guard was sent flying to a wall beside her. She soon fell in her seat, instantly blacking out.

Selena, Erick and Justin were watching all this with shocked expressions.

"We have been waiting for you, your Majesty," one of the erwiches, a boy, laughed. The other one, also