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

"Apart from telling me I deserved the hell that I truly didn't, you refused to listen to my side of the story," Emery punched her cousin on the cheek, earning a cry. "You ignored my calls when I was being taken to prison for things I never did."

Emery kicked Selena in the gut. Selena bent forward to grab her stomach, but Emery grabbed her by the hair and punched her on the nose with her elbow. Selena's nose started oozing blood.

"You said my proof against Bianca was fake and that you wanted nothing to do with it." Emery slapped Selena, the sound echoing in the room. "You made me believe that you wanted me gone."

"Emery--" Selena's shout was cut off by a slap. She stared at her cousin's eyes as fear groped her. "Thanks, Selena. Killing you will be very easy."

Emery continued beating the rest who had remained. She went after Justin, Logan, Ethan and Liam, hitting them as she told them how they ruined her life. By the time she was done with them, they were badly bruised but still conscious. 

She was finally staring at the two people she hated with such a passion.

"The final two," Emery said with a smirk.

Harry's eyes widened as Emery dragged him and Zane to her with her powers.

"You and Zane had fun last night?" she asked with a sick smile.

"Emery, please--" Harry began begging.

"Ah, begging. It won't work, Harry."

Before they had time to answer, Emery punched them in their faces at the same time. There was a crunching sound as she made contact with their noses.

"Wow! Now I understand how you all felt when you abused me."

Emery punched the two again.

"It feels so great to do this! I'm loving having powers over you."

"Emery, pl--" Zane's begging was interrupted by another punch.

"You guys have always been on the giving end," she said, kicking them on their guts. "How does it feel guys?" Emery questioned as she punched them again. "How does it feel to be bullied? How does it feel now to be abused and to receive bruises that could last for more than a month."

Neither of the two had a chance to speak before Emery kicked them on their heads. They both fell down, wincing in pain.

"I am going to do to you everything you did to me last night."

She stopped for a couple of seconds to look around.

"Well, there is no glass table, but I can find something better to carve your torsos with. What if I use a wooden stick?"

Zane and Harry widened their eyes in fear despite the pain they felt. They went to crawl away, but Emery used her powers to drag them back.

"Ah. Ah. Ah!" Emery chastised with a sick smile and a wave of a finger. "I'm not done yet."

Emery used her powers to have the two standing. 

"Hmm, what else did you do to me?" Emery questioned as she recalled with vivid details what Harry and Zane did to her on the previous night. With anger, she inflicted it on them.

Some pain-filled minutes for Zane and Harry later, Emery spoke: "Do you remember this?" 

She grinned evilly as she used her powers to drag Harry and Zane with their hair across the floor. The two were soon screaming and sobbing in pain.

"Feel that? That's every hair attached to your scalp pulling at the skin. How does it feel?

'Painful,' Harry thought as he looked at the others. They were either passed out or in a daze, trying to fully regain their consciousness.   

They couldn't help him.

Emery revealed an evil grin before using her powers to throw Zane and Harry to a wall behind them. Harry and Zane groaned in agony as a reaction.

"That was one of the many times you guys threw me against the wall." Emery stared at them with fury before her look turned to one of shock. "Wow. You guys are already crying! Idiots. You can't handle what you serve?"

"Emery..." Zane trailed off in a sob. "We're so sorry."

"Zane, shut up," Emery said before dragging Zane's form towards her with her powers before pushing him back to the wall. He screamed in agony on impact.

"What else happened?" Emery asked as she pretended to think. "Oh, yes. You used your shoes to step on me. It's a good thing for me because I'm wearing heels."

Harry's eyes widened in fear. 

"Emery..."

The two were immediately thrown to the ground and forced to lay still on their fronts. Emery walked towards them, the sound of her heels hitting the ground, scaring Harry and Zane with the impending pain they would endure.

Zane and Harry could not believe what was happening. They thought of the ways they had taunted Emery in high school, and they regretted it. They were going to pay the price, and they had no idea how much more pain they could handle.

Emery used her powers to drag Zane and Harry so close to each other that there was no space in between. With a pleased smile, she started with their backs, walking along them and enjoying the screams that Harry and Zane released. At some points, she almost slipped. This forced her to add more pressure to stabilize herself, making Zane and Harry scream louder. Emery also pressed her heels into their hands, making them try to tug away from her foot, only to press harder.

The rest who had regained consciousness had begun yelling for Emery to stop, but she didn't listen. Even though they were infuriated with what Harry and Zane had done to her, they were worried she would kill them.

Emery suddenly stopped. Harry and Zane had been breathing heavily after the screams they released. They turned to lie on their backs, thinking that she was done.

Unfortunately for them, the agonized groans and cries started again when they felt something sharp carve onto their stomachs. Zane and Harry were confused as to how the pain was being inflicted. They looked up and saw Emery waving a finger.

She was using her powers.

Zane and Harry tugged up their shirts to see their torsos, spotting blood oozing from a point on the skin.

"What should I write?" Emery pretended to think. "Emery was here? No, that's too short. What about 'Never mess with Emery'?"

"Emery..." Harry gasped out.

"Yeah, I agree with you, Harry. The second one is better."

Emery continued with her inscriptions. She forced the two to lay still with her powers as she continued writing on their skin. Zane and Harry screamed and cried through the pain. They looked at Emery as blood erupted from their torsos, seeing the evil smile adorning her face. 

Harry was close to losing consciousness when Emery suddenly stopped. He felt something wet below him, and he knew it was a growing puddle of blood. 

That was how he and Zane had left Emery.

"What the fuck? They did that to her?" Justin asked as he stared at the sight of the two bleeding bandmates.

"Justin, they could be dead!" Selena yelled.

"Then there was the crotch kick," Emery stated. 

Emery kicked Zane in his crotch, and he groaned loudly at the pain. His hands were pinned on the ground, and so he couldn't tend to the ache in his groin.

"I still wonder why you had decided to kick me in the crotch," Emery addressed Zane with a glare. "Do you know that I could be infertile after what you did?"

Zane was openly crying.

"I'm sorry," he said. "I am so sorry for what I did."

"Well, after all that I've put you and Harry through..." Emery trailed off as she glared hard at Zane before looking at everyone else.

"You have all learned your lesson. At least now you know what I went through."

As she stared at nothing with a smile, Emery added, "I am glad I did this. It has been a great pleasure seeing you suffer some of that I went through."

Emery suddenly shrugged her shoulders.

"Too bad I have to kill all of you."

In an instant, two ropes had been teleported into the room. They moved towards Harry and Zane, wrapping themselves tightly around their necks before dragging them up in the air. 

The two had found strength as they gasped, struggling to get rid of the ropes around their necks. Harry looked at Emery as he struggled for breath. She was smirking with a glint in her eyes. 

Even though he was fighting for his life, he could not believe the monster that was in front of him. He couldn't believe the monster he had unknowingly encouraged Emery to become. 

Maybe he and Zane did deserve to die.

"Emery!" someone yelled as they entered the cell. The ropes that held Zane and Harry' necks instantly loosened. The two fell to the ground, coughing and gasping huge gulps of air in spite of the pain they felt all over their bodies.

Everyone turned to face who had spoken. It was Elizabeth, and beside her was a shocked Ashley. 

"Elizabeth! Ashley! What the hell are you doing here?" Emery growled out before shrugging. "It won't matter. Since you're here, I could get an audience. You will watch me kill them."

Everyone tensed at what Emery said.

"No, you won't," Elizabeth said before throwing the vial she had hidden behind her. Emery deflected the vial, sending it flying to the wall on her left. It exploded and released white smoke.

"What was that?" Emery asked in anger. "Are you trying to kill me?"

Before she could reply, the Queen was sent flying to her left. She landed on the ground, almost hitting the wall that was close to her.

"Mom!" Erick and Justin yelled, slowly getting up off the ground due to the pain they felt.

"Sit down!" Emery ordered, using her powers to force the two back on the ground before turning to face Elizabeth and Ashley.

"You two shouldn't have come," she growled.

"We had to," Ashley replied. Emery narrowed her eyelids at her.

"Why did you? Don't you usually feel uncomfortable around me and my drama?"

Ashley felt shocked by Emery's words. Emery quickly formed a fireball. Believing she would throw it at Ashley, he jumped onto the crystal.

Emery made a noise of surprise as she fell to the ground with Harry.

"Get off of me!" Emery yelled as she tried to push Harry off of her.

"I'm sorry, Emery, but this is for your own good," Harry stated before he groaned when Emery kneed him in his crotch. He didn't budge, refusing to release his hold.

"Do you have another vial?" Emery heard Ethan question.

"We do," Ashley replied, and Emery seethed at the answer. She used her powers to forcefully push Harry of her. She was soon quickly standing and facing Ashley.

"Emery, you have to take the potion. You have to return to your normal self."

"You mean my good self?" Emery asked Ashley with a glare. "If you hadn't noticed, the good Emery was a dependant bitch who could not hold up her own."

"That's not true."

"It is true!" Emery deflected Ashley's words. "You saw and heard what happened to me. My former self was stupid because she did not do anything to stop it. No, Stupid Emery let the people who betrayed her ruin her life. Stupid Emery came back here to help them with the erwich issue when she could have left them deal with it, especially with how they treated her! Well, Stupid Emery is gone, and Smart Emery is here. I will get my revenge for what these people did to me, and you won't be able to stop me."

The crystal walked forward and used her telekinesis powers to throw Ashley to the wall behind her. There was a sickening crunch when Ashley made contact with the wall. Then her form collapsed on the ground.

Emery smirked. There was no one left to try to stop her. She was going to kill everyone in the room, and she was going to destroy Crystalia as soon as she was done.

Emery turned to face the rest in the room, but she spotted the remaining vial coming towards her. Emery went to deflect it, but it had crashed near her feet before it released a white gas.

With an angry gasp, Emery went to walk away. The white smoke that had just