chapter twelve

"She was my life, my peace of my mind, my breath, my reason for living, she was my everything... Amalia, I still remember the chill it felt , her beautiful name rolling out of my mouth..she was perfect...but...she was cursed...she's your mom you say??"

Gregory stated,unable to hold back the tears that threatened to break down...Alice stared down at him, as Ryder settled down and sat next to her, cautious enough to not anger her...

"Who was she to you" Ryder's voice boomed, interested in understanding whatever relationship existed between Alice's mother and Gregory...

Ryder thought he'd known him, he'd been like a father to him since he was nine, he had know him almost his entire life...

They'd shared everyone of Ryder's experience, Ryder was an original werewolf, born of a long generation of the dragon's, the descendants of the Salvatore's..

All of Ryder's sexual experiences were guided by Gregory, he had always given him advice on how to go with the girls, how to win them over in a matter of time, he owed him ninety percent of his knowledge...

Besides, he was always the one who trained him into properly shifting to his wolf man, he had become an alpha in chainvile, soon after fighting and killing the most powerful and ferocious alpha known in the town, hence talking down the power,

"Amalia and I fell in love...love at first sight you can say...however she wasn't like anyone of us, she possessed way too many creatures inside her, that's how I figured out what Alice was , I thought she was just like her, my beautiful Amalia, it is now that I discovered they share the same shade of eye colour... No wander she's your mother, she's just like you...stubborn, impatient.. And doesn't take people opinions..."he finished, before looking up at Alice again, hoping to see those eyes again...but Alice had already put back her natural shade of dark icy eyes caged in a certain complexion of ocean blue eyes..

He looked down again, smiled at himself, a certain kind of joy building up inside him..

" where is she!" Alice asked trying to block out the emotions that overwhelmed her, her mother, her mother still existed in the life of another man, other than the imbisel of a man she'd learnt to nickname her father...

"She was taken hostage by the WA , thirteen years ago, they wanted to make themselves like her, they wanted to drain the power from her and into themselves, they wanted the curse, ... The curse they foresaw as a gift.." He finished getting up on his feet and taking out a pocket knife from his back pocket and grabbing a piece of large wood from the branches before carefully beginning to sharpen it..

Alice stared at him in confusion..

"What's the WA" she asked as both Gregory and Ryder turned to her in surprise, wondering how the heck she didn't know such a feared and famous group all over chainville..

"The witches organization" they both said in unison as though making it sound so obvious..

Ryder looked at Alice, wondering where this girl cane from, you'd have sane she came out of nowhere, considering no one knew of such a powerful girl , he had even carried out a background check on her, and not even the internet knew of her existence,

There was however some little information about a certain curse, placed on a couple,that stole from a powerful old witch, a witch that was feared, no information is given ahead of that, as it is believed to be just a mere myth..

" Is any of you gonna speak up, what curse are you talking about..!!" Ryder screamed, confusion taking over him..

He looked at Alice, but her face was emotionless, like she wasn't ready to speak..she turned to Gregory, expecting a proper explanation. His eyes were still staring at Alice, hoping hell get a chance to look at those sparkly eyes again..

But when he noted Ryder's glare, he cane back to his senses..

"Its not in my place to tell you that!!" He stated raising his hands up in surrender..

They both stared at Alice, this time not afraid to get burnt down, or turned to ashes, Ryder wanted to understand everything, how the hell Alice was even more powerful than himself, how she could still pose witch powers and still be a werewolf-like him...how Gregory was so cautious about her..

There were so many confusing factors..

"Fine...I'll tell you" she finally stated after realizing none of the two were going to give up...

Her mind flipped around the memories, and it caused a certain kind of pain, she knew more than she was even supposed to know...

"In fact, I'll show you..." She said, before battering a number of incantations and calling on some spirits in a foreign language..

"Meindula riporsa, quistra um zinetro, maribila ziba ribs ranstro... Show us, ..." She finished, as immediately, an electric cage drew around, the storms and thunder began to roar, the sky became dark,

Her eyes lit up, a certain kind of pure white, on her forehead was a mark, a white mark..

Immediately, the three appeared in the past, where it all began..

As a ring of fire reconstructed itself around the three who soon became potential participants of black magic, the events set to where they wanted to appear created themselves...

Ryder was shocked, mesmerized by the miracles now unfolding... How was it possible, to go back to the past, to alter the future...and the present..

He wanted to understand how a girl like Alice had even come to existence... Whatever was happening before him was unbelievable, never in his wildest imaginations had he sought to view the past like a movie, a cinema, a scene unfolding in front of his eyes...

oh if he only knew, what the future had in store for the both of them.