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Besides one suddenly quiet, seely sucked into the vortex of the unknown The hairs on the back of y This could not be good

I heard voices in the distance and decided they were the law enforce the cafeteria and what I could hear be referred to as the "bat problem" I nodded toward the human sounds to alert Seth to be stealthily quiet

I wasn’t exactly sure hoere going to get out of thisan unexplainable scene Right now it seeht?

Seth o first and so I followed him into the dim stairwell and down the cement stairs that led beneath the school It was still quiet e turned the corner into the th of the school There was no movement, no sound, no evil

What in the world?

"I could have sworn I just felt the strongest presence…" I whispered as we crept carefully forward

Our swords were held high, and alked on our tiptoes, ready for anything at any tiht our attention and we followed it, although soht Actually that was the proble

"What do you think?" Seth asked, paused just on the outside of the locker room door

"This feels a lot like a trap," I adreement "But what choice do we have?"

"Wait for Serena and Nate?" Seth suggested

The evil was there again, raisingme just how elusive and evasive it was I tilted my head when I realized how close it hatever "it" was It may or may not exist but I was ly couldn’t feel the sneaky little evil I had to get to the bottohed a little i around there was a strong possibility that the heightened evil activity hadn’t even registered with Serena yet

"Stella, I will follow you to hell and back, just giveconfidence surge inside of me Whatever the outcome, I knew the Council of Elders had chosen me for moments like these, Jupiter had drove me crazy and beat the crap out of me for chances like this and my parents had raised me to be prepared for exactly this moment

I couldn’t back down It just wasn’t in e so fierce it forh the heavy wooden door I was at his side before the door could even close and suddenly ere trapped in utter Darkness The iciness of evil surrounded us, filling our lungs quickly with its presence and turning our blood to slush

What wasthan the fact that we had actually walked, willingly into a trap was that we should have knoas on the other side of the door We were born with a sixth sense for detecting evil One day I would literally be able to feel an increase in evil activity all the way across the world, but right now I couldn’t even tell as on the other side of one door before I walked through it

My breathing becas, but the pungent set torturous I clenched and unclenchedtoa sword or this fight would be over before it began

And then they attacked

Frole

Seth and I kept our backs pressed against each other in an effort to protect each other while our swords flailed around us in graceful, skilleds and anywhere else they could get to

I winced against the pain, the consuhtorture threatened to win I looked back at Seth for just the silantly andup when nothing would convince Seth that it would ever be time to throw in the towel?

I putThe Shadoere everywhere; there was no stopping the theht the us completely

A concentrated rush of movehtthe movement of my weapon, but I was effectively separated froetaround to keep the Shadows fro able to connect with our skin the best we could