"Lock her up in the reflection room. Tommorow morning, we'll end this" Master Duran replied and started going in.
"Master! Master no! Master!!!" Ruthie started begging, but he didn't turn back for once till he went out of sight.
Aragon held Samara up once again and started taking her away.
"Sam! Sam!!!" Ruthie started crying , running after them again till they got to the reflection room where the gate locked on her face.
"Sam!!!' she started hitting the gate.
Aragon opened the room door for Samara, and she stepped in slowly, unaware of what's even happening with her.
"Why did you do it?" Aragon asked.
"I don't know" she replied, and he sighed.
"I'll talk to master, maybe your punishment can be lessened" he said, and she nodded as he walked out of the place.
Samara held her head immediately, walking around the room.
"Oh no, I'm dead"
MELODY HALL
Chief Feathers brought Orion here, and his blood is currently wasting out of his body through his mouth as he groaned painfully every minute.
His stomach is still bulging, bigger and bigger.
Chief Feathers is currently trying to remove the orb forcefully, focusing on all the powers inside her without minding the consequences.
White flames floated on Orion's body, and she was controlling it with her mind, trying to use the flame energy to inject the orb.
Orion started coughing, but after the third cough, the flames disappeared, and Feathers staggered, holding her chest as blood escaped her mouth too
It didn't work!
"No! There has to be another way! He can't be in pains like this till daybreak" she muttered and was about to try again when Chief Water came in and grabbed her arms
"Stop now, you can't hurt yourself any further" he said, but she pushed him away.
Water grabbed her again.
"Stop loving him blindly! You might die!" He shouted.
"I can't, I just wanna help him so he'd see how much I care" she replied.
"He's a stone who'd never realize it!" He shouted.
"I don't care!" She shouted back and released herself from him again.
She went forward to Orion, but Chief Water hit her with his energy.
She fell into his arms, and he sighed, looking at her face.
"Your fates are different, stop forcing it" he muttered and carried her out, leaving Orion in pains.
STREETS OF DELOS, A SMOKY HOUSE
Sheila spranged up immediately she woke up and saw her environment.
She's locked up in a cell!
She went to hold the metals and started shaking it, trying to break it open, but her stomach churned.
Hunger! She's currently weak as a result of the vervain she inhaled, and she needs blood as soon as possible.
"Who the hell locked me here! Who locked me here!!!" She shouted, and three men came in.
"Who the fuck are you guys and what right do y'all have to lock me here!!!" She yelled.
"You killed over twenty people in the city library, now you're demanding an explanation? You don't deserve it, bloody vampire!" One of them said.
"Twenty people in the...the what? What the fuck are you talking about!" She shouted.
"Let's see if you'd keep pretending when the sun comes out tommorow. You'll burn" the second man said, and the third one smiled confidently before they all left.
"Trash!!!! What are y'all saying!!!! Get me outta here!!!" Sheila screamed, but she held her tummy again.
"Blood, I need some fucking blood" she muttered, going on her knees, then her eyes widened when she remembered something.
"Wait... something used my face?" She muttered.
NEXT MORNING, INSTITUTE
The first person Merlin met in front of his room when he came out was was Echo, holding two big carrots on her laps as she sat by the door.
"Merlin look! I got us two from the kitchen" she raised them up, smiling cutely.
"Why?" He blinked.
"You were mad at me last night at the cafeteria cos I suggested the vote" she pouted, and he smiled before coming closer to start stroking her hair.
"Yes. I was mad but not anymore, I waited for you all night in your room last night before coming back here" he said.
"Me too! I waited in your room for long before coming here" she replied.
"We must have missed each other" he said, and they hugged.
"Don't get mad at me anymore, just shout at me if you want" she said, and he broke the hug to pull her round cheeks.
"Shout at you and make you start crying? C'mon" he said, and she giggled.
He took one of the carrots from her, and immediately they took a bite, they saw disciples discussing in groups at the corridor.
They rushed to one of the groups.
"What's the news?" Echo asked.
"Samara poisoned Superior Orion with the orb of pains last night and she's currently in the reflection room" one of them replied.
"What!" They both gasped.
"And that's not all. Sheila and Kaitlyn are missing" they said again
"What!"
KRISHNA'S ROOM
It'd soon be time to communicate with Bakasura through the mirror, but Lissa is so not ready.
She's busy staring at krishna's sleepy face, smiling prettily with her palm on her chin.
She has been like this since last night. She didn't sleep a wink all because she's staring.
"So handsome" she muttered, and krishna's eyes opened.
"Lissa? You're awake already?" He sat up.
"I didn't sleep at all" she replied.
"Why?"
"Was staring at you" she smiled, and Krishna chuckled.
"You're too blunt for a kid"
"Krishna there's problem!" Raven rushed into the room, and Krishna frowned.
"What do you mean?"
"Samara poisoned Superior Orion. Sheila and Kaitlyn are missing" Raven said.
"What!" Krishna's eyes widened, and the assembly bell rang.
They both rushed out of the room.
Lissa got down from the bed and walked to the mirror.
She swallowed as she picked a brush from the table.
She threw it at the mirror, breaking it in the middle.
Bakasura won't be able to communicate with a broken mirror, so she has all the time in the world now to be with Krishna.
REFLECTION ROOM
"What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?'
Samara kept repeating the statement as she roamed the room, hands still in her hair.
She didn't sleep throughout last night.
She even tried to connect with Orion's mind and continue the spell here,but it just didn't work.
She turned another angle and started pondering again.
"Samara" a voice said behind her, and she turned around to see her Granny Elsa, her spirit.
"Granny?" she said surprisingly, and the whitehead woman smiled.
"You got yourself into this. I always told you to stop hanging your heart on your sleeves, and stop judging books by their covers"
"I don't understand" Samara squinted.
"You'll understand when you get out of this, just make sure you resist any bad energy even if it threatens to take your life. You won't die. You're a Hercules witch after all" Granny Elsa said .
"I tried saving my Superior but the ancient witches wouldn't allow me Granny. Do they hate him that much?" Samara asked.
"His birth killed a witch. His mother Kira was the first whitehead witch that ever existed, and she died by his sword. He killed your mother too Samara, Bree was lucky to wake up only because of the Hercules family necklace on her neck" Granny Elsa replied.
"Onion's mother was a whitehead witch?" Samara asked shockingly.
"He probably isn't aware. Our race starts from his late mother" Granny Elsa said.
"Then help me save him with that fact. Please granny. I really need to save him. I don't want to wait till the sun rises"
"The sun won't rise for three days so far the has the orb inside him" Granny Elsa replied.
"What! Granny please, Granny save him I beg you, granny...
She was still talking when some disciples came in to get her, and Elsa vanished.
Samara was taken out of the room.
MELODY HALL
Granny Elsa appeared in the room Orion is in, and she sighed when she saw him still groaning in pains with the protruding stomach.
"Stay good to Sam, that's the only way to pay back for this. I'm going against over one thousand ancient witches to save you from pains, even your dead mother in the afterlife is not in support" she said and raised an hand on him.
She closed her eyes, and the orb came out of him immediately, flying into her hand. The bulge in Orion's stomach disappeared.
She dropped the orb beside him and vanished.
Orion's eyes opened.
ASSEMBLY
Despite the flower and moon rough practice last night, the assembly is back to its original state, no sign of damage. Thanks to Orion's magic.
Everyone is presently, the numerous disciples.
Chief Feathers is still in slumber, so it's only Chief Water sitting beside Master Duran right now.
Ruthie is kneeling in front of the many students, and Peony joined her immediately she arrived at the assembly.
"How did it happen?" She asked in a whisper.
"I don't know, Sam was acting stupid" Ruthie replied, and that instant, Samara was brought in by the disciples.
She was placed down in front of the master, and she looked up at Master Duran's face.
"Again, did you make a deal with the dark forces?" Chief Water asked.
"Yes" Samara replied, and Aragon smiled on his spot, enjoying this so much.
"Please don't send her to Beastly Territory! I don't want my friend to experience such Master!" Ruthie quickly said.
"Temper justice with mercy!" Peony added, and the rest went on their knees too, all except Aragon.
"Temper justice with mercy!!!" They chorused.
"Her victim isn't dead, and based on the fact that she has a reasonable reason for it, she's not going to Beastly Territory" Chief Water said.
"She's expelled from the Institute" Master Duran said, and Samara's eyes widened.
"What!" She gasped, and just then, someone sped into the assembly in form of a heavy wind, and when the wind cleared, the face came to view.
Orion!
"Superior" Samara muttered shockingly.
He walked to Master Duran with an obvious smirk and stood in front of him.
"Take it back, Duran. She's going nowhere" he said, and the smile on Aragon's face disappeared.