Chapter-54

"Jesus! What the hell, Victoria? Are you trying to kill me or something?" Neptune winced in pain as soon as their minds connected. ​​

Looking at victoria with annoyed and grudge full eyes, he pointed his finger at her before muttering,

“You did it deliberately, didn’t you?”

"What happened?" Victoria asked, confused, pretending as if she didn’t know what was the problem with her mind linking. However, her amused eyes gave her away, making Neptune look at her with narrowed eyes.

"What happened? Can you ask your powers to shut their mouth if you want me to look through your plan? I felt like I was teleported to a crowded market where a few women are fighting over some dress." Neptune said, making Victoria laugh out aloud.

She had done that deliberately and lifted the mind barrier to his side, just for him to listen to them talking. Smiling at her revenge with him that she had taken because of his earlier flirtatious remark, she looked at him with a quirked brow before smirking openly without a shame in the world.

"Welcome to my world. Now you know not to mess with me.” Victoria smiled before squinting her brows.

“Well, at least now you know what I am going through with these powers. I have to keep up my mind barrier all the time to save myself from this thing.” Victoria said before sighing loudly.

“Looks like this mind linking won't be working. Let me tell you my plan through telepathy. Try to get as much grip as you can through what I make you see. I will try to remember everything in as much detail as possible about what I saw there." Victoria said before both of them closed their eyes once again.

Through telepathy, Victoria made him see the image of the events that happened a few minutes ago when she was teleported into a foreign water body.

Landing both of them into that water body.

As soon as she landed on a foreign water body, the water which was supposed to be of neutral color started turning darker. Each time she was kicking her legs into the water, the water would become one shade darker. It felt as if that colored ink was coming out from her body itself.

Feeling suffocated and short of breath, she tried to swim upwards, however, the more she tried to swim, the more was the water becoming darker.

Unable to see her surroundings properly, she closed her eyes and tried to concentrate on her surroundings through her witch powers. It wasn't long before she was finally able to see clearly.

The darkness around her cleared and was replaced by crystal clear water. The suffocation and the shortness of breath that she was feeling also disappeared, and she was able to breathe inside the water as perfectly as she breaths on the ground.

It felt like her witch powers had turned her into an amphibian girl.

She was busy with her discoveries of powers and feelings when she felt a bright reflection shining through her eyes at some distance before it disappeared.

Squinting her brows before shaking her head, she thought that it must be her delusion as she was under the water, and it might be because of reflection from the sun, she neglected it and focused on the gems on the ground surrounding her.

Picking up a random gem, she widened her eyes when her body felt excruciating pain, and in a blink of an eye, she was standing there on her four paws, in her wolf form.

What the actual fuck?! She shouted through her head.

Carla? What's going on? Victoria asked, but Carla, who was a werewolf, didn't know what was going on either.

For her, she was just teleported to some foreign water body where she wasn’t even able to see anything because the witch powers were limited to victoria only. Feeling frustrated with the unknown situation, Carla, who was swimming on the foreign water body, flailed herself around, panicking a bit, her paws landing on the water bed.

As soon as her paws touched another gem, her body changed her form again, and this time Emerald was in power and Victoria turned into a vampire.

Feeling her elongated fangs, she scrunched her brows before realization hit her. She has changed her form into a vampire again.

On the other hand, Emerald, who was in control of Victoria's body for the first time panicked, and fell on the ground, touching multiple gems at once, making Victoria turn her forms from one to another before it stopped back to her original form.

From these events, one thing was clear to her. She can't touch those alluring and beautiful gems if she wants to stay sane. Every time she would touch a gem, her body will change its form. She didn’t know if this was some kind of magical water or something else, but she needed to stay clear of the things here. Looking up, she smiled at the sight she saw before looking forward again.

Feeling the shiny reflection on her eyes again, Victoria looked towards a flower-like thing that looked like it was made of glass or crystals.

'Should I go there, or not? When I touched these gems, my body reacted by changing into different forms. What if this crystal-like thing hurts me differently?

But then, what if it’s something that can help me? Or why would I have been teleported to here when I was thinking about a solution so desperately?

I won't know about it until I go and see it for myself. Besides, I can't die just like this anyway. I have faith in the gods. They wouldn't have written such an easy and painless death for me.'

With that thought in mind, she went towards the crystal flower, her eyes widening when she read the words engraved on the stem of the flower.

der Hybrid( The hybrid)

"dem Fluch der Hybridkraft." (TO THE CURSE OF HYBRID'S POWER)

"die Antworten liegen im Tod des Kumpels." (THE ANSWERS LIE IN THE DEATH OF THE MATE.)

"ist es echt oder gefälscht?"(IT'S REAL OR FAKE?)

"Den Fluch brechen, das Mädchen brechen oder den Hybriden brechen?" (BREAK THE CURSE, BREAK THE GIRL OR BREAK THE HYBRID?)

Reading the words over and over again, she lifted her hands to touch the engravings, however, before her fingers could touch the words, she was shifted back to her room, drenched in water.

Opening her eyes, she looked at Daniel, who had a weird dark expression on his face. Breathing heavily, drinking the water that Daniel offered her, she looked at him, nodding her head in an indication that she was fine.

"Is that all that you saw? No other thing? Something that could tell us where these waters are? Any hint on if that water body was a lake, pond, waterfall, ocean, river, or illusion?" Neptune asked hopefully, but the shaking of her head lost all his hope, and he sighed loudly before holding her hands.

"So you think that the answer to all of our question and its solution lies in this minute travel of yours to a foreign water body and seeing this weird crystal rose that no one has ever heard of?" Neptune asked, making Victoria nod her head.

As much crazy as it sounded, she was 90% if not 100% sure that it was something related to this thing. Or why would she be teleported to a water body like this? Okay, it was a glitch of her powers, she understands that. But what about the crystal flowers? Those crystal gems that were making her turn her into different forms? These things have to be linked, or why would all of these things come into the picture when she was this desperate to find the answers?

"And that's not all. Madeline wasn't allowed to go there. I saw her stuck outside that water body. I could feel her trying to enter my brain so that she can keep a tap on me, but every time she came near me, she was thrown backward by some invisible force. A force so brutal that I could see her getting hurt." Victoria said, surprising Neptune for real this time.

"Why didn't you tell me about this earlier? This is the biggest clue for us. Madeline wasn't allowed in a place like this, which only means one thing, the water is too pure for evil to enter inside. Now, all we have to do is find this pure source of water, which I must say is really hard." He said, releasing a tired sigh at the end.

‘The things he was doing for his love.’ He thought before looking at Victoria.

"If you don't mind me asking, why do you think that this water thing is a solution. It just can't be because you were teleported there for a brief time. It has to be something more. There is more to it, ain't there?" He asked, making Victoria nod her head.

Of course, there was more to it. There has always been more to it.