Fourth Period Choclate: A Short Story

Fourth Period Choclate I sneak through the forest watching as the children creep by, I wait for the moment to spring the trap. I hear them whispering to each other as they travel through the dark woods. The dark woods have been my home since the beginning of time, the trees are gnarled, the bark darker than night. As I stalk the children the moss clings to me whispering for me to join it."Soon others will be joining you" I whisper to it. The children have now gotten to the point of enactment it's now or never. As I come out of the trees the children gasp and then look nervously around to see if there is a chance escape. As I walk toward them they I start to hear what they are saying. I hear my name whispered in panicked voices as they …show more content…
Nyssa was a human that lived in the evergreen woods and had an adeptness of magic that was only rivaled by my own. Though unknown by anyone she had a dark mission to do, which she completed. Nysaa's job was to destroy all the elves except for one, me. She did something much worse than that, she made me destroy them. Nysaa had been working with sorcerers for years to develop a potion that makes people not see what’s actually there but what you want them to see. When she came, she administered this to everyone in the Elven woods and got everyone to trust her, including myself. One day she called me over and administered the potion into my drink, much more than had ever been tested. I could feel it burning through my veins and then it turned to ice. Nyssa grabbed me and whispered three words that have haunted me …show more content…
I know that because of how much of the potion she gave me that I ended up combining it with the makeup of my body so that I could survive. I also know that that the potion has a safeguard that makes it so that if the potion doesn't recognize her than the person can't control me, but I never quite understood how it worked, but the moss had said it had something to do with the makeup of her magic. And it seemed as if this girl, Hannah had the same magical makeup as Nyssa which made me worried that I would be suggestible to whatever she said, although I was pretty sure that with it in my system for so long that I had developed some immunity to it. I decided that I would cast a spell so that she couldn't talk until I decided what to do with her. I quickly cast the spell and then ask the other two children why they were in the woods. Hannah shakes her head vehemently and the two children glance at me with wide eyes but don't say a word. I decide that I must be more persuasive. Seeing how they looked at Hannah for direction I figured that she was the the leader of this ragtag group of miscreants. I form a bottomless pit below hannah and watch the children's reaction as I position them so that they can see into the hole then I drop her suddenly and let her plummet until I slowly bring her to a halt . The child who looks the youngest starts struggling against the bonds, screaming, then she wilts and whispers something almost