The Paris estate was another thing that confused Mari, she had always wondered were they got the money from well everyone has but still.
"I don't think I can ever get use to coming here", said Mari looking like a child in a candy store.
Cleo scoffed "the only place am not use to is the family hallway, it gives me the creeps till this day", she said making everyone glance to the long dark hallway with red ceiling covered with picture frames from ceiling to floor with gold intricate words below each picture.
"Huh.. it looks ok to me", said Ari with a shrug.
"I need a snack am so tired", Cleo whined.
"I'll inform the butler then. I will be in my room then", said Alex
"Me too, I need to sleep I had the worst chemistry class of the century", said Arielle going upstairs.
"Good day ladies", said Dan the Paris butler appearing from nowhere.
"Yeah am so not getting used to this", said Cleo clutching her chest.
"Would any of you like anything to eat or refreshments anyone", asked Dan
"Yes please", Cleo said excitedly and Mari shot her a look "What!, I don't know about you but am starving", said Cleo following the butler to the kitchen.
"Hi Merda", said Mari waving to the elder cook with gray hair.
"Mari my dear is been so long", Merda said pecking her on the cheek.
"I met you yesterday", chuckled Mari making herself comfortable on the stool.
"Well yesterday is yesterday", said merda with a smile making them chuckle.
"Cleo dear I haven't forgotten you too I made your favorite...
"Oh I know", said Cleo already digging through the red velvet fudge cake with two pairs of bewildered eyes on her "oh and thanks merda your the best", said Cleo looking sheepishly when they both looked at her.
"Where's Alex and Arielle", asked merda
"Oh both of them are probably in their room", said Mari with a shrug.
"Hey guess what", said Cleo with chocolate smudged on her face.
"What"
"You didn't guess"
"Cleo", said Mari sternly
"Argh your no fun, anyways Hannah and Liv are coming over apparently Liv's brother broke his arm in school today so he can't attend lesson for the next two weeks and Hannah is done helping her mum, said her mum was almost done with the project", said Cleo scrolling through her phone. "so all in all they will be here in ten minutes", she said and immediately the door bell was heard making Mari and Merda to look towards the door then back at her
"oh the message was sent ten minutes ago", said cleo smiling sheepishly"
"Please grab the snacks", said Mari leaving to greet Hannah and liv.
They all went upstairs to Alex room which is a black and white decor, queen size bed in the middle, dresser, walk in closet, floor to ceiling window with a balcony, an exquisite bathroom at the right side corner. Everything was in black and white, there was no single pictures or even colors to make the place look homey. It was just bland and too neat.
"You make me feel lazy anytime am in your room", said Liv
"Your already lazy", said Hannah flopping next to Alex.
'that child is too addicted', thought Mari looking at Alex who was sprawled on her bed scrolling through her phone.
"So do you guys want to watch a movie", asked Mari flicking through movie.s
"Sure"
"Why not"
"Ok then scary movie it is"
"I did not agree to that", said Liv folding her arms with a pout.
"What's this..Liv's scared,"Hannah teased.
"No am not",she said glaring at Hannah "I just appreciate doing things with my consent"
"Fine then you don't mind us watching a scary movie do you...unless your scared of course", smirked Hannah
"I hate you", said Liv covering herself with a black comforter.
Let's just say Liv screamed through out the movie, Hannah kept on arguing with Liv to shut up, Cleo kept on asking for more popcorn, Mari tried to listen to the movie over the noise and Alex well let's just say she got bored within the first 30 minutes and slept off.
...
Dawnson's home
Mari was sprawled on her bed looking at the make shift night sky in her bedroom ceiling, she thought of today and remembered Alex's words.
'don't argue over something that's not true, mythological history tends to be false'
What if what's she's saying is true, was the thought of Mari. So many assumptions went through her head like -
'what if the history they provided to us was fake, but why would anyone fake history'.
'Also what are royals, every super naturals abilities are all written down in books but why haven't she come across one of a royal before, what do they look like, what are their powers' but most important is ' if the history given to crescent fall is fake then what is the real history of crescent fall'.
A light knock disrupted her thoughts from going farther "come in"
"Hey, me and Zack are going to the movies and Dad's gonna be late wanna join", asked Cherry her redheaded older sister. Zack is her sisters boyfriend, tall, dark haired and jovial. She wouldn't mind third wheeling since basically Zack and her sister acts like best friends most of the time, so she never felt awkward around them but right now she wanted to be alone with her thoughts and didn't mind the silence that will come when they leave.
"No am good, just watched a movie at Al's"
"Oh ok then we'll be on our way now, bye, love ya"
"Love you too"
And with the thoughts in silence came boredom and boredom came sleep.
.....
Crescent fall high
The bell runged for the last class for the day and that was study hall, Alex skipped classes today which was no surprise to Mari, Liv had art class, so it was only her, Cleo and Hannah.
"Guys there's something I need to tell you", said Mari in hushed whispers settling down on a seat at the far left of the library.
"What! your pregnant", gasped Cleo
"What no.. what the hell Cleo", said Mari with scrunched up face.
"Then don't whisper like you have a big secret to tell", said Cleo
"And that's the first big secret to come to your mind"
"I mean you and your mate ....", Cleo got cut off from Mari's glare.
"What's the big secret Mari", asked Hannah.
"Well I won't exactly call it a big secret without actual confirmation but I think Alex is right our history sounds fake"
"Oh good I thought I was the only one who felt it", said Hannah
"What do you mean", asked Mari
"Give me a sec", said Hannah looking both sides for any signs of humans then using her powers to summon different historical books on top of their table. This books where kept sacred in the library with magic and hidden from the eyes of the humans.
"Umm... this is.... ", stuttered Cleo "you do know that me and books don't get along well", Cleo chuckled nervously.
"If you open every last page of these books you will notice a scribble down at the left side", said Hannah as they begin to open each book to the last page.
"What does it say", asked Cleo
"Is an ancient language even I can't read it", said Hannah staring at the text and that's saying something with the fact that witches are known to interpret languages.
"Whatever it is, is definitely important like the writers are trying to tell us something", said Mari also staring intently at the text, then she brought out her phone and took a picture of it.
"Huh", Cleo asked looking dumbfounded.
"For future reference incase we come across it again or find a way to interpret it"
"I think I might have an idea on how and by how I mean Jason mother", said Hannah and then everyone was silent.
Jason Mother is one of the oldest and strongest witches in crescent fall, temporary leader of moon pack since her husband is currently bedridden.
"Do you think she would answer us, I mean she's a really busy woman and I mean busy", said Cleo
"Then we just have to try our luck..how about after school we're all free even Liv", said Hannah.
"What about Alex", asked Mari
"Well we can't possibly tell her 'hey we're going to a witches coven no need to panic she won't eat ya", said Cleo
"Ha, ha, ha...funny", Mari deadpanned with a roll of her eyes.
"She can't come or know where we are going Mari you know that", said Hannah
"Yeah I understand", said Mari but that didn't erase the guilty pang in her heart from hiding her identity from her.
"Hey she won't notice your gone plus she didn't come to school today", said Hannah
"You guys forget our houses are opposite each other", said Mari
"Why do you always feel Alex watches your every move", asked Cleo but Mari just gave a shrug with no response to that.
It isn't just a feeling but she knows Alex knows her every move is something she couldn't figure out since the first day they met. I mean their room windows are opposite each other despite the distance but Alex home is a mansion well more than a mansion which gives her a clearer view.
"But guys that's not the only thing I found strange"
"What else did you find", asked Mari
Immediately there were piles of paper stacked on the table.
"Oh come on Hannah we already got piles of homework to do as it is", groaned Cleo putting her head on the table.
"Oh hush it Cleo", said Hannah "I already did the homework", she added and took a deep breath.
"What's in these piles of paper are newspapers, police reports and missing person posters for the past ten years", Hannah said.
"Am confused... what!", said Mari.
"Like I said that's not the only thing I found strange in town.... If you go through this papers, that's if you have the time which I know you guys don't, every person named on the papers had a criminal records with the police or had a toxic life, in the sense that all of them were either found dead or they were pronounced missing"
"I really still don't get it", said Cleo
"Their disappearance from crescent fall are all strange and the way their bodies are mangled up...I also heard that during the night of their disappearance weird things always happen like black out around the area or sometimes people hear screams"
"How do we know there related", asked Mari.
"Because Mari this aren't just normal people all of them were supernaturals and all them were bad or behaved in a bad way.... don't you see things like this doesn't happen normally"
"Like as if someone or something is getting rid of them,...but that doesn't make sense at all", said Cleo
"Yeah like a vigilante getting rid of the bad guys", added Hannah
"But if it has been happening over the years why has no one talked about it like it hasn't been on the news or anything and yet is on the news papers and all", asked Mari.
"Right I forgot I stole this from the council archives", said Hannah smiling sheepishly.
"You what", they Cleo and Mari said in ushion.
"What I had no choice ok, I heard my parents talking about it in hushed whispers and I was interested", Hannah said with a shrug.
"Ok then I can understand the you got the police reports from the council what of the news papers and posters won't humans have seen this", asked Mari.
"Well the one thing you guys don't know is that every day news papers are being distributed magically to every home of supernaturals and yah you guys don't look like your interested with such stuffs so I doubt you ever noticed"
"Ahhh I thought my father was just a typical news papers reading dad", Cleo said with a chuckle.
"And also the missing person posters are being distributed too"
"Wow a lot has been going on in the supernatural world and we had no idea", said Mari with a tone of disbelief.
"Yeah and it looks like their trying to cover it up so it won't cause fear or panic to the people, this unsuality is more in the outskirts of town"
"Noadrea", asked Cleo
"Yeah and some locals said it's a being that gods sent them and are punishing them for their sins and all that. Their other versions to this also"
"So all in all you feel that both cases are similar", asked Cleo still not understanding
"Yes I believe so if you notice some of the stories they talked about us killing off mythical creatures, vampires to gain independence and all that"
"But only vampires are talked about in text, nothing about those creatures, how they look like, what their strength or power is. So yeah if we could figure out the loopholes in this stories, I feel we would know the truth to all this...cause I've always felt the elders and the council are hiding a lot of things from us", added Hannah.
"If there both related then we'll figure it out at Jason mother coven", said Mari.
The last bell was heard signifying the end of classes making everyone to start packing their stuffs to leave.
"After school then", asked Cleo for confirmation "cause am so in"
"Yeah I will text Liv to meet us at the parking lot", said Hannah texting away on her phone.
"I have nothing fun to do at home so why not a little adventure and detective session then", said Mari
They packed their stuffs and left the library, they put the things they don't need in their lockers and went straight to the parking lot to Hannah's black camry.
"I pick shot gun!!", yelled Liv from a mile away running and waving her hands hysterically to them drawing attention from everyone present at the parking lot.
"Ugh", Hannah groaned throwing her head back, Cleo smacked her face in embarrassment, and Mari chuckled in amusement "please tell me how we became friends with her", said Hannah shooting Liv a glare.
"What!, did I do something wrong", said Liv opening the passenger door and getting herself comfortable by crossing her legs on Hannah's dashboard.
"Please grant me the patience not to strangle Liv, Mari", said Hannah entering the driver's sit and giving Liv the death glare which Liv returned with an 'innocent' smile.
"Please Hannah I do not want to attend a funeral", said Mari entering the back seat with Cleo.
"This is going to be an interesting two hours ride", sighed Cleo gaining a glare from both Liv and Hannah
And so they left crescent high to the farther part of north gate towards the sea.