Under Her Cursed Scythe

At the instant she turned her head and made the pair of goggles hanging on her face to vanish with one swipe of her hand, her purple hood slid back and her gold wavy hair, her ivory skin tone as well as her pair of determined eyes that sparkled like sapphires were revealed. She had a stately countenance.

"This Witch does bear the same aura that was left on those dead bodies. My Familiar would never make such mistake especially when it comes to sensing auras of Witches." the person next to her assured her while his tanned hand gently patted the head of a turquoise wolf-like spirit that padded forward, stopping beside him.

In terms of his appearance, he wore a burgundy cloak with Paisley patterns on it and a goggle was not spotted under his hood but instead, aqua blue flames could be seen bursting from his right eyeball.

"Her clan is like the bloodhounds in this world, remember?" he reminded.

"You said the aura suggests that the Witch is at level 7 but it doesn't seem like a level 7 to me." the girl with gold wavy hair doubted. "Still," Turning towards the burgundy cloaked person. "It speaks the tongue of the daemons when it performed spells. So, there's no denying that this is a Witch."

"It's not a level 7 but sooner or later, it will be. I swear…before we caught up with this witch, I have observed a pair of yellow eyes gazing back at me among the demonic energy surrounding the Witch's aura. But I can't see it anymore…" the burgundy cloaked person noted. "Something must have cloaked its presence but I roger this Witch is infested by a very…very powerful daemon."

'A pair of yellow eyes? Me being infested by a daemon? What are you talking about?' Alivia pondered.

"Though it is strange that one being chosen by such a powerful daemon can look and act more human than the other Witches at similar levels…"the burgundy cloaked person wondered. "I'm not sure...perhaps, we can-"

"No." the girl with gold wavy hair butted. "We will exterminate it as we've planned. Human-like or not, this is still a Witch. However, I don't think we need to do it right now. We can utilize this advantage of..."

'Geez! Did they just say they will exterminate me?' Alivia's feet slowly slid back inch by inch towards the opening behind when it appeared that everyone's attention had been directed at the lively discussion going on.

"Yes but still, I advise you to..."

"Argh…" Alivia halted her footstep, turning her head right at the girl with gold wavy hair and growled.

After advancing a few steps towards Alivia, the girl with gold wavy hair uttered, "Do you know how long it took us to narrow down our search? If weren't for Agent 419 here and the surprisingly accurate analysis from that Xanga blog...what did you call it?" For a second, her eyes rolled towards the boy in the white cloak, asking for some hints from him. "Ah! Albert the expert of supernatural matters." she remembered before anyone reminded her.

'What!? Ugh!' Alivia cursed at the back of her head. 'Thank you, Albert...AGAIN, for ruining my life! Mother would 'kill' me if she finds out that I have exposed myself to the World Wide Web!'

"Though useful, we have to shut it down soon, since it's apparent that the owner of the blog has no intention of keeping his discover on magic as a secret and is seemingly to be bragging about it! " the girl with gold wavy hair added with a graver tone while she flung the boy in the white cloak a strict stare once again and then back on Alivia. "But, yes, thanks to them, our wild-goose-chase have finally come to an end and now that we've finally caught up to you, we won't let you go that easily." She ended her sentence with a period and lifted Alivia's chin, beaming at her face tensely. "The only reason that you are not eliminated right away is because it seems…" She squinted her eyes, looking her over. "Part of your conscious is still clear..." she denoted but her curious tone soon turned into a threatening one as her fingers left Alivia's chin.

"Anyhow, speak up, Witch! Since you still have some conscious, surrender it to us willingly and we will free you from this corrupted body as quickly as possible... surrender the Reaper's ring to us. "

Everything became clear the moment that phrase was spat out of the girl's mouth.

'I see. They are after the ring too.' Alivia thought as she unconsciously placed her hand on her pocket, making sure the ring was well hidden.

It wasn't the first time that someone had tried to rob her of the ring. Some of her mother's greedy relatives somehow sensed the magic from the ring all of a sudden and managed to track her mother down, came knocking at their door few days ago, asking her mother for it. However, after her mother had asked her to go down to take care of Luke and she heard a few distressed screams, they never appeared again. Alivia knew what exactly happened but she tried not to think about it.