A Damned One

MIA

My mother's words filled me with a sense of doom and gloom and made me sick to the stomach. How could she say something like that? Did she not know what Javier meant to me? How could she say that there was nothing we could do about it?

We just got him back after he had been on the brink of death for so long, and now we were losing him again to some strange curse that I had never heard of.

Was it not possible for us to catch a break? "Mom, c'mon, you can't say that there must be something we can do to help him."

She shook her head sadly at me, "I am sorry dear but this situation is out of our hands, all we can do now is take precautions."

Leo was not having any of that, "Maybe you might have hit your head a little too hard because I think you said that Javier cannot be helped. Or am I the one who did not hear you right?"

"I'm sorry, Leo, this is dark magic, there is no way out of it," Sarcana said to him. She was more apologetic than usual.

"Like hell, there is nothing we can do? W