Hell's Belles Chapter One: The Calling
Gomurr sat in his office at the Hellfire Academy, mumbling under his breath. He was in a terrible mood that day. Something not so magical was ailing him today, to put it simply, he was feeling his age. While being 803 can make anybody feel badly, the complete disinterest of Bux, one of the newest hellions, in his lecture on tantric centering and its healing capabilities, only made it worse. The child had such power within her, but was content to simply chant and meditate over her crystals.
"What a waste," Gomurr thought, "if this girl only knew her true potential, she would be more than happy to study the arcane arts."
Suddenly and without warning, Gomurr was thrown across the room and was almost deafened by the sound of what seemed like millions of glass windows shattering at once. He covered his ears and made a warding symbol in the air. He felt the presence of evil pushing at dimensional boundaries, but was powerless to stop it. Then as quickly as it came, it was gone. Gomurr picked himself up, looked around, and noticed nothing in the room was out of place. No windows were broken, no explosions of any kind. Then, he saw it, there, lying on the floor was a single framed photograph of Bux, Jam, and Marita, his three newest students, and across the glass covering of the photo there was a small triangular crack.
Gomurr picked up the picture, placing it back on his desk with the other Black Hellion's photos and thought to himself, "Calm yourself, old mage, it is probably one of the countless dimensional tricks of fate that occur everyday. It probably has nothing to do with you. You just picked up on the psychic echo of it."
He said all these things to himself, yet he felt a strange sensation creep up his ancient spine...the sensation of approaching danger on the wind.
Bux, Jam, and Rita lay in the floor in their room at the girls dormitory. Jam strummed along on her guitar and sang to herself, Bux meditated...chanted softly and traced small three sided patterns in the plush carpeting, and Rita, as usual, was moaning about being so bored. These three young women, each blessed with a beauty beyond measure shared a bond deeper than sisterhood. Jam, the hard rocking blonde, whose guitar licks were as hot as her voice was soulful.......Marita, the dark mysterious brunette whose quick temper and biting sarcasm was only a mask for her need for love, and Bux, the pale young red head, whose search for deeper meaning in life led her to the ways of the occult and tantric magics. These three young woman were inseparable, which is why they flagrantly violated the "no more than two to a room" rule at the Hellfire Academy
"C'mon chicas," Rita said, "let's go find something to do.....break a few hearts........bust a few heads.......something."
Jam looked over at her, and said simply, "Can't..... Gomurr's got us scheduled for training in the workout room with the rest of the students, and you know how peeved the little guy gets when we pull a no show......remember last time when we went on a Taco Bell run without permission.....He put some kind of spell on our food.......making it like, inferno hot."
"Oh no, not that again, Jam!" Rita said. "Don't you know that was probably some punk at the restaurant's idea of a joke. The little old guy probably had nothing to do with it. Just because he asked us if we enjoyed our unscheduled lunch break, doesn't mean he fire bombed our burritos. Besides, we don't even have any mutant powers. Those training sessions are really for the mutant students. I mean we wouldn't even be here if Nate Grey hadn't left us here when that whole Zero Tolerance thing went down. I mean really, yeah, he's a hunk and all, but who said he could tell us to go and stay anywhere. What do you think, Bux?........Bux?.....Bux?.....Earth to Bux!!!!!"
Bux jumped, let out a little yelp, and covered her ears. Rita and Jam looked at her strangely, and then noticed she looked like she was in real pain. They then hurried over to her to see what was wrong.
She looked at them with confusion in her eyes and said, "Didn't you hear that, I thought someone had shot out our window."
Jam and Rita stared some more and then started to laugh.
"You gotta stop meditating for so long Bux, you are gonna conjure up more than just an auditory hallucination one of these days", joked Jam.
Bux looked at them, a little hurt, and smiled halfheartedly. Jam and Rita stopped laughing when they realized Bux was actually upset about the whole incident. Rita chimed in "Sorry Bux, I know I can get loud sometimes, but geesh..not enough to shatter glass." Then they all three laughed together, but Bux seemed to laugh just a little too loudly, almost as if she was trying to shake off some bad memory.
On to Chapter 2.
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