Asher flipped through Stefan's diary while Damon quietly infiltrated his mind. He let out a chuckle realising Damon's antics and Stefan's own cringey words.
"October 21st, 1929
I can't stop it, the feeling is too much, I'm just so fucking hungry. The hunger it's controlling me, I know that but like a love stricken woman I can't resist it's charms. Someone save me, save me, don't save me, don't save me."
Asher mockingly read out as Stefan awoke in a fright, his eyes wandered between the two as he showed his true face.
Damon gave a sarcastic speech which seemed to trigger Stefan as he rushed to his table and picked out a knife and a pencil. With a slight flex of his muscle, he threw the knife at Damon while simultaneously sending the pencil at Asher's eyes.
Asher rolled his eyes as the pen stopped near inches from his, it slightly vibrated as it slowly went backwards. In an instant the pen lashed out and hit Stefan's figure as he fell to his knees in pain.
Damon glanced at the knife that was embedded on his waist as he let out a small sigh, "Well I deserve that, anyways have you heard the news?" Damon said as he slowly pulled out the knife that dripped with his blood.
Stefan let out a groan as he stammered, "What… what are you talking about?"
Damon snorted as he fiddled with the metal knife, "They caught the culprit behind the attack, it was a mountain lion, a really big one." He accentuated with his hands. While Asher looked at the scene with mild interest.
Stefan pulled out the pencil with a sigh as he slowly stood up, "Why are you covering your tracks?" He asked with exhaustion, it seems that that poor pencil had taken a toll on his body.
"I've decided to stay a while, I'm having so much with you, Elena and our darling 500 year old vampire who is so gracious to bless us with his centuries old knowledge." Damon said as he turned towards Asher and let out a sarcastic smile.
Stefan slightly smirked as he looked at Damon, "You can't touch Elena, the vervain keeps you out of her head." He said with a sense of accomplishment which was quickly undone by Damon's words.
"Yes, the vervain keeps me out of her head, but that's not my target." He spoke slowly as he pointed the knife at Stefan.
Stefan's face instantly darkened as he was filled with dread, Damon paused before continuing, "Some girls don't need my persuasion, they can't resist my good looks, my charm, my style and my unflinching ability to listen to Taylor Swift."
He slowly crept his way to Stefan before plunging his knife into Stefan's chest as he collapsed in pain once again, "This is John Varvatos, dude. Dick move!"
With that said, he turned around and left the room. Stefan grunted as he pulled out the knife from his chest as he let out a slight groan. He looked at Asher with hate and spoke harshly, "You're enjoying this?"
"Mildly, yes" Asher said as he raised his eyes with a smile. "Could you tell me how you're achieving that barrier thing." He asked in a mixture of curiosity and pain.
"Well even if I explained the concept behind it to you, you won't be able to do it, because you aren't a hybrid. But I know that you won't be able to harm me even if you knew how it works so let me explain the science behind it.
"The barrier thing is called Infinity, it works on the principle of dividing space. Infinity is convergence of space, anything that approaches the infinity slows down and never reaches the user.
"This is because it takes the finite amount of space between the two subjects and divides it an infinite amount of times. You know how in mathematics that no matter how many times someone divides a number it will never reach zero."
Stefan nodded at his words and tried to act cool by leaning on the desk, Asher slightly snorted at his actions before he continued.
"Well, infinity is the embodiment of that concept but brought to life. Anything that tries to hurt me will slow down because of this infinitley divided space to the point of appearing to stop completely."
Stefan quietly listened before he closed his eyes and tried to imagine counters against Asher's techniques.
'Oh my God, he's actually believing me what an idiot. What I said was a complete lie.' Asher thought as he looked at Stefan's concentrating figure, and suppressed a chuckle.
'True division of space is completely impossible, such magic cannot be used by witches. My technique is the opposite of what I just explained, instead of dividing space it extends it's kinda like multiplication.
'By expanding space it constantly pushes objects away, causing a pencil that is thrown at me to be pushed back to where it came from. But maintaining such a barrier throughout the day is tiresome, even for a vampire like me.' Asher thought with a sigh, this was the most disappointing thing about his Spell.
But his thoughts didn't rest as it continued blurring past, 'Thats why I need to consciously maintain it, but after almost seven hours of continuous use, it takes it's toll on me. So I keep it turned off most of the time.
'Since I'm stronger than most vampires, their attacks are just really slow to me. So I can turn it on when their attacks land, if it's someone stronger than me..
I have spells engraved on me that'll activate Infinity if it detects life threatening attacks.
'But the biggest downside of this ability is that if someone attacks faster than the space expands, they would be able to bypass the barrier completely. But I have tested it out, and only vampires above the age of three hundred can do that.'
Asher thought with sadness, it was true, no Spell is perfect.
He quickly waved Stefan goodbye and exited from the Boarding school, it was time to gamble!
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A/N - I know it's a short chapter but my exams are coming up and I have to study plus I have four projects that are due the day after tomorrow. So I have to concentrate on that, it was either write a short chapter or not upload for today.
If I manage to finish studying two chapters and complete one project by today, and still have some time left I'll upload another chapter. Though the chapter isn't that short cause it's 1022 words not counting A/N, so it is long.
Anyways to wish your beloved author good luck on his exams and also to get an extra chapters, drop some powerstones. Yes I'm that shameless.