Chapter 14 #2
“Our seer friend saw too much. He’s the son of Apollo but lately his visions have become chaotic at best and show him too much.
He’s struggling with it. He told us each race will have their own war.
We thought it meant just in our realm but now I’m wondering if it’s all the realms.” I lean back against the couch.
“There have been rumblings in the village about something dark on the horizon but there is always something with the fae. I chalked it up to gossip and not really important.” Rosaline fists her hands in her lap.
“If this isn’t just about our realm, how do we warn the others?” I ask. “We can’t take the time from our current task to go to all of them and tell them.”
“No, your task is of the utmost importance. None of these possible wars will even come to light if Hermes ceases to exist because the nexus will fall along with the rest.”
“How do we get back so we can complete our task before that happens?” Jayden asks.
Leave it to him to ask the most important question we have to get us back on track. I squeeze his hand, grateful that he is getting us off the topic of the other realms because my brain is spinning with the weight of all the realms on my too young shoulders.
“There is no way back to your realm from here directly. That’s why we don’t currently have a way to send the others back yet.”
“If the seer predicted all of this, then there has to be a way back. She wouldn’t have told you to give us the message to endure if we were stuck here and the worlds all end.” Jayden shakes his head.
“There is a way, but…”
A battle cry cuts her off and the clang of metal on metal sounds from outside the house like a gunshot.
“What in Hades is that?” I jump up from the couch.
It sounded like Raven’s war cry. What is happening? Are my friends okay or did Rosaline trick us?
“Is this some kind of trap.” I glare at Rosaline.
“I don’t know what’s going on,” she mutters and rushes from the room.
“We need to check on our friends,” Jayden says, tugging me to follow Rosaline.
The bright sun nearly blinds me as we race outside to see what the problem is. My eyes adjust to the light and a snarl rips from my throat. I call my weapons as my friends come into view, all in a battle formation.
They’re surrounded by fae males with every manner of weapons. What are they doing? They were supposed to take them to check on the humans. How did this devolve so quickly?
Raven’s sword slices through the air and her magic ripples, covering her in a shield. “Draven, shield up. You and Dax protect the others at all costs.”
“On it.” Draven pools magic in his palms before making a complicated motion with his hands, then a silver shield encases the others in a bubble.
“I refuse to be protected,” Thad barks as he brandishes his trident with a snarl.
“Where is Beth?” Raven roars at Axel. “Did you try to throw her in a cage too?”
“What the fuck?” I yell. “What does she mean too?”
I glare at Rosaline who’s turned deathly pale. They planned this. They were going to keep us all here even after the bullshit about the seer and ushering in a new era. It was all bullshit.
“I don’t know what’s happening,” she mumbles.
“Bullshit. You have the humans locked in cages like animals? What kind of monsters are you?” I ask.
“They are not like us. We had to contain them before they cause irreparable damage to our realm trying to get back to their own. We couldn’t allow that to happen. They aren’t like us, like you.” Rosaline’s body shakes with her anxiety.
“That gives you the right to cage them like animals? No, it fucking doesn’t. Then you have the audacity to tell me all that bullshit all the while your men are trying to shove my friends into cages? Is that what I’m hearing?”
My magic is a whirlwind of electricity in my gut, crackling angrily and desperate to get out. I’m oh so tempted to unleash on these assholes. How dare they separate us and then attempt to take my friends from me.
Taking a step forward and to the side to avoid Jayden’s attempt to pull me back away from the fight, I snarl at Axel. “What the fuck is happening here?”
“This is village business and none of your concern, female.” Axel adjusts his grip on his sword.
“I already told you what I’ll do to you if you call me that again and my magic is dying to come out and fry your ass so I’m going to ask one more time. What. The. Fuck. Do. You. Think. You’re. Doing?”
“Um, B? You’re glowing. Maybe take a breath before you go supernova or something and kill us all,” Raven whispers.
I can barely hear her words through my pulse pounding in my ears and the crackling energy of my magic. Is it even possible to go supernova? It’s something I’ll have to look into but I’m not sure I’ll get answers since I shouldn’t technically exist.
“Jayden, I’m spinning out,” I mumble.
Or maybe I yell it. I’m not even sure anymore. White lightning crackles along every nerve ending, shooting sparks out from my body, widening the circle around me. I’m really going to go supernova and kill everyone in this village.
“Help,” I say.
The magic is already taking over and pushing me to the background. It wants death and destruction and I am powerless to stop it.