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“To first answer you, no, we don’t know who kidnapped her, and yes Beast was with her, and he got injured.” I state before continuing, “when we managed to escape here, we looked for Dad and Mom in the human realm, only to find that they had been attacked too.”
Vain opens her mouth to interrupt which has me raising my hand before she can talk, “Let me finish or we will never get to the end,” she grunts but nods as she folds her arms. “When we found them, the Gargoyles had been cursed to stay in their grotesque form not being able to change.”
“Shok’s brother is one of them,” Dream states as she looks over at Shok that is now talking to Zain. Shok and Dream have always been good friends, at one time we thought that they liked each other, but then realized that it was Drez that Dream loved and not Shok.
“There was a fight, at the time we thought that we had pushed them back but Dad was sick and kept getting worse until Love found that the Onix in our parents room was cursed. I went with Trek to find Jinx and bring her back to try and explain why asemi-precious stone that was given to Dad as a present from the Witches was cursed, but when we got to Jinx something tried to attack us there too.” I take a breath before continuing, “it’s just such an evil energy, but we still don’t know where it’s coming from or who is attacking us.” I see the look that Vain and Reality share which intrigues me.
“Do you know who is attacking us?” I ask.
“Finish telling us what has happened and then we will tell you what has happened here and what we think,” Rea states.
“Okay,” I reply continuing with my retelling of the past events, “When we got back the mansion was on fire, and everyone was outside trying to put the flames out. We noticed that Love was missing so Dream and I went looking for her only to find that Beast was injured, when Trek and the men,” I incline my head towards where the men are resting, talking among themselves near the arch. “Started to scout the area they found that magic was used to open a portal, that’s why we are here looking for that thread of magic, and maybe be able to find Love.”
“You said Dad was sick, how is he now?” Reality asks with concern stamped all over her features.
“He is feeling much better ever since the stone was broken,” Dream explains taking Reality’s hand in comfort.
“Well, we have also been through our fair share of fights on this side,” Vain explains, and I see from the corner of my eye Reality nodding in agreement.
“Just after you left, we were attacked in force, we had to run from our home as the food was cut off and we weren’t able to receive anything, but also because we didn’t have the force to stand against the creatures battering down our walls.” I gasp at Reality’s recounting thinking of the horror that they must have experienced.
“We tried going to the Siren’s, but they too had been attacked and were gone from their home.” She is shaking her head in thought, “You should have seen, there was so much destruction it was sad.” Reality explains, a look of deep sadness crossing her features as she recounts her experience.
“We were going to go and ask the Wolves for help but we didn’t make it there as the whole river pass has been destroyed, so we turned as we were close to a Singing Tunnel, that is where we first found shelter, but in the morning when we woke we were surrounded by Dragons, at first we thought they were going to attack us, but to our surprise they were there to protect us,” Vain reveals.
“Chimeras were after us,” Rea says, “but the Dragons pushed them back, if it wasn’t for them we would have been dead.”
“They keep attacking every few days, trying to wear us down, but for now we have been able to hold them off,”
“Do you know who is sending them?” I ask hoping that they have a suspicion that we can follow.
“I think that we have more than just a suspicion, come with me” Vain states as she inclines her head to the far side of the high cavern. The three of us stand to follow her, I notice Trek making his way towards us.
“Where are you going?” he asks.
“Vain says that she knows who is behind all of this, she is going to show us something” I explain.
“We are coming with,” Trek replies raising his hand to call the others as I turn to hurry after my sisters. It’s the men’s right to also see what we are going to see, after all we are all in this together. Vain takes us through a narrow tunnel until we are stopped by a door of water that runs down like a waterfall.
She raises her hands to the water “Source of life, pure and bright please let us pass,” I am speechless when the water starts to subside and the tunnel opens up to a small cavern the size of a small room, to the right I see what looks like light streaming in from a small opening on the cavern wall. I am about to step forward when Trek snaps his right arm around my waist pulling me back against his chest.
“Stop” he growls warning the others, “there is something in here.”
Vain glances back and smiles, “yes, this cavern is guarded by Joel but don’t worry he won’t harm us.” Just as she says that I see movement to the far left of the Cavern, but it’s so dark there that it takes me a second to realize there is a Dragon laying down, his eyes are open following our every move.
“Uum…should we be in here?” Dream whispers from behind Drez.
“Don’t worry, come on let us show you this.” Rea insists as she walks towards the crack which clearly faces the outside. I follow but every few steps I glance back to make sure that Joel the Dragon hasn’t moved because even though Vain and Reality are comfortable with him, I have seen too much lately to trust anyone completely. When we are standing a few feet away from the cracked piece on the Cavern wall we stop.
“When you look out you will see a camp.” Vain explains, “that is the camp where the Chimera return to after they attack us, in the centre you will see a dark blue tent, we have seen Toron the Warlock coming out of there to incite the Chimera, there are also other beings that come here but they all leave after a couple of hours, we think that they come to rest or receive more orders before they go back to do whatever they are told to do.”
I gasp and glance at Trek, we were right when we realised that Toron was the one that gave our parents the Onix. Toron is responsible for the evil that has befallen everyone, he is the one attacking and raising mayhem wherever we have gone.
“Toron is the one that gifted Mom and Dad with that Onix just before he stepped down from being the leader of the Witches, that is when Jinx took over.” I explain, “we suspected him but weren’t sure, now we are.” I step towards the crack, at first the bright light from outside blinds me, but slowly my eyes adjust which allows me to see the scattered tents, I look for the blue tent in the centre hoping to see Toron.
“There are different beings down there,” Dream says as she too looks out.
“I thought the leprechauns were on our side,” I whisper when I see a group of leprechauns walking into a tent.
