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“I’m glad you’re awake,” I whisper as I stand feeling awkward for being found here, “I think I’ll go now that I know you are okay.”
I am nearly to the door when Trek is suddenly standing before me, “hasn’t anyone ever told you to beware of the big bad wolf?” his question has me rolling my eyes in amusement.
“I’m not scared of the wolf, I can kick his ass,” my comeback has his lips kicking up as he grins.
“Can you now?” he asks as he lowers his head and then he is kissing me as he turns to push me against the door standing close before me. I feel everything around me shake, the power of his kiss shaking my very being.
“What the hell?” he grunts as he lifts his head to look around only then do I realize that it’s not the kiss that has my world shaking but the very rock around us is vibrating. “Get out, quickly!” he grunts, opening the door and pushing me out as he follows.
I see the others outside rushing towards the arch, “What’s happening?” Vain calls to one of the Dragons that is running past us.
“Your sister!” he shouts as he continues on his way.
“My sister?” I whisper looking around to see Vain, Rea and Dream’s surprised expressions. “What did he mean?”
“Love is outside the South tunnel with Toron, she’s responsible for this.” Darius shouts as he hurries towards us, “Can you stop her?” I shake my head in surprise, why would Love be trying to destroy the Dragons Lair?
“We need to get closer to her,” Reality answers as she takes Dream’s hand, her gaze stopping on my surprised look.
“We are going to fight Love?” I ask, knowing that if we don’t want the walls of this lair to collapse around us we need to do something.
“There is no other way,” Vain mutters, “lead the way,” she says to Darius that turns and quickly makes his way towards the South Tunnel. We all hurry after him making sure that we dodge falling rocks. Before we reach the outside opening, Reality starts chanting, Dream follows suit, Vain takes hold of Reality’s other hand and also starts following the chant. I take a deep breath, my heart breaking at the thought of having to fight my own sister.
I approach Dream and take her hand feeling the energy flowing through her hand to mine, I join the chanting raising my voice with theirs. I close my eyes releasing my strength into the spell that will stop the vibration of Love’s voice. From a young age we all learnt how to help each other with our special abilities and how to stop them when we lost control, this is one of those moments which for us isn’t a hard spell but it’s a difficult one knowing that Love is not in her right mind while using her ability.
The chant resonates through the tunnel and out to those waiting outside for the Dragons to run outside so they can get killed, but Toron is wrong if he thinks that we won’t fight just because he is using our sister as bait. I know that Love is still in there, I know that she will want us to stop her. The chanting becomes so loud in my ears that the sound of screaming from the Dragons, the singing from Love and the crash of rocks is blocked out.
I only stop chanting when suddenly I am pulled away from Dream, our hands breaking the link. My eyes snapping open to see Drez pulling Dream into his arms as Trek is doing with me. I want to check on Rea and Vain, but Trek’s chest is blocking my view of them. “You did it, she stopped.” Trek whispers in my ear.
I nod, to let him know that I heard. I want to run out and check on Love, want to see what is happening around me, but my body has finally exhausted itself and is slowly shutting down. I haven’t replenished my energy from earlier when we stopped Toron’s plan with the Goblins and now the energy that was needed to stop Love has depleted every drop of strength that I have. Closing my eyes, I let the darkness take me, let the darkness enfold me in its quietness. The last thing I hear is Trek calling my name before I lose consciousness.
TREK 12
“Hope!” I call, but she has lost consciousness, my heart is racing in my chest as I pick her up against my chest, holding her close.
I look around at the other sisters to see Reality and Vain siting in the far end of the entrance against the wall, their heads back against the rock wall, their eyes closed as they restore their energy. Dream is enfolded in Drez’s arms, looking as limp as the others.
These girls might have the strongest magic in Eternity Fae, but they are still too young, still fragile to encounter evil like they are encountering now. I want to protect Hope, want to run away with her somewhere safe, but I know that I can’t. Hope will want to fight, will want to be part of this war that has befallen our world because of the evil heart of a Warlock that craves more power than any one being should ever possess.
I want to kill Toron for the pain, the heartache that he is causing, but I know that I am not strong enough to go against someone like him. Grunting in anger I look around to see the ground littered with boulders and rock that has been dislodged because of the magic that was used. As we rushed through the Dragon’s lair I noticed the destruction that was being inflicted.
The Dragon’s will want the princesses to leave, they will link this attack to them being here, they will not realise that no matter what, Toron would still attack as he seems to want possession of all the factions. I need to find the others and warn them, tell them that they have to be ready to leave at moment’s notice.
“Darius,” I call but he doesn’t turn, “Darius” I call again but he still doesn’t turn, only then do I realize that Darius and the two other Dragons that were at this entrance with us are unmoving, they seem to be frozen. “What the hell?” I grunt as I look around.
“We are in more danger than I thought,” I mutter, looking over at Shok and seeing the realization on his face. Whatever the song was that Love was singing it managed to incapacitate the Dragons which leaves us vulnerable.
“Hurry, we need to move deeper into the tunnels before the Warlock sends his minions in to see if his plan worked,” I order which has Rea and Vain standing but instead of walking further into the tunnel they are walking towards Darius. “What are you doing?” I ask exasperated as I want to get everyone into safety, but they seem to have other plans.
“We can’t leave him,” Rea says as she places her hands on his forceps.
“They did the same to the Gargoyles on the Earth Realm, Hope, Dream and Love tried to change them back, but they weren’t successful,” I explain.
“They seem to be ignoring me as they start chanting, one is standing before Darius while the other stands behind him,” it is evident how drained the two are, if they carry on, they won’t be able to get away like we need to do. I incline my head towards Zain and Aqua for them to take their charges and help me get us to safety.
When we were still all living in Eternity Fae the leader of the Guards was Brog, a big strapping Werewolf and my friend. When the war started, he was killed defending everyone, he gave his life to protect all of us. I promised myself that I wouldn’t let his life be in vain, that I would continue protecting those he held dear. I don’t believe in leaving any behind, but our first priority is to protect the princesses and I know that if Darius could talk, he would tell us to leave. I see the two women fighting their guards as they forcefully take them away from Darius. “If you want to do something for him, put a protection spell around himuntil we are able to come back and save him, but trust me when I say that your sisters have already tried to break that spell with no success.”
“He is telling the truth,” I look down at Hope only now realising that she has awoken, her features still drawn with fatigue, but her eyes are bright with awareness. “Let’s block the entrance with a spell, to try and stop anyone from coming in unless they are Dragons.”
