MIAThe sound of the inhuman voice I heard sent a chill running down my spine, what the hell was that? I wondered."Oh no!" my mom exclaimed, "He has found us Mia, we have to run now.""Mom, you are confusing me, who has found us?" I queried.She grabbed hold of me, there was a wild fearful look in her eyes, "I have always dreaded this day darling, the day that he would come looking for you.""Mom, you are beginning to scare me. Just tell me what the hell is going on, what is that voice?""I had always known that you would be meant to do great things. Ever since I was pregnant with you, I could feel it but the problem was, many dark entities could feel it too. He is one of those dark entities that want our powers - yours and mine all for himself.""Who exactly is he, Mom?" I asked her. The way she was trembling with fear was starting to get me scared more and more.I hoped deep down that whoever it was she was talking about was not the same person who drugged Javier and Ivan and asked
BASTIENThe swirling trees and the beautiful landscape were all made unappealing by the mist and the memories it threw at me.“Why, how could you do such a thing?” I saw myself asking my wife.I felt afresh how it was that I felt when I had first learned of her heart-breaking betrayal, how could she have done something so horrible as to cheat on me with none other than my half-brother, Leo?The mist captured the memory perfectly and did not miss a thing, it lingered on all the painful memories, making them last as long as possible, drawing them out to achieve maximum effect.I just stood resting on a tree as the voices spoke to me and the mist showed me images of my past.“You have to understand, Bastien, I did not do what I did because I wanted to hurt you. That was never my intention,” my wife replied to me. She was sitting at the bedside, looking up at me.I was standing and bearing down on her, I could not believe that the mate that I had marked and loved would even hurt me like t
LEOI had experienced this before but not to this extent, now it was far worse than I could ever imagine. The first time I came here with Rylee and Olivia, she used her magic to shield us from the adverse effects, and all I heard were tiny whispers that I couldn’t make out and shapes that held no meaning.When the three of us got separated, I was able to get out of the forest before the spell that Rylee cast on me broke. That was how I was able to get away the first time and go to find Mia and Bastien. This time around, I did not have Rylee’s magic to count on.“Shut up!” I yelled, “We both know that that is not what happened.”“Hahahahaha, did you and Harold not go on a power trip only to end up killing the woman you claimed you love? Making your son motherless?”“That was not supposed to happen, her dying was never part of the plan,” I confessed bitterly.“But fucking her behind your brother’s back and having a child… that was part of the plan?”The mist was showing me a picture of
JAVIERThe last thing I remembered was being in a room and fighting the cloaked figure that was surprisingly much stronger than I thought and he handed me my ass. I remembered running into a maze that he told me I would never be able to escape from but now, suddenly, I found myself in a forest.Was it all an illusion? Was it some sort of ancient teleportation spell, I couldn’t tell, what was real and what was not.The forest was eerie and I couldn’t help the feeling that some entity or danger was lurking just out of sight in the darkness that surrounded me. I had to get out of here, I had to get back to Ivan and Mia, I looked around the forest and I could not tell anything, and couldn’t smell anything useful either.How the hell was I going to escape from here? My eyes darted to the side to see some mist approaching me and immediately, I got a weird feeling.I ran forward, away from the mist but that didn’t help matters, it was coming from every direction now, it was unavoidable.I br
MIAWe kept running and plowing through the obstacles that were coming at us out of nowhere, a spiky vine snaked out of nowhere and wrapped itself around my mother and dragged her away from me.“Mom,” I yelled and tried to go after her when a pointy branch came flying in my direction from behind and stabbed me in the back.The impact drove me to the ground and I gritted my teeth in pain, it was my mom’s turn to yell.“Mia,” she ripped the spiky vine apart with her bare hands and rushed towards me, her palms were bleeding but she didn’t care about that. Her focus was on me.Without wasting any time, she dragged the branch out from my back causing me to feel a fresh round of pain.“Get up,” she said and reached out her hand for mine, I took her hand and she dragged me upright, “how’s your wound?” she asked, her face twisted in worry and panic.“It’s okay,” I said reassuring her, “it’s already starting to heal.”“Good we need to keep moving,” she said and without waiting for me to respon
MIAHow was any of this possible? I thought he had been kidnapped by that terrifying figure in the hood but here he was before my very own eyes running towards me along with Bastien and Leo.“Javier!” I screamed in excitement, “Get us out of here, hurry!” at this point, I wished that this was not another wicked illusion conjured by the forest to further torment us, I hoped that the three men rushing towards my mother and I with concerned looks on their faces were really here and not also lost in the forest, dealing with different nightmares of their own.They all caught up with us, Javier was in the lead, and without hesitation, he ran across the quicksand and reached me.“Be careful, it will trap you too!” I shouted in warning but it was too late, he had already reached me and what was more surprising, he wasn’t sinking either.“What are you people experiencing right now?” Bastien asked heading cautiously for Sarcana.“We are being pulled into a batch of quicksand. The fact you have
RYLEE I could feel the protective magic that covered me was starting to lose its efficacy. I had to make a choice, if I decided to make it stronger, I would lose stamina due to continuous usage and who knew what else might be lurking in this forsaken forest. I decided that it would be safer at the moment to drop my protective magic and save my energy. The elder forest was indeed a formidable enemy, it was tougher to get through than I originally thought. I thought it would be very easy to get in, find Sarcana, and finish her off but instead, here I was standing all alone, lost. Olivia and Leo got separated from me earlier, whatever protective magic there was around them would have long disappeared since they were no longer with me. I didn't care much about Leo. He could take care of himself and if he couldn't then he was never fit to run in my inner circle anyway. My major concern was Olivia. That kid was useless without me around. I had to find her and make sure that she wa
RYLEEIt was a paralyzing feeling; it was not every day that I came up against someone who had such a terrifying aura and presence.I took a cautious step back and looked at my surroundings, I had just managed to get through the first ordeal where the forest tried to use my memories as a weapon to defeat me and it failed miserably. Was this the second test? I could tell from a glance that whoever it was would be far more formidable that the mist and voices.The figure took a step forward and crunched on dried tree leaves as it did, even as it approached, there was a powerful gust of wind that came in my direction.It looked like it was doing everything in its power to scare and intimidate me, I refused to me moved. The last thing I was every going to do was allow myself to be terrified of a power I had not yet experienced. Not not I, I Rylee was the one that did the terrifying, I was the evil that kept people up at night and until I was sure that this cloaked figure, whatever it was