The Dark Path We Follow

Chapter 7

"Another human is missing" Aislinn spoke softly, Seth pulled her closer. "it has to be whatever was killing the faeries. But, why would they go from fey to humans?"

Seth shook his head and stroked her hair, "I have no idea Ash."

Keenan burst into the room, "Aislinn! Your grandmother and friends are gone!!"

The summer queen broke from Seth's arm, "What!?"

The king knelt before his queen, "I'm sorry, the guards were killed and they were taken. No one saw a thing…"

The room got several degrees hotter and Aislinn glowed vibrantly. "I will find who is responsible and kill them!"

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I had been keeping watch at Aislinn's home for a while now. Of course Niall didn't know but, Who cares about his opinion anymore? This night as I watched her grandmother make dinner a dark figure, I couldn't make out from the angle I was at, knocked on the door. The grandmother answered it, smiled and let them in.

I squinted, who had been at the door. It was obviously a human and someone the old bat had known. But who? Out of nowhere a commotion broke out inside and my attention zeroed in and so did the Summer court guards'. What was going on?

It suddenly go eerily quiet. I moved quickly and headed for the door. The Summer guards spotted me but, before they could react to me, or the odd stillness of the air surrounding the house… They fell to the ground. Dead.

I backed in the corner I had been in. What the hell was going on!? The air reeked of iron and I covered my nose and mouth with my hand. Stifling coughs and gags I watched that same dark figure drag out the old woman and disappear into a car parked at the corner. I had gotten a better look this time, it was a girl with dark. But, that's all I could make out because I was coughing from the iron in my lungs. Then, I fled quickly, as to not be discovered and blamed for what had happened.

I ended up going to the palace. I sat outside of it for a long while, contemplating what my next move should be. Do I tell Niall? Or do I try and stop whoever was causing a threat to the courts on my own? I made an exaggerated sigh and combed my fingers through my long hair.

"Death Bringer." The voice didn't register at first. "Zaria." I glanced up, my breath escaping in a small gasp. Irial? No. it wasn't Irial. I shook my head, it was Niall. His gaze was cold and none caring. "I haven't seen you around in a while, where were you?"

I turned my attention away from him and studied my darkening skin. "I've been keeping an eye on the city."

"Have you seen anything?" He stepped closer to me in a sort of stagger. Like it was involuntary. My jaw tightened, it was time to choose. Do I tell him or handle it on my own? "Zaria?"

I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do! So I made a distraction and without thinking… Our lips were pressed tightly together. My hand held his face to mine and my soft lips moved against his firm delicious ones. I was expecting him to shove me away and get angry, instead one of his hand gripped my hip and the other caressed my back and pulled me closer.

One of my fingers tips traced the scar that ran down from his temple to his jaw. I felt his tongue graze my lips and I opened them, then felt him roughly explore my mouth with it. Now both my hands were tangled in his thick hair. We broke apart to breath for a moment then went back to surveying each others body with our hands.

His lips lowered down my neck slowly and sucking lightly on the skin as he did so. He hit the base of my neck and bite down hard, but, not hard enough to hurt. It just made a sound noise escape my lips and he quickly moved his mouth back up to meet mine.

I could feel his shadows tangling around us, drinking in the lust our bodies were emanating. He ignored them and nipped and pulled at my lips with his teeth, making my throat spill more embarrassing noises.

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I woke up the next morning next to Niall in my room. He was awake but, he was studying the ceiling. "Morning my king" I whispered, memorizing every inch of his face.

He turned his gaze on me. "Morning my lil' dark creature" He actually looked like he was happy and it made me smile. "How did you sleep?"

"Just fine my dark lord" I snuggled closer into the blankets and my pillow.

He chuckled, "Now, the distraction is over. What did you see in while watching the city?" Niall's face grew serious, I had to tell him.

"The Summer Queen's Grandmother was kidnapped by a girl"

"What'd she look like?" He narrowed his gaze on me.

"Dark hair, seventeen, maybe eighteen? That's all I could see, the girl had release a deadly amount of iron into the air, I could barely breath. Let alone see"

Niall nodded slowly and abruptly turned and retrieved something from his pants pocket. He held it up to me, "Was this her?"

I stared at the photo of a dark haired girl standing next to another girl and Aislinn. They wore some uniform, a school one maybe? But, it was defiantly the girl. "Yes that's her, who is she?"

"Leslie…" He whispered and turn the picture back over to examine it.

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Aislinn, Keenan, and Seth stood outside Aislinn's grandmother's home. The only evidence that anything had happened was the knocked over flower pot in the living room.

The Summer Queen refused to believe her grandma would let a faerie into her home. And she was almost certain a human couldn't take out three fey guards not to mention the enormous amount of fey before that, not with out faerie help anyway…

Keenan on the other hand, thought a human was fully capable of it if they knew enough about faeries. So it had to be someone the queen's grandma knew. Maybe even someone Aislinn knew. Someone that had knowledge of fey and their weaknesses.

Seth was on the fence, he didn't want to think a human would do such insensible acts, he also didn't think a fey would have the balls to do this. So a fey and a human seemed out in left field in his opinion. Maybe Niall knew something? He'd have to go see him later.

That's right, I went there. Leslie is a suspect! Dun. Dun. Dun.

What does this mean? Is Irial with Leslie? Is Leslie actually there!? Will Aislinn ever stop being a baby?

Am I taking the dramatic questions too far!?

Well for these answers and MORE.

Tune in next time on...

--Memories Forever

P.S: I should have a fan club.

P.P.S: Just saying...

P.P.P.S: I'm thinking about entering a writing contest, grand prize is 2.5k. Thats over 2 Gs yo! should I do it?

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Chapter 8

"Leslie!? You can't be serious" Seth gasped, shock being an understatement.

find out what's going on."

"Very serious Seth." Niall murmured. "Zaria saw her kidnap Aislinn's grandmother and kidnap the guards. And I trust she wouldn't lie about this"

"Is she working with Irial then…?" Seth stared into his coffee mug of jasmine tea.