Prophecies
Tuesday morning was our first day of classes. I had almost all of them with Tori Except 2. We had 9 classes. 4 academic classes, 1 based on your element, 1 history of your Species, 1 history of magic, and 2 electives. Since she was earth and a witch, we didn't have those two together, we still had time to see and choose two electives. Dean and I had every class together since we were both vampires, except Water Magic class, he had another class for that. Ben, and Steven had the same classes except the elemental magic and deep in side I was happy because I had almost every class with him too.
Tori and I were walking down to the cafeteria to get break fast, everyone stared as we walked down the hallway, we looked at each other and I saw the same confusion on her face that I felt. She started inspecting me and I did the same. We didn't have anything out of place. She shrugged and looked around.
" Why are we getting stared at?" she tried to whisper. I shrugged, looked around. We were almost there, I took her hand and tried to hurry past the stares. I spotted Dean head and lead her there.
"Dean, whats going on?" I asked urgently. He looked around.
"Come on, lets go outside, too many people here." He looked at the others on the table. Ben, Steven, Licia, and Harry stood up. Dean lead us outside. He picked me up. And ran, fast, one second we were in front of the school and the next we were at the edge of the trees. I saw everyone else there too and Ben letting Tori Down. I looked at dean, waiting for an answer.
" Alex, Tori, there was an attack on the high kings castle, it happened as soon as the other royals arrived, the high king is injured and so are both your dads. They were the most powerful ones since King Andres was the next in line and King Boris who is after him. They were poisoned by dark ones, they are trying to find a way to cure them but they don't know how. They know the poison used and what it does but they have never found the cure, they will die if the cure isn't found. " I looked at him horrified. I heard Tori and Licia cry. I couldn't cry, my body was frozen, I felt myself collapse and arms catch me. I felt something burst inside of me I felt furious and I stood up. The arms that held me became tighter.
" Let go of me, I need to see my father, those bastards will pay, LET ME GO!" I struggled against the person.
"Alex calm down, now, they are not letting anyone out of the Academy, we are under lock down, calm down Alex" he grabbed my shoulders.
" I don't know how much longer I can hold her, shes getting stronger, shes glowing all over." I kept struggling, seeing red. The voice was familiar but I didn't care.
"Snap out of it Alex!" dean shook me. I looked into his eyes and saw my reflection. Anger, blue eyes glowing, my whole body glowing. I saw the worry in his eyes.
'Smack'
I felt my cheek sting and my head was forced to the side. I snapped out of it. I saw clear again. And again I collapsed. I felt exhausted. I looked up and saw Licia Standing in front of me, tears in her eyes.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me. I couldn't think straight I was seeing red. Dean, how long does he have?" I asked trying to look calm.
"Its an incredibly slow poison, it wont kill them for years, but they will be paralyzed at first then they will fall asleep, and they will remain that way until the cure is found." I looked around. I saw my sisters coming towards us, tears in their eyes. I broke down. I felt tears pouring from my eyes, and worry.
" Wheres,... mom.." I managed to say through my sobs. My sisters took me in their arms and embraced me.
"The queens are alright, they will be the ones, in charge. As soon as you get yourselves together I suggest you call them. We have been excused from classes again." Dean spoke, my sisters and I were too worried to say anything else. We sat there for a while. We stopped crying but the worry was still there. I was the first one to stand up and speak.
"We need to find this cure, I don't care what it takes, we are going to find it. Who here would know anything about this?" everyone looked up at me. They started standing up.
" Ms. Hale is the history teacher, maybe she can tell us something about it if its happened before and if it was cured. She is the best there is. There people coming to find her, she is the apprentice of the keeper of knowledge, she has access to the High Kings library, no one but him and the keeper and apprentice have access, if we can get information from her we might find something." Areli said. I thought about it. I nodded and started heading towards the school. I felt a pair of arms scoop me up, I looked at the person and smiled.
" You are too slow right now, like a cute turtle." Steven said. I laughed and out my arms around his neck.
"You are so weird Steven." I said. He frowned, I pecked his cheek and his smile returned. I felt his run and it was like flying. If I wasn't a vampire everything would have been blurry as he ran but I saw everything and it felt great. He didn't put me down when we got there. Instead he kept walking with me in his arms and I didn't mind. We got to the history building and he put me down. The students stopped and looked at us, I could see the pity in their eyes, they all thought the kings were going to die, I felt Stevens hand grab mine, intertwining our fingers. He was trying to comfort me, he saw the way they looked at us. I couldn't tell if my sisters saw or decided to ignore, their walls were up, and I didn't feel like sharing how I felt either. They led us to room 300: History Of Magic. Areli knocked on the door, a few minutes later it was opened. A young woman opened the door, her green eyes looking at us expectantly. Her hair was tied up into a bun and her face was round, with high cheekbones and a perky nose.
" I knew you would come, I have a class, it ends in 20 minutes, come in and wait in my office." she ushered us in. Again the people in her class stared. She led us the the back of her classroom, she opened the door to her office and I looked small, too small for 9 people to fit in. she stepped in turned on the lights and as we started stepping in the office started getting bigger. I looked to the others to make sure they saw that.
" Make yourselves comfortable ill be back soon." she said and left.
"Shes a witch, and this whole school is enchanted. So stop looking like that you aren't crazy." Harry spoke for the first time, I glared at him. He just laughed.
" Alex, we will do anything to help find the cure, I promise, The dark ones wont get away with it." Steven grabbed my hands and pulled me to him. I put my arms around him and enjoyed the warmth and comfort his arms brought me. I looked up to him and kissed him. I heard someone laugh. Steven pulled away and glared at Harry.
" Something funny Helling." he asked glaring at Harry.
"Oh no, just thought of something that I thought was funny, Steven don't you have siblings?" he asked. A mischievous smile on his face.
" I had 3 brothers, one died, why do you care." his hand in mine tightened. I knew his Brother Max died and I knew he didn't like to talk about it. I put a comforting hand on his shoulder, he relaxed but not for long.
"Died, huh? I remember him, Max right? Yeah he was nice, had a pretty girlfriend too he was 16 when he 'died' what a shame. Its been 4 years." he used air parenthesis and Steven tensed again.
" Shut up Harry! You know nothing, stop talking why the hell are you bringing this up?" my sister Marcella pushed harry into the wall with her strength, she looked furious and hurt. Harry smirked but backed off. Marcella looked at Areli and I. She composed herself and sat down. I looked at Areli for an explanation but she just shook her head at me. I looked up at Steven who was still tense, he looked confused and angry. I grabbed his hand and led him to a couch. He sat down and looked at me. I knew how painful it still was for him to remember his brother, his best friend. Him and his other brothers were close, but Sean and Mark being the oldest and twins were at college when their brother died. After that they all needed to get distracted from the pain of loosing a brother so they didn't talk a lot. He was left almost by himself grieving the loss of his closest brother. We stayed there in silence waiting for the teacher to return. When she did I felt relief, she walked to her desk sat down and looked at us.
" Can you tell us about this poison that had been used on my father and the other kings?" Areli spoke. Ms. Hale stood up and grabbed a brown book with Greek letters on the cover.
"The poison is called Rhododendron, made from the flower, enchanted to work on supernatural beings, it was used as torture in ancient times, the poison works slowly, doesn't cause pain or nausea but it slowly paralyzes its victim and keeps them that way for years until they died, there is a cure for the plants poison but only on humans, it was created by a powerful witch she made an antidote too, but that secret she took to the grave, everyone thought that the spell to make the poison work on us had disappeared with her, because back then she never wanted to share it, or write it down for fear that people might use it to harm the royals she was very loyal to them, but if the spell to create the poison has resurfaced then so has the antidote, nobody on our side knows the spells used." she looked up at us.
"Ms. Hale, that means they have the antidote, they are either going to let our kings die or ask for something. What can we do?" Dean asked her and she looked thoughtful. She looked at all of us and bit her lip in frustration.
"There is something, I am not supposed to tell you this before its made public. Last night came a new prophecy from the seer Alice, she is powerful the head of the seer circle. There are twelve of them she is the most powerful, she contacted me, The book of prophecies keeper, my master was going to release another old prophecy that connected to this one, one not known by many, ill tell you both. 'Reincarnations of the Great Three,
half breeds from a two powerful seeds,
will save us from our war with the Lost souls, but not before their own has been found.
Cloaked under one powerful race, with a bond stronger and thicker than blood, will come to us when the last one consumes blood.
Born of royal blood and Magic love,
the three will meet their destinies later to be foretold.'" she paused, walked to a blue book and took it out. The book glowed when her fingers touched it. It opened and flew to her desk. She followed it. I looked at the other, the looked confused and so was I. " Here is the new one,
'Three reincarnations, nine powers,
three each but not reveled,
as the last one consumes blood they will find the cure in their fingertips,
and one task will be done, closer to their destinies being fulfilled.
Three kings will fall, their only hope, the threes' rise.
Ones loss will come back and take another's gain,
their bond grows stronger, they will suffer their losses together and rise to finish their other tasks.'" she looked up at us from her book. " Have you understood this?"
"Somewhat, okay. There are three people, who are reincarnations of the big three? Royals who have the ability of curing the kings, they are siblings with a strong bond. But they haven't come out yet because one of them hasn't drank blood, and they are half breeds, is that even possible?" Dean spoke with confusion and frustration in his voice.
"You are missing somethings, I cant decode it for you, any time today there will be people here from the high kings castle to try and figure out the same thing as you, I would go and try to decode these prophecies if I were you, and don't speak of this to anyone. We stood up.
" Thank you, if we can find these people we can cure the kings faster." I told her and hugged her. We decided to go to mine and Tori's room.
" Okay I wrote what she said down lets try to figure all of this out, she is right we are missing something." Tori took out a small note book from her bag. I hadn't noticed her writing anything down. She put it in the middle of the floor between our beds I took a seat between the beds on the floor and Steven sat beside me Harry and Licia sat across us and Ben, and tori Sat on her bed, my sister and dean on mine. We went through the prophecy over and over.
"Okay the only Great Three that I know of are Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, or Clare, Katelyn and Anastasia, the daughters of Claryz. I thinks its the last three, they were guardians of the first high king, they were the most powerful beings, some of the only goddesses allowed to come to earth, they were killed in a battle against the dark ones, by their leaders, the god of evil decided to try to beat us with the same power, he made the opposite of the great three, they all ended up killing each other, their power was too even. I think that's it." Ben said.
"Okay, so reincarnations of the guardians, half breeds, consume blood, does that mean that they are vampires or that she has to kill someone? Cloaked under a powerful race, and royal, that could mean that they are being hidden or they don't know they are half breeds. They have a bond too, like ours, and they don't know when they will fulfill their destinies because that has been established, one is that when they finally come out they will be the ones to have the cure, that part about one loss will come back and take the others gain, I don't get it. They will have more tasks to complete that will lead up to them fulfilling their destiny. We need to find them, we don't know what they are." I said. Harry got up and looked out of the window.
"They are here, The Queens, including mom, Licia, I think grandma stayed back to take care of the castle." me and my sisters instantly ran out, I could feel someone sweep me up again, and it wasn't Steven, or Dean. Harry put me down near the courtyard where the other had stopped.
" Thanks." I said with a little hostility.
"My pleasure princess." he winked at me and walked off. I saw a lot of people kneeling, I walked forward and saw the three queens, graceful and beautiful.
Marcella, whispered to me, ' bow'. I did. Our mother came towards us after her and the other queens told everyone to rise. She embraced us.
"Follow me, the teachers lobby will have more privacy." My aunt came forward. And embraced my mom. "I'm sorry Clara, I will do everything in my power to help you."
We followed her.
"Andrea, will you call the apprentice, we need to find the Keeper." my mother asked my aunt.
"Of course sister" she walked off. I could see Tori embracing her mom, and the twins doing the same.
"How are you my darlings? Don't worry about anything I will find the cure, I promise you that, in a few months you will be able to go see him, ill come visit you as much as I can but your father has a lot of work which is now in my hands." we were sitting on the floor around mom like we did when we were little and she told us stories. She kissed our cheeks and I could see the worry in her eyes.
"We are here" My aunt came back with Ms. Hale following. Ms. Hale bowed to the queens.
" my queens, there will be an announcement shortly, In my book I have received a prophecy, it will be announce along with an old one they are connected, he will read them out. I suggest you turn on the TV's, headmistress." she turned to look at the TV which showed a man speaking, he read out the prophecies, I looked at the queens and there was more concern on their faces, except my mom who looked like she had seen a ghost. I took her hand and she composed her self.
"What does this mean? We need to decode it and find these people, to save our husbands and the high king" Queen Marcia stood up with Tori. " Darling, your brother is on his way, unfortunately he had to be brought into this world much too early, he will be enrolled here, take care of him, we have to go back to the castle to figure things out. I love you, take care of yourself." she embraced her daughter, moved to embrace everyone else and left. Queen, Christina did the same and left.
"Girls, you have to be strong, for me, keep in your studies, do as your father wants, please take care of yourselves," she hugged us and turned to Dean and Steven, " Both of you take care of my girls please and be safe." she embraced them and left, but before she did, she looked back at us wanting to say something, instead she sighed and walked out.
"Your majesties, I knew you have figured out most of what the prophecies mean, but keep looking, especially within yourselves. Ill see you all in class tomorrow." she bowed again and left. Headmistress Kallis went back to her professional mode.
" Go back to your buildings, rest, be ready for classes tomorrow." she waited for us to leave.
We spent the rest of the day trying to figure out who those creatures were. We got almost nowhere, since we didn't have records of anyone who was born as three but that list still wasn't going to be small.
