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"I should kill you." He snatched his sun from her melting, scorched hands. "Right now!" His eyes came to full bloom, thunder flash and lightning zigzagged across the horizon. Aislinn's breathing hitched slightly, her body arched. He practically stabbed the sunlight into her chest, watching as her face as the color came back. Her lush lips fill to a pink color and her eyes open to look directly into his eyes. A smile crept on their faces.
A warm hand cupped Aislinn's tendered cheek, letting their warmth and sun become one. "You're safe," he murmured. Ash's smiled wavered, "no Seth isn't here." Keenan frowned, answering an unspoken question.
A coughed interrupted their little moment it was more over a suffocating cough followed by a gurgle sound. Ren spat into her hands revealing blood. "We need to go." She balled her fist noticing the two monarchs watching her. She stood and swayed slightly.
Ash used Keenan's shoulder as support. "Why should we?" The room was getting stuffy in here sweat glistened on Ren's skin she quirked an eyebrow. "Your little servant almost killed me." She indicated to her throat where the scar was almost healing.
"She was never known to be obedient." The room around was swaying slight, she gasped for air and took another step towards the door looking for any intruders. She was two against one and her time was running out. "But you are correct unless you want all of Faerie to crumple."
Faerie, the land that was parallel to Earth, to the humans without it the Earth would collapse. Wars erupts, natures turn into chaos bring blood and carrions, just what Bannnach desired.
With a gulp Ash dipped her head looked at Keenan first and asked, "so what do we do?"
The steeds of the Dark court possessed amazing speed than any human invention could conjure. Seth hopped out of the steed before it came to halt. He paused at the scene before him. Ice and frost coasted the ground the wind fae was mounted high between icicles; he knew she was dead by the way her feet and arms dangled.
The dark king followed pursuit behind him; staring at the work of Donia he let a sinister smile stretch on his lips. She would make a great asset to the Dark Court.
In instant, Seth was gone though he sprinted faster than any mortal could dodging the Ly ergs that threaten to snapped and pecked at him Bannnach was here too? Why? Did this girl pick a fight with everyone? He punched and flailed at the creatures. One managed to slice his skin he groaned in annoyance and delivered a devastating punch to the thing. What threw out of his arm wasn't anything seen before. It was a void itself a black hole sucking all that he desired into the hole.
It was quiet for second. Nothing cawed or growled he looked around him amazed that he managed to rid himself of an army within seconds and without breaking a sweat. Someone whistled, "That was something, Seth." Despite Nial's compliment Seth could detect the fear in his tone. Seth only shrugged like it was no big deal but he was proud of himself.
"Where's Sorcha? And Irial?" He looked wildly around Niall hoping his mother would tag along and inquire him about this new found power.
"She went home; she will be watching you from a distance. And as for Irial this not his court anymore thus not his fight." Niall paused staring at Seth's fists. "Seth how did you-?"
"Never mind that" Seth interjected, "I gotta find Ash?" Again, he broke into a run, dashing down corridors and cobblestone hallways. Nothing was lit; it was like a ghost town. What's going on?
With endeavor, Niall barely kept pace with the High boy his stamina, speed, his Faerie-like was amazing. He urged his shadows around him to swirl faster propelling him so that he may catch up with the boy. Till he saw Seth fall backwards, he landed hard on his back. In a moment, Niall was there helping the boy up when he raised his eyes his nothing but a short of surprised shadowed across his face.
Ash and Keenan supported each other as they strode down the hallway keeping a steady pace with Ren. She had to stop every few seconds to breathe with patient the two monarchs paused with her. One hand held out on the wall for balance when something emerged from the shadows. Instantly the summer monarchs got into a defensive position till Ren waved her hands.
She strode up to her advisor almost falling into her arms. "Aries" she coughed for once his face revealed emotion. A sadness dawned on his face he saw his Queen in such as state.
"We must hurry." In a quick movement he lifted Ren onto his back quickening their pace to wherever it is they were going. The air was turning a bitter cold as they reached their destination. Ren shivered on Aries back while he remained still and unaffected.
"What's going on?" Ash was no longer using Keenan as a crouch. "I demand you tell us." Keenan smiled bitterly, funny how she was acting more of a monarch every day.
Aries was the one who answered for her. "Out and away from this castle. Unless you want to be trapped here with Bannnach. I suggest you-" The ground beneath them was cracking and the ceiling above them shook bits of dirt fell and hissed. The eerie fae didn't even bother speaking any longer breaking into a sprint not caring whether summer kept up with them.
Light gleamed brilliantly at the end of the long hallway, Ren almost smiled except she couldn't feel the muscles on her face. "Don't you dare fall asleep!" She never heard Aries so angry nor had she thought he cared. She willed her eyelids open only to have them droop.
They were almost there, the morning was still crisp so crisp that they could see their own breathe. "We're going to make it Keenan!" Ash squeezed his hand but he didn't return the gesture. A few more steps and they would be free.
Something sharp like marble but a cold as ice flew through light, sparkling and casting a dancing light on the wall aimed straight for Aries heart. In a quick movement, he dropped Ren so that the spear wouldn't go through him and into her. He fell to his knees, coughing up blood, he wrapped his hands around the weapon but it was too cold to remove. Already he was getting frost bite on his skin.
"Donia!"
"How sweet! You two found each other." Donia had one hand her hip looking between Keenan and Ash her eyes flickered back at to Keenan's. "Now that your together there's no need for me."
"Donia wait." He reached for her; Keenan wrapped his fingers on her wrist. "I still need you." She wretched away herself avalanches and blizzards howling in her eyes. Ash felt a twinge of pain inside her but decided to tend to Aries using her Summer to melt the ice.
A small 'thank you ' emitted from Ren whose body was curled up next Aries his hand pressed onto her's. "For what?" Donia blew hail from her lips, "you don't need me you have her." She pointed at Keenan stabbing him with her nail drilling a ice-tipped nail into skin, he winced.
"Don't do this Don." He seemed truly grieved, but he was good at deceptions. Her back was towards him but she whirled around and whipped out a long dagger, a sword of ice and sliced straight into Keenan's chest.
Realizing what she did Donia felt a twinge of sadness bubble up insider her like a stream, however her winter cold froze it before it could reach her heart.
A tentacle whipped from Bannach's hand slashing around them like twisters. "Bannnach!" Niall dodged and rolled each of her blows while Seth used her strength against her redirecting them back at her so they would it her instead of him.
She only cawed in laughter, "by the time you reach her. She'll be dead." She sent another round of Ly Ergs on them and the war faes pets. Seth wanted to try the void punch again but thought better of it. He grabbed one of her strands of hair where her tentacles were elongating from and pulled, she screamed and fury wrapping her hair and chaos around him. "Stupid boy. I'll crush you."
She was already beginning to squeeze when a slice of darkness pierced through her war and chaos. She shrieked summoning her crows to rip out Niall's eyeballs. "Go Seth." As Seth dropped to the floor he saw Niall battle relentless against his foes. The last move saving him, "that's not an order, Seth. Go!"
On his hands and knees he lifted himself of the ground. "No!" Bannnach screamed, "I will not let you escape!" Seth just ran never looking back punching and blocking anything that came his way.
He gave one last turn around before he sprinted into the darkness, you better still be alive when I return.
"You've crossed the line this time." Ren eyes were blazed with fury although her strength was gone she still had something left. "He was the last of my-" In the eyes of Winter she only saw white out, already Chaos has gotten to her. "You're sick." It wasn't a question.
Again the winter queen lashed out sending a hail storm at the bunch till somehow they disappeared into darkness. "Ash!" Seth almost ran into Ash knocking her off her feet. His arms enveloped her in a glittering hug, as if stars dances on his skin. "Ash" he whispered in her ear. He took a strand of her hair and played with it in between his fingers. They kissed for a moment till they realized there was an audience.
When Seth turned he realized the floor with thick with blood, "what the-"
"Later" Ash chided she was pushing her hands against Keenan's chest, "help me." Reluctantly he got down one knew assessing Keenan's wound. The Queen of Hidden was tending to Aries. Both wounds were severe, but at least at chance of surviving. He had his queen to save him, heal his wounds with her sun. The other queen did not she was weaken already she had enough strength for herself.
"We are going to have to move, Ash." In response the building shook again, cracking the floor into two. Ash didn't argue already kissing Keenan's chest and lips. She dared not look at Seth face. The betrayal he must be feeling. He heard him speak but not directed at her.
"You did this?" Ash feared that he was accusing her of doing something that was well out of her hands. Being a monarch of anything especially the court of summer was unpredictable. But no he wasn't the one yelling at her. "Donia!"
"It's being possessed, Seth." Ren pressed her hand towards her stomach gasping, "but now-"She winched, grinding her teeth. "Please let's go."
Seth balled his fist, "fine." He turned a hard glare at Ash and Keenan one was smirking the other cringing, "but I'm not touching him."
Hell was waiting for them when they reached the outside. Somehow Aries managed to heal his wounds in an instance, maybe he was really a vampire? But Donia disappeared into a frost of mist smiling a bitter smile. When they reached outside Donia was sided with Bannnach grinning a sadistic smile.
"Welcome my darlings." She spread her arms and with it her black blood dipped and tipped wings. "You shall be our feast." One of many different creatures of war slithered from the cracks in the ground and flies flocked from the sky. The buzzing of flies flew around the dead and the blood.
Keenan's light bloomed filling the dead with flowers and animal dens. The blood turned into a sparkling water. With the two summer monarchs together they were stronger than ever. However Seth still wasn't looking or talking to Ash. Ren had her arm around Aries just in case he decided to fall over.
"Now die!" The dead and war came; flies buzzed and snakes slithered from the flowers towards the faes. And Bannnach sent her nails elongated and sharp at the pair.
First, there was a blinding light as a shield erected from Ren's body. And everything seemed to move in slow motion. The nails were in her stomach and heart once worsening her condition. The other's unharmed.
"Do you like pain so much?" Bannnach cawed, blood dripping from her skin rather than sweat.
With her head bent towards her chest she looked up with blood tricking from the corners of her mouth looking beaten but triumphant. One knee fell to the earth, she used her hand to catch herself so she wouldn't collapse on this blood soaked ground. "No." That one word was strained but audible. "I prefer to win." And the war fae suddenly felt a pain like no other.
One more chapter and this story is done. But thank you for those who stayed with this story. R and R please and thank you