"Fairy tales are more than true not because they tell us that dragons exist,
but because they tell us dragons can be beaten."
G.K. Chesterton
10
Panic.
Horses with dark riders were going everywhere, destroying everything. Lizth was in the market at the moment, buying Anna some fruit when a rider almost cut her head of. Fortunately her instincts had developed as well as her flexes since she had begun training with her mother. So she took out her rapier and blocked the attack, then she made the man sleep, her mother had taught her that no matter what she had to respect God's laws and one of them was not to kill. Besides she hadn't the guts to kill a living creature.
"You are my hiding place
And my strong tower
Protect me from darkness
Save me in your power…"
"Deliver me from my foes
That I might exalt your name
Lord God, I will take refuge in you
And your Son who overcame."
"I will praise you O Lord
With all of my heart.
I will tell of your great wonders.
The angels rejoice
In your name, O Lord God,
Their voices as loud as thunder.
And I will join
In their songs of praise
as you drive my foes asunder." (From the Psalms)
She chanted as she blocked the blows directed to her, it was her favourite prayer in the entire world, and right then she realised with a snort how it fit perfectly for the moment.
She had been accepted two months ago as an elemental warrior; such a title was only given by her mother to a few spirits, and it was a designation very close to what you would call a knight in the human world. And what she had been told first was that she had to protect life, not take it, and to use her powers wisely. She tried to run in her dress but kept tripping so she conjured a pair of jeans and tennis instead. She was protecting the women in the market alone when Gareth teleported next to her.
"Go to the Leader, she needs to know about this, I'll take care of this." He said blocking a blow intended for Lizth. She nodded gruffly and closed her eyes to concentrate. "And Lizth," he added in a more human tone, full of worry and another thing she couldn't get. "Take care please." Dazed, she nodded and closed her eyes again to teleport to the big old tree, where she knew her mother would be on a meeting.
When she opened them again she was met with a tip of a sword at her neck.
"Welcome child." Durion's raspy voice sounded through the hall.
"No!" Kaelyn shouted in despair, she was being held by two muscular and very tall males, they gave her a blow at the back of her head and she was knocked unconscious.
"Mother!" Lizth wanted to run to her but Durion pressed his sword harder to her neck.
Kate? Rafer? Anna? She called with mind speech. She doubted a little but at last she called: Gareth?
Yes They answered, their mental voices strained with effort. They must be fighting too. She asked them for help, explaining with images. We'll be there as soon as possible. Please don't do anything stupid or heroic please. The last comment from Kate.
"Who are you?" Lizth asked trying to win some time.
"Why child, I feel insulted!" Durion pretended to be hurt. His men laughed. "Don't you remember?"
"No." She said in her masked voice.
"I was going to kill you a certain night, when you were a baby, to obtain your power, but your mother here," he spat the word mother. "Sent you away."
"Weren't you dead?" Lizth already knew the whole story, she had heard it from Kate and her mother.
"That's what your mother dearest wanted to believe but no. I'm more powerful than that." He said with arrogance, and that's when the pin dropped.
"You're sick." She stated coldly, his booming laugh sent chills on her spine but didn't show it.
"It's impressing that you don't seem to fear me."
"I don't see why, besides The Lord is my light and my salvation – whom shall I fear?"
That's when her friends entered the room; everyone with sword on their hands, that distraction was the only one she needed to take away the sword from her neck. Durion recovered quickly and attacked Lizth, but she was already waiting for him and blocked it, though her arm trembled with the effort. He's so strong!
Keep your head cool. She remembered Demien's voice instructing her so many times when she was learning to fence.
It doesn't matter who it's stronger or more skilled. She sighed in despair, assessed the situation while blocking new attacks.
The winner will always be the one who makes fewer mistakes. She smiled at the memory and that gave her strength, she began advancing on him until she had her sword at his neck, but didn't have the heart to kill him.
"In the name of God, I conjure you to sleep for all eternity or until you reach the pureness of your soul, remain hidden for we don't want to remember you, and the fear you have brought to us." And then Durion closed his eyes forever and with a flash of white light he disappeared, this time for ever.
Lizth passed out, she didn't know where those words had come from but they were certainly very powerful and they drained Lizth from almost all her energy. With a strangled cry Kate, Anna, Rafer and Gareth went to check her. When they were rest assured that she was okay they moved her to a bedroom in the Leader's tree.
When Lizth awoke she couldn't remember anything that had happened or how she had gotten to a soft bed. Then little by little memories got back to her, and she presumed she was in a bedroom at her mother's house. That's when she heard a soft know on the door.
"Enter!" she called in a raspy voice. All her friends entered the room.
"Hello dear, how are you feeling?" Anna asked her touching her forehead in a motherly gesture.
"Fine, just a bit tired. Do you know where my mother is?" The ashamed look in their eyes told her the horrible news. Apparently that blow had been stronger than what she saw. And tears formed in her eyes.
"Please, heavens no!"
"You are her heir; do you know what that means?" Kate asked carefully.
"I'm to be the new Leader." She stated while nodding.
"By nature and by right, you defeated Durion." Rafer said this time, feeling real proud of her, like a big brother with his sister. She smiled weakly and nodded, then closed her eyes and fell asleep instantaneously.
A/N: Hello guys! I'm alive! Yay, go me! I'm really sorry, school's been hell and well, let's say that in hell we don't have a lot of time. LOL. Ok, so this is not the final chapter but the next one is! And I have a surprise for all of you my dearest readers...DUN DUN DUN!! Cameo time! Yay! Told you I wanted to do one so...here it is:
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