Chapter 12

The truth has been reviled.


The body landed on the floor. It slowly got up, like it wasn't used to controlling a body of its own. She stands up; she looks different that she did only a few moments ago. Her long black hair was straighter, her eyes were stronger, and a wonderful colour of aqua that many people would kill for. Everything about the young woman screamed dangerous, but it was hard to tell why.

"How dare you breath in my presence." She said, slickly, smoothly, and deadly. Her head snapped towards Myst Cobra. He was an assassin, never missed his target. Until now. He was very different to the way he had described before. He was almost handsome. His eyes were amazing and sensual. They reminded her of the sky on a stormy night, his hair was as dark as dark could be, it was slightly longer than she liked her hair on men, but that would soon change. He was wearing a black shirt, with black jeans. How original, she thought to herself. He appeared to have a few guns on him. She didn't take too much notice to that. They didn't matter.

"You don't deserve to breathe, you worthless piece of shit!" she screamed. A large amount of shadows flowed around her, the way they covered her, she almost looked like a queen, but a queen of darkness and death. She walks towards Myst. He's too scared to run, too scared to even move. She grabbed him by the neck and held him off the ground. Her arms were bulging with muscles. Myst look a few seconds to admire them, he had always had a thing for muscles on woman. The woman looked like she was in pain. Actually physical pain, Myst knew she was hurting because her lover was lying dead on the ground. But it appeared her pain was coming from somewhere else. She wasn't fully suffocating him; he could still talk which meant he was getting some oxygen. The woman appeared to be fighting something, something inside of her. Her eyes closed for a seconded then opened again, but this time they were a dark shade of brown. Her hair began to curl up again, making it appear shorter than it was. She dropped Myst on the ground, and looked at the burnt body of her lover. Myst took this opportunity to run for his life. His employer wouldn't be happy to hear he failed. He didn't care though, she had more power than they stated he was ill-equipped to fight her and win. A smile came to his face as he thought of all the extra money he would get. Braeyln was still looking at it. She couldn't take her eyes off it. He couldn't be gone, he just can't be. Braeyln touched what was left of his head and chest and focused on finding his soul. It was still there, locked far away and deep, deep down so that no one would ever be able to find it. She held it in his hands. All it needed was a reason to live, Braeyln was that reason. She combined her soul with his. After a few minutes of bright white light her eyes adjusted and she saw him. He was lying on the ground. She floats towards him, being as quick as possible seeing as how she was technically dead.

"Josh?" she calls, however it comes out as more of a whisper. "Please wake up. I need you."

"Our baby needs you." He's eyes flutter open.

"Baby?" he calls out. When he's eyes begin to open more. Braeyln pulls out of his soul, it takes a few moments to leave and hope that their un-born baby boy was a good enough reason to live. She pulls herself out of his body. A loud gasp echo's through the burning unstable corridors of the sanctuary. Her eyes fixate on Josh's body, hoping that he finds his way back. He has to, she needed him. She hears people running around like crazy, cleavers put out flames and carrying bodies of injured people to the medical bay. She can hear Ghastly calling out orders along with Ravel and a few other people.

Josh's chest moves. Braeyln's heart skips a beat, she watches closely as if watching him will save his life. It moves again, he groans in pain for a few moments before turning his head towards Braeyln.

"Help me." He whispers before he falls unconscious. Braeyln couldn't help but smile, he was alive. Nye wouldn't let him die; he was going to be just fine.

"Help! I need help." She screams, she tried to focus on the sound waves around her to make it louder, she's not sure if it worked but a set of cleavers arrive within seconds with a gurney. They carefully lift him on to the gurney, trying not to rip off any more of his skin. They rush him away to the medical bay, but not before they pass a bag to Braeyln and inform her to collect the remains of his flesh. She picks it up, not caring that she was holding burnt flesh in her hands, only caring that this will save his life. Once she has picked up all the bits on skin she runs towards the sanctuary. She was pretty sure that she ran past Skulduggery and a few other mages that she knew but she didn't care. She needed to be there for Josh. She reached the medical bay just after the cleavers. She handed the bag of skin to doctor Nye and helped him place wet blankets over Josh's burnt body. He placed a tube into his arm and shot some medicine into him, and some pain killers to help him rest.

"Can I help with anything?"

"I've done all I can for Josh right now, I need to focus on other patients."

"Do you need help with them?"

"I'll be fine, go help the cleavers bring in people." She nods and runs to where the explosion hit. She saw a bone on her way; she stopped and picked it up. It appeared to be a finger she had a feeling it belonged to Skulduggery. She shut her eyes and tries to isolate his thoughts. When she does she runs to him. She finds him in pieces on the floor.

"I found your finger." She says to get his attention. He looks at her; she can tell he is in a lot of pain.

"Let me help out you back together." She sits down beside him and starts to connect all of his bones together. A large majority of his bones were already put together; they just needed to be attached to him.

"Thank you." He whispers through the pain.

"What happened?" she asks as she connects his fingers to his palm.

"I don't know. We were heading to Ghastly's office and there was an explosion. Josh was thrown one way and I was thrown the other, I was thrown into the wall and my bones where shot everywhere." He cried out I pain as Braeyln connects his hand to his wrist. "Is Josh okay? Have they found him?"

"I found him; he's in pretty bad shape. But he's alive." Braeyln connects his left leg to his pelvis bone. She tried not to take notice of how many fractures there are on his bones. Even with doctor Nye's help this will still take a while to heal.

"Why is he here?"

"He showed up this morning at my hotel room to surprise me."

"Kind of ironic that he shows up right after we have 'sex'" he says jokingly. Braeyln, on the other hand doesn't find it funny.

"What? We have never had sex, or done anything even remotely close to that."

"What are you talking about?"

"What are you talking about?" Braeyln asks.

"How can you not remember? I came to your hotel room yesterday night after you ran off. I apologised and then you kissed me, we had hours and hours of passionate love making." Braeyln sits up more. It made sense in her head as she did wake up with no clothing on this morning, but she couldn't remember doing any of that. She wouldn't do that.

"I wouldn't do that to Josh."

"I'm sorry to inform you that you would, and you did." Braeyln was getting worried her eyes hadn't changed colour.

"Why don't I remember?" Braeyln thought back to when she had found Josh dead. There was something in her, something dark and evil. Could she have taken over her body then? Who knows how many times had it done that? Took over her body like she didn't deserve a body.

"There's something I need to tell you." She takes a deep breath. "I know who caused this explosion. I saw him."

"What's his name?"

"I don't know his name but I saw him, but that's not the point. I found Josh dead, and something happened."

"What?"

"It was like something took over me. Body and soul, I couldn't control what I was doing. I couldn't do anything to stop it. This thing took over me and tried to kill him, I had to fight harder than I have ever fought before to get control of my body again."

"Did you use any magic?"

"Not really but a dark shadow thing was surrounding me, wrapping around my body like its only job in life was to protect me, or more my body." Skulduggery began to get worried, they was she was explaining things it seemed as though Darquesse was in her. But that couldn't be possible, could it? Valkyrie was Darquesse and she had died a long time ago. Dread hits Skulduggery's stomach, or at least where it should be. No one knew how Valkyrie had died, because she was killed from Darquesse ripping herself out of her body. Skulduggery stopped breathing for a moment. Darquesse was inside of Braeyln, she was basically the reason Valkyrie was dead. It all made sense now, Braeyln was far more powerful than Valkyrie because she had different types of magic. If she ever wanted a certain power all she would have to do is be close with them, then kill them. Darquesse was even more powerful and dangerous than before.

"Skulduggery?" Braeyln asked. Braeyln was clearly was nervous. Had she heard his thoughts? No surely Darquesse would have taken over and killed him by now.

"Yeah, that's really weird, sometime that happens with people though when they go through extreme loss." Braeyln looked down. She knew deep down inside that, that wasn't true. She knew he knew exactly what she was talking about.

"Whatever it was appeared last night. There is no way I would do that with you. I don't even care about you in that way anymore." Skulduggery knew she was telling the truth, he had lost her forever, and there wasn't anything he could do about it. At least he had the memory of the previous night that was something she could never take away from him. Even though it wasn't even her, he had still experienced the joy of her body. He got to know her in a way he had never dreamed of. He had done things to her he had never done to anyone before, and she had found a way to pleasure him in a way that he had never experienced. He never knew that he could feel that kind of pleasure until she had shown him. In his mind last night was one of the best things and best moments of his life. Braeyln had awoken a part of him that had laid asleep for hundreds of years. A sudden thought entered Skulduggery's head.

"Wait, if Josh was dead. How is he alive now?"

"I entered his body, found his soul and I gave him a reason to live."

"Which was?"

"I'd rather wait till he wakes up before I tell anyone. I don't know if he's going to remember anything and he deserves to know before anyone else does." Braeyln looks down; Skulduggery could have sworn it was at her stomach. A worried smile appeared on her face.

"Are you pregnant?" he asks. Her head snaps up and looks at him. She stares into his eyes. Her body was saying no, but her eyes were saying yes. They were filled with the same emotions that Skulduggery's wife had when she told him, however long ago that may have been Skulduggery will never forget that moment. He decided to drop the topic. She would confirm it with him in her own time. She had been through a lot in a short amount of time. She had seen her boyfriend die, turn into pure evil, she had fought for the right to win her own body, she had brought Josh back to life then to be told she had been possessed before and cheated on the father of her un-born child.

"You're a very strong young woman Braeyln. I admire you for that." Skulduggery said as she helped him to his feet. Most of his bones were put back together, a few ribs and toes were missing but otherwise he was fine. He grunted in pain with every step he took. But Braeyln didn't let him stop, the sooner they got to Nye the sooner he would be healed. Skulduggery stared into her eyes. She was tearing up, but doing her best to hide it. Skulduggery wondered what she was crying about; there were so many things she had the right to cry about. Skulduggery began to regret the previous night. He had a very strong feeling that it wasn't her doing anything, or making any of those sounds. It was Darquesse all along. What was he going to do? He couldn't let Darquesse live, she was far too powerful, but he couldn't kill Braeyln. He cared about her too much, plus if he killed her he'd kill her child. Skulduggery wouldn't be able to live with himself if he killed her, let alone an innocent child. They were soon in the medical bay, Skulduggery walked over to a seat in the corner. He decided to wait until doctor Nye had done everything he could for everyone else before getting help. He didn't even know if he wanted it's help, but Braeyln had made him promise that he could let him help before she left him to go to Josh's side. He watched her from the other side of the room. No one would ever expect what she was capable off. How worried she looked for a mortal, it was the look of love. She loved him more than she would ever admit to herself or anyone else, and it was all because of Skulduggery. He had broken her heart and made her afraid to love. All he had ever done to her was hurt her; everything he has ever done was break her heart. He claimed to love her, but he had never shown her that. He was a fraud. He didn't deserve her, he's had more than enough changes to have her, and he let them pass by. She deserved someone better than him. She deserved Josh. Now all Skulduggery had hoped for was that he'd make it through this.


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