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The Labyrinth's Chosen

Chapter 36

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They all looked at each other in shock.

Angel lay on the ground with blood oozing slowly out of her side, unconscious.

"Sarah said she has to go back to Cian Aglaia even if it has been taken over, but it has to happen quickly. She is dying." Brendan said quickly.

"But how do we know what to expect there?" Hestia asked being the voice of reason.

"I don't know but we have to do something!" he yelled exasperated.

"Calm down both of you. I have healed most of her injuries but her body has to accept it as well as her mind she is going to be in a coma for a bit but we do have to get her to the hospice room in the castle. We are going to have to put faith in Sarah's words."

Hestia looked like she was going to put up an argument but a voice behind her in a weak voice said, "She needs to be in a place where both of her elements can have access to her."

They looked back and saw Asline staring at Angel.

"Well, what are you staring at? She will die at this rate!"

"Why are you interested in her health all of the sudden?" Brendan asked suspiciously. How could the girl have a change of heart like this?

"She was right and I was wrong. I don't like her but I don't wish for her to die. But you will have to do something with her quickly I think. Your Majesty, what are we to do with all these people?" she asked.

But the question was answered for them almost immediately. Swarms of soldiers in black regalia were surging across the water throwing nets and shooting darts at the crowd of royals and nobles that had come from all over their world.

"Oh no." Brendan whispered.

"Lysithea, we must go now! Take us to the hospice directly so no one will know we are there!" He said, fear for Angel taking over his head.

"Jareth, I will have to cast some complex spells when we get there. Can you use your magic to take us there directly?" Lysithea asked, while watching her people being captured left and right.

"Yes, but I can only take four of us the rest have to take care of themselves."

He looked around, Asline was off battling some soldiers using her magic wildly. She wouldn't last long like that. Most of the other princesses were herded together like cattle. They would be easy prey. His wife nodded solemnly and looked around at the battle scene as well. "We can take care of ourselves, just keep yourselves alive ok?"

"We can do that Mother. Let's go." And he picked up Angel carefully and looked to his father to the High Queen and finally to the woman lying in his arms.

"I hope we are not too late."

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It was done in a blink of an eye.

Lysithea, Jareth and Brendan with Angel in his arms were standing in the hospice at the castle. Coming from the scene of the battle, they were unnerved by the silence that engulfed them upon arrival.

"What do we do now?" Brendan whispered.

"Lock all the doors." Lysithea whispered back.

Just when she spoke those words all of the doors in the small room they were in were replaced with cold sea marble like the rest of the castle and the window disappeared as well.

Lysithea and Brendan looked at Jareth alarmed. "I didn't do that." He whispered hurriedly.

Angel stirred slightly at the urgency in his voice. Apparently, she had been awake the last few minutes. "Tinirau did it. He still commands this place you know." She said whispering tiredly.

The others jumped at the sound of her voice and Brendan almost dropped her.

"How do you know this?" Lysithea asked.

"My dreams." Angel said. She couldn't hold on for much longer she had to sleep.

"Do you know what you have to do my queen?"

"Yes." Lysithea answered.

"Then we will need help. Eurus and Oceanus come forth."

Wind and mist appeared out of nowhere in the small room and two figures appeared out of nowhere. It seemed that even no doors or windows they could still get in this place and that fact worried Brendan greatly.

"They will know where we have gone before long. Whatever you need to do make sure it is quick." He whispered to everyone.

Lysithea began to concentrate on a single point in the room, a table that emergency patients laid on, it was ugly and stained with many patients blood (the last being Clytia) but very sturdy. As they watched a glass container as long as Angel's body came into existence. It glistened blue and green in the bright hospice room. Everyone stared at it with growing apprehension, Angel's face looked rather resigned. Lysithea who was still trying to finish it glared at it as she finished the spell in her head. Eurus and Oceanus looked at it stoically, but Brendan and his father looked horrified.

"You are not putting her in there?!" Brendan yelled as soon as he thought Lysithea was finished.

Angel looked like she wanted to speak but she couldn't.

Lysithea said it all for her. "She has to go in there. She will die if she doesn't. I have to rename her in her fae name which she may or may not have considering she was supposed to get it from her father who is currently trying to kill her. Eurus, Oceanus, fill that thing with pure elemental water and air she has to be surrounded by both." She said quickly glancing their way while she finished explaining to Brendan and his father.

"Isn't there something else…" Jareth started.

"No." Lysithea stated loudly.

"We will put her to sleep and act like she is dead. If they don't know about her they can't kill her. Eurus and Oceanus are the only ones who can even get in here undetected, it will be their responsibility to keep her alive." The High Queen finished sadly.

"I won't be able to check her progress?" Brendan asked weakly his throat seemed to be closing up on him.

"No, no one can know she still resides in the castle. If we manage to live through this at all we must keep our mouths shut about this. No one else can know, as far as the world is concerned she is dead. Angel what is your fae name and title?" Lysithea asked whispering once again.

"Nyxis, the Queen of Dreams." Angel whispered painfully.

"Very well then, everyone except Brendan must leave, Jareth you must say good bye for now you won't be seeing her for a while. Eurus and Oceanus you must maintain her health for us please return in a half hour.

Jareth looked at Angel and sighed, "This isn't quite what I had in mind when I first heard the prophecy you know." Angel just nodded. "Please get well soon, we will be waiting for you."

"I love you Jareth. You are the father… I wish I had you know…" Angel was fighting to stay awake now.

Jareth eyes got wet but he just nodded, in another blink of an eye he was gone. Eurus and Oceanus followed shortly after.

Lysithea looked at Brendan sharply and stated. "What happens now no one not even your father may know about. Do you swear to keep this a secret until this kingdom is regained for the Queen who lay dying before us?"

"I do so swear my Queen."

AN: Sorry it was short but everything changes drastically after this. Please hang in there for me, I think I am looking at least another 8 chapters for this story. Also, I began to post the beginning of an original story on under the same pen name if you are interested.

Thanks for all your support people!!!!

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