Ok , this chapter will be the last for a while like I mentioned earlier, but not to worry because I'll still work on it, but need time. So, I hope you enjoy this. Bye now!
PART# 7
Once they got into her house, the first thing Leona did was to go to her room and hide the box. Then she came back down, and saw them already in their seats.
"Do you want something to eat or drink?" she asked
"Not for me, thanks" said Max, who seemed tired. The others agreed with him. Leona went to the kitchen and got bottled water out of the refrigerator, while they were waiting for her at the living room.
"I guess if you're going to stay here, I better get everything ready for your sleepover but first of all where do you want to sleep? upstairs in my room or downstairs" Leona commented as she headed for the closet where she kept blankets and sheets.
"I think upstairs sounds good" said Tess .
"Ok, let's go" Leona said carrying the blankets and sheets. Max offered to help her to carry them up. "Thanks" she said as she lead the way up to her room. Once they were in her room she searched in her closet for something to wear for the girls. Then she went to another room, from where she came back carrying some T-shirts and shorts for the guys.
"What's that?" asked Michael when he saw her carrying the clothes.
"These? They're called clothes" she said joking with a big grin in her face. Michael put a face as if saying "Not funny", while the girls were giggling.
"Whose are those?" asked Max after he had chuckled at Leona's joke.
"Finally, the right question" she replied "These are Pierce's" Max, stared at her with a questioning look.
"Are you sure you want us to wear his clothes?" asked Michael, who wasn't too sure what to expect.
"Sure, he'd be honored" she replied smiling "Besides, he won't use them any time soon, will he?" Max and Michael finally took the clothes and changed into them by turns in her bathroom. Then the girls changed their clothes right after the guys were done. Leona couldn't help to say when she saw them:
"A perfect match" she said smiling at them.
"Now, you're creeping me out" replied Michael
"But he looked even more gorgeous in those shorts" she commented
"Are you trying to tell us that you had a crush on your cousin?" asked Max jokingly "What if I had?" she said trying to outsmart him. The gang widened their eyes when she said that, until she gave a loud laugh.
"You should have seen your faces" she said between laughs.
"Now you really creep me out" commented Michael.
After a while they sat in the floor talking about anything but Kivar. Although they didn't want to spoil the moment, they still wanted to know about how everything started. They kept talking for hours, and even though it was getting late they wanted to lay awake all night. Leona didn't like the idea.
"That is what sleepovers are about" commented Isabel.
"I know that" replied Leona "I just though that you'd be tired by now"
"I remember how all of us could stay awake all night and we used to talk without stopping" said Michael.
"The one who talked most was Isabel" said Max "But we don't remember a night when we'd get bored"
"Well, you must have some charm" commented Leona to Isabel.
"Sure, I always had" she said playfully
"It's sure nice to meet somebody who doesn't cut herself short" commented Tess, smiling.
"You don't say" replied Leona to Tess.
"I do say!" Tess replied back, then the girls laughed.
"Well, I think it's time" said Max
"For what?" asked Tess.
"I've been meaning to get to hear the rest of the story" he replied. The rest of the gang looked at him, then at Leona.
"You're right" said Leona "I better go on with it"
Then, she started:
"My mother once fell in love with the King, Zan's father. My father Kivar, was in love with my mother and also the King was his best friend. Both fought for the same girl and my father ended up with her, but that was when my mom was broken hearted by the King and like you guys say, they broke up. The King got word of my mom's new relationship and out of jealously he expulsed him from his army, even though my father was his Second in Command. That gave my father a reason to hate him; he said that the King had destroyed everything he had worked hard for.
Years later, after my brother was born, and the King was already married and with children; he tried to apologize to my father, he said that he had been irrational and foolish. He said that he had changed and that he wanted to be friends with him again. My father's rage grew, he screamed at him and kicked him out of his house. The King got angry at him for that and never tried to talk to him again. As we both grew up, we had always asked ourselves why did our father hated the King but we never dared to ask, not even to our mother.
Then we hit our teens and Michael started to show some interest for the Royal Army and when he talked about it to my father, hoping that he would understand, my father went bersek and said that he rather have him dead than to join the Royal Army; it was obvious that our father still had some issues to take care of. But Rath , I mean, Michael didn`t give up he wanted to be in the Royal Army more than anything else in the world and he said that he was going even if that meant to betray his father. Although he did know that there were going to be some problems for him since he was Kivar`s son, but he had made it clear to the King that he didn`t mean any harm, that he only wanted to be part of it. The good news was that the King accepted him and I remember how proud my mom and I were when we knew that he made it. But our father wasn`t too proud; when he got word of it, they both had a huge fight, yelling at each other. It was horrible, my father went crazy and he had kicked Rath
out of his own house and warned him to never set foot in the house ever again.
He lived in the Royal house for a while until he found somewhere else to live, but while he lived at the Royal house, Zan had befriended him and made him feel welcome. Then he met Vilandra and I remember him saying how beautiful she was and..."
"Ok, skip that" interrupted Michael.
"Why?, no! go on" said Isabel trying to tease Michael "Let's see what he had to say about the Christmas Nazi" the Michael turned his head to avoid her eyes.
"Christmas Nazi?" asked Leona perplexed.
"Long story. Don't ask" replied Max.
"Well, he did fall in love with her but I guess she didn't share the same feelings. We kept seeing each other at the lake, where we would meet and I'd give him my mom's letters, he'd read them out loud to me. Then one evening at the lake, Michael had invited me to a party the King was throwing.
. He told me that he was serious, that the King wanted to meet me. I almost fainted when I heard that, I told him that I didn't want any problems with my dad, but he insisted telling me that he wasn't planning to leave me alone until I said yes; I gave in, I said yes. I told my mom everything and the first thing she said was that I had to start on planning what to wear. I couldn't believe my ears, then my mom explained why she was ok with it; she told me that I needed to understand that it didn't matter if I was in Royal grounds, that someday, my father had to get over it.
That night, my mom helped me to sneak out, I had a long white dress with long and bell-like sleeves on; I put on my mom's diamond necklace and diamond earrings. Like every mother, my mom said that I looked beautiful, I didn't want to believe that, at least not yet. Rath was waiting for me at the door and kept telling me to calm down. Finally we were at the door. I wanted to escape. The people who were there were looking at me and I didn't like those looks at all, I felt...out of place. The King and the queen had approached me and greeted me. They kept talking how much they were proud of Rath, that they were thinking of making him the future King's second in command. Rath introduced Zan and Vilandra to me and I was all smiles when they greeted me. I talked to them as if I knew them since birth when suddenly I felt the wind brush my cheek and I knew that you were the chosen ones."
She went on.
"Then after a while Rath invited Vilandra to dance, leaving Zan and me alone. We talked, but after a few songs he asked me to dance with him, so we danced and talked at the same time. I could say that I felt something but those were the times when I realized that I couldn't be with him. But he was a rebel, he didn't care and I wasn't too sure that I could afford my dad finding out. The next day, when I went to the lake, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Zan alone, waiting for me. I knew that it was a set up, but it turned out that I had my first kiss with him that same day.
We kept meeting there every day like I used to with Rath, . Those were the days when I realized that I was falling in love with him. Days later he told me that he loved me and I told him that I loved him , too.
After months, Ifound out that my father was getting suspicious and somehow I had to stop having those meetings for a while. But, one day when I thought that it was safe to go one of my father's servants followed me and then after he found me with Zan. The same day, I came back from the lake and my father was expecting me and he told me that he already knew about me and Zan. Even though I tried to explain, he slapped me twice and started to tell me how disappointed and betrayed he felt, then he sent me to my room. I remember how much I cried that night, after that day, my windows and my door was heavily guarded, so I couldn't get out. Days later. my mom told me that my dad wanted to declare war to the King, using as excuse, the land that the King supposedly "stole" from him. I had to make my father stop from doing something that he would regret. I used my powers to sneak out of the house and went to the Royal house. That was the night where I told Zan that we couldn`t see
each other anymore, but I couldn`t convince him to end our relationship. Then I lied, I lied to him telling him that I didn`t love him, that everything was just a game I made up to hurt his feelings, to make him pay for whatever he did to my father; to get my own revenge on him. I guess that did it because he just yelled at me saying to get out of there. It was the hardest thing I ever did in my short life; I didn`t know if I could handle it. The worst part of it, was that I made Rath believe that I played with Zan`s feelings, after that I didn`t see Rath anymore.
I told my father the same thing I said to Zan and he just told me how proud he was of me. I tried so hard to keep the tears from falling in front of him. Months later I received the news that Zan was getting married with a girl named Ava; also Rtah was getting married with Vilandra the same day. Vilandra sent me an invitation to the wedding along with a letter. Days later, my father introduced me to Nicholas when his plans were to get me married to him and I did. I married Nicholas and I just turned 14 years old at that time"
"Hold it there!" yelled Isabel "What do you mean you got married at 14 and with Nicholas!?"
"You'd be surprised at how different things are in Antar, women get married from 13 and ahead. And about Nicholas...don`t ask" Leona replied and without letting anyone speak she went on:
" Everything went smoothly when fights started in the middle of the streets between my father followers and the new King followers. Some of those people died and the fights started to grow. I grew worried and went for help at the Temple, the gods told me that there wasn't anything else to do, just wait for them to choose another Royal Four, because the ones they had already chosen weren't worth it. I could see why, the new King was careless, and yes I'm talking about Zan. Sometimes he was just plain unfair, he would punish innocent people, he would decide who lived and who died with the flip of a coin. He was tough, but he was also careless. But that wasn't the only thing wrong. In fact everything went very wrong.
One night I saw my mom crying. I asked what was wrong, she didn't want to tell me. Next thing I knew she ran away and I didn't know where she had gone, my father went out looking for her but came back with nothing. The next night, I felt my mom calling for help. I went to the lake where I felt her, but I was too late. I found her at the floating in the lake, dead. I dived to pull her to the shore and I saw in her neck a silverhand print. I realized that she was killed. My father was there with me along with a handful of people, then another handful came to the shore yelling at us between them was Zan, Ava, his wife; Vilandra and Rath. That's when my father started to blame it on one of Zan's people and all of them started to yell at each other. Then I lost it, I made them stop by making the floor shake and open up, and big thunder bolts aimed at the trees. Everyone fell silent, at that moment nobody knew that I was the one who made those effects, they thought that it was the
gods, who were angry at them; well, I was. That's when I placed a curse upon the one who dared to start a fight which in the future was to become the greatest war Antar had ever seen, and the one who starts it will die along with their families. It was the worst mistake I ever did, I did it out of anger, although I did wish to put the curse on the one who killed my mother.
Later it turned out that Vilandra, Nicholas and my father were plotting against the Royal Family. Vilandra had tricked Zan to believe that my father killed one of his people and that made him start the war. I didn't know then that Nicholas was on it until I caught him with Vilandra in bed.I remember that night so well and I could describe the pain, the frustration, the betrayal, everything! I was so hurt and felt like killing myself. I also remember running that night amd him yelling at me. Just before I reached the door he was saying that my father was also sleeping with her even before my mother died. I couldn't believe what he had said, I stopped running to face him and told him that I didn't believe him. He had Vilandra say it to me and I felt like my whole world was destroyed and I walked away from them. When I opened the door asking myself what else could go wrong, I saw Zan at the door. I had opened the door before he knocked and one of his soldiers aimed at me and
shot me. That's when Zan saw Vilandra and started to ask her for an explanation. Rath saw me at the floor when I was trying to get up and helped me. My father then appeared with Ava grabbed by one of his soldiers, she was crying in horror, pleading to my father to leave them alone. I saw how she really loved Zan and I saw in his eyes how worried he was, that my father would hurt her. It was horrible how things were getting and all the screams that came from outside of the people who was getting killed. As my blood shed on the floor from my stomach I realized the price the people got to pay because of hate. I told Rath to get me to the lake but he refused to get me there, he thought that I was trying to die in the same place my mom had. So, I had to go alone, I fired a beam of fire at the soldiers who were guarding the door and I escaped, I went through a shortcut trying to avoid the places where people were killed. But it turned out that they were everywhere, I saw the
people on the floor, dead; and heard the cries of children and women getting killed. Even the sacred forest was full of bodies and the lake was red from the blood. I cried at the sight of it; I couldn't get through the lake without looking down at the red water. Finally I made it to the Temple and I pleaded the gods to help me stop the masacre , but they told that there was nothing they could do. As Malik was tending my bruises, they showed me how Zan, Ava and Rath were killed. I couldn't believe that Nicholas had the guts to kill my brother, even though he feared Rath. Vilandra took care of killing Ava, while my father killed Zan.
A few days later I was still inside the Temple and word got around that Vilandra was killed by the King followers. Then, my father went to the Royal house to kill the King father but the Queen luckily escaped with some of her loyal servants, even though he refused to leave her husband. When the King father was killed, it was official, my father made himself the new King and even since, he enslaved his opponents and killed the ones who dared to stand up against him. I wasn't glad to leave Antar, not only for my father but for the people I left suffering from his injustice. I haven't seen him since, only I saw Nicholas."
Everyone kept silent after her story. Then Isabel spoke:
"What about our mother?" asked Isabel "Is she alive?"
"Yes, she is alive" she replied smiling at Isabel "But she's still in Antar, she refuses to leave even for her own sake"
"Have you seen her?" asked Max
"Yes, I have" she replies "some of our people tries to convince her to come here"
"I can understand why she doesn't want to leave Antar" says Tess.
"What if Kivar tries to kill her?" asked Max
"We have the best soldiers taking care of her but I don't know how long can they hold on" replied Leona "If it makes you feel any better, Kivar doesn't know where she is"
"He can track her down, as easily as he could track us" commented Tess
"But he doesn't care about her, he cares about the Granilith and he wants you dead" replied Leona.
"Well, we can hope for the best" said Isabel. In that moment, the phone rang. Leona looked at the phone confused before picking it up.
"Who in his right mind calls at 3 o'clock in the morning?" said Max as confused as everybody was. Leona picked the phone up.
"Hello...No, Tyr is not here...Phillana is that you?...yes, it's me Leona, how are you?...what?...you're kidding me, right?...are you sure she wants to do that?...she said that?...well, that's great!...I'm alone here...Tyr is in Washington at the Bureau...when is she coming?...what? why didn't you call before?...oh...sorry...well, it will take me a while to get there...hell, no!! I'm not going to orb my way to there!...ok, ok, I'll do it...yes, I'll be there." she hangs up. Then she turns around to face the gang.
"What?" said Isabel "Who was it?"
"I have good news" she replied "Max, Isabel, your mom is coming here...to Earth."
The gang looked surprised at each other. Max was still confused by the whole thing; Isabel felt happy but terrified at the same time. Not any of them knew how to react, but they knew that meeting someone from their past, would change their life, forever.
PART# 7
Once they got into her house, the first thing Leona did was to go to her room and hide the box. Then she came back down, and saw them already in their seats.
"Do you want something to eat or drink?" she asked
"Not for me, thanks" said Max, who seemed tired. The others agreed with him. Leona went to the kitchen and got bottled water out of the refrigerator, while they were waiting for her at the living room.
"I guess if you're going to stay here, I better get everything ready for your sleepover but first of all where do you want to sleep? upstairs in my room or downstairs" Leona commented as she headed for the closet where she kept blankets and sheets.
"I think upstairs sounds good" said Tess .
"Ok, let's go" Leona said carrying the blankets and sheets. Max offered to help her to carry them up. "Thanks" she said as she lead the way up to her room. Once they were in her room she searched in her closet for something to wear for the girls. Then she went to another room, from where she came back carrying some T-shirts and shorts for the guys.
"What's that?" asked Michael when he saw her carrying the clothes.
"These? They're called clothes" she said joking with a big grin in her face. Michael put a face as if saying "Not funny", while the girls were giggling.
"Whose are those?" asked Max after he had chuckled at Leona's joke.
"Finally, the right question" she replied "These are Pierce's" Max, stared at her with a questioning look.
"Are you sure you want us to wear his clothes?" asked Michael, who wasn't too sure what to expect.
"Sure, he'd be honored" she replied smiling "Besides, he won't use them any time soon, will he?" Max and Michael finally took the clothes and changed into them by turns in her bathroom. Then the girls changed their clothes right after the guys were done. Leona couldn't help to say when she saw them:
"A perfect match" she said smiling at them.
"Now, you're creeping me out" replied Michael
"But he looked even more gorgeous in those shorts" she commented
"Are you trying to tell us that you had a crush on your cousin?" asked Max jokingly "What if I had?" she said trying to outsmart him. The gang widened their eyes when she said that, until she gave a loud laugh.
"You should have seen your faces" she said between laughs.
"Now you really creep me out" commented Michael.
After a while they sat in the floor talking about anything but Kivar. Although they didn't want to spoil the moment, they still wanted to know about how everything started. They kept talking for hours, and even though it was getting late they wanted to lay awake all night. Leona didn't like the idea.
"That is what sleepovers are about" commented Isabel.
"I know that" replied Leona "I just though that you'd be tired by now"
"I remember how all of us could stay awake all night and we used to talk without stopping" said Michael.
"The one who talked most was Isabel" said Max "But we don't remember a night when we'd get bored"
"Well, you must have some charm" commented Leona to Isabel.
"Sure, I always had" she said playfully
"It's sure nice to meet somebody who doesn't cut herself short" commented Tess, smiling.
"You don't say" replied Leona to Tess.
"I do say!" Tess replied back, then the girls laughed.
"Well, I think it's time" said Max
"For what?" asked Tess.
"I've been meaning to get to hear the rest of the story" he replied. The rest of the gang looked at him, then at Leona.
"You're right" said Leona "I better go on with it"
Then, she started:
"My mother once fell in love with the King, Zan's father. My father Kivar, was in love with my mother and also the King was his best friend. Both fought for the same girl and my father ended up with her, but that was when my mom was broken hearted by the King and like you guys say, they broke up. The King got word of my mom's new relationship and out of jealously he expulsed him from his army, even though my father was his Second in Command. That gave my father a reason to hate him; he said that the King had destroyed everything he had worked hard for.
Years later, after my brother was born, and the King was already married and with children; he tried to apologize to my father, he said that he had been irrational and foolish. He said that he had changed and that he wanted to be friends with him again. My father's rage grew, he screamed at him and kicked him out of his house. The King got angry at him for that and never tried to talk to him again. As we both grew up, we had always asked ourselves why did our father hated the King but we never dared to ask, not even to our mother.
Then we hit our teens and Michael started to show some interest for the Royal Army and when he talked about it to my father, hoping that he would understand, my father went bersek and said that he rather have him dead than to join the Royal Army; it was obvious that our father still had some issues to take care of. But Rath , I mean, Michael didn`t give up he wanted to be in the Royal Army more than anything else in the world and he said that he was going even if that meant to betray his father. Although he did know that there were going to be some problems for him since he was Kivar`s son, but he had made it clear to the King that he didn`t mean any harm, that he only wanted to be part of it. The good news was that the King accepted him and I remember how proud my mom and I were when we knew that he made it. But our father wasn`t too proud; when he got word of it, they both had a huge fight, yelling at each other. It was horrible, my father went crazy and he had kicked Rath
out of his own house and warned him to never set foot in the house ever again.
He lived in the Royal house for a while until he found somewhere else to live, but while he lived at the Royal house, Zan had befriended him and made him feel welcome. Then he met Vilandra and I remember him saying how beautiful she was and..."
"Ok, skip that" interrupted Michael.
"Why?, no! go on" said Isabel trying to tease Michael "Let's see what he had to say about the Christmas Nazi" the Michael turned his head to avoid her eyes.
"Christmas Nazi?" asked Leona perplexed.
"Long story. Don't ask" replied Max.
"Well, he did fall in love with her but I guess she didn't share the same feelings. We kept seeing each other at the lake, where we would meet and I'd give him my mom's letters, he'd read them out loud to me. Then one evening at the lake, Michael had invited me to a party the King was throwing.
. He told me that he was serious, that the King wanted to meet me. I almost fainted when I heard that, I told him that I didn't want any problems with my dad, but he insisted telling me that he wasn't planning to leave me alone until I said yes; I gave in, I said yes. I told my mom everything and the first thing she said was that I had to start on planning what to wear. I couldn't believe my ears, then my mom explained why she was ok with it; she told me that I needed to understand that it didn't matter if I was in Royal grounds, that someday, my father had to get over it.
That night, my mom helped me to sneak out, I had a long white dress with long and bell-like sleeves on; I put on my mom's diamond necklace and diamond earrings. Like every mother, my mom said that I looked beautiful, I didn't want to believe that, at least not yet. Rath was waiting for me at the door and kept telling me to calm down. Finally we were at the door. I wanted to escape. The people who were there were looking at me and I didn't like those looks at all, I felt...out of place. The King and the queen had approached me and greeted me. They kept talking how much they were proud of Rath, that they were thinking of making him the future King's second in command. Rath introduced Zan and Vilandra to me and I was all smiles when they greeted me. I talked to them as if I knew them since birth when suddenly I felt the wind brush my cheek and I knew that you were the chosen ones."
She went on.
"Then after a while Rath invited Vilandra to dance, leaving Zan and me alone. We talked, but after a few songs he asked me to dance with him, so we danced and talked at the same time. I could say that I felt something but those were the times when I realized that I couldn't be with him. But he was a rebel, he didn't care and I wasn't too sure that I could afford my dad finding out. The next day, when I went to the lake, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Zan alone, waiting for me. I knew that it was a set up, but it turned out that I had my first kiss with him that same day.
We kept meeting there every day like I used to with Rath, . Those were the days when I realized that I was falling in love with him. Days later he told me that he loved me and I told him that I loved him , too.
After months, Ifound out that my father was getting suspicious and somehow I had to stop having those meetings for a while. But, one day when I thought that it was safe to go one of my father's servants followed me and then after he found me with Zan. The same day, I came back from the lake and my father was expecting me and he told me that he already knew about me and Zan. Even though I tried to explain, he slapped me twice and started to tell me how disappointed and betrayed he felt, then he sent me to my room. I remember how much I cried that night, after that day, my windows and my door was heavily guarded, so I couldn't get out. Days later. my mom told me that my dad wanted to declare war to the King, using as excuse, the land that the King supposedly "stole" from him. I had to make my father stop from doing something that he would regret. I used my powers to sneak out of the house and went to the Royal house. That was the night where I told Zan that we couldn`t see
each other anymore, but I couldn`t convince him to end our relationship. Then I lied, I lied to him telling him that I didn`t love him, that everything was just a game I made up to hurt his feelings, to make him pay for whatever he did to my father; to get my own revenge on him. I guess that did it because he just yelled at me saying to get out of there. It was the hardest thing I ever did in my short life; I didn`t know if I could handle it. The worst part of it, was that I made Rath believe that I played with Zan`s feelings, after that I didn`t see Rath anymore.
I told my father the same thing I said to Zan and he just told me how proud he was of me. I tried so hard to keep the tears from falling in front of him. Months later I received the news that Zan was getting married with a girl named Ava; also Rtah was getting married with Vilandra the same day. Vilandra sent me an invitation to the wedding along with a letter. Days later, my father introduced me to Nicholas when his plans were to get me married to him and I did. I married Nicholas and I just turned 14 years old at that time"
"Hold it there!" yelled Isabel "What do you mean you got married at 14 and with Nicholas!?"
"You'd be surprised at how different things are in Antar, women get married from 13 and ahead. And about Nicholas...don`t ask" Leona replied and without letting anyone speak she went on:
" Everything went smoothly when fights started in the middle of the streets between my father followers and the new King followers. Some of those people died and the fights started to grow. I grew worried and went for help at the Temple, the gods told me that there wasn't anything else to do, just wait for them to choose another Royal Four, because the ones they had already chosen weren't worth it. I could see why, the new King was careless, and yes I'm talking about Zan. Sometimes he was just plain unfair, he would punish innocent people, he would decide who lived and who died with the flip of a coin. He was tough, but he was also careless. But that wasn't the only thing wrong. In fact everything went very wrong.
One night I saw my mom crying. I asked what was wrong, she didn't want to tell me. Next thing I knew she ran away and I didn't know where she had gone, my father went out looking for her but came back with nothing. The next night, I felt my mom calling for help. I went to the lake where I felt her, but I was too late. I found her at the floating in the lake, dead. I dived to pull her to the shore and I saw in her neck a silverhand print. I realized that she was killed. My father was there with me along with a handful of people, then another handful came to the shore yelling at us between them was Zan, Ava, his wife; Vilandra and Rath. That's when my father started to blame it on one of Zan's people and all of them started to yell at each other. Then I lost it, I made them stop by making the floor shake and open up, and big thunder bolts aimed at the trees. Everyone fell silent, at that moment nobody knew that I was the one who made those effects, they thought that it was the
gods, who were angry at them; well, I was. That's when I placed a curse upon the one who dared to start a fight which in the future was to become the greatest war Antar had ever seen, and the one who starts it will die along with their families. It was the worst mistake I ever did, I did it out of anger, although I did wish to put the curse on the one who killed my mother.
Later it turned out that Vilandra, Nicholas and my father were plotting against the Royal Family. Vilandra had tricked Zan to believe that my father killed one of his people and that made him start the war. I didn't know then that Nicholas was on it until I caught him with Vilandra in bed.I remember that night so well and I could describe the pain, the frustration, the betrayal, everything! I was so hurt and felt like killing myself. I also remember running that night amd him yelling at me. Just before I reached the door he was saying that my father was also sleeping with her even before my mother died. I couldn't believe what he had said, I stopped running to face him and told him that I didn't believe him. He had Vilandra say it to me and I felt like my whole world was destroyed and I walked away from them. When I opened the door asking myself what else could go wrong, I saw Zan at the door. I had opened the door before he knocked and one of his soldiers aimed at me and
shot me. That's when Zan saw Vilandra and started to ask her for an explanation. Rath saw me at the floor when I was trying to get up and helped me. My father then appeared with Ava grabbed by one of his soldiers, she was crying in horror, pleading to my father to leave them alone. I saw how she really loved Zan and I saw in his eyes how worried he was, that my father would hurt her. It was horrible how things were getting and all the screams that came from outside of the people who was getting killed. As my blood shed on the floor from my stomach I realized the price the people got to pay because of hate. I told Rath to get me to the lake but he refused to get me there, he thought that I was trying to die in the same place my mom had. So, I had to go alone, I fired a beam of fire at the soldiers who were guarding the door and I escaped, I went through a shortcut trying to avoid the places where people were killed. But it turned out that they were everywhere, I saw the
people on the floor, dead; and heard the cries of children and women getting killed. Even the sacred forest was full of bodies and the lake was red from the blood. I cried at the sight of it; I couldn't get through the lake without looking down at the red water. Finally I made it to the Temple and I pleaded the gods to help me stop the masacre , but they told that there was nothing they could do. As Malik was tending my bruises, they showed me how Zan, Ava and Rath were killed. I couldn't believe that Nicholas had the guts to kill my brother, even though he feared Rath. Vilandra took care of killing Ava, while my father killed Zan.
A few days later I was still inside the Temple and word got around that Vilandra was killed by the King followers. Then, my father went to the Royal house to kill the King father but the Queen luckily escaped with some of her loyal servants, even though he refused to leave her husband. When the King father was killed, it was official, my father made himself the new King and even since, he enslaved his opponents and killed the ones who dared to stand up against him. I wasn't glad to leave Antar, not only for my father but for the people I left suffering from his injustice. I haven't seen him since, only I saw Nicholas."
Everyone kept silent after her story. Then Isabel spoke:
"What about our mother?" asked Isabel "Is she alive?"
"Yes, she is alive" she replied smiling at Isabel "But she's still in Antar, she refuses to leave even for her own sake"
"Have you seen her?" asked Max
"Yes, I have" she replies "some of our people tries to convince her to come here"
"I can understand why she doesn't want to leave Antar" says Tess.
"What if Kivar tries to kill her?" asked Max
"We have the best soldiers taking care of her but I don't know how long can they hold on" replied Leona "If it makes you feel any better, Kivar doesn't know where she is"
"He can track her down, as easily as he could track us" commented Tess
"But he doesn't care about her, he cares about the Granilith and he wants you dead" replied Leona.
"Well, we can hope for the best" said Isabel. In that moment, the phone rang. Leona looked at the phone confused before picking it up.
"Who in his right mind calls at 3 o'clock in the morning?" said Max as confused as everybody was. Leona picked the phone up.
"Hello...No, Tyr is not here...Phillana is that you?...yes, it's me Leona, how are you?...what?...you're kidding me, right?...are you sure she wants to do that?...she said that?...well, that's great!...I'm alone here...Tyr is in Washington at the Bureau...when is she coming?...what? why didn't you call before?...oh...sorry...well, it will take me a while to get there...hell, no!! I'm not going to orb my way to there!...ok, ok, I'll do it...yes, I'll be there." she hangs up. Then she turns around to face the gang.
"What?" said Isabel "Who was it?"
"I have good news" she replied "Max, Isabel, your mom is coming here...to Earth."
The gang looked surprised at each other. Max was still confused by the whole thing; Isabel felt happy but terrified at the same time. Not any of them knew how to react, but they knew that meeting someone from their past, would change their life, forever.