Chapter 10
Tymmie rushed into Serena's mind, cutting through her powers easily and trapped her in his memories. He didn't release her until they arrived at an old abandoned warehouse.
"This is where the party really begins." He said with a laugh, "Cooperate and I leave your prince lover and your friends alone…for now."
What could she do? He had already demonstrated his new power, there was no way she could fight him until her power recharged. She was completely at his mercy, and there was no chance of her power coming back unless she cooperated.
"Do you really think I'm that stupid?" He asked returning to her mind. With one almighty wrench he had taken her power. A cry of pain and surprise escaped her lips. This had happened to Jimena before, and Serena had been able to retrieve her power, but now she didn't have the power to go inside minds, her power was lost, probably forever.
"Don't worry Goddess, once you're turned to the dark side, you'll get your power back, and gain even more. Lambert has been waiting a long time for you." He said.
Serena looked at the ground as Tymmie grabbed her arm and led her inside.
Inside the warehouse was the same group of followers she had seen when Aura had possessed her body and taken her to a party. Fear rushed through her body, she had no idea what they were planning but she wasn't going to stick around and find out. She concentrated on both keeping her mind blocked and looking for some force of power inside her.
"Serena…Finally you've joined us." Jerome said, stepping forward.
"Jerome?" She asked in disbelief.
He shook his head, "Lambert." He corrected.
"Lambert, she hasn't been crossed over yet, the Daughters and Stanton interrupted us." Tymmie said.
"Fool!" Lambert cried. "Do you know how dangerous that was, what if she had gotten away? She could tell Stanton where to find us and me!"
Tymmie looked at the ground and loosened her grip on her arm just as she found Hekate's power. Tymmie hadn't found it because he didn't know it was there.
"I took her power." Tymmie said, trying to make up for his mistake.
"Well, at least it's something." Lambert said, "All of it?"
Tymmie nodded.
Serena felt the power once again flowing through her, it wasn't as strong as before, and she needed it to be stronger. She tried to keep it hidden from them, letting it build, thinking of all the danger that her friends would be facing if she crossed over. It had helped her power build before, and it was working now. For once she was glad that it was near the dark of the moon, her power from Selene was weakest, but she didn't have that anymore, so it didn't matter. Her power from Hekate was strongest at the dark of the moon, just like the followers.
"Well then, we'll just have to cross her over here." Lambert said, preparing to go into her mind.
Her power reached the breaking point, with one almighty thrust she released it at Lambert's soul. She knew that if he saw a powerful attack coming at him he would leave Jerome's body. Jerome fell to the ground as Lambert emerged. The blast pierced the blue light, which severely dimmed.
"Lambert!" Morgan cried, running from the back of the room.
No, not Morgan, Aura, She corrected herself.
She let out an equally powerful blast at the followers. Most of them dissolved into shadow and fled, but some of them got hit by the attack. She swayed, completely drained. The world went dark.