CHAPTER 7 – THE FINAL BATTLE
"I'm gonna need your weapons" Said Evony scared but strong.
"Upstairs" Said Lauren grateful that she took charge of the situation.
"Vex, nothing can happen to Lauren" Said Evony as she ran upstairs. She knew she had revealed herself too much, but the situation was so extreme, she didn't care at all. Lauren was human and if this Fae was coming, she was the most vulnerable one. And she just couldn't think about anything happening to her.
Lauren and Vex were waiting for Evony when the door was suddenly opened wide with a huge noise. A blond woman with curls appeared on the door; she looked harmless, but Lauren could see in Vex's face that she should be scared like hell.
"Hello again" she said to Vex. Her voice was creepy. She looked at Lauren and looked confused for a second. Lauren tried to run but suddenly the Fae reacted and raised her hand: in a second Vex was forced to grab Lauren by her neck.
"Where is she?" Asked her with her creepy voice.
"She's not here" Lied Lauren.
"Shut up you human!" Shouted her. And she made Vex squeeze her neck even more. Something didn't make sense and suddenly Lauren realized what it was. She just needed to get to the drawer to get to the serum.
"Leave her alone Mariah, I'm here" Evony appeared out of nothing. She was so serious and defiant that she looked scary. Lauren felt admiration for her and realized she had forgotten that she was the Morrigan after all.
"Oh, sweet" Said the Fae sarcastically, one foot forward. "The leader of the dark fae defending a human… have you fallen for her Evony?" Evony raised her hand but nothing happened. Mariah started laughing.
"She has" Said Lauren. What just happened had confirmed her theory. Mariah looked at her intrigued. "And that was all part of my plan to defeat her. I got into her first, I get to kill her"
Lauren felt Evony's gaze on her and tried not to look back at her.
"If you open that drawer you will find a needle with a serum inside" She told Mariah knowing that she was risking everything. "If you let me do it I will testify against her and you could be the next Morrigan. You're obviously more powerful than her.
Mariah was definitely listening. She looked at Lauren and considered it. "If you're lying, you're death" she said. Lauren felt the pressure in her neck disappear. She walked carefully next to the drawer and took the serum from it. After that she looked at Vex.
"I don't trust him" She told Mariah as she put a hand in Vex's pocket and took a pair of handcuffs out of it. "I knew you always have one of these… always thinking about the same, huh?"
She grabbed Vex's arm and tied it to the stair rail. After that she moved next to Evony and looked at her in the eye.
"Did you really think there was something between us?" She said dismissively. Her heart sank as she saw Evony's pain in her eyes, but she had to keep lying. She took her arm and introduced the serum in it; as soon as she had removed the needle from her, Lauren screamed: "USE THE WEAPON!"
Mariah raised her hand but nothing happened, Evony put a knife on her neck and they took her into the bathroom while they waited for the dark fae's guardians to take her into the dungeons.
"What did you do? What happened?" Asked Evony very confused. "I knew her when we were kids and I always thought she was a Leanan sídhe Muse like me"
"She's an empathic" Said Lauren "First, she used Myer's own powers against him, that's why we thought she was a Lucky Fae. But then she used Vex's powers, so we thought she was a Mesmer. I thought it was weird that she didn't use those powers against me, so when she used Vex to grab me, I realized she couldn't do anything to me directly because I don't have any powers: she could only use Vex's powers agains him… that's what she does, she "steals" the powers from the person in front of her for as long as she's with them, and she uses them against their owners. That's why I used the handcuffs on Vex, so she couldn't use him to stop us"
"And that's why I couldn't melt her"
"Exactly" Said Lauren "… and the only way to stop her from melting you was…"
"To remove my powers from me with the serum" finished Evony. Lauren looked at her, Evony wouldn't look at her in the eye, she looked shocked and confused, Lauren knew this would change everything between them. How was she going to justify the reason why she had a serum that could deactivate her powers?
