Chapter eleven
Reyna
Darkness awoken
Reyna stood close to Matt mortaring Matt ' s brain waves when suddenly Matt ' s eyes flashed open and his hand closed around her throat.
Reyna had no time to react to the attack. However everyone was on their feet instantly.
"What are you doing Matt!?" Fen snarled.
Matt through back his head and gave a psychotic laugh. " Why do you care Fen you're too selfish and self centered last I checked, go back to being a low life why don't you. " Matt said smiling darkly.
"What did you call me Thorsen? !" Fen snarled baring his teeth and balling his fists in anger.
"You heard me. So be a good wolf and do as you're told or does the Alpha puppy need to have a punishment? " Matt said laughing.
"Why I ought to. " Fen raised his hand to punch Matt.
Amongst the chaos Reyna spotted what was making Matt act like this.
"Fen wait -" Reyna chocked out. "Look at his eyes anything look off to you?"
Fen froze mid punch and looked closely at Matt and lowered his fist. "What game is this what in the names of the gods is going on here."
Matt ' s eyes were red with a Norse symbol inside them that stood for: darkness. A symbol that looks like a closed eye with a small circle above it.
That would explain Matt ' s odd behavior. He's dark. Is it possible that Matt 's granddad did this to him...if so... why? What would he gain from this?
"I see that look in your eyes Reyna. Your curious. ...trying to figure out what is going on. Unfortunately you're coming up empty. Your theories aren't quite adding up. This is because you lack the important information I gathered. Unfortunately for you, you won't be getting it for a while." Matt exclaimed with a smiled.
Matt smiled more before dropping Reyna. "My grandfather says he needs you alive oh well."
"Reyna! " Rey ran over to his sister.
Both held their hands.
"Mørket kan regne tak i dette fartøyet , men vi lyset bedt deg borte frigjøre lyset fanget av mørket ." Reyna and Ray said in unison.
(The Norwegian to English translation of this is: Darkness may rain hold of this vessel, but we the light bid thee gone freeing the light trapped by darkness.)
Matt laughed darkly. " If this was going to be easy I would have told you however. .. we've got some time to kill."
"That s-should have worked. " Reyna stammered. Matt walked forward. "I've been given my orders I'm not after you. However I wouldn't mind a fight with you Fen or even Laurie or Astrid."
Baldwin and Fen blocked Astrid and Laurie. "If you're picking a fight Thorsen you're fighting me. " Fen said. Matt smiled.
"You always were the fool who wanted to pick fights." Matt said. Fen returned a growl.
"Shut up and fight me Thorsen. How do you want this to go human or wolf form?" Fen asked as Owen took Fen's spot to protect Laurie.
Matt tapped his chin before smiling. "Human form. So the fight is even. "
"So be it. " Fen said taking up a fighting stance.
"Be careful Fen." Nova and Laurie muttered. Fen nodded his head. "I will." Fen whispered in reply.
Then Matt and Fen locked in combat.
All Reyna could do was watch the fight. Matt wasn't using the combat style she had grown accustom to. His hand to hand style here was different from his boxing. Matt normally used his shield and both of his hammers. However here he wasn't and this style wasn't like his boxing. ..not completely that was for sure.
Matt swung a hard punch to hit Fen to which the boy blocked only to follow up a kick to the stomach. Fen stumbled back coughing up blood as he wheezed.
This fight has only been going on for five minutes and Fen hasn't even laid a single hit on Matt. How is that possible?
"Getting tired yet Fen?" Matt asked before laughing darkly with a smug smile on his lips.
Fen grinned. "Don't make me laugh Thorsen. We're just- ugh hick- getting started " Fen said coughing blood.
"Stop wasting my time Fen. You're ovasly in no state to continue fighting. Give up now and save me the need to harm you further. " Matt said glaring at Fen with a cold stare.
"Hahaha, fat chance Thorsen. ..I'm not about to give up to the likes of you." Fen snarled challengingly through clenched teeth.
"So be it." Matt said. Before attacking Fen once more.
It makes sense why Matt is holding back he's still himself he knows he's inside his house, he doesn't want to brake anything or harm Fen any more. At least I think that's what is happening.
Fen blocked Matt ' s attack. Only to be punched in the head. Fen fell forward his head thrashed around violently as if he were unfocused. Matt slammed his foot down onto Fen's back and held Fen helplessly to the floor.
"This is the best you can do? What filth. You're not even worth my time. " Matt spat on Fen. "You have Helen ' s magic do you not? Tell me pup why don't you use it? You've gone soft." Matt sneered bring his foot down onto Fen 's back again.
Reyna watched helplessly as Fen cried out in pain. His face was sequenced up as he whimpered trying to hold back tears of pain. Large amounts of blood dripped onto the carpet staining it crimson.
"Stop it!" Laurie shrieked as her Ghost Bone bow appeared in her hands as she drew back the string aiming it right at Matt 's heart. "Let my brother go."
Matt grinned and chuckled. "Or what? You'll kill me? Please, you've already calculated your fatal mistake. You know if you kill me you automatically lose this fight. Your only deserving me and everyone else here that you're going to shoot me however you're right...there!"
Matt punched Laurie in the stomach hard enough to make her fall to her side. The Laurie holding the bow disappeared into smoke. Which made Owen jump ever so slightly.
"How did you know that I wasn't there?" Laurie wheezed.
"You need to work on creating a double of yourself. ..I've seen it done first hand." Matt said standing over Laurie.
"But know it's time for you to take a nap! " Reyna said before she waved her hand.
Matt stumbled before falling unconscious.
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"Run that by me one more time Reyna. I'm having a hard time understanding it." Fen said.
"Boy... for a boy who got beat up pretty bad you're still yourself." Reyna said shaking her head. "Remember this is all speculation as we don't know what happened to Matt on the other side. My guess was he did gather information for us, however he had a run in with his grandfather. The only information we have is from the double Laurie created...we now that Matt has seen it perfected which likely means he saw it done on the other side as it's our first time seeing the move preformed. With this said Matt ' s granddad was smart enough to keep that information quite for a little longer. He most likely used something called "Dark Dust" a type of dust that can turn something or someone dark. The user can control the actions taken by there so called "puppet " for a short period of time until the dust wares off. The mark and eye color Matt had proves my theory. "
"Okay so Matt got his ass kicked in that realm and that in turn got him turned dark...right?" Fen asked.
"Exactly. "Laurie said.
"So how long is he going to be out for? " Astrid asked. Reyna frowned at the girl.
"A few more hours two at least. I should have been able to see un balance when I was looking over his brain waves. But I didn't." Reyna said softly.
"Even if you could have picked up on it we wouldn't have been able to bring him out of it even if we wanted to. " Laurie said.
Reyna frowned and nodded sadly. "My point. All we can do is wait. "
Reyna sat close to Matt. It had been two hours since the descendants had talked about what had happened. Matt sutured.
"What happened? " Matt groaned shaking his head.
Reyna pulled Matt ' s bangs out of his face. "You alright Matt? "
"Reyna? " Matt asked.
"Yeah it's me." Reyna said.
"Oh what a beautiful moment too bad it's over." Matt ' s granddad said as he appeared.
"Get away from him!" Reyna snapped getting up to stand between Matt and his granddad.
He smiled. "It's not him I'm after my dear."
"Reyna! " Matt cried out.
Just like that the world around Reyna vanished and when the world returned she was in a forest clearing.
Where am I?
"Thank you for joining me Reyna. " Matt ' s granddad said.
"Why did you bring me here!?" Reyna snapped.
"You know exactly why you're here daughter of Freya. " He replied.
Reyna stumbled backwards. "No I'm not performing the spell required to bring you back!"
"You don't have a choice." Matt ' s granddad explained as he blew Dark Dust into Reyna ' s face.
Reyna smiled darkly. "Of course master."
A table appeared with ingredients and a caldron.
Slowly Reyna begun to put the ingredients into the caldron. Once the final ingredient was put into the Calderon Reyna ' s hands began to glow.
"Invoco super animam hominis redire artium obscurorum diduxit a vita ad mortem . Inque vicem affectus sum reversurus terra animam viventem vendam tenebris."
(Latin to English translation -I call upon the dark arts to return the soul of a man that has parted from life into death. I the caster in turn for his return to the land will give my soul to the darkness. )
Matt 's granddad smiled as his body became flesh. Reyna slumped to her knees.
"You bastered you don't know what you've done! " Reyna snapped as slowly her appearance began to change.
"Oh I know what I've done my dear. However save the sentimental speech for someone who cares. I couldn't care less about it." Matt ' s granddad said.
Reyna gripped her head.
There is nothing I can do to stop the darkness from corrupting my soul!
Reyna ' s hair slowly turned from her blonde hair to her old Gothic hair color, blonde and black. Her graphic designer t-shirt turned from white to black with see-through silk long sleeves. Her black jeans became leggings and a long black see-through -silk skirt appeared around her waist. And her addedis running shoes became black square high heel boots.
Reyna looked up at the man towering over her. She smiled . Her eyes flashed open as a powerful blast of energy sent him back a few feet.
"You really don't have a clue do you? That look on your pathetic face of yours says it all." Reyna said.
"What are you! ?" He demanded.
"Hum..." Reyna smiled as a sword appeared in her hand. "I am a nightmare! "
Then Reyna charged at Matt' s granddad. He got out of the way as Reyna swung at him.
"Why are you running, you and I both know that you're immortal because of the spell. You have gods strength. ...powers far greater than my own, tell me why do you not face me? Truly someone such as yourself isn't scared of a little girl. Hahaha. Face me, show me just how far you are willing to go to get what you want. ..surely I shouldn't be a nearly impossible opponent to defeat. " Reyna laughed darkly as she turned to face him. "Tell you what, let me make this even. " Reyna said. With a snap of her fingers a cloud of purple smoke wrapped around Matt 's granddad 's hand and in it was a sword.
"Wonderful. Let's begin shall we? Now, now let's not waste anymore time." Reyna said before taking up a fighting stance.
Matt 's granddad stared at the weapon in his hand. Before looking back at her. Two Which she smiled back at him.
Matt 's granddad took up his own fighting stance. "I don't care what you are I will not let you stand in my way! "
Reyna and Matt 's granddad locked into combat. Reyna dodging his blade with ease however he caught her unbalanced and took his chance to kick her feet out from under her.
Reyna hit the ground with a loud THUD! He kicked her sword away from her hand. She glared at him with hatred in her eyes.
"Not so full of yourself now are you!?" He said holding his sword to her throat.
Reyna clenched her teeth.
I under estimated him that was a foolish mistake...however it isn't a complete lost.
She broke her gaze from his and looked at her sword.
It's further then I had thought. This makes matters even more difficult, so long as he holds me here at sword point I can't use my magic, I could still fight him but it means that my body may become wounded. My magic can heal wounds quickly but it will take vast distance from him to restore my wounds properly should I get attacked. Not only that but if the wounds should be fatal my magic will not be enough to save me. What path should I take?
Reyna met Matt ' s grandfather 's eyes once more. "Not bad, for an old man, I'll give you that. " she muttered as harmless as possible.
He smiled at her. "Let's see just how strong I really am!"
Reyna growled a curse under her breath. This wasn't good and Reyna new better than to let him attack her, her hand to hand style wasn't as good as Matt.
Reyna frowned. There was a spell she could use . With the distance it could work. Reyna looked up at Matt ' s granddad.
I just hope this works.
"You've got me, well done. I was foolish to become so arrogant. You have earned the right to be the ruler of this world." Reyna said as slowly she felt her magic flow through the ground below.
" Well you would be right daughter of Freya. " He began grinning.
I knew it! He is vain!
"Of course I'm right. I should have done the spell without hesitation when you brought me here. That was my mistake. Please forgive my rudeness my lord." Reyna said in a sweeter tone.
Ugh why am I being so nice to him he is my enemy. Oh that's right I'm trying to get myself out of this mess!
Vines began to grow up out of the ground behind Matt ' s granddad.
"Now!" Reyna snapped. The vines sprang to life wrapping around him which made him lose the sword.
"Hahaha. Arrogant fool. You're vanity is what makes you weak therefore you lack strategic planning skills. A skill in which you should value. But foolish as you are... we are the same. We both underestimated one another. " Reyna said as she picked up the fallen sword before her. Her lips pulled back into a sharp grin. "Tell me...when I plunge this blade into your gut you tell me just how painful it must have been for Fen and Laurie ' s Aunt when you murdered her in cold blood! "
Reyna plunged the sword into Matt ' s granddad' s gut. He cried out in pain clenching his jaws shut trying to hold back tears.
Reyna smiled darkly and twisted and turned the blade around and around. "Painful isn't it, all of that pain getting worse and worse and yet there's nothing that can end the pain. Sucks to be a god now doesn't it. Yet you had enchanted the blade to kill her didn't you."
Matt ' s granddad smiled as he stared Reyna dead in the eyes as he threw back his head and laughed. "Clever girl. Too bad I can't stay and chat some more, but I've got some where to be ta ta daughter of Freya. "
With that he disappeared into smoke leaving Reyna all alone in the cleaning.
Reyna growled. "Of course. ..he just had to disappear! Of all the - no I have to be the better person. "
Dame it I'm in charge know and I say that I'm not going to be the better person!
"So says you. I may be dark now but that doesn't mean that I let you have my body! You've had your fun." Reyna muttered.
A dark illusion appeared. It wore the same thing as Reyna currently only the two differences in its appearance was that she had a tattoo of a cat on her right shoulder that could be seen through her silk top and gold red slit eyes.
"Did I say that you could control your body? !" The illusion snarled showing its sharp teeth.
"No you didn't but I am the real Reyna!" Reyna said challengingly.
Before the creature could reply to Reyna ' s argument a portal opened up and all the descendants appeared in the cleaning.
Both Reyna and the illusion were wide eyed.
Matt looked on at Reyna in shock. "R - Reyna? Is that you?"
Reyna gave Matt a sympathetic look.
What am I going to say?
"Hello Matt. .." Reyna said.