Previously...
Leya buried her head and began to weep. She couldn't take this anymore. She wanted to be free. Why? Why was she trying to win the heart of a man who would never love her back. Why did it have to be him? "Lucien.." She cried. Suddenly she heard a sound coming from the secret entrance. She looked up quickly, her heart pounding, emotions stirring. "Lucien?"
Thief of the Heart
Chapter 9
To Leya's dismay, it was Valena who dropped down from the secret entrance. Despair took Leya, like a pig in the grasp of a lion. "What did you do to Lucien!" She clinched her fist making her knuckles turn white. Valena just smirked and tossed a severed head onto the floor in front of her. The smell coming from it was indescribable and foul. To her relief it wasn't Lucien's head. It was a woman's head, but who was she?
"Do you know who that is?" Valena asked. Leya just looked up at her, as she covered her nose. Valena glared at her coldly. "This is my grandmother."
"I do not see how that has anything to do with Lucien." Leya replied. Valena's gaze grew darker.
"Lucien was the one who killed her!" Valena paused. "My father watched her die! He raised me to become an assassin so I could someday avenge the death of my mother."
Leya looked at her in shock. "So, YOU were the traitor, and your father!"
"I am Valena Bellamont. My father Matthieu has been waiting for the right moment to take down Lucien Lachance once and for all. And kill that whore, they call the Night Mother!" Leya watched her closely, she could feel the darkness consuming her.
"Then why are you here! Why do you tell me this!" Leya yelled. Valena drew a dark smile across her face, her black hair falling over her shoulders.
"Because I know you love him. And I also know you cannot leave, without having your pretty feet sliced off like butter." Valena tilted her head, Leya could see the bloodlust forming in her eyes. "That would hurt. That would be such a beautiful sound to hear. The screams of you, and the screams of Lucien Lachance."
"Stop it!" Leya yelled, but Valena ignored her.
"They will find him, and when they do. They will skin him alive, and leave him to die with every nerve in his body to twitch and spasm at every atom that touches it!" Valena began to laugh sadistically. Leya began to sweat, she felt so helpless. But her thought was cut off when Valena suddenly slammed her into the wall.
"As for you! I will leave you here to rot, until you go insane from knowing there was nothing you could do! You poor, defenseless, little elf." Leya glared at her.
"Ok, I'm getting sick of being thrown into the wall." Leya kicked Valena back. Valena jumped back up quickly and was about to rush when she saw Leya standing there with an aura of electricity surrounding her palms.
"Ah, I see the slave knows some tricks. By all means, enterain me."
Leya glared at her, leaning forward."My pleasure!" Leya charged Valena as they began to fight. Valena went to land a punch, but Leya blocked and pulled her arm in , punching her in the stomach. Valena now bent over, Leya knee'd her in the face, making her fall back. Valena recovered quickly and rolled backwards and jumped to the side.
Valena charged Leya and crouched down kicking her in the ankles, making Leya fall to her knees ,screaming in pain. Valena chuckled and walked circles around her. " I would love to stay and finish you off, but seeing as how you're going to die down here anyway, I will leave you too time. As for me, I want to be there when they start peeling the flesh from Lucien's bones... tah tah" Valena rushed from the room, as Leya knelt on the ground gasping from the pain.
"Lucien.." She winced as she tried to stand to her feet. Leya leaned against the wall and looked up at the entrance."... I... I can't let him die." She grabbed the severed head and slowly made her way to the ladder. Climbing it carefully, and exiting from the trunk of the tree. She saw the hollowed out part and moved closer to the grass, then she began to hesitate.
'Why am I doing this?' she thought. ' He doesn't even love me. Why should I go save him?' She paused and looked up. "No!" she yelled outloud. " I'm not going to let Lucien die!" She darted out of the entrance and as soon as her foot touched the first blade of grass, she suddenly felt instense pain shoot through her entire body. She tried to gain her balance but she just fell over.
Screaming as loud as her lungs could, she gripped the ground, feeling every nerve in her body rattling around like an earthquake. She looked down at her feet and saw they were indeed there no more. Blood was rushing from her body. "GAHN!" She cried out, as she began to hyperventilate. She took her over shirt off and ripped it apart, then she painfully tied it around the stubs where her feet used to be. She needed to stop the blood flow.
Once she finished she fell onto her back, tears drinched her face. With her body processing so much information to her brain about the nerve damage, she felt her head was going to explode. She couldn't stop crying out, but it took everything in her power to not go into shock. She tried to calm her breathing, but it was useless. She rolled onto her stomach and started to crawl. But she was stopped by a par of dark hooves. When she looked up she saw Shadowmere.
"Shadowmere? Please, help me to get to Lucien. I beg you! I need to save him!" She pleaded to the horse, not knowing if she could hear her or not. Shadowmere knelt down, and Leya pulled herself up onto her, with great difficulty. She kept a tight hold onto the severed head, as Shadowmere took off, to save Lucien.
'I'm coming Lucien, please! Don't die!'
A/N
Oh snap, crackle and pop :O
Yeah so this is totally drama. She is fiercly dedicated to her relationship. Big risk when you dont even know if you'll even get there in time. GAH the suspense! :) I'm so bad! PLEASE R&R