I woke up to be restricted from my neck. My tired eyes gazed around my surrounding to find that I'm not in my room that I was in last night. "Where am I…?" I tried to move, but in the end I would get my neck hurt from the moving and tugging. All I remembered was that I was packing up my things from the castle but Ash came in and he talked, after that, he locked me inside my room, not letting me leave. After blinking for a few times, my eyes were wide awake. I was trapped in an empty swimming pool with a thick metal band around my neck and chains attached to it keeping me in place, piercing through the pool's walls to restrict me. I was chained all the way at the back where it's the deep end.
"Am I going to drown?" I worried in fear, thinking about how my life has become to this. "Don't tell me that he's going to pour water in the pool…." I squeezed my eyes shut, rapidly breathing.
SLAM
I opened my eyes from the bold, big sound coming from the other side of the room. I screamed, hoping it was a stranger to save me than Ash to watch me suffer, "Someone help! Please!" The chains raddled as I moved around in place.
CLICK CLACK CLICK CLACK
The footsteps drew closer and closer to where I was. In my mind, I was hoping that it was Sebastian or someone else. From the view that I could see, I saw something white and it hit me, making me angry. "Ash, I know you're here! Just let me go!" I know pleading would do no good, but I'm stuck here and can't do a thing. I needed to voice myself.
"Elena, dear," he stood right at the edge of the pool, staring down at me with a smirk on his damn face. "All I wanted to do was to help you but it seems like you are too stubborn to accept my help." He crouched down with a saddened and hurt expression.
I bit my lips in anger, not too hard that it'd bleed. The heat was getting to me. "Let. Me. Go." I growled, eyes piercing at him with hatred.
"Sorry," I suddenly feel water on me.
"Is this….water?" I looked up at him, trying to rub it with my chin and shoulder because it didn't feel like water.
"No, it's not. It's none other than holy water." He grinned widely, seeing that my expression had darken. "I'm going to make you drown in holy water so it can cleanse your inside, killing that demon inside. Even if Sebastian tried to save you, he couldn't because it will sting his skin, might even melt it off his old bones." Ash couldn't contain his laughter as he laughed loudly, holding his face as he kept on laughing like a crazed man. "No one can save you, Elena. Your weak state can't help you. You're already dead at the end of the day. Well enough chit chat, I have to go and cleanse the whole world!" He stood up, staring at me one last time before heading out.
"Ash, you little-" I stopped my sentence as holy water came spurting out inside the pool. It already has begun. "Have fun drowning in the holy water." The door slammed shut, leaving me to drown in my sins.
I panicked with eyes sorrowing around to see what I can do to save myself. The water was pooling underneath my feet as I tried to think of a way to save myself from this mess that I was stuck in. I knew the only person who could save me was Sebastian. "Sebastian….please save me…" I closed my eyes, breathing in sharply, praying to be saved by him. I know he wouldn't want his child to die either, that's why he kept me alive throughout this trivial event.
The sounds of pain filled my ears as people were dying in London. The smell of fire burning filled the air even where I stood to die. From my hips and below was wet by water, holy water to be exact. I gave up trying to save myself; no one is coming to save me. "Ash...what have you done?" I murmured painfully, relaxing myself in the water as it slowly kills me.
The building was crumpling by the fire that was unraveling its flame to destroy what was called life. In my guts, I knew I wouldn't survive, I wouldn't live to another day, I'd be dead. "I'm sorry…" I awaited death. "I'll die with sins…" The time has come to where I finally die. "I'd never thought that I would die by drowning." I slid my hands down to my lower stomach, clenching the wet shirt as I said, "This baby will never live," the water rises up to my chest. "Just take me already…" a tear slipped down my cheeks, waiting for what will become of me.
I felt a stinging sensation at my lower stomach. My human flesh protecting the demon inside of me that would've died if it touched this sacred water. I concealed my pain from leaving my mouth and squeezed my teared eyes shut. Death was already knocking at my door, ready to take our souls away from this world that's now covered in flames.
The water reached up to my neck as it was getting harder to breath, pouring out more water, two times faster than before. "Sebastian," that was my last word before the water went above my head. It was the end. The stinging sensation increased. It became the holy fire that killed everything and everyone. I felt it slowly killing my child. There was nothing to do to stop this agonizing pain. I have no choice but to let it subside. I let it take over me; I gave into the pain and suffering; I was weak to fight back and to think about the future for this little child inside of me.
My conscience was telling me to raise up my hand for hope outside the pouring water. And when I did… I felt a tight grip wrapping around my small delicate hand, "Elena!"