Blood Queen || COMPLETED

Chapter Twenty Two

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"Rose." A voice whispers "Rose wake up."

Gasping, my eyes flash open and I am confused to see Hazel standing above me. "Hazel? What is going on? Where am I?"

"Your body is still in the castle. Your sister sent you into a brief slumber."

"So I'm dreaming?"

"Yes and no." She begins "I entered your unconscious mind, there is something I must disclose to you before you wake."

The look perplexion on my face causes her to elaborate.

"The blood moon is the only thing strong enough to trap this creature in the hellstone. It will take every witch to accomplish this. Should the witches fall before the creature is inside the Kynda the spell will not seal. He will escape once again."

"That will not happen." I counter "Naya will not fail."

"Should it happen" She continues with an urgent look "The only time he will be able to escape is under the next blood moon... three hundred years from now. Rose, you must be strong and seal that hellstone no matter what."

"Is there something that you are not telling me? Should I-"

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My mind swirls in chaos and confusion as Asha shakes me roughly awake. The alarm on her face discourages me from lashing out.

"What's wrong?" I ask as she pulls me against the wall while hearing several ferocious growls outside. "What the hell was that?"

"It's Emerson. He's here and he's got some friends." Asha whispered voice laced with fear "Naya put more force into that slumber spell than she needed too. You've been asleep for a whole day."

My eyes widen and my heart drops as I take a look outside the window and see the abnormal red tint in the night sky. The blood moon stands proud amongst the stars in all it's full moon glory.

"Asha we need Rose!" Naya's desperate call beckons us outside the castle walls and into the gruesome battlefield. Wolves with incredible speed and strength attack without hesitation. Naya stands in the center of the field with a look of pure concentration as she clasps the Kynda.

"There's too many of them." Whispers Asha beside me as she clutches my arm. "We should seal ourselves inside the castle. They will not get in."

"And we will not get out." I countered as I watched the chaos come to a standstill. The wolves bowed their heads and stepped back. Two men emerged from the forest, one behind the other. The first had hair black as night and eyes green as moss and although he gave off an air of wickedness, I knew he was not the one.

The second one locked eyes with me and I stumbled back from its sinister intensity. Eyes shockingly red, even more so than the moon above us with red hair to match. His confident strides oozed power and dominance. He flashes his pearly white teeth in my direction and comes to a stop in the middle of the field.

Naya and the rest of the witches back away to gather beside me and he arches a brow at the movement.

"Are you to be their leader? You, a mere child? I'd have thought it would be this spitfire to your left." He remarks while nodding at Naya "She seems more suited for the role. Arrogant and foolish. You however, seem too... how shall I put this — weak and naive. Your stance screams codependency. Without your witchy sisters you are nothing, which doesn't make this a particularly difficult battle for us to win."

"You know nothing of me." I spit out.

His lips twitch as he fights a smile "Shall we test out my theory then little witch?"

With a nod of his head the wolves lunged in barely contained aggression and the battle resumed. Naya tosses me the Kynda with a small nod of approval before the covens split and get into place. They subtly form concentric circles around the wolves with Emerson and I in the middle.

I looked into his fiery soulless gaze as I walked towards him. His eyes darted all around as he noticed The Nightshadow Coven slowly encircle him and his green eyed companion.

"Lucius." He says while keeping his eyes focused on mine, meanwhile his friend, Lucius, is completely dazzled as he and Asha share a look I don't quite understand. Emerson seems to understand the look perfectly as he sighs somewhat annoyed "Kill her." He orders and my eyes narrow. Lucius looks at him in disbelief.

"I cannot." He answers defiantly and Asha trembles beside me as she stares at him.

"Sister." I say as I lightly shake her "What is the meaning of this? Do you know him?"

"I do and yet I do not." She explains in a breathless whisper "I have seen him before in my dreams, never in person."

"You had visions of this man, our enemy, yet never thought it important to mention?" Naya hissed.

"She didn't know." I argued as I gave her a hard stare. Asha gazes at the two men and screams when Emerson digs his hand into Lucius' chest.

"You will obey me, or your life shall end here and now."

Lucius meets his gaze squarely " I will not harm my mate."

~A/N~

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