Aetheria Arising : Relic of Time Wars- Missing centuries story.

Descendants of Shadow Worshippers

Kaleth awakened to Daisy stroking his blond hair; he felt like he dozed for barely an hour with his head on his arms, leaning on the edge of her healing bed. Her lavender eyes were shining with love for him.

He leaned forward to touch his forehead against hers. "We did it, we survived the viewing." They stared into each other's eyes for a moment.

"I love you," they said at the same time.

"Your love means nothing," a voice sneered from the doorway. Lady Ava of Loki, the late Lady Eva's sister, was glaring at them. "Prince Damien will return and..."

"Damien is dead." Daisy declared with finality. "Or rather he will be when Prince Karstien and I kill him in the future."

"What are you saying?"

"Ava, I am from the far future... Damien had been forever dead for nearly a year when the Oracles sent us back through time to save Atlantia," Daisy explained coldly. She let Ava process what she revealed before she concluded, "So unless the Darkness that corrupted him, made a copy, he isn't ever coming back and I, for one, am glad."

Lady Ava's eyes changed from ember-orange to glowing like burning coals in her rage. "You are lying! My Prince lives. He will be the Lord of Shadows. He is the one prophesied to rule for a thousand years!" She shrieked as she pulled out a jeweled dagger to attack them. "I will cut out both your hearts to prove it!"

The Oracle stone flared protectively, blinding Ava and surrounding Daisy and Kaleth in a white light too bright to look at. Myles appeared behind Ava and sedated her with a splash potion of sleep, letting her collapse to the floor in an undignified heap as the light faded. After she climbed out of bed, Daisy scanned Ava. She had a hunch, and she didn't want to be right, but she knew she was. Sometimes she hated her brain, always predicting the worst-case scenario from the fast analysis which revealed the truth most of the time. Ava's eyes had done the same glowing thing Daisy had seen Damien's do and she had been detecting trace amounts of the energy Damien called his magic since they arrived on Aetheria. The same energy as the dark vortex that corrupted Damien.

Be wrong... be wrong, Daisy's mind chanted desperately, then her tablet pinged. Dang! She cursed herself internally.

"Get her in the isolation room, now!" Daisy exclaimed while holding her tablet to Myles, who looked at it shocked.

'Are you sure, Oracle?' Myles looked to her. She only nodded with her lips pressed tightly together. He frowned deeply looking at the levels. His people had never figured out how to measure the dark magic, but the Oracle had.

"Daisy, what is going on?" Kaleth asked, bending and picking Ava up.

He carried her across the bay into an enclosed room. She watched as he laid Ava down carefully because he was a gentleman. He didn't know what Ava was, and Daisy wished she didn't.

"What's going on is, Ava has the same energy signature as the dark being and Damien," Daisy answered. She continued scanning Ava while Myles quickly restrained the unconscious woman, then they sealed the room.

Daisy turned emotionlessly to Kaleth, "Send for the Princess, she needs to see this."

Daisy manipulated the light frequencies in the room to a familiar golden hue, while Kaleth spoke to one of his guardsmen over the comms, issuing the order to bring the princess immediately. The light was the same frequency she had used to fight off the darkness when Karstien and Damien were attacked as children. Ava began thrashing under the golden light, even though she was unconscious. A strange black smoke wisps rose from her body as if it was burning. The Oracle stone flashed, and the smoke turned to dust, before falling to the floor. Daisy shivered involuntarily, she didn't know why the stone did that, but she could feel it was trying to protect her. The dark wisps felt unnaturally cold to her mind and soul, like the Necrorriors felt.