We have been in the castle for a few weeks just getting ready for people to know that we are here, we are the people in charge, and this is where we live. Cole likes to spend his free time in the root cellar because it reminds him of the room we were in when we met, dark and cold. While I spend most of my time writing letters to my family, trying to tell them that they were right. It has been weeks, yet, no reply. Weylyn says I can go see my family once the castle is done, we have shown who we are as rulers, and told the people the new laws. Which makes me think that I'm never going to see them, but you never know.
"Two days until you can see your family." Weylyn said to me.
"But I thought I had to give a speech and we need to finish the castle before I can." I said in confusion.
"Well, the castle is done and that speech is happening today." She said.
In a few hours the castle was surrounded by people.
"There are so many people." I said looking through the curtain.
"Yes there is. Now it is time to go out there and give your speech." She said.
"What about Cole? Why doesn't he need to do a speech?" I asked.
"He will later, he's going to be out there with you right behind you." She said. "Now stop stalling." she said and pushed me onto the balcony where I had to do the speech. Cole slid in behind me and I froze for a few seconds, then took a deep breath, and that is when I gave the greatest speech I will ever do in my life.
"This is how I rule. I will bury you alive if you define my laws. I will burn you to the ground if you try to hide. I will watch you rot away in a cell with no food or water for weeks if you try to run. I will drown you in the blood of your family if you don't tell me what I need to know. I will rip your head straight off if you don't answer my questions. And I will stop the food coming to your village if you betray me. But, follow me, and you will be rewarded with me letting you live, eat, drink, and breathe. This is how I rule." I said with power and anger behind my voice.
"Fuck you, you won't do shit to any of us." A man yelled from the crowd. I looked around to see who said it. At first I thought I saw Al, but then I blind a few times and it was just a normal man.
"What is your name sir?" I asked him angry and terrified of what I had to do next.
"My name is Donivan Martin you witch. I mean honestly, do you really think any of us believe that bullshit?" He said.
I turned to Cole and whispered to him. "Can you ask Ace to get him up here?"
"Are you sure?" He asked. "I know you don't want the blood on your hands."
"I already have blood on my hands." I said angrily.
Ace walked on the balcony, whispered in my ear "What would you like to do?"
"Like I have been saying bring him up here." As I said, my eyes turned entirely black in rage for a few seconds. As I watched Ace drag this man by his ankles all the way to the door and then to the balcony, and he dropped him forcefully. I yelled to the crowd. "Let this man be a demonstration of what can happen to you." I leaned him over the balcony railing so that his back was arched over it. I put my hand on his chest and put my mouth next to his ear, then whispered "This is how I rule." My hand that was on his chest lit on fire, then his shirt caught on fire, and then I pushed him off the balcony. I heard him scream until his head hit the pavement five stories down.
I heard people gasping for air, as if I ripped their heart out of their chest. Then they looked up at me and clapped slowly and on a steady beat, it was creepy but cool, as the beat of their clapping got faster Cole grabbed my hand and we raised them in the air. Then they stopped suddenly and bowed.
Cole and I walked off the balcony and into the castle. I got a drink of blood, I grabbed it with my hands shaking. Weylyn walked over to me. "Well, I don't think that Cole will need to do his speech anymore, that was awesome, you scared them into following you. Nobody can top that."
"Yeah she really killed it out there." Ace said with sarcasm in his voice.
"Yeah, well I'm really tired, that magic really wore me out. I'm just going to take a shower and go to bed. Goodnight." I said as I put my champagne glass of blood down and walked to the room.
When I got into the shower, feeling the boiling hot water run down my back felt amazing, but I don't deserve it. Then I heard the door to our room open and close, then heard it from the bathroom door.
"I need to use the sink to wash off that guys ashes we cleaned up." Cole said walking into the bathroom and closing the door behind him.
"It's fine I'm done anyways." I said. I grabbed my towel off the railing next to the shower, the railing was on the wall across the wall with the shower head, the railing looked like a pipe coming out of the wall. I wrapped the towel around me and walked out of the bathroom. I grabbed some pajama shorts that are black and tite, I also grabbed a black tank top and a black silk robe I had on top of the night stand. I was walking towards the bed when I felt weak and fell to the floor in tears, I couldn't breathe.
Cole walked out of the bathroom, and ran over to me. "What's wrong?"
"Something is wrong, I feel like I'm on fire." I said out of breath. Cole feels my forehead.
"You're burning up." He said, then picked me up and put me in bed, and got me the coldest thing he could find from the root cellar and put it on my head. You could hear me screaming from the other side of the castle. Ace didn't want to hear me screaming anymore and had Cole move me to the root cellar. A half an hour later, screaming in pain, it stopped, all the suffering.
I spent days wondering why that happened. "Come on, it's time to go and see your family." Weylyn said walking into the room I've been drawing in. Most of my drawings I don't know what they are. She looked me up and down, "aren't you going to wear something a bit more casual, you don't want to scare them away do you?" I nodded my head in response to her and changed into a black dress. The dress was bell sleeved, see through on the top and sleeves, had a collar, and just above my knees. It was only Cole and I going. We left, and I wasn't prepared for what I was about to find out.