Every one of the soldiers gasped when they saw this. Kara took this moment of distraction to land a heavy blow on Mara's stomach and she fell to the ground on her knees. Kiel saw this and quickly started running to the court only to see his wife shoot a stopping sign to him while one hand was holding her stomach. [DON'T!] He heard it loud and clear but also very cold. Very very cold that he flinched and froze in his tracks.
All the demons in the court could see something was not right between the couple due to the dark glare that was shot at the prince. Mara got up and stabilized her footing. She smiled at Kara. This was what she wanted. She rushed in to Kara and the battle went on for a whole thirty more minutes.
Mara was now on top of her friend trying to punch her while Kara Kara tried to push her off and vice versa till they both fell down due to exhaustion having no clear winner. Kiel came and picked up his wife helping her to their room to tend to her wounds while Zan helped Kara who was in a much better state. What kind of guard would she be if she wasn't even better than the person she was protecting?
Kiel placed her on the bed delicately and immediately covered her in his red mist. She was all bloody and dirty. He put her to sleep and he sat near the window watching her. When did they come to this really? He remembered how that morning was the best he had had all his life and he could only curse the welcoming party and himself.
Mara opened her eyes and found herself in a familiar place. It was the pond that they used to go to together with her brother. The pond they had come to to create memories with Kiel before they got married. All fake? [Wait, what am I doing here, wasn't I just with Kiel in the dark realm. Hmm must be a dream.]
She looked around and once her eyes adjusted she shrieked in horror. The pond was red, her dress was all torn up and bloody. She panicked and ran to the direction of the circle. She prayed that this was a nightmare due to the exhaustion of fighting with Kara. She rushed towards the castle and saw absolutely no guards.
The gates were destroyed and the city was in flames. [Oh God my family.] She ran all the way to the front entrance of the castle and her stomach churned. There were bodies of maids everywhere. Severed heads and body parts. Blood dripping all over from the ceilings. Oh my God it was horrible. She got so worried about her family and rushed to their rooms but there was no one.
Then she rushed over to the throne room and there she found a horrible scene. Her father and mother were tied to the table on top of a seemingly summoning circle. They were struggling begging especially her mother, some cloaked figures. They were six and they had covered in a black hood and mask and a red cloak that swept the floor.
"Please don't, stop we have nothing of yours. Spare my baby girl. Why are you following her?" Her mother begged crying and Mara wondered something. [Wait but why is mom begging for my life, I'm in the dark realm. Does this mean that father and brother...] Mara broke down crying and rushed over crying to her father who looked pale with blood flowing from his hands.
She tried to touch him but her hands went through. " We need you daughter, she needs to be killed before she destroys us," A man who seemed to be the leader of the group said lifting his dagger over her mother. Mara noticed his pendant ting with a full moon with bat wings. He plunged his knife into her mother's heart and blood drained from her soul.
"Nooooooo! Mom!" Mara screamed her heart out not believing she had just witnessed something so horrid.
"Honey I'm right here, what's wrong? You are safe," she vaguely heard Kiel's voice as she opened her eyes. "It was just a nightmare honey, just a nightmare, you are safe," He said hugging her tightly.
Actually Kiel had stayed there watching his wife sleeping when all of a sudden she started breathing rapidly and scrunching her brows. He immediately knew she was having a nightmare as he mind linked with her. He saw everything she was seeing and reading what was going to happen before her mother was killed, he started shaking her to wake up so that she couldn't witness it. Unfortunately she still did.
"My family...my.....who is....mom...," she said breaking as she couldn't even finish a sentence. She was so scared for her family now. What if it was a premonition and not just a dream! Oh God! Who were those people and why did they also want to kill her specifically? What was going on?
"It was just a dream honey. A horrible dream. Just go take a shower to clear your head now okay? I promise it will be better if you do," he said while rubbing her back to relax her. She stayed on his chest in his strong protective arms. She felt so safe and she put aside the hurt she was feeling just to have this moment.
[Okay. Thank you] He helped her to the bathroom and she locked herself in after he got out. The minute he did however, his soft face dropped and in came his blood thirst. [Zan come here now!] He ordered his best friend through a mind link and within a second, he materialized in the room.
He noticed the really dark aura being exuded by Kiel and knew something really bad had happened as this aura was rare. Kiel had taken after his mother's softness and sweetness and to see the bloodlust now meant that his demon was threatening to come out since the situation was bad.
"What's wrong your highness?" Zan asked carefully. Kiel silently took a parchment and quill from the table and drew the ring he had seen in Mara's dream. Light faes rarely had dreams and if they did, it would be to show the future. Someone wanted his wife dead and had killed his wife's family and he simply wouldn't allow that. A threat to his wife was to him too. He had to get those guys as fast as possible.