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Ari was lost in thought and Maggie kept calling her name but no response,Maggie tapped her and she jolted in shock.
"What's wrong with you,why are you so jumpy today?"Maggie asked,curiosity was getting the better of her.
"Sorry,I...I just don't feel well"Ari said giving them half truth.
"If you don't feel well Annalise we can wait then start the journey tomorrow "Gab said like a real gentleman that was filled with concern.
She was about to say yes when the memory of her vision appeared in her head.
"No,we need to hurry,which horse is mine?"
she asked.
"The white one"Stephan said,Ari climbed thee horse but didn't even balance her legs as soon as she sat the horse didn't even take a step and she fell on the ground with a loud thud hitting her bum on the solid floor.
"Am guessing you don't know how to ride a horse also"Ellen said with a smirk,she was obviously teasing her.
"I do,but it was a long,long time,back in Alfiedia our horses were war horses and they had wings"she said while Gab and Stephan went to help her up.
"Well this isn't your fairytale palace or kingdom,princess,this is the real world where you work to get things done!"Ellen said and climbed on her horse and led the way.
"I think we should ride with the guys Ari"Margaret said and climbed on Gabriel's horse while she rode with Stephan.
The journey started with an awkward silence until Gab decided to break the silence.
"So how was it like back in your kingdom Princess Annalise"He asked.
"Alfiedia,was a very magical place,it was literally paradise,I don't remember most of it cause I was trapped in the ocean for a thousand years"I said with a slight smile.
"Whoa,that's sick"Gab said obviously impressed.
"How about you Stephen?"I asked.
"Oh...uh ,the Goblins were all killed by demons, I'm the last of my kind."Stephan said briefly and I could feel the pain in his voice,and I also noticed he wasn't the type that talked much unlike Gab.
"Why?"I asked.
"I don't know"he said.
"How did you survive?"This time it was Maggie who asked.
"Ellen saved me,she was so young when the town treated blood witches as outcasts and enemies, Ellen saw me almost to be squashed by those things when she mobilized the demon,I saw my escape root and I took it ."Stephan said and I knew that was the Longest conversation we'd probably have until I get my powers and we go our separate ways.
"How about you Gab,how did you meet with Ellen?"Maggie asked again.
"She saved me too,My pack and I were having so much fun in the woods when the demons arrived unexpectedly, my Pack couldn't take them so we fled deeper into the woods hoping to loose them but they were filled with dark magic and power that's where I met Ellen and Stephan,she concealed our presence and safely got me out of there,from that day I swore to keep protecting her and since then we became a family."Gab explained looking straight ahead where Ellen was.
"your pack?"I asked.
"I've never heard from them since then"Gab said and I nodded,this was all my fault if only I was here at that time maybe I could have had the chance to stop it,I lost the battle even before reaching to the battlefield.
"I...I have a crazy explanation for this but it might sound really crazy"Maggie said as if she had just realized something.
"I think they wanted to slaughter all the supernaturals"Maggie said and we all looked at her.
"Why do you think so?"I asked curiously.
"How could an attack just break out unexpectedly without both parties declaring war,I mean there's a chance that they wanted to eliminate all the races and be the only superior race,what do you think they wanted to do"Maggie said and Ellen halted.
"You're right,it all makes sense now"Ellen said turning to us.
"The demons attacked other races not because they wanted to be the superior race, because they are already superior even with all the races joined together,they wanted to eliminate other races in hope that when you came to face the dragon you'll be ambushed by them,the dragon,you,the demons,the Vampires against only you."Ellen said.
"Oh my goodness that's so unfair."Maggie cried out .
"Vampires?"I asked.
"yes,the vampires and the Demons have been in alliance. more than a thousand years ago,these two races combined their blood with the blood of a virgin to create the seven horned dragon."Ellen said.
"That,that can't be true,they won't put the fate of other races in danger, would they?"I ask in shock not expecting the Vampires also had a hand in this chaos.No one answered me and we kept moving as I was in deep thoughts.
They Eliminated other races who could have helped me just because they wanted to get to me.The demons didn't kill those races,I did, because of my existence.I just have to get back my powers and give them to Ellen but again I'll be putting her life in danger,the other races that was left had gone rogue and attacking their own kind,she won't have any help,she said she saw me die,that meant I failed my Mission,why try when I already know what's ahead.
No,I shouldn't loose hope now,I wasn't going to give up now,when I wasn't a coward,only cowards gives up easily and I wasn't one.
We finally arrived at the forbidden valley,when they said valley I was expecting some place filled with flowers and green grasses but I was met up with a black soil and huge rocks the size of a house and nothing but crushed bones and rocks,it did match the 'forbidden' name in it.
"We're here,you have to be quiet as possible,there are giant beasts here and they have a really good heightened sense,this is as far as the horses can take us"Ellen said in a whisper,if she was whispering before we even entered the valley then these so called beasts were really sharp sensed.
We crept Into the valley, our hearts thudding in our chests.Maggie, noticed that since we came into this other realm Maggie had suddenly turned braver and fearless.she was walking without looking around in fear.
When we were at the innermost part of the valley when we heard snoring and Gab mistakenly dropped his sword and it landed with a loud clang the beasts eyes shot open and in a short moment it was chasing after us.
"Run!!"Ellen yelled and threw a potion on the ground,mists covered the whole valley.i couldn't get the image of that beasts out of my head and I was sure it will be stuck in my head for the next 100 years.it was horrifying and ugly,no ugly was an understatement it was nasty,the beast was fat and bubbly,it's bones were shooting out of it's rib cage and green slime coming out of it's enlarged mouth,long fangs that could crush a rock and it had one eye,with long sharpened claws,the beast was so huge and it's skin was gross.it roared at us, sending those slimy things out of it's mouth,it didn't have a nose but the ears was as big as it's head.
"What do we do now?"I yelled and Ellen threw a sword to me,which I caught.
"We fight"Ellen said and her eyes gleamed green and her palms glowed a faint green light.Thick vines grew from the ground and tangled around the beast ,I saw Maggie rushed towards the beast slid under it and slashed the leg with her blade buried deeply in it's leg,it let out a pained roar an struggled harder to break free.
Gab grew wolf fangs and claws with hair all over his face he didn't fully transform because it was still noon and I was guessing that was his limit.He leapt from the ground to the Beasts chest and sunk his claws in it's chest and slip down, cutting open the beasts as more green goos came out from the Beasts wound,the beast crumpled down to it's knees and was still struggling when Ellen shouted to everyone's hearing.
"Find it's weak spot quickly,I can't hold it any longer."she yelled.Gab kept using his claws to scratch the beasts upper body while Maggie attacked it's lower body,she slashed the groin with her blade and it dropped right Infront of her.
''Ahhhhh ,eww eww eww"she said hurriedly cleaning the green liquid that flashed on her when it's groin fell.i threw up in my mouth I couldn't see this any longer or else I'll die of nauseousness, Stephan picked up a stick from the ground and turned it into a staff with two sharp steel ends,he threw the staff and it went directly to the beasts stomach,he leapt on the staff that was hanging in the beasts stomach and he kept from there to the beasts shoulders he stretched out his arms and the staff removed itself and flew straight to him as if his hand was a magnet and he used it to stab the beasts shoulders.
Seeing them working together to defeat the beasts gave me moral I took the blade Ellen had threw to me earlier I skillfully climbed the vines that was tangled around the arm until I reached its hand, ignoring the pained roars and growls of the beasts I was about to stab it's hands when the beast broke free sending me flying and landing on the ground with a loud thud I was sure I was hurt somewhere Gab and Stephan were thrown like Ragdolls while Maggie rushed over to me.
As if it was only me it wanted to kill the beast came at me with full force,it was about to crush me when I saw someone more like a blur it was too fast that my eyes couldn't quite catch the movement,it hit the beast and sent it crashing to a crumbled huge wall.
I sat up,while Maggie held me close watching the fight my head was spinning and I was dizzy so I couldn't see clearly and the mists were not helping.i saw the beasts being attacked fiercely and very fast and rough,I couldn't hear anything else but pained roars from the beasts.
Stephan threw his stick to the person and yelled"Hit the eye"he said and I'm guessing the strange person did because I heard a slosh and there was complete silence except for us panting hard trying to catch out breaths.i waited in anticipation for the mist to clear so I can finally see who my savior was and when it did my heart started beating fast as if it wanted to burst out of its rib cage.My already hurting head hurt even more and my breath hitched.
"Finally,I found you"I heard the cold voice say.