The child being swirled around and danced as the floor illuminated. It seemed to be happy.
"Why do you seem so happy to be cursed for all eternity?" Aliyah asked innocently. The child stopped dancing and looked at her with killer intent in its eyes. It shook its head and their eyes went back to normal.
"Because what's the value of life anyways it's just a cycle of pain". Aliyah stood there dumbfounded, she hadn't found her purpose in life yet. The spirit passed before her and rested by the window, looking at Luke.
"Perhaps there's another reason why you're here Aliyah." The spirit said finally before disappearing into the gem in her bag.
"What? Are you like inside my bag now?" Aliyah said quietly and the spirit snickered as a whisper in her ear.
"Don't worry you can call on me whenever you need help. My name is Deyn" a whisper that rang through Aliyah's ear said.
A loud snap ran through the room and everything frozen was back to normal.
Aliyah proceeded out of the tent only to meet the puzzled faces of her group.
"Did you find anything?" V was the first to interrogate.
Aliyah shook her head and mounted Phoenix.
"We need to ride now!" Aliyah said.
"Ino already said we'd be in the kingdom in 11 hours" Luke stated.
Aliyah rode off immediately the sentence was finished.
V and Ino looked at each other in puzzle.
"What's up with her?" Ino enquired.
"Hurry up!" Luke said from his horse.
*#*
"We are going to pretend as if none of this ever happened okay?" Reda said, still under the influence of Ryker. The statement was directed towards Draken, he was in chains on the floor of her room, shivering and bleeding profusely, staining the gold mat of her bedroom floor. The metal chains were glistening in the light of the room, he started to lose count of how long he had been in her room. He was tortured for more than 10 hours without breaks.
Reda looked him straight in the eyes and chuckled.
"You're really weak and pathetic do you know that?" Reda said with a vicious grin in her face. Her demon form still in place.
"Reda! Please don't hurt me! I'm sorry!" Draken screamed at the top of his lungs making Reda scoff.
"Reda is dead there is only Dravix The Great" the demon's eyes glowed and it's canines enlarged in a very huge smile.
"Now run along you worthless beast" Reda spoke as she snapped her fingers, making the chains fall off Draken's hands. Draken ran away in utter fear. His first destination was the library.
He may have been a very tyrannical ruler it didn't mean he wasn't smart.
He ran down the stairs in a hurry without bothering for a change of clothes and went to the palace's secret library where all the secrets of this realm were hidden.
The long staircase of the underground kingdom were uncovered where many people were forbidden to venture into, behold a dark emerald door emerged at the foot of the stairs welcoming any one who passed there to perceive the smell of old books.
Draken stood there, dumbfounded, he hadn't been there in over a lot of years. He knocked 3 times to enter through a dark emerald colored door engraved with ancient symbols. The library was arranged in precise rows and columns in which books containing immense knowledge were kept. Draken paid no attention to them and continued striding forward, convinced he had fooled his sister with his fake fear act.
On the center of the library sat a woman whose sole purpose is for knowledge, she had been around since the beginning of this kingdom. He banged his fists on the table as she looked at his face lazily. "Who is Dravix The Great !" He said to the librarian and her glasses fell to the floor. Broken. Her previous expression vanished and she had an expression of fear on her face.
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It had been over a few weeks since Rhea last saw her brother. She was overwhelmed with the feeling of worry and fear, she couldn't beat the feeling that her brother may or may not have been kidnapped.
"How don't I know where my brother is??" She whispered-screamed to her pillow, she had a flight to catch by 11:45 am and she hadn't made an attempt to move from Luke's home.
Her room was messy and she had just finished her night shift earlier that morning by 4 am. She undeniably had the urge to wrap herself in a ball and sleep but the amount of time her brother was missing for wasn't normal.
She laid down on the floor and stared at the ceiling wondering what on earth he must have been doing. The white ceiling was illuminated by the light of her night light, a childish thing she always used.
Perhaps it had so much importance because it was the last thing her mother gave her before she sadly passed away a painful death. Whatever killed her or whoever did Rhea was determined not to forgive him.
Her phone suddenly rang, the number that appeared was titled 'Babe' she sighed in annoyance as she picked the phone.
"Where the fuck are you!" Her fiance screamed at her from the phone.
"Kevin please, I just came to SK for educational purposes nothing more!" Rhea said in a tired voice.
"Why are you using that tone on me?!" Kevin said from the phone. Rhea sighed as she removed it from her ear, placed it on the floor and walked away, allowing her fiance to rant in the corner.
She walked up to her bedside table and a golden ring was placed on it, she held the ring in her fingers as her fiance was still ranting in the background. Her eyebrows furrowed. She sighed as she walked back to her phone and cut the call.
"Fuck you Kevin."