"Ra! Ra!" The voice of Nakia called. It started low but grew louder as the rock separating the two of them was broken further.
Nakia whispers some words and the stones finally come down with a loud crumbling noise. The dark-skinned woman races into the cave towards him saying a silent prayer as soon as she sees him laying face flat on the dirt.
"Ra!" She called again.
"I'm fine Nakia, just a bit weary," he stated.
"Are you really okay? Are you hurt anywhere?" She asked checking to see if they were any visible injuries on his skin.
"I'm fine," he repeated.
"How did this happen? Where's Kendi?" She asked.
He sits up and uses his hand to wipe the dirt from his face. "Over there," he pointed further into the cave where Kendi was lying knocked out on the ground. "One of the elementals got to him but I already treated his wound," he stated.
"It's luck you found this cave, I don't want to think about what would have happened otherwise."
"Forget about me, I said to send Jade and a mage down here, why did you come yourself?"
"You said you were attacked, I couldn't just sit and do nothing I k --"
He turns to face her and grabs her by the arm. His grip was not light but they weren't hard enough to cause any pain or discomfort either. "You can't be running around doing every task, Nakia, not for the next couple of months," she said.
Nakia turns away from him. "He told you didn't he?" She said.
"Which begs the question: why didn't you?"
"At first I wanted to surprise you with the news but then I never found the right time and that has been the case up till now," she said.
"Hm," he places his hand on her belly and the dark-haired woman placed her hand on top of his hand.
"He'll grow up to be a great man, a man loved and adored by billions even a thousand years after he's gone," he stated.
Nakia smiles. "He will?"
"Yes." He leaned towards her and plants a kiss on her forehead, the dark-skinned woman closes her eyes and smiles at the gesture.
"This should be the last time you go on any kind of mission, is that clear?"
Nakia's eyes widen, "but Ra?" She cried but his face hardened even more. "Is that clear?"
Her face falls and she sighs defeated. "Yes."
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Hunter opens his eyes, he was in the bedroom of the house Circe had given to him.
[Another one?]
'Yeah, I think it was a continuation of the previous one.' The sprite rolled to the side of the bed to check his phone. 'Still nothing from Leah.' Hunter looked through the window to see the dark clouds in the sky. 'Today is going to suck, I just know it.'
Just then, his phone begins to ring. He picks it up again and looked at the caller ID; it was Circe.
"Hello?" He answered.
"Hey, I just sent my location to you, can you meet me there in ten?"
"Sure," he replied.
Hunter threw on his brown hoodie and dark trousers before making his way out of the house and to the location Circe had sent. It turned out to be a farm of some sort and the sprite wandered through the corn fields a bit before finally coming across a gazebo close to a stream.
'That must be it,' he thought as he sees the light red-haired woman standing next to the gazebo.
Hunter walked towards the gazebo where Circe was. The yellow-eyed woman smiles as the sprite approached her. "Hunter, you came!"
"Yeah ..."
"Why are you an arm's length away, all of a sudden? Come closer," said the light red-haired woman closing the distance between them and throwing her arms around the sprite's neck.
"Remember when I told you that I did some research on you but didn't dig too dip? Well, I fibbed. I dug enough to know that today is --"
"Did you take Jade?" Hunter asked.
Circe stopped before taking a step away from Hunter. "Yes," she replies.
"And Leah?"
"I --"
"Why?" He asked.
"Because they needed to be removed from your side until I bring back the Dark Majesty," Circe stated. Her tone was much different from one Hunter was used to; certain it was and no longer was it alluring.
'So she knows about you.'
"How did you know the Dark Majesty is inside me?" The sprite asked.
"I have specter eyes ... I can see him ... Right there." Circe points above Hunter's head.
'I hadn't thought about that. Specter eyes appear only in humans once every millennium and Sophia's was buried with Merlin so she must have gotten it a long time ago.'
"The moment you were brought into the council hall, I saw him," Circe added.
"Is that why you helped me?"
"Yes." There is a short pause among the both of them but Circe spoke again. "I enjoy you Hunter, but you have to die, it's the only way Judgment Day would arrive," said the yellow-eyed woman.
"What is Judgment Day?" Hunter asked.
"It will be the greatest day in all of the realms," Circe said excitedly. "The Dark Majesty would return and establish the Dark Empire! Peace and harmony would reign forever," she stated.
"So you plan to kill me and have the Dark Majesty take my body and do ... good things?"
"My plan does not involve killing you but you have to die if it is to succeed," said the light red-haired woman.
"What if the Dark Majesty doesn't want to return yet?"
"He does," Circe stated, "all the signs are there: Peace between all the mystical factions, rampant kidnapping of mystical beings, an event that hasn't happened in a while happens, disgrace and death of a high mystical figure, and the fall of a good group. The return of the Dark Majesty is what's next. Come on Hunter, there are over twenty billion people in all the realms, most of them children and adults that are not capable of defending themselves. All of them could grow up in a peaceful world where they will know no war and suffering if you give up your life."
Hunter looks up at the dark, pregnant clouds, he closes his eyes and shakes his head before inhaling deeply. 'And I thought making the choice would be easy.'
[I don't know what you're considering but I'm not taking over your body]
Hunter chuckles and Circe's eyebrows shoot up into her eyebrows. The sprite's hand is suddenly surrounded with pink energy. The yellow-eyed woman quickly put her hands up to block the dark-haired boy's attack but he doesn't go for her. Instead, the sprite spins and punches one of the gazebo's pillars. The belvedere crashes on the light red-haired woman while the sprite rolls out of the rubble.
The sprite sighs and feels his phone vibrates in his pocket.
From -Unknown-| Hunter, it's Zoe. I'm at your place ... I think something's wrong.
Hunter looks at the rubble Circe was buried under. "What the hell?!"
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