Chapter 31
"We are at your command. By the by, my name is Shild, I am the king of the Earth fairies. This is my queen, Brein." A beautiful butterfly drew close to Shild and shimmied into a beautiful woman.
"It's wonderful to see you again, Tom," Brein said as soon as she was fully transformed.
Tom looked at her thoughtfully. They stared at each other for a long moment, but Tom still didn't recognize her. She realized he didn't recognize her and she pouted. "Tom, it's me. Clare. I know you remember me. Father has been looking for you and here you are."
Lauren could feel Tom's fear build and she grabbed his hand. She brought his attention to her and he calmed down. Then she looked at Brien or Clare. "How do you know my Tom?"
"Um, well, he is one of my father's issues, so I guess he is my brother."
"I don't know you and I don't want anything to do with my sperm donor. He wants to kill me or at the least steal my power. There is no love from him or me." Tom began to shake with rage. Lauren pulled him closer and a shot of power flowed through her. Tom calmed down.
Lauren loved the shot and decided to use it. She walked up to Brien and touched her forehead. Brien went stiff and began to float at the end of Lauren's finger. Lauren read her mind and flashed back into her memory. She saw Brien's mother being raped and taken prisoner. She saw Brien being born from her mother and her mother being killed by her father before she was able to see her child. Resheph put the baby fairy in a jar and put her on a shelf. She was kept in the jar naked and broken. She was fed through the lid of the jar and every once in a while, she would be shaken and her power drained until she was almost dead. She grew up and once she was a teenager, Resheph came into the chamber where she was kept and acted like she was being rescued by him. He cleaned her up and freed her from the jar. He sent her through training and made her fall in love with him so that she would do whatever he wanted. He convinced her to marry the fairy king so she could manipulate him into doing his will without him even realizing it.
Lauren saw all the strife Brien stirred up. Brien had almost started a revolt by pushing Shild's best friend into thinking he could rule better than him. Shild had to kill his best friend because of Brien's influence. She poisoned the fairy spring and almost killed all of the fairy folk. They were saved because an oracle warned the town crier and he stopped people from drinking the water. Algae were grown in the spring to clean the spring. Brien continued to try to get rid of the fairy folk over and over again only to have her efforts foiled by the oracle. Her last act was to brutally kill the oracle. Lauren finally pulled back out to reality.
Lauren was crying but she did not completely break contact with her. She looked at Tom and pulled energy from him again. Then she focused back on Brien. She pushed her power into Brien. Brien began to glow a bright yellow. Lauren burned out all the pain that she suffered, the anger she was harboring, and the false life she was forced to live. She separated every one of her molecules and rebuilt her entire being. When she was done, she sent Brien to the imagination realm to be reborn.
Shild looked stunned. His queen was taken from him. "What is the meaning of this? Where is my beautiful queen?"
Lauren took his hand, "Don't worry. She will be back soon, I promise." She continued to hold his tiny hand. "I'm sorry but I need to heal you." Without warning, she took him in her hands and sent power through her hands and into him. She used the connection of having him in her hands to connect to his people. She sent her power through him and then through his people. She cleaned all of Reseph's and the witch's influences from all of his kingdom, then she put them all to sleep. "When they all wake up, the queen will be back and the sickness and evil that was here will be gone."
"Right. So, what should we do with them? We don't want to step on them or hurt them." Tom pointed out. Tom's energy was raw and filled with nervousness, anger, and confusion. He stayed in Lauren's shadow or right by her side. He was very powerful but right now he felt timid and unsure. Lauren put down the fairy king and kept hold of Tom's hand.
MaGayla stepped up and waved her hand. She gathered all of the fairies in a protective bubble and moved them to safety. "Now, I guess we have a witch and a God to catch."