Serenity's POV
I woke up, gasping for air and feeling suffocated, and shook my head to try and clear the fogginess that had settled on my mind.
I cleared my throat in an attempt to get the attention of the men that was so deep in their conversation that they hadn't noticed my gasp as I came too. While I gathered my thoughts I tried to decide the best way to proceed with telling them about the vision I had just had without making them worry needlessly. I knew my dad well enough not to be to obvious with hiding any details but still knew it would be a terrible idea to tell him that any of his daughters may be in danger, much less that two had been threatened during my vision. And I may not know much about Ares, but I knew that telling him that the man in my vision threatened to kidnap me would most likely make him try to lock me up at the very least.
After a moment of looking at their expectant faces I took a deep breath and began to tell them about my vision. "I'm not exactly sure about all the details of my vision because it was a bit fuzzy, but, I seemed to have been a dungeon or prison of some sort with moldy grey stones chains, and cells everywhere. There was a woman chained to the wall who seemed to be beaten pretty bad, almost to the brink of death. She was looking down so I didn't see her face and I'm not completely sure who she was but she felt familiar," I said then paused to see their reaction before continuing, "After, I saw a man who I believe was at my ball but I can't be sure. He said that he was going to destroy the leaders of the realms. I think his name is Jake, or maybe Josh but he called the woman mate and looked like a biker. The details are a bit fuzzy still and they are not getting any better."
My father sighed as Ares growled, "They will not get to you or anyone you care about," he vowed as his eyes began to glow and his skin rippled like a wave as his scales tried to surface. So, I did what any good mate would do. I reached my hand out to him to try and calm him down a bit.
When he grasped my hand I let out a small sigh and looked up into his beautiful red eyes and said, "It's ok, my love, sometimes what I see isn't exactly how it ends up happening. Sometimes the people or objects of the visions are used just to make me take extra notice to specific parts or details of the vision. Most likely, the most important parts are the parts that I remember the most clearly and that is that the leaders of the realms are in danger. I believe that I had the vision because we need to stop it, no matter what. But again, these are just my speculations and I can't be completely sure. In anyway, you shouldn't be beating yourself up over things none of us know for sure. It's not your fault and nothing you could have done would have stopped any of this from happening. I have been dealing with these things long before you came into my life and I wouldn't change anything about my gifts even if I could."
He smiled at me and nodded then my dad cleared his throat and gave us both a serious look.
"I learned long ago, when your mother died, not to dismiss your visions as a bad dream. We will call a meeting for all the realms leaders as soon as possible. They should know that we all need to be prepared for the possibility of an all out war!" he declared before walking out of the room.
My mind wondered to an image of Val in chains and I bit my lip. I wanted to be happy for the possibility of her finding her mate, I really did, but at the same time, I was scared and the image angered me because the vision suggests that her mate was apparently the one that hurt her and chained her up. That is, if it was really her in those chains and she wasn't used as symbolism. "I will kill whoever threatens my family," I thought as I looked over at Ares. I knew for sure that Ares would, as well, if only to keep me smiling.
I know, it's kinda strange that I could believe in him so completely. Especially considering that just a little while ago I was asking him not to reject me yet and to give me time. Somehow, I know he loves me more than he loves himself. I actually think that it was kind of silly of me to think he would have waited here for me to wake up just to reject me but when a goddess says something, you can't just ignore it. Even if she isn't exactly the one over your kind. Now, I just have to convince his people that my kind aren't as bad as some people would have them think.