"In as much as I wouldn't like my daughter to ever see or get involved with you filthy spirit, I do hope she ruins that plan of yours, going about manipulating people's appearance. Release the crown prince!" Yuli's mother said in contempt.
"Isn't she mine also??"
"She is not your daughter and stay the hell away from her!!!" Yuli's mother was yelling now.
"Alright then, since I can't find her.." he gave a dark smile "then I will have to make do with you yourself, giving birth to such a powerful girl. You should be one of kind yourself so you're the perfect one for this" he seized her against her will and they disappeared.
They appeared in front of a gate surrounded in thick dark purple smoke, a gate placed under a powerful seal, from inside the gate.. the bone chilling howls, growls and screams of beasts could be heard.
The gates of retribution??!!!!
No! No! No!! It can't be true, Yuli shook her head vigorously not wanting to believe the outcome she already deduced in her mind.
"Yuli.. Yuli are you okay?" she felt a tap and heard Zeke's voice
"Abel is already awake so you can stop now, kill the dark spirit and let's go back" Zeke shook her slightly, she seemed lost.
Abel was already awake? Yuli knew she had to stop now. But, she wanted to get to the end of this, she continued in to the memory.
"What are you trying to do? Why are we here?" The woman said in extreme nervousness, her face contorted in fear.
"This is the gates of retribution, what does it look like? Your parlour? What else are we supposed to be doing here if not using you to open this damned gate for my babies?" His chilling laugh echoed in the dark as she seized the woman screaming in horror and places her on the seal.
He raised up a sword Yuli recognized as the sword of death and said "Any last words for your beloved daughter? Because it looks like I'd be seeing her in the future no matter how well you hide her now, I'd be kind enough to relay your message"
"Yes there is, tell her.. to make sure she kills you and feed you to your beasts" Yuli's mother said in contempt
"No, that wouldn't be happening, as right now.. it's Prince Abel who killed her mother and I will make sure to turn them against each other and make her kill Abel for me!"
Voices consisting of crazy series of laugh and agonizing screams echoed as the sword went through the woman's heart and her blood dripped on the seal.
The ground trembled as cracks appeared on the seal following the line of the woman's blood, the purple smoke dispersed, the seal shattered and the gates were forcibly opened with a deafening creaking sound.
The next instant, froze beasts were swimming out in uncountable numbers with the first one devouring the lifeless body slumped on the floor!
Yuli couldn't watch again, she had seen all that is to be seen and she couldn't take it anymore, so this was how her mother died, she was sacrificed for the opening of the gates of retribution and died such a horrible death. She felt like crying, but she knew this wasn't the time to shed useless tears, this was the time to shed blood instead, she had already mourned her mother and wished her a peaceful rest, she knew just what she had to do now.
Didn't her mother leave her last few words? And that was to kill the dark spirit and feed him to his beasts. And she was going to do just that. She evaded Abel's mind and erased the dark spirit's memories from him, she opened her eyes to see him looking at her. She smiled, now her brother was back and was already looking lively, he was returning his powers to his heart core.
She turned and looked at the dark spirit with a very cold gaze, just looking at him and his death was already concluded in her mind. He didn't have a form, so she can't feed him to his beasts.. but that was her mother's last words and she was going to make sure it happens.
She looked around, only a few people abducted were alive now and Abel was tending to them. A beast was remaining, lurking under the shadows and she smirked, she dragged a dead body and Zeke had a confused look staring at her.
Why did she take one of the people that were dead already?
Yuli released a ball of ice fire, dissolve the barrier guarding the dark sprit and put the spirit into the flaming ball
"You haven't forgotten my mother's last words so soon have you? Didn't you promise her to tell me?!"
"How come you didn't tell me huh? dear father! you're scared, you're really scared right?!.." she said in disdain as she pushed the ball into the person and his eyes immediately flew open, looking like a black abyss.
"What are you doing?!" the dark spirit spoke in terror.
"Ha! now I can feed you to your god-damned beast!"
She drew her sword out and striked a shadow Zeke and Abel hadn't noticed, immediately a huge beast came sprinting towards her, baring his fangs at her. She effortlessly evaded the beast and moved her arm in a calculated strike, sending her sword into the throat of the dark spirit, separating his head from his neck the next instant.
"Wow!! Little sister.. you are soo cool!!" Abel and Zeke had proud look on their faces when suddenly she seemed to the frozen in place.
The beast had it's mouth widely opend as it snapped off her head and devouring her instantly, before Abel or Zeke could react it was already too late.
"Yuliii!!!!" That was Zeke's voice but.. almost immediately the head of the beast was sent rolling on the ground with Yuli behind it as she withdrew her sword.
Zeke narrowed his eyes, the dark spirit was the one devoured initially? for a moment he had actually felt his heart in his throat and had forgotten that Yuli wouldn't just stand and get devoured by a beast.
She used illusion, the beast had thought it was her and jumped on the dark spirit instead, Zeke knew the beast wouldn't harm the dark spirit as it was their master so she had used an illusion to mislead it to devour it's master.
Yuli had finally done her mother's last words to her, her knees went weak and she hit the ground not because she's drained but because everything suddenly came crashing down on her. The dark spirit was her father, and her mother had died such a terrible death, she didn't know what she was feeling but it wasn't a good feeling and for the first time in a long time, she felt hot tears sting in her eyes but she didn't regret killing him.
"Yuli we have to go" that was Abel, she looked up at him and gave him a smile, the mission here was to get him and it was successful. The king and queen will definitely be happy to see him back. His eyes had returned back to their usual brightness and surprisingly his hair was till long even after she could feel his energy in him again.
"Thank you for today.." he lended her a hand and helped her up
"How do we leave here Abel? And what is this place?" Yuli asked getting up
"It's a different time and space, separated from Winter Universe but he always utters a spell to leave" Abel explained
"Spells work here?" Yuli arched a brow
"Yes and I know the spell now" Abel moved on to utter the spell that would bring them out
"That's good we should also get these people to a safe place so they could recover"
Abel uttered series of inaudible words, Yuli could here them but she couldn't make any sense of it.
The space began to tremble and fluctuate and Zeke felt his head buzzing and heard strange voices, he clutched his head together with his hands and bent down feeling a sharp pain in his head
"Abel are you trying to let us out or get us dead?!" Yuli rushed to Zeke as she said those words "Zeke.. Zeke are you alrig.. ahh" Yuli felt same pain in her head and clutched her head.
"What's.. going o..on Zeke?" She managed to speak out with much difficulty
"I.. have no.. idea"
Abel suddenly opened his eyes to see everywhere in chaos with Yuli and Zeke holding their heads in pain.
"Did I say it wrong?" He spoke to himself, I should try again, he uttered the spell a second time.
"A..bb..bel stop..p say..ing that" Zeke glared at him, what the hell was he saying? He feels like his head is about to explode.
The screams of two voices that belongs to Yuli and Zeke resounded in the empty space as they slumped to the floor, seemingly lifeless.
Abel rushed to them, looking around he gathered them together, created a vortex and disappeared into it back to the palace at Winter Universe along with the ones captured by the dark spirit.