It hurt to watch my mate leave filled with anger and pain. I wanted to comfort her, and tell her that I am sorry. But Eva stopped me, “let her go, we need to talk.” She took us to our library, where she brought a book from the forbidden area. But unlike normally our dad did not protest or look disappointed, instead he looked tired and scared.Read Full Chapter
My mate came out of the portal, dragging another figure with her, an older woman. I knew who she was immediately, it was her mother and by looks of it both of them were injured badly. We rushed over to them, her mother had lost consciousness, dad crouched down inspecting her pulse. “Please, help her. I can’t lose her, I would do anything for you.”My mate whispered, she too was hurt, but her mother seemed to be her priority. I could smell her blood and see the gashes and claw marks that had marked her body. Dad cradled the woman in his arms and took her to the guest room. We followed them, Kaiden getting the medical kit on the way. After giving the medical kit, Eva gently took my mate’s hand. “Come let’s check your wounds, she will be fine, okay?” We went to my room, where my mate sat down on the bed. My sister cleaned and treated her wounds all while my mate held my hand. I was glad she trusted us enough to come to us when she was in danger. “What happened?” Kaiden asked, looking at her wounds. She sighed, “I went home and was talking to my mom about how my father was not dead, then this pale tall creature who has been checking on me the past few days suddenly broke open the front door and attacked us. I did not know what to do, my mom tried to stop it and she got hurt. I had to get her away and then this door which had been locked all this time in our house opened and brought me here… ” she finished off looking away from me and at the wound, which Eva had finished treating. “You survived a moon seeker attack?” Kaiden asked, shocked. I too was surprised to hear it, because even trained warriors have trouble fighting them off. She just shrugged as if it was okay, but she leaned into me more heavily and her eyes were closing. “Come, you are absolutely exhausted, why don’t you rest, they can’t get in here, and Adrein will be here, he’s your soulmate, he will keep you safe.” My sister helped my mate to get changed and took her to bed with a small smile. The minute her head rested on the pillow she was fast asleep. She looked so peaceful, I have never seen anyone so beautiful in my life. I looked up to see my siblings smiling at me, “what?” I blurted. “I am glad she is finally here, we will figure something out together.” Eva squeezed my hand and got up with Kaiden who ruffled my hair as if I was still his annoying little brother and they both left the room.
I got up from the bed and pulled the sheet tighter around her and left the room. She would wake up and we would have to finally talk. I was concerned that I still did not know her name, I wanted to ask dad but I felt that she would like it if I asked her.
Elysia
I finally woke up, and everything that happened before came rushing back to me. There was no one in my room, but my sensitive ears could pick up voices from below. I got out of bed and pulled my hair into a ponytail and taking a deep breath I opened the door. I could hear soft voices coming across the hallway, Adrien immediately lifted his head up sensing my presence. His deep green eyes met mine forming a small worried smile. “Hi! ” Eve whispered as if she did not want to scare me. I nodded, “my mom?”, ignoring everyone else in the room, looking for her. “She is resting,” Eve replied, “would you want to know what’s going on?” she nodded towards her father. I sighed, then nodded sitting down on the couch next to Adrien who gave me a soft smile.
“So you are clearly aware that you are Adrien’s soulmate right?” My father asked, I nodded, “okay, you should also know that you are special,unlike normal dream walkers you are not a normal dream creator or dream destructor. You are both, and the only one like that so you must train twice as hard to save your life and destroy the moon seekers”. “What is a moon seeker?” I questioned. Jessica smiled, “a moon seeker is a nightmare demon that feeds on people’s fear.” Now I understood what I had seen the first day I dream walked. “So we have to stop them?” I asked, my father nodded, “and we have to stop the dark lord from rising, and we only have a few months left.” What?We were supposed to go out for war when I didn’t even know how to throw a punch? Were they all having a death wish. “What have I got myself into?” I thought to myself, but looking at them with their hopeful faces, I could not let them down.
“Okay! Why don’t you all get some rest? I know an old warrior friend of mine who will help us control our powers better. ” My father got up and left the house. Thinking about that I realised that he was not just my father but my friends as well, sharing him made me a tiny bit jealous and thinking how he replaced me with my friends hurt even more, but there was nothing I could do much about it now. All I had to do was get this thing done and me and mom would be free, no more strange things. We can live like a normal human family again. And what would happen to my dad, I really don’t care.
I said good night to everyone and left for my room. I was exhausted, and I could not put up with any more strange things. When I came back to my room, I locked the door behind me and went straight to the shower, where I let hot water run down my body letting my tensed muscles relax and I finally started feeling all the pain from the headache that had been brewing inside me . I realised how exhausted I am, I did not trust anyone in this house despite their familiarity and the sense of safety they give. After the water ran cold, I got out of the shower and got dressed in my shorts and a stretchy t – shirt . Soon I fell asleep under the soft warm sheets.
You get the worst nightmares when you sleep after an exhausting day. I was standing in the middle of a field, there were many demons around me that made me tense. I have never seen this many demons in my life, some were huge, with large wings and horns. Their hands ending with sharp claws each as big as a dagger. Others were spirit-like creatures, there were also small goblins like demons as well. Was it normal for this many demons to gather like this? I did not know, but in the middle was a shadowy creature with a giant body, and crimson coloured horns curling on the top of his silver hair that flowed down his spine. But only part of his body was present, it was as if he was being built piece by piece.
The demons were chanting and cheering as if doing so is going to bring him back. And that was exactly what was happening, suddenly I heard a pleading voice from behind me, “please! have mercy!”There was a man whose back was bare and flesh was torn open, his arms were blinded to his back and there was a chain around his neck holding the chain was a masked warrior like person, he had a powerful muscular body covered in armour and a large axe on his left hand. As he dragged the pleading man forward the demons moved away cheering and building a path for them to move forward. Some kicked and threw rocks at the human, “master!” the masked man greeted. “I have brought another sacrifice for you, with this another part of your armour will regenerate.” the shadow creature stirred from his resting place, and when the human was thrown in front of him bloodied and pleading he smiled and crouched forward. “Well done, my faithful one, your master is pleased!” he beamed as if he was a father whose child has achieved a great prize. Then he moved forward and grabbed the man by his neck, crushing it with his grip. And ripping the human apart he ate him as if he was a delicious meal.
I could not watch anymore, I woke up gasping for air only to feel two comforting arms wrapped around me. I turned around to meet two emerald eyes watching me in worry .