speak Latin?”
No idiot that was Engl… “I speak Latin?”
“I don’t understand this,” Blake roared again.
“Tell him who you are, Elena. He needs to know that you know,” my father’s voice said in my head.
“Don’t play dumb, Blake. You knew exactly who I was the first time I set foot in Paegeia. I asked you that night if there was a way you could have a Dragonian and you told me that hope like that didn’t exist. Brian died! Which tells me you knew exactly who Paul was and that he lied about claiming to be my dragon. Lucian died!”
“Elena take it easy,” my father said.
I looked at my hand and I could see the pink flame consuming my entire arm. I closed my fist.
“I had to kill Cara for you.”
The entire crowd was silent. “She was the only one that truly knew me,” I yelled at him. “You don’t deserve to be claimed!”
I threw the fire from my hand and it landed in a ball on the ground. I turned around and walked away.
“Elena don’t do this, your mother died protecting you.”
“No, Dad, she gave me away to protect herself,” I grunted at the direction his voice came from. “You both did.”
“Coward!” Blake grunted and hit me with a lightning spark that pushed me onto the floor. I didn’t shake the way Becky had that day but the electricity did hurt for about a minute before it vanished to a soft hum. My head jolted back and I glared at him with a raised eyebrow. “You forgot, none of those abilities belong to you. They’re mine, they can’t hurt me.”
I turned around and walked to the gate I’d entered a couple of minutes ago. My hands were already flamed with fire again. “Don’t mess with me Cheng, open the gate,” I said and he did as I ordered.
A soft hum came from the crowd. I paused and turned around. It was the introduction to Lucian’s song. The song Arianna had used just a couple of hours ago, or was it minutes, it was all so confusing.
More people started to join and it became clear that they were singing or were trying to mimic the intro, they even stomped their feet on the word ‘Thunder’.
“Come on, Elena, don’t let Goran win because he will own you if you turn dark,” my father begged one more time.
“You still here?”
“Nothing you can say will make me leave until this is done. I know darkness, remember, you are not dark yet.”
I looked back at Blake. His muscles jumped as he just stood there.
“Show him whose power he is carrying, make him scared.”
“You and I, let’s give them a claiming they’ve never seen before.”
Blake started to laugh. “There will never be a ‘you and I’.” He blew pink fire my way and I dodged it. More followed, but my reflexes were so fast. I saw each and every single one of them pass me. It was a weird feeling, but I felt like a completely different person. Blake roared again and he used his telekinesis on me. I flew into the air like I weighed nothing.
“Use it, Elena. Own it!” my father’s voice roared inside my head.
Before I hit the wall, I backtracked. My feet touched the invisible wall and I flipped myself around and landed on my feet like a cat in perfect harmony.
The crowd was going crazy. It was funny how I could hear them now, and not before.
“It’s because you’ve ascended. You will hear a hell of a lot better than you ever used to.”
He hit me with another blast, lightning this time. It hit my body again, but where I should have been flat on the floor, it only danced across my skin. I smiled as I looked at the spark running down my arm as it accumulated inside my palm. It formed a huge electric orb.
“Hit him with it, make it count!” my dad said.
I did as he ordered and threw the ball straight into Blake’s leg. Every hit that found a part of his scales or limbs made a piece of my anger go away. He roared again as he stumbled and the earth shook.
“Now’s your chance, Elena. Give him everything you’ve got.”
Fire, lightning and ice orbs left my hands faster than I could think. Then Blake disappeared all of a sudden, the crowd turned into a swamp and I found myself in slick, thick mud that started to pull me in.
“It’s not real, Elena. It’s him…”
“You can see