Queen Of Sins - Stephanie Hudson Page 0,122

at me, in his demonic voice that cracked the stone beneath my feet. Then I smiled at him, lifted my sword, and spun it around before answering,

“No, I am a Draven!” I shouted back, and then used my powers to force him back to his normal size! After this, I kicked up his spear that he had used to try and kill Lucius, and threw it his way, until he caught it. Then I told him,

“And we never stay down… now fight me!” Then I ran at him, and raised my flaming sword high before it came crashing down over his head. A blow he barely managed to defend with his own weapon, cracking it in two. Then he threw away the broken end and started to fight once more. He managed to break away from my brutal assault, now deciding to use his powers after I kicked him so hard in the chest his rib cage shattered, and he fell back against the mountain wall.

“Yeah, how did that feel? Not so hot, eh?” I said with a laugh, knowing that he'd done the same to my boyfriend and well, this was payback. His entire body started to glow, and I knew he was pulling in his powers. Suddenly, he picked up all the boulders within his demonic reach and threw them at me. I could have simply made them all disappear. I could have made them crumble at a thought. But the truth was I wanted to look like a badass. So, I used my sword and sliced through every single one before it hit me, doing so in a series of moves that I had learned from my father. So that by the time I fell to the ground and landed on one knee, I held my sword down in front of me as all of the pieces of rock I had cut through, rained down around me.

As far as badass moves went, I knew it looked good. Especially when I heard Lucius mutter behind me, still trapped behind the veil I had locked him behind,

“Fuck me.”

But then my head shot up the moment I realised I had got cocky, for Matthias was not done yet.

“NO!” This scream came from Kala, as I saw now he was draining her of all of her power, screaming down at her,

“GIVE ME MORE!” I knew I had to stop it, so I severed the connection by picking up all of the stones that he had thrown at me, then I propelled them at him like bullets from a gun… big fucking bullets! One after the other they hit into him, but it did not matter, for with this extra power he decided to go straight for the person I loved. The veil behind me crumbled as if someone had set fire to it, and before I had chance to do anything, I saw all of the power he had gained from the witch now travelling towards Lucius.

“NO!” I screamed, but this ended with another. For Kala threw out her hands towards it, making it come hurtling back to her. The moment it hit her square in the chest, I knew then it wasn't something she was coming back from.

This was when I finally gave way to rage.

I lashed out at Matthias in such a way, that he could not heal fast enough. But then when he finally fell to his knees and his weapon fell from his hands, I picked it up and threw it in front of him, demanding,

“Pick it up!” He tried but he couldn’t, being too bloody and broken.

“I SAID PICK IT UP!” I roared down at him, making him try again. Then I told him,

“I will not kill an unarmed enemy, for your heart of darkness will stop beating by your own fucking blade!” Then, when he finally picked it up, I used my will against him, forcing his own hand to hold his weapon dead centre at his chest over his black heart. Then keeping my control over his will, I kept it there as I walked away a few steps, turning my back on him, and now looking at Lucius. Then I told him,

“This is for you and your daughter.” I never waited for his reaction, but instead I turned and kicked at the end of the broken spear, so it entered Matthias’ heart, making him roar in pain. Then I twisted my blade in my hand before delivering his sentence,

“As for your head, that I will sever with my own!” Then I spun on a heel, and swung my blade whilst landing on my knees with my back to Matthias. Then with my head held down, I waited for the sound of his head as it rolled from his body before landing on the floor beside me. I lifted my gaze to find only one pair of eyes I needed to see in that moment.

Lucius.

But then I remembered as he came running towards me, that there was someone more important in that moment.

His daughter.

Someone who had just saved his life.

I ran towards her, skidding on the ground as I got to her battered body, one full of scars. Each one became a badge of honour, and a symbol of just how hard she had fought to free herself from the clutches of evil.

“Take care of… of my father…” she forced out through bloody lips.

“Just hold on and I will try…” She reached out for my hands and took them in her own.

“No, no… it is time… please… it is time for me to go home and be free.” I closed my eyes at this, feeling the tears fall once more.

“Just promise me… love him like… like she never could.” I tensed before nodding, telling her,

“I will, I promise you.”

“Tell him… I am finally going where I was always meant to be.”

“No, please… please hold on, so he can…” I said frantically, giving her hands a shake that gripped both my own.

“My power dies with him… it was always meant to be this way,” she said, with barely more than a whisper of breath now as the life was leaving her for good.

“Amelia?” Lucius said my name in question behind me before telling me,

“That is not my wife.” I swallowed down the emotion I knew I needed to get past in this moment, so that I could finally bring them both the closure they needed.

“No… sweetheart, do you trust me?” I asked him, making him say,

“I told you, I always would.”

“Then come, come here and say goodbye.” He frowned in question but lowered himself to the girl he would never know. Then I closed my eyes and told him the painful truth,

“She is no longer your wife… she is… oh Gods, Lucius, I am sorry, but she is Kala, she is your daughter, and you need to say goodbye,” I said with tears falling now without being able to stop them. Lucius looked too shocked, too traumatised to move. But then I took his hand and told him,

“I am here… I am with you.” Then as I watched his own tears started to overflow, I knew then that he saw it. He saw the truth. He quickly fell to his knees beside her.

“Could it be… could it really…?”

“I am sorry, I tried to stop her… I tried to beat her back but…”

“Ssshh now, ssshh… now drink.” Lucius was about to bite into his arm when she reached out and placed her hand in his to stop him.

“It won’t work… for it is not meant to be this way.”

“Please… I cannot… I cannot… lose you again…” Lucius said breaking down.

“God did not forsake you. He granted you your wish and now I have mine, for I finally get to tell you… I… love you… my father.”

“My daughter…” On hearing this, she released her last breath and let go of her life with a small smile gracing her lips. After this, all the scars on her body suddenly faded as if being absorbed back into her own flesh. But then, when a witch dies, so does the spells she casts.

Lucius then gathered her up in his arms and my heart broke for him, when he started saying,

“My little girl… no… no… please.” Then, just as his tears started to flow down on her beautiful face, he gazed down at her. He then ran a single fingertip down along her nose as if this was his way of saying goodbye. Then her entire body started to glow, before it burst into a heavenly white light, and suddenly Lucius, transformed into his angel side.

Glorious white wings erupted from his back before he stood with her glowing form cradled in his arms.

“Wait for me,” he told me, placing his forehead to mine.

“Always,” I answered softly before suddenly, he looked up at the Heavens and then…

He was gone.

To be Continued

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