LOGIN~Yulia Thunderclaps woke me up, and I was shocked to see the sky red above me. I turned my head around and was surprised to see I had gained back control of some parts of my body although I still felt very weak.I felt like I was still bound to Uriel now more than ever. I was still in the centre of the runes, with the candle lights switched off. "Allumes." Helena commanded. The fire suddenly came back and I shrieked. I tried moving but a spell held me back firmly in place, or it was Uriel being in me. Deucalion looked around, confused. "Is that it? Why does it seem like it didn't work—"Helena suddenly controlled the flames and the fire from the candles suddenly moved towards Deucalion, trapping him in a circle of fire. "What is this?" Deucalion screamed. He tried to move through it, but it burned with incredible heat. At the same time, it was sucking away his strength. "Helena! What are you doing?!" He screamed again. Helena smirked and walked past me, towards him. All I coul
~ISSAThe engine roared as I flew through the forest in the car. I had put the car in its maximum performance mode, driving through the forest.The suspension groaned as the car bounced off the pothole but that wasn't a problem. It was built for this kind of purpose. My heart raced as I focused on the road, hoping to reach the house fast. As I emerged from the forest and returned to the road, I felt relieved to be back in civilisation. I knew I had to find Yulia. Yulia was the answer to everything. Something was wrong with me, Iran felt strange. My body although healed, felt totally alien. My vision started blacking out and the car started veering off course but I shook my head and I was wide awake. "Whoa!" I exclaimed as I nearly avoided a collision with another truck by spinning the wheel to the left. "Fucking idiot!" The truck driver yelled as he moved past me. I blinked several times trying to focus. There was a sharp pain in my chest that came at intervals, I knew it was I
~Yulia. The darkness enveloped me, yet I wasn't scared. I had gotten used to it, the total silence, the eager cold seeping into my bones.My body had been completely taken. I was pushed back into the farthest reaches of my consciousness while Uriel took over my body. But yet, I wasn't scared. I had accepted my defeat. There was nothing I could do now. It was either Issa or he took over my body, and I would never risk Issa's life for anything after all he had done for me. I suddenly felt Uriel's presence beside me. He had free movement in my body and wasn't shy to use it. "Yulia!" He cackled. "You have won, Uriel. You have gotten what you want. So what are you going to do?"Uriel scoffed. His eyes glowed red as he shook his head. "Isn't it quite obvious? I'm going to bring about destruction to the world!" He roared. "None of these people deserves to live. I will plunder, I will kill, I will torture until the world turns red and it rains the blood of the fallen." Beneath all that
~MILESUpon hearing Davina's words, Iris sank to despair. She slowly slid down to the ground against the wall and looked helpless. She was completely broken, knowing her sister had been possessed by evil itself. But it couldn't end like that. I couldn't believe that there was no other way out of this mess. I also hated seeing Iris like that. "Davina," I called her name. Davina ignored me and continued rubbing her face and bruises with a clean cloth. She was grumbling and wincing. "Davina, you heard me the first time.""What? What do you want me to do? To kill myself this time?" She sounded annoyed. "Andrea nearly broke my back. I'm guessing you want me to put my head on the line for you, right?""Watch how you say that!" I hissed at her and glanced back at Iris. She looked very pale, with a dead expression on her face. "Iris isn't in a good place right now."Davina sighed and turned to me. "Fine, tell me what you want."I sighed and moved closer. "There has got to be a way to ke
~JAMAL. Something felt terribly off.I had been placed in a cell in the upper levels, outside the dungeons. Yes, it was better than the one I was locked in before, but the feeling was different. I was still bound by silver chains so I didn't have much freedom of movement inside here either. Atticus who usually came around hadn't set foot in the dungeon since that day. And there was a strange mobilization of men recently. My sharp ears had heard them as they marched outside early in the morning. To cap it all, I had heard the worst rumour from the guards that gossip loudly around my cell. It was either they were incompetent and decided to speak rather loudly when I'm around or they didn't just care about it. Atticus had teamed up with Deucalion. That was all I heard. It could have explained why he hadn't come. I placed my hand on the metal bars of the cell and waited. I had spent less than two days in this new cell but I felt like I was wasting my time here. I glanced at the gu
~YULIA It was a destroyed village, ruined from the foundation to the top. I had never seen destruction on this level before. As I walked into the ruins, I could hear voices whispering. I had read somewhere that the troubled dead would whisper in the ruins of the clan, that was why its location was kept a secret. But now that I heard it, was creepy and I wanted to bolt. But Yara silently assured me it was fine. I came across black roses, growing in the wild and native to the clan. But they had withered and dried up, barely recognizable. A painful image of the rose beside my dead mother flashed in my head and I walked past it. The order of the black rose witches were also responsible for the clan's destruction. I had to find something important. As I ventured deeper into the ruins, the voices got louder and overlapped with each other, creating an incoherent, creepy crowd mumble. I knew it was a way of deterring intruders but I pushed on and entered deeper. The dark energy I had s
~YULIAI had cut Issa off once again. I had heard him leave the house last night but I never heard him come back. Yara had protested angrily about it but I could not bring myself to be in his presence. I wanted to be alone with my thoughts and plot my next line of action. My thoughts remained pl
~JAMALRage was a powerful emotion. It had the ability to bring its wielder great power. It could make the wielder beyond dangerous. And that was exactly what it did to me.I had never once reacted in anger before. I always controlled my anger, even when Damaris bullied me countless times. I eve
~JAMALThere was only one thing I felt as I drove down the highway. Anger. It was raw. It was strong and it was dangerous. Even my superior knew that when I got angry, I became unstable. It was okay for Damaris to bully me. It was okay for her to hurt me, I was ready to tolerate all of that. B
~ISSAMy hands were trembling. My blood was slowly growing cold like ice fire was licking at my skin. It was almost as if I could touch the terror that was eating at me. The moon shone brightly in the sky, almost as if it was casting the way for me to get to the holy temple of the goddess. As if







