Chapter 25

LEAH

Everything seemed quite and the air was thicker. I could barely breathe but everything in me screamed from me to walk through everything and it giving a single damn about it

My eyes felt heavy and I felt the need to sleep but I couldn't, my eyes couldn't close for the life of me and everything before me was just a shimmer of blood and hat radiates from every corner of the room

What had happened to Elias was still fresh in my mind like it had happened just where I was standing. Grabbing my cloak and putting it upon my shoulder I walked gently but my mind raced to different corners of the world while I struggle to breathe

I didn’t know where I was going only that my feet knew. I moved as though possessed, I wished I was possessed so everything in my head didn't have to be true

I continued to walk, down to the west wing, past the training hall, through a narrow servant’s passage I’d never seen before and finally, to a stairwell that I had grown to adore

My feet grew cold as I stepped on each stone. The air was heavy just like the room, it was darker than usual and my head felt like it was being in a frenzy I didn't know about

I reached the bottom and stopped.

I had been to the stairwell many times but I never went downstairs, I had always had a weird feeling and now I was standing in front of a wooden door than seemed like the dungeon of a cartoon

I raised my hand and reached for the door and to my surprise my fingers suddenly felt a lot lighter and the door opened widely without having to touch it

So strange

Dust coasted the air as I immediately began to cough. The room was unlike others in the house, this was quite, abandoned and... Old, very old. It smelt like no one has been here in years

My breathe caught as I took a closer look at the room

It stretched from floor to ceiling, carved and painted in painful detail. A girl stood at its center, her hair same as mine, eyes glowing gold. Wolves surrounded her, some snarling, some bowing, some broken and bleeding. And behind her... shadows and my heart hammered

She stands between everything with a simple smile on her face and I felt a sudden tension and that's when a chill went down my spine

It felt like someone was watching me carefully from a corner and heaven knows that wasn't possible, no one as here. I reached for the paper hanging against the paper

“Blood of dusk and dawn…” I murmured, reading aloud what little I could piece together. “Bearer of balance… Key to the locked veil… She will walk in fire and shadow, and both shall kneel... or burn.”

Something suddenly crashed to the ground and my body jolts so fast

I turned slowly, my chest heaving, and found that the lights had drawn together, forming a circle around me, pulsing in time with my heartbeat.

And then it hit me.

A pulse of energy erupted from the floor, shooting up my spine, cracking through my bones like lightning. I screamed silent, breathless as visions poured into me.

Fire.

Ash.

Wolves howling as they were ripped apart by beasts with no name.

A throne made of bone and blood

A girl standing at the edge of a cliff, watching a city burn beneath her.

I fell to the ground breathing heavily, my vision becomes blur as tears filled my eyes. Everything played in my mind and over again

“I don’t understand,” I whispered, hands clutching my head. “What am I?”

The girls eyes flashed before me again and a scream rippled from my throat

“Stop! Stop please!” I shouted, not knowing who I was begging myself, the power, the ghosts of the past.

But it didn’t stop.

The lights collapsed inward, flooding me.

And I collapsed with them.

The world fell away.

And then I was falling.

Not in the physical sense. Not through space or time. But through memory, through blood, through something far more terrifying than any nightmare I had ever known.

I landed in a world on fire.

Everything around me burned.

My skin prickled at the heat but inside everything felt frozen. Tears rolled down my cheek as I ktvh even more, where was I? Why was everything burning? Why is everything cold?

My hair whipped around me, crackling with energy. My eyes glowed gold and silver, mismatched and wild. In one hand, I held a sword I didn't know where it came from and I threw it, everything was covered din blood,my hand as covered in blood

And everything suddenly stopped, a whisper lingered on the air causing chills to run up my spine

A voice.

Not Dante’s. Not mine.

One that shook the very scenario around me.

“Awaken, child of twilight. Your blood will decide the end"

My hands opened.

The illusion shattered.

My entire body jolt awake and I completely covered in sweat as tears poured from my eyes and I realized it was just a nightmare

What in the world was that?

I looked into the mirror and I realized my eyes has a little shimmer of red. I was sick of this prophecy. First it was Dante's lies, Elias appearing out of no where while being consumed by dark magic and the dream?

My head turned to the left where Dante's spot was now empty, it was ten in the morning and there was no doubt that felt he sorry that I had to go through hell yesterday

The door pushed open and I raised my head from the bed to look at him, he must have felt my panic

"Are you ok?" My eyes blurred in tears and he immediately ran to my side