NOELLE'S POV,I see something gold flying towards us, and I realize it is Thorn. When he comes closer, I can see Faith, Zeus, and Nolan are on his back. I hold Gabriel close to me while Thorn lands. They all come running towards us and Faith falls down on the ground to look at Gabriel. She lets her hands go over his body and I have never seen her look this serious."We have to get him home and dry," she shouts.Zeus and Nolan hurry towards us and pick him up. I don't want to let go of him, so I keep holding his hand while they carefully put him on Thorn. Zeus looks at all the dead bodies cautiously. "We should go quickly before more will come," he says.I can hear Thorn trying to talk to me through our minds, but I feel too numb and sad to process it. I just stare at Gabriel and hold him. Faith looks at us worried and pets Thorn on his neck while talking to him. Luckily, he seems to understand and with a big shriek he lifts off. I look down at the open spac
NOELLE'S POV,"Noelle? Noelle? Wake up!" I hear a voice say in my head.I slowly open my eyes and look right into Gabriel's beautiful icy blue eyes. My heart jumps with joy and Gabriel puts his hand on my face. I close my eyes in his embrace."I thought I would never see your beautiful face again," I hear Gabriel's voice in my head.I quickly open my eyes and ask, "Did you just talk to me inside my head?"Gabriel laughs, "Yes love, it is what they call a mate bond. I dreamed about all our moments together and when I woke up, I knew the mate bond was set in place." Tears of joy roll down my cheek, "I had the same dream. I am so happy you are okay Gabriel. You have no idea how I felt watching you get attacked and then finding you unconscious and stabbed so many times."Gabriel strokes my face, "I thought I was protecting you, but I see now that you don't need protection. I saw in my dreams what you did to all the dark humans. You were incredible."
GABRIEL'S POV,Gabriel wakes up in the middle of the night. Noelle is lying next to him peacefully breathing. He watches her beautiful face in the reflection of the light from the fireplace. He caresses her face and kisses her on her shoulder before cuddling up to her again. She feels so tiny and soft in his arms like she fits there perfectly. With a happy sigh, he falls back to sleep.He wakes up again in the morning from feeling the sunshine on his face. He immediately searches for Noelle her warm body with his hands. When he cannot find her, he opens his eyes and sees that the space next to him is empty. He sits up confused but then he hears the shower running. He stands up and walks to the bathroom. He opens the door and looks at Noelle standing with her back towards him under the shower. She is singing and washing her hair, so she doesn't hear him come in. He watches the trail of soap go down her back, waist and then go over her round and perky ass. He bites his
NOELLE'S POV,I feel like I can take on the world the next day and even combat training with Nolan goes smooth. Nothing seems to make me tired, and I have never fought this good before. I have some time left before I have to go train with Faith, so I decide to go visit Thorn. I have brought him some nice meat to make him happy. He is dancing on his paws when he sees me coming with the meat."Ooooooo yummy thank you, mistress," he says in my mind.I smile and stroke his big head. "It's the least I could do after you saved me and Gabriel," I say back to him.Thorn digs into the food while he responds, "I thought I was going crazy I could feel everything you were feeling. The anger and then the ultimate sadness. I just knew I had to find you, mistress."I put my head against his neck. "I am glad you did. Don't know where I would be without you," I sigh.We sit there cuddling for a while when another voice pops into my head. "I missed your beautiful butt at
NOELLE'S POV,I run out of the cave and bump into Zeus."Ho, Ho, Ho what's with the rush?" he asks.I try to answer but my breathing is still not under control. "I... I... I have to warn them, I have to tell Gabriel," I mutter, and I try to run past him.Zeus puts his arms around me, "Easy Noelle, you have to tell Gabriel what?"I try to calm myself a bit so I can answer him, "I saw a vision of the Sea Realm being attacked by Hades. Everyone was dead."Zeus his face immediately becomes serious, "Visions only appear to people with mind magic. Considering your talents, it wouldn't surprise me if you can also do mind magic. We have to go tell the other right now."He takes my hand and together we run back to Gabriel's mountain. Everyone is still sitting at the kitchen table talking when we barge in. Faith asks confused, "Already done with training?" but then she sees the wild look in our eyes, and she continues, "What's wrong guys?"Zeus lo
NOELLE'S POV,I walk past Faith who is showing the healers how to do blood healing on a tree with many branches. Then I walk past Nolan who is telling the warriors about any weak spots dark humans might have. Lastly, I pass Zeus who is discussing with the magicians what magic might affect demons. Finally, I see a massive blue tent with symbols of lightning on it.I walk in and see Gabriel standing over a strategy table. There is a big fireplace, a small table, and a big bed in the tent. I look around amazed and say, "Did not know you could bring all this stuff on a marching mission."Gabriel kisses my cheek and says, "I wanted to have one special night with you before the battle. Just you and I secluded. Enjoying each other's company and for a moment nothing else will matter."I feel butterflies in my stomach when I look at him and realize how lucky I am. I walk to the strategy table Gabriel follows me and asks, "Do you want me to explain the plan for tomor
NOELLE'S POV,I walk to the front of the sea together with the other water magicians. We all put our hands together like a ball and say, "Aer bulla."We repeat this and slowly take our hands apart to make the ball shape bigger and bigger. The whole army slowly gets swallowed by a giant air bubble. When everybody is covered, they start marching into the sea. The other magicians and I shapeshift into a sea creature. I decide to shift into a seahorse this time.I hear Gabriel's voice in my head say, "Don't go too far I want you near me."I roll my eyes and stay close to the air bubble. We pass a few Sea Realm villages, but they are all empty which makes me nervous."What if we are too late?" I think to myself.Finally, we get to the capital of the Sea Realm. From the outside, it seems quiet but as soon as we enter the air bubble of the city, we land in what seems to be a massive celebration.I quickly shift back and hurry to Gabriel in front of the ar
NOELLE'S POV,I throw the spear of ice right into the eye of the eel and with a big shriek, it falls on the ground. The dark humans jump off and run towards us.The warriors meet them, and a bloody fight begins. I can't really use a big blast of magic because I would also hit our own warriors. So, I join them and fight with a blade that I made from ice. I kill 3 dark humans but then I see in the distance a big eel running towards Faith. I run to her and throw myself in front of her. I open my arms think of Gabriel and blind the eel with a blast of light. The eel rushes past us trying to escape from the light. Then he gives a loud shriek 3 times and stands still watching me from a distance. All the other eels hold up their heads when they hear the shriek and then come running towards me. Crushing more people and buildings in their path. It must be at least 30 big eels coming towards me from all directions.I can hear Faith whimper from fear and from the corner of my ey
NOELLE’S POV,“Are you ready?” I ask Gabriel.He puts on his jacket and gives me a kiss, “Yes darling, where are the kids?”“Probably at the school saying goodbye to their friends,” I answer.We walk towards the school together and I feel grateful when I think about the number of people that go there today. In the first years after the war, not many people came to Liberum to learn about magic. But with the years of peace growing so did people’s trust and I am happy to say that Liberum is now known as a place of magic and wonders. More and more children with gifts get born every day and it is great to see diversity spread.At the school, we find our 2 daughters surrounded by friends. Fiona our second child is showing off with balls of fire that she is juggling in the air. With her red hair and icy blue eyes, she is a perfect mix of me and Gabriel. However her feisty attitude she solely got
NOELLE'S POV,It is a few hours later and bells are ringing through the city to announce the beginning of the funerals for all the lost lives. At first, we wanted to make a burning woodpile for every single body but then we decided it would be more meaningful to send everyone off on small plateaus at the lake that leads to the sea in Dandion. Everyone worked together the last couple of hours to make floating plateaus for all the bodies.I leave the castle to go to the lake with Gabriel. Everywhere I go people look at me with big eyes and they either bow or clap for me. I quickly gained the image of the heroine that saved the world in the hours that have passed. Tales of how I destroyed the army with magic spread and they even sound unbelievable to me while I know that I did it. I walk to the front of the lake where Luna, Holly, Julias, and Nolan are already waiting. The sun is shining and the only thing I hear is
NOELLE’S POV,While I am contemplating what to do with Hades, I hear running footsteps. Gabriel, Holly, and Faith come running towards me. Gabriel takes me in his arms and holds me tight, “I am so happy you are okay,” he says relieved.We all look down at Hades who is still fighting to get rid of the glowing roots. “What should we do with him?” I ask the rest.Holly looks at Hades full of hate, “You should give him a vision of something terrible and let him die thinking about that.”Gabriel coldly replies, “I have no problem with that.”Faith sounds determined when she says, “No. We can’t just kill him because he will find a way to come back. To be rid of him for good I must heal him and his evil.”We are all quiet when she walks to him and sits down at his head. For the first time I see fear in Hades his eyes and he screams, “No, No, No, not her! Just kill me."Faith put
NOELLE POV,I feel nothing when I explode the dark humans and demons in the tunnel with purple light. I walk outside the tunnel and notice the inner wall being breached. Purple light radiates off my whole body and I levitate myself above the castle. I must look like a bright purple star and people drop their weapons to look at me. I open up my mind to all creatures of the Under Realm and give them visions that they are being chased by their worst fear. The trick works effectively on the dark humans, and they all start running out of the inner part of the city screaming.My voice echoes through the city when I command my people and the dragons to hide inside buildings. I hold up my arms and call out to all the water in the city to obey me. Water starts to rise up from sewers and the small rivers. It all flows back to me and forms a big wall of water up into the sky. I put my hands forward and let a tsunami carry out the demons, stone giants, and fire creatures with full for
NOELLE’S POV,Gabriel immediately takes charge and gives an encouraging speech to the people. They all seem to realize that it is better to go down fighting for a better world than living in Hell. Everyone has a determined look in their eyes and seems to calmly be waiting for the doors to breach. I decide to take the small moment of peace to go look for Thorn. I find him looking much better and luckily Faith tells me she will be able to repair his wing, but he just needs rest.“I don’t need rest; I need to fight with you mistress!” Thorn says in my mind with a stubborn voice. I walk to him and give him a kiss on his snout, “You have protected me fiercely I couldn’t be prouder. Now I need you to take it easy so we can maybe live to fight another day.”Thorn follows me with grumpy eyes when I walk away but he obeys my command. I walk towards Luna who is talking with Zeus. Zeus seems very riled up making big movements with his ar
NOELLE’S POV,As soon as we fly over the wall it feels like I wound up in a storm. Fire and weapons fly around me. I see light and explosions everywhere and it is immediately complete chaos. I can feel the impact of every blow that lands on Thorns armor. I look around to find Hades but all I can see are demons, dark humans, and creatures of Hell. Hades must have put up some illusion so he and the 4 horsemen can stay out of sight and let the rest of the army do most of the fighting.I bite my lip in frustration because there goes my plan B to take out the most powerful play-ers to end the fight. I let Thorn burn demons and dark humans in the field with dragon fire, but I notice it gets heavier for him by the minute. I don’t know how much damage the armor can hold. Angels are dropping light bombs and fighting flying creatures in the air. I see many of the Under Realm army being blown up but every hole we make seems to be filled up with new soldiers just as
NOELLE’S POV,I hear Gabriel call my name somewhere in a distant place of my mind, but I can’t take my eyes off Hades. I stare at him and then I realize what is wrong, Donna is standing next to him, and she is also smiling at me. Shivers go through my body, and I want to scream to Ga-briel that something is wrong, but I can’t speak. The amulet around my neck starts to get warm and levitates me up in the air. It feels like something is trying to pull my insides out of me. I start screaming from pain and I can see purple light flowing out of me into Hades. I keep screaming until the pain stops and the last of the light flows out of me. I fall back into the ground hard and my body shakes from the impact.For some reason no one from Dandion seems to know what is going on because all around me is darkness. The only thing I can see is Hades and Donna smiling at me. Hades makes a tiny flame of purple fire in his hands and starts laughing.&ldquo
NOELLE’S POV,Everyone around me is looking pale and serious as the army comes closer and closer. The grounds seem to shake from all the marching soldiers and the war drums echo in my ears. They stop marching about 50 meters from the wall. The war drums become louder and they all start to shout battle screams in a language I don’t understand. Luna nods at a soldier on the wall and he walks towards a massive horn stationed on the wall. The horn blows a strong and vibrant call through the whole city. I can see everyone take their positions and with de-termined faces, they seem to say that they are ready for whatever comes at them.Then the war drums become silent and the front row of dark humans and soldiers starts run-ning to the wall. I can now see Donna standing a few rows behind Hades. As soon as the sol-diers walk into the magical shield barrier they explode into light. Everyone on the wall cheers because the spells actually worked. I hear running foot
NOELLE’S POV,“Where is she? Where is she?” I hear Gabriel shout. Just hearing his voice already makes my heart explode. Everyone quickly gets out of the way and then I see him. He is running to-wards me but as soon as he sees me, he stops. We just stare at each other for a moment and then he runs towards me and swoops me in his arms. I can’t even begin to describe how good it feels to have his arms around me and smell his scent. He sits down on the floor holding me and I can hear his heart beating really fast. I take his face in my hands and put my fore-head against his, tears of joy travel down my cheeks. I look into his beautiful blue eyes and sigh with happiness. He softly strokes my cheek brushing the tears away and puts his lips on mine. I lean into his embrace and enjoy the sensation of his lips on mine again. I wish this moment would last forever.I look into his eyes again and I hear him say in my head, “I have missed you so muc