NOELLE'S POV,Maya runs to my room and jumps into the closet with excitement. She holds out a navy-blue fitting dress with an open back.''This will make you look like royalty, perfect to sit next to the King.''I put the dress on, and it fits my body like a glove. I must give it to Maya she has good taste, I do look like a queen in this.''Now let's make the rest of you match with the outfit,'' she says.Maya puts my hair in a tight updo and hands me blue sapphire ear hangers. I hardly recognize myself because I am more of a casual dresser. But Maya looks satisfied, ''Off you go before you will be too late.''She pats me on the back, and I quickly get up. When I walk to the ballroom it's already filled with people. At the end of the ballroom, there is a big throne made of sea pearls. Roan is sitting there in a green suit the same color as his eyes. Next to his throne is a smaller one but similar. When I walk into the room people gasp for a moment and m
NOELLE'S POV,I meet Roan at the stables the next day. He told me to meet him there because we need to go a bit further away today for practicing magic. It is better to take the seahorses instead of shapeshifting. Roan looks a bit tired today.''Are you okay?'' I ask him.''Yes, just tired from yesterday, audiences always take a lot of energy.''He doesn't say much the rest of the ride. We ride for about an hour until we are almost in the Mortal Realm.''What are we doing here?'' I ask.Roan looks at me, ''I think you are ready to try the most advanced water magic I can teach you.''''Ow and what is that?''Roan gets off his seahorse and stands on the bottom of the sea. I can see a beach in the distance.''You are going to command the sea to do whatever you want,'' he says.Normally this would be the time for him to explain and demonstrate how to do the magic. But this time he just stands there and puts his arms above his head.
KING ROAN HIS POV,Roan has been staring at these papers for hours and he can't concentrate anymore. This morning was rather surprising he didn't think Noelle would be able to do this magic so effortlessly. He would have stopped the tsunami if she couldn't handle it of course, but she doesn't need to know that.He hears a knock and looks up to see Noelle standing in the opening of the door. She is just wearing a short green dress with straps, and it looks like she has nothing under it. He wants to say hi but stops because she looks at him like she wants to devour him. He has never seen her this confident before and it immediately makes him hard. She looks so sexy when she walks towards him, never taking her gaze off him. She says nothing when she pushes his chair backward away from the desk. She slowly opens his pants and slides them off while still looking into his eyes. His hard cock is pulsating and waiting for what is coming. She puts her legs over his and sits on his
NOELLE’S POV,While I pack my bag my mind goes back to my 18th birthday. How much I was praying to get an adventure. Looks like my prayers have been answered but certainly not in the way I was imagining.Julias comes into my room with a map and puts it on my bed. He points at the Sea Realm, ''We are here,'' and then points at the bottom of the map, ''And there is where you need to go. There is only one way to get to the Under Realm and that is through there.''I look at what he is pointing, and it seems to be a big vortex. ''I need to go in the vortex?'' I ask.Julias grunts, ''Yes you have to jump in the hole in the middle, I have never heard back from someone who has done it. So, I don't know where you come out and if you would even survive it.''He stops for a second, ''Even if you survive, there is nobody that knows a map inside the Under Realm except dark humans or demons.''He takes my hand, ''It's a suicide mission Noelle.''I lo
NOELLE'S POV,When the vortex spits me out, I land on the ground with a hard thud. My body hurts everywhere from the impact of the fall. I cough and slowly sit up to look around me. The Under Realm is everything I expected it to be. As far as the eye can see there is a black and red wasteland of rocks and what seems to be lava. There are volcanoes, big steep black mountains, and strange rock formations. In the rocks, there are faces sculpted with terrified expressions. But what creeps me out the most are the bones laying everywhere.The first thing I think is that there is no place to hide. They are going to see me coming from miles away.Besides that, "Where do the people from the Under Realm even live?'' I wonder. I stand up and try to decide where I should go. As far as I can see there is nothing that could represent a castle or a city. So, it would probably be best to go over the mountains and see what's there.I start to walk towards the mountains, but it do
NOELLE'S POV,I wake up on a cold floor in what must be a cell. I shiver from the cold and hold my knees to keep myself warm. My throat feels sore from all the smoke I have inhaled. Around me, there are cells as far as I can see but they are all empty. In front of me, there is a door with a heavy lock and a hallway that leads to stairs on the right. The lock seems too big to break and I can't find anything small to pick it with.I am trying to break off the lock when I hear footsteps approach. I hurry to the far end of the cell and make myself as small as possible. I see someone walk towards my cell and I could recognize those blue eyes from miles away, it is Gabriel.''Good you are awake,'' he says.I stand up and look at him hatefully, ''Like you give a shit.''He looks me up and down and shouts to some servants that came after him, ''Get her washed and ready.''He turns around to walk away, ''Wait!'' I shout.He slowly turns ba
NOELLE'S POV,Roan looks up when I shout his name and jumps up from his throne to come towards me.''Sit dog,'' Hella commands.Roan hesitates for a moment but sits down again.''Roan?'' I beg.He looks at his feet like he doesn't want to look at me.''Roan please help me.''Hella laughs cruelly, ''He can't help you now little slut.'' and then she walks to Roan and kisses him on his neck while caressing his leg, ''Roan is too busy being with a real woman."Roan balls his fists and keeps looking at his feet. To see her touch, him makes me want to vomit but there must be a reason he acts like this.''Maybe he made a deal to save my life if he cooperates,'' I think to myself.I look at Hella with all the hate I can reproduce, ''Why are you doing this?''Hella smiles at me cruelly, ''Let me tell you a story. There once was a witch queen who deceived the King of Hell and banished him. The daughter of the King of Hell took reven
NOELLE'S POV,''let's begin,'' Hella says, and she walks towards the big kettle.Her eyes become red, and flames erupt from under the kettle. She starts walking around the kettle and sings an incantation. ''Ignis ille ex resurgemus,'' she keeps repeating.My stomach feels like it's about to leave my body. I have a very bad feeling about this. I look at Gabriel and catch his blue eyes looking for mine. His eyes go to my hands, and I suddenly remember the bobby pin he gave me.I quietly start to pick the lock on my left hand.''BRING THE BONES,'' Hella's voice thunders through the room.2 dark humans come in with a small chest. Hella puts the bones in the kettle, ''Bone of the father.''Red smoke emerges from the kettle now. ''Bring in the willing sacrifice,'' Hella demands.I keep picking the lock but look at the door when I hear someone walk in. It is just a little girl. She has an empty look in her eyes and walks to the kettle.''A willi
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