All Chapters of West Ora Academy: Raising Elara: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Andy's POVI was pacing back and forth in my dorm room, biting on my nail as I worried about how things were going with Stella and Elara. My sweet girl was learning something I couldn’t teach her, something I wished I knew better. A great part of me was anxious about what she would uncover as she learned about magic. I knew it was an irrational fear, but I worried that she would be pulled to the darkness as she unlocked her magic.Basing her magic off her mother was not fair, but how could I not, when the woman was such a monster. I had never met a more vile creature, one that suffocated you with evil a few hundred feet away. She reeked of all that was unholy and dark in this world, and I would not survive if my sweet innocent Elara turned out to be just like her. It was an image I quickly casted from my mind.“My flower, you need to calm down. I could feel your anxiety from across campus.” My air appeared from behind me, having traveled through my shadow. Needing to find comfort, I wr

Third Person POVElara had enjoyed her time with her grandmother. It wasn’t often that Zerena would be caught doing something as dainty as catching butterflies, but for her granddaughter she would do anything. Even go as far as dressing in a pink puffy dress and playing princess—which she had done during the summer. Yet as the sunset and the butterflies disappeared, the hurt Elara was feeling earlier quickly crept back.She was not born of love as she had thought. She was not born from the most wonderful woman in the world. Andy was not her birth mother, or so she learned at the same time she learned what a birth mother even was. It hurt her deeply, feeling as if the bond she had with Andy wasn’t what she thought it to be.There was no doubt in her mind that Andy loved her with all her heart, but part of her wondered if maybe a small sliver of the woman she called mom resented her. Perhaps her father felt the same way, even if just a little, for what her mother did to him. Elara was bo

Third Person POVElara felt lighter this week, surrounded by her friends. Between Leaf, Icarus, Daphne, and her family, Elara was never left alone. Some may find this irritating, needing their space to process through their emotions, but Elara was different. She wanted to be surrounded by people that made her feel loved, as if nothing had changed despite the horrid past she found out about.Today, she had plans to eat with her friends on a picnic that Leaf had planned on campus. She wore the pink blush dress Andy bought her, which fit her teenage disguised body well. It flowed around her ankles delicately as the material was light and whimsical, just like Andy. Elara smiled at her reflection as she ran her hand down the wrinkle on her dress, fixing it with her magic as she did.“Ready?” Daphne asked, stepping beside her and meeting her gaze in the mirror. Elara’s untamed curls bounced as she nodded, reflecting the fluorescent lights in the whites of her hair. She radiated light in her

Ares“We have to go.” I blurt to Andy, having small flashes of Auggie dead on the ground. For whatever reason my visions, the ones I had finally mastered, had been hazy all day as if the very future of this day was so unknown that not even the possibilities of it could come to me.Andy furrowed her brow as she got off Elara’s bed. We’d been cuddled on my bed, waiting for our next class, when I noticed the dark clouds. Our first instinct was to check on our daughter, but when we got to her dorm, she wasn’t here and I couldn’t seem to find her. I have no doubt in my mind that she could handle a few vampires should the need arise. Right now it was Auggie who needed us more.“Where to?” She questioned, making her way to me as I found Auggie’s door. Dead or not, your body makes a shadow. What I wasn’t expecting to find was my own daughter glowing so bright I had to shield my eyes after shadow traveling. Jesse was crouched by Auggie’s graying body, telling me what I’d seen was real. He was

Third Person POVElara made her choice. Leaf felt the light magic inside him amplify as the gray clouds parted. His abilities felt stable once more, receiving clearer messages from above. Today's events had been nothing like he was expecting.Leaf was certain that Augustus' death would be a trial. In a way it was as earthing in Elara's life essentially is, but it wasn't one of the main trails. Something so big as that was somehow not a trail that would set a course for her future. He was still uncertain of how Daphne played or part or what exactly happened. All he knew is that his future mate chose light. She chose good, as Leaf hoped she would.This angel was certain that Elara was pure-hearted and kind. For her to choose dark it would have to be about family. It's why he feared today's earlier events so much. Had Elara given into the temptation of revenge, he was unsure how deep she would have fallen into the darkness. It's easy to fall back into evil once you've had a taste of it.B