Dimitri
Pythonissam Cemetery
“I won’t be able to do it,” I shook my head, “and it will take too much time.”. “We need to get Avalyn and Nikolai. He is the King of fire.”
Malone’s eyes shined. “He has affinity with fire?”
“Duh.” It was implied when I say he is the King of Fire.
He started chanting something under his breath and then a circle of void opened up. Without even questioning anything this time, we stepped in. And we ended up in the middle of a full blown war. The stench of rotten corpse from the zombies made me want to puke. The screams of people, the war cries and the growls of wolves and the snarls of vampires almost burst my ear drums.
Fucking shit.
Also, who the fuck are these people in armour? And how the fuck are so many zombie witches still here? It seemed like we had made absolutely no difference at all. Or maybe, the ones we did save were really very few in numbers when compared to the overall witch population.
Malone started praying under his breath then we saw the condition. And the next second, the zombies noticed our presence and began coming after us.
“We need to get out of here.” I rounded up the two and started leading them towards the palace. But Anna was rooted to her spot, her eyes fixated on the horrid scene in front of us. I could smell the fear and dread rolling off of her in waves. I grabbed her hand and pulled her, forcing her feet to move. And Malone was already too tired to run from these zombies, he wasn’t fast enough either.
I had no choice but to fight and kill the ones who had come too close to us.
“What are you doing?” Anna shrieked, “don’t kill them!”
“If I don’t kill them, they will kill us!” I growled. “And why the hell can’t I still connect with my pack?” I still couldn’t feel anybody. I hated not being able to mind-link. It was understandable in the Pythonissam Island because of the cloaking spell but we were home now.
“It should be back in some time.” Malone replied to my question.
“Dimitri!” I heard Avalyn’s voice and I felt like I could finally breathe again. She was alright. And she was out here, which meant she was strong enough to fight too.
But instead of being around us, she was above us. Flying. She had huge freaking wings. And her hair were more silver than ever.
I couldn’t help but stop and stare as she lowered herself on the ground, flicking away the zombies closing in on us with just a look of her electric blue eyes. “Natalia said you were curing them?”
She had freaking wings. Huge, white-gold wings. They looked ethereal. I didn’t even feel worthy enough to want to touch them.
“… you’re bleeding!” And then the dulled pain from the wound vanished.
“Dimitri!”
“Huh?” My head wasn’t dizzy anymore but I guess I had difficulty focusing. But I was sure that it was her presence. Again, she had fucking wings!
“We do not have time for this!” She grumbled under her breath. And then I felt a sting on my cheek that whipped my head to the side. And then suddenly, the fuzziness disappeared.
“Did you just slap me?”
“Get over it. We don’t have time, pay attention to what I’m saying.” She said, flicking more zombies away before asking. “The cure?”
“Yeah, there’s a slight hiccup. We need you and Nikolai to come with us.”
“Handle it. We are needed here.” She said, her eyes flitting around us, making sure no one came near us.
“You two are the only ones who can do it. And once it’s done, all of this will come to an end.” I replied.
“Fine.” She said, closed her eyes and in the next moment Nikolai was standing beside her.
He swung his claw that was lit up on fire and my reflexes jumped in. I pulled Anna, who was standing in front of him, saving her from the attack. She crashed against my chest before clutching her head. “Ouch!”
“The fuck?” Nikolai blinked when he saw us around him. Avalyn had teleported him here while he was mid-fight. Thank Goddess, I intercepted the attack or else Anna would have been dead now.
“Sorry.” Avalyn apologised to both Nikolai and Anna before her eyes focused on me. “Where to, Dimitri?”
“Malone?” I looked at the old man.
He was staring at the couple intently before he snapped out of it and opened a portal. “Follow me.”
Anna and I did, followed by Avalyn and a confused Nikolai.
This was a sudden change of view. No more smell, noise or attacks. But just looking at the cemetery in front of me made me wonder if we could even do this in time, before either the zombies over powered and killed us or before we killed them.
“Who are you and what are we doing in a cemetery?” Nikolai asked Malone.
“Jeffry Malone. Headmaster of Scholae Pythonissam.” Malone replied. “And this is the largest witch cemetery in Jivan. It’s an island a little off Bellehaven Isle.” Malone explained. “The souls of the ancient witches have found their way into the bodies of the witches. We call them parasite souls. Wiping off their existence from Jivan will not give them the link to come back here anymore from the land of the dead. They will have to go back. We do that by burning the entire island with holy fire.”
“Holy fire?” Avalyn asked.
Malone’s eyes fell on them and he looked at the couple with a… revered gaze? “You are going to fulfil the prophesy. You are sent here by Moon Goddess and God Sol themselves. And for that reason, you are holy.” He smiled.
“Again with this fucking prophesy thing.” Nikolai hissed under his breath. “I ca-”
“Welcome to Bellehaven Isle.” All of us turned towards the source of the voice. “I am Lysander, General of the Witch Army.” He introduced himself. I noticed he had come with quite a few enforcers.
“How’s Jonathan holding up?” I grinned stepping forward while I mind-linked Avalyn and Nikolai. ‘I’ll distract him. Go save some witches.’
“As well as he can, Prince Dimitri.” His voice was a notch lower but more menacing when he said that. “Greetings, King Nikolai, Queen Avalyn and Headmaster Malone.”
“Awe I don’t get that warm welcome?” I pouted, “I’m hurt.”
‘He’s not going to let us leave.’ Nikolai stole the words right out of my mouth.
“I am not in the habit of engaging in verbal banter and entertaining guests, like General Jonathan was.” He said. “You are requested to leave. You are trespassing by coming here uninvited.”
“And I am ordering you to leave.” Nikolai stepped forward. “You have no idea what your ‘High Council’ is doing. They are not as righteous as you think they are.”
“What do you know about being righteous, rogue?” He glared at Nikolai. “You ran away from your own father, the greatest Alpha to walk this dimension- the one who is sent here by