“Why are you limping?” Anthony says, completely destroying my mojo and breaking off that vengeance aura.
I turn to look at him, annoyance written all over my face. Xander chuckles and I turn to face him, he quickly forces a straight face.
“I can’t explain it but if I walk without limping, somehow I push my abs to work and that hurts so I limp. Don’t ask me again.” I say, Anthony nodding his head.
I finally look back at Ethia, who’s trying very hard to get out of the grip of my two wolves but failing. She was losing blood, badly staining my carpet.
“This is poetic justice don’t you think?” I ask her and she shakes her head no frantically.
I rest the sword on her belly, making sure I am at the same exact spot where she stabbed me.
I slowly pierce through her skin and push the sword in, Ethia’s mouth forming an O but no words or screams come out and I quickly pull the sword out.
“Please. My soul won’t rest if you kill me with that thing.” She says, her hands quickly trying to cover up her wound.
I look at her and then at the sword, then back at her with my eyebrows raised.
“Thay sword was created specifically…. it is for the.. it is for the first family. I’m not as powerful, it will kill my soul. I will never be reincarnated.” She says before coughing up a storm, blood oozing out of her mouth.
“That would actually be a good thing then. I mean, we don’t want you being born again only to avenge yourself and try to be the moon goddess again.” Xander chimes in.
Ethia shakes her head no as someone barges into the room. He looks at Ethia and he immediately pales.
“Thomas! You shouldn’t be here..” Ethia whisper yells at the intruder.
I don’t give her time to talk to her friend as I drive the sword in her, piercing her heart and sealing her fate. She would definitely die, ending her years of tyranny and evil.
“Your ambition brought you here, where a young woman takes your life. You’ve made some awful decisions and this is the end result, I hope you lived a happy life because that’s the end of it.” I say as she looks at me with tears falling out of her eyes.
I pull the sword out, Thomas trying to run to Ethia but Hunter holding him back. Hunter snaps his neck and throws him on the floor, next to a dead Ethia.
I felt a weight lift off my shoulders at the sight in front of me. Xander hugged me from behind.
It was over.
The fighting, the heartbreaks.
“I want to burn her, end this forever.” I say and they all nod at me.
Anthony and Xander move to pick up the two dead bodies, as we all walk out the room, down the stairs and out the house. Mother staying behind to look after Adrastos.
People looking at us funny, wondering who the two dead people were.
When we got to a clearing, they placed them next to each other on the ground. I kneel on the ground next to Ethia, releasing the fire inside of me, on to her body. The fire spreads fast and quickly covers her friend, Thomas. Xander helps me up and we step back to see them burn.
I felt hot tears on my cheeks, the sight before me bringing back past traumas, all the pain I felt, I was leaving it behind with the burning corpses.
As the bodies burn, I feel my wounds heal completely. I turn to Xander and pull him in for a hug.
This was a new beginning.