The Assassin Princess (Book One)

Chapter Twenty Four-Ryia

I sat in awe as Alexandria started to use her shadow magic to take down Simon. Raising a hand I sent a fire ball straight at his face hoping to give Alexandria a chance to catch him off guard but it didn't work. Simon raised a hand and the fire disappeared into the darkness. He sent a ball of black energy towards Alexandria and before I could do anything to try and help Simon waved his finger and a shadow encased me.

The darkness surrounded me for mere seconds and then I woke. I wasn't in the castle were the fighting took place but as I looked around this place looked familiar. The feel of dirt covering every pore of my skin and shackles weighing down my wrists, I knew where I was. I was traveling underground in the assassin's black market. In font of me a man on a horse tugged on my chains.

"Now that ye are old enough to be sold you'll make quite the pretty penny off of ya. Having my wife raise ya will have all been worse it for this." the dirty man cackled. Once again he tugged on my chains this time I fell forward. My knee was scraped against a rock as I fell. Pain spread through my knee like fire. These were only memories so why did they hurt?

"Stand up girl" the cranky dirty man tugging on my chains yelled at me. Soon I was being dragged up on a podium. "And her comes the jewel of tonight's auction now. The one and only lost princess Atheena!" there were claps and whistles as they chained me down to the podium. "Do I hear one million" I man raised his hand. "two million" another man raised his hand. It kept going up and up until they had gotten to ten million. I was sold.

I clean man in a nice looking suit with a sword at his waist walked up to me. "Its all going to be okay Atheena I'm going to take you home" the man said picking me up in his arms. He carried me like that until I fell asleep. Darkness overwhelmed me once more only this time I got increasingly hot until fire burst from both my hands banishing the darkness to light.

Looking up I was still in the hall and the fight wasn't going too well for Alexandria. I looked around to find Leo and Aaron lying on the floor Leo's arm was bent backwards and Aaron had blood dripping off his forehead I rushed toward Leo first. Focusing on the water in his blood I did something I had never don before I pushed his bones and tissue back into place with a sickening, CRACK!

Then I rushed over to Aaron and focused on poling water out of the air and into a bubble I then press the water to his wound and focussed all my energy on healing him when I was done there was only a small scar but my energy was drained. I turned towards the fight and stuck my arm out trying to through another ball of fire at Simon but, black dots started dancing in my vision the last thing I saw was Alexandria falling to the floor.