Damien's Novela

Chapter 7 (Edited)

Damien's pov 

I walked into the kitchen and saw Camilo eating a small chocolate cake. 

"Hey, I'm back."

"Oh, hey. Where's Mirabel?"

"With Miss Isabella by the Spriggans."

I showed him through the window. 

"What are Spriggans?"

"A Spriggan is a protector of nature. They grow from deceased trees. Some even have the ability to control animals, but only if the animal is willing to aid the Spriggan."

"They look dangerous."

"They are, extremely so in fact. However, these are artificial Spriggans. My Mama Sofia created them from a large red oak to protect me when I was a toddler. They are perfectly safe to be around as long  as I'm safe."

I wrapped my arm around his shoulder, enjoying the slight squish of his arms.

"Holy- Mirabel?!"

I snapped my head up and saw Mirabel with her wings out, with pack of Fae all around her.

"Mierda!"

I jumped out the window and ran over to her. 

"Go! You are not welcome here!"

"Oh oh oh! It's the Defect! What are you going to do about? Hmm? This little butterfly is going to be ours, ours, ours!"

Selkie grabbed them and swam to the bottom of the lake. 

"Go to my potion room, Mirabel. Don't try putting your wings away, I half to remove the magic or you'll be in excruciating pain."

"Okay."

She flew toward the house and I conducted damage control.

"Aphid! Spriggans! Selkie!"

Aphid and her pack manifested looking confused, my Spriggans stumbled over holding Isabella like a Queen, and Selkie swam up from the lake, dead Fae spat onto the ground.

"Damage control. Aphid, we have an infestation of Burlona Fae. I need you and your colony  to round them up. Don't let a single one escape. Selkie, go to Camilo and make sure he's comfortable, and to make sure he doesn't touch Mirabel. Spriggans, after Aphid's group rounds up the Burlona Fae, you kill them. Go!"

I caught Isabella when my Spriggans dropped her and set her down. 

"Apologies, Miss Isabella, but I need to tend to Mirabel."

I formed a disk of water and it carried me to my house. I rushed inside to a worried Camilo fretting around Mirabel. 

"Don't touch her!"

I spooked them both and quickly separated them. 

"Mierda!"

I held my hand in pain as shards of Burlona Fae magic manifested in throbbing, red, crystal shards, sprouting from my wrist and hand. I fell to my knees as the shard of angry red crystal stabbed through my skin. 

"Master! I have the potion!"

Selkie slid a potion to me on the ground and I quickly drank it. 

"Okay, I'm fine, for now. Mirabel. Don't touch anything. I'll be right back. I held my wrist as I rushed to my potion room. I made the potion and rushed back out, one eye clenched shut in pain. 

"Drink this. It will negate the effects of Burlona Fae magic on you. Don't touch anyone for a full hour. Now, you had a question, Camilo?"

I gave a pained smiled at him as he chose his words.