JABAW (First Draft)

Chapter 8

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What's up guys this is just a list of locations and terms used in this chapter. Love that you guys have put me up to 263 reads can we get that up to 300 before the next chapter oh and don't forget to tell your friend about it.

Enerring:

Derogatory term referring to Elementals, roughly translates to blood eater of the wood.

Tragular: Only thing worse than an Elemental is mixed breed of Elemental and something else.

Anaygreii City: Capital of the Elemental Kingdom

Rouxsi: Name of the entirety of the Elemental Kingdom

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"MMMhhh" I groan as someone opens the curtains in my room the next morning. I slowly peel open my eyes and glare dangers at a tall shapely woman with piercing flint grey eyes and red hair.

"Master sent me to bring up your breakfast wench, but if I had my way you'd be eating the rubbish out of the compost heap like my father had to during the War." She hissed as she sashayed out the door.

I roll out of bed and walk over to the table to examine the food and sigh as I pick up the card that goes with it:

"Food fit for an Enerring*"

It looked like the things left over from gutting some animal mixed with dirt and oh good that wasn't what I thought it was; was it, blood. Oh they decided to fuck with me this damn early in the morning, who do I look like, some giant pushover. Quickly I walked over to the wardrobe in the corner; ripping open the door to find each and every piece of clothing torn to shreds, I grabbed the only salvageable clothes and changed into them. I was going to find that king and give him a piece of my mind, every person I passed in the hallway shrunk away from me like I had the plague until that snotty little red head appeared. She smirked and put her hands on her hips hiding barely suppressed laughter, that little smirk was the last straw and I think something inside me just broke.

I moved so fast she didn't have a chance to even scream, I tripped her and just before she smashed her head on the marble, I fisted a handful of her red hair and began to drag her behind me.

"Let me go......I'll tell King Morgan....please, please, awwww it hurts!!" She screamed as her arms flayed back and forth.

"Shut up" I growl "Your coming with me, even if that means up and down stairs until we find the king."

She was silent for a long time only letting out the occasional whimper when we turned a corner and she slammed into a wall and rolled onto her stomach.

"The king's in with The Counsel and Lady Jezella in the library" She finally whispered after that she was a little more helpful, giving me directions and toning down her insults to the occasional 'bastred & baby eater', which was way better than 'wench & tragular*'."

After what feels like forever we reach what I hope are the doors to the library and with even thinking twice I toss the red head into them, as soon as the doors open I stride in confidently stopping just short where maid ended up lying on the floor. If I thought last night was bad it was nothing compared the looks I was getting now, it was like I hadn't even walked in the door the only people who even gave me the time of day where; Morgan, Jezella, the big guy I meet last night outside my room and an angry lady who looked a hell of a lot like Jezella. 'Three guesses it's her mom, I'm screwed.'

"Is this she?" I heard someone say. I guessed I must have blanked out because Jezella's mother was standing in front of me with one of those looks on her the; I'm going fuck your shit up look. I was right to I ducked just as she threw hand out to slap me across the face and again I had a moment where I went into defense mode; rolling forward and pushing myself up into a handstand and locked my legs around her neck.

Morgan was fairly calm as he said:

"Lady Brigham can I assume your stay in my home has not been what you expected so far."

"What the hell Morgan she has my mother in a headlock, don't ask her about her stay do something." Cried Jezella as she stared daggers at me, Morgan shot her a brief look before turning back to expectantly at me.

"Why no I haven't Morgan..."I hissed, lightly in the back ground I could hear the sudle gasp as it sank in that I called him by name. 'Whatever I was tired off all these formalities and shit, I was going to tell him just what I thought.

"I was attacked twice in less than a 5min period of time, your cooks seem to think I'm a Enerring 'Another gasp from Jezella's mother this time", your seamstresses decide to pick with my wardrobe so this is the only I could wear, and you give me that abominable woman as my maid. Does that sound like I'm having fun here?

"No it doesn't and I...." I cut him off before he could say anything else I didn't want his apology, I wanted things to change.

"I came to do a job and I plan on finishing it as soon as possible." I growled, then noticed it was terribly quite almost eerily so, slowly I untangled myself from Jezella's mom and I found myself staring at the table they were sitting around.

Spread out across it were plans for a memorial, files, picture and a blueprints for the layout of Anaygreii* City; the capital of the Elemental kingdom in Rouxsi*. The full weight of what I was seeing crashed down on me and I sat down hard on the floor in shock, this wasn't really happening they hadn't died in a day's time.

"But they were just alive yesterday?" It was more of a question than a statement that I poised to Morgan, but he didn't in fact he wasn't he was looking down; tears falling from his face on to the table.

Finally the other man ho I assumed was his brother sighed and said:

"You've been in a coma for over a week and a half the deadline was a week to the date you were on the Monorail." He whispered voice cracking, I felt terrible they had lost some of their subjects and I had to open my big mouth and remind them of it.

"No" I whispered, clutching my hands in my lap and concentrating hard on what I was looking for.

"What" Jezella growled obviously pissed about her bruised face and me almost killing her mom 'someone needs to take a chill pill'.

"There not dead"

Morgan's head snapped up and his eyes were pure black and brimming with a plethora of emotions; sadness, regret, guilt and hatred, those eyes pinned me in my place as his voice cut across me like razor blades.

"Yes they are, Brigham, what makes you think that you can just walk in here and pick at wounds still healing? You said before you would leave a soon as the job was done, the job doesn't exist anymore so you may leave......now" He hissed

Slowly I stood up and found what little courage I had left and faced the black eyed man that stood before me.

"And they call us Elementals monsters." I whispered as I slipped out the door and ran down empty corridors, he had broken me with just a few sentences. Tears blurred my vision as I managed to navigate my way to the stalls to retrieves Palomina, it took less than 5min for me to saddle her and ride out of the barn. I was shocked to find Morgan's brother waiting for me outside, He looked angry and I was not at all in the mood for another outburst.

"My name is Renee Lady and I apologize for the atrocious behavior of my brother and the others, I know you only just wanted to help." He sighed

"I accept your apology Renee but the others can apologize for themselves." I replied

"Lady I beseech you to stay."

"No. But I will prove him wrong." I whisper as I imagine the stables at home and Palomina and I disappear, I swear before we're gone I hear Renee say"

"I hope you do so you may return....he needs you."