~~~NYX~~~
The water was like icey daggers stabbing into his skin. They had taken to the air hoping the diving to the bottom was faster and safer.
Nyx swam down.
down.
down.
down.
The darkness surrounded him but he could still make out shapes. He spotted a cave opening and signaled to Finch.
They both swam for it but then... Nyx stopped.
He couldn't see the cave anymore, or Finch, or anything. Just a dark void surrounded him.
Breaking through the void shone a light. He knew her face right away.
Her ash-blond hair flowed freely in the water, her piercing grey eyes were bright with joy at seeing him. Her skin was once again flawless ivory, devoid of the dark veins that eat at her feature before.
She wore a much too revealing white dress. The water made the fabric practically see threw leaving nothing to the imagination. She was intoxicating.
"Hello, Princey. Come here I wanna show you something." Loki's light rasp tickled his ears as she held out a hand to him. He began to swim for her. But no matter how hard he swam it felt like someone was holding him back.
The dark veins began to grow on her pale skin again and her eyes darkened. She groaned in pain looking at him with a terror he had never seen before, "NYX! HELP ME!" She roared in anguish.
Nyx thrust and fought to get to her, but something was fighting against him.
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HE HAD TO GET TO HER!
But he couldn't.
Something was stopping him.
No, not something... Someone.
Finch fought desperately to pull Nyx into the cave and away from the water wraith. Finch had been under the same illusion, but it broke the moment his mate Inej told him she loved him. It was as if reality snapped back into focus.
Inej would never say that. She didn't know him, didn't feel the way he felt. She didn't feel the bond or the longing that he felt in her presence.No that was not Inej. The image shattered and he saw what it really was.
With gills and scaled skin and beady black eyes... a water wraith.
They trick their prey with fantasies until they are no longer breathing, then feast on the dead.
He turned to find Nyx lost in the illusion just as he was moments prior. He fought to drag Nyx with him. He kicked and scratched trying to break the illusion placed on Nyx.
Finch had no doubt who Nyx was seeing, Loki Brekker.
Bastard of the Barrel and future High Lady of the Night Court. Or she will be if Finch could drag Nyx's stubborn ass to the cave.
After a lot of struggle and one good punch to the face Nyx snapped back to reality, the illusion broke and they were free to swim into the cave.
They swam down having to crawl on their bellies to slide into the mouth of the cave. They had only been holding their breath for a minute but their lunges were on fire.
They entered an open space, a pocket of air in the cave where they could once again voraciously take in air as they pleased.
Gasping for air they crawled onto the hard rock and looked up. There, carved into a little alcove in the coral was the flower.
The ugly flower was suddenly the most beautiful one Nyx had ever seen.
A chance.
That's what it was.
A chance for him to fight for his mate. A chance to save her and survive long enough to enjoy it. So he snatched up the flower by its root placing it in a secure pocket of his fighting leathers.
"Well... That was fun." Finch said sarcastically.
A chuckle erupted from Nyx as he turned to his exhausted cousin, "What I thought you were always up for our adventures."
"So far I've been woken up, made out with a pollinated bitch, had to fight my imaginary mate, then an elbow in the balls courtesy of my beloved cousin who wanted to fuck the water wraith." Finch spat.
"To be fair... For a minute there the water wraith was hot." Nyx smirked.
"First of all Loki Brekker is not hot. She is a fucking nightmare in a pretty package."
"Don't even! My mate is a literal goddess-"
"OF DEATH! Do not forget the OF DEATH part."
"Her father is a god of death, not her!"
"Oh forgive me! Yes, she's an absolute angel! What do they call her again? Dirty hands Brekker"
"Stop"
"Bastard of the Barrel"
"I get it."
"Queen of thieves"
"Enough"
"Lady of Lies- OUCH!"
Finch groaned as Nyx delivered a hard punch straight into the back of Finch's head.
"Talk about tiny nightmares, how is your shadow singer? Still utterly terrifying?" Nyx's smirk grew as Finch growled obscenities.
"Just get back in the water Princey" Finch spat, mocking Loki's nickname for him.
"Don't be jealous because my mate uses endearments and yours doesn't remember your name-ahhh" Finch cut him off by pushing him straight into the water before diving after him.
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A Court of Thrones and Thieves (ACOTAR FANFIC)
FanfictionNyx, son of the High Lord of Night Rhysand and Feyre Cursebreaker. Loki Brekker, daughter to none and queen of the thieves. Who knew robbing the Night Court would lead them to each other? There is, ultimately, no light without darkness, and no dar...
