Blood of Water and Light

𝕋𝕨𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕪-𝕋𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕖: 𝕊𝕒𝕞

In the early morning the group of us were brought to the map room. It was not like back in Achelios' kingdom. This one was all light and bright and there were only a few shelves. An armor stand sat in the corner. Cyra was busy starring at her mug in her hand. Finally, coffee after what felt like eons.

The king had emptied out most of his generals and other guards. There was only a few of the more powerful men here. They had decided the sword had to be still somewhere nearby. Traveling was not a quick thing and they were heading back to Nigra.

"So what do we do now besides send spies to search?" King Calaman was asking Achelios.

"you send me to I will fight when a possible location is found" Cyra said which made me jump.

She was wiggling her fingers and rubbing her hands together nervously. Her eyes were serious like sharp daggers.

"I will show up it will surprise them" she added.

"No you will stay safe" Achelios snapped back.

I exchanged a look with Abby and we both seemed to realize something happened between them.

"I am not safe here I am not safe anywhere, but I am powerful" she said.

"Your highness if I may interject it is in fact best for you here if they got both sword and you then it would be catastrophic" One of the men in the room chimed which earned him a sharp glare from Cyra.

"I do not want to sit around that is not what queens should do if I risk others lives I will also risk mine and that is final" she said her hands now clenched tight.

"Very well then you may accompany us when we locate a place" King Calaman said.

"Thank you" Cyra said looking hesitant at what she just signed up for.

Where she went I would also go.

* * *

As it turned out they found a guy they said had been seen with the cloaked figure leaving. They confirmed he was in fact a member of Nigra's elite force. Achelios had dragged me along with him to the cells. I was hesitant of course to go be witness to torture. He was also now a king and so I didn't want to piss him off.

"Where is the sword?" Achelios asked his tone unusually cool.

"I don't know" The man whimpered.

He was big and bald, probably middle aged. His skin was already bruised and bloodied from others who had been here first.

"That's not good enough for me" Achelios hissed.

"I can't, they'll, they'll be worse for me it is a place you cannot reach anyways" he said.

"I'm going to need more then that" Achelios said before he landed a punch to the mans gut.

The man cried out in a way that nobody should. I had wandered to a table with his belongings and amongst them was a paper with something I knew.

"Is this where it is?" I asked.

"I cannot say literally or it will kill me" he said.

Achelios was now looking at me confusion taking over his expression. He examined the paper in my hands that showed the Eiffel tower in Paris.

"What can you tell us then?" I asked taking a different approach.

"You are close.." he started to choke and black shadow air came out of his mouth, "It is there all of it to the nearest inch, I believe in the queen of Gandrea" he said before he started to cough again.

Black goo dripped from his mouth and his body started to burn from the inside out. He started screaming. I felt the agony as much as he did. It hit me like a train. I felt like I might've been the reason this man had done this. He spilled out everything and now he was slowly burning.

* * *

It took forever for his screams to stop and for his body to fade away. Achelios was looking at the paper. He had dragged me out in my daze.

"What is this?" he asked at last pointing at the tower.

"A place from home our world as for the symbols I have no idea perhaps they translate into it's exact place" I said.

Naturally we went to Abby for our expert in this department. We found her sitting in a chair with here hair in some ugly braids she was teaching Cyra how to do. Cyra never did anything with her own hair it always down and exploding across her shoulders.

"Well near as I can tell they are a series of letters and numbers 125 Rue Montorguiel? If thats a word or name even" she said after an hour of looking through various books.

"An address no doubt" Cyra chimed in.

"Now we need a portal to get there and then we can begin to plan our attack" Winston said.

"Why bring it to another world though? It's almost too safe there" I said tapping my fingers on my leg.

"Maybe they wanted to" Abby said.

"Unless they don't need it yet and want it safe?" Achelios said.

"Then we need to find out what they are planning" Cyra said.

"I already have a spy in the kingdom, another one" Achelios said.

"Then all we need is for Cyra to make a portal to Paris" I said.

Cyra looked at us all blankly. We could've both just left for home then, but the two of us were now in this. Besides if they got into our world they could bring the shadows there to.

"What is an address?" Abby asked.

"Its a type of location its very specific to the household or apartment when we get there I'll tell you more" I replied with a small smile.

I glanced at Cyra and she looked longingly at the way Abby and I had been looking at each other. I felt uneasy and broke it off before anything more awkward could happen. Her and Achelios definitely had a falling out some time at the party. A part of me wanted to punch Achelios even if it wasn't him.