Chronicles of the Underworld - Soul Eater

14 - Blue Light

"And... So?"

"Nothing.", Alexandria said. "I just wanted you to know. I was smarter than you."

She looked at him. He was a fallen angel, a demon. His skin was as white as snow, his hair was black, and his eyes had the colour of the ocean. He had a perfect face and she knew it all too well.

"Sky.", she said. "You did not expect me here? But you must've heard of Mortimer's mission."

"I don't care about his missions. I am here on my own behalf."

She looked around, avoiding the body on the floor. But there was another one: a woman laid on the rug and her blue eyes were void of all life. She could see her chest slowly rising and sinking.

"That was who the soul eater was for.", she stated.

He nodded. "A splinter of Nox' soul."

"Mortimer's been looking for one for years."

"I know. I've been going around and destroying them. When I feast on them, they make me stronger."

Alexandria shook her head. Nox had been the most powerful of all dark sorceresses and her powers had transformed Mortimer's city into a ruin when she had rebelled against him. She was executed and the power in her mind had split into thousands of splinters, finding hosts in affine humans.

"She was your last victim."

"She was strong. I..."

Alexandria looked at the woman's eyes. They had the colour of a frozen lake. Ice blue.

She knew these eyes.

"No.", she mumbled regretfully. And then, when she heard a noise coming from the door: "Please don't..."

But it was as she supposed.

In the door stood the girl she had been protecting for the past months. Because Mortimer had seen potential in her. It was possible that she had inherited some of her mother's powers.

"Bellatrix.", she said, looking at Alexandria. "What are you doing here? What happened?"

She looked like death. She was pale, the shadows under her eyes were deep and according to the stink as well as her difficulties of walking in a straight line, she was drunk. Very drunk. And high on the cheapest shit she had been able to find.

"Kaydence.", Alexandria said.

"Maminka?", the girl whispered.

She moved into the living room, past Alexandria, and stared at the fallen angel in front of her. Terror arose in her chest as she felt the darkness the elf had felt before her. But the girl's heart was not the one of a warrior, she had not been born a survivor, and she had not served for years in an underworldly guard. Her otherness was just enough to make her not human anymore. And nothing else.

Something in the girl's soul broke when she looked into the demons' eyes. It splintered and escaped through the windows and doors.

Alexandria felt how something in her was unleashed.

"Now, who are you?", Sky said, opening his arms and moving towards the girl.

"I'm Death's chosen one.", the Shadow elf said in her stead, calling for her powers.

-

Aurel laid Columbia onto the grass, when he felt it. He closed the witch's eyes and laid his hand on his chest, electrified by an immense panic settling in. Alexandria's terror branded into his mind like a wave and before he could realise, he was running to her. His fear for her formed a spear in his consciousness, spreading like a spider's web and finding the one person he needed to find.

Please, come. I need your help, brother.

-

The Shadow Elf, Death's Chosen One, had surprised the demon. She had thrown all that was left of her powers at him, and it had been enough to make him tumble backwards. But that was all.

Alexandria jumped forward, but a push of energy caught her mid-air and threw her against the nearest bookshelf. Kafka and Flaubert rained down on her. She felt dizzy and could not believe herself that she had actually surprised him, but then the second surprise happened.

The girl got to her feet.

Kaydence rose and lifted her hand. Alexandria felt a trembling. She was shaking, the ground was shaking, the entire house was shaking. Blue flames were dancing around the girl's wrists, sending sparks towards her fingertips.

She didn't speak.

She didn't move.

She probably didn't even understand what she was doing, but she pointed her fingers at the fallen angel and Alexandria felt what Mortimer had been able to feel: Potential. It was unleashed in the room and blue flames, no, pure energy wrapped around Sky and started to squeeze the life out of him. Alexandria had no idea how she was doing it, but Kaydence had somehow connected her own life force to the one of the demon's killing him using his own powers.

"Keep going!", Alexandria yelled at her.

The girl started screaming and in her voice the elf recognized the sorrow she had been feeling herself. She moved closer to her, but in that second Sky realized what was about to happen. Steps were coming from the hallway, and he started twisting, threw one last glance at Alexandria.

"Sleep.", Mortimer's general commanded.

-

When they arrived, no one in the apartment seemed to be alive.

Aurel ran to Alexandria and, after a swift second of sheer terror, he realized she was breathing. He started shaking her and upon her eyelids fluttering, he pulled her close.

"I'm here.", he said. "It's okay. Nobody's here."

On the ground laid the bodies of two women, probably mother and daughter. The mother's eyes were open, but empty. The girl's eyes were closed, but he felt her soul raging inside her. Her mind was intact.

Salem's body was also there.

"What happened?", Connor asked her and she shuddered in Aurel's arms. Nobody recalled her ever doing so before.

She stared into nothingness.

Swallowed.

Didn't move.

"I think, I saw the devil.", Alexandria said.