END ROADS

CHAPTER 19: I MIGHT BE MORE BUT I LOVE HIM MORE

“Becky…can you hear me?”
“Of course I can…what do you want?” I asked following the female figure into the darkness.
“You were born…you were born special, but no one believes it, not even yourself. Mysteriously I do. You are different from any of us. Stronger than all of us. If any of us, witches or vampires stand against you we got no chance. But sadly there is one man one special man who can turn you into the most helpless being in the world. You need to overcome him by your ambition and strong-will” she crawled onto a tree like a lizard and sat on the twigs “Come on, follow me” I tried but I failed miserably.
She laughed her heart out and jumped off the tree “So, because you are special…live special. Don’t and never wish to be like anybody else that is you…” she lifted herself off the ground like a fairy and began floating above the trees. The tips of her toe touched the leaves of the trees and made them turn black.
“Strive to be powerful, deadly and dangerous. Let anything you touch wither every animal fall down dead!” almost the whole forest was black…dying and fading.
“Be like a plague…let every creature mourn in your presence!” she spread her hands and the ground turned blood red, the trees turned into ashes.
“But that is awful” I complained
“That is the human heart speaking…when you realize who you are! Then you will know how wonderful it is to be this great, how good power feels. The flow of it in your mind…everything begging you for mercy….” The words echoed in my mind, she slowly vanished leaving her evil laughter floating in air.
I turned around to walk away, then another voice came.
“Becky” I turned around to find myself in a flower garden filled with beautiful roses.
“It is I who sermons you” a voice called from the roses “I searched around and found a beautiful lady in a red flowing dress. She had a cloth mask like of the ancient princess covering her face.
“I am Flora, the princess of the northern Crescent castle, I know you” she stood up and walked to my side
“I have heard of you!”
“Everyone knows me, but no one knows or bothers to know where I went or even what happened to me!”
“You turned into mist”
“Who bothers to know how or why? No one because everyone is comfortable with all that is happening” she sat cross legged breathing in and out dramatically “Come here and join me!”
Slowly and cautiously I sat beside her unsure.
“Long ago…” I drifted into darkness then found myself in a dark castle. Everything in it was black, golden or grey. “I was the princess of the northern Crescent castle” there was a large drawing of a golden crescent moon at the vaulted ceiling. “I was my father’s favourite” a young beautiful girl ran towards an older man dressed in royal black robes. He hugged her, lifted her in his arms and swung her around before pecking her. “He loved me, but I always disappointed him” the same girl entered a different room, the father scolded her and left. She remained there crying. “I was always against him. Witches are never trusted. So father made promises and never kept them…it is the nature of a witch. They made plans to attack others but I ruined them all”
A couple of soldiers were standing around a table with a map between them. They discussed a couple of things in low tones then left the room cautiously. A moment later, the cheeky princess entered the room in form of smoke and took away the map. She turned into a crow and flew out of the window. A moment later I was in another castle that was bright Grey, the young princess entered the room and gave the elderly man seated on the coach thoughtfully the map. He studied it and smiled at her. She turned into a crow and left.
Moments later I was standing in the battle ground, the soldiers of the Crescent castle were killed. The elderly king won. Again I was in the northern Crescent castle, the king was quarrelling everyone claiming there was a traitor. The princess stood up and said something while her head was bowed. The king slapped her hard then she was caged and placed at the peak of the castle.
“I was always punished and beaten all day but I could never watch people doing evil. Later, I discovered that my mother was a fairy who had been captured by a certain witch clan. She ran away, disguised herself like a witch. Father fell in love with her and I was born. He killed her on discovering she was a fairy. He was to kill me too, but he loved me for no reason” she looked at me, and smiled maybe…
“He decided to frame it that my mother died when I was born. Sadly I did not grow like my other sisters…I always fought with them. When I made them lose in war, everyone wanted me dead. Father could not allow it, when I was caged up there…he visited hugged me and said his good byes” the king floated to the peak and opened her daughter’s cage. She looked at him with large blue innocent eye.
“Papa…
“It is me my lovely Flora” he smiled fatherly at her stroking her brown hair “naturally, you can’t be like us. I know the secret behind this. Your mother was good so you turned out to be. If I kill you for betraying the Crescent clan I would have disgraced myself. So I will let you go and say you escaped. Run away…go as far as you can and always know papa loves you and always will” he cried secretly hugged her and kissed her cheek and began walking away. Flora a ran after him.
“Papa…I can’t stay away from you!”
“You have to, or they will all force me to kill you!” he tried to explain to her. She didn’t seem to understand, she pouted looking up at him with glassy eyes.
“Then come with me pa!”
“This journey is yours alone…right” he took off the ring on his small finger fixed a necklace on it and fixed it around her neck “When you see that, you will know then, papa is with you”
“I will miss you pa”
“I will miss you too Flora” he took her in his arms again and they cried together. When he let her down, they were standing in the wall of the castle. Below was a thick forest.
“Goodbye my child, only remember papa will always love you so very much” with that he pushed her off into the wild, she went down the several feet wall, he watched tears spilling from his eyes uncontrollably. He sat down burying his head between his legs and wept. Flora turned into a crow and flew away without looking back.
“I went away…cried for days…missing my father’s love and affection. I wanted to go back and find him, but I knew it was dangerous…as days and years went by I composed the spell book. Two thousand years ago I finished writing it and hid it in the Crowns coven”
I looked at her wide eyed.
“Don’t worry, we witches age very slowly. Sometimes you get tired of existing. Time went by and I decided to use the forbidden magic and turn myself into mist. All witches went to live far away years later, I came back as a human. Met a good looking man, married him and together we had a child together…the rest is history”
“Come on, tell me the whole story” I begged
“No, all I wanted you to know is that I turned to mist to escape the spell of shifting all the witches to another world. I could have been found and be killed. I turned to human coz it was the only option I had. The rest does not matter!”
“She is a lie” the lady I had previously met appeared, Flora and I stood up.
“Felicity…”
“I escaped, and came back for power…listen to me Becky…all that matters is power, power. Do all you can to be powerful Power!” she smiled evilly
“No Becky, all that matters in this world is goodness, sympathy…mercy!”
“You shouldn’t contradict with me” Felicity sunk a sword into Fiona’s heart region “evil always wins!”
“Floraaa!” I yelled as light rushed to embrace my world.
My eyes slowly opened, I blinked rapidly trying to focus. I looked around the room, it was Dermot’s room. I was on a hospital bed with a drip…actually two drips…what?
I sat up and stretched, I was fine. I pulled off the drips and got off the bed. What happened? Where is everybody? I walked towards the door opened it and stepped out! There was no one at the corridors…did it mean it was day time? I followed the route my brain was telling me. I came to a stop outside Grey’s room’ pushed it open and walked in. Grey was in bed, in a pair of beach shorts…shirtless sprawled on the bed. I looked at him for a while then turned the other way. The piano room! I touched the closet and it skid out of my way. Gosh, what was happening?
I walked in, wasted no time and began playing the piano. The tune I loved playing as a sign of victory. I sang along the song I sung lots of times, a very happy song. I had forgotten all about the sneaking stuff and that Grey was in bed. I was done playing, I jumped up rocking an imaginary guitar swinging my hair around. A long dark shadow growing in front of me made me jump on the piano bench that suddenly broke.
God it was Grey! He had scared the hell out of me.
“Um…what…er what are you doing here?”
“I should be asking you the same thing” he said coldly.
“Ah me…” I laughed nervously scratching my head “ha…rocking after getting well” I showed him what I had been doing. He laughed shortly.
“You are making me laugh when am damn serious” his look darkened “Come here” he tried to reach me but I jerked away.
“Am not joking Becky, come here!”
I swayed around childishly tilting my head in curiosity “And am not coming” I answered on his face.
He smirked and raced towards me in his super speed and caught my hand. I pulled away, jumped up and found myself in his room. He was still in the piano room.
“Wanna find me? Am right here” I called and jumped in his bed hiding under the covers. In seconds the covers were pulled away, I began giggling. He pinned me on the bed…his face stoic.
“Oh man, you found me!” I continued giggling but he just kept staring at me.
“What is wrong with you?” he sounded angry to my surprise. My joy died down and I began crying immediately.
“Shit come on, stop crying!”
“You yelled at me” I continued crying.
“Fine then stop it. I will not yell again!” he sat at my side and I sat up too. “What has gotten into you? You are behaving like a baby!”
I giggled and got to my feet turning on the lights and heaved a sigh.
“Don’t I deserve an applause, my act worked? I got you” I laughed at him till my stomach hurt. “Sincerely speaking, I was only acting. I knew you would scold the hell out of me if you found me in the piano room. My little act caught you in the edge”
“I could admit that.” He sighed heavily running his fingers through his hair “Anyway why were you in there?”
“I felt like playing the piano when I woke up. So I came in here. Sorry though, I woke you up” I moved closer to him “Tell me anyway, so what happened to your senses”
He raked his fingers through his hair “Well, it is the quarter remaining to get well. No way figured out yet. It will take a while to discover!”
“Poor kid” I said
“If you only knew how old I am, then you would have never called me a kid”
“My bad, I forgot that we humans age damn quickly” I sat beside him “So this sense thing is the reason behind you not reacting when Keith attacked you?”
“Sure” he answered reluctantly laying back “Everything was pretty awful, but one good thing happened”
“And what is that?” I lay beside him thinking “Of course…I saved you!”
“Something more than that” he turned to face me “All vampires except the three, Steel, Keith and Adelyn promised never to harm you as long as you don’t harm them”
“Wow, am safe now? I can move around” he nodded with a smile.
“So Keith and his men left?” I asked after some time
“Four days now, but Arthur stayed back” he answered shifting his position
“Oh, that pervert! Anyway so I have been in that damn bed for four days?”
“Mmh, and so I think you should go shower” he was teasing me.
“That is a descent way of telling me I stink” I went to shower anyway.
I showered quickly and entered the room in the room in my robe. Grey was sleeping facing up. Good, I will make you know that am no longer afraid of you. I put on one of his shirts and undies I found in the closet. When I was done, I jumped on him…he woke up startled.
“Gosh, get off me. I want to sleep now”
“You are not sleeping boy, are you not happy am awake?” I asked.
“I am, but am tired now. I want to sleep”
“What if I don’t?”
“I promise you I will kill you myself” I began ruffling his hair. His eyes suddenly shifted from green to red. His fangs extended, he shifted me under him threatening to bite me. I kissed his mouth teasingly, he relaxed and slouched on me.
“Now enjoy heavy lifting” he said drifting to sleep. It took me a real struggle to shift only half of his weight off me. His half body was lying on me, I could not get him off me and he was dead asleep. I had to sleep like that…straining. What a heavy sleeper.