Wings of fate

Chapter 5

I awoke to the sound of an explosion and a lot of lights. What the fuck? With the bad burning smell I immediately stood up from my bed. What is happening now? As I opened the door from my side someone much stronger than me tried the same from the other leading me to fall back. Why can't I ever have a few normal minutes with sleep in this realm?

Trying not to be too mad I slowly stood up from the floor and the person from the other side finally showed herself. It was Polaris.

"Omg Rosalinda! I missed you so much! I can't believe you are her!" she said while jumping on top of me. Which ended with both of us falling back to the floor but I was too happy to be mad.

"I missed you too, my polar bear!" I answered laughing.

"Ugh I didn't miss that nickname though" she replied, raising from the floor.

"If you guys are finished hugging we kinda need to evacuate since you bombed the ground right beside our house Polaris!" shouted a voice outside the room leading me to remember that explosion I woke to.

"Okay Xara we are coming! You don't need to be so grumpy about that, it was just a miscalculation" answered my sister.

"What do you mean by miscalculating, Polaris? Are you bombing stuff now? What is happening here?" I said horrified.

"I am going to explain everything to you Rosalinda but now we have to get out of this house before it burns down" she replied with a soothing voice. Realizing I dont have so much choice i raised from the floor and started following my sister.

We went to the sitting room where everyone in the house was waiting for us with some papers in hand. Apart from Raiden, Onyx, and Eleni, there was a new girl I didn't meet but I didn't comment as we started to go out. But my sister understood me from my confused face and whispered: "that is Xara, I guess you met with the rest of them but she and I were outside when you woke up" while holding my hand to lead me. I nodded thank you to her and we finally went out of the house.

Outside was... well a big chaos to say it mild. People were running from the fire that was exactly next to house. As soon as we were away from our house Polaris pulled a rope I didn't realize she was holding and then our house exploded completely causing people to scream and run faster from our house. I took a big breath but immediately regretted it, the air was full of smoke. Polaris pulled me and we started to run too. I felt like we were in a film running but fire like this but my thoughts disappeared when i looked up. There was no sky illusion in down city. You could clearly see that we were underground. The pocket doors was also visible from here. The down city was the exact opposite of the castle, all the houses were looking very poorly, there was no sky illusion, people here were doomed to darkness and it was even worse that they could see pocket doors knowing they will never be able to open them. I wondered if children here ever saw the sky. Suddenly i felt bad for faeries which was very weird after my feeling for them just a couple hour ago.

Polaris pulled me to an alley and we went inside a bar. Then Eleni took a badge with some weird symbols on it and showed it to the barista. The barista nodded let us go through an old door which led to a small and empty room with another door. Eleni took a keyring with very many keys on it and opened the door with one of them. We all went in and i stanced when I saw that we were inside our house again.

"Didn't we just run away from this house which exploded?" i said confused

"Oh no, we are not in the same house that burned completely, this is a safe house we use when things like that happen. Since our dear Onyx completely shuts down when big changes happen in his life we all design our houses the same so we don't have to wait for Onyx to be used to the new house every time" replied Xara laughing.