Deviant Fate

71 - The Cost

-Arowin-

I was frozen in white hot rage the second I heard those words.

Ameela's body slumped to the floor as Gwen stood staring down at her blankly.

"Gweneria?" Gwen's redheaded friend called out to her.

Gwen looked up and plastered an unfamiliar sickly grin on her face.

"Though I thank Gwen for her donation, I favor my name over hers." The voice came from Gwen, but didn't sound like my Gwen.

"Leave at once." I boomed, unable to contain myself as I took menacing steps towards her.

"It's my body now. We made a deal." She snapped back.

The redhead gasped as Keerly held her in a protective hold. As I reached closer to Ameela her guard stepped in front of her blocking my path.

"Ameela, shall I kill your pet slowly or quickly?" I taunted in a dangerously low tone.

"Dolos. The pet's name is Dolos." He replied and smirked as if I weren't five feet from ripping his head off his shoulders.

"You can't harm me because this is your divine's body. And you can't harm him because I now have the power to end you before you even place a finger on him." Ameela sneered.

I clenched my fists and watched her intently.

"This is how things will go. You will die tonight. If you submit quietly, I'll spare your siblings. It's the least you could do after terrorizing from birth." She snickered.

"You made me do it!" I yelled. "All this time you've forced me to be someone I wasn't. You're the one that terrorized them. You just hid behind me." I turned towards Keerly in hopes that he wouldn't look at me with the same disappointment he always had.

He only held eyes of confusion and anger, not towards me, but towards his mother. Or rather, Ameela inside of Gwen's body. I shifted my gaze to the small girl behind me. The little sister who I should have protected from evil, but instead I was the evil.

She was no longer sitting, but standing just behind me. Tears still streamed down her face, with a shaky hand she placed it on my shoulder as a gesture of support. Even though I had tormented her, she was still on my side.

"I hated you from the start." She shouted at me before directing her glare at Zinni and Keerly. "But I hated you traitors because you always picked this abomination over me! Everyone always picked your whore mother and you over me!" She screeched.

"He's our brother. And you were supposed to be our mother!" Keerly bit back. "You were supposed to love and protect us, not turn us against each other."

"Love." She scoffed. "Preposterous. You think love exists? That creature on your arm would leave you in a heartbeat if I told her I would let her and her little friends go free."

"Maybe. But that doesn't mean that I will stop loving her. Love isn't finite. I'll love her through time and space. Even if she chooses to go. I'll love her." Keerly's voice lost volume as he said the last sentence, but he meant every word.

"That's not love. That's a lack of dignity." Ameela ridiculed. "Enough delaying." She stepped towards me as her demeanor shifted. "I suppose I should just get rid of all of you. Makes everything a lot easier in the long run doesn't it?" She questioned Dolos.

"Whatever you wish." He grinned.

"You may be in Gwen's body, but according to that deal, there's only one way to solidify it." I spoke calmly as I walked towards Ameela's lifeless body.