The accomplishment of light

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      "Mum you need to see this"
     
      He points the phone to the tv, I was dazed, unable to concentrate but I looked anyway. It had been hours since she died. Maybe 6 or 7, by the time anyone was able to ring she had already been dead a few hours, plus the drive so it had been a long time. But my brain snaps and all my attention goes straight to the tv as Carter's bloodied face appears on screen.
     
      "The Lycan king has lost his queen. As you see he is head to toe in her blood, we are bringing you the latest live from temsworth, over to you Duncan
     
      'Yes his queen is gone, murdered by a coven of witches. He had this to say.
     
      'To those who killed my Carly, I will be in helm National park at midnight tomorrow night. The coven that took her needs to be there. You can take it all, all my power and then my life. I won't live in a world without her and if I have to it will explode in darkness and you all die'"
     
      The man goes white like he's about to be sick, it was clear Carter was letting off his aura as the man was sweating, trembling in horror. It suddenly cuts back to the woman in the newsroom. She sat there with her jaw open unsure of what to say.
     
      "I'm sorry, I'm just a little shocked. Please if you see this share the video so we can reach the world and find those witches before the king kills the world and us along with it"
     
      It cuts to an advertisement and Archie appears on screen again
     
      "It's all over the internet, it's been repeated on every channel, there are more interviews. He blew up a football feild, like a crater in the earth, someone got it on video it was like a bomb went off, he's been tearing towns apart trying to find a witch"
     
      I blink back the tears, we all knew this day would come if he lost her now it's happening it feels surreal. The world will end one way or the other but I can't seem to care. All I care about is the pain he is in.
     
      What he must be feeling right now? The mate bond is strong and it's almost impossible to live without your other half but the Ailm bond was much stronger. It linked you and made you become one person. Half a body can't survive without the other but in Carter's case he can't die, he's the darkness so that bond severing and then having to live through that must be completely unbearable.
     
      His humanity, gone forever. What is light if it's not humanity? If that dies only darkness can survive and even then it would be a strangled, twisted, painful existence. My baby brother is already dead and gone with Carly.
     
      Unless Of Course we can bring her back? The thought snaps me out of my trance
     
      "Thanks Archie if you see anymore just send dad the link"
     
      I hang up and mark looks to me frowning
     
      "What are you doing? Who are you ringing?"
     
      "Megan"
     
      I pull her number up and grab a smoke, my shock leaving me and in its place I felt frantic and shaky but I had to try something. It rings twice and she answers
     
      "Hello dear, where are you? we are at your parents house"
     
      "10 minutes away, get her prepared to be burned. I'm going to bring her back to life"
     
      "Ashley I don't think that will work for her, this is different"
     
      "Well we have to try! I'll be there soon"
     
      I hang up, not in the mood to be dicked around. Not now.
     
      "If it's worth anything, I agree with you we should burn her"
     
      Mark tells me. I reach for his hand, squeezing it as memories of the day he died flash before my eyes and make my heart constrict. They poisoned him and killed him, he died in my arms like Carly died in Carter's. No wonder he wants to blow up the world. If I could have I would have.
     
      We make it in good time, people are all over the place whaling, sobbing into each other's shoulders. My home house looked packed as men stood at the entrance guarding the place. The queen was dead and everyone could feel it. Everyone would feel the loss and soon the world would too.
     
      I jump from my car and run to the house, I needed mum. As I walk in I gasp at the sight before me, the place looked like a murder scene. There was blood everywhere, on the ground mum lay in a puddle of it with dads and Carly lay on their knees. My family were whaling in all directions as I looked at my beautiful baby sister dead. She was grey, her hair and body saturated in blood. Her eyes lay open and her mouth hung loose.
     
      My legs give in under me, I couldn't process it all, I couldn't believe that she was dead. Tears burned my eyes as I crawled through the blood and lay my head on her chest and I cry for not just her but for Carter too. We lost them both today as I whale into her chest. My parents incase us in their arms as we fall apart at the seams, together as a family but the loss of my brother not being here broke me in 2.
     
      "How's this possible?"
     
      "Witches, horrible old witches. I hope Carter kills them all, I hope he rips them from limb to limb and spreads there bodies all over the world"
     
      Mum spits the words out, her face hard as Ice, but then she looks back at Carly and it softens as she pushes hair from her face. The moment ripping my heart out and pouring acid into the wounds. Then healing and repeating the process again.
     
      "What if we burn her? Bring her outside and try to burn her back to life?"
     
      I look at them all, dads look confused as where mum looks like she's reading a novel, her eyes going from side to side like she's reading each line perfectly. Then she snaps out of it
     
      "We need to try"
     
      She looks to dads and Scott lifts her, I stand up and we walk outside with my sister and I say a silent prayer to whoever is above that they may grant me this one miracle.
     
      everyone follows us out as dad lays her on the concrete slab, the pack gasp when they catch sight of her, she didn't look like mark did when he died, he looked peaceful yet Carly looked like something out of a nightmare, her body was stiff as a bored laying with her back arched of the ground, her arms heavy and laying to her sides. But it was her eyes that really scared me, open and bloodshot, dry and the blood that stained her face made her look like she had been dead a lot longer then she had but either way she was still my perfect baby sister. I kiss her head and sit back crossing my fingers that this would work.
     
      Mum and dads both give her one last kiss and then they light her on fire, her body engulfs in flames, her clothes burn off her body but you wouldn't see it unless you were beside her. My eyes water as the smell of burning flesh turns my stomach but she still doesn't burn,
     
      but suddenly the fire changed shape, morphing into a fire breathing beast, it enclosed her in its arms, it was in the shape of a huge bear, it looked like it was protecting her even dead.
     
      But should it really be alive if she is dead? Should it still be protecting her if she's gone?
     
      Her body stops burning and we wait, holding our breath and waiting for her to wake up. Moments turns to Seconds, seconds turn to minutes and minutes turns to hours. We wait and we wait for her to wake up but she's gone for good and that's when I break, I fall over onto the concrete beside her and I sob into her neck. Everyone around me breaks one after the other, Rob throws a blanket over her
     
      "Sorry ashley, I just don't want anyone seeing her like that"
     
      He whispers as he tucks it in around her, I look at him. His face was puffy and red
     
      "Where is Daniel?"
     
      His face falls going cold as Ice, he shrugs his shoulders
     
      "I don't know and I don't care, he is not to touch her, not ever"