Solasta Academy: All Hallows Eve

Chapter Twenty Five

Once Calia started screaming, everything seemed to tumble around her like a real-life earthquake. It ricocheted from all four walls of the Great Hall until all the lights plastered around exploded at once, leaving her and the rest in total darkness. She watched Malakai fall to the ground and pull Gideon with him, which made Calia grin even harder and begin screaming again. The Vampire covered his ears with his hands as he cried out for her to stop, but she wouldn't. Not until he and Gideon were dead.

Calia took one step toward the two, then another until she stood over them, and finally, she stopped screaming like a banshee. She vaguely felt her blood leaking from her ears and nose, but it didn't hurt. All she felt was the buzzing of her lightning running through every fiber of her being—begging to be let out of its cage. In her daze, Calia wasn't the scared little Faeling as Malakai called her, but a woman hell-bent on destroying those who hurt her the most, and she was just getting started. She watched as Malakai cried out again in agonizing pain while blood leaked out of his ears. To his right, Gideon was snarling at her but couldn't get up due to the fact that she hit him with too many bolts of lightning. If her friends and family called out to her, she didn't hear them. "Calia, stop!" Gideon bellowed.

"No," she replied.

"Please don't kill me," Malakai begged. "Please! I'm sorry I betrayed you, but it was the only way to survive. I need to survive so I can come here to Solasta."

She angled her head to the side. "And do what? Release these vengeful spirits to the peaceful world we live in? How exactly did you get your hands on the Book of the Damned? Why, exactly, did you befriend me in the first place?"

"Why else?" Malakai growled. "You're the last living Nox; everyone wants you for themselves. Only, you're too blind to see it."

Of course, she knew that fact all too well. Ever since she learned of this other world, she knew enemies would come out of their shadows and come after her. It was what her mother said in her letter to Soari, but what made her wonder was why she was in danger in the first place. She sighed because it was old news for her, and she didn't want to get into the mysteriousness of herself right now. She had things to do—like ending Malakai and Gideon's lives. "Tell me something I don't know. Or rather, don't say anything else because I'm tired of hearing your pathetic voice."

Both males tried standing up again, but Calia wouldn't let them. She blasted the two with another bolt of lightning, and they crumpled to the ground and groaned out in pain from their wounds. Between Gideon's grunts, he barked a maniacal laugh that would've sent Calia running for the hills. But not the new Calia with bare feet planted to the ground. "And here I thought you were just a meek little girl that hated violence."

"My dislike of causing harm has nothing to do with my inability to do so."

She blinked, and Gideon stood before her with the deadliest expression on his face. Before she knew it, his knuckles landed on her jaw as he broke it instantly, sending sparks of pain to the area where he hit her. Calia slowly turned around and took a step toward him. The pain in her jaw or blood leaking down her neck didn't bother her as much as the man who willingly hurt girls her age. That is what pissed her off most of all. As she took another step, he stumbled backward, realizing it was too late and he would regret ever putting his hands on her. This will be the last time.

Gideon placed his hands in the air as he tried to stop her, but she didn't. "Wait. Please, Calia. You know what I wanted for a long time, which blinded me entirely. Give me a second chance." In the corner of her eye, she could see Malakai watching both of them but did nothing but stand a few feet away.

She scoffed. "Like you gave my classmates a second chance? No, you destroyed their lives. You took away their innocence! So you can beg me all you like, even fall to your knees, but in the end, you will suffer as they suffered, As I suffered at your hands."