Ad Astra Per Aspera

Chapter 6

Have more than you show. Speak less than you know.

Astralea's POV

I wake up panting, like I just had a nightmare, but I know that's not what it was.

A fucking memory from my past.

Suddenly someone is grabbing my shoulders from behind. "Breathe." The person said and panic hits me.

I immediately flip over and get on top of him. My hand on his neck, another looking for some kind of a weapon. He is trying to flip me back down, lifts me with his body, but I immediately move my legs to his neck, he is pinning me down to the bed, holding my hands up but my legs are still around his neck.

"Princess." That voice sounds familiar. "Breathe."

Blaze.

And I do as he says. I breathe.

"Good girl." He says, "Now if you don't mind, I would like to breathe too."

Oh shit that's right, I'm suffocating him. I release his neck and he starts coughing.

"Got it, never touch you when you wake up. If you had a gun you would have shot me, am I right?"

Yes, I totally would have.

Wait.

"You drugged me. Again."

"I wouldn't call that drugging you, more like I tried to help you open your senses and remember."

"You injected something in my neck and I passed out. Last time I checked, that means drugging. Again."

"What do you remember?" Arcane said from the corner.

Was he there the whole time? If so, why didn't he stop me when I almost killed Blaze.

"Princess?"

"Don't call me that." They smirked. I doubt they will ever stop. Assholes.

"I remember my father telling me about the mission and sending me there, I remember meeting Matteo and that's it. Your drug didn't work." It was more like a very detailed reminder of a moment from your past. I don't like it.

"It's not a magic potion, your memories won't come to you all at once, it will take time, but you will remember."

The sun, it's setting, but it was only like 10am. "How long have I been out?"

"About 9 hours."

Well, there goes my sleep schedule.

"Let's go, we will show you something." Arcane said

"Last time when you said that you drugged me."

"She will never let that go, will she?" Blaze asked.

"Definitely not." Arcane responded and they were right, I won't let this go. Payback will be a bitch.

I am already planning their demise anyways.

My curiosity did get the best of me though. There is definitely something wrong with me.

I am about to get up from bed until I notice something. "These are not the clothes I fell asleep in."

"No they are not." Arcane said with a smirk.

I'm going to kill him. Like, actual slaughter.

"Before you attack him and attempt to break his neck, we aren't the ones who changed you and weren't in the room. Rue did. Don't think that low of us." Blaze said.