Scroll Of Wrath [BETA] COMPLETE

|Chapter 10.3| The Destruction of Atlas

Hadassah looked down at her torso, she cough violently as blood spilt onto the floor of her bedroom. She felt dizzy, intense pain pierced just under her sternum. She stumbled back, her hand holding onto her bedside table. She tried to focus, but she was losing blood at an alarming rate. The glaive that had pierced her had already retreated to the hands of the dragon princess.  

“Hadassah...” Ahqi’s voice was as if he was unsure of what he was seeing. He tried to hold her hand but instead he felt her warm blood spill out of her. His body shook at the sight of red. Her body eventually fell in his arms, were humans this weak? 

Was she always this fragile? 

Where was her strength, where was her snarky attitude? 

Cyprus’s eyes were wide, he looked at the figure at the doorway. “Drucilla..”  

Drucilla’s eyes were cold in disgust, “for you to help a human, is high treason. I will not tell my father about this.” She flicked her glaive to take off the blood of the woman she had just attacked. She looked at her fiancé hugging the body of another woman and did not react. “Bring him to the Celestial king.”  

At her words the blood hounds rushed into the small room and peeled Ahqi’s hands off the human woman, he shook them off refusing to let go. “Hadassah!” He called out shaking her body despite his trembling body. He needed her to please wake up, please. He was begging, it was all his fault, if he didn’t insist on running away, if he didn’t keep bothering her. His tears fell clacking against the wooden floor as the pearls rolled away.  

Why. 

Why.  

Please.  

Hadassah.  

He was violently yanked off her, and he did the only thing he could do. He screamed. 

His voice enveloped the castle, and the world stood still.  

The voice of a celestial in anguish, the power to command beasts. The blood hounds stood still as if frozen in time while he forced himself free rushing to gather the pearls that were scattering around the floor. He pushed the pearls into her mouth, his fingers shaking so much some fell away. He tried to get her to swallow it, he fed her as much as she could.  

“Cealestis.”  

The mermaid stopped his fruitless endeavour, his head turning to see the man he called father standing at the hallway. He was the only one who could move freely in the castle under the merman’s spell.  

“Stop this nonsense at once, you have a duty to fulfil.”  

 Ahqi looked up at the King, his eyes cold, “are you happy? Are you satisfied now?” His voice was raspy and barely audible.  

“You should have expected this, the moment you considered throwing away your duty. You have to understand, your destiny is to marry the dragon princess. There is no way out.”  

No way out? 

Ahqi laughed pathetically, the sound echoing in the grand hall. His laughter quickly turned to sobs, deep and wrenching, his body convulsing with each heave. He clung to her, his grip tightening with every wave of emotion, unwilling to let her go. 

“Stop being a child,” the Celestial King said, his voice cold and unyielding. “I have let you roam free for five hundred years. It is time now for you to step into your responsibility. You are the future of our clan. You cannot fall in love with a human.” 

Ahqi's sorrow morphed into a fiery rage. "You don’t understand! You never have!" he yelled, lashing out with all the fury he could muster. His emotions surged, and the air around them crackled with raw energy.