A Dive to Remember

Chapter 27

Elara's Pov

I could sniff something odd about the drink she  handed me, but I trust her. I know she wouldn't try anything, so I drank the frappe, enjoying the strong Vanilla bean taste.

It was really amazing just being in her presence, I think she actually likes me, I couldn't believe myself but thinking about it, she never gave me a reason to think that she disliked me.

Suddenly I started to feel sick and nauseous, what was wrong?
She layed her head on my shoulder, unknowing of what was happening. I suddenly had the strong urge to puke and I hurriedly got up, puking out the frappe and my blood... Poison... This was poison.... I sniffed my cup, the smell of poison now clear.... I knew the exact poison based on the smell, it was Averine. This poison could leave me on the door of death without a blink.... I growled out in anger while feeling the betrayal course through my veins.... It was easy to guess that this was her doing, especially with the way she was smirking.

I tried to attack her, now enraged but she dodged me easily, I realized that I lost all my powers... Now, she overpowered me. She swiftly punched me in the gut and my face, making me fall down and she placed a foot on my chest, not letting me get up...

I started at her with a silent question Why? Why did she do this? If she wanted my life, she could have asked me.... I would have gladly given it up.
That's when she started to blame me for her people's end of existence and her Mother's assassination... I tried to make her understand that it wasn't me, I was fighting against my backstabbing sister who had plotted this war.

She didn't understand and called me a liar among many more insults, this never hurt me... But the fact that she told me that she faked her love, that she hated me.... This broke my heart....

All that mattered was her plunging a knife to my heart, physically breaking it... But she didn't, she didn't even let me die peacefully, instead, she jabbed the dagger on my thigh, there was something on the dagger, because I could feel my leg instantly going numb and paining oddly at the same time.... And the smell of Elderflower.... She planned to slowly kill me...

I couldn't believe this.... She left me in that condition and went away, leaving me in pain.... Both physically and mentally... But all I cared about was if she got home safely.... Why did I have to be the one to truly love her?

As I was laying on the ground, I saw many snakes slithering towards me.... I panicked and tried to work out of the way, but they held my legs and slowly made their way to the dagger, with one swift motion, they dislodged it, and the most biggest of the snakes bit my thigh, on the same spot, spreading its venom into me.

I couldn't understand what was happening, I waited for my death... Maybe these snakes took some mercy on me and decided to kill me early on.
All of a sudden, all the snakes began to curl around each other, forming an image of a tall woman... She started to take shape, melting all the snakes into herself.... As her face started to become clear.... It started to look like.... Like.... Ci but older... How is this possible? It was her mother.

Her mother looked at me with pity, she gently said "Forgive my daughter my child, she does not know of reality, all she saw with her eyes was you close to my slowly dying body and naturally she thought that you were the killers along with her that day was her best friend, the one your sister dates, but she knows that your kind isn't at fault. You were heavily injured that day but still picked me up and carried me to the clinic. My dear, my kind hasn't gone extinct, it's hiding. I had to leave because my daughter wasn't safe anywhere.... You see... She is a hybrid... Her father.... My husband... He is a Nereid, and Nereids were our sworn enemies, in the end, it was my own husband who killed me"

Hearing all this, I was shell shocked, that's when she started to speak again "I am between Life and Death due to my immortality, but enough about me.. You were dying by the poison, and my venom was the antidote, so I had to bite you... You will be fine and slowly gain your powers back, don't worry. For now, come with me, I will take you to my home... Rest well"

I nodded and let her carry me, she nursed me back to health for many weeks, and everyday she smiled and cried looking at my scar. She told me that she was sad with the fact that her daughter tried to kill the woman who could truly love her over a misunderstanding. I didn't understand her words but I nodded along.

One day, she disappeared for a long time and came back with a smile and tears in her eyes.