The book of the Realms: Book One

Chapter 20

Chapter 20

Jayla's pov

This was a fight to end all fights. This wasn't pretty and already there had been some bloodshed. Lea and the others already cast a spell so that anyone who dies here today will automatically be sent to the Nether. No one was just going to be able to come back as whatever the hell they wanted. I know that means I will lose people I love but I had to do this. After everything with Tobias, I just can't allow that to happen again.

I kept looking for my mother trying to find her because I knew no matter what I was going to have to end her. I thought back to my childhood and tried to conjure up good memories, but I had none. She was my Queen growing up but never my mother.

The sky was black with smoke from all the fires the dragons had started. The smell of smoke and blood penetrated the air. I didn't want this. I blamed my mother and said this was all on her but that wasn't exactly the truth. It was just as much my fault. I thought to have peace we needed to fight but looking around at all the fighting and death there was nothing peaceful about this.

I saw my mother die and knew it was time to end this fight. I didn't have any fight left in me. I wanted to gather everyone and just leave. I knew this realm was no longer my home. I couldn't stay here after all of this. It was so beautiful and now that beauty was tainted with darkness, so I needed to go.

"Stop this is not what I wanted. It ends now. My mother and so many others are gone. The fight is over." I yelled.

"it's over when I say it's over bitch or when I take your life," Gypsy said with the most hateful voice.

I knew the fight was over for everyone else but me and Gypsy. I told everyone else to leave and go to the compound where they would be safe. We would figure out where to go from there but for now, this was my fight to end. I watched a few leave, but my group stood behind me broken, bloody, and sad. I wanted them to go and rest but of course, they wouldn't go without me.

I was done letting everyone around me control what happened in my life, so I turned my back on Gypsy and started to help the injured get up and leave. I didn't know where they would want to go but I let everyone know there was a place for them at the compound if they wanted to go.

Once the smoke cleared and everyone was strong enough to go, I would take whoever wanted to go to the tenth realm the one Lea and I started to call The Realm of Disbelief since it was uninhabited, and no one knew about it. It would be a place of peace, and no one would ever have to fight again. I never wanted this to ever happen again. I hated this. I felt so guilty and ashamed.

Some shifters were still fighting so I walked up and put my hand on them letting them know there was no reason to fight anymore. I wasn't going to watch one more person die. I tried looking for everyone I needed to know was ok, but I could barely see through the fog and smoke. I wasn't about to walk on the dead either. I will never forget this day. I looked around to burn it into my memory. I had to remember all of this to be sure nothing like this ever happened again.

My father was no longer standing beside me, and I didn't see Gypsy behind me either. Maybe she had listened to what I had to say and left as well. Then I saw her walking away from a shifter that had died. He was older and I knew it had to be her father because they looked too much alike. I saw the pain and anger in her eyes and knew she blamed me for this giving her yet another reason to hate me, but I wasn't going to give her the fight she craved so much. I was done and wanted to get everyone to safety. To live yet another day.

I saw Jayden and he looked so broken he was standing over his father and I felt my heart break for him. He had chosen to be on our side and he and Jayden deserved a chance to make everything right between them now they will never get that chance. I wanted to run up and just be his strength, but I knew he needed to be alone for the moment.

I knew Lea was safe because she had been taken back to the compound after watching her mother killed. I loved RayLynn, she was more of a mother to me than my own had been. I just wish she could have seen through my mother's lies before it was too late.

I didn't see Kingston anywhere and I feared the worst. I knew there was no way he just took off and left before everything was over with. I knew he wouldn't just leave me. Was he dead? Or wounded? I felt myself start to panic a little because the thought of him not being in my life riddled me with fear and pain.

Jovani was tending to be wounded like the warrior and hero he truly was. I was so blessed to have him in my life because he was one of the best. No, we didn't have a love connection, but we still had a connection, and he gave me a warrior oath to always protect me and that was a bond that would never be broken.

I started to look for Hartley because I knew he was behind and didn't go with Lea. If anything happened to him my best friend would perish. She would be an empty shell of the person she once had been, and I couldn't see that happen. I saw a few Vampires from his coven, but he was also nowhere to be seen. I didn't know if he survived or not. I looked around only to see Jayden and Jovani near me. Where was everyone else? Had they all perished? I couldn't go on if they were gone.

I looked over at my father and smiled at him just as Gypsy came up behind him and attacked him. I saw his life force leave his body. I screamed out "NO!" Gypsy then looked at me and smiled. This bitch was going down and I was going to be the one to end her life. I couldn't let her live after what she just did. I would get vengeance for my father's death. She would pay!

TO BE CONTINUED....