Flames of Chaos

4.

Rio kept his word. A week later, Utopia started again.

I've been spending a lot of time in the library, searching for books about Chaos, Utopia, Phoenix.

But there wasn't much, or at least nothing Rio didn't tell me yet.

Chaos was the villain in every single story. He was reckless, out of control, powerful, way too powerful.

It drove him insane.

Anyways, Utopia started yesterday but Rio wanted me to stay in the castle the entire time.

I didn't like being locked up, and absolutely hated when people told me what to do.

Or when they thought I was some lost puppy.

"Can we finally go out now?" I asked as I looked through the window, fireworks were going off and it looked amazing.

"Yes we will, it's the first show" Rio said as he was putting gloves on. He explained that he did that to protect me, because he didn't want to burn me.

But he never burned me, his touch felt a bit hot, but nothing too bad.

Rio didn't know this, but I was gonna go to the lake after the show. I had no idea where it was, or what that girl meant by 'coin with an ice cube on it'

I still wanted to go.

But just in case Chaos would actually show up and try to do something stupid, I took a dagger with me.

A beautiful dagger with jewels on it.

One day I found it in my room, so I guess it belonged to me. Well, it definitely did now.

Rio took me to the tent, walked as closely as he could next to me.
He took me to the nicest seats, the vip seats of the tent I guess.

I looked around the tent, there were so many people and they all looked as excited as I was.

Until my gaze fell on the girl that told me about the coins. The girl from Atarah.

She was standing next to a guy, whispering something to him.

The guy from my dreams. He haunted my dreams pretty much every night.

"Who's that?" I asked Rio, who looked in the same direction, his face tensed a little. "That's Chaos and his sister Stormi"

So it was Chaos. He was exactly how he was in my dreams, even though I couldn't remember him.

How was that possible?

And the girl was Stormi, his sister. Yeah she definitely had no business in Velora. How did she even manage to sneak in?

"She has ice powers" he explained.

"I thought they lived in the kingdom of lightning and storms? How can she have ice powers then?"

"Good question" he mumbled. "I actually don't know"

"Are there other kingdoms?"

He nodded. "A lot, smaller ones, but not one as powerful as ours"

"Or theirs" I added as I nodded at Chaos and Stormi.

Rio rolled his eyes. "Chaos is not that powerful anymore, Stormi is probably way more dangerous now, also because she's just insane"

The show started a bit later, it was absolutely beautiful. There were a lot of acts with fire.

A girl was doing everything I wish I could. She was walking on a rope in the air, flying through the air on a trapeze.

And when she landed on the ground, she looked straight at me. She was smiling, but her smile disappeared as she kept looking at me.

She looked back at where Chaos was standing and my eyes followed hers, right into Chaos'.

He was smirking, just like in my dream.

'I missed you butterfly'

I looked around if someone else heard that. But I don't think anyone heard it.

It was in my head. A incredible nice voice in my head.

'You're making me blush'

I looked around, who was it? Was I going insane.

'You're not insane'

'Stop reading my thoughts motherfucker'

'I like your thoughts though" he chuckled. 'Meet me at the lake'

Wait, was this Chaos?

I looked straight at him again, he was already looking at me with a smile.

'Get out of my head asshole' I thought while looking at him. He just tilted his head a little. 'What do you want from me?'

'I want you to meet me at the lake'

Okay whatever. How was I gonna escape from Rio though? He would probably guide me back to the castle immediately.

'Let me take care of that' he said before there was a powerful storm in the tent, an ice storm with lightning.

'Now run!'

I got up, ran outside. Rio was way too distracted by what was going on to pay attention to me.

So I ran and ran. I didn't even know where I had to go.

'Straight ahead, princess'

Maybe this was the dumbest thing of my life, maybe I was running straight into the villain's arms.

But I had to find out.