Deceiver's Throne

Chapter 7: Isabelle's Pov

The ride to the shield was extremely suffocating and no one said a single word, with the anticipation and stress eating away at us. Our eyes pinned on the contents of whatever could be outside of the car's window, waiting for any sign of the shield.

I know that everyone else is stressed but I can't shake the feeling of knowing that everything that ever meant something to me is going to be left behind. I wonder if they felt the same. Did they hate me for doing this to them?

My heart starts pounding on the walls of my chest as we switch from the tar road to the rocky gravel road. The weight of unease weighing down on me. Why are we doing this? My leg starts rapidly bouncing up and down, wishing for something to calm the roller-coaster filled with doubts inside of me. The drive on the gravel road continues for about an hour until the car slowly comes to a stop.

I can feel how the air surrounding every single one of us thickens with stress and everyone's face has the pale expression of numbness on it.

We all silently get out of the car, following Aires without uttering as much as one word. As we make our way down the path that leads us to yet again another forest Sam's hand finds mine, and gratitude fills my heart because finally the warmth of his hand causes the unease inside me to die down a bit.

I relocate my eyes in order for them to meet his and he gives me a soft warm smile. We all walk down the path, with thousands of questions and worries eating away at us, until we are welcomed with a long staircase. That seems to lead to an empty doorframe. As we all walk all the way up to the top not one word was yet said, and when we eventually reached the top of the staircase, the details on the frame of the frame keeping me quiet once again.

As my eyes travel up and down the frame, the feeling of something calling to me fills me and a burst of energy inside of me pleads to be set free. Electricity and fire roars beneath my skin destroying the shackles holding them in place and an eruption of blue haze runs from my veins through my palms. Lighting them on fire. The blue fire dances in my palms and on command my body starts walking towards the door.

My whole being seems to be drawn and somehow connected to this, and my thoughts run wild and untamed as I can feel how my hand rises up all on its own, making its way towards the frame. As my fingers graze the surface, the fire from my palms causes a ringing inside of me to respond. And the soft ringing immediately turns into a demanding call and I can feel how everything inside of me connects with the door. My eyes fall shut and a pulsing feeling surrounds me. The energy that once was inside of me feels like its being pulled out of me leaving me bare, empty and tired. The pulsing seems to go softer, and the blurry sight of a bright green light makes its presence known by shooting my eyes straight open.

As my eyes adjust to the new light, all that can be seen is bright green making its way out of my hand and into the frame. And just like that the entire frame lights up.

What?

What just happened? Did I do that all on my own? Everyone's eyes find me, and to say they all looked very shocked is a complete and utter understatement.

Victoria is the first to actually say something. "Belle what the fuck is going on with your eyes? And what was that, how did you open and activate the shield? I thought only Aires could do that since he is the strongest witch in our world."

Confusion fills me because how did I do that? And my eyes, why would anything be wrong with my eyes? My heart pounds on the inside of my chest as I quickly take my phone out of my pocket to look at my camera, praying that we all just hallucinated and that nothing is wrong with my eyes. But once I have opened my camera app my heart stops, and let me just say, what on earth? My eyes are glowing green, and I mean like green.