International Legends

Chapter 30 - Ozara

Waking up, I awoke in an underwater palace. It was glittering and dark but illuminated in the light. Through the deep blackness of the throne room was the faint, glowing body of Kathair.

Leo was still knocked out. Perhaps he was in a dream entwined with Naomi, it wasn't quite certain. Jasper, however, helped me to my feet.

"That was pretty badass back there," he said.

"Thanks," I laughed. "It was a shame that we couldn't witness your zombie epidemic. I heard "The Walking Dead" was quite the rage in Atlanta.

"Ozara," says Jasper, "Let me just say..."

I put my finger to his mouth and say, "Shh. It's alright. Let's just figure out why we are here before we have this conversation."

Jasper nods his head, and we hold hands, walking to the great tentacled beast.

"Why are you here?" asked Kathair. "We had an influx of sea-creatures that had arrived here, and they all didn't know our ways. I can only hold so many in Atlantis."

"Why don't you tell us instead why you were here? How did you open the timeline?"

"When you opened the Stone of Remembrance, that was when I was able to take the pathway back to my world."

I nodded. This made a little bit of sense, but it still begged the question, "Why didn't you tell us this before? We would have been able to avoid this problem."

That's when we heard a loud groan and looked to see him - Leo, on the other side of the room. I had never really thought much of Leo before but truly, he looked quite large and beautiful. His long, lengthy body looked constricted in pain.

He's delirious, moaning about a girl named 'Norma,' and I run to him, waving my hand in front of his face.

"Leo," I say, "It's me Ozara. We are in Kathair's throne room."

"Let me give that Neptune-bastard a piece of my mind," says Leo deliriously.

"He's not Neptune..."

"I know that!" snapped Leo. He stomps deliberately towards him like a hunter moving towards its prey, and easy to see the spirit of Emrion coursing through him. Peering at him, you can see his eyes are vibrant green eyes.

"You look powerful," says Kathair. "It's nice to see you have come into your power."

"Where is Naomi?" he asks, practically snarling in anger.

"She was unable to find you in the Vampire Queen's castle, " says Kathair. "She returned to the tree where she had come from."

Images of Naomi all flash through my head as I internalize what this means for him, shocked when he throws himself at the guardian. Instantly, he's repelled backward by the magic, hitting the floor with a thud. I raise my hand in response and before I can direct the magic at him, he repels it back at me, hitting me straight in the third eye.

"What the hell did you do that for?" I cry, massaging my temple. "That was so unnecessary."

Then, Jasper began to project some unknown force. Kathair's palace began to shake, causing the chandelier to swing back and forth, even shaking the throne of Kathair. As the lights flickered on and off, a strange unknown moaning sound was coming from far off sounding like ghosts.

"Make it stop!" roared Kathair.

Except Jasper was not stopping. His dark eyes burned through his skull. The once yellow skin turned pitch black, and now he looked terrified. Giant black wings outstretched from his back. He lifted his hand, red fireball that elevated the sea monster into the air, startling everyone. A crowd of tiger sharks were looking on, unsure of whether to defend or leave Kathair to his own devices.