The Special One

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty

"What side have you chosen?" The strange man said through gritted teeth. 

Variana was looking straight at his eyes in temptation to kill him, but she knew it would cause worse things to happen. 

The man grabbed Variana's face with his thumb and index finger.  

"Tell me, now." 

She finally let it out after minutes of hard thinking.  

"I've chosen to be, a Light Caster."

This set the mood in the room differently. 

The guards stiffened, and moved closer to the three friends. 

Suddenly, the door they entered through opened and another man came in.  

He seemed much  younger but contained more power than the rest.  

He motions for the three friends to come with him with a movement if his finger.  

The woman and man stared at the three in anger.

"Ree, Jonah, let them pass."  

Ree, the woman, moved to the side to let Gondel and Dean walk pass to the man who had just came in.  

Variana was being held behind by Jonah.  

"Lord, Astedon-" Jonah grumbled and was interupted by Lord Astedon's shouting, "She is coming, now!"

Jonah finally let Variana pass by him and the 5 guards.  

"Follow me." Lord Astedon commanded. 

Variana was shaking in fear from remembering the horrible torture she had just experienced.  

Gondel had grabbed her hand to calm her and she tightened her grip on his hand.

Lord Astedon opened a door to another dark circular room, but it was larger so Variana relaxed a bit.  

"Sit." He spoke to us kindly. 

Gondel and Variana sat down on uncomfortable chairs at a circular black marble table. 

Everything here was circular, and it bothered Dean of how scary looking everything seemed. 

He didn't sit down, just stood there behind an empty seat.  

They all looked at him in confusion, and Lord Astedon roared, "You will sit down, now!"

Dean moved farther away from the chair and had his back against the door. 

The door swung open and dean fell to the floor.  

When he looked up, there were two guards. "You may take this disrespectful brat to the torture chamber." Lord Astedon said with a smirk but in his eyes all there was, was evil.  

Variana jumped off of her chair and ran towards Dean but was stopped by an invisible wall that Lord Astedon had created.

Variana's head made contact with it and she falls to the floor with a loud thud.

Dean was struggling to be free from the guards but they kept their grip on him.  

"Let him go!" Variana shouted at the guards.  

Lord Astedon took a few steps closer to Variana, "Don't make me hurt you again."  

She was frightened and in pain from getting bruised up.

If he did hurt her again, she knew would die this time.

Gondel was out of his seat and was ready to attack Lord Astedon and the guards.  

With a swift movement of his hands, Gondel casted at a chair next to him and it flew across the room at the guards.  

Dean ducks, and the chair hits the guards faces, knocking them out.  

Variana ran to Dean but Lord Astedon pushes her against the wall, pinning her arms.

"Where do you think you're going, Special One?" 

"What?" Variana breathed. 

Astedon looked down at his chest, signaling her to look.

Around his neck was a necklace, the charm was a black moon shining through his coat. 

"Don't fool yourself. You were destined for The Dark World. To destroy The Light World. Stay with us, forever, and rule... My queen."

Variana didn't even hesitate to answer back with a cold voice, "I am NOT going to become your queen! I will not join the Dark World! And I choose the Light World!"

There was silence.

Dean was standing next to Gondel, they were both surprised that Variana, was in fact, The Special One.

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