Forgotten Magic: An Alchemyst Fanfiction

Chapter 30- My Secret

“Let me go!” I screamed.

There was a dark laugh and my blood ran cold.

“I’d forfeit my own life before I would do that.”

“Wh-wh-why?” I asked carefully, trying to suppress the shivers running up and down my spine.

“Let’s just say death would be the kind way out if I let you escape.”

I tried to pull my magic to my hands but my fear shut down my magic. I was paralyzed with fear.

The person dragged me several feet before pulling me into an old shack. Inside, it was dark, cold and quite frightening.

I found my magic and the golden glow forming around me easily dispelled the darkness that was surrounding me.

I summoned the most pure form of my power and held it within me.

The force was building and when I released it, everyone had fallen away from me.

Not bad.

I took two steps and fell as well.

Exhausted.

My endurance for magic was very low.

I hadn’t used such a powerful spell in many years.

The thing about magic was when you didn’t practice it and build your endurance, it drained your energy.

Hopefully everyone else would be out for long enough for me to recover and get out of here.

I crawled forward slowly, trying to get out of here as fast as physically possible.

I was breathing hard, everything I was screaming for me to slow down.

To stop.

To lay my head down and rest.

But if I did, I might as well dig my own grave.

“Hunter,” I called weakly, hoping the horse would return, but a darkness had settled over the area and I knew that I would have to face this alone.

I kept going, seemingly for hours, waiting for my strength to return. But it did not.

Two arms snaked around my waist and I tried to squirm from their grasp but I was past exhausted.

“Shhh,” a familiar voice said.

“Alex?” I asked, “Is that you?”

“Yes, Aurea, you’re ok now.”

Alex lifted me up and I leaned my head on his shoulder, closing my eyes.

The sun was just setting beneath the horizon.

I drifted in and out of sleep to the rhythm of Alex’s steps.

At some point, he set me down.

Even the sounds of my breathing faded into darkness.

(And I died. Jk sorry I really couldn’t help it.)

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I awoke with shock, not knowing where I was. Then I remembered.

Alex.

But the scene before me didn’t fit with what I could remember.

A cold cement floor was beneath me and the light was dim even though I could see the bright sun through the bars over the windows.

I bolted upright.

I was in a cell.

That Alex had brought me to.