The Fire Immortal-Book 5

Chapter 12

Here's the next chapter! So sorry about the delay... I had Vacation Dance School and Christmas carolling... sorry! I'll really try to update more frequently from now on out. Anyway... Merry Christmas! I hope you guys like this chapter and please vote and comment for it! :D Picture of Hunter on the side. :) 

Chapter 12

                         Arulan was just as shocked and horrified as everyone else, maybe even more. It was technically his fault that Troy and Dahlia had this incredible burden on them because he had allowed himself to be talked into letting Rachel and the others leave the Isle of Avalon. As a result, Troy and Dahlia would pay the price for his mistake.

                       It was one thing for Troy and Dahlia to have feelings for one another. It was another entirely for them to be destined to end up together. That sort of throws wrenches in relationships.

                      Arulan wondered if it was actually all fate. Maybe he had been destined to allow the others to leave; maybe it had been his purpose to almost single-handedly cause the destruction of the world as they knew it. Maybe Troy and Dahlia were fated to have that child, the child that would unite the four elements.

                      Before he could go on pondering too deeply about that, he heard Sapphire say, almost like she was at the other end of a very long tunnel, "So what happens now that Varmer has Dahlia? What's he going to do to her?"

                      Still feeling somewhat dazed, Arulan tried to focus on Luna. She seemed completely the same despite the bombshell she had produced; a complete contrast to the others. Troy was white-faced and chewing frantically on his fingernails, something that only happened when he was in severe distress; Cedric was staring blankly at the wall as if in shock, probably because Dahlia, whom he also loved, was destined to be with someone else forever, no matter what he, Cedric, did about it; Helen had started pacing up and down; and Raven was tugging at a clump of her yellow-and-black hair for she had apparently picked up one of Dahlia's habits when she had been pretending to be the latter.

                       "He won't harm her," Luna said immediately, trying to reassure both Troy and Cedric who were the most affected by her outburst and definitely showing it. As one, the boys turned to stare at her with bleak, anxious eyes. "Dahlia's far too valuable to him for that," Luna continued. "But he will use her as leverage for Troy because he knows as well as anyone that they love each other. They are linked... bonded... entwined for life."

                         Before Troy could say anything, Cedric interrupted, leaning forward in his chair. "That doesn't make sense," he protested. "Varmer had us in his custody before, remember? And I doubt he forced Troy and Dahlia to-"

                         Before he could say the words that would have embarrassed not only him, but Troy and everyone else in the room, Helen cut in sharply. "Of course not," she snapped. "Dahlia was not old enough to be a mother, plus she hadn't started her period. Now that she has, he will preferably wait for Troy and Dahlia to turn eighteen, when their powers are at their peak. Also, he doesn't have Troy yet, so regardless, he can't get that child yet."

                         Even though Cedric hadn't said the words, Arulan's cheeks flamed in colour. He didn't have to look at the others to also know that they were blushing; it was an embarrassing situation without adding even more problems to the mix.

                       "But why did we escape?" Cedric pressed, almost angrily, like he was trying desperately for a way for Luna to be wrong. But considering that his only hope of being with Dahlia was if Luna was wrong, it made sense for him to be more uptight than even Troy. "If Varmer planned so well, how did we escape? And Troy slipped through his clutches three times at his castle, his home turf! How did we get away?"