The Overlord Trilogy: The Light

3 • This Is War

Elizabeth

I pull on the chains, the three explosions loosening them from the wall. I position my feet behind two sets of newly fallen debris and push, the chains snapping from the darkness.

"Finally!" I pull the chains towards me, blood dripping from above me. I look down at my wrists and wince from their mangled state. I look around the darkness, none of it lighting up. "Light!" I wince as the room lights up, part of the hallway also lighting up.

I sprint towards the hallway, light following me. I jump through the wall, falling onto the closet floor. I look around, breathing heavily.

"We need to leave. The Alliance of Overgaard is going to attack us."

"But aren't they only after you James?" I hear James and Kali from outside his bedroom door.

"They will attack all of you because you are with me. I am sorry."

"Let's get everything packed up then." I hear an old woman speak up from behind the door. A shuffling of feet moves down the hallway, people running.

"I am going to get the important stuff from my room and send it to my main control room." I stand, wide eyed, in the middle of the room as James opens the door. He doesn't notice me as he shuts the door and closes his eyes, leaning against the door. I take this opportunity to quickly move towards his bed, getting ready to dive underneath it. "You!" I stop, my blood running cold as James' hand clasps around my wrist, jerking me backward. I yelp as I land on the ground, looking up at a pissed off James.

"J-James!" My eyes widen as my voice comes out of my mouth, someone else's entirely.

"Don't you dare speak my name! You have no right to speak anymore!" I stand up and push James back. I have gone through enough of this hell! I am not letting some girl take my identity and turn everyone against me!

"Listen James! I am Elizabeth! I went into your room to find a map to escape but I ended up going through your closet door when I heard someone calling for help! I am sorry that I went into your room without permission and that whoever the girl was became me but I let curiosity take the best of me..." James walks closer to me, inches apart from me. I gulp as he looks into my eyes, reading my face before turning back to my eyes.

"Elizabeth?" I feel the tears run down my face as I nod at him. In seconds he has me enclosed in a tight hug. "I am so sorry." He speaks into my neck as he keeps me close to him. He pulls away and looks over me before going into his dresser, pulling out a hoodie and jeans. "Put these on. You need to come with us and we can't let Thana see you." I nod and look around the room. "What's wrong?"

"Is there a bathroom connected to this room?" James nods before walking over to the wall, part of it opening up to reveal a bathroom. "Thanks..." I walk into the bathroom, almost screaming when I see myself in the mirror. My pure white eyes make the rest of my body look dead. My blonde hair makes my pale skin look even worse, overall making me look horrid. I shake the thoughts out of my mind before changing into the hoodie and jeans, the hoodie and jeans a little large on me.

"You done in there?" I pull the hood over my head, pushing my gold hair into it. I do a quick check over of myself before turning to the wall and pressing my hand to it. The wall opens up, James going over what I'm wearing. I gulp silently as he narrows his eyes before nodding his head in approval. "We just need to do something about the eyes." James look at his room, now barren of everything except for his bed.

"Do you have contacts or something?"

"I do but none of them have something to make it seem like you have pupils..." He needs glasses? I've never seen him wear glasses, though I guess that's because he has contacts- "Elizabeth?" I realize that I have been staring at James this whole time. I blush and turn away from him, walking towards his bedroom door.