The Torment • Alternate Reality Book One

Chapter 14- The Victor

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Sabrina's POV

My sword digs itself into her shoulder, and her claws hook into mine. We both let out screeches of pain, shattering the silence as the world lied still, waiting for impact. My blood and hers drips into the Earth, and I feel the energy that flows through the Earth because of the blood.

I can use this.

Ivy sharply yanks her claws out of my shoulders, and I evilly grin as more of my blood drips into the Earth and gets absorbed. I slowly and painfully pull out my sword, and create a holster across my back for it. I sheathe my sword and instead use the Earth. With the energy, I heal my shoulder wounds, and show I did so by rolling them. Ivy growls at me and charges again, I bring up a wall of dirt and metal between us. She crashes right into it and is momentarily stunned.

I temporarily cloak myself in Darkness and use the rest of the energy in the Earth from mine and Ivy's blood to bring forth wolves from the forest, specifically a grey one with golden eyes that looks like a certain boy that Ivy loved once.

Before we got tortured by Darkness and our minds got twisted up so bad that they are now barely recognizable.

Once the wolves appear, the amount of energy it took causes me to feel drained, and I collapse. But, I'm not held by the comfort of the ground, I am held up by a pair of strong arms. Warmth fills me, and a smile comes to my face, alerting me to who it is.

"Hey Amaro, Ivy said that Cora was keeping you busy." I murmur, too tired to do anything else. Amaro slowly brings us to the ground and pulls me against his chest, and we watch Ivy's reaction. She's frozen in place, staring at the wolves. They have a strange white most surrounding them, like the fog in the dream realm but white, and I gasp.

"Cora tried, but I felt your pain and she couldn't keep me there, no matter how strong she tried. But, Sabrina, did you actually call forth... spirits?" Amaro asks. I nod, too wrapped up in my own shock to even try to speak. I meant to call forth an actual wolf that looks like Wolf, but I think that I called forth the actual Wolf. Ivy and Wolf are having a mental conversation, then she shifts back into a human and collapses into her knees, tears streaming from her eyes.

"How did you do that?" Ivy chokes out, her voice raspy.

"I don't know." I respond, and yawn. Amaro picks me up carefully in his arms and can tell that Ivy is in no mood for a fight right now, so she won't attack us. He quickly strides back into the castle and leaps up the stairs to my room. Once we enter, he puts a seal on the room using his powers. However, instead of only using Darkness like he would before, he uses Earth as well. I put my remaining energy into strengthening the seal, and my tired eyelids droop shut, pushing me into sleep.

Amaro's POV

Ivy comes barging into Sabrina's room while she is in the bathroom, surprising me and putting me on alert. I quickly get off of Sabrina's bed and stand in front of Ivy, snarling

"What do you want, going to try and attack your own twin sister again?"

"No. Cora wants to see you." Ivy huffs, glaring at me. I glance over at the bathroom door, and Ivy catches it and understands. "I'll tell her, just go. Cora said it was important."

"Do you know what it's about?" I ask.

"No. Now go." Ivy replies, practically pushing me out of the door. I exit Sabrina's room and decide to walk to Cora's office, which is on the other side of the castle. I always teleport, a change would be nice. Also, I just want to prolong when I see Cora.