The Trinity War (Book 3 of the Trinity series)

Chapter 27

Elijah and Isaac wasted no time in implementing their policies. 

The first change they made was to reveal Isaac's real identity. Isaac dropped his image as Nichols and came out as Isaac. The magical community under the Trinity Government fell into an uproar at this. But they couldn't do anything about it. We had won fair and square, as far they knew at least.

Now that the Dark side was in charge, there was a social upheaval. Witches and wizards that were previously imprisoned were now set free and were now able to wreak havoc on those that imprisoned them. A new judicial system was initiated, putting Gianna at the position of head judge. Anyone that worked in the Trinity Government that refused to turn over allegiance to Elijah was either imprisoned, tortured, or given the death sentence. Most people swore allegiance to Elijah out of fear of losing their lives or the lives of their families. The atmosphere was one of constant fear and paranoia and it was exactly what Elijah had wanted.

While Elijah put his elite inner circle in charge of the government, he sat back and watched from behind-the-scenes. I half expected Elijah to step in fully and take over, but the other half of me knew better. Elijah didn't have to be physically present in the government to have complete control over it. All of this was his doing. Isaac was only the physical representation of Elijah's power on the community. Elijah, for now, was winning.

The Order seemed to be quiet for the most part. I hadn't spoken to Trey again, but from what Elijah's intel had gathered, the Order was furious and they were cooking up a plan to take the government back from Elijah's firm grasp. As of now, they weren't doing anything about it. Elijah had put forth a policy that no large, organized groups could meet together. We were almost certain that the Order was disobeying this new law and Elijah's main focus was to find them when they were meeting and put an end to the Order once and for all. 

In the mean time, while Elijah was initiating these new policies, Gerrard and I were doing our own research. While Gerrard was busy doing tasks for Elijah, I took to going to the cabin behind Elijah's manor to read what my mother had left behind. I was trying to come up with a theory so that I had something to offer Mikael when I found him.

If I found him, that is.

Gerrard and I decided that our next stop would be the air nation in the mountains of Mongolia by the Gobi desert, since the Sultan said that that was the last place Mikael was seen. I was hoping that he was still there. For an old man, he really knew how to get around. 

Now that I knew that my mother's plan was to do a sacrifice, her research made a lot more sense. A lot of it was historical evidence of different sacrificial rituals. There were animal sacrifices, blood sacrifices, elemental sacrifices. I figured that my mother had tried each one since I found evidence of the rituals scattered all around the cabin. But clearly, none of them had worked. I poured through her books and her notes and came up with nothing new that my mother hadn't thought of.

What confused me about her research was this constant thread of the different elements and the parts of the Trinity. For some reason, she kept coming back to that. There had to be a reason that she was trying to tie in the elements of the Trinity and the elements themselves. I was almost certain that whatever solution that came out of putting those two parts together would lead me to the countercurse. It was important as ever for me to find Mikael now. He would have information about what exactly happened and what went wrong with my mother's plan.

Gerrard and I ended up staying at Elijah's place for a little less than a month. It gave us time to get our bearings together, do some work for Elijah, and figure out our plan from there on out. After a few weeks, though, I felt antsy and wanted to be on the move again. I didn't like being immobile for this long. It was mid-December and we needed to get moving. So when the first week of January rolled around, Gerrard and I packed up our things and we set out to our next destination: the mountains of Asia to find an air nation.