Game Of Lightning

Chapter Sixteen

Damien's POV-

Annie shuts off the face timer thing after she finished speaking to Ari. "Why do you guys need this powerful spell?" Nailea asks.

"For a friend," I inform her. "Are you guys okay?"

"Yes," Nailea says.

I look at Annie. She shrugs at me. "We need to talk," I say.

"Yes we do," Nailea says. "Come on."

She walks away, leaving just Annie and me. "I can't believe we found Nailea and the spell," she says to me. We start walking forward.

"I know," I tell her. "I just hope we can get back to Didian soon."

"I don't know if we can," she tells me. "Aria is poisoned and she's the one who got us here in the first place."

"What about Ember on the Zodiac?" I ask her.

"She wouldn't be able to get here because she has to get Light and Kade." I groan.

"Will we have to wait then?" I ask. "Because I do not want to leave my friends alone to fight a battle without me."

"I know Damien," she says, laying a hand on my arm. We stop walking as Nailea turns around.

"Sit." She gestures to a table that has chairs around it. I sit down and Annie sits next to me. Her mother sits on the other side of her and Nailea's family, my family, sit down in the rest of the seats. "Why are you here? How did you come here?"

"We've actually been here," I say. "I was born here and so was Annie." I point to Annie. "I'm Scarlet's son."

Nailea sits back in her chair. "Scarlet?" she whispers. "She had a son?"

I nod. "Aria has two daughters as well," I say. "One's my age and the other one is slightly older."

"Wow," Nailea says. "I missed so much from my sisters over the years."

"Why did you leave?" Annie asks, keeping her voice quiet and polite.

"I didn't have a choice," Nailea says, looking at her hands. "Father sent me to this world. I never got the chance to come back to Didian."

"How come I never knew you were here?" Annie's mom asks. "I'm from Didian as well."

"I've kept my identity a secret," Nailea explains. "Even to this family."

Blaze nods his head as if to agree. "Why didn't you at least tell Ember?" I ask. "She's Aria's second daughter."

"Ember? I just took her in when I found her on the street," Nailea says. "I never knew it was her."

"She left for a while before," Annie says. "You never noticed she was gone? We had adventures before we met Damien."

"I kind of suspected it," she admits.

"Aria and Scarlet miss you," I say after a minute of thinking. "Maybe you could come back with us when we go."

"How?"

"We don't know yet," Annie says.

"How'd you get here?" she asks.

Annie and I look at each other before I say, "Aria."

"Well she can come and get us," Nailea says.

"No she can't," Annie says and Nailea frowns. "She is poisoned."

"What?" she says, her eyes going wide.

"Our friend, uh- actually, she turned evil- poisoned her and that's why we need the spell," I say, nudging Annie. "She will stop at nothing to get it. And I guess that means killing Aria."