Chance

Chance... Chapter #8

His hand came up to my face slightly grazing my chin, leaving a chill to run throughout my body. "Chance...Oh my, what have you done?" he says laughing. I stare at him. He spins around, "You thought you could kill me. What a foolish mistake! We have a bond. Not by choice, but of course you won't feel it until your the age of 25...what a shame." I couldn't handle it anymore, I started laughing. "A bond? that's the best lie you could come up with?" He gives me a blank look. Was he being serious? Were me and Vixen supposed to love each other?

"Haven't you figured it out? We gave you too many clues, lets take a pick, shall we? You can't kill your soul mate, hence why I am not deceased. Also, you had Cassandra's help figuring out why your parents were killed. Your parents know who your soul mate is the moment your born.She knew who I was, it just took a while to find me. Once your mother accomplished discovering were I was located she tried to kill me. Send me to the drop zone. That box, oh that stupid box. I have spent years trying to find it. She hid it. Artemis, your mother. She didn't like what I did for a living, the institution...it was the only way too keep you safe! I even brought your cousin there to comfort you. But then you broke out. I went crazy knowing that I had no way to keep you safe." he informs me...leaving me speechless.I cover my mouth with my hand. All this time I thought he was a bad person....I thought of him as a cold heart-ed killer with no soul. All of this time..And now I have been informed that he was just trying to do the right thing..

"What was in the box?" I ask curiously. He shakes his head.

"It was the evidence I needed to prove your mother set me up...she stole it..and the box vanished you were only one.." he tilts his head like he is recalling a memory.

He looks at me and a smile stretches across his face, "What?" I ask. "Don't you know what today is?.." "No"

"Its your birthday, your 21 years old"

I smiled at him sheepishly. It was nice of him to say that but my smile quickly faded away, and he knew exactly why..

"You mean to say that today is the day my family was killed..." I said realizing it came out more of a whisper to myself than a point in the conversation. Vixen walks over to me and engulfs me in a hug. He whispers "I'm sorry" over and over again until single tears fall silently. When I look up and see everybody in the room staring at us I turn my gaze to the floor. That is until the man from earlier comes over and tells me and Vixen to follow. He leads us into a room in which I ask a a question I deeply wanted answered "Vixen,why was it that you were so mean to me?...why did you treat me so badly?" He stares me in the eye "The more time I spent around you the more I fell in love with you...and the only way I could stop myself from telling you about the bond early was to treat you as if you were not even a part. As if you were just another lunatic" he says the last part to himself.

"Why are you here...I mean..how did you find me?" I ask him. He replies "There is an event. Today. Speaking of the event we should probably start getting ready." I nod. But then a wave of confusion spreads all over me and apparently he noticed because he then said "just get ready, when its time for you to know, you'll know." and with that he sat down on the couch and I stood there for fifteen minutes until a knock on the door put me back into action. The woman standing behind the door had on a green polka dotted dress with matching heels. I looked at her and held back laughter. "Yes?" "I'm here to deliver the outfits for the ceremony." "what ceremony?" "The one were y-" "Its just an event" Vixen immediately cuts in. I look at him. Did he really just do that?

I roll my eyes and walk away. By the time Vixen comes back he is holding an entire cart of clothing and makeup, hair tools, etc. I stare at him, "This must be one important ceremony.." I whisper. He laughs.

I look into the mirror, the dress looked incredible..

The front looked amazing with the sweet heart shapes and lace covering my chest, back and arms. The dress slid into a V-shaped back and went into a corset. The bottom of the dress was layered with black fabric and finally my silky black hair cascaded along my skin.I looked at Vixen and smiled. He was dressed in a suit with the jacket styled high low and his hair was spiked at the end. I sat down on the small couch and waited, minutes passed and Vixen sat by my side. Vixen stood up suddenly and right at that moment the door to the dressing room opened and Ag-lea appeared.

She looked me and Vixen up and down and a grin worked its way onto her face. She stepped in front of me and that's when I saw it, she held two charm bracelets. She handed me one and then bowed. I stood there. My eyebrows raised and my hand went limp with the memory in it. She walked over to the door reached into the hall and pulled out a box, I was paralyzed. Ag-lea walked over to Vixen whispered something in his ear and then handed him the box with my worst nightmares locked inside. Did I want to know what my mother could do to people who she didn't know?...The answer was simple, no.

I don't want to know now and I never will.

 Things seem to be very hectic the last couple hours. After Vixen got the box he hid it..I didn't look at it another second..People came into the dressing room and gave me fixtures for my hair and makeup. The last time somebody came in they took Vixen with them. I looked in the mirror once again, but this time I wasn't alone. A smile crept its way onto my lips. "Hey Ag-lea" "Hey Chance" I turn around and engulf her in a hug. I missed her..

We finally stopped and she looked at me, "your wearing 'that'" I laugh, "yea. Why, whats wrong with it?" "Nothings 'wrong' its just I have something better." "Oh yea, what would that be?" I stare in awe as she pulls out my mothers dress. I slip it on and gasp. The fabric on the top is stuck to my skin and the fabric on the bottom is cascading along the floor. "Thank you" I say but when I turn around Ag-lea is gone. The door opens and I nearly fall off the stairs. "Are you ready?" the man from earlier appears. I nod. He walks over to me and pulls a hood over my face. I scream and he says "its okay Chance! I'm not gonna hurt you. Just go with it." I calm down and follow his guiding hand. Every were we walk I hear nothing, its as if everybody's gone..

Suddenly I am pulled up a couple stairs and the hood is taken off. I stare at the blank white wall. "Chance, free your wings." I look at him and obey. I raise my hands and then drop them down, my black wings come flying out.I glance at him again, hes smiling. He taps twice on the wall and it crumbles down.

Ag-lea, Vixen, and over 30,000  people sat before me. 

"Lady's and Gentlemen, I give you Perchance  Lee Hera! The daughter of Artemis!" 

Cheers erupt and my eyes go wide. 

"Chance, I would like you to meet Lance" I look around and spot a big man walking up to us. He leans down and whispers in my ear:

Welcome to your mothers dream.

I look at him and smile, he returns a toothy grin. Vixen and Ag-lea walk over to me and so do a couple men, 

"I PRESENT TO YOU THE SURVIVORS, AG-LEA LEE DEMETER, VIXEN KRISTOPHER JAMES, AND....

PERCHANCE LEE HERA!" The men raise our arms and I just think to myself...

I did it...all I did was take a CHANCE.

THE END.