Blue-Eyed Secrets

Chapter 23

I'm still screaming when Chance disappears. I'm still screaming when I take Bryant's limp body in my arms. I'm still screaming even though the fighting has stopped for some unknown reason. I only stop when my throat is too raw to continue.

"My love. No, no, no, no, no..." I croak, my tears falling on Bryant's face. I am aware that people are standing around me, but I don't acknowledge them. I hear a sob, it's Scar.

"Bry!" Scar takes Bryant's hand and cries. She rocks back and forth, and cries. The only person we had left who we truly loved is gone, I can't feel him anymore and it feels like someone scooped out my insides, leaving me nothing.

"Oh no." The voice sends fire through my veins.

"You knew!" I snarl at Sadie, my body glowing in anger. "You had a vision of Bryant dying and you didn't tell me!" I am inches from her face, I want to rip it off.

"He made me swear not to say anything. Oh, I am so sorry," Sadie cries.

Sadie's crying sends me over the edge and I push her to the ground. "You don't get to cry! If you would have told us, we could have protected him! You let him die."

"That's enough, Tes." Gordon blocks my path to Sadie, he's standing defensively, like I would have for Bryant. I scratch at my heart and scream.

"Tes, I know you're in a lot of pain, we all are, but what did you do?" Seelina stands a few steps away, covered in blood, I'm glad she's okay.

"What do you mean?" I snap.

"We were fighting and then everyone besides our side dropped and Chance is gone. They're all dead except for a few..." Seelina gestures to a pile of bodies already gathered. A small group, maybe five or six, only knocked out.

I see his hair first and then his face, the man who murdered Bryant. All my sanity deserts me and my sight turns green. I walk over to the group slowly, my hair flies back in the wind and my body surrounded by a halo of green light; except I have no angelic intentions.

The man stirs just in time to see me coming for him and I smile at his terror. He's to disoriented to run or fight, making it easy to snatch him by his dirty hair and hold him until the rest wake up.

"Tes, what are you doing?" Ron steps toward me, but stops when a shoot him a warning glare.

The man starts to struggle in my grasp. I quickly end the resistance by embedding my long nails into his throat. Panic and dread seep from his body; it's intoxicating. I'm changing, I can feel it. The Enderan side of me is taking over and I don't care.

Fear fills the air when the rest wake up, none of them move, they can tell it would be a mistake to try and escape.

"You came here today to kill me, to kill my people and look what happened." They follow my gaze around the field. "Chance is gone and your entire army is dead."

I giggle. "You made a terrible mistake coming here today and you will soon suffer the consequences. Right now, you get to watch him pay for his mistake. The last mistake he will ever make."

The halo of green gets darker around me and flares out. "He killed my soulmate who I'm sure you all know." My body trembles from the sheer force of the anger radiating through me. The anger replaces the parts of me where I held my love for Bryant. Tears spring in my eyes and I let them fall, no one will dare misread them for weakness.

"It's time to pay the piper," I whisper in the man's ear. He whimpers in response. I dig the nails of my other hand in his throat and rip both hands back, tearing his neck in half. Blood hits me in the face, I taste it my mouth. I reach back in the man's neck and pull his throat out.

My people gasp behind me and his people snarl in front of me, both make me smile. I turn to Ron. "I'll take care of the rest, go home."

I feel a hand on my shoulder and see a red haze next to me. It's Scarlet and I can tell she's just as bloodthirsty as I am. "I'll help. Burn the rest, would you." Scar tells whoever is left behind us.

"No, this is not who you are. This is not what we do!" Ron eyes are wild with disbelief.

"Ron, you don't know who I am and you never will." I turn back to the group in front of me and I lose myself in their blood and screams.

Later on, I stand in front of Bryant's car. The backseat holds what's left of my belongings, mostly clothes and toiletries, no memories. I left my necklace and all my pictures in Bryant's room in Altearis. I tried to take the ring off, but I couldn't go through with it, so it stays.

I'm not going back to Altearis and I'm not staying in California. I'll go wherever I want. I'm not keeping the life I had when Bryant was here, it's not mine anymore. I don't know where Chance is, but when he resurfaces, I will find him. I will kill him, but for now I'm going to live the only way I can.

I'm about to get in the car when I feel Ron's presence. What does he want now? I avoided telling him because I knew he'd try to stop me or worse, follow me.

"Tes, don't go. We need you in Altearis," he says. What a weak attempt.

"I am not needed in Altearis, all that's needed of me is my life and my power." Annoyance builds in me.

Ron tries again. "I need you." He throws his feelings at me.

I shut them out, I don't want them. "And I don't care! Go home, leave me alone!"

"No. I will not leave you."

Then I'll have to make you. I know I have my full power now and maybe if I try hard enough I can sever our bond. I close my eyes and concentrate. A cord connecting Ron and I manifests. I light it on fire. The pain from losing my bond with Bryant comes back and I steady myself on the car.

"What are you doing?" Ron screams and I hear a thud as he hits the ground. I clench my teeth to keep from crying out.

When the cord is burned down to nothing, the pain goes away and I open my eyes. Ron is getting back to his feet, his face shows that he knows what I just did. I let him come closer to me, I see the hurt in his eyes, but I don't feel it anymore. I'm free.

He's forming the words to ask me why when I slam my fist on his skull and knock him out. I know he won't be out for long so I hop in the car and take off. Goodbye Ron. This is the start of a new chapter, a new me and I'm not sorry to anyone who gets hurt in the process.

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