In your time

Chapter 13: Curiouser and Curiouser

(Ezekiel)

I felt like something changed in me something I did not feel before but it did not matter to me. All that matters is Mac. I need to help him make the choice of turning back to good instead of going down a dark path he is heading towards. I mean I have known him for centuries and he only lost control a few times and lucky I was there to bring him back and also to mention he has brought himself back but something seemed different about this time but what? Now is not the time to wonder about it he needs help. 

I was able to knock him off of me because of the change inside me I don't know what but we will figure that out later. I was able to get up with little effort to see his body was on the ground over on the other side of what seemed like a barrier. It made me wince to see his body in pain but I had no choice. I went over to his body and remember something as I got over there I have never taken him down so easily something wrong. I glanced around for a short second to see everyone still under the spell to keep them unconscious and on the ground. 

But why would he keep me awake and not the others... I... that did not matter right now.

Even though my body was still in a lot of pain. I was still able to leap over to him and pin his arms and legs so that he could not move to do anything for now. I looked up at his face to see that he was for the moment unconscious. Which also did not make sense at all because like I remembered he does not go down so easily. I Looked at his face even though I got a sense he was giving off something that was so terribly wrong.

His face was still as handsome as ever. I wonder what his life has been since I wasn't there. What he has suffered since I have been there I know he can protect himself but there is always a part of me that will want to protect him in some way. Even if it is the smallest of things. As I am looking at him now not knowing what is going on inside him that or force that is causing him to suffer. But I do know one thing that he is fighting it even if he is thinking otherwise he's in there somewhere and I am going to find him one way or another.

Pear back down at him to see a slight flinch in his body movement and I tighten my grip on his body. Then suddenly his emerald soft eyes open and it wasn't his usual shine in his eyes. They were just cold hard and dead with nothing inside. And then in the instant, I knew that he was no longer in control of himself but being as that may I could see him looking at me and hesitating. Not moving with his dark side that is controlling him because I can see that now. But another thing is that I don't know how long he has held over it.

"I-I ne-need your help please do some while I have control over myself..." He said with desperation in his voice it made my body go stiff. For the reason, I had to hear his voice in pain again. And I never truly want to hear it again. But nothing is going to stop me now!

With as much force as I can muster, I found the will to push back because I need to do it. I needed to dig deep down and be strong. For he is showing me his strength in himself that I always knew that he had.

As I was able to find that it was easy when I gave into the love I have for him. For even his dark side has me at awe because it is as much of part of him. I moved with a swift action to be able to move up with my body. And be able to grab him by his legs and start and finish, with that movement I was able to get my hold on him and be able now to pin him down. 

"N-Noo.... I am not going to lose control and go back to the weak person that I was. I don't want that I don't want that..." As he said that it came to my mind as a shock.

I mean seriously I have known him for how long and he never came to tell me that he was a weak person on the inside. But we will talk about that later me and him. 

Now is the time to focus on him and only him for he is the only thing that does matter. Nothing else does right now.

For now, I have to reach inside and find this "change" in me. To help him. 

So now I look at him and saw something that made my gut twist inside. I could see him and seemed like he was losing this battle. But NO I will never let him lose not why I am still here. So I reached for the magic in me. I hope this works!

So as I got up I could feel something raging deep inside of me. Something in all of my immortal life I have never felt I think... for it seems to me that the only other time I felt like this was with Mac but it was something different something more ancient than life its self... for he is a god in a sense... but now is not the time to think about that.

This power awoke inside me that I can not explain to anyone. I can not even understand it myself. So how would I explain it to another?

As I look over to Mac body as it perfect in every way as I look towards his skin as I notice the ghost white skin and the beauty in it as I did so long ago. 

So I looked away at the others and them still in there sleep state as all of there chest just moved up and down. 

I looked back at my lover and just smiled and move closer to his somewhat still body. 

As I felt the power within me grow to the breaking point. 

I look down at my body and stared in utter shock as I see it starting to emit a cool glow. But the time to notice it glow would have to wait. As I notice Mac is starting to wake up form trying to contain whatever was try to control him. Which was not good and it means I have to work fast. As I place my hand to seem like I am praying which in a way I am. 

So I dug into that power and starting to chant a spell that Mac taught me long ago. For back then I never understood why he taught me this spell back then. But I took it into my mind and kept it in there for him. But now I do understand.

I spook these words "enola em evael uoy :dnammoc I enots sa era uoy rof sgnileef yM esaeler lliw uoy ,em fo sthguohT esaec ot gniog si roivaheb dab ruoY." As I finished the enchantment and felt the power release from me. 

As I opened my eyes and notice a silhouette of a pitch black arm reaching out to Mac body and as I look at it notice its long decrepit claws as the gentle hold Mac in its grasp. His body emits a dark glow. Like it trying to reject power taking over. But I pour more and more power into the silhouette arm. Noticing that as I started doing so his bodying began to tremble in its grasp and I just felt pain in my heart. I did not want him to feel any more pain in his life especially because I have cased so much in his past. Bu...but now is not the time to think like his lover it time to think like his prince which even though I am acting like the royal "Guard" I still am a prince by birth. But never mind that I need to focus on him. 

I look back to his body and notice it was starting to contort in pain and no matter how much pain it caused me I needed to continue. 

Which as I did sheer terror went through my whole body and I jolted as I heard his piercing deafening scream which made me just tear up inside and feel like nothing inside as I did this. All other sounds as his screaming went on made the other sounds fade out. To the point that I could only hear him screaming. Which just broke me on the inside. But didn't even matter for the spell was doing its job.

But even as I did this I felt a hand around my neck tightening its grip and a mans voice low and brittle voice as it says to me "curiouser and curiouser" as I felt its hollow fingers dig into my neck.