Escape (Book 1 of the Gods' series)

Chapter 13

Immediately we started fighting against Nyx and her warriors, Dylan and Aaron battled with her while me and Jess tackled the warriors. Jess was throwing balls of liquid (I didn’t want to know what it was but it was doing a good job at killing the warriors off) only a few remained after five minutes, and I was still human, Jess took care of them, I soon noticed arrows flying towards us, so I leaped into the air and transformed into a griffin (again, yes, but they can do lots of harm) I flew up to the archers who were up on the balcony, I scratched at them all until there were none standing, making sure they were all properly dead, I didn’t want a replay of last time. I quickly landed and turned human, I ran to Jess and said quietly to her, “Keep Nyx busy. I’ll get the staff.” She nodded and ran to Nyx and the boys while I quickly morphed into a black snake and slithered up Nyx’s dress, the staff wasn’t there, I dropped to the floor and kept distance before I turned human again. Dylan turned to me quickly and shouted, “Get the guests! They want us dead, get them!” I immediately replied with, “No! I will only get them if they fight against us! Which they aren’t doing right now!” I was looking for the staff when a hand touched my shoulder, it was big and firm, muscled, I stopped dead, waited, and then spun and punched the man in the jaw, I heard it crack and a gash formed, spurting blood out of his chin. Not only had I possibly fractured the man’s jaw but I had bust his lip too. He fell to the floor with a thud.

When I looked past the man’s body lying on the floor I had a direct view of the golden throne, that was when I noticed something, the two peaks that the throne had looked exactly alike at first glance, but when I looked closer, I noticed that one of the peaks was slightly taller than the other, the fancy gem alignment was different and the most obvious of all, one of them glowed. It was the staff; it had been craftily secured to the throne where no one would notice it. I ran over and pulled it off of the throne, it felt heavy in my hands. I looked around the room, I saw Gabriella in a corner and ran over to her, she looked up when she heard me coming and I said breathlessly “what do I do with this now?” All she responded with was two words “Snap it.” I had thought I would have needed to do some fancy spell to break it, but it seemed simple, just snapping it. I grasped the staff tightly between both hands and lifted it just above my head, I brought it down against my knee and it splintered immediately then, like glass, it shattered into millions of tiny pieces, the eerie golden glow that had surrounded Nyx had gone out and she looked as if she had grown weaker.

I mouthed thanks to Gabriella and ran back over to the others, Nyx was wobbling as Dylan and Aaron fought against her, Jess was making it even harder for Nyx to cope by shooting water on her knees so she struggled to walk, true teamwork, I thought as I joined in taking off my stiletto heels and hitting Nyx with them fiercely, I don’t think we wanted to kill her, just hurt her enough to not do it again. I heard Gabriella shout, “Kill her! It will end this nightmare!” I shot Nyx a look and a single tear washed own her bloodied face washing a streak of clean, she nodded silently at me and I called off everyone, Dylan shot me a questioning look, Jess shouted at me and Aaron just nodded. “To end this nightmare of Nyx hurting us, to get us home, we have to kill her.” I spoke like a confident woman, although I was a scared little girl inside, worried of what would happen. I continued speaking, “So now we have to choose, who will end her life? I personally think Gabriella should, because she has been trapped by this woman and taught all the wrong things.” I stepped aside to let Gabriella stand in the circle with us, all was quiet, every one of the guests had disappeared and Nyx laid crumpled at our feet, we were all covered in cuts and bruises, I noticed Jess, Dylan and Aaron nod to what I had said, I placed a hand gently on Gabriella’s cold back, our skin looking like chocolate and pale caramel, and pushed her towards Nyx, she just stood there awkwardly for a second, eyeing the axe that was on the floor, then she shook her head, grasped Nyx’s head in both hands and twisted.

Nyx’s neck snapped with a deafening crack! And then everything went quiet again, nobody moved for a few minutes then I just sat down, followed by Dylan who put his arm around me and held me tight Jess and Gabriella sat down on the other side of Dylan and Aaron sat at the other side of me, I held his hand and he gave my hand a squeeze. It was over, it was all finally over.