Unexpected Prince

Chapter 4

I rise for my meditation feeling the potential energy and magic running through me, and I feel grateful that Silvers home sits on one of the few natural energy reservoir's left. When I leave my room I immeaditly notice that it is at least three or four in the morning as the dim light from the storm seeps through the windows creating dark shadows and bright spots. However I notice that the rain has gone down to a slow drizzle. "Thank god." I mumble to myself before I sit by the open flame. The first thing I notice is that Ryan is sleeping on the couch under a blanket instead of his assigned room. I start to turn back towards the room I came from when I hear. 

"Please don't leave." I notice the slight desperation in his voice and I freeze on the spot physically unable to move any farther due to his command. I turn to face him my face betraying only one emotion curiosity. 

"Why?" I ask. 

"I dont understand, I'm scared, I know your scared and you don't seem like the person who scares easy and even Troy is weary." I could hear his pleading tone as clear as day and I debated my options. The more time I spend with him the more solid our bond would become. Soon he would start to develop a tattoo and I would have to tell him. But if I don't sit down as he's asked I will feel pain due to the loss of connection from the bond. I sigh and take a seat on the left side of him. 

"What do you want to know?" I ask knowing there is a lot and trying to guess what he might ask first. 

"Who are you really?" he says searching my eyes for an answer finding only the light blue swirling motion of the magic moving within me as I see green start to swirl within his. 

"Melody Hawkins, formerly Jennifer Blake. My father was a scientist and a witch. He wanted to see if he could combine two races to create a hybrid race. I am a product of that experiment, I was treated like a lab rat and poked and prodded and abused until the Inter Worldly Magic Association stepped in and took me at age 11. I then later took the last name of my adopted mother Annabel Hawkins and changed my first name. At HQ I was taught how to harness my magic and how to fight. By 16 the Lycanthrope gene inside of me became active and I shifted for the first time. I continued training until I was their perfect machine. This watch I wear is similar to a shock collar on a dog. If I shift without their permission I am electrocuted. If I do anything I wasn't ordered to do I have a self destruct button and only a Royal can unlock it." I say twisting the wristlet around. 

"and your mission?" He asks nodding through all of it, his eyes betraying his true feelings. 

"To capture or convince you and Troy to come with me to HQ. Troy was unnecessary but a bonus if I could bring him in. I had an unlimited time limit; however, that changed as soon as we traveled through the mirror. I now only have roughly twenty-four hours to deliver you to HQ. 

"Or what?" He asked already knowing the answer. 

"Or they push the big red button I suppose." I say trying to laugh but I can see the horror cross his face at the prospect. 

"They wouldn't?" He says still shocked. 

"They may electrocute me first as a warning but they have threatened me with termination several times over the time I've been working." 

"Where would we find a Royal to take it off?" He asks putting his hand out to see it. I contemplate it for a moment hearing Troy round the corner and watch us. I place my wrist in his hands careful not to let his skin touch mine. Just as his hand touches the wristlet, it pops open. 

I look at him shocked, "Right in front of me I guess." I manage to say as he looks at me confused, removing the wristlet he grabs my wrist and turns it over noticing the dark bruises all over it but I pay no attention to it as shocks run up both our arms. My tattoo on my arm begins to form more and I hear him hiss in pain and grab his arm and I look at him sadly. "Im so sorry, your highness." My eyes betraying me as tears begin to form. 

"It hurts!" He says as he rips open the sleeve on his long sleeve shirt. I look over at Troy and he looks shocked. "Why does it hurt what is happening?" He says as he watches the tattoo begin to form. I take off my jacket and show him my arm the same tattoo just more developed. 

"You are my Mate, my Betrothed,  my Destined, Soulmate, as people from earth would call it, and  I am yours. How? I don't know. Why? I do not know. I didn't think it was possible for me to have a mate." I look over at Troy, "What is he?" 

"The first naturally born hybrid between a Royal Witch and a Royal Lycanthrope. They are mates, they believe that is the only way to have a hybrid is for the parents to be true mates."   He says kneeling before Ryan. "My Prince." he says. 

"Why does he remember nothing of his childhood?" I ask. 

He faces directly towards Ryan and says, "There is a mind block spell on you hiding all of your memories and holding back your abilities. As soon as you see your parents it will break." He says. 

"Where are my parents?" Ryan asks feeling overloaded with information, I watch as he cradles his head in his hands and I want nothing more than to pull him to me and comfort him but I know that that is the bond talking and he probably wouldn't want that. 

"Mystasia." I look at Troy and I'm in shock. 

"Where is that?" Ryan asks. 

"In the fourth district of planets sixth planet in. They call it in your language Paradise; however, you have to be pure of heart to enter into the planet otherwise you land on its moon Ifreann which is the Gaelic word for hell." I say cringing. 

"Why do you seem so afraid to go to Mystasia?" 

"Because I am sure I am not pure of heart." I say looking at him he placed his hand in mine and we both hiss, the pain coursing through our arms is quickly replaced by a state of arousal. He blushes as the red rises all the way to the tips of his ears and turns from me. I will my magic to hide the blush beginning to form on my face as well. 

"Well witch your going to have to try." I look at Troy again shocked because he was talking directly to me. 

"It will kill me." I state. 

"You don't know that and I don't have any more magic than the average werewolf. So your the only one that can get him to Mystasia." Troy says giving me a plain 'your doing this'  look. I turn my head to the side to look at Ryan feeling the nervous energy in the room. It was in that moment I felt another presence in the room, Silvers. 

"If I take him will the trip kill me?" I ask her. Looking up to meet her silver eyes mischief swirling in their depths. 

"Your allowing me to look into your future?" She asks almost laughing. "You almost failed my class because you threw up mental blocks at every turn. If you let me do this I will feel everything you have ever felt and will feel. Every path you've taken and all of those you've yet to take." 

"I know what Im asking you and I want an answer and your the best one to get it from." I say barely above a whisper, doubting my own decision as I'm making it. 

"Ok." She says as she sits on the opposite side of the fire place in the center of the room. "Place your hand into the fire palm up." She says and I go to place my arm into the fire. I notice for the first time in a very long time my arm has a slight tremor. 

"Wait!!! Won't it burn you?" Ryan says reaching out to my arm grabbing it as the shocks travel through us again. This time however  he doesn't let go, but instead holds tighter. 

"No it won't the fire is nothing more than magic. You see Silver is a dragon, this flame is her, her life force, her magic, it can not go out unless she dies. If she does not want it to burn you then it won't." His eyes go wide and look between the both of us. 

"Your.... your.... a... dragon???" He says stuttering and trying to wrap his mind around everything. 

"Yes." She says, as she motions me to place my palm into the fire. I do but feel only warmth envelope me. As all of the events of the past play through her mind I watch as tears betray her and fall down her face. I watch as she tries and fails to sort through my mess of a life without emotionally attaching herself. And I can tell the exact moment she reaches my future because she looks confused.  She comes out of it and looks at me,   "You will live if you take him but just barely, you have saved him as he will now save you." She says before falling asleep on the couch.