Queen of Summer's Ice (Book 2)

Chapter 32

     Hudson, Palma, and Nazim were in their attacking positions. Nazim still had the blood stained across his lips but the bleeding had stopped. Well, I didn't want it to stop. Slowly as I descended down to them I clenched and unclenched my fists.

     "I'm sorry, I've been a bad host. All of you have complained non stop about the cold since you got here. Let me fix that." My perfect hands were engulfed then by my blue flames and as I clapped them together, the fire spread like a ring of death. The semi royals and Hudson ducked down fast enough to avoid it, but that's not what I wanted to hurt them with. I knew they would all head to the ground, as the predictable prey they are. So I created ice needles that would pierce their skin.

     Their cry's of frustration and pain really brought a smile to my lips.

     Palma was the first to get up from the floor. She charged after me with a dagger in her left hand. Again, she was so predictable, I was literally watching her body prepare for the next move. She brought her right arm back, ready to drive that dagger somewhere on my body that would cause me harm, but not death, since she couldn't find it in her heart to kill me.

     I created a wall of fire as thick as bricks that made it impossible for her to get through without severe burns. And at the speed she was going at, her momentum was to fast for her to stop before the flames burned the front side of her body. Everything seemed to get burned except for her chest and up. She landed in the fresh snow and I could hear the sizzling of her skin as it cooled.

     A sigh escaped my lips in an exaggerated way. "I can eliminate you all one by one if that is what you please," I said. When I did though, just a bit more of that copper taste tickeld the back of my throat. I swolled it back down without anyone noticing.

     "Evie, Evie please, stop this. Remeber how much we mean to you. We're you're family Evie," Palma said from the ground. The wall dissapered as I crunched down to her level. I looked at her, really looked at her. The gentleness in her face, her easy going brown eyes, the unatrually softness of her face that made her skin glow even here in winter, and felt nothing for her.

     My hand went around her throat, the ice seeped from my skin into hers. Palam's eyes only narrowed from the action. Instead of trying to push my hand away, she reached down in the snow and grabbed the dagger. With a speed faster than a human she was centimeters away from slashing my cheek, but I was faster as I moved away from it.

     But she was just the distraction as I felt something stab through my right collarbone. The inhale of air through my teeth made me choke on the bigger clot of blood that pushed it's way out. Sprinkles of blood flew to Palmas face, but with her dark skin it was hard to see. Yet I knew she felt the warmth of the drops because her eyes that were once narrowed now widened.

     "Evie, stop this, you're dying!" She pleaded with me.

     "Shut up!" I roared back. No, I wasn't. I was never going to die, because I'm a true royal. Swinging my arm behind me I threw Nazim right into a tree. That's when Palma pushed herself into me, knocking me to the ground and brought the end of her dagger across my temple. Instantly I saw white stars blind my vision for a few seconds. I heard familiar voices, male voices. And like a gentle wave on the summer beaches, everything was healed again.

      Opening my eyes again I saw Hudson by Nazim's side helping him up, Ray and Zinnia running through the trees towards us, Yana struggling to keep Ivory in her arms to follow her away from me, and the most annoying of them all, Alagan charging after me. There was still little flecks of broken ice on his coat.

     My blood started to boil at everyone. They all wanted my crown, my thrown, my land. They must have been planning about this since the beginning. But I'll kill them all to remind them that they're going to have to try a lot harder than if they are to win.