Dark Magic

Chapter Twenty Two - I Am Your Daughter

Chapter Twenty Two - I Am Your Daughter

The longer I stared at her body, the angrier I became.

Amelia was innocent in all of this and yet she lay before me. Dead.

I throw myself against the barrier. "I will kill you!"

He steps closer and chuckles at me, his dark eyes staring into mine. He may as well have been the devil. "You couldn't even save your little friend."

I throw myself into the barrier again as narrow my eyes as they all laugh at me.

Then I feel it.

My eyes turn black as an excruciating pain takes over my back. I fall forward on my knees, my forehead against the barrier as two gigantic chocolate coloured wings burst forth from my back.

I can her Athena gasp as I sit there, heaving in my fury. I look up and meet my father's burning gaze, wondering how it's possible that I am his daughter. He just murdered my best friend.

I look at Athena. "Let me out."

"Hailey, there are too many of them." She tries to reason but I'm too angry to listen to reason.

"Then they will all die!" I glare at her. "Let. Me. Out."

She nods hurriedly and flicks her wrist. I step through the barrier, and I notice Damien steps through as well sword in hand.

I throw him a look and he shrugs. "I got you."

I want to smile at him but all I can focus on is my emotions and none of them are pleasant.

"So." My father says, letting his solid black wings burst forth. "The little angel finally came out to play."

A girl with dark blonde hair comes for me before I can respond and hurls into me. I somehow manage to tuck my wings in as we roll but I'm not used to it.

"You think you can just waltz in here and make threats?" She slaps me surprisingly hard and I raise an eyebrow at her.

"I'd be impressed if you weren't so fucking stupid." I throw her off me and we both jump to our feet, circling each other.

"I may be stupid, but you're a pureblood." She sneers. "And he still choose us."

"Its amusing how you genuinely think he'll keep you around after you've done his bidding." I laugh as she lunges for me and I side step her. "You all are a representation of everything he hates."

She let's out a battle cry and makes a run for me. I manage to land a blow to her side and I push her away.

"I am not my father." I tell her. "This is between me and him. I don't want to hurt anybody."

She laughs at me then, but my eye catches the rest of them closing in on Damien. I manage to throw up a shield around him, just enough for him to figure himself out and slow them down a little.

But that's all it takes for her to drive a knife into my arm.

"We stand by our father." She spits and I smile.

"Then you will die along with him." I grab her by the neck and squeeze until she's crushed.

I pull the knife knife out of my arm and meet Damien's eyes.

"He is mine." I tell him.

Then, I lunge, aiming a fist to my father's face. To be honest, would have thought he'd run off in the midst of the chaos like a coward but then again, he is a warrior. The warrior.

And evidently certified crazy.

He easily dodges the blow and delivers one of is own which sends me flying a few feet away.

Immediately he is on me, delivering blow after blow to my ribs. I feel a few break and I scream out.

I was angry. More angry than I have ever been in my entire life.

"You're weak! Just like your fae friend." He screams at me, backhanding me across the face and my eyes find her, lying lifeless next to the barrier.

"You're no daughter of mine!" He yells, spitting in my bleeding face.

I scoff spitting out blood, as if I wanted him as a father. I was perfectly content and stress-free when I believed I'd never see my parents.

My eyes find Athena, who is sobbing behind the barrier, screaming for us to come back inside it.

Then, my eyes meet Damien, who is fighting fearlessly, his gorgeous patchy grey and brown wings spread beautifully behind him as he takes of all of my father's hybrid babies. He is hurt and bleeding but he looks every bit the warrior he is.

My heart sinks as I realise that he followed me out here, knowing that he could die. That we could die.

He came anyway.

"Embrace your power." Brads voice rings in my ears.

In that moment, it occurs to me how afraid I have always been of my power, and how dark it always felt to me. The way everyone always treated me just because I'm a Dark Fae played a big part in that but Amelia always believed in me.

Amelia. A true friend, until the very end.

If anything, I had to fight for her. For everything that we went through and for every moment we could have had together.

I had to do this for her.

So I reach down deep and pull on all the power I've been burying for so long. Letting every last ounce of it out.

My dark magic.

The force of it sends everyone back and I stand, trying to ignore the pain in my ribs and the sting in my arms.

My father glares at me, jumping to his feet and I glare at him right back. I meet him halfway and deliver the same blow he sent to me, relishing in the satisfaction I feel when he roll a couple of feet away.

"Watch your precious offspring die!" I scream at him, all my anger flowing out of me like an endless river.

Instinct takes over and I reach out, feeling for their life forces. When I find it, I grab a hold, jumping high into the air, watching as they rise with me.

When I come down, I bring my fists hard to the ground and watch as they all drop, lifeless.

My father stares at me in horror. "You're a monster!"

As if killing Amelia for no good reason makes him a saint.

I laugh manically. "I'm am your daughter after all!" I scream at him.

In the blink of an eye, I'm on him. "How does it fucking feel?" I ask.

Then, I push my hand straight into his chest and pull out his heart. "That was for Amelia you piece of shit."

I let him go and his body falls to the floor.

I look around and see all the bodies laying on the floor, my eyes find the heart in my hand and I immediately drop it, my magic and my wings disappearing.

Now, the pain in my ribs becomes apparent and darkness clouds my vision.

The last thing I see is Damien rushing to me. Then I hit the hard earth and I'm out.

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