Charmed Again (Part 2/3)

Chapter 31

My eyes snapped open. I was laying on the cold marble floor of the castle hall. I quickly got up and saw Mordered sitting on the marble steps.

"Do you remember now? Do you remember how you bewitched me? How you used me?! How you pretended to love me so that I could kill Arthur for you?!" Mordered began to scream at me.

"I didn't do those things! Guinevere did. I'm sorry that she used you. She shouldn't have done that. But I'm more sorry for the fact that you were so pathetically stupid to actually believe the crap she was telling you." I mocked back.

I saw him fill up with rage and hate.

This is it Anna, this is it...

"It doesn't matter whether what she did. At least I'll have the pleasure of running a dagger through you're chest. The same dagger you cut me with." Mordered sounded sinister and deadly.

"Give it you're best shot. I mean you always did suck at fighting against a girl." I spoke slowly and made a joke out of his own past and words.

Mordered began to laugh.

"You're clever I must say. Much like the original Guinevere. But I've heard that you have a hard time in making choices. So I took the liberty of creating a little game for you." He said grinning.

He waved his hand and the knights retreated back into the walls. Then two steel cages came rolling out. One either side of the thrones.

My heart stopped.

Huddled in a ball, in chains and handcuffs was Melinda in one of the cages. She had scratches on her face and her lip was bleeding. Her eyes were filled with pure terror and fear.

Then in the other cage, hanging by his wrists by a rope was Chris, with a piece of cloth tied in his mouth to keep him quiet. He had purple bruises on his face and his head was bleeding. I could see blood coming from his wrists as the ropes looked incredibly tight.

"You son of a bitch!" I screamed.

I went to run towards them both but Mordered held his hand up in front of him. My chest suddenly felt tight and air was being deducted from my lungs. I couldn't breathe. I crumbled to floor, my eyes rolling back into my skull. Chris began to fight his way from the ropes, kicking and screaming. Finally when I was completely on the floor, Mordered lowered his hand.

Air filled my lungs and I gasped as I tried to get more and more into them.

"Now, I'll make you a little offer. Consider this a practice run. Whichever one you choose, gets to live. Along with my meat suit over there." Mordered said.

"You want me to choose between the girl who is practically my sister and the guy that I love?" I spat.

"Yes. And whoever you choose along with missy over there gets to leave harm free." Mordered said pointing to Pandora.

"I can't do that! I can't choose! I won't!" I screamed at him.

"Oooh you see now you have to choose otherwise I'm just going to kill them both. Anyway save all the dramatic speeches until the end. This is just the opening act. It's the finale you want to see." Mordered snickered.

I stared up at both Chris and Melinda. I knew which one Chris would want me to choose. I looked at him and then a quick glance at Melinda. With pain in his eyes he nodded.

I went back to Mordered who was picking his nails.

"I choose Melinda." I said exhaling my breathe.

Mordered looked at me like I was going to win a fantastic prize. A look that said he already knew who I was going to choose, but he still played along anyway.

He raised his hand and clicked his fingers. Melinda's chains unlocked and so did her cage. She came running out of the cage and went straight to Pandora.

"Good choice." Mordered winked. "Now, lets get down to the good stuff."

I looked at him with a worried tinge to my face. I heard the doors opening behind me and I was too scared to look. I saw the terror on Chris face and I knew who it was already.

I slowly turned around and I felt like someone had punched me in the stomach.

Beaten, battered and bloody, being dragged by two knights by his arms was an almost lifeless person that was black and blue.

It was Wyatt...