Soul Chains

Chapter 57: Rebirth

Coralyinn raises her hand and walls of ice shoot up from the railing around the roof, blocking off the rest of the outside world. She then turns and places her hand on the doorknob to the door, freezing the door solid and breaking the handle of the door off before she throws it across the roof, letting it roll and clatter to the ground as it comes to a stop, discarded.

"I tried to tell you. I tried to warn you. I played nice. I gave you enough chances to get out of my way, but it seems you want to keep delivering yourselves to me. How nice of you, Reine, to keep bringing back the chain to me," Coralyinn says calmly, "perhaps it's that you want me to succeed. Tell me, did you feel this same sense of urgency when fighting for little Elespeth? Your family tried everything to keep Gabriel and Elespeth away from my father, but it seems you made their efforts futile. How ironically breathtaking."

"Shut up!" Dimitri snaps, "you have no right to talk about Elespeth!"

"No?" Coralyinn raises a brow, "not even when we shared the same blood? Don't you get it yet? Don't you understand anything at all? Are the pieces not fitting for you yet?"

"You..." Suddenly everything clicks in my mind and my eyes widen, "your mother is Aislinn's mother, that's true, but you weren't hidden away due to her affair. No, you were hidden away by your father's wishes. That's why Mikasa couldn't see the truth. Your father is the one who assaulted Reine and Dimitri's mother. Your father is the one who their mother had Elespeth with and he wanted to take her away just as he did you. And I know my family housed the Primordial Relic, but what does that have to do with me? Why is your obsession with me?"

Reine's breath hitches and Coralyinn smiles cruelly as Dimitri clenches his fists and grits his teeth in anger.

"Because, don't you see, Gabriel?" Coralyinn muses as she walks forwards slowly, her daggers summoning, "you were the only one who would ever connect the truth. And you're the only one whose power I require the most. You see, you may have had the relic in your family, but you're special. Without your gift, I can't use the relic to its full potential. I wanted you to follow me here, wasn't that obvious? Therefore, you need to be mine."

Coralyinn suddenly spins and releases one of her daggers, aiming it directly for me. Ayette lunges in front of me and the blade clashes against her shield and Coralyinn scowls.

"Divide and conquer, as my father would say," Coralyinn hums and holds out her right hand before she clenches her fist and walls of ice shoot up in random paths, forming a maze of icy walls on the roof.

Ayette and I end up in the same area and we look at each other before we nod and begin to run through the maze. Loud bangs come from the left of us before Ciana yells out and crashes through six walls in a row, effectively shattering them to shards before she flies upwards and spins around in the air, crossing her arms against her chest before she forcefully opens them as she falls back down slowly and flames swirl around her before her wings and the flames explode, sending out waves of heat and melting all the ice before she lands back on the roof. Just as Ciana lands, Mikasa runs passed her and throws a giant twister full of wind and arrows of light towards the now visible Coralyinn. Coralyinn braces against the hit and when she looks up, her eyes widen as she sees Reine standing in front of Mikasa with a paper rune between her index and middle finger. Reine's eyes fly open and lavender flames burn around them as the paper lights up with bright blue flames and an army of ten foot tall soldiers forms behind her. Reine holds her arm out and the soldiers run towards Coralyinn, effectively ambushing her.

Coralyinn glances between the soldiers and Vivian before she slides across the rooftop and grabs Vivian, hoisting her to her feet with her hand around her neck. Coralyinn holds out her other hand and the soldiers all freeze solid before she clenches her fist and twists to the right, the soldiers all shattering to ice shards that lay on the rooftop.