Castle (The Badlands Series) Book 1

Chapter 19

Chapter 19: Bring it On

Emlyn dove under a table in the room. Camilla's magic stopped as she looked around the room and began shooting more of the lights at Emlyn.

While Emlyn could fight demons any day and be totally fine with killing them, Camilla was a person and she couldn't kill her. Emlyn wished she was invisible long enough to get the staff out, she knew Camilla was using her Aura to fight and it was the perfect opportunity to change it.

Camilla suddenly was looking around frantically, but Emlyn was standing right in front of her, "Where the hell did you go?" Camilla said landing on the ground and looked everywhere.

Emlyn took the opportunity to pull out the staff, and no later did Camilla suddenly realize she was there. "I'm right here, so bring it on!" Emlyn said and Camilla's hand lit with magic and she flung it at Emlyn who fueled the staff to life and pointed it towards Camilla.

Camilla was suddenly frozen and couldn't move no matter how much she struggled. Emlyn knew she had to change her color, she thought about what color she could make with her own and decided to give Camilla yellow so they could create the first bright color of orange.

Camilla's dark red Aura slowly changed to yellow and then the staff let her go when it was finished changing. Camilla looked at it shocked, while changing her color didn't change her entirely it did make her have a less distaste to murder Emlyn. She growled at Emlyn though, for she was still angry.

"I HATE YOU!! What have you done to me???" She said and she hit Emlyn with a force of magic throwing her against the wall and shocking her heavily.

Emlyn pulled herself up and faced Camilla, it occurred to her that Camilla needed a happy ending. She had no idea what Camilla could want but she had to try it. "Camilla, isn't there something that would make you happy? Isn't there a way we can stop fighting and you can find your happy ending?" Emlyn asked her and Camilla walked over to stand in front of her.

"Yes, there is actually." Emlyn smiled seeing she was getting through.

"What is it?" Emlyn asked and Camilla smiled at her as she suddenly rose a rather large knife she had been holding up into the air.

"You dead!!" She swung it and it hit Emlyn right on her neck, but Camilla was going back against the wall by a bright white light. The light went into Camilla's heart and began to absorb it and crush her from the inside out.

Emlyn couldn't stop it, she wished she could have helped Camilla, but it was too late, and Camilla vanished into thin air after being absorbed by white light.

Stella burst through the door with Thunder and Mystic who had caught up to see Emlyn sitting on floor with tears in her eyes and all three crossed over to her, "What happened Emlyn?" Stella asked her and Emlyn sighed looking at them, as Stella healed her neck.

"I couldn't help her, and then she tried to kill me but somehow she couldn't and then this white light killed her or something." Nobody knew what to say except for Mystic who gently nuzzled Emlyn.

"It didn't kill her, that white light is love and love doesn't kill. However, it removed her magic and most likely sent her to a place where she could no longer hurt anyone." Mystic said and Emlyn looked at her wiping tears from her face.

"Really? So, I didn't kill her?" Emlyn asked and Mystic smiled shaking her head.

"No, you most likely did the best thing for her. Now come on it's time to go home." Mystic replied and they all headed for the exit to head back to the city of love.