The Eclipse Mark

Chapter 5

"I'm not Lucifer." I move the ice away from me, but she moves it right back

"Blood relative is something I'm still not comfortable about."

"Me either, but what choice do I have?"

"Very. Little." You might say this was an overreaction on Chelsy's part, but I kinda got it. Lucifer was a period of time that no one wants to remember, but forgetting wouldn't honor the millions that lost their lives. Forgetting is letting something like that happen again.

"Woah, woah. She could just be joking. Of course that would be a terrible joke, but otherwise means that Lucifer of all people reproduced."

"By the gods! How sick do you think I am?"

"Considering your relative-"

"Okay! I get it, gods. Just put the spear down. I don't even know magic, how could I hurt you?"

"None of us know what exactly you can do. What's your second magic, huh? All of them?" I look at the ground.

"None. Thanks for that, I guess." Having no second magic was extremely rare. More rare than being a human, which were quickly being replaced with mages. In fact, it was rarer than hybrids! Hybrids only came around every so often, being a perfect mix of two elements was considered hard. Guess not, considering I have TWELVE!

"None? Well, your magic makes up for it. It also makes you powerful beyond belief, and I need to make sure you aren't a madwoman!"

"I'm... probably not? Never felt like stabbing people before so..."

"Not once?"

"You're the one trying to stab me!"

"This is different! I'm trying to stab a maybe stabber!"

"Two wrongs don't make a right!"

"It does in this case!" Chelsy pushes the spear forward, making me fall down

"Okay, okay. But why are you being so serious about this?" Chelsy narrows her eyes. "Okay, bad question. I understand that now."

"My grandparents died because of him. Most of my family died because of him."

"Oh... I... I'm sorry for your loss." Technically he died because of his own hubris, but this seemed like the wrong time.

"Your family's been in Prebia this whole time? I mean, I thought he only managed to get a few guards and the royal family in Sirei before he was defeated." Perhaps that was right, but it felt like the wrong time for Thanatos to say it.

"Ta dah, I guess. I'm the granddaughter of King Lixue and Queen Anahita. My father managed to escape the slaughter." Chelsy drops the spear.

"Oh! I've heard of them. People say they could've been the best royal family in all of Etheria. There was so much corruption back then, but Sirei prospered- I'm not helping." Thanatos shrunk back from Chelsy's glare

"I need a break." She walks away and leaves me and Thanatos alone

"Shouldn't you talk to her?"

"More than I already have? I think I'm the last person she wants to see." I go inside my tent, but hear his footsteps as he runs after her. Today felt like the longest day ever.

~~{Chelsy's POV}~~

"Stupid, stupid, stupid." Of course, the first friend I've made in a while and she's demon spawn. Friend(?), if I could even call her that. We've known each other for an hour at most. She felt nice, not horrifically mental or psychopathic.