The Eclipse Mark

Chapter 6

"Uh, hi." I wave shyly as the two come back from their walk. Chelsy looked better than ever, if I was being honest. Her hair looked silky smooth, as did her skin. She was glowing, maybe she was in water?

Thanatos looked slightly damp, although Chelsy reluctantly fixed that. When moonlight shone on him, he looked better as well. Me? I guess all these conflicting elements made me look great and terrible at the same time.

"I'm cool for now. For. Now." Chelsy gives a small nod

"All I could ever ask for?" I give a weak smile.

"Well, today's been eventful. We should go to sleep." We both go to our tents.

"So... I guess I'm sleeping outside?" Thanatos grumbles. "I'm teleporting to the nearest store, see you in a minute."
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I wake up before everyone else, right as the sun starts to poke into the sky.
"Might as well look through some maps."
I pull some out, most showed very specific kingdoms, with detailed landmarks. Now to decide where to next. Couldn't be too hard, right? It has always been a dream of mine to visit every kingdom, now was the chance to do so.

Antheia? (Nature) Aurora? (Wind) Sirei could be nice. Umbra (Darkness) too. (Actually, maybe not. Umbra was going through some... problems.) Or maybe Gliheth (Fire) would be best. We're near the capital, where all the kingdoms meet. It was a place of total freedom. Or at least that's what I've heard.

Every element lived there in harmony. Sounded too good to be true. But, it was basically its own mini kingdom. Might as well look around for a few days.

I hear some movement behind me and start readying a light beam. I had studied the attacks back when some mages were attacking Thanatos. (Including Chelsy) It didn't seem too hard.

"Well, look what we have here. The princess ran away from home, even changed her hair."
I was half expecting it to be Chelsy or Thanatos. I got into a battle stance, even if my magic was terrible, I had been trained in hand to hand combat by my parents since I was 5. Bad parenting on their part, but great for me.

"W-who are you?" One of them laughs, probably the leader. He was wearing a cloak, but judging by his very pale skin, he was most likely a darkness mage.

"You don't need to know, Princess. So how about you stand down and let us capture you, and any supplies you may have." I steady my breath. I just needed Chelsy and Thanatos to wake up, and everything would be fine.

"Oh, and don't worry about your little friends, they'll join us back at the hideout." They bring out Thanatos and Chelsy. They were both incased in darkness and floating midair.

A sleeping spell? That's almost impossible to wake up from. Who was the darkness mage? If I could just hit them, the spell would be broken

I scan the newcomers. A lot of them were darkness mages, just my luck. I start charging up a small light beam

Okay, now you just have to beat the one mage who did this, whoever that might be.

"I challenge you for my frien-" The whole area becomes incased in darkness. Almost like it was night again. I wobble a little, it felt like a piece of me had died. Was this how darkness mages felt during the day? How Thanatos felt?

You still have every other element, calm down.

But could I afford to let them see the other elements? Hybrids were rare. Having all the elements was, well unheard of.