The Hybrid Legacy Part II (Sequel to the Baile Series)

Chapter 2 Good Intentions

Colt

"Can you hold my bags for me?" Ciara had already dumped her shopping bags into my arms before flouncing off into an ice cream parlour.

I sighed exaggeratedly, taking a seat outside on the street. I couldn't fathom Ciara's lack of conscience or even an ounce of worry. She had easily slid back into her carefree and naïve lifestyle, I, on the other hand hadn't been able to go anywhere these past three months without looking over my shoulder or sleeping with one eye open.

I checked my phone and was disappointed that I didn't have any notifications or alerts to distract myself with. I looked back over at the parlour, confused at what was taking Ciara so long.

"Don't drain the remainder of my account on sugar!" I called out half jokingly. My nerves got the better of me as I waited a little longer before finally getting up and going inside the parlour. I swung the door open and I felt the air flee from my lungs and my stomach drop from a sudden portal jump.

I stumbled a little as I found I had been transported back to my Coven, infinite light years away from planet Earth. The elders sat upon pillared thrones in a half circle, looming over me with hooded faces.

"Elders." I knelt down on one knee to show my respect, bowing my head to look at the sigils carved into the stone floor.

"You have broken your contract and disrespected the Coven laws." One of the elders spoke in a deep booming voice that echoed around the hollowed room.

I dropped my second knee, as I looked each elder in his or her hidden eyes. "Ciara is a very powerful Banshee-" I began to plead my case.

"Was, a powerful Banshee." Another elder replied, tossing Ciara's limp form before me.

I immediately checked her pulse; my blood running cold in finding she had no heart beat. "S-She saw the future." I stammered, half stumbling to my feet.

"You know our laws on precognition." They scolded, speaking together as one.

The Coven believed in solving problems as they arose and that seeking to know the future couldn't delay the inevitable. To them, the present and the past was all that they needed to know to make logical projections.

"The Byrne children destroy planet Earth and all of humanity." I had seen Ciara's dystopian vision with my own eyes. "Getting them out of the picture was the only way to safeguard that world's future and all connected Realms." I gestured to one of the many portal archways around the room, which happened to show Earth rotating in faraway space.

"Did you ever think that your disobedience had been factored into this vision?" They asked.

My confidence fell. "But you don't understand, I was trying to help."

"Despite your good intentions we cannot let your actions go unpunished."

"You raised me." My voice quaked while I attempted to reason with the only family I had ever had. "You're my family."

"Do not think this choice comes easy to us, boy. You will be stripped of your ward title and the magical gifts we have bestowed upon you."

I couldn't believe what was happening. I had spent nineteen years with The Coven and studied profusely in witchcraft, earning the ability to watch and guide the happenings of thousands of planets and realms. Now it would all be for nothing.

"Please, I beg you not to do this." I held up my hands, palms pressed together.

"Because we are merciful, you shall retain the magic you were birthed with, but that will be all. You may live out your mortal life on planet Earth and any Realms adjoined to it. Consider yourself lucky that your life is being spared."

I gasped as my back arched, celestial magic of the ancient Witches and Warlocks flowing out of my body through my mouth. It felt as if the life was being drained from my body, as they had done with Ciara.

I fell to my knees once more, unable to stand in a weakened form.

"You have shamed us and we will not forget this son of Loki."

I sneered. Loki hadn't been a father figure to me, only a ghost, a parasite who had impregnated my mother and left her with the burden of a bastard child and then done nothing when she had died.

"Go, and live." The elders summoned a portal beneath me, allowing me to plunge into the depths of the cosmos and transporting me to a mortal world on the brink of collapse.