Valkyrie Demons

Chapter 13

"It's been two days! How far did you say we had to walk, David?" I ask, feeling annoyed beyond believe.

"Oh stop whining! You always whine when nothing goes your way. 'I'm miss important, do everything I say'. Blah blah blah!" Dacian says sarcastically.

"I do NOT! You're just jealous because I was chosen and YOU were not!"

"Stop! Don't fight. We're almost through. Only another yard or so. Please, let's just stay quiet until we reach the end. Ok!" David tries to calm us down.

"Yea sure let's listen to the pixie, because he knows everything !" Dacian says sarcastically.

"That's it! You can talk to me anyway you want but you have no right to talk to David like that. Not after what you did!" I jump onto Dacian's back strangling him.

He turns in a circle and ends up pushing me against a tree. I lose my grip and he throws me to the ground.

" No! Valery move, quickly! You'll get tra - "

Vines are slithering towards me, grabbing hold of my ankles and arms. One vine wraps around my stomach and begins to squeeze.

"Help! Can't... breath." I start losing consciousness when Dacian and David both use their powers to slice the vines.

I gasp for air and quickly scramble to stand up. I feel a little dizzy but luckily David catches me when I fall. Dacian glares at us but keeps walking.

"I think you should ride the elk for a while." David places me on the elk, looks at me with worrying eyes and starts walking again.

After a few more hours of silence and a lot of glares from Dacian we reach the end of the forest. I climb down from the elk to walk the rest of the way.

" Where should we set up camp for the night?" I ask, looking around at the dead trees and mud covered ground.

"Preferably not here. We can walk a little more until we find a spot." David says following Dacian.

We walk and walk a little more. Finally, we find a decent spot to camp. Dacian drops his bags and stalks of further into the woods. I help David untie the rest of the bags from the elk's back.

" Why is he in such a horrid mood lately? "

" Uhm, I don't know if I should tell you this, but you know the rose?"

"Yes, what about it?" I ask warily.

"It was his. He lost it when he was little, although his was in the form of a tree. Your mom gave it to him before he left." David chews his lip, while avoiding my eyes.

I drop the bag I was untying, shocked. "Why didn't you tell me this sooner? I would've given it back to him. But why would mom want it back if she gave it to him?"

"Don't be silly, it was given to you by a unicorn. It certainly isn't his anymore and he doesn't mind that it's yours now, he's just upset that his mom took it. I honestly don't know why she did though ."

We untie the rest of the bags in silence while I pondered what he said. I tried starting the fire again. I was wondering about something when I decided to voice it out loud.

" Does my vampire side bother you? Maybe that's why Dacain is mad. The last time I was like this, I almost ripped out his throat." I ask resting on my haunches and looking at him.

"It did at first. I've never seen a vampire before, but now not so much. The red eyes still gives me a scare now and then but otherwise no." He says while rubbing his hair. "I think that might be one of the reasons why he's mad. I think you should talk to him. Besides, he's helped you change before, hasn't he?"

I look at the stick in my hand, avoiding his eyes. "Yea, but it didn't go well when he tried to suppress my vampire."

"Well, you might want to try before -"

Just then Dacian walks out of the woods, carrying some birds and a rabbit.

"I'll give you some time to talk." David says and walks into the forest.

Dacian walks towards the now burning fire, setting down the animals. All the while avoiding looking at me.

I sigh. "Dacian we need to talk."

"Talk about what? You breaking your promise to me about never letting your vampire go again, or maybe about the fact that you gave my-your rose to mum or maybe-"

"You think I just gave it to her? I was in the stream, scared out my mind. Why would I give something to that woman whom abandoned me while keeping you? The woman who then drove you to run away and the woman who wants to take over the world."

He looks down at his hands, moisture in his eyes." I don't know. I just assumed... " He takes a deep breath and then looks up at me." The rose she gave me was a present from her mom. When she realized she was carrying us. Mom didn't know the stone was made from a dying star. So when she gave it to me but when saw the power it held, she almost killed me trying to take it. That's why I ran away. That's also why I was mad, I thought you gave the most powerful weapon to her. "

Another shocking thing I didn't know about my brother. I walk over to sit beside him. I lean my head on his shoulder.

" I'm sorry I brought that up. That was insensitive of me. And I'm sorry for losing the rose. But I am begging you, please help me change back. "

"Alright, but if I have to do this again I'm going to cut of my own arm." He raises his eyebrows at me, but I can see the humor in his eyes.

I bump his shoulder a little. "Oh come on, you wouldn't do that. You love your arms."

"Mhm, I think you're right. I wouldn't be able to do this then." He turns around and starts tickling me.

I laugh until my stomach starts to ache and try to wheeze out that he has to stop. He realizes I'm not breathing and stops. He looks down at me with a smirk, but gets up.

" Now, while you recover, I'll find a spot where I can tie you up. We don't want a repeat of last time."

I finally got my breath back and sit up, folding my arms around my knees.

"Mhm, I do like the living, breathing Dacian. So maybe you're right!"

He looks at me incredulously and I start laughing again. After a while, we found all of the things we need to change me back. Dacian was tying me to a tree when David came into view.

"What are you doing! I didn't know things could get this out of hand. You can't just tie her up and do whatever your planning to -"

We both start laughing at the scared expression on David's face. "Oh calm down pixie. I'm not going to hurt her, well not on purpose anyways. We worked everything out. I'm going to change her back."

David looks relieved and sits on the ground in front of me. "So what are you doing exactly?" He asks.

"Well the herbs help to channel his power. The rope is so that I don't attack him again. He's then going to wrap his power around the vampire side of me and form a bubble around it so that it can't escape." I explain, shuddering at the memory of the last time.

" It sounds a lot more simple than it is," Dacian says, knotting the rope for the last time.

" Right, David you might want to sit back. Valery take a deep breath and relax yourself. " Dacian stands above me, holding his hands on the sides of my head.

He then pushes his power into me and I take a sharp intake of breath. Then, for some reason, I pass out.