The Secret Jewel

MY MOM'S.....

" OH MY GOSH!" Brooke screamed.
Omg! Omg! Omg! What have I done?
I pulled her away from the glass that had impaled two people. I lay her down on a patch of grass.
" CLEO, GO FIND SOMETHING THAT WILL STOP THE BLEEDING!" I shout, my throat itching. Cleo runs off, man, and I though she was tough- she was!- but for some reason, not in these situations.
" IMSORRYIMSORRYIMSORRY!" I yell, now crying.
" Hey it's ok! I'll be better in no time, I heal well," Brooke replies hoarsely.
" But what if you don't?" I ask.
" Hey, don't let yourself down! This is my fault. I shouldn't have stood so close to that monster!"She says.
" But I can't live thinking I killed someone..." I respond.
    " Hey! You didn't kill me! I'm still here-" she says, but seems to be cut off," In fact I'm feeling much better!" She puts her shirt up, showing her smooth, pale, stomach. No wound.
" What happened?" I ask.
" I don't know," she replies, just as amused as me.
" 'Kay guys I'm here with a piece of my shirt! I couldn't find anything in the forest so-" Cleo stopped, seeing Brookes plain stomach.
" Oh great! I tore my shirt for nothing!" Cleo exclaimed.
" Thanks, though, it's always the thought that counts," Brooke says, sarcastically.
" Heh," Cleo chuckles. But then her expression changes," Guys, there's a creepy looking cave." Me and Brooke both turn our heads to see that Cleo is right. There is an entrance to who-knows-where?
" Do you think we should go in?" Brooke asks. I get it, she got stabbed once and she doesn't wanna get stabbed again.
" Umm," I murmur," Do you wanna go in?"
" It's up to you," She clarifies.
" I think we should," Cleo pipes in.
" You really think so?" Me and Brooke ask.
" Ya."
" Ok then...... let's go in!" I say, laughing nervously. I help Brooke up, she staggers a bit. Her shirt was still stained with blood, though the wound was healed. We slowly tip toe into the huge opening. Inside it looks like any other normal cave, but the feeling in the pit of my stomach tells me there's a presence in the room other than my friends and I. We walk for what seems like ten minutes, then the whole scene changes. At first the walls were brown with dirt, mud, and rock. Now they were black with tar, ashes, and little specks of sparks.
Yes, sparks.
That means he's close.
And by that I mean it's close.
We walk for about another five minutes, there's nothing, no one, and no signs of life.
Until we see a throne.
It was covered in ashes, blood, and there were two torches aflame on both sides. We all stop, I know we could all feel an unwelcome presence.
    " Knock knock," a deep voice suddenly says. We all back up a couple steps, frightened.
But then I back up into something that wasn't there before. As slow as I can, I turn around.
" Boo!"
I scream a high pitched scream that can be heard from ten miles away.
The others also turn around to see why i was screaming.
They scream as well...
    " Wow, now! No need to be scared," the ugly creature ushers us. It is black, there is red spots all over it, has fire for hair, and stitches for eyes.
" WHY SHOULD WE NOT BE SCARED?!" Brooke screamed, clearly terrified.
    " You're right. Why shouldn't you be?" The monster agrees.
    " Wait, are you MagnaRock?" I ask.
    " Yes, dearie, oh yes I am!" MagnaRock exclaims.
    " Well then, I think we got off on the wrong foot," I declare," 'Cause you're the reason why I'm fucking here!"
Something inside me roars with rage, and then I find my hands at his neck. I wasn't choking him, but there is a force coming out of my hands that is choking him.
    " Stop!" He screamed. I didn't.
    " Please! Natalie! Please!" This time it isn't  MagnaRock, it's Brooke.
Her voice makes me lose concentration on choking MR-( MagnaRock!)- that he squirms under my control and drops like thirty feet down. Normally that would've killed anyone, but it didn't even injure him. When I was choking him I had seen bruises forming, but it was now, blank.
    " Oh ok. So you want it that way? Then that's how you're gonna get it!" MR exclaims, suddenly flaring with anger. And by that I mean literally flaring, as in his whole body on fire. He then puts his hands together and rubs his palms against each other. In less than ten seconds, a ball of fire forms.
    " You asked for this," MR explains. He puts the ball of fire in his right hand and gets in a ready position to throw.
Omg!
What am I supposed to do???
I can't think.
When he throws, his target is my face.
And he scores.
Suddenly my head is engulfed in flames. The heat is unbearable. But.. somehow, after awhile the heat subsides and my vision's back. But everything is black.
( Hey, that rhymes! >•<)
    "Hello?"
Nothing.
    "Hello?!" I scream again. Suddenly the scenery changes, and I'm back in my house. I try to move, but it's like I'm glued to the floor.
Just then dad runs into the room, a knife in hand. I can tell he's running from something. But I don't know what.
    "Dad!" I yell, but he seems to be deaf. I guess he can't hear me, so I can't even be heard in this hell of a home.
Dad searches through one of the drawers frantically.
What is he looking for?
He sighs a sigh of relief, but then looks shocked, and I can see why.
There is a hole forming in the pit of his stomach and it's growing. I can see the bone and the flesh in his stomach.
Dad starts screaming," Kill me! Just kill me already! Just please don't hurt her!"
He's now crying, and I'm crying.
" Dad no! Don't die for me! Let me die for you! I don't want you to die, I don't want you to die, I don't want you to die, I don't want you to die...!" I wail, from pain, and longing. Longing to just run into his arms and heal him.
Then MR forms from plain sight.
Looking right at me.
" This is what happened earlier today when you went on a picnic with your friends, he was worried about you, crazy worried about you because you didn't even bother to contact him about where you were going. So I decided to help him... help him never worry about anything ever again!" MR cackled. Just then dad dissolved into nothing but ash.
" No!" I yell," No, dad, no!"
I sob as I see where my only loved one had died.
" No..." I whisper," WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM?!" MR seems slightly surprised by my sudden rage. But that fades in a millisecond.
" My, oh my, he raised a stubborn one," he says," Well you know, he wanted for nothing to happen to you, and would rather have been killed than for you to have been killed, so I helped him put his worries aside and- killed him! Ain't I smart?"
" No! Your the stupidest thing alive!" I reply.
" Well you see, I'm not alive," MR points out," I am much rather dead."
" You think I didn't know that?! I'm not stupid!" I say, rolling my eyes.
" Well, ok then. But let's get back to reality, shall we?" MR says. He snaps his fingers and suddenly, we're back In the cave.
Brooke and Cleo stand a few feet away, astonished.
    "So I think we should do this... you give me the crystal, and I leave you alone forever and ever!" MR exclaims.
No Natalie! Don't!
Should I?
Then i say: " You know what? Deal."
" What? Natalie don't!" Cleo and Brooke yelled.
" Yes!" MR exclaimed, wth a nasty grin on his face. We slowly walk towards each other. When we're about a foot away we stop dead in our tracks. I know what to do.
I slowly take the jewel out of my back pocket.
And reach out the jewel towards him.
You should've seen the pure excitement on his face.
I grip on the crystal more than I ever have, and my plan starts to work.
I feel a tingling sensation from when I first found the gem.
And I transform.
I'm suddenly blinded by the brightness that devours me in light.
I can feel the skin on my back stretch and grow, forming gold wings of a Phoenix.
My head starts to ache as I feel horns on the top of my head, and when I open my eyes.
I can tell that the colour of my eyes changed to red.
And I can see that MR looks absolutely horrified.
I start to slowly rise from the dirt incrusted ground. The hair flying in my face was now black faded into gold.
And damn did that power in my veins feel good.
" You will regret what you have done," I say. He starts to laugh.
" And how might that happen?" He asks.
" I'm gonna kill you."
" Oh, and, how might you do that?" He questions me.
" Oh, I think you know how," I reply.
I flap my wings with all my might. MR struggles against the powerful wind.
But is clearly not strong enough.
He is thrown against the far wall with a huge BAM!!!
" Oh my gosh! Is that all you've got?" I dare him.
" Oh, you don't even know he half of it!" He responds. He staggers to his feet, and rubs his hands together once again, but much longer.
So the ball of fire is much larger.
He stares straight at me, aiming.
He throws.
I dodge.
Just in time.
It misses me by an inch.
" Wow, so powerful!" I say sarcastically, "But watch this."
I close my eyes and tell the dark energy to do something unexpected.
And when I open my eyes, it does just that.
'Cause I open my eyes and am practically blind. But I know that lasers are shooting out of my eyes.
Ouch, it hurts.
And I'm weakening.
Might as well finish him off sooner than later.
I put my hands together as if praying. And I slowly pull them away from each other and a gold energy ball forms.
So much power!
I blink my eyes and when I open them again it's like in one of those video games where you have a gun and you're trying to kill a deer. And dang is MR an easy target.
'Cause he has holes all over him from the lasers, especially on his face, on his forehead, eyes, and one of his ears is lying on the floor a few feet away.
Er.
Actually both of them.
Or is the other one his foot?
Meh, whatever.
I throw the ball of energy straight at him, and he's too weak to do anything.
So say bye-bye.
When the ball hits, he disintegrates instantly.
And his last word were: " This isn't over...!"
I lower myself to the floor and change back into my human form.
Okay, how cool was that?!
I smile, thankfully I don't have to deal with that shit anymore.
I turn to Cleo and Brooke, who look disgusted.
" Oh, should I clear away the body? I'll do tha-" I say, but got interrupted.
" IT'S NOT THE FRIGGIN BODY THAT IS DISGUSTING! IT'S YOU!!!!" They both yell.
" Wha- what do you mean..?" I whimper.
" I mean, WHAT THE FUCK?! How are we supposed to be your friends if there are gonna be monsters trailing you every minute??!!! I don't wanna die this young!" Brooke screams.
" But I just killed him..." I whisper.
" DID YOU NOT HEAR HIS LAST WORDS?! He said this wasn't over! So there's more!" Cleo yells.
" Come on guys, your all I have now!" I shout. Breaking into sobs.
For a second they almost looked sorry.
But: " I'm sorry but we're leaving. And we don't want anything to do with you ever again," Cleo says, making herself clear. I can't believe she was my first friend. She's so selfish.
They walk out of the cave, leaving me to cry my eyes out.
And I do just that for about ten minutes.
But then a bright light shines from across the room.
I tear my soggy eyes open.
And see there's a portal, it's blindening brightness welcomes me to walk straight through it.
I stagger to the portal and fall through it.
* * *
" Ma'am, when is she going to awaken?" I hear a male voice ask another weird presence.
" Patience, Jayden. A fall 100 feet, you know," a deep chocolatey female voice replies.
" I know, my apologies," I presume, Jayden, says.
" No need, wait. She has awoken. Go get Amara," the woman demands.
" Yes, of course!" I hear the boy reply, the sound of a ruffling shirt as the boy bows, is the last sound I hear from him.
I didn't realize I had opened my eyes and watched them speak 'till Jayden left.
" Hey, dear," the woman says, " How are you feeling?"
" Like I fell a hundred feet," I reply, hoarsely.
I hear the woman chuckle, what a pleasant sound.
" How long have I been out?" I ask her.
" Oh, not long, just three months."
I sit up instantly, a reflex I wish I didn't have at the moment. Pain shot up my spine, spreading through my head.
I scream in agony.
" Shush! Shush, it's ok! Jayden will be back with Amara with the ointment anytime now," the woman ushers me.
She lies me back down, and i cry softly into the pillow.
The woman wipes my tears away with a freshly manicured finger and comforts me for a whole minute until the boy comes back with a girl at her side with a jar of a shining fluid.
" Took you long enough!" I chuckle at the sound of her stern voice, but my throat only lets out a choking sound.
" Now hand me the ointment!" She orders.
The girl frantically hands the woman the jar. The woman opens the jar, and fills her hand with the liquid.
" Now dear, I need you to lie on your stomach for a moment so I can put this ointment on your back," she says.
I do as she says, and she places her gooey hands on my spine. The ointment is cold, and lets a tingling sensation run through my body.
It felt soothing for about three minutes but then it burned like hell.
" Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!" I scream.
" Sshh! Sweetie, this is a side affect, the pain will subside in 5,4,3,2," She counts down. And she was right, after five seconds I felt brand new. I sit up.
" Wow," I say, feeling surprisingly good.
" Yes, I know, it works like magic," she says giving me a wink," Now, Jayden, would you like to give Natalie a tour?"
" It would be my pleasure," Jayden replies, winking at me, making me blush.
" Wait, before I go, what's your name may I ask?" I ask the woman.
" Oh. Well, you see.... I am your mother," the woman replies. I gasp, not believing it. But I take in her appearance:
•Chocolate brown hair.
•Hazel eyes, almost yellow.
I sob once again and embrace her in a bear hug. I can hear her crying into my hair. And I am doing the same.
We break apart and she says," Ok, now go with Jayden."
    " Ok," I say, giving her a shaky smile.
I stand up from the bed I had slept in for three months and walk towards Jayden.
    " Shall we?" He asks.
    " Yes, yes we shall," I reply.
                                  * * *
    After the tour, lunch arrived. And I had to laugh.
    " What's so funny?" Amara asks.
    " Sorry," I apologize," it's just.... my dad was never the fancy type."
    " What do you mean 'was'?" Mom asks.
I look down at my beans and spaghetti.
Big difference.
    " Um, he died."
There was silence around the table, an uncomfortable one.
    " Well, I'm sorry for your loss," Jayden says.
    " It's not your fault, and I'd rather not talk about it," i say.
    " Whatever you say, princess," Jayden teases. I look over at him, to find him blushing.
Three weeks later.

     Me and Jayden hung out a lot. He would always have something planned for us to do.
Amara kept on shipping us though! She would say our ship name is Jatalie! So annoying!
But she is right about one thing.
I am in love with him. 
I just don't know if he feels the same way.

    " WAKE UUUUPPPP!!!" Jayden shouts into my ear. I sit upright instantly- instinct.
He catches my face before it hits his, but we're so close, like a millimetre away. We stare into each other's eyes. He doesn't let go. Just when it was gonna happen, Amara stormed in.
    " WHAT THE FUCK JAYDEN?! I can hear you from my room! And that's on the other side of the castle!!!" Amara shouts. But she stops when she says what kind of position we're in. Jayden lets his hands fall to his side, "WHAT THE HELL??? You don't just storm into someone's room, idiot!" Jayden yells, flustered.
    " Ok! Ok! Imma leave you two lovebirds alone!" She responds, putting her auburn hair behind her ear, her tan, freckled face was shiny like her green eyes.
She was the definition of beautiful.
But she didn't look anything like her brother.
Yep.
Jayden and Amara are siblings.
Jayden has black hair and a stubble, but they have the same green eyes.
Amara backs out of the room and Jayden turns to look at me. I laugh.
" You're as red as a tomato!" I cackle.
He just smirks at me," Anyway, I wanted to get you for breakfast." I could already smell the pancakes topped with whipped frosting from five floors higher.
" Welp! Imma change! You can wait downstairs already!" I inform him.
" I'll just be waiting in the doorway," he tells me.
" Fine by me!" I reply.
I trot into my walk-in closet and change into a black shirt with a loose neck line, white boot-legged pants, and curl my hair, letting it loose.
I walk out into my room to see Jayden waiting for me in the doorway.
    " Let's go! I'm hungry!" I exclaim.
    " You're always hungry," he responds. I roll my eyes. It's true though.
We walk to the elevator- yes a elevator! I don't wanna walk down five flights of stairs!- and Jayden presses the button for the main floor. We just stand there for a moment, but then he says," So, do you like it here?"
    " Yep."
    " Cool."
There was tension, SO MUCH TENSION!
I have to break this stupid silence.
I go on my tippy toes and cup his face in my hands, and put my lips on his.
He seems surprised at first. But eventually he runs his hands through my hair and kisses me more passionately. A minute later the elevator doors open and we don't notice.
Until my mom comes.
    " What on earth?!" Mom exclaims.
That breaks us apart, we are both super flustered. Mom just stares at us. Not angrily, but like.... looking at us what's taking us so long.
    " Mom, I can explain-!" I say.
    " No need, you guys are a cute couple. Now come on before the pancakes get cold," mom replies, smiling. I can hear her yell to Amara,"THE SHIP HAS SAILED!" I  sigh, relieved. I look at Jayden in the eyes, we kiss once more, just a brush of the lips. And head off to the kitchen.
Damn life is great! 😜