The Animal Prince

Chapter 23

{Sarah}

There's something fishy going on here. I've known Aiden growing up and this doesn't sound like him. He was truly in love with Cybele, even I could see how happy they were.

I poofed back to my little house and tried to look for one of my potions that will bring me into peoples head. Once I found it on one of my shelves I sprinkled some on me and tried to get in Aiden's head.

"Aiden!" I yelled. It was pitch black in here, Aiden's head shouldn't be like this. It should be full of memories.

"Cybele! Cybele where are you!" Aiden yelled. I rushed over towards the sound of his voice. Ha! That just proves that he's still in love with Cybele. I could even see their happy future, I just didn't see all this stuff in the middle happening to them both.

"Aiden, I'm not Cybele, but what-" I froze in my spot. Aiden was literally chained to the floor. He couldn't change into any animal and he kept trying to get the chains off of him.

"Aiden, who did this?" I asked him. Something is seriously wrong, only someone powerful can do something like this to Aiden. Unless they did it when Aiden's guard was down.

"I would also like to know. I can't remember a thing, the last thing I remember is leaving Cybele at her locker, after that everything is a blur," Aiden explained to me.

"Let me take a look at your mind," I said while trying to place my hands on Aiden's head. He moved his head out of the way.

"Where's Cybele? I need to know she's safe," Aiden begged. I really didn't want to put all the bad news on him before I even knew what was going on.

"She's at her house with her brothers, I need to look in your mind and we'll both see what happened and how you ended up like this," I explained to Aiden.

I placed both of my hands on his head and in his mind, where we were both right now, I got his memory to come back. Or at least what he saw while he was in here, trapped.

Aiden was just leaving Cybele when he went to turn a corner and he bumped into someone. He quickly picked up the papers and apologized, but he kept looking back at Cybele from the corner.

"It's alright, she's very lucky to have a brother like you," A girls voice said.

"I'm not her brother, I'm her boyfriend," Aiden said dreamily. Cybele would be loving that sentence, if she could pull herself together long enough for me to show her this.

"Ah, well my name is Desana," The girl said in a dreamy voice. Aiden was still looking Cybele, with what I could only guess as loving in his eyes.

"You're cute," Desana said. Aiden then looked in Desana's direction and she started pulling something out from under neath her shirt.

"And now, you will always be mine," Desana said while pulling out a necklace. It had a blue stone on it that started to glow like her eyes. Now I know what she is, no wonder Aiden fell for her.

I let go of Aiden's head after that glow. He looked me in the eyes, all I could see was worry, confuse, and he looked broken. Not as broken as Cybele but still broken.

"What did Cybele see?" Aiden asked me. I couldn't bare to show him anything, it would break his heart and he would probably loose himself if he knew how heartbroken Cybele was.

"Everything, but now I know what kind of supernatural creature is doing this to you. But only you can break her spell, you must fight her with the love you have for Cybele. You don't really realize how much you love her, you must find that love," I whispered to Aiden.