Mercatija

Chapter 31

A/N:  Hey Little Bees, this is the final chapter of Book 1!!! Let's just jump right in....😊

Language Key:

M've [mm-vay]- my

Faelune [Fay-loon]- Father

Elaeti [Ee-lay-tee] - Daughter

Evela'tu ma'sun lefo [Eh-vay-lah'too mah'soon leh-foh] I love you more than life

Evela'tu [Eh-vay-lah-too] I love you

En ti lefo, na ti nua [Ehn-tee leh-foh, nah tee noo-ah] - In this life and the next

Tu'ashiva [ Too'ah-shee-vah] As you wish

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"Jazmine I'm so sorry." Gaia cried falling to her knees next to my father. Sol grinned at her slowly wrapping the black chain hanging from her neck around his hand gripping it tight.

"What do you mean? Didn't you see this coming? She was always going to be mine." He grinned at me and I hissed, standing to face him.

"I'm not yours. I don't belong to you." I growled clenching my fists as he chuckled shaking his head.

"Yes you do, Jazmine. You are my child, my blood runs through your veins. You are a de'mujo just like me. And you will become one, m've sesti." He grinned raising his hand as another hoard of de'mujos emerged from the tree line, edging towards the kues chained to the ground.

"Sol stop this! Don't do this." Gaia cried next to him, clawing at his legs, he growled at her tugging against the chain, choking her to stop her pleas.

"Your mother could have stopped this. She had every opportunity to stop me last night. Isn't that right, dejaina?" He said leaning down to her, taking her chin roughly in his hands. She cried tugging her face away from him, her violet eyes full of tears and guilt.

"Is that true?" I asked as she looked at me tears rolling down her cheeks as she nodded her head.

"Yes." She whispered hanging her head in shame as Sol laughed pushing her face away.

"You see, m've sesti,  every red moon I become a Mercatijan again. That's how you were born. Your mother knew there was a red moon last night and she came to me like she always does, but this time she came with the intent to trap me and she did," He smiled his devilish eyes looking at Gaia with what she assumed to be affection, but the blood staining his teeth and the grotesque way his lips formed into a smile didn't exude affection, "But then she let me go, because she wants you to turn, Jazmine." He grinned looking back at me.

"That's not true!" Gaia cried shaking her head at me. Tears pooled in my eyes thinking of the way she forced me to watch my family die. I wouldn't put it past her to want me to become a de'mujo. I knew it, she has always had an ulterior motive in all of this.

Jazmine don't let Sol fill your head with lies. Darius growled struggling against his restraints.

"Why did you let him go?" I asked and she hung her head in defeat.

"Because...this is your fight. I can't stop him." She whispered tears rolling down her cheeks.

"And in that small moment of weakness, I trapped her and now her powers are mine, just as yours will be, elaeti." He smirked and I growled, my hands igniting in a burst of blazing fire as I sent a blast straight to his chest.

He laughed swatting my pitiful fire away from him countering with an inky black flame, I tried to block it but the force behind it sent me to my knees.