The Masked Stranger

Chapter 14

Jade's P.O.V

"Excuse me, did you just say father?" I ask Apollo.

"Yes, but he isn't a witch, or rather a warlock, he's kind of, umm...I...uh...I don't know how to explain it, so I'll let him explain when we get there," he says.

"Get whe-" In an instant, I'm cut off, due to the ground swallowing us as we go into yet another portal. Man, I'm really sick of all these portals. Next thing I know we're standing in the middle of a ballroom, then all of a sudden guards are pointing spears at us.

"Jade, don't move," Apollo tells me quietly.

"Do you really think I'm that stupid," I whisper.

"Uh..."

"You know what, don't answer that," I whisper again. Suddenly a man has the guards spread apart as he walks closer to us.

"Who are you, and why are you in my castle?" The man asks us. Next thing I know Apollo is kneeling and bowing his head to the man.

"Your majesty, it is I Apollo," Suddenly the man gains a happy face and lifts up Apollo and spins him around the room.

"Apollo, good to see you old chap," the man says after setting Apollo down. Then the man turns towards me.

"Apollo, who is this?" The man asks, pointing to me.

"Your highness, you'd think you'd recognize your own daughter."

“Wait, is that, is she really?” The man asks.

“Yes, that’s really her, it’s really Violetta. But she goes by Jade,” Apollo tells the man, and before I knew what was going on the man came up to me and hugged me practically squeezing the life out of me.

“I...I can’t believe it, my baby, my daughter has finally come home,” he says. Wait did he just say, daughter. He’s my father.

“Woah, hold up. D...d...Did you just say daughter,” I stopped and looked at Apollo, he just nodded his head at me.

“Holy shit, y...you’re m..m..my father?” I ask the man.

“Yes, come with me, we have a lot to talk about,” he says as his smile slowly fades.

Apollo and I followed him down a bright corridor, stopping once we reached a huge wooden door. The man claiming to be my father pulled out a key, and slowly unlocked the wooden door. He went in first then quickly motioned for me and Apollo to do the same. We both walked into the room, as the man closed the door.

“Hold on, before we start talking, can you at least tell me your name?” I asked the man.

“Oh right, how rude of me, my name is Lawrence, I’m your father,” He tells me.

“Yeah yeah, I think we’ve established that you're my father, can we please just continue. I came here because I want to know the whole story of what happened, and of why it all happened,” I demand.

“Right, where do you want me to start?” He asked me.

“Start with why you guys had to send me away,” I told him.

“Okay, when you were born, my kingdom was at war, so was the kingdom your mother was a part of. Her kingdom was at war with witch hunters, My kingdom was at war with another kingdom. So to keep you safe from all the harm here, your mother took you to her kingdom, but at the time we didn’t know that they were at war with witch hunters, and by the time we found out it was already too late all the other Dorvalian witches had been slain. You and your mother were all that was left of them, or that was until your mother got captured by them, they killed her right in front of me. So I did the only thing I could, I had to send you to another world for your own protection. I even sent Apollo to watch over you and protect you from other supernatural beings. I couldn’t raise you here, there was just so much war going on. I feared that if you stayed here you would surely perish. So we found some witches from a nearby kingdom, and they bound your powers, at least until you turn eighteen. Then I had to say goodbye to you. That’s really all there is to the story,” He explained. I saw a tear leave his left eye and stream down his cheek.

“Wait, so you did it to protect me?” I asked him

“Well if I hadn’t you probably would have died as well, and that wasn't a risk I was willing to take,” He says softly.

“C...c...Can you both teach me how to fight, and how to control my powers, once they come?” I ask them both

“We can only teach you how to fight, as for your powers there’s a witch you need to see about that,” Apollo tells me.

“Okay, when do we start?” I ask.

“Now,” My father replies.