War of Hearts

14 ~ The Uninvited guest

The ocean breathed, her surface rising and falling with rhythmic ease. The waves became her pulse, the echo of the souls were kept safe in her cradle of brine. Michael and Peter swam in the Darranoi Ocean. The ocean is their sister, a sister of watery depths and beauty. She is the soul of this world. She flows over mountains and to the depths of the trenches just the same, reaching around the Angelic in strong embrace.

They are swimming in the triangle of Mermaidia, the mermaid land. The triangle of Mermaidia is situated in between the Air land and Azera. Michael and Peter were assigned to bring the first mermaid they see because the blood of a mermaid is needed to create the sword of life.

Michael stopped his motion uneasily. He forcefully closed his eyes as if he's suffering from a huge pain.

"Michael, are you okay?" Peter asked, swimming closer to Michael.

The sea water around Michael began to bubble. Peter made space for the water bubbles to grow as he noticed the reason for it. Water Angels can communicate through water but for that both the sender and the receiver must be in a water resource. If an external party is in the communicative area the connection between the sender and the receiver is disturbed. As Peter swam away from Michael, he wondered who's trying to communicate with Michael.

Peter watched his brother struggling to receive the message. They've always done it since they were small kids and Michael was always very weak when it comes to receiving. After few minutes the water bubbles disappear and Michael opened his eyes, they were bright sky blue instead of his usual ocean blues, it usually happens after communicating but is recovered with time.

"What is it?" Peter asked.

"Joseph."

"What?" Peter chuckled with surprise. Joseph never had a close relationship with Michael and Peter. He has never ever communicated with any of them.

"The Capital is asking help. Blood drinkers have attacked the Capital. They have broken the prison and has let go the blood drinker prisoner."

"Is Joseph and mum safe?"

"They are hidden inside the bunker, mum..."

Peter cut him off. "Hidden? Why on Angelic are they hiding?"

"Elizabeth's orders."

Peter huffed. "What about mother?"

"Bad news. Her condition is terrible," Michael paused and spoke again. "Angel Earth is dead."

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"Alexander and Alicia, I'm so sorry about your mother." Several painful tears came out of Ever's beautiful eyes. "I'm so sorry. We are in Azera right now. I'll make sure to come back to the Capital within the next two days. I know two days is a long time but we all have to cooperate. We are doing our best here. Make sure everyone take care of their assigned duty. There is a secret exit in the bunker, use it to get out of the Capital. We've not yet lost the Capital so don't surrender, fight until the very end also make sure to group and ensure the security of the other four Angel lands as well. Good luck!" Ever finished her message and looked down at the leaf on her palm in which her message was written in gold. She released the leaf into the air and whispered. "Go to Elizabeth." The leaf flew with the wind to the Capital.

Ever traveled her fingers through her hair and looked at the darkness around her. Cael was sitting next to her on the ground and Julian was leaned on to a tree.

"We have to go now," Ever said and stood up from the ground. She turned toward the forest and closed her eyes to concentrate. Angels can track paths and locations when their concentration is high. She opened her eyes, they were gold, golden than solid gold. Golden rays show her the path to the tunnels.