Queen of the Ashes

Chapter Twenty-Six

Colchium autumnale:
my best days are over
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Vases breaking, tables flipping over, walls being punctured. It was a blur. The world around him was spinning like a carousel of chaos and he felt like vomiting, but he was strapped to the merciless device and it just spun faster and faster until he felt like he would die from the enormous pressure building up in his head.

He fell to his knees, his feet too tired to support him and body simply too shook to focus on anything besides breathing. He felt hands on his shoulders, they shook him, but he couldn't seem to understand what was happening, only replay the words in his head over and over again.

"Ethan!" Ankai shook the human, but he couldn't seem the break through the barrier of shock that held Ethan hostage in his own anxiety.

"Fuck!" The purple demon cursed, his conflicted emotions tugging at his form in all directions.

Ivraia was raging. Like a tornado she ripped everything she came over to pieces and Ankai wanted -no needed- to comfort her. But Ethan was in a self-destructive trance so he knew he couldn't let him go either. So he could only call after his Queen in hopes of getting through to her. But as usual, she was ignoring him and his pleas fell for deaf ears.

"Queen Ivraia, please calm down" this seemed to snap her out of her raging fit.

"Don't order me around! Don't fucking tell me to calm down!" She kicked another table over, making the wooden surface break as she kicked it again. "we lost! It's over!» She continued to pace back and forth «They all ganged up on me and they took everything, Everyone!"

"y-you can just trade them back for Rha-"

"Don't even finish that sentence" Ivraia hissed, venomous demonic words following as she cursed everything, even Ankai.

Ankai swallowed thickly. He knew she didn't mean to yell at him, she rarely did, but every time it hit him like a punch to his face and it stuck around for longer than any bruise could.

He looked down at Ethan, his eyes burning as he witnessed the human he had grown to care about being broken. He wished to put the pieces back together, but there was one big part of Ethan missing and that piece was Rakasaha. And Ankai knew there was no way he could fix Ethan without her. But she, together with most of Ivraia's men, had been captured and was now currently held hostage by The Dragon Queen.

Who was known for her wicked ways of torture.

Ivraia had lost.

What couldn't happen had just happened.
And Ankai was not at all prepared. No one was.

The unthinkable had occured. And now...

Anything could happen.

***END OF BOOK 1****

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I can't believe it's over already, but then again: this story has just began!;)

I was so scared to publish it, but I hope at least one person finds joy in reading it. God knows I enjoyed writing it!

Anyways, I'm currently writing book 2. I don't know when I'll publish it, but I will do it as soon as possible.

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