The RavenStark Quest: Awakening

CHAPTER 32: THE BEGINNING OF THE END

My eyes crippled with pain and my lungs were running out of air, it felt like I was dying with never-ending pain. Every part of my body felt like it was on fire, it was burning with excruciating pain. It hurt, it hurt so much. I could hear myself shrieking and wincing. My skin was scorched and my head hurt so badly like it was being ripped off into millions of pieces. I wanted to die at that moment, to end all this suffering. I could no longer handle it, I didn't want to. I just wanted this to end soon I just wanted to die. Just Die.

One hour ago...

Mrs.Farella stood in front of us, hands stiffly kept behind her, she walked towards the four of us. Katherine was in an utter shock, she forgot all the words to speak. Ethan and Drake were enraged with and anger and disappointment. I wasn't sure how to react to all of this at once so I stood there numb to emotions.

"Look at these four. Reminds me so much of the original four." She smirked at us. "Brave, skilled, powerful, gifted."

"Mom," Katherine said and a deep sense of pleading and helplessness showed in her voice.

"Oh, my dear. I am sorry that I forgot to welcome you." Mrs.Farella smiled evilly and went towards Katherine to hug her. Katherine quickly released herself from her mother's arm frightened.

"What is all this? What is going on here?" Katherine yelled almost breaking down into tears. "Why are we treated like prisoners?" She asked the question which she did not want the answer to.

Mrs.Farella clicked her tongue and laughed mildly. "What can I say, darling, you are mother is doing all this for you and you only?"

"What does all this mean? Taking us to an unknown place against our will, having a group of men under your command that no one had no idea about, behaving evilly. This is not the mother I know and worship." Katherine said her voice breaking.

"No, no dear trust me everything that happened until now was not me, well, partially me but it was her idea and she can provide greater things for us if we follow her command. If we worship her." Mrs.Farella said with her eyes sparkling with greed for something. But who was the third person she was referring to?

"Mrs. Farella, what the heck are you talking about?" Ethan asked losing all his respect towards the woman whom he considered family.

"You don't get to talk to me like that." She shouted with her eyes widened and raised her hands in the air and instantly Ethan went down on his knees. "You two siblings are only alive for a purpose otherwise I would have killed you both the day you were born." She said angrily and disgusted at the sight of us two.

"Why-are-we-here?" Drake spoke gritting his teeth word by word. "If you don't stop beating around the bush and tell us straight to face, we will make sure that no one stays alive in here and that includes you and I don't care who you are."

"You are going to fight us?" Mrs.Farella broke out into a peal of manic laughter. "When I said you were brave, I probably forgot to mention that you are stupid too.

Katherine, all this time looked at her mother with such yearning eyes hoping that all this is just a dream and her mother isn't who she is portraying to be. I went beside her slowly and her arms even with my hands tied. She still had her eyes on her mother.

"You see, your powers won't work in here unless I myself give them permission to," Mrs.Farella said proudly.

"The permissio spell," Katherine said softly under her breath and looked down guilty.

"Exactly, my dear, exactly, do you remember suggesting me this spell during my difficulty in maintaining prisoners back at the castle. " Mrs.Farella sniggered slightly. Katherine felt so ashamed of her own mother that she could not keep her head up high.

"Where is Mr. Farella?" Drake asked her taking Mrs.Farella's attention from Katherine.

"You will know soon enough." She said taking her gaze away from Katherine.

"Now enough of this chit chat, let's get to work. I don't have all-day wasting my time to a bunch of stupid teens." She said clasping her hands and looked at me. My eyes met hers and I looked back fierce. What does she want? "You." She said coming towards me passing through Drake and Ethan who stood front. "You, the girl who is supposedly going to breathe fire. The girl who is going to be the possible death of her. Mmmm... Let's test it shall we?"

"Test it? What are you saying? I don't even have my powers yet, Olisen told..." I said frantically.

"Oh my dad, always thinking he knows everyone and everything," Mrs.Farella said revulsion. "He was wrong when he thought you would go through your transforming during your eighteenth birthday." She said.

 "I went through it on my eighteenth birthday so will she. That's how it works!" Ethan said fiercely with a hint of worry in his voice.

"No wonder you are one of my dad's stupid pawn." Mrs.Farella snapped. "He was so easy to fool, you can't blame him given the fact that he trusted his daughter blindly. No, you don't turn on your eighteenth birthday you transform on the day when your horoscope matches with the great witch herself."

"Cyana's?" Drake phrased it as a question to which the answer was obvious.

With one eyebrow raised Mrs.Farella looked at me and said, "Your brother's transformation, however, came as a surprise to us but from that, I comprehended when you would go through it. My dad who as usual trusted me when I said both the siblings are going to transform on their respective eighteenth birthday." She was beyond proud of herself, her eyes sparkled with evil. She looked at me with rage boiling inside her, "So, you, the supposed savior of Ezra would transform today and today means now."