The RavenStark Quest: Awakening

CHAPTER 34:IT'S ABOUT TIME

A loud sound of someone clapping echoed in the room due to the daunting silence that followed after my last words. Mrs.Farella with a broad smile on her face walked over to me clapping with utmost satisfaction that glittered in her eyes. 

"You are not as dumb as I thought." She said slowly resting her arms. "Tie the rest of them up." 

Ethan who lay unconscious on the floor had no idea what I am about to do and that did not matter to me anymore until I see him getting back to his feet. Katherine who was still kneeling on the cold floor had no intention to look up and face her mother, she just sat there sobbing until Osckar picked her up and tied her along with Drake who was appalled seeing my face. 

I glanced away from him and looked at Ethan and thought 'It doesn't matter if I have to burn to see my brother survive, it's about time I save him." 

Drake and Katherine where being guarded by Osckar and Mrs.Farella with a snap of her fingers made the huge table in the center of the room disappear, providing a huge space. She then pulled me by the collar of my dress and dragged to the middle. 

"Don't do this please, Don't." Katherine pleaded still unable to stop her tears from flowing at the sight of her cruel mother.

"Silence." Mrs.Farella bellowed not even glancing at Katherine. "Now," she said looking at me. "Drink up the solution." she pointed at the bottle in my hands. 

"B--But that's isn't how it wor--" Osckar smacked Drake's head before he could complete his sentence. Scared, I quickly flung open the bottle cap and gulped it down. It had no taste to it which made it even more awful to push it down my throat. Once I swallowed it thoroughly Mrs.Farella held both of my wrists taut and forced the nail of her thumb fingers of both her hands into my flesh making it bleed.

 "Ah." It hurt terribly. I made a tight fist to control the pain but still, it was paining awfully bad. "Stop it, what are you doing?" But Mrs.Farella did not care, she was sincerely murmuring something under her breath. With this excruciating pain and blood dripping from my wrists I could not hear her faint mumblings. "Please. St-Stop." She finally let go of my bleeding wrist. The blood was dripping down a lot, though she did not pierce right through the veins it was still enough to bleed a lot of it. She tossed me a cloth that she used to wipe the blood off her nails, I quickly tore it into two and tied it tightly to stop the bleeding in both of my wrists. It hurt a lot but took it all in and looked up into her eyes with vigor. "Let's wait till you change," Mrs.Farella said still cleaning her fingers with another fresh set of clothes that Osckar got for her, "You will transform when the time is right when nature feels it's the right time for you, but don't worry it would be today." She clicked her tongue and continued being nonchalant.

Mrs.Farella, the woman I thought to be so pure, was being the embodiment of evil in front of my eyes. Though being the daughter of the man who has devoted his whole life and sacrificed his parents, siblings, and almost half of his family at a very young age just so he could keep his people safe, but she was the entire opposite of her father. Speaking of him, where was Olisen? I thought. Surely he would have returned to the RavenStark building by now and would have caught up with the recent ugly ventures that have happened so far, where is he? Already my head felt it was being ripped into millions of pieces and now the blood won't stop, but what surprises me is that no matter how much blood has flown till now my body did not become weak because I lost too much of it already. What was happening? Was it the solution that I drank or was it because of what Mrs.Farella muttered under her breath? Every time I tried to make sense of my current situation my head rips apart again. 

Slowly, every part of my body ached in pain, the deep sensation of hurt traveled throughout my body. I rolled on the floor unable to withstand whatever my entire body was going through. It hurt, it hurt a lot. I could not even feel, the only thing I could feel was excruciating pain and it was not stopping anytime soon. 

"It's about time." Mrs.Farella looked at me fascinated while was groaning in pain. Her eyes wide opened and looked down at me.

The bleeding from my wrists stopped all of a sudden, but the pain was not. I felt like someone tore my skin apart and put a matchstick inside it because that's how I felt. I felt like every nerve, every skin, every part of my body was burning, like it was lit on fire. "Make it stop, please, make it stop." I shrieked with tears rolling down from my eyes. I couldn't handle it, it was too much. "Pl--Please." I wailed loudly. 

"You can go through it, you have to Liz, please." I could hear Katherine shouting and pleading me to hold on a little more longer. 

"I can't. I-I can not." I was crying my eyes out in pain lying on the cold hard floor. 

I winced as my body started to slowly give up. It hurt so much and I wanted to die to get this over with. Every part ached and burned endlessly. "Please." That was all I could say, please let me go. I cried over and over again but the pain wasn't going to subside any sooner. 

"Ahh." I let out a shriek and within seconds I was on fire. My whole body was literally torched up, my hands, my legs everything from the top to bottom was on fire. And it didn't burn me anymore, it felt like it was a part of me. It wasn't hurting me, in fact, it was making me calm from all the hurt and pain before. I felt a new kind of sensation arose inside me. I felt powerful, the fire slowly started to extinguish from my body. Once it finally burned out I stood there healed from all the affliction and agony. 

"Wonderful." Mrs.Farella looked thrilled. "Just magnificent." 

I saw Drake and Katherine who looked at me in wonderment. I glanced at them with satisfaction on my face, a deep sense of pride and power, filled my bones. 

"I feel great," I said touching myself. "I feel powerful." But the more I felt the change in me the more I could feel something was different too. It wasn't my body that felt different, it was my mind like it ached for more power, more greed. Why is that?