The Royal Triumvirate

Chapter Forty-Five: Reina

Reina was staring mutely at her mates. Celestine knelt beside her best friend who kept shaking her mate trying to get her to wake back up. The apprentice witch placed a hand on the omega's back and then summoned a portal a foot away.

"Come on, we've got to get her back to the mansion. My teacher should be able to help her."

Reina growled lowly and turned to the patrol. "Search this whole area. Find some clue as to who that bitch is and where to find here. Don't return until you do." Then she gently picked her unconscious mate and followed Celestine into the portal.

An instant later, they were outside the door to the Royal mansion. Reina mind-linked her parents to bring Morgana to her room. As they rushed by the living room on the way to the bedroom, Nick and Jason stepped into the doorway.

"Alex?" Jason said confused looking at his unconscious foster sister.

"She was cursed by a witch," Reina explained quickly. "We're taking her to our room." Not waiting to hear a response they continued taking Alex to her room. Reina just barely heard Jason speaking to his mate.

"I should call my moms."

A moment later, they finally arrived at their bedroom. Reina placed Alex on the bed, and she could feel her wolf, Dido, reach out and try to touch Xandara. Both Dido and Avalon had been trying to reach to their mate since the clearing, but they were constantly met with silence. With a brief knock the current Royal Triumvirate entered the room followed by the Royal Pack witch, Morgana Greenstone. The Royal witch had her black hair with grey streaks tied into a bun, her blue eyes were narrowed coldly through they soften microscopically at the sight of the worried group.

Reina was holding Alex's hand kneeling on the ground next to the bed. Dana had moved her unconscious mate's head her lap and was softly begging her to wake up. Celestine, meanwhile, was softly muttering the healing spells that she knew, trying to wake up the werewolf.

"Ms. McNamara, what is going on?" Morgana asked her apprentice. Celestine swallowed nervously.

"When we went to see that witch. She knew Alex. She put some curse on her. I don't know what it was, but Alex lost consciousness. I've been trying everything I know but..." Celestine was growing close to panicking. She thought she should be able to help the unconscious girl. Her best friend's mate.

"It's alright calm down Ms. McNamara," Morgana started but was interrupted by Reina standing up angrily.

"My mate is unconscious and in pain! How can you be so calm?" she growled.

"Your highness, please, irrationally will not help matters," Morgana said calmly. Reina just growled and began pacing. "Now, McNamara do you remember the spell that this witch used?"

"Um," Celestine paused closing her eyes and taking a deep breath. "I think she said, 'Sit tibi ut capti in memoria pessimi'. And a dark beam of light came out of her hand. I don't know that spell."

Morgana paled slightly but her teacher side came out first, "think, Ms. McNamara. What do those words translate to?"

Celestine frowned before hesitantly saying, "May you be trapped in your worst memory?"

Morgana nodded, "yes. It's an illegal dark spell. Which you haven't learned. I can't believe any witch would use such a spell."

Reina stopped pacing and growled, "can you fix it?"

Queen Maria stepped forward and said calmly, "Reina, I know you're worried about your mate. But you will speak to Lady Morgana with respect. Now, first give us a report of what happened in the woods."