The Omega Princess

Chapter 36

My body shook violently as I lay on the floor, all alone in a dark room that had no windows and no door. It was like the door in my dreams except it was cold and black and when I looked up there were paintings of gross beings.  

My skin had turned black, from the flames that had struck me when we had passed through the gates, I had cried out but there was nothing I could have done. The Lycans however seemed unaffected, their skin didn't burn and no screams left their lips. My eyes had closed after that overwhelmed by the pain and when I woke up I was here. 

A scream sounded from somewhere outside and I jumped back scrambling to a dark corner holding myself there in fear. It was far from silent here, every few seconds I would hear cries for mercy, grunts, shrieks. Noises that swirled from outside each one making my heart sink further and further into my stomach. 

Slowly I put my hands to my hears, surely it would all just stop. No one could scream for that long. My body began to shake violently, the burns become more and more painful as skin rubbed over skin. I closed my eyes wanting to think about something else, anything else.  

I thought of Dale but it only pinched my heart, I hadn't even seen him. What if that was the last time... 

I shook my head, something else. My thoughts drifted to the painting and I realised that I had no gained any new ability when I had touched it. All I remembered was flying through the sky and then I was falling, I had not lost consciousness like all the other two times  and it had not been painful.  

The thought was of no use either and I found myself even more panicked that could not be beneficial. I had touched it and something had happened, yet still where could it have gone it disappeared in my very own hands. I opened my hand staring at my hands as though that would solve all my problems. They covered in ash, white only at the wrists where they had been holding me, a red line ran around the white, little claw marks leaving a violent bracelet that would stay with me. 

For what felt like forever I lay against the corner, analysing everything I could. I began to realise that my sight had somehow returned to what it had been, almost as though the recollections of myself or rather my wolf had disappeared completely.  

I tried not to panic at the thought but it couldn't be helped I was at my weakest when I needed to be strong. I grew tired as time passed on the endless symphony of torture flowing in a haunting lullaby around me. I wanted to close my eyes but I couldn't bare to think of what might happen if I did, what if that was what they were waiting for.  

For me to close my eyes and disappear forever. 

That was one of the tales that had slipped past my mother, the tale of the Sun God and his maiden. She fell asleep in the underworld and when she woke up she found that she could never leave again. She was bound to him and there was nothing she could do about, I had wept when that tale had first reached my ears. She was trapped, even if she killed herself she would remain in his world forever, was that to be my fate. I didn't know how I would be able to leave, when the Goddess could not reach me down her and I hoped that Kai and Dale would not be stupid enough to enter through the gates provided they could even find one.  

My thoughts stopped, my mind going black as one of the walls suddenly fell down, a wide arc way suddenly appearing in it's place. Two figures stood, women in black robes and flames around their feet. I didn't move my muscles locked in fear as they moved towards me. I gulped, as I heard a slithering noise slice through the air as they moved. As they got closer I realised that they both had tales, reptilian and thick dragging from beneath their dresses and swaying side to side as they moved. 

Their faces, which had been hidden by the hoods they wore peered out as they came closer and I saw faces that were trying to imitate that of a human. Their unnaturally perfect features and completely black eyes gave them away.