Arogen

Chapter XXXI

"What's wrong?" I asked, noticing her angry expression.

"We're running out of time. We're down to 8 hours. But knowing Liam, he's toying with us. The bastard is speeding up and slowing down on purpose so we'll never expect him to show up out of nowhere."

I frowned, whirling around to find Edward, sprawled out on a couch I never noticed before, snoring loudly.

"This may be our last chance so I'll warn you now. This spell will take a lot out of you. It could very well kill you. But no matter what, you cannot stop the spell until the bond is broken. We have to trap them in this room and cast the spell while they are all together, myself included. If even one of us is missing, the spell won't work. You have to draw the dark magic out of us, breaking the very thing holding us together. The spell draws out the dark magic, sending into the Earth. The Earth is pure so it will destroy the dark magic. You cannot lose control. Do you understand?"

I bobbed my head violently as worry lines began to crease my forehead.

"I'm going to sleep now. Wake me up if anything happens," she said, before going down to the bed I had slept in.

I walked over, sitting at the chair she was perched in, looking out the glass eye that was in front of it. I could see the open field we had come from clearly, able to foresee any intruders far before they found us.

I sat there for hours periodically looking out the eye to check to see if we were still safe. Nothing out of the ordinary. My mind kept drifting back to Zion. I fought the urge to jump in his head knowing I wouldn't be able to face him after what I'd done. Tears stung my eyes at the thought of me never seeing him again. I shook my head, causing them to dry in my eyes. I had to focus on breaking the Five. That was the most important thing now.

I saw Edward slowly begin to quiet down, rustling about before he opened his eyes. He smiled once he noticed me, straightening up to get a good look at me.

"Morning daughter," he said, cheerily.

I snorted at his enthusiasm despite the circumstances. Suddenly, I felt a cold, creeping feeling of unease wash over me. I'd felt that feeling before. I jerked forward, shoving my eye against the glass eye as I moved it around with shaky fingers. That's when I saw him. It was so fast, I almost missed him. I saw him dart past my view, out of reach in less than a half a second.

"Liam's here," I announced, eyes wide in panic.

"Bay! It's time," roared Edward as he flicked the huge table aside easily, letting it crash into the wall and crumble to pieces.

I rushed over to fling the door open as she came flying out.

"You remember what you have to do?!" she said, grabbing my arm roughly, with desperation in her eyes.

"Yes."

She got to work, chanting a spell as she circled the corners of the room, dropping powder around the entirety of it. Once she was done, she opened up the chamber underneath the ground, ordering me and Edward to go inside.

"What? Why? What about yo-"

"Do not come out until all of us are inside of the room. As soon as you come out, begin chanting the spell before any of us escape the circle. We can't leave once the spell is cast." She pushed us both inside before we could respond.

Standing in the cramped room in complete silence, I nervously asked, "Do you think it'll work?"

"It has to," he replied sternly.

I looked around in efforts to distract myself from worrying. Noticing a small window at the end of the room that had been covered perfectly with a curtain I offered, "You should escape while you have the chance."