The Search For Peace 2

Chapter 45

Harmony didn't know what was happening. One second this weird boy was standing in front of her, and now here he was, pushing something into her stomache.

"You're bleeding..." He whispered into her ear, and at once, she felt the pain. Her trembling fingers struggled to touch the steel piercing through her middle, but she could feel the wetness of her own blood.

She gasped as he roughly pulled his hand back out, and watched the dagger drip as she fell onto one knee.

"W-why?" Her voice barely came out as a whisper, and she felt so dizzy she could vaguely make out his smirking face. "Wh-what's wrong with you?"

"A poor choice of last words, Harmony, my dear." Eliseo crouched down to her level, holding her gently by the chin. "After all, you are going to die soon." He regarded her stomache, which she was too afraid to look at. "I mean, that's alot of blood, don't you think."

"Shut..." She could barely breath now, the effort to do so quite exhausting. It was like her whole system was shutting off. "...up." She fell faceforwards, her brown hair splayed around her.

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Juliet couldn't understand what was happening. All of a sudden, there was a boy on top of her, in between the jaws of the snake that was going to obliterate her just a few seconds ago.

The surprised gasps around her confirmed she wasn't hallucinating, as the Scorpios seemed to be in shock as well.

While she gawked, Austin, who's mouth was trickling red, reached for Juliet's shackles. They froze under his touch, then broke into tiny pieces, one of her hands finally free.

"H-hey...." Juliet didn't care about being free anymore, as the boy's bleeding torso was much more alarming. The snake behind him was slowly fading away, it's luminous body shifting into black clouds of smoke.

When both her hands were free, Juliet instinctively held the boy's yellow face in her hands. "What...." She didn't understand why she was crying, but he was collapsing onto her, and her feet were still tied to the board. She hugged him tightly, his warm blood seeping into her clothes.

"Chain them both!" Screamed one of the Scorpio ladies, her hood flying off her pointy head. "We don't know which one of them has the curse right now, so lock them both up!"

Juliet came back to her senses as the hooded figures began to circle her and Austin. Overcome with a sense of duty, she found the strength to atleast sit up, the bleeding boy in her lap. Yes, there was blood. There was alot of it. And she was terrified, but she also knew she'd had enough.

"Stay back!" She bellowed, her voice hoarse but true. She hugged Austin's damp head, her heart pounding, adrenaline pumping in her veins. This was it. It was now...or never. "Or I'll kill all of you!"

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"Did you hear that?" Ultima put a hand out in front of Kevin, her other hand cradling a flame.

In the darkness of the eerie castle hallways, their hearing was more enhanced than usual. "Someone's screaming...." Kevin speculated, swiveling his head to pinpoint the sound.

"Yup, and I bet you anything it's Juliet." Ultima continued to advance through the hall, her eyes scanning the area for a staircase. "It's coming from upstairs, isn't it?" As she moved forward, she suddenly felt like she was talking to herself. "Kevin?" She turned around, shining her light on the vacant space Kevin should've been in. Instead, there stood a hooded person, their eerie smile the only thing visible at the moment.

They opened their dirty mouth, and pounced onto her, hissing like a snake. "Get off!!!" Ultima lit up her fists, and as she smelt the familiar scent of skin burning, she knew she had hit her target.

But now, her target was nowhere to be seen. She rotated, her fiery fists ready. She knew by now how good these Scorpios were at disappearing. "Fine...if that's how you wanna play..." Very calmly she placed her burning palm on the wall beside her.

Instantly, the wallpaper caught on fire, followed by a decaying picture of an old time prince, then the beginnings of the turned up carpet. She didn't mind fire. It was her element. So she had no problem with burning everything around her. The Scorpios should've never messed with Ultima Silverblitz.