“No flying, they will be looking for an ice dragon in the skies, and the reward on your head is high. Poor people do desperate things, and we will be lucky if they even help you save your guard,” Melody says.
“Let’s go now. They will save him, or I will kill anyone who thinks to let him die," I promise, turning around. Looking once more at the ice staff melting into Esmeralda’s body, I wipe a tear away. Jace finally has his justice, but why do I feel like I just made a huge mistake, a mistake that could cause me to lose everything that is alive, for a promise I made to death?
Epilogue
Tatarina
There are rumours the king was seen this way with the princess and other guards,” one of the royal guard says, a nervous look flitting across his young face as he stares at me. I smile, placing my hand on his shoulder and feel him shaking. I laugh, and walk around him in the direction he pointed at. I can’t believe my son would betray me, not for that spoilt princess. He wouldn’t do that to me.
“Your highness, we have located your sister,” a guard says running over to me breathlessly, placing an arm out in front of me to stop me from seeing what is behind him. Like I need to be hidden from the darkness that is this night. I lift a hand, a hot breeze of fire whacks into him, and sends him flying out of my way. I stop, staring at the bodies littering the ground and the one right in the middle.
“NO!” I scream, running over to my sister, dropping down to my knees at her side. There’s a hole in her chest, blood surrounds her which mixes in with her long red hair. Too much blood, and it’s too watered down. Someone used ice here. My beautiful sister is lost. Who could have done this?
“Queen,” a hushed voice says, making me look up as a dark shadow hovers above us. My dark spirit, Nane, flies out the shadow, floating down to me.
“Nane, she is dead,” I say, refusing to cry. I haven’t cried for many years, and I won’t now. I will get revenge, I will destroy this world for what it has always done…took everything from me.
“The light killed her, the light must pay,” she whispers to me, and lands on the stomach of Esmeralda, lifting a blood covered hand. “Blood and ice.”
“Isola? She did this?” I question Nane, who nods, and I close my eyes as a scream leaves my lips. Black shadows spread out from under me, going in every direction and burning away the trees near me as I try to reel in my anger. They burn the guards, and I hear them, their screams are almost pleasurable to hear. Someone has to suffer for this, for my sister.
“I. Will. Kill. Her,” I bite out as I open my eyes, and lean forward, tucking a lock of Esmeralda’s red hair behind her ear. My sweet little sister.
“We can bring her back, bring her back stronger than ever. Bring her back linked to your life, and she will never leave you,” Nane suggests, looking up at me with a wicked grin.
“Will she be the same?” I ask.
“She will have a dark soul, much like yours,” Nane says, and I laugh.
“She had one before death, but now she will want revenge,” I say, a large smile playing on my lips as I place both my hands on Esmeralda’s head.
“Call darkness,” Nane whispers, and sends a blast of darkness straight into me through our bond. Black lines spread down my arms, onto my sister’s face. They crawl up her face slowly and painfully for me. When they hit her eyes, I pull back catching a breath and stand up. I wait for a long time, knowing it takes a while for a body to come back. Finally, Esmeralda’s eyes open slowly. She looks up at me as I stand over her, her eyes blood red, and a sinister grin on her lips as she stands with my help.
“Time to hunt a princess, my sister,” she says, her voice darker and almost sweet. Like a sweet berry that you don’t know will kill you, until you’re dead.
“Then let’s hunt,” I say, and Nane laughs as she floats into the shadows once more, but I hear her dark whisper in my mind.
“Darkness will win, not only Dragca will fall but Earth too…”
The End
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Excerpt from Winter’s Guardian…
So, class, please start by reading page thirty-two in your books," the professor goes on, as my class starts after he walks in. The professor looks as ancient as the old room we are all sat in, with his brown hair and beard, and very dated clothes that look like he hasn’t washed them in a while. I push my own out-of-control, wavy brown hair over my shoulder, wishing I had tied it up this morning. It’s a hot day, and the room is stuffy because of the lack of opened windows, making my hair stick the back of my head. I glance over at my best friend, Alex, who has her head on her desk, lightly snoring. I chuckle before kicking her leg and waking her up. She moves her waist-length, straight, red hair off her face to glare at me. "I was resting, Win," she mutters, hiding her eyes with her arm and huffing at me.
"The professor is here," I giggle, trying to whisper to her as she nearly falls off the side of the desk, while half asleep.
"Oh, what page?" She yawns, looking like she is going to drop back off to sleep already. I sigh, remembering how she actually has a boyfriend to keep her up all night. I, on the other hand, can't find a good one. The last time I had a boyfriend was over a year ago, and I found out he had a bad habit of sleeping around at parties. The unfortunate way I found this out was when I walked into his bedroom at his party, to find him in bed with two other girls. Let’s just say he has put me off men for life, or at least for a while.
"Thirty-two," I roll my eyes at her grin.
"I might nap instead, I had a long night," she winks.
"Don't rub it in," I groan.
"Well, you’re coming to Drake’s party this weekend, and no, you don't have a choice. I bought you a dress, and I found you a date," she grins. I don’t know which one was worse about that sentence. The fact she has bought me a dress, which I know will be way too slutty for my style, or the unlucky guy she has found for me. I decide to go with the second problem first.