A BLUE - GREEN tint shone through the sunlight while frozen waterfalls bore a hint of the rust orange hue. The wind blew wildly around me, whispering in my pointed ears, playing with the fray threads on my white top, ruffling my golden hair and I felt it as one. The wind played with me, whistling and delicate yet strong.

Kellyn stood beside me, looking straight ahead. Her face was drawn in a frown and her heart galloped wildly in her ribcage. Her actions seemed strained these days and I noticed it was because we would meet our mother in just seven days. Something within me jumped excitedly at the thought. As we grew closer to the Fae, I began to ease more into my form and abilities. I felt more at home and it was easier to call my magic at anytime.

I looked at my sister in her partial awakened form. Her aristocratic features were pale and her eyes were warm spring. She seemed lighter on her feet too, moving faster than my eyes could follow. Her fingers were extended claws and the colour of her billowing hair matched mine. However, she was graceful in every way. I don't know how, with her features she should seem dreadful but that wasn't the case.

She had a certain allure to her, her eyes were relaxed, calm, inviting. Even her claws were intricately shaped. The slope inviting but very dangerous. It was sharper than any sword. Kellyn had always been the bad ass twin, the aggressive one, and her abilities suited her to the core. While I was a lover of peace, gentle as the breeze and determined when I wanted to.

"I kind of miss Florida you know? I miss the days we spent watching your stupid anime and most of all I miss Ash. She was my best friend and we just left without a trace. She  must think we're dead. Maybe ignorance is bliss after all"

Her soft voice fell over me like a hush and a gnawing feeling tore through my chest. This was only the beginning and we already felt like this.

"It will be fine." I assured my sister, my voice wavering and unsure. She must have heard it too because her frown deepened but she said nothing. Dammit! I needed Kellyn to stay noisy and silly for my own sanity. Her silence was beginning to unnerve me.

I'm the silent one! There can't be two silent people in a group. Can't she see that?

Drawn into a realm to stand at the war front and protect our people - the people we don't even know. It was the thought of a coward but I deeply wished we were back on earth.

"You foolish girl!" Chirrietta hissed in my ear and my back straitened. Her voice was calm and raspy but she said it with such anger that I flinched

Chirrietta was the wind. She had no face or form, she was simply the wind. Raging, calm, unpredictable, dangerous. Since I learnt of my calling to wind, she revealed herself to me. She was like an invisible person, following me around, sometimes she stayed dormant only swishing a few times other times, she seemed wild, blasting me playfully from all corners. I no longer feared heights. Chirrietta was mine to own and control and she couldn't bend against my will. If I so wished to soar, I would.

"Do not think like that master! Your purpose is of great importance to us here" she cooed and I relished the feeling of her around me.

"I want to see something" my sister broke my thoughts and her ear twitched. "Have you heard of Charles since we set sail?" She asked and I shook my head no now thinking about it.

" I want to see him for myself. His screams tortured me yesterday night. I don't know where he is though. Think your little pet can help?" My sister asked and Chirrietta sent a gush of wind towards Kellyn who fell back from the impact.

"She says she's no pet" I quirked a brow at my cursing sister in amusement.

"Oh please, you still can't lift a brow properly? You look drunk sister" Kellyn mocked and I snarled at her playfully. This was the Kellyn I missed.

Chirrietta find where the dungeons are. I ordered her and felt the ancient sprite consulting her distributed bodies.

In every place, no matter how small, there was always breeze flowing in or at least air was always present. Rietta was the wind, the breeze, she could be anywhere there was breeze or air apart from the underworld and other dark dimensions.

Within seconds, I felt her whisper into my ear on the directions to go and Kellyn followed closely, fascinated with my power as I was of her stealth. The boys were training other end of the deck, kadja was their admirable instructor. Green jealousy grew steadily in me as the days passed and I watched the boys scurry after her like lost puppies. Hungry for the wisdom she had abundantly and her baffling fighting skills. It was stupid but I felt jealous. Kadja was a princess of beauty and most times, her beauty crippled me.

That damn seductress!

The crew men let us through easily as we went into the darker parts of the ship. It was the last floor, dark and eerie. Kellyn had thought well to bring a lamp with us and we stared into each barred room we passed. They were just the like cells in the human world only more sinister and unnerving.

Most of the rooms were empty but the last room was covered in pitch blackness. Not even the light of our lamp could cut through it and something in me shrunk in fear. I could hear whimpers coming from the cell but no matter how hard I squinted, I couldn't see a thing. I collected the lamp from my sister and put it through the darkness and much to my horror, I watched it consume every light.

It is darkness from the abyss, no light can shrink it. Rietta said begrudgingly and my sister growled.

"That thing is alive. It has a mind of its own that I can't seem to control" Kellyn hissed.

I will answer to only my master. This time around it was the darkness that spoke and I stepped back in fear. It's voice grated my eardrums like breaking glass. Whatever it was, I was repulsed by it.

Who was it's master?

I wanted to turn and flee but a part of me held it's ground. My glowing hair floated around my face and I stepped into the darkness.

Too much light! Master I cannot stand it. I recognize this feeling. Damned regald and his brightness!

It shrieked and wailed before dissipating, its words were an incoherent mix of words but I couldn't care less for my eyes were set on the man that used to be king Charles.

He was bloodied and sickly pale. His cheeks were sunken and his hair was matted against on his head. His skin clung to his bone tightly and his eyes looked dead and empty. There was a gaping hole in his lap and I was surprised he was still breathing. Though every breathe he took seemed painful and I could hear the loud wheezing of his lungs. Tears stung my eyes.

Why would they go to this length just to get answers? Even death was better than this.

"Charles?" I whispered and he looked up at me with hot hatred. His now black orbs raged with anger and I had to take a step away from him. He was chained but he looked like a crazed animal. Kellyn hissed at him, lifting her clawed hands.

"You mutts think you have a chance. Oh the sweet death you will all be brought to by none other but Luciana. They have all the information. That damned ancient witch had to help them. The anger Luciana would feel when I tell her that her beloved baby sister is helping the enemy is something I must experience"

I took in everything he spat at us and a gasp tore from me.

Kadja is Luciana's sister? How is that possible?

Now that I thought of it,  they shared the same dark hair and they both practiced magic. I felt hot anger rise within me. What if kadja had been betraying us all this while?

There's something else. Rietta told me and my senses were on full alert. A cocky smirk played on Charles's face and I couldn't fight the feeling that something was about to go terribly wrong. What advantage did he have over us?

Think kira!

They're coming this way, an army of lissers. I can feel them.

Dread filled my heart and I told Kellyn the information I now knew. She spit at Charles before storming out of the cell.

Stall them chirrietta. Send them in a wrong direction, blow them off or something but just delay them for sometime while we prepare for battle. I commanded chirrietta as I called on my fire magic, letting it flow through my veins.

Yes master.

Would it be tonight one of our secrets leaks out?

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