Fighting by Anaya Phoenix (black books to read txt) 📕

“I wouldn’t pull you away from your kid, mom. You can stay here, but don’t get too comfortable.” I said before walking out, shaking off the chills I’d gotten for no reason.

                My next stop was Vixie and I knew that it wouldn’t be a fun experience for me. There was a shift in energy whenever I tried to look at her in the pack link. She was alive, I knew that, but I didn’t know what she’d turned into. The amount of strength in power that was wafting off of her was scary considering how young she was and what she was. She was harboring the magick of a fully grown fae, and her mother knew it.  Taking a deep breath and hoping the shit storm wouldn’t stink too badly I walked into their room. Valerie sat on her knees in front of Vixie, combing back her hair with her fingers and smiling softly. John sat next to his daughter, his arm wrapped around her and his hand gently stroking her arm while he smiled down at her. Isaac wasn’t in the room, but something told me he hadn’t been in the room for a while. I walked in slowly, a small smile on my face, until I stood beside Valerie and the smile was whipped from my face. Vixie looked up at me and smiled, a big and bright one, making her eyes twinkle.

“Hey Luna, sorry for doing what I did.” She said cheerily and I smiled slightly at her but horror was rooted in me. I kneeled beside Valerie and grabbed Vixie’s hand in mine. I looked in her eyes while I searched her, feeling for what happened and why it happened. She looked back at me, leaning closer to peer deeper into me and I gasped softly. She was searching me too. Pushing away my shock I tugged at her fate line and read it intensely. My brow crinkled further as I felt the intensity of the magick that was wafting from her. She was no longer half fae, something had changed. I slowly took my hands away from Vixie and took a deep breath before looking to her mother. She looked directly at me, knowledge and excitement and fear lit her eyes but she never looked away.

“I don’t know what you want me to say.” I said softly, smiling a little before looking to Vixie. I leaned closer and looked at her eyes closely. They weren’t their typical blue anymore, they were a deeper shade and looked more violet. The specs that were once amber were now a pale blue and they looked stunning.

“You’re a full fae now.” I said simply and she just shrugged rolling her eyes at me.

“I kinda figured that already, there’s way too much magick flowing through me. I’ve been trying to tell them that I’m fine enough to go out and play but they’re being way too stressed out over nothing.” She darted her eyes to her mother in particular and I huffed once in laughter.

“Just be careful when you play, like you said there’s a whole bunch of magick flowing through you. If you let your emotions get the best of you there will be a lot more magical accidents. I’m not running an infirmary down here.” Her eyes darted from me to her mother before she rolled them.

“I got it, I got it. Can I go play now?” There was feigned annoyance in her voice but I wouldn’t touch that. I stood and ruffled her head.

“I’m fine with it if your parents are. See ya out there, squirt.” I sent one last look to her mom before winking at her and heading out. I still had to deal with the demon and eat. My stomach was beginning to revolt against me, which was fair enough. As I weaved through the tunnels people kept staring and this time I grit my teeth, it was getting entirely too annoying. When I made it to the training field and I saw people there and working on whatever they were told they needed to work on, and all eyes looked at me I let out a small growl.

“What?!” The person closest to me jumped a little bit before backing up slightly. They all said nothing and went about doing what they were doing before looking to me. I rolled my eyes and made my way past them, and made my way until I made it to where they were keeping the demon.

Filly sat on a makeshift stool with her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands. When she saw me she perked up before eying me closely.

“What’s your problem?” I asked curtly, not feeling up for anymore stares.

“Nothing it’s just… you seem different. More… calm. It makes me uncomfortable.” She said before shivering and standing up. She looked into the room, standing away from the magick barrier that would prevent him from coming out.

“We didn’t want to do anything to him, we figured that would be something you wanted to do.” She looked at me then, really looked at me before stepping closer. Before I could tell her to stop before I broke her nose in, she hugged me. It took me by surprise but also jolted me. My brow furrowed in confusion before I hugged her back carefully.

“You must be a mess inside.” She said softly into my ear and I shook my head before pushing her off of me gently.

“Look at me, I’m fine.  Thank you for saving him for me, I know how much effort that must’ve been. You don’t like waiting, or sharing for that matter.” She stepped back and waved it off.

“This is your kill, not mine. If he had hurt me or mine, I don’t think I would’ve been able to wait for you to wake up.” I felt the truth in that and nodded in her direction. Before walking to the opening of the room and looking in. The demon sat against the wall and looked directly at me, a small smirk on his face.

“I’ve been waiting for you to show up. Been licking your wounds, or your sisters? How’s she doing, by the way? I imagine I must’ve hurt her quite a bit, it’s not easy-“ His words were cut off when I threw an earth kitana into his throat. I stayed where I was and twisted the kitana, enjoying the face of pure agony he had. I waited until a nice stream of blood flew down his body before allowing it to disappear.

“I know not to go in there, I’m not stupid. But I’ve got impeccable aim and a short temper. So maybe watch your mouth.” I saw his jaw work as his body healed slowly. Valerie had stripped his entire body of magick, so now he would heal slower and wouldn’t be able to walk past this barrier. I sat on my haunches and got as close to the barrier as I would dare.

“Hurts doesn’t it? I imagine you’re trying really hard not to drown on your blood. You’re barely holding on there, and if you’re healing as fast, or slow, as I think you’re healing you’ll be barely holding on for a couple more hours. I’ll come back when you’re nice and healed up and maybe we can talk a little more later?” I winked at him and stood up before looking to Filly who had a nice little gleam of appreciation in her eyes.

“You hungry? I could really go for some food.” I said before turning and walking away.

                We walked in silence but together. She didn’t judge me and wasn’t scared, she was supportive and just wanted to know what was up with me. The healing sleep wipes away everything that’s wrong with you. Both inside and out. It cleared the fog of rage that had settled around my mind and left me calm. We walked through the trainging ground and I took the time to see what everybody had been up to. I watched as a female bear and a male lion squared off. They stood in stone silence, watching eah other and loking for any gives. Bears have little patience, in comparison to lions. Before I could process anything the sow had raised up a boulder and threw it head on at the lion. He lifted himself up and dodged it, but ran straight into another one he threw while he was air born. He landed with a thud and under the rock but with one good punch, which made me giddy, he broke the stone in half and stood. He ran to her, silent and angry as all hell. She smirked and readied herself for whatever attack, she looked to be calm but I could see she was analyzing a million miles a second. While she wwas thinking he slid and took her legs out from under her, making her fall face forward. Her skull bounced off the florr but she growled and tried to kick his grip from her. He smiled before lifting her in the air and surrounding her in water. He nodded towards Filly and I and we nodded back before leaving the training area.

“They’re using elements.” I said happily and she nodded.

“We had to go on without you. Izzy has been physically training the wolves and Anna has been training them with their elements.” I was Ok with that, they were good at fighting. I’d made sure of that.

“Also, while you were sleeping, the lycans showed up.” I stopped in my tracks and looked at her. She looked at me with pity and also a little bit of humor.

“Like… all the lycans?”

“Well duh, now the only ones missing are the fae.” I grit my teeth and forced myself to keep walking on the basis that I needed food desperately.

“He’s here.”

“Yeah I kinda figured that.”

“What are you going to do?”

“Hope that him and Ander don’t kill each other.”

“Well, we’ve managed to avoid that. We told him that you were in Eternal. Otherwise he would’ve just came to your oom and there would’ve been fighting. We knew you needed sleep.” I huffed and nodded at her in thanks. We paused outside the dining hall and I groaned that the overwhelming scent of lycan.

“You can’t hide much longer, he’ll just scent you out. This isn’t the largest place for trying to hide.” I rolled my eyes and shook out the aggravation before I walked into the cafeteria. All the noise stopped and they all looked at me. I fought back curling my lip as they all stared, their eyes wide and imploring as they looked me up and down. Growling under my breath I walked to the closest table and hopped on it, summoning my earth element and making a proper sword and aiming at all of them.

“Take a fucking picture, it’ll last longer!” They all laughed at me and I narrowed my eyes dangerously, fighting back cutting off one of their heads. It would only piss me off when they laughed at me and threw me across