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My hand flung out and I flung him away from me.
He rolled on the ground once before hopping back up to his feet and stalking towards me again.
“Just leave them alone,”I begged.“Please.”
“Don’t worry, everything will be done soon.”
I did not like the sound of that at all. It was incredibly ominous.
Reaching down, my hands plunged into the pool of black ooze and it immediately started sliding up over my arms, along my shoulders, and down my body, coating me completely in it until only my head remained exposed.
Power, unlike any I had ever encountered before, filled me, burning my body and felt like it was burning my soul.
“Let it absorb fully. Accept it,”the mystery man said.
“No!”No, I couldn’t let my soul absorb this darkness.
“What is going on?” Mr. Mayongan demanded as he stomped towards us across the grass.
“Get back,” Triston ordered him. “She’s possessed right now and we don’t know what that black stuff is.”
Mr. Mayongan puffed up and started to gather magic to himself, facing me with a furious glare. “I knew you were lying! You wanted this evil stuff to be here for your use later, right? This was all a set up so you could come back and attack when we were least expecting it. Get out of this city right now before I?—”
His words were cut off as I raised my hand, black ooze churning around my palm, and whispered, “Suffocate.”
Mr. Mayongan clutched at his throat and fell to his knees as black ooze leaked out of his mouth and nostrils.
“No!”I screamed and struggled against the mental hold, thrashing and trying as hard as I could to stop him.
For a split second his control slipped, allowing me to dispel the magic from Mr. Mayongan, who fell to his hands, coughing up the black ooze and drawing in gasping breaths.
Kieran dropped down next to him, patting his back to help get the ooze out.
The black ooze fell from my body and I took two steps back.
“Keep fighting him,” Kieran urged me. “You can do it.”
“You’ve already lost,”the voice said in my head.“They’ve already seen your true colors; how dangerous you are, and that hybrids truly are evil.”
That was it. That was their plan all along with me and the others. Gather a few hybrids together, make it look like they were evil and dangerous, and further their rhetoric of fear.
Dammit. I’d fallen right into their trap.
My sadness left me open to being taken over again and my body once more became coated in the black ooze.
Branson stepped in front of me and my heart squeezed painfully. No, I didn’t want him to see me like this.
“I’m sorry, Ember. I’m sorry for leaving you instead of speaking to you and discussing my feelings. It wasn’t fair of me and I regret it. These people, they don’t know who you are. They don’t know what an amazing woman you are. Youtreated dozens of beings, went out of your way to make sure we were comfortable, safe, and gave us time to heal when we had nowhere else to go. You gave us a bed when the people in this city left us in the gutter. You are a thousand times the person Mr. Mayongan and the others here are. You truly care and I know that what is happening is killing you a bit. You can do this, Em. You can fight this piece of shit and come back to us. Come back to us so that we can apologize properly. Fight these cowards who cannot face us because they know they are too weak.”
His speech made my heart hurt and sing simultaneously.
My hand raised and I flung Branson away, sending him flying through the air right into a tree. He grunted in pain, but got up quickly.
Triston tried to grab me at the same time as Percival, but I created dirt walls on either side of me and used them to push them away.
A few mages approached, staffs in their hands and glowing as they started shooting spells at me.
Triston and Percival blocked the spells and the bastard controlling me gripped my fist, making all of them fall to their knees, gasping for breath.
