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"You should have loved me, Queen. You should have accepted me as a candidate too. You’d rather only accept the good elements. Not the pitiful evil side of me that everyone abandoned. Even after being reincarnated, it looks like you've changed your selective ways, but I can't let the New Darkness have you. You were MINE to treasure, but I was nothing to you."
"New....New Darkness?" I sputtered.
"Yes. The NEW Darkness. Hah. I guess because I didn't die, Mother Nature thought it would be hilarious to reincarnate a new me. A replacement if you will? That Dark Rider." He chuckled, shaking his head.
"He should decide what he wants to be, good or evil, but NO! Meets a weak girl like you, and swoons over you and stops working on my revenge. I deserved to enjoy him killing you, but HE FELL IN LOVE. Pathetic! You won't have a happy ending, because I will finish you," he vowed, the wide smile on his face and gleeful black eyes making me realize how dead I was about to be.
"Celestia...I can't help. I don't have any more power. I'm sorry."
~CELESTIA~
I gasped, feeling so much pain run through me I thought I'd pass out right there. I looked down and froze, seeing the multiple black vines sticking out of my body.
The memories flooded in, and I slowly glanced at the pink-black beads on my wrist that began to crack. Chip by chip, the beads cracked until it shattered and fell to the ground.
Sia?
I returned my attention to the man who was only a few steps away from me. I glanced around the dark walls, seeing the sky filled with different elements, but nothing was penetrating them.
"They won't be able to save you. Not even Charlotte who begged Mother Nature to have you. Your fate has ended, Ce...les...tia." He mocked my name and chuckled, raising his hand that formed a scythe.
"Who. Are. You?” I grunted through clenched teeth.
"The Old Darkness. The one from years ago that you had the choice to love but didn't. You let the world influence you. To say that Darkness could only be bad. I didn't deserve your love. I didn't deserve ANYONE'S love." He raised his scythe, taking the last few steps to reach me.
"You were the one person who could have changed my destiny. All you had to do was accept me. To love me. To look at me with those same eyes with longing, just like you did to the other Princes. Yet, you let go. Listened to the people. And the result? Your miserable death. But it wasn't enough. Not after those Princes made an oath to return and make sure you were reborn. It's okay. I'm inches away from getting my revenge."
Old Darkness? Princes? Reincarnation?
"Then when I'm done with you, I'll move on to your lovers."
My eyes widened, and I glared at him. "No!" I growled, blood running down my mouth.
"Oh, yes. I'll enjoy killing them all. One by one. I'll stab them with the same thorns that are draining your blood and kill them. I'll start with Prince of Light and watch the others’ agony at their lost brother. Then Nature, Earth, Star, Sun, Moon, and finally, the New Darkness. Once they're all gone, I'll work on your family. After that, this dimension will explode just like the other one I've destroyed."
He stood before me and gave me a pitiful smile. "Farewell, my Queen. May we never see each other again," he whispered.
I won't die!
He slashed at me with the intention of decapitating me, but he let out a grunt. I glanced down to see a small block of ice holding back the tip of his scythe, and felt the blessed mark on my arm grow hot, the bright blue glow coming from Cairus’ blessed mark.
"What?!” he shouted, and I took the opportunity to take a deep breath, my lungs screaming at the action. But instead of blowing out wind, I blew fire that went straight into his face.
"ARGH!" He screamed and stumbled back to attempt to put off the blaze that was burning his skin.I could see Caio's blessed mark glowing brightly, and my back was hot like fire, leaving me to wonder if Hunter's blessed mark was doing the same as the others. I quickly tried to look at my back and caught a small glimpse of my wing blessed mark glowing bright orange, answering my questioning thoughts.
I returned my gaze to the vines and concentrated, feeling my left thigh grow hot. The Darkness that tainted the vines began to drift off them like a black mist, leaving the now green vines and evaporating into the air.
The black mark continued to glow, and I noticed Finn's blessed mark glowed brightly too, the vines slowly retracting out of me, making me scream in agony. I fell to my knees and tried to breathe, seeing my blood on the floor. That's when my neck began to burn, and I knew Theo's blessed mark was doing its work.
The blood that was on the floor began to lift from the ground, gathering and changing from a dark red thin substance to a thick, bright red liquid, the blood looking healthy like it would in a bag of blood.
Within seconds, it disappeared into small streams and went straight into my body through the holes the vines had left. I thought it would flow back out, but both my wrists burned, making me hiss in pain.
I looked at them through my tear-filled eyes; the bright white marks helped my body begin to heal, the parts that had been pierced slowly closing.
Once everything sealed up, the burning disappeared, and all the blessed marks dimmed in power and light. I fell to the sandy ground in a coughing mess.
I gasped for as much air as my weak body was capable of, realizing that the seven blessed marks had saved me as I coughed and shivered.
