The Black Mist Enchantress - Chapter 108

“Please provide me with a sign if my worries aren’t true.”

For the next few seconds, there was no movement nor any breeze. Alex felt disappointed but decided to leave this room. For last time, he looked at all the items inside the room,

” If what Emmy said was true, then how much pain would the enchantress have felt when the person she loved the most kept the sword on her neck and asked to leave the place forever.”

With a heavy heart, Alex also left the room, but as he closed the room, from the dark, a black swirl was created and it disappeared after remaining there for quite a time.

Outside the room, Jordan was firing up the firepit whereas the ladies were busy lighting up the whole living space. Since it was night time and as it was the unknown mysterious place for even the great Esbertrazian Master, all of them decided to spend their night in the living area together.

Janet was adjusting the torches such as it would keep them warm throughout the night also.

Juliet and Leona were fetching food from the backpacks which they had already prepared before the journey while Kiara and Emmy were discussing what had happened before both of them had fainted.

” Emmy, you were behaving in a scary manner at that time. I was in your way but then I noticed the masters asking to back off from your path. Next what I saw was the energy beam.”

Emmy was stupefied to hear it from Kiara, although she knew that there was some abnormality in her, stopping energy beams and protecting Kiara… she didn’t have any clue about it. Alex, by now, has told her multiple time of the green eyes which she has when she turns into another weird character.

” Did you see my face at that time? Did it show any peculiarity?”

“No, but your eyes showed determination and courage however there was a strange glint of anger in it. ”

Emmy then concluded one thing about her strange behaviour. All these instances had a common factor, that she was angry at these situations.

Firstly, when Alex was attacked, then when master Neshag was in danger and now after seeing the state of that woman drenching in her sorrows. After the massacre of her family, her anger could not be controlled by her. She had tried several ways to subdue her inner demons when her mind blew out but nothing was working till she met Alex. He could pacify her more easily than any other methods she had tried.

“Anger issues, hmmm… I must have a word about it with the masters and well, there is one thing that is quite surprising. You told that master signalled you to stay away from me at that time, so they knew at that time that I was being strange and acting strangely. Yet, they didn’t come forward to check on me. Isn’t it?”

Under the scrutinizing gaze, Kiara couldn’t side with the masters, so she nodded her head earnestly. Emmy found Kiara’s behaviour cue as she herself was a bold and well-trained woman but now behaving as a kid in front of her.

“Kiara, the way you behave with me makes me as if I am your commander and you are my subordinate. Are you scared of me, huh ?”

Kiara wanted to escape from Emmy’s gaze. Although she was almost four years older than Emmy, she felt that Emmy was much more mature than her age. Also, today she had protected Kiara without any fear. So, in Kiara’s mind, Emmy was already a superior but she loved to have her as an elder sister.

“Emmy, actually, you are too good to me.. to us… I feel that you are just like my true master who taught me skills and helped me as well as my infant sister when our mother died.”

” True master??”

Emmy had also wondered that if the black world people had trained the little Kiara, she would have pledged her devotion towards the black clan but she was different, totally different. So it was because of her true master who trained her before she was taken by the black world people for the demon training.

(A/N – about the demon training, I will let you know in the upcoming chapters. )

“My master was just a girl like me, I met a few times in the black world. First, she helped me get a shelter, then on the further meetings, slowly she started to train me as I had to take care of my younger sister. I couldn’t see her face as she always wore a black cloak and a green cloth to cover her face. However, her eyes were really lively just like…”

Kiara suddenly stopped and stared at Emmy’s eyes, in which Kiara’ reflection was clearly seen. Emmy also felt curious about her master’s eyes. As Kiara had no intention to continue, Emmy lost her patience and poked Kiara who was still staring into her eyes.

” Emmy, not the colour but your eyes resemble my master’s eyes. My senses cannot go wrong and I am sure of it.”

Emmy smiled and replied, ” Now. there is another resemblance”

Emmy slowly explained that her friends thought she resembled Lamia to a greater extent when Juliet had drawn Lamia’s portrait first. Then the Esbertrazian elders had sensed resemblance of her demeanour with that of Lady Vilmon. Both of them were laughing after talking with each other.

Houlson and Alex watched their respective beloveds laughing and enjoying each other’s company. Instead of getting jealous, they were happy that it was a good thing after today’s incident.

Soon Leona and Juliet called everyone as the food was ready and all of them sat around the firepit arranged by Jordan. Even amidst a serious mission, the youngsters felt it as a campfire while masters also enjoyed the night.

During the dinner, Emmy decided to talk freely in front of the masters as she wanted to know more about the great lord and enchantress’s relation. She wanted to confirm whether the wailing woman was, the powerful enchantress or not. Alex didn’t stop Emmy as he also wanted to know more about it.

“Masters, I think you two must already know about my other personality which shows up when I cannot control my anger. Today, actually you both wanted to test it but unfortunately, Kiara got involved in it. Anyways, the dangerous situation turned into a blessing and Kiara could talk again. But there are a few things which are making me more curious. Can we talk about it now?

Master Neshag also thought it was a good idea to come clean whereas master Rotriges felt a bit worried. He was worried that Emmy could have premonitions of what had happened here before. Even though he had only heard about it, but it was sure that it was because of what had happened that day, their great lord couldn’t agree to marry his love when she came back.”

Both masters looked at each other and approved Emmy’s idea.

“Please ask whatever you want to ask.”

” Let us start from the beginning, what is your connection with the enchantress, I am sure it is more than that of a simple master and disciples link. ”

As the question was directed to master Rotrigues, he answered without hiding anything, ” The supreme lord created the enchantress and a part of her power was used to create us, the four-winged guards. We four were pledged to take care of the enchantress in four directions but later it was her who asked to take the great lord as our master. So that is the reason why we think you could have inherited a part of the enchantress’s powers as you are the only child of the four-winged guardians.”

” Secondly, you said Lady Vilmon’s dark powers were sealed but she disappeared occasionally after my father was away from the Esbertrazian clan. Why didn’t you all at least ask about where she went? ”

” Our princess had issued her order that no guards must follow her nor must report her activities to the elders. If someone dared, she would kill him. We thought an innocent girl would never dare to kill a person. But we were terribly wrong as she killed seven guards who tried to stop her from going near the mountains situated near the borders separating the Salian clan and the dark clan. Lathodore asked the guards to move away from her way as we were sure that the sealed powers were surfacing again. But now if I think about that then I believe that she had regained her powers even before that day.”

Emmy never thought about it but it wasn’t strange also whereas Alex’s memory was drawn to the days when Lamia came to meet him, she also mentioned her four brothers. He also thought about the day when they did make love on that rainy day. His train of thoughts was stopped when he heard the next question from Emmy.

Not only, Alex, but all the others were also shocked to hear such a question directly on their face.