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Kapitel 14: 14

Scarlett didn't know where Black was taking her but after feeling the pain of her nightmare physically and she still couldn't remember it she didn't have any other ideas. Black grabbed her arm the second she appeared in the darkness of her mind. She had forcefully created her nightmare with the hopes of remembering at least something, the pain was mind numbing and excruciatingly painful she had to admit, she didn't think it would work but she had her hopes up that after she left this place, the memories of her nightmare would come rushing to her.

As Black dragged her deeper into the darkness, she found herself remembering every single detail of her nightmare but since no other name except Claire had been mentioned, she had to rely on their faces, everything made sense to her until she saw them all standing in front of her. That part was complicated, she didn't understand anything and she just couldn't get herself to believe that they weren't actually dead.

Black kept dragging her and the farther they went, the darker it became. Scarlett found herself getting used to the darkness, it was oddly peaceful and comforting. Then there was this odd feeling that kept pulling at her gut and then the odd color her eyes caught, red, her head instinctively turned to Black who continued dragging her toward the red color.

"I may be your known as your evil side but I can promise you, I haven't been the one trying to take control neither has it been Silva, we've been on our best behavior," Black said as a grin flashed across her face but was immediately replaced with a serious face. "I was walking around, you know the darkness is my forte and I noticed this…" Scarlett looked at the place where they stood. The red was…blood. The blood led to a forest, a trail of blood that led to a freaking forest in her mind. What else could be in her mind? Maybe she could find a jungle or desert or maybe even a vast ocean? Scarlett smiled amused. What was a freaking forest doing in her mind? "I've tried going in but there's something blocking me, even Silva can't go in," Black said. "We were hoping you could try,"

"What if I can't go in?" Scarlett asked.

"We could ask Gallus," Black replied. Scarlett turned to the entrance of the forest and took a step forward. Her body went through what seemed to be an invisible wall. She kept going with her senses on high alert, as she went she heard a sound, a very loud one. Her brain told her to get the fuck out of there and leave with Black while her instinct told her to keep going. Her gut never failed her so she decided to listen to her gut. Her heart felt heavy with every step she took, this forest had an eerie feeling and she didn't like it for just one reason. The forest was from her mind and she didn't trust her mind sometimes, it could go bizarre and do insane stuff, even though it was her mind. It had a mind of its own.

The sound echoed again and again. She made it out as a thump. It got louder with every step she took as she followed the trail of blood deeper into the forest. The leaves rustled as the sound got even louder and closer. From the shadows, a huge figure approached her. Its eyes shown like the moon, it scales in beautiful contrast to the darkness of her mind and the trail of blood on the ground. Its eyes were lizard-like as it peered into Scarlett's eyes.

It leaned down on Scarlett with a curious gaze, a low rumbling noise came from it. Instinct got a hold of Scarlett and she raised her arms up in defense, not like it would change anything though. It stopped in its track and made a whimper. Scarlett's heart skipped a beat. In her ears, she heard words. She looked up at the creature in front of her; she stretched her hand out and patted its snout.

"S…Silva? Is that you?" she whispered.

Scarlett caressed its face; dark magic unconsciously flew from her palm. It circled the silver dragon and pain shot through her palm. She tried to pull her hand away from its snout but it was stuck and blood flowed from where their bodies made contact. Scarlett knew the dragon was in pain but it stayed still. She stood still and the pain stopped. The dragon's silver gaze pulled Scarlett's; she was in its mind now. Somewhere in the dragon's mind, she could hear someone crying. She walked further and found Silva crying.

"Black said you couldn't come in here…" Silva looked up at her, her eyes bloodshot from crying. She managed a smile at Scarlett and wiped her tears.

"I'm sorry, I never wanted this to happen, all those years ago I tried to stop him but it was too late, it's my fault all this is happening and I'm so sorry, I tried to end it all but…I was already a part of you," Silva cried.

"What are you talking about?"

"I wanted to protect you from all this, I didn't want to destroy your life, I told him Dracaena was already lost but he wouldn't listen, I thought Gallus could do it, I thought he could finally put an end to Dracaena and kill me but…he couldn't,"

"Why would you want to die?"

"Because my time was over years ago but that day you saved Debbie, I knew nothing would change the future, I knew I couldn't do anything anymore," Silva paused. "You've been training all your life to fight Scarlett; the time has come when you finally have to start fighting,"

"I can't Silva; I can't be ready to fight when I know nothing about anything happening in my life. All my life I've been preparing, fighting when I have no idea what I'm fighting. Heck! I don't know what the hell I'm doing anymore," Scarlett threw her hands up in frustration. "My eyes fly open one day when I'm healing and silver mist surrounds my body and the pain I'm feeling from my wound has been reduced. I appear in front of a cave and find a girl who looks just like me and has silver hair and eyes who turns out to be Draco. Somehow I meet a man in my nightmare and he knows me, like shit! How does that freaking sound?! I lose myself to darkness that I never knew existed in me, I found out my mum accidentally numbed Black and here I am now screaming at you after telling me you wanted to die just to protect me, tell me Silva, tell me that I'm still not ready," Scarlett paused. She'd already said a lot but she still had it in her. "I've endured a lot in just four months; I survived a deadly nightmare with Black's bane in my body, brutally murdered a lot of rogues and still endured excruciating pain. How else am I meant to fucking prepare?! I've suffered way more than I've relaxed ever since I came to Devaria!" Scarlett said and ran her hand through her hair. "Why can't I just chill a little?" her voice came out soft.

Silva looked at Scarlett with pain filled eyes; she had one more thing to tell Scarlett. She wasn't sure if Scarlett would listen to her.

"Say it," Scarlett said. Her throat was hurting and she didn't have the strength to say anything else. From the look in Silva's eyes, Scarlett knew Silva still wanted to say something but she wasn't sure if it was a good or bad thing. "Just say it,"

"Maybe I should tell you another time, you're already frustrated and you need to rest…"

"Just say the damn words Silva!"

"Fine…look ahead," Scarlett looked up. The dragon was on a rampage, spitting fire on everything, its eyes were blackened. Scarlett's eyes fixated on a particular spot. Bodies…dead bodies, battered and bloodied that looked so familiar. She walked towards the bodies with dread in her heart. As she neared, Nicole's nut brown hair came into sight, her hair was stained with blood and the rest of the bodies were her family, her heart skipped a beat and her stomach churned as she stared at them with pain in her heart. It was all an illusion, a vision or probably her mind was playing tricks on her like it always did, but she couldn't help the dread that wanted to eat her out.

"This is just my mind playing tricks on me, right Silva? Tell me I'm just being paranoid of their safety and my mind is doing this to scare me?" Scarlett screamed. She really didn't trust her mind; it always went off doing stupid stuff to get her senses up. "No! No!! No!!! What the fuck happened?! Why…When did this freaking happen?! Who fucking did this…?" Scarlett screamed. Silva stood in front of her as she cried and held Nicole's body in her arms. "No this…this can't be happening, who did this? Who fucking did this to them?!" she cried. Silent tears fell down Silva's cheek as she watched Scarlett cry over her family. How could she tell Scarlett that she was the cause of this? How would she tell Scarlett that she had killed her own family and friends with her own two hands?

"I'm sorry Scarlett, this is what I'm trying to avoid," Silva whispered. Scarlett's tears flowed even more at the realization that hit her with Silva's words. She had done this to them, she had killed them but she didn't want to believe it, no she wouldn't, she just couldn't bring herself to believe it.

"Please tell me I didn't do this…tell me I won't be the one to do this to them! Tell me their blood won't stain my hands Silva, please Silva," Scarlett cried. More tears streamed down Scarlett's face as she cried. How the fuck did she do this to them?! How did she? She was angry that after training all these years to protect her family from danger, she needed to protect them from herself. Scarlett screamed in pain and ran her hands through her hair. She didn't think she would actually have to do it but she needed to, she needed to leave. "It's the only way I can protect them isn't it?" Scarlett wiped her tears and asked. Silva nodded. She would leave; they would be safer that way. She'd just got her family back and she didn't want to lose them again so she would leave and she wouldn't tell anyone, no one, not even Gallus. Her grey eyes glimmered with firm resolution; she would protect them from herself if she had to.


Kapitel 15: 15

The forest in her mind faded away. Scarlett was back in her own mind. Black sat not far from where she and Silva stood as the forest disappeared. Black stood up immediately, her brows furrowed when she noticed Scarlett and Silva's bloodshot eyes. Black didn't expect that they'd both be crying. Silva had told her everything already, all Black needed to do was find a way for Silva to tell Scarlett.

Black and Silva had known each other since Scarlett was just a young dempire. Ramona had accidentally numbed Black instead of Silva but they didn't know that until they heard Ramona say it. Black was caged deep inside Scarlett; Silva came to find her and had somehow freed her form the cage but Silva was caged instead. They eventually found a way to free themselves entirely after Scarlett's first visit to the deepest part of her mind. For a demon who was supposed to be manipulative and deceptive, Black never acted like that, she genuinely cared for Scarlett and Silva. She didn't try to take control when she had the chance. She just wanted Scarlett to stop suffering.

The night Ramona had numbed Black, Scarlett was just three years old, that happened before Nicole and Scarlett met. Black knew what Ramona wanted to do but what she didn't know was that it was meant to be Silva and not her. She tried to tell Scarlett but Ramona had blocked their communication link before she even began the spell. Ramona told Scarlett it was a spell to protect her, it wasn't actually a lie but it wasn't the full truth either.

Ramona had visions of Scarlett killing them and dying even before Scarlett was born. She tried to push it aside thinking maybe she was just being scared. The nightmares had happened when she was pregnant for Zev but they weren't as severe as the ones she had when she was pregnant for Scarlett. Two years after Scarlett was born, she showed immense power of Draco which caused her hair and eyes to turn silver. Ramona knew she had to do something to protect her daughter and family, she didn't want to numb any part of Scarlett knowing she could accidentally numb her demon since she wasn't sure if Draco could even be numbed but she was glad it had worked but later on as Scarlett grew up, Ramona realized she had numbed her daughter's demon with Draco

Scarlett cried hard that day, the spell was sheer pain and it caused Scarlett to trash and bleed in the process. Ramona knew it wouldn't have been as painful as it was if it was her demon but Draco was hard to defy especially the silver one she had thought was a just a myth. Somehow part of what Scarlett endured from Nicholas was Ramona's fault. She had taken her Scarlett's demon away and caged it deep inside Scarlett without even knowing. It was an accident but still. Nicholas had tried on different occasions to make Scarlett unleash her demonic powers but it never happened and he always called her a disappointment thinking she was a late daïmon. Fortunately, he noticed something was wrong before he killed his granddaughter due to training.

Loretta knew about it though. She was the only one Ramona told what she had planned to do. Loretta tried everything she could to stop Ramona but Ramona wouldn't listen to her. It hurt to see a young dempire hybrid that had a very dangerous future ahead of her, live and train as a vampire hybrid. Loretta knew nothing would alter the future. What Ramona was doing would either make things worse for the future or ease the struggle Scarlett would go through and she didn't know which it would be. Loretta tried to teach Scarlett how to use dark magic but without the demon being there, it just wasn't possible so she just gave up.

A bitter sweet smile spread on Scarlett's face as Black's words hit her hard. She'd believed what her mum told her about the spell and when she said that Black would be fine. She believed her mum when out of curiosity; she'd asked her mum why she couldn't yield dark magic and her mum said she was just a late daïmon and never said anything about it again. Scarlett wondered how she could have been so naïve and stupid not to ask why she couldn't hear Black's voice anymore. She should have said she felt incomplete, like a part of her was missing all these years.

A drop of tear escaped from Scarlett's eyes, what more did she have to go through? What else was she meant suffer? Black and Silva embraced her; they wouldn't be here because of her. There were so many times when Scarlett would be reckless with her life but they were glad that was just Scarlett being Scarlett.

"Hey, don't cry we haven't got the chance to celebrate your birthday yet so can we do that now?" Black asked trying to lighten up the mood.

"We don't exactly have a gift but…"

"Being here with you guys is already a great gift, I'm complete now that's all that matters," Scarlett said and they smiled. But they didn't notice that Black's smile didn't reach her eyes.

"Tell us about Dracaena Silva, grandmother has told me the myth of the silver dragon but she never elaborated,"

"Okay, um…Dracaena was a beautiful place, it was a place granted to us by the Ancients,"

"Who are the Ancients?"

"Dragon originals, the first creatures to roam the face of the earth, they helped the angels against the battle with the demons who wanted nothing but hate, anger and war,"

"Grandmother never said anything about that,"

"It's not much of an important detail so that part of the tale is always edited out," Silva shrugged.

"You're kidding right, who wouldn't want to know about angels and demons it would be amazing…put this on your list of your stories, I have to hear this,"

"Do you have any idea how I even know this…?" Silva paused. Black and Scarlett nodded. "That's where my story begins," she said and they smiled expectantly at her. "After the war between the demons and angels, the Ancients were granted a gift from the angels…the silver flame, the most powerful dragon flame that ever existed. I'm not sure how the myth of the silver dragon began but that was when I was born; I lived with the Ancients until a vision was seen that Lucifer was planning something else, so I was sent to earth to stop him,"

"What did he plan to do?"

"Lucifer created the shades to take revenge for the demon's betrayal against him, he's not one to take betrayal likely but he did betray God,"

"That's amusing," Black said.

"It is, anyway Lucifer was banished from heaven with other angels who also went against God, they swore vengeance, they became demons and they are what we now know as Originals. There are good Originals and evil ones. The shades had a king that was infatuated with another even though he was married, he even sought to kill his own wife and children just to please her but his wife took her daughter and disappeared into the Abyss of Lost souls, only the blood of the silver dragon can bring them back,"

"That's you," Scarlett said.

"Not me Scarlett, it's you, I'm just a mere spirit right now, I am you, and what I have is yours,"

"I can't possibly save the mother and sister of a shade can I?"

"His wife was a dempire Scarlett; surely you can't let a fellow dempire lose his mother and sister,"

"How do you know that?"

"He asked me to help him before I died and I promised him, I made my father give him my blood just so he could live while I protected his brothers in black crystals,"

"What does your blood do?"

"When mixed with the Lethe's water, it gives immortality and when pure it heals drastically but when you drink, it'll take away your memories," it seemed Scarlett didn't hear that last part.

"My blood can do that?"

"We're the same Scarlett,"

"What about the black crystals what're those?" Black asked.

"It's a crystal that protects someone or preserves life for a very long time, it has a time limit though because it'll shatter once it's magic source is weakened, so the name doesn't really mean anything in what it does,"

"What did Lucifer do to Dracaena?" Black asked.

"It wasn't him it was the shades, they sent monstrosities to Dracaena, they destroyed everything in their path, darkness covered everywhere they went…they didn't stop until they killed every last soul in Dracaena and then my father but my father killed the last monstrosity and shade before he died but he made sure I wouldn't die, I was killed in the war but I wasn't thinking straight so I thought since father had killed the last shade and monstrosity and Dracaena went down with the death of the monstrosities, being Draco and still alive was just stirring up more trouble, I didn't think Lucifer would create more shades nor would he help them get the Devarian throne."

"Was your father the king?" Black asked.

"He was,"

"You've been out for too long Scarlett, let's not get them worried," Black said.

"I agree, you've probably been unconscious for two days now,"

"I'll come see you guys soon," Scarlett said and smiled. Black and Silva gave her an informal salute and she returned it and soon she began to fade from the darkness of her mind.

***

There was no one in her room when she woke up and she felt surprisingly relieved. Knowing all these things lifted all the frustration she had pent up in her. She sighed to herself; soon she would leave everything because she knew. If only knowing wouldn't cause a problem.

Scarlett felt a wave of nausea hit her and she ran to bathroom, she hadn't eaten anything for a while so she just ended up vomiting blood. She'd seen way too much blood at one go. She stood under the running water exhausted, she really needed to rest without any interruptions, she liked that she knew a few things now but knowing them always interrupted her sleep time and sleep was one thing she really needed but she wasn't sure if that was possible on the island. She wanted to spend extra time on the island but that wouldn't be possible at a time like this, it was hers now, she could come whenever she was free and that would be after all this.

Scarlett thought they could return to the mansion in Kersa and there she would finally sleep but then…She got dressed in a white t-shirt and a pair of black jeans. She walked out the back door of the mansion and found her elite team sparring against themselves in an intense match while her grandfather, father, brother, cousin, Michael, Chris and Xander were going against themselves. Debbie, Regina, Ramona and Nicole were cheering them on. They didn't notice her at the door as she watched them with a smile on her face.

In the kitchen, Gallus sat on the counter. He smiled when he saw her. She grabbed a pack of bacon, a bowl of chicken laps and a takeaway of prime ribs and beef from the fridge.

"That's a lot of meat," Gallus commented.

"I'm not keen on vegetables, just meat and I haven't had actual food since my accident, you can't blame me," he rolled his eyes at her. She fried the chicken and grilled the prime ribs, beef and bacon and garnished everything in a really wide tray. She sat beside Gallus and passed him the tray. They ate the meat in silence until Scarlett finally broke it.

"Who are you?" Scarlett said.

"What?" Gallus asked confused. Why was she asking him that all of a sudden?

"Who are you? What do you want from me? These were the questions I always asked you,"

"Okay what are you getting at?"

"Now I know the answers,"

"Which are?"

"You're Gallus Grey, my friend and…okay maybe I don't know all the answers but right now that's for you to decide,"

"Do you trust me that much?"

"I won't call it trust because I don't trust so easily but yeah…I guess I do,"

"You've definitely learnt a lot this past four months kiddo, I'm proud," Nicholas stood at the door frame and smiled at her. He strolled toward them and took a lap of chicken from the tray.

"Uh…grandfather, did you hear everything I said?"

"Yeah I did and I can see him, I'm not sure why but I can," Nicholas said and took a bite of the chicken in his hand.

"So can Debbie and Luis," Gallus interrupted.

"What?" Nicholas said with his mouth full.

 "When the hell were you going to tell me that?" Scarlett yelled.

"You never asked," Gallus simply said. Scarlett sighed and continued eating.

"Isn't this a bit too much meat for your human kiddo?" Nicholas asked.

"I haven't tasted food since four months ago old man, let me be,"

"I'm not that old," Nicholas said. "Just three thousand and five hundred years," he whispered. Gallus grinned at him.

"I need bread," Scarlett said.

"You need what?" Gallus asked.

"Some bread will really help this meat go down," she said. Nicholas walked to a cupboard and brought out a loaf of bread and handed it to her.

"Take your time kiddo, we'll leave whenever you're ready," Nicholas said and hugged her. Something wasn't right about Scarlett when he hugged her. She didn't hug him back immediately and he knew it wasn't that she was surprised. He felt she was restraining herself. He knew she was planning something very dangerous and they wouldn't like it. He kissed her forehead and left with a smile. He just hoped it wasn't something that would hurt any of them.

'That's a first' Scarlett thought as she stared at Nicholas' retreating back. 


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