5. SILVER BLUE EYES

The women did not have to be told twice as they ran to the forest where I pointed. Any free woman picked a child even if they weren’t theirs and began running with everything they had.

The screams and cries of children echoed and it took a second for the foreign men to realize what was happening

“Princess!”

“Princess!”

“Princess!” The men, our men, roared for me to free them.

“Princess!”

The foreign men ran after the women, screaming orders. I took my stance, more coming from the castle and from the other side of the forests.

“Princess!”

It was chaos.

“Pioitutuyo!” I screamed, my arms waving through the air and a handful of the foreign men near collapsed down.

“Pioitutuyo!” I screamed again with another wave of them collapsing.

“Princess!” Our warriors roared with such anger, needing to be free. They were riled up, tugging and pulling on their chains but those chains were not budging.

A whole group of the foreign men were running my way.

I turned, leaping away in a run.

“Pioitutuyo!”

They dropped like flies but I could only knock out a handful at a time. I ran as fast as I could but I knew I wouldn’t get far. I wasn’t as fast as them. I was just buying the women time.

They came with such a roar. I stopped moving and sat down. I crossed my legs. My arms sat on my knees with my eyes closed.

“Aliekra Tualiralier bind alicetu pierektuoiem.” 

My body burned a fire it had never burned before. I felt each particle of wind as it bound together with the earth to create a shield. I felt the forcefield raise and thicken the more I chanted. Nothing would go through. I knew it extended to the very edge of the kingdom boundary. The energy in me was draining so fast but I would die on the hill I picked. The earth shook under me as I drew from it.

The field ricocheted as they drummed into it over and over again. Any that pushed forcefully screamed out as pain took over their body until they pulled back.

Beads of sweat rolled down my forehead.

I felt the blood run down my nose, lips, and chin. I ate it as I screamed louder. My head was bent over. My brain felt as if it would shutter. I took a deep breath and drew from those that had come before me. In me, a whole coven resided. My voice was multiplied by many that had fallen.

My head snapped forward and my eyes lay on silver-blue orbs that stared so deadly. A promise was made, a promise I would live to discover.

He ran into the forcefield and groaned as it spat him out. His body turned and I saw a tiny woman behind him. She looked panicked, her eyes on me.

The men, our warriors, still roared my title in their last attempt of freedom. The ball had dropped. The silver-blue-eyed man who seemed to run the whole operation knew who I was. I knew I would carry the sins of thy father and I did not mind. I was ready.

“Aliekra Tualiralier bind alicetu pierektuoiem.”

“Kill her now!” Silver-blue-eyed man screamed at the tiny woman. I knew he was on edge. I knew he needed no more convincing.

“She is a witch. We don’t kill our own” The woman exclaimed, her eyes never moving from mine.

“Since when do you care?”

“I care when it’s my own people!” The woman screamed back at him.

“I will not ask again.” He roared in anger as he forcefully ran into the forceful as if to rile him up. The woman stared at me. We both knew her fate at that point.

She immediately dropped down, hands on the earth.

“Don’t cry for me. This is an easy death for what I have done.” She said before the chant escaped her lips.

“Aliekra Tualiralier bind alicetu pierektuoiem.”

 I felt the field take a new thickness.

She drew in a breath and never moved her eyes from me. I watched the man wave his hand in the air. It shifted to a claw and he ran it through her chest. Blood poured from her mouth, the chant still spilling out with the blood. I watched her blood turn cold right before me.

The tears streamed. Silver blue eyes snapped to mine, holding my stare with another promise silently spoken.

“You can take this down yourself or I can make my way in. I promise you, I will. If I have to burn doing it, I will. But when I get there, death will be what you will pray for.” He sneered before he threw the girl’s body through. It passed through the field. It was nothing but a burnt corpse by the time it collapsed not far from me.

I bowed my head, saying a prayer in my heart for her soul.

The loud thud pulled my head up. I stared in horror as the man ran into the field with no care at all. His side was burning off with each impact and he went for more. He was ready for it. A cry pulled out, wanting to tell him to stop but I had to carry my chant.

His men tried to pull him back but he fought them off and came running into the field. He wanted me dead and nothing would stop him. His skin burned and turned red.

My body arched as I felt the women jump over the border. I was not sure how long I would last but more than the man slamming his way through. His roar was one of a beast. His eyes had turned black and his wolf had taken over. It was as beastly as it’s host. He would not give up. They would not give up.

I crawled forward, my hand on the field with my other on the earth. I closed my eyes and chanted another chant in my head, drawing more energy from those who had come before me.

“Tualiralier fryotuce.”

The sound of the ground breaking in filled the air. The earth opened up, and soil fell in. Those standing collapsed to their knees. I kept going and going until I stopped. My body was weak. I staggered back, my eyes so heavy. I stared at the man who had stopped slamming himself into the forcefield.

“My name is Adira Wolf. I am the only child of King Wolf. I surrender and plead guilty to all crimes.”

My body swung back and forth with the forcefield collapsing to a rush of air then nothing. A large cliff stood behind me, preventing any from running after the women.

I let myself be.