* "I'm a fairy, the last of my kind. I'm not all rainbow wings and fairy dust. I am chaos and mayhem. Blood and death. I am here for revenge!" My mate holds me against the floor as she looks down at me defiantly. It's so cute! She even has a wee little knife to my throat as she yells at me. I can't help but get excited about how much fun this is going to be. "Fuck, that's hot baby doll." I say seriously as my dragon starts to purr for her.* The revolution began when a strong group of shifters known as 'The council' decided that magic wielders held too much power in this world. They have hunted and killed men, women and children alike, basking in their spot at the top of the food chain. They have no idea what is waiting in the shadows, hiding under their beds and ready to slit their throats. The resistance, led by one little dangerous fairy they call 'Slayer'. She is ready to lay down her life to bring back balance to the world and nothing will stand in her way. Not even the cinnamon roll dragon, broody vampire, smitten hellhound, loyal werewolf and cocky siren who all claim that she is their soulmate, and they won't take no for an answer.
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I was six years old when the revolution happened. Seven when they came for my family and the magic wielders my parents had been hiding.
There was an ungodly roar in the middle of the night, deep and ear-splitting, something not of this world. It shook the earth beneath our house, rattled the windows, and made the lanterns flicker out. My mother burst into my room, barefoot and breathless, her nightgown clinging to her body. I can still smell the rosemary oil she always wore, still see the way her hands trembled as she grabbed me from my bed. She pulled me toward the floorboards, the ones beneath the rug near my closet. A space only meant for hiding, not surviving. “Quick, Layah,” she whispered urgently, pushing open the hatch and guiding me down into the cramped, dark hollow. “You must stay quiet. No matter what you hear, no matter what you feel. Do you understand? Not a peep.” Tears welled in her eyes as she leaned in to kiss my forehead. “I love you, my sweet little girl. You are magic. You are everything.”
She sealed me in.
I remember the sound of the boards clicking into place. The muffled creak of her footsteps fading. Then silence. But it didn’t last. The front door exploded inward seconds later, followed by snarling, guttural laughter and voices dripping with cruelty. Five of them. I couldn’t see their full bodies through the cracks, but I saw enough. A vampire’s fanged grin. The flicker of a siren’s scales. A wolf’s bloodied claws. The eyes of a hellhound—burning red like hot coals. And a dragon, whose power made the air thick with heat. I watched, frozen, paralyzed, as they slaughtered my family. My mother's scream, cut short. My father's sobbing plea. The way the blood ran through the cracks above me, warm and sticky, soaking my pajamas, matting my hair. I never made a sound. I didn’t breathe. I didn't blink.
Their faces, their laughter, the smell of death and ash are burned into my mind. The way their hearts beat as they stood over my family’s bodies, as if nothing had happened at all. As if we were nothing at all. That night I made a vow, etched into every part of my soul: I would rise. I would grow stronger. I would rebuild what they tried to destroy. And one day, I would kill the council who took everything from me. I would end them all.
Twelve years have passed. Twelve years of ashes and blood. Twelve years of wandering the earth, rebuilding what little remained of the resistance my parents once led. I’ve searched every corner of the magical world, digging into the deepest forests, the coldest caves, the shadowed ruins. I’ve found witches, warlocks, elementals, pixies, and fae. I’ve convinced them, sometimes with words, sometimes with the edge of my blade, to rise, to fight, to remember who we are. But in all this time, I haven’t found another like me. Not one other fairy. We had the highest bounties. The council feared us most, because our power isn’t limited by elements or rituals. It flows freely, endlessly. They hunted us first. They hunted us hardest. And now… I may be the last.
“Slayer, we should rest for the night,” Jordan says beside me as we reach a rocky ledge near the mountain’s summit. “We’re getting too close to their land. If we go any farther, they may smell us.”
Jordan, my oldest friend. My brother in arms. The only other person who survived that night. He was fourteen then. I found him hours after the attack, buried under the charred remains of his family's cabin. The dragons had scorched everything. I dug through the rubble with trembling hands and raw magic. A flicker of levitation was all I had, but it was enough to lift the beam crushing his chest. His face half-melted, unrecognizable, still haunts my dreams. I offered to heal him. He refused. Said the scars were a gift. A reminder. It was just us for a year, just two broken children building a world from ashes. He taught me how to fight. I taught him how to wield magic. We became the start of something unstoppable.Now we are forty-six strong. Warriors. Survivors. Resistance. “Okay everyone,” I call out to the group. “We’ll camp here tonight. Cloaking spells on the perimeter. Hunters, start preparing the meat. Everyone else, get the tents set up. Six hours’ rest. We move at dawn.”
Jordan and I break off from the others to gather firewood, the sounds of magic murmuring around us as the group gets to work. “Are you excited, little Slayer?” he asks with a crooked grin, using the nickname he gave me after my first mass kill. The name stuck, passed from lips like a badge of honor. “I’ll be excited when I’ve gutted one of those council bastards,” I reply, kicking at a stone. “But I’m glad it’s finally your turn. Damicus’s life is rightfully yours to take.” Jordan drops his pile of wood and brushes his long hair from his face. It’s grown past his shoulders now, a curtain he sometimes uses to hide his scars. But when it matters, when we go to battle, he always asks me to braid it back. He wants his enemies to see what they made him. He is every bit the fae warrior his father once was. If his father could see him now, he would be proud.A sudden roar shatters the air above us, familiar and primal. I freeze, heart thundering, and glance up. A massive golden dragon slices through the sky, wings cutting across the clouds. It can’t see us. Our cloaking spells are too strong, but still, it circles above, casting a shadow as wide as a fortress. Damicus’s patrol. The bastard knows we’re coming. Back at the camp, Mia, one of our fiercest fire elementals, lights the wood with a flick of her wrist. The flames leap to life, casting golden light across our tired faces. Nick and Henry, two of our hunters and warlocks, carry in the day’s kill. Wild boar, mostly. I morph some sticks into a proper spit, and Henry adds his magic to keep the meat slowly turning. Susie, our only water elemental, fills every cup with fresh mountain stream water, balancing it with her delicate control.
I could do most of this myself. But I don’t. We survive together. We fight together. We each carry a piece of the cause. This isn’t just about revenge. It’s about reclaiming who we are and our right to exist, to live, to wield magic without fear. As the group settles around the fire, passing cups and laughter, I look around at the faces illuminated by firelight. Scarred, hardened, tired. But alive. Unbreakable. Tomorrow we strike. First the dragons. Then the rest. One by one, the council will fall.
And I, Layah, the last fairy, the Slayer will lead them into the fire they lit for us and I will make them burn.
The silk in my hands thrummed like a living thing. As I unrolled more of it, the letters slid, blinked, then settled into meaning only I could see. My mouth moved before I could second-guess it. I read.“When flame meets tide and night meets dawn,Let five be bound and breathe as one.To bear the weight and keep from harm,The heart must split to grow an arm.Where kingdoms rot and rings lie torn,A many-blood shall be reborn;Not of one braid but threads of five,To stitch the world back into life.One crowned by storm on sky and stone,One forged in fire, scaled and bone;One born of depths whose songs unchain,One hell-bound heart who guards the flame;One night-kissed soul, from first blood swornTogether, mercy remakes morn.Yet mark this law the gods have setComplete the ring or drown in debt.If one should falter, one should fall,The Soulclaw shatters, burns them all.Three trials test the woven thread:Of Depth, of Silence, and of Red.Pass Depth with trust, let breath be sh
Claudia pointed to the northern trench where the reef-shadow was blackest and said, “If you want the uncut prophecy, you’ll have to take it from the Deep Library’s sealed stacks. They’re shut with song and guarded by something older than my crown.”“Fun,” I said, because if I didn’t joke, I might scream.Dylan was already digging in a pack Henry had kept slung across his chest. He came up with two smooth, sea-glass stones the color of pale smoke. “Breathing stones,” he said, pressing one into Elijah’s palm and keeping the other. “We lifted a handful from a black market runner weeks ago. We planned for underwater, just… not this underwater.”“How long?” Elijah asked.“Twenty minutes per stone, if you don’t panic-breathe.” Dylan glanced at me. “We’re going to need a lift.”Jeramiah nodded. “Lysara, Calen, you’ll tow them. Fast.” Two sirens peeled from Claudia’s guard line, lean and lethal, arms roped with muscle and hair braided tight for speed. They each coiled a silk tether at their h
We stood there with the sea breathing in and out below the cliff, the wind tugging at my hair, the weight of everything pressing behind my eyes. Elijah didn’t speak at first. He just matched my breaths until mine stopped stuttering.“I owe you an apology,” he said finally, voice low. “A real one. Not the half-hearted kind people give when they want to move on.”I glanced up. His gaze didn’t flinch.“I was raised to see magic wielders as a problem to be solved,” he went on. “A rot you cut out before it spreads. It wasn’t just rules. It was… baked into bone. And when the bond snapped into place with you, it ripped all that open. I panicked. I said things to make the old world true again so I wouldn’t have to admit it was already gone.”He huffed a humorless breath. “It was cowardice. I’m sorry.”The words landed like warm stones in cold water, heavy, real, settling where anger had been floating. I didn’t forgive him. Not like that. But I heard him. He looked past me at the surf, softer
Claudia’s gaze swept the room like a storm assessing its battlefield. The firelight danced over her face, deepening the shadows in her expression. Every instinct in me screamed that whatever came next would change everything.“The prophecy,” she began, voice low and resonant, “wasn’t just a warning. It was a map. And every choice you’ve made, every bond you’ve formed, has been pulling us toward this point.”Jeramiah shifted beside me but didn’t speak. Dylan and Elijah were leaning forward, the air between us strung tight with unspoken questions. Elijah was trying to look relaxed, but I could feel the worry humming through our bond. Claudia’s hands rested on the makeshift table, palms flat. “The Soulclaw Mark is older than the Council, older than the war. It’s a tether the gods themselves wove into this world, to bind five warriors into one living weapon. And you…” Her eyes locked on me, unblinking. “…are the catalyst.”I swallowed. “Catalyst for what?”Her lips twitched in something t
LayahThe silence was deafening. They stood in a loose circle now, Dylan, Elijah, Henry, Jordan, my resistance, rubbing sleep from their eyes, all wearing the same expression: dazed confusion giving way to wary disbelief. Jeramiah stood beside me, his fingers laced through mine, quiet but unmoving. Unapologetic. I felt their eyes on our hands. On him. On the mark that now lived on his skin. No one spoke. Until Elijah did.His voice cut through the tension like a blade. “What the hell happened while we were sleeping?”I flinched. It wasn’t just anger in his tone, it was betrayal, hurt, something deeper. I knew that voice. I’d heard it in myself too many times.“Elijah…” I started softly, but Dylan stepped forward.“You disappeared. With a siren prince, who, let’s be honest, none of us trust yet and then we wake up to find you soul-bound to him?”“It wasn’t planned,” I said quickly. “It wasn’t like with you or Kai. I didn’t even know—”“But it happened.” Dylan’s jaw was tight. “You mark
Dylan’s POVSomething was wrong. The world felt heavy, too heavy, like I’d been asleep for days with weights strapped to my chest. My limbs tingled as feeling returned, every nerve sluggish and sparking like I was underwater. My head pounded, my mouth was dry, and my heart...My heart was screaming.“Layah?” I croaked, voice raw. The bond throbbed in my chest, tight and pulsing. She wasn’t close. She wasn’t near. Layah. I reached for her mind, panic lighting me up from the inside.“Where are you? Are you okay? Say something, baby, please...”Nothing. At first, just silence. The kind that made your stomach drop through the floor.“Layah!” I shouted out loud this time, sitting bolt upright with a harsh gasp just as Elijah jerked awake beside me.“Dylan?” he rasped, eyes wide, already scrambling to grab my shoulder. “What’s wrong? Where is she? Is she okay? Is she answering?”“I don’t know,” I said quickly, shaking my head, heart hammering. Elijah swore under his breath, already looking a
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