Epilogue

“Token of love!” when Akshara was saying the words, the amulet glow brightly and it sends signals to Dev who has been worrying about her.
Dev felt warmer all of a sudden and his heart knows what that means, his mouth unconsciously voiced the name, “Sara!”
“Love?” Azile looked at Karen immediately to watch his reactions to the words by Akshara. But Karen maintained a void expression on his face since he had seen her feelings over Dev in live back in Crystal Forest.
Before Akshara could enter the witch palace, she assigned everyone the task of gathering their army. Karen was not convinced to leave her alone, “Axe, I cannot leave you alone. I cannot trust the witch inside. Let me accompany you.”
Akshara smirked and reply, “Karen, I can defend myself. I don’t want any guard to protect me.”
Karen replied with a ragged tone, “Axe, why do you always push me away from you… Am I nobody to you?”
Akshara replied, “Karen, you are brave and powerful. But… you are my soul-friend who knows me well. I could feel that I am shielded from any danger in your hands.”
Karen told her, “That’s why I want to accompany you until my death.”
The weird calm wind passed through the gap between Akshara and Karen with howling sound to hinder the unspoken thoughts to share.
Akshara laughed, it sounded weird to everyone and she replied him, “Until your death? I came to know many facts about fantasy creatures… sorry, beings recently. They are slow by age and death, unlike me, human. I will perish soon before you dead… then why do you choose me? Why do you want to spend rest of your valuable life with me?”
Karen looked at her while calming all raging storms inside his mind and told her in soulless words, “Same can happen with that dragon too. Still you choose him over me, why?”
Akshara paused a while to look at him and stated her strong point, “Even if it is for a day, I am happy to live with him and perish in peace.” The amulet glows and reflects her inner feeling of love with Dev.
“Why not me?” Karen was shocked to hear those words, “Is… love… I am jealous over that white dragon. How does it possible for him to win over your heart while I can’t after being with you from childhood? I bet he used his devious magical powers to draw you to him.”
“Magic, not magic verbally; I hope love is a magical thing happens not with everyone.” Akshara sniffed with a smile, “Karen, it’s just that I am angry over him for not being honest with me even in the most critical situation in the name of protecting me. I’m seething him for making me not involved in his royal politics even after I am titled as his bride, the bride of Ayruzglow kingdom’s crown prince.”
“Am I not honest with you all the time, Axe?” Karen asked her like a rival to Dev who exactly wanted to know the reason of Akshara’s choice.
“No, you aren’t honest with me.” Akshara’s tone broadened and everyone inhaled shocks, “not only you, everyone around me in the palace, not honest to me with their identity.”
“We did it to protect you, Axe, why don’t you understand?” Karen pleaded.
“You know me when I was a kid; you had plenty of time to reveal your identity. Do you think, I am that lunatic to not easy with your identities? But you choose to conceal that from me. How can you say that you are being honest with me, Karen?” Akshara spilled some angry words on Karen who wasn’t expecting this to come.
“That dragon wins me over this fact?” Karen was heated up in the argument with Akshara.
“Of course he is.” Akshara took Dev side and explained the same, “He shown me how evil he could be and he pushed me beyond all my limits forcefully to find my hidden abilities from a fragile to a warrior!”
“But he abducted you, erased your memories, made you to suffer, rot in dungeon...” Karen listed out her miseries
“Karen,” Akshara called out to stop him, “As his bride, I think I hold some responsibilities to save his kingdom, subjects and him.”
Azile voiced in favour of Karen, “Dragons imprisoned you, Axe. Don’t forget that.”
“Imprisoned?” Akshara laughed loudly, “Imprisoned by werewolves under the supervision of black witch along with her troops of ravens.”
Deniza choose to speak who kept her silence till now, “ Axe, stop laughing, you are insulting the elderly people.”
Alabruz stopped Deniza, but Deniza asked his permission to talk, “Allow me my lord, my daughter need to know every truth since she wish to know.”
Deniza hold Akshara’s hand and took her to Alabruz, “Since you know our identity, Axe, I am reminding you that this man, your so called Uncle Bruz is the king of Ukada, a true alpha, a mighty warrior. (She moved to Karen) this young man who is begging your love is beta, no one could withstand his witty mind and strength, he is also the prince of Ukada. (She took Akshara to Nuraz) you know who this is? He is Berserkers, warrior werewolf, to make you clearer; berserkers are savages in battle with no mercy. I hope you know who they are when I say their identities since you know many from your valuable lifetime spend in libraries.”
Akshara nodded positively and Deniza explained her more, “Look around you Axe, these pack of alpha, beta, berserkers are helping, loving and protecting a mere human girl with no extraordinary power by lowering their prideful head in the feet of sinful black witch as slaves.”
Tears rolled down Akshara’s cheeks, she asked, “Why?”
Alabruz voiced, “Because you are my darling, you are worth it.”
Akshara hurried to hug him and asked her apologies, “Forgive me, Uncle Bruz, I ignored you.”
“Shush, its okay darling. I still see a little girl. I know you will do terrible things, apology me and make Karen to cover up your doings.” Alabruz consoled her.
Both laughed and Nuraz came closer to her. Akshara hugged Nuraz and told him, “Raz, I am sorry. i can understand how you are protecting me from roasting in black witch’s elixir.”
“I still know you didn’t like bitter food. But I am amazed by your swords.” Nuraz complimented her and Deniza joined them and complained about Nuraz’s bad temper, “I still remember, how Nuraz will show his berserkers face to me when I allowed you to use knife to cut vegetables.”
Deniza turned to Nuraz, “Now, your daughter is using a sword, to which person you will show your savage berserkers’ face?”
Nuraz explained with his fatherly concerned, “I will make that dragon to pay for the scars in my daughter’s body.”
“No, don’t hurt him, I can handle him.” Akshara told everyone and deeply exhaled to execute her plans. She moved few feet away from everyone and she stopped looking at her palace. Karen followed her and asked, “What about me?”
“Karen, you are my knight shining in armour.” Akshara consoled him by patting on his shoulder.
“I wish some miracles to happen...” Karen expressed his inner feeling in his every word.
Akshara turned towards the witch palace and turned towards Karen and replied by grabbing his hands, “It happens sometimes, some miracles are still happening without any reason, Karen.”
“Am I not in your thoughts at least for a moment? Don’t I deserve another chance to prove my love?” Karen asked her while she was hurrying to witch palace.
“You are my soul-friend. Don’t compare yourself with him or any other person. You are a great soul and I am lucky to have you by my side. You stand by me all the time; I am asking the same, stand by me in this too.”
Akshara paused for a while and continued, “On the night of the blue moon, I sensed your inner feelings for me. That very day itself I wanted to clear you about our relationship. But many had happened to leave no time for us to talk. I am sure you will find your true love like I found mine.”
Akshara looked at the witch palace once again. She found the ravens were encircling the witch palace and she thought, “Its time. “
She informed Karen, “I am going inside. I promise you that I will be safe and return to you alive. I have a plan, let me execute it. Will you wait for me?”
Karen replied immediately, “I will wait for you eternity for the day you return to me.”
Akshara told him, “Wait for me here as a soul-friend who have responsibility to return me to the one I love in a good shape as his bride.”
Karen turned his face away from her with anger applied face, Akshara placed her hand on his cheek and said, “Karen, don’t hope for the hopeless things. (Paused for a while) Fine, Beta prince of Ukada kingdom, back to business, wait for me here even if it takes days together. Wait for my signal and don’t act anything foolishly to ruin my plans.”
Upon saying those words, Akshara rushed towards the entrance of the witch palace and Karen called her, “Axe” to take a glimpse of her.
Akshara turned back towards Karen and smiled widely with her cute angry filled tone, “What now?”
Karen moved towards her in quick steps, “Let me caress you as my soul friend.”
“Yes, you can.” Akshara hugged Karen and told him in his ears, “But I will probably enticement to Devil even when you stood right beside me. That is bonding. He came for me and I will do the same for him. Even my first date with him happened in unusual situation. He did abducted me, abducted me from my miseries. To err is human same goes with all.”
Karen listened to every praising words of Akshara to Dev and hardened his fragile heart which was broken once, “I wonder, are you the same person I took you to Andhar Mountains to watch Bluemoon’s night.”
“Yes, a big yes.” Akshara smiled at him with a wink. She rushed towards the witch palace to execute her plan to protect all the living beings.
“Do I deserve another chance?” Karen was unspoken to witness her brave, maturity in handling the love and responsibility in caring of not wounding words to any. “If I ever get a chance, I would like to show you how much I loved you. I may or may not be winning you back. I love you always, Darling!”
Karen called her in inaudible voice, “AXE,” while Dev closed his eyes, calling out “SARA.”
Akshara closed her eyes and said aloud her amulet glow, “Devil, wait for me.”
Karen watched her entering the witch palace, Dev stood in the brim of the Forbidden Tower with jinx clouded eyes which he had been listening the entire conversation of Akshara with Karen when her amulet glow in the woods for the first time.
“I know you are listening when the amulet glow outside the Ice Castle. I promised you the infinity of desolation in doubles.” Akshara took a deep exhale and pushed the door of the witch palace. “You have seen my love, but not my hatred; you will see it, Devil.”
“I am waiting for you, Sara.” Dev smiled at his corner lips, “If you are lost, you know how to find me.”
When Akshara opened the door, she heard a telephone ringing. Her eyes wandered around the palace and everything seems normal like they used to be.
Akshara hurried to the telephone and looked at it which never stopped ringing until she picks up. She finally decided to pick the call looking around and answered, "Hello!”
"Hello, Darling!” a masculine voice from the other side made a sparkle in the mind of Akshara and her eyes flashed with joy and ended up with tears.
“My sweet girl, are you home? Ah, what makes you take this much time to pick up my call?" the energetic male asked from the other end.
"Uncle Bruz! Is that you...?”- Akshara asked with a little tremble in her voice with knitted eyebrows with so many questions in her mind.
“Yes, Darling.” Uncle Bruz replied her.
“I knew it, only you, call me darling.” Akshara stammered hardly to find words from her throat; her hands were wiping her joy tears and she thought to herself, “Am I in the time loop or time travelled. What the hell is happening again?”
Did Akshara successfully execute her plans in witch palace to defeat the malicious black witch, Nicoria Blackfire and her troops of raven wizards leaded by Igikran? Whether our lovelorn hero Karen deserves a second chance to show his love to the girl he had been waiting since childhood to confess? Did Dev the hybrid dragon wizard reconciled with his bonded mate Akshara with his firm chance of redemption?”
Let us meet up in ICICLES OF GOLDEN BLOOD II.