Chapter 41: Unleashing the Rakshas!

I had left Christopher in charge of evacuating the civilians safely while I rushed to the temple. I contemplated being the one staying back rather than going to the temple but something in me was pushing me towards the temple.



When I entered the temple grounds I found a huge crowd there. The ringing of the bells grew louder and louder by each step I took forward. My ears were hurting and my head felt like it was being split open.

I bent down to the ground covering my ears tightly. I felt an arm on my shoulder and I looked up and saw Dominic’s face looming over mine, his baby blue eyes filled with concern.

“Where were you?” he asked.

“One of the vans headed to the Earth Sect got taken by the Blood Sect” I murmured.

“I see” he replied….He didn’t ask me any other questions. After all, he could read my mind so he had already figured out what all happened.

“You accepted his proposal, but you didn’t take out my ring!” he said with an eerie calmness to his tone.

My eyes snapped to him, my heart beats getting faster…..He must have seen my memories of Stephanno proposing to me…after all that was recent and for once I didn’t try to block his access to my mind. I already felt guilty as it is.

He bent down to the ground, one hand nuzzling my cheek fondly while the other pushing back the rouge hair strands behind my ear.

Where was he all this time? Is he okay? I couldn't bring myself to even look at him in the eye. I felt like I was such a despicable person.

He leaned forward and murmured into my ear,” You are feeling guilty….I can see it evidently….Now tell me why , Jess? Why do you feel guilty? You don’t see me as your husband nor as your mate, then why the hell do you feel guilty?”

I gulped, my heart beats getting faster. I leaned back, scrutinizing his face. I couldn’t bear to even maintain eye contact with him.

“Why would….I …uhm..be guilty? Its not like you are my mate…..” I stammered pathetically.

“Oh! For the love of god…..how many times should I say it for you to understand….you are my true mate….Jessica Rupin Valdemeire” he said and I saw something raw flash in his eyes.

“You felt a sense of recognition pass in you when you saw me for the first time ,didn’t you?” he continued.

I nodded at him, perplexed at where this was going…

“But a voice inside me declared Stephanno as my mate not you….” I said nervously.

“That’s impossible….you are not in touch with your own subconscious. You have lived your whole life shoving people aside, not letting anyone get close…..My subconscious already declared that you were my mate but since you have so many walls around you I was waiting for you to open up to me and then recognize that I was your true mate” He said, sounding hurt and wounded.

I flinched at the look on his face then said softly, “But the voice inside me recognized Stephanno as my true mate…You must be mistaken.....We have been over this so many times...Let it go, Dominic”

Dominic eyed me coldly as he replied, “This voice in your head….was it your own…..cause I am pretty sure you haven’t fully embraced your true identity yet to find your own voice.”

The voice inside my head was supposed to be mine? But the voice that I was hearing in my head was an elderly woman’s voice….Selma’s to be exact. I had already figured out that the annoying elderly voice in my head that gave me directions in the cave was her….

Then it suddenly dawned on me….the moment I first met Stephanno at the Fire mansion, it wasn’t my voice in my head that claimed him as my mate….it was her…..

I stared in horror at Dominic who gritted his teeth as he just saw the images flash through my mind.

“Is this Selma, the Great Seer…the mate of the Alpha of the blood moon pack?” he asked, through his gritted teeth. He seemed to be trying hard not to loose his temper.

I remembered how Dominic always use to go onto a rage whenever another man was close to me…he even almost tore apart Justin before he found out that he was my brother……that type of intense possessiveness was indeed something a mate would do.
I felt my heart being torn apart as I realized the implications..
I looked at his baby blue eyes in horror, a weird sensation in my stomach as I felt something was about to go wrong…..God! I wish I could read his mind..

“Why would Stephanno’s foster mother play these tricks with your mind?” he said icily, his eyes bulging dangerously in anger.

“Foster mother? Who….Selma?” I asked him bewildered as the uneasy feeling in my stomach grew.

“Stephanno like you ,is an orphan. He was abandoned in the woods where the wolves took him in and raised him as their own. Selma couldn’t conceive so she gladly accepted him as her son. It was only when Stephanno started showing his water bending skills that they realized that he belonged to the Water Sect.” he said breathing heavily.

And suddenly everything fell into place…..I had always wondered why that werewolf had first reported to Stephanno instead of his own Alpha when he found out about my prophecy….I had always wondered why the wolves were so strongly allied to Stephanno when they usually never interfered with Sect affairs……And no wonder Stephanno knew the inside out of the woods. The first time we had escaped from the Blood Sect attack, he had expertly navigated inside the woods while even I was feeling lost….No wonder…since he was born there….And this explains his agility and flexibility like that of an animal, he has after all ,trained with the pack.



I got back up on wobbly knees as I tried to make sense of this newfound information. My head was all muddled. That’s when my mind went blank for a second then I saw Stephanno wielding his sword. He was badly hurt…he seemed to be desperately defending himself against someone in a mask while the crowd around them watched with a halted breaths…..The man in the mask….My Father……..I had claimed Stephanno so I could see his thoughts and this seemed to be happening right now.



I looked at horror as my father raised his sword for the final hit. The crowd…this was the same crowd in front of me…Why was my dad and Stephanno having a duel in the temple?
Didn't Stephanno leave to protect the shrines? How the fuck did he end up here?


I pushed inside his mind with an effort and saw my Father destroying the shrines of the Water God.....Stephanno loosing his mind with built up rage....My Father was messing with his mind...making him see red....Stephanno followed my Father deep into the woods while my Father lead him into a wild goose chase, leading him right into the temple....This was all planned.....My Father intentionally lead him right into the temple and the Blood Sect lead me into the woods when I should have been at the center of the battle. That seems to be too big to be a coincidence.


I had forgotten the very purpose I had come here…My ears had subconsciously turned off the ringing bells but now it was getting more and more frantic.

I immediately took off to where the crowd was, my heart beats rising. The sickening, uneasy feeling in my stomach was still there…..

I pushed my way into the crowd and I saw to my horror that Stephanno was laying in the floor defeated like a ragged doll.

“Nooooooooooooooooooooo” I yelled in fury.

The man in the mask…my father halted his sword in the air as he tried to locate the sound of the voice. The crowd around me parted immediately and his eyes locked with mine. I tried to move forward but was stopped by guards. One of the guards declared in an pompous tone, “Miss, can’t you see the white circle around them? This is an official duel to death…No one can interrupt a duel no matter who they are."

I felt a hand on my shoulders , pulling me back….Dominic’s…..

My father looked me dead in the eye as he raised his sword again and sliced of Stephanno’s left leg…..I let out a shout of agony as I saw his left leg fall apart from his body…..Stephanno was bloody from the top to bottom…..He yelled out in pain as his leg fell apart.. His shriek of pain was killing me…Stephanno’s teary eyes found mine and held it for a second…..I saw all our memories flashing through his mind….

Me…..it was me…who he was thinking of even in his last breath. I didn't care if he was my real mate or not...I loved him too much for it to make a difference........ I let out a howl as I pushed Dominic off me and rushed to Stephanno.

My Father raised his sword once more and plunged into his stomach…..I stopped in my tracks as I felt my breath snatched away from me. Dominic’s hands wrapped around me tightly as I looked in disbelief at the scene in front of me.

Something savage stirred in me as I saw my Father kick aside Stephanno’s left leg. Dominic let go with me with a howl and I saw that not just my hands but my whole body was on fire. Dominic looked at me in horror as I raised my arms high. The crowds immediately started running here and there in panic trying to get off the temple grounds when they saw me on fire. My green eyes blazed over to deadly red as I let go of all my power, black, smoky fire erupting from me.



Dominic tried desperately to stop me by hugging me tightly, trying to calm me down….But I increased the flames and he let go off me with a yelp.

The flesh on his hand was melting but I was beyond control. I shot the hellfire all around, not caring whether it hit any innocent people running around. My hellfire grew and grew as it set it soon set the temple on fire. It was soon even out of my control. My father looked at me proudly as if I had just accomplished his mission. But I was seeing too much red to stop and analyse the meaning behind my Father’s smug face.

Then, suddenly the bells stopped ringing and it was eerily quiet. I felt exhausted and sleepy after my enormous display of power. My knees gave away and I hit the ground. Dominic tried to reach me but I had hurt him too much….Not just his hands…his face was scarred too from trying to stop me. I winced in horror as I looked at his disheveled face. The left side of his face was completely burned and I did that…I was the cause of that….and here he was still trying to crawl across the ground to get near me…



A loud, maniacal laugh erupted in the air which sent chills into the very core of my bones…… Both Dominic and I froze. My Father’s eyes gleamed as he opened his arms wide open as if he was waiting for someone to embrace him. My eyes were getting weary but I struggled to keep them open. I didn’t even have the energy to get up. My eyes roamed over the where the temple had stood and saw that the temple had been burned down to the ground…..Guess! the prophecy was actually right…..despite all my efforts not to………….



My eyes snapped back to my Father as I realized he was waiting for the Rakshas to enter his body. The Rakshas was defeated ,only his soul remains…..I looked at Stephanno lying on the ground and saw Stephanno’s body raise up in the air. The shock on my face was mirrored on my Father’s face as well as he let his arms falls. Stephanno rose further and further on to the air. The last I saw before my eyes closed firmly shut was a blinding white light circling around Stephanno….then everything went blank……..




..............................................The End...................................................................................

This is the first book of a trilogy.
Book 1: The Guardians
Book 2: The Daughter of the Devil
Book 3: The High Priestess

Catch Jessica's new adventures in the next books and find out what happens next......