Chapter 36
Hennessy
“Y…you speak” I stutter looking at the fire ball. With shock. I mean there is no mouth on the fireball how can it speak.
“I don’t actually talk, you know. I am talking inside your head. With Nix I can do the same thing I have been with her all this time and no one ever thought to talk to me. It broke my heart to see the pain and suffering that Nix has experienced for so long.” The fireball says.
“I am sorry that she has experienced nothing but pain” I reply solemnly.
“Pain can be good and bad. In most cases we associate pain as bad. But for us and for most there are good pains as well. Take when you have an ulcer in your mouth sure it hurt but there is a time where you will poke it with your tongue or you will put medicine on it and it stings that can be a good hurt. Or sex there can be pleasurable pain in sex as well” the fireball says with what can only be described as a sassy hiss.
I am glad that it is dark otherwise the fireball would see my bright red cheeks.
“I don’t know if I am strong enough” I whisper to the fireball.
“Who says your not” the fireball snaps back.
I look at the fireball and take a deep breath. Can I be enough to fight and survive? Can I fulfil the prophecy and live my fate? Can I keep my family safe? Can I keep Nix safe and stop her from experiencing anymore pain and suffering. Each breath I take feels like another hit that I have taken in an already battered body.
“That is a state of mind, if you agree to join with Nix then you will have amazing unimagined power and all supers will bow down to you like they should. You are a Queen in this realm and while there has been suffering and torment that your species has gone through you are the rightful heir. To take one the prophecy and take your rightful place is going to be work and it is going to hurt, it’s going to make you bleed and beg for mercy but there is something that Nix won’t tell you. If the prophecy is fulfilled then…...” The fireball stops as Nix herself pops into our space.
“I need you to come with me for a bit. After this you will have your body back until we meet again on your twenty-third birthday.” Nix says while looking between me and the fire ball.
“Mmm ok” I reply while looking at the fireball.
The fireball does nothing but flitter around like is doesn’t want Nix to know that we were talking.
Taking Nix’s hand, I feel myself coming back to my body. When I open my eyes I see London, Tennessee and Jamson standing there with smiles and as I look from the stranger standing way to close for comfortable, I feel a warm furry body press up against me.
“Tito” I call as I bend down and hug Tito in a tight embrace. Tito snuffles into me and gives me a huge lick on the side of the face.
“Ewe, Tito” I laugh as I move to wipe the doggy slobber off the side of my face.
I hear laughter and a growl, looking up my eyes lock onto the stranger. His eyes are talking loudly. He doesn’t want me to touch a Tito and he is even more annoyed that Tito licked the side of my face.
“Who are you? And why are you with my family?” I snap at the stranger.
Before I am utter anything else at the stranger I am snatched from Tito and lifted up into the air by strong arms. I smell the fire and brimstone and know that Tennessee has waited as long as he can to give m a hug that I so desperately needed. Before long I am engulfed in the scents of a warm summer’s night and fresh rain and then roses and fresh cut grass. Smiling into Tennessee’s neck I feel safe and happy for the first time in what feels like forever. I feel Tito brush against my legs again before I could talk to any of them again, I am snatched from their arms and held by the scents of the ocean and crisp winters air.
“Don’t touch them” the stranger snaps at me.
“Get your hands off her”
“Let her go you are breaking the laws”
“One more and you are dead, prince or not.”
“Grrrrrr”
“Get you hands off me” I snap trying to wriggle away from the stranger that has grabbed me. Nix a little help would be good. Can’t you light him up. I ask Nix while continuing to struggle.
“Gladly Hennessy” Nix responds before I suddenly release and almost crumble to the ground like a sack of bricks.
“Ow, you little….” The stranger shouts while trying to put the flames out.
Nix didn’t just spark him, she fully lit him up like he was a pyre ready to burn. As he madly pats himself down, I feel Nix laughing in my head as we watch him dance around. I hear small sounds coming from behind me and turn to see Tennessee, London, Jameson and Tito are all silently laughing as well.
“She did say to let her go” Nix says with a smile on our face.
“Not funny little fire ball” The dark shadow says as he instantly puts that fire out while looking at us through the strangers’ eyes.
“Yes, it is” Tennessee continues to laugh uncontrollably.
“Why are we all here? What is going on?” I ask into the noise.
“We need to talk” Tennessee mutters
“There is something that we need to talk about” London adds to the conversation.
“Are you ok” Jameson asks
“There is something coming that is going to try and kill you” Tito says as he shifts back from being his wolf self.
“I am your fated mate” The stranger says