The Power Of The Lake

Stefan, who was watching her from afar, waited for the flames to slowly vanish and the people to retire before approaching her.

"Young master Donovan. As you can see, there's nothing I can do, other than watch my body burn. There is nothing I can do for you either." She said motionlessly.




" I have your sword." He brings out the sword from his back and presents it to her. Cressida couldn't believe her eyes.

They both left the burning ground to an open porch of the palace.




"You said you could retrieve your power with this. Why are you standing still? Pick it up and unsheathe it." Stefan was curious to see how the sword works.




Cressida took deepth breath for a few seconds and then walked closer to the sword placed on the table. As soon as she went closer to the sword, it brought out flames and began to lift itches off the table floating in the air. Stefan was gobsmacked.




"An excellent blade recognises its owner." He said with eyes wide open.




Cressida kept taking her hands towards the floating sword.

"Now I only have to retrieve its energy." She said with a smile. Right there just as the floating sword was about to enter into her palm, he released a wild flame, pushed her back and bounced back on the table. She rushes back to pick it, but unfortunately she couldn't unsheathe the blade.




"You are too weak to handle and even unsheathe your own sword. You're just as powerless as I am. We're both useless. Forget it, that is enough.Just go." Stefan said almost tearful

" I doubt you will be a threat to Pandora, and Elena is already dead. Just live as Cressida. E continued.




"I would rather die…than live like this."




"Then be my guest." Stefan answered in mockery. Cressida walked out of the porch with the sword in her hands in tears. 

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" This is the grave of the soul shifters. The one who taught me this spell also disposed of their body here." Elena's master had taken her to the lake when she was still with him and showed her the powerful lake where soul shifters were thrown into when they died.




"So this will be my grave as well." She said to herself. She had come to the lake from the palace after she left Stefan. The steamy wave of the mountains surrounding the lake brow dried leafs around her, Cressida felt charge within her and all of a sudden she took steps of walk then ran into the lake with the sword.




Right inside the lake, the spirit of her ancestors rose like a windy rope around the sword, enacting its powers on it then she was able to unsheathe the sword.

While this happened, Liza had gone to see Stefan.




"Young master Donovan, how long should we keep this place closed?" Liza came inside the porch where both Cressida and Stefan were. He was there all alone when she got there.




"I am done here." He replied.




"What is wrong with Cressida? She seems out of it. I am just worried, she was heading towards lake Kindermiota.

"Lake Kindermiota?"Stefan hurries to find her at the lake.

Only, Cressida diving into the water is precisely what she needed to bring back her powers it seems.




"Cressida…Cressida, damn it.." Stefan calls.




Cressida eventually returns to the shore, suddenly she collapses just as Stefan appears.







 On the bed table, Cressida wakes up to find herself on it and Stefan sitting close to her. It's obvious she had passed out on the shore.

"You are in Fendril, Master Ramirez Lewis infirmary in Pandora. Thanks to you, I could come here again even though I was once Forbidden." Stefan said to her.




She was quiet for a while as she rubbed her eyes." Your eyes are probably. I put in some eye drops. He said the blue mark in your eyes were like bruises, this eye drops will brighten their color. Put them in regularly" Stefan handed over the eye drop to her.




As she regains sight fully, she sees the unsheathe blade on the table already sheathe and rushed to try unsheathing it again but couldn't.




"I unsheathed this before, I definitely did." She 

said.




"You did, I saw it but you are still very weak. You could only do it thanks to that lake's energy." Stefan said dismissively.




"I had regained my energy inside that lake. I should go back then."




"Then what? Will you live under the water like a fish?




"I felt a surge of energy underwater, that is how I regained my Powers. That is it, someone who has energy as powerful as that lake can pull out the energy within me." She declared.




"And who exactly? Will you be searching for a master too? Do you think there's anyone that powerful to even begin with?

Even if there was, would they want to help you? You are Elena, an assassin who shifted her soul.

However, while they were there, news of this reached the other officials of Pandora.




"What? Stefan came to Fendril Pandora? Old Reyes asks his serving mage who had come to serve him and Petrova hot tea while they play cheese.




"He came to treat his maid who was injured, he barged in." The mage said.




"His maid? Cressida, it was, right?." Petrova asked carelessly.




"How bad were the injuries that he would come all the way here alone? Old Reyes asked the mage as well.