CH74 Second sign of trouble

Two weeks has passed since I gave Damon the chain, and I had noticed he never took it off, I never took mine off either. It was Saturday afternoon and for some reason I found myself at the council house, I didn't know why I was there but I still went inside, many people greeted me as I walked towards the meeting room, I heard it before I even knocked
"We need to tell the queen" I heard Brandon say, "who will tell her? She hates me so I'm not going" I rolled my eyes and opened the door, all eyes were on me.
"I don't hate you Brandon" I told him, he was sat with his arms crossed over his chest "What do you guys need to tell me?" I asked, and let me explain how easy it is for a person to go from happy to angry within a second
"Your majesty we got word from Antarctica, they're in trouble and are asking for assistance, Stella explained, I blinked before she finished telling me and what I saw made my blood run cold, not because of the weather but because the castle was destroyed, people lay bleeding, some I could see were heeling, I ran towards the throne room, or where it should be.
King Benjamin sat in a puddle of blood, he was sobbing quietly, I started to walk towards him and noticed that he was holding something, no not something, someone, I gasped when I realised it was Rosemary, Benjamin turned to look at me
"Trolls" he said one word, that confused me, I was now sat infront of him near the body he cradled in his arms, he saw the confusion on my face "We have trolls, they came from the sky, they destroyed everything.
"Trolls? Why?" My question was rhetorical, I didn't even know trolls existed, but still Benjamin spoke
"I don't know, Anastasia, but they came and destroyed everything" Benjamin cried, I got up to leave, I needed to check the damage outside, and help those that need it
"Kill me" Benjamin whispered before I could take a step, I looked at him "You hate me, so just kill me, please"
"I don't hate you, Benjamin" I told him
"Please your majesty, I can't survive without my love, please" I was crying too as I sat and looked Benjamin in the eye
"I'm sorry for what happened, truly I am, but I won't kill you"
"It's all my fault" Benjamin spoke over me, I furrowed my eyebrows "it's a punishment from the gods, I tried to break your relationship with king Damon, I'm being punished, I can't stand it, please your majesty, please kill me" he cried
"The gods are not punishing you" I told him without even meaning to but once I began I knew it was the truth "you didn't deserve death for what you did, and your wife certainly didn't either, I forgave you, and so the gods forgave you, this isn't from the gods, this is something else, and I promise you I will find and punish whoever is responsible, and I'm going to need allies, are you in?" I put out my hand he took it without hesitation and nodded once, I let go of him, I got up again and left the king with his wife, I got outside and saw people helping others I noticed it was colder in the castle than it was the last time we were here, I guessed that the spell that kept the castle warm wasn't being casted anymore, the witches responsible were either dead or had escaped I hoped it was the latter but I knew that probably wasn't the case, outside wasn't much different to inside, people lay in the snow that had patches of red some were dead, others were healing and others were helping with healing, some were carrying bodies away, I saw a pile of bodies close by, I didn't want to know what they would do with those bodies, I got busy helping with healing, and many thanked me for aiding them, I questioned people as I helped trying to figure out where these trolls came from, I was told more or less the same thing, there was a rip in the sky, like someone had ripped it open and these trolls jumped out, and they killed and destroyed everyone and everything without question, these people had tried to stop the attack, but no spell worked, no fire worked, no weapons worked.
After helping as much as I could I blinked to the council house in the Unitaur coven, I explained to everyone what I had found out, Brandon blinked away at some point during my explanation, and he came back with a book
"Either the people of Antarctica are mistaken, or we have the biggest problem we have ever faced" Brandon told me as he put the book infront of me 'What we know about trolls' I skimmed through the book
"They're from another planet?" I looked at Brandon for confirmation to which he nodded
"The rip in the sky? That was a portal, leading from their planet to here"
"Are you saying the trolls created a portal?" I asked, if that's the case that means they have magic, if they do, will we be strong enough to defeat them?
"No, your majesty, the trolls don't have that kind of power, they have no power actually, no the portal was created by a witch" I gasped at that "a witch of Earth" he confirmed I stood up out of anger, I needed to kill someone, preferably the witch responsible
"YOUR MAJESTY, CALM DOWN" someone shouted, the table in front of me was on fire, and so was the library book Brandon had shown me, oops "are you ok?" Stella asked me, I just nodded, I blinked to where Damon worked, I needed my mate, I went down the steps to where the machines were, I spotted my mate and ran to him, he must've heard me because he turned seconds before I reached him, I hugged him and he sniffed my hair he hissed and stepped away from me, his skin was red and blotchy but it healed in seconds
"Your skin is hot" he told me as he watched his palm heal
"I'm sorry" I whispered
"Don't be, tell me what happened" Damon came closer and touched me again, my skin must have cooled down because Damon embraced me again and held me tight, I explained to him what happened in Antarctica, I heard many people gasping and I remembered where I was, shit, now they know too, I reluctantly moved away from my mate, who still held my hand, I was grateful
"Please don't be scared, my people, I will try and get to the bottom of this, I will kill the witch that is responsible for bringing these aliens to our world" I promised "I know this is too much to ask, but I will need help, there are people in Antarctica that need help, and I also need to build an army..." I stopped talking when a woman stepped forward
"Whatever you need, my queen" she sat on one knee, like warriors do with her head bowed, others followed suit, I smiled wide in thank-you, I felt Damon besides me also sitting down, copying his colleagues, but not letting go of my hand.
Reports were coming from Antarctica, Australia, and South Africa, people were dying, and I was no closer to finding out who was responsible, so after two days of trying I decided to change my tactics, so when a report came from South America I blinked without a second thought
"Your majesty" Leah greeted and I saw a troll with swords sticking out of him, he was big, not huge but around eight feet tall, he had big feet, probably a size fifteen there was a cloth wrapped around his mid section otherwise completely naked, he was a light grey in colour with no hair on his head and his bottom canine teeth were really long, he spoke in a foreign language which was to be expected, he swung a club towards me but I blinked, I sat on his shoulders and punched, hit, and kicked, but it made no difference at all, he grabbed me by my neck and threw me, I crashed against a wall,
"Your majesty!" Leah screamed as she came to help me, she hissed as she saw the cut above my eye, it healed pretty quickly but the blood from the cut blurred my vision, I rubbed it away and stood up
"Who sent you!?" I shouted towards the troll, the troll just screamed at me as he came at me, I floated up towards his face, so that we were at the same level, he took another swing but I dodged by moving down, he tried again this time I moved up, he kept trying, I allowed my anger to come forward and I touched him scalding him, he screamed again "ENOUGH" I shouted "tell me why you're here? Who bought you here? What do you want? Why are you killing my people?" He didn't answer instead I was thrown at a wall once again, this time his friend, or brother was responsible, my back hurt, Leah came to me again but before she was next to me my back was healed "we need to find whoever is in charge" I told her as I saw both trolls leave the castle
"And then what? They don't understand any of our languages" Leah reminded me, she was right, I needed to find a way to talk to them, the book that Brandon had given me mentioned the planet the trolls were from, but for the life of me I couldn't remember the name
"Do you have a library? I need to find a book about trolls" I asked Leah, she beckoned me to take her hand, she blinked us to a library that was in ruins, books lay destroyed people lay dead or severely injured, I had no time to mourn my people 'later' I promised myself I would mourn them later, the computer that could show us where the book should be was destroyed, so we had to find it ourselves "WE NEED TO FIND A BOOK ON TROLLS, IF YOU CAN, PLEASE HELP" I announced as Leah and I ran down each aisle looking for a book, any book about trolls
"Aisle ten" a man shouted, he didn't get up, as he was helping someone so I nodded towards him in a thank-you and he smiled at me, I was near aisle eighty, so I had to run fast to get to ten, I stopped at aisle thirty, everything ahead of me was rubble, no shelves, no tables or chairs, no visible people or bodies, I walked slowly now, as I tried to guess where aisle ten would be, I slowed down because I was afraid of stepping on a person I did hear out for heartbeats but I didn't want to step on bodies either. Once I figured out where aisle ten would be Leah and I started looking through the books amongst the rubble, Leah screamed and when I looked towards her ready to pounce on a troll I saw a hand gripping hers, she was helping someone out of the rubble
"Thank-you, queen Leah" the man wheezed as I carried on looking through the books "what are you looking for?" His voice was still raspy, but it seemed to be recovering
"A book on trolls" I announced without looking away from the books and rubble in front of me, he started helping us, and soon we were carrying seven books between us towards aisle eighty so that we could sit at a table to do research.
It took around an hour to look through these books but no book had the information we needed
"DAMN IT" I shouted as I closed the last book, everyone looked at me scared and I apologised sheepishly "I need to go back home, the information we need must be in the Unitaur library" I stood up, ready to leave
"I'll come with you" Leah told me
"No, your people need you queen Leah, you need to stay and help" I told her before I blinked straight to the library where I worked. It was eerily quiet here as the library was closed, I went to the computer and switched it on, I logged in and asked where the books on trolls were, I found the book and blinked home.