CH79 The magic that keeps the world going

It had been a week since we stopped Kristen in Antarctica which meant Damon was all caught up, he was now in his own time he seemed to sigh in relief and seemed a lot happier.
"ANASTASIA, GET OUT HERE" We heard from outside I nearly spat out my spaghetti, I stood and Damon and I walked outside, Kristen was there she stood in the street with others standing behind her
"You called" I joked as I walked outside, the moon was full, which means the werewolves are out to play
"The faeries are angry at you" Kristen announced stepping forward, I turned to my mate
"Faeries are real?" I whispered
"Of all the things you've seen you ask that now?"
"Fair enough" I shrugged, I turned to Kristen again
"What do you want?" I asked her
"For you to go back to the mortal world, where you belong" Kristen told me, I just rolled my eyes
"I belong here just as much as you do, all of you" I addressed them all
"They disagree with you" Kristen told me "do you know Delores?" Kristen asked I scoffed "of course you do, Delores asked these people, all those years ago, if she could bring her people here, they said yes, Delores promised them safety, she promised them that the witches, lycans, vampires and werewolves would leave them alone, but that is not the case"
"What happened?" I addressed the faeries, a faery stepped forward but Kristen stopped her and pushed her back
"They want you gone, Anastasia, leave or there will be a war, you have until the morning" she looked directly at Damon "and anyone that gets in the way will lose their life" she said without breaking a sweat, I looked at Damon and smiled at him showing him how sorry I was, she turned and walked away, the faeries followed her the people that had gathered talked amongst themselves as they too went away, Damon and I went back into the house
"What will you do?" Damon sounded worried
"Prepare for war, coz I'm not leaving" I assured my mate as I stepped closer to him and kissed him passionately I bit his lip and he hissed making me smile "How powerful are the faeries?" I asked
"Their magic keeps this world going" Damon explained "without the faeries the magical world wouldn't survive, I don't understand what their problem could be, we've never had any problems with them before, they keep away from us, and we stay away from them"
"Where do they live? I think I should pay them a visit" I had travelled the world asking my children if they were happy, maybe it was about time I showed the faeries the same courtesy
"They live in trees" Damon told me, I smiled, that sounded so cool.
We made our way to the woods
"Faeries I am queen Anastasia, please come and talk to me"
"Tut tut tut, how pathetic and predictable" Kristen greeted us, I rolled my eyes "I gave you until morning, Anastasia, but still you came here, go home Damon, Anastasia is ours now" she addressed my mate, Damon held my hand to show he wasn't leaving, Kristen smiled sadly, "the heart is a pathetic thing, isn't it? You've known each other for what? A few months? And already you're ready to sacrifice yourself for each other, and yet you've known me all your life, and you're throwing that away, for her" she scoffed "ahh well, you win some you lose some" she shrugged "prepare to die, both of you" Kristen stepped back and then in a puff of black smoke she was gone, I ran forward to where she had stood, I spun in a circle, I even tried listening for her heartbeat but she wasn't there, she was gone, I couldn't hear anything, the woods were empty, the woods were literally empty I could hear nothing except Damon and me
"Where'd she go?" I asked as I spun around looking for her, Damon just shook his head, not knowing the answer, "the faeries are gone too" I announced
"We should go home" Damon told me I nodded agreeing with him.
Damon and I blinked home to see Anubis and another god waiting for us
"Anastasia, Damon we have come to help you prepare, this is Anhur" Anubis introduced
"The god of war" I greeted as I shook his hand
"My reputation proceeds me" Anhur greeted
"You planted images in my head" I wasn't angry I was just stating
"We needed something to be done, I took action, I am not sorry for that, I am, however, sorry for what you went through afterwards" Anhur explained I nodded, not knowing what else to say. Damon gasped, I turned to him
"What? Are you ok?" I asked him Damon laughed
"I'm fine, it's just that, I've heard that conversation before" Damon went on to explain how the conversation had gone before, how Anhur had made a sword for me and how Lucifer had also appeared and given me a gift
"You call I come" I turned to the voice and greeted Lucifer with a smile, I gave him a hug "you remember me?" He asked I let him go
"From Mayas wedding? How could I forget"
"Ahh of course" Lucifer seemed upset
"This happened before" Damon voiced his thoughts "you got upset when Anastasia said she remembered you from the wedding, why?"
"Damon?" I asked, Damon just shook his head at me
"Anastasia do you remember the first time we met Anubis?" Damon asked, I nodded "he said you had met him before but he also said you had met someone else"
"Lucifer?" I turned to Lucifer, the Lord of the underworld nodded his head
"You loved visiting me" Lucifer shrugged
"I'm sorry I don't remember" I apologised to which the god waved a hand telling me it was ok
"This is all very nice, but we have a war to prepare for" Anhur interrupted "Oh and Damon stop spoiling everything" Anhur threatened I furrowed my eyebrows as did Damon "we're gods, we know what happened before, but we like to play things out, ok?" Both Damon and I nodded Damon also apologised to which the gods told him it was fine, "Now we need to strategize" Anhur told me
Strategize? For what?"
"The war, Anastasia" he told me, I shook my head
"I'm not an army General, I know nothing about war" I told him
"Then learn, you're the queen" Anhur reminded me
"I know that" I gritted my teeth
"Being queen isn't about tiaras and crowns, sometimes it's about leading an army" he scoffed at me, I rolled my eyes
"Then teach me" I told him, he smiled he looked at Damon who just shrugged
"I'm going to go into the kitchen and pretend I'm busy, whilst you learn how to lead an army" Damon told me as he walked away
"Let me guess, he knew about this conversation?" I asked to which Anhur smiled, I groaned as we sat down.
The gods told me now was the time to call upon my army, I didn't know how to do that, but within a few hours, as the sun began to shine, it became loud outside, I stood up to see what was going on, walking towards the front door I stopped, Robert appeared infront of me, he sat on one knee, head bowed, like a warrior
"Robert is the leader of your army of ghosts" Anhur told me
"Rise" I told Robert, he stood, I carried on outside there were so many people out here, then I gasped at what I saw, unicorns, pure white unicorns, and unitaurs there were so many, each being, each person was bowing towards me, some people I recognised like Dylan, Charlie, Arimas, Belle, Pierre, Benjamin, Rosemary, and many I didn't
"Meet your army" Anubis came to stand next to me, I was amazed
"Well well well, what do we have here?" Kristen greeted us, my army stood in between Kristen and I and that didn't sit well with me "you gathered an army to kill the faeries? My my, what would Delores say?"
"I don't want to fight, Kristen, I don't want to hurt anyone, not even you"
"Then leave, go back home" Kristen cried
"Then what Kristen? Will the faeries be ok? Will their problems be over? Will the promise that Delores made them, be fulfilled?" I shouted "I want to talk to the faeries let me meet with the leader"
"NO, YOU TOOK AWAY MY POWERS, GIVE ME MY POWERS, YOU PATHETIC MORTAL" she shrieked, I started walking towards her and luckily my people moved out of the way to make a path,
"Anastasia?" Someone called from behind me, I turned to see a sword coming towards me, I caught it, and thanked Anhur as I turned towards Kristen once more
"For someone who doesn't want to hurt me you sure do look prepared" Kristen told me as I got close to her
"Oh this? This is insurance just in case you try something" I assured her
"Give me back my powers and all of this goes away" Kristen promised
"I would, if I had taken your powers" I assured her, she scoffed
"Do you really expect me to believe that Damon took them?"
"Believe what you like" I told her, truth be told Damon and I were tired of repeating ourselves "Damon is the king of the seven kingdoms he has the ability, the power to make you yield, weather you believe it or not" she scoffed and shook her head.
"All I wanted was peace" Kristen spoke on a low voice, almost as if she was talking to herself, I took a fighting stance, I didn't even know I could do that until I'd done it, I smiled to myself, maybe I could fight after all, Damon had told me that with the trolls and gremlins I didn't fight, not properly, because I needed to open the portal, but this time I had no excuse, this time it was kill or be killed
"I don't want to fight Kristen" I repeated "I want peace too" I looked towards the faeries "life is precious, it shouldn't be wasted" then I turned to Kristen "I will leave this world" I heard my mate gasp behind me but I chose to ignore him, I held my sword to the side, and stood up straight "but you must promise me, that no blood will be spilt"
"How dare you make demands, who the hell do you think you are?" Kristen demanded, I raised an eyebrow I looked around at all the faces
"I AM EVANGELINE, I AM DELORES, I AM THE QUEEN OF THE WITCHES, THE VAMPIRES, THE WAREWOLVES, THE LYCANS, THE UNITAURS, THE UNICORNS AND THE GHOSTS" I shouted everyone gasped around me "I. Am. Your. Queen little witch" I looked at her with disgust, the faeries moved back, showing me they did not want to fight, I nodded once to show them I understood, Kristen noticed this and turned to see the faeries
"Don't believe her, she's lying, help me kill her" the faeries carried on moving away and soon they were gone, Kristen tried to call them back but her pleas fell on deaf ears
"Looks like it's just you and me" I told her as I quietly thanked the gods, I took up my fighting stance as Kristen took out two swords from behind her back, wait that's not fair, I had no time to think as Kristen swung a sword towards me, and we started to fight, she sliced my skin a few times, even getting me on my abdomen, but I got her a few times too, including near her chest
"WHY DON'T YOU DIE?" she asked me as a wound on my chest healed, I laughed at her
"What do you think?" I turned to look at Anubis, Anhur, and Lucifer
"Who are they?" She asked me, I raised an eyebrow at her
"You really don't know" I stated to which she confirmed by shaking her head, I laughed "They're gods" I laughed
"What? Stop lying"
"I'm not"
"Why would the gods help you? You don't deserve it"
"That's your opinion Kristen the gods are helping me because they care" I let that sink in, as I stood straighter, my wounds healed before her eyes, but her wounds were not healing, I supposed it was because she couldn't use her powers, or it was because my blade was forged using the metals of heaven, I didn't know all I knew was that I was tired, I threw my sword to the ground, and fell to my knees
"What are you doing? This fight isn't over, get up" Kristen told me taking up her stance even though we were both out of breath
"I'm done, Kristen, I've had enough" I told her, I didn't know what I expected, maybe for her to shout 'yeah me too' and throw away her sword, then we'd laugh and become friends, yeah that didn't happen, instead
"Fine" she raised her sword and was bringing it down on me, time slowed down as my life flashed before my eyes, the first time I met Damon, our first kiss, our first time together in bed, the first time I told him I loved him, everytime I drank his blood.
I closed my eyes as the sword came closer, I heard someone shout then I heard a scream, I opened my eyes to see Damon standing infront of me, a sword in his hand, the blade in Kristens abdomen, she lay on the ground, I watched her bleed, Damon took out the sword from her stomach, and she gulped "Why?" She whispered
"Oh Kristen I didn't want to, but you left me no choice" Damon told her as he stroked her face, he looked into her eyes "I, Damon Salvatore, king of the seven kingdoms allow you to use your powers Kristen Birch" he cried Kristen gasped and smiled
"Thank-you, Day" she stroked his face "Wait, why am I not healing" Kristen began to panic "help me" she began to choke on blood as she tried to speak
"The blade I stabbed you with belongs to the god of war, it will kill anything and anyone" Damon cried, Kristen cried harder as she laced a hand around his neck, bringing him closer to her she struggled not wanting to die
"hush now, sleep, rest" Anubis tried to sooth Kristen, he sat next to her, when she took her final breath, Anubis was there, ready to hold her hand, her soul left her body, she seemed at peace
"I'm sorry Kristen for everything" I told her tears running down my face
"I'm sorry too, Kristen" Damon said although he couldn't see her
"Look after him" she told me
"Always" I promised, Anubis and Kristen began walking away "look after her" I pleaded with the god of death,
"I will" he promised.
Damon came to me
"Are you ok?" He asked me tears still running down his face
"I am" I told him honestly, I kissed him with so much passion wishing I could take away his sadness