The Amber Witch Saga: Beginning

CHAPTER 3: The stranger who felt like home..

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I will be updating the book daily. Please comment your opinions and suggestions. This is my first book and I am really excited for it. ;)

// DOUBT THOU THE STARS ARE FIRE,

DOUBT THAT THE SUN DOUTH MOVE,

DOUBT TRUTH TO BE A LIAR,

BUT I NEVER DOUBT LOVE. //

- Shakespeare, Hamlet

Anastasia’s POV

I woke up to my alarm ringing loudly. My first instinct is to put it on snooze. I am certainly not a morning person. Andrew asked me last night to join him for their morning training. He asked so nicely that I couldn’t refuse. I took a hot shower and settled for my favourite warm joggers and a powder pink knitted sweater. I took off for the training grounds. As I was nearing the noisy place, I could feel a very strange sensation. It was almost as if someone or something was crushing my heart. Just like suffocation, it was a near physical feeling. Jogging to my destination was not helping my condition, so I stopped. I hung my upper body and my breathing got ragged and shallow.

The cold wind was even worse for it increased my headache by the minute. I could swear my hearing went painfully silent for a few seconds. I don’t know what is even happening to me, it scares me. This feeling is so strange. I feel something boiling under my skin, wanting to come out. The temperature dropped and the early morning light hid behind dark clouds. Then, everything stopped. I stood facing the opposite side of the grounds and what I saw had me frozen on spot. This man, whoever he was, was an absolute hottie. He stood there as if he was admiring me inch by inch. He had something magical about him. I was attracted to him like bird to a morning garden. I wanted to walk up to him but my feet were not cooperating. My knees suddenly felt weak and I started feeling lightheaded. I had to put all my energy in staying awake.

My body got so much conscious of this handsome stranger’s presence that my hand reflexively went to tuck a wild lock of hair behind my ear. I must be blushing like idiots right now. One minute, we were about to start a warm love story and the other minute, he started walking away from where he was standing just now. I felt so heart-broken that I might have a mental breakdown soon enough. I don’t know why this absolute stranger was having such an effect on me. It was as if we knew each other since so long, yet we only saw each other the first time today. I kept hoping for him to turn back and come to me, or even look back once. Just once and no more. I will break if he leaves me like this. This is one of the reasons I was taking therapy. I am absolutely unable of controlling my emotions and more often than not, I experience breakdowns. I used to think I was suffering from depression but my therapist had a different view.

But to my extreme chagrin, he did not once look back. Something in that moment flipped in my brain. My headache got the best of me and I fell down to the ground. I could see black veins in my palms and instantly a wave of orangish-yellow light left my body and ebbed away destroying everything it found in its way. At the same time, I heard cracking sound and saw a huge stone statue falling on me, that was attached to the nearby building a while ago. One more wave left me and I slipped into darkness.

*_*_*

I woke up in my own bedroom and the lights were dimmed. I tried to get up but exhaustion got the best of me. Then images of my earlier accident started flashing before my eyes. What the hell was that? Have I totally gone bonkers? I had so many questions. Did I really do all that? Was I a mutant or a witch of some sorts? So many questions that I started panicking. I need some water. I was so parched. I looked around but there was no water on my bedside. I made myself get up with so much efforts and managed to get to the door which I now saw, was open wide. Who brought me here? As I stepped into the hall, I noticed that there was someone tending to the fireplace. Therefore, the hall was a little warmer, exactly to my liking. Before I could ask the mystery person anything, he turned and I immediately started feeling an unnatural calm radiating from his body. I tried to walk to the kitchen but fell, thanks to my weak legs because of god knows what. But note that, I almost fell. My mystery man suddenly appeared in front of me, with speed of lightning and caught my now frail body.

“I see you’re awake but you have lost much energy due to the magic outburst before. You should relax for some time. Meanwhile I will have our royal doctor see to your needs.” Wait, did he just mention magic? Holy grail! From this near, I see that his eyes are no more the golden colour they were before. They are f*****g black! And somehow, he suddenly looks so sexy. I open my mouth to say something but cannot speak. As if he understood what I need, he carried me to my bed and brought me water. Nothing has ever tasted much better than what this glass of water tastes like right now. As I am finally able to speak, I am ready to ask a lot of questions but the way he looks at me, makes me cream my underwear. I heard him growl softly and he starts speaking after wating a while, composing himself? Is my mind playing tricks on me today?

Damion’s POV

I could see, hear and feel very well whatever was going on around me, but Elijah was fighting me so hard to stay in control. And I absolutely understand why. Our mate’s life has been threatened and we both are murderous right now. We reach the spot and so do the passers-by. My beautiful mate was lying in the snow covered with a magical shield of amber colour, surrounded by lots of broken pieces of stone. I have seen a lot of magic that was purple, red, blue, green and so many colours. But this colour was rare even among the most powerful witches as I read about it. Only the most powerful witches had this colour of manifestation of their magic. I sense no one else here this powerful and that only means my mate is an elder witch. She is not a human and a huge weight is lifted off from my shoulders.

But there are more important matters at hand. Elijah, still in control kneels beside her small unconscious body and we deeply inhale her scent. We need to calm ourself. Our mate’s life was threatened and we are ready to kill. We pick her up in our arms and the shield disappears immediately. One of the students show us to her room. They all know who I am. My reputation as a stone headed king precedes me. We enter our mate’s room and it smells of her, all of it. Our mate’s divine scent envelops us and we feel happy that she is here, safe with us. We lay her on her bed and the need to snuggle with her is overtaking us but we need to attend to some crucial matters. We have to enquire about her history and everything and that too, ASAP. I mind link Caleb to get all the information about my mate, ready for me in a couple of hours. Finally, we have her and we surely won’t give her away for anything. She is ours. Ours to claim, ours to mark and ours to love.

Eli laid her down on the bed, her long hair covering the pillows like halo. Yes, she’s my angel and the most beautiful one at that. I touched her cheeks and tingles spread through my fingers. After all that has happened and after all I have done, she is going to be my salvation. She doesn’t know so much, about me, about what I had to do. Hell, my people hate witches. There are going to be so many challenges for her all over and while I ponder over this a heaviness settles over my heart. Will she accept us? Despite of her calming aura, the anxiety only increases. We had an idea about this before that our future mate might not approve of some of our actions but now that we have met her, the insecurities seem like very much real threats. We can overthink all we want but right now, we have got to work. Eli tells me that mate is cold. She needs us by her side to keep her warm. I chuckle a little. We noticed her looking at us with hungry eyes a couple of hours before but I am not so sure that she will want to take things fast. We cannot just sleep in the same bed with her. We don’t know she is conservative about such things, or is an outgoing person, which brings us to think that there is a lot we don’t know a lot about her. I order Caleb to come to this room, by mind-link and bring all the information I required.

In the meantime, I summon the royal doctor to check up on my mate. My wolf is still angry since we don’t know what happened to her and how is she unconscious.

Our royal doctor is a half witch, half werewolf, that too, a stronger one at both. She comes and check my mate’s vitals.

“The Luna is fine. She is just going to be exhausted for a long time because she has overused her magic. I would prefer she naturally tries to heal, without any potions and since she seems to be experienced and strong, healing naturally shouldn’t be difficult.

Also, Dami…. You need to do something about it soon. I don’t think the elders would appreciate that you are going to take a witch as your mate. They are some powerful people and after the show you have presented to everyone this morning, it wouldn’t take them long to figure out whoever she is and they will consider the Luna as a threat”, she said.

When she finished, I knew all she said was true. We will do everything in our power to make them accept this lovely girl here as their Luna. Whoever tried to oppose shall be banished and I will personally make sure of it.

“I know Sheila, I know. There will be many difficulties and she will have to prove herself worthy enough of being the queen. But I will support her all the way through it. I believe she is more than what seems at the surface, speaking of which, I want your word about a secret you must keep for me.”

“You know I have never broken my promises Dami. Tell me, whatever you wish to share.”

I was going to tell her about the colour of my mate’s magic, hoping some useful information will come out of it, when someone knocked on the door. Caleb came in holding a few files and a laptop. My best friend is my personal secretary as well. ‘Later’ I mind linked Sheila and she rose up to leave. Caleb has done some digging using our resources in the human realm.

“She is the new kid, human parents with almost no witch ancestors, has 2 siblings and severe anger issues. Went through some pretty difficult s**t in her teen years, molestation included…...”

As soon as he spoke those words, a monstrous growl escaped Damion’s lips. It shook the whole mountaintop.