Mated to Evil

FlashBacks

I thought life was hard, being held captive like a princess locked in a tower.

Only I didn't have a prince charming coming who would come to save me.

A War began 1 year before my 18th birthday. 1 year before I would find out what elemental gift I had. One year before I would be able to find my mate.

A War between the light and the dark. A War started by the Dragon Fae King Alejandro.

Now, I realized how good I had it.1 year after the war began and here I was on the run, ALONE!

The war had escalated between the dark and white fae.

They where recruiting white fae to fight and my parents had been terrified they would be recruited or that my best friend Nin's family would.

They knew how powerful my parents where, and Nin's parents were some of the most experienced water elementals I had ever heard of. So, we all packed up and left together.

I could still recollect the day vividly in my mind...

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*Sigh..

What I wouldn't give to see the world through someone else's eyes.

I felt absolutely miserable. I looked down at the magazine I was holding in my hands.

Fairy Tales was a gossip magazine that reported on the most famous, powerful, and richest Fae in the world.

Of course Brecclan Drago was on the cover again.

He is the Dragon Fae King Alejandro's son. The prince of the dark fae.

Not only was he royalty he was gorgeous.

I laid the magazine down in my lap and placed my hands behind my head exhaling. I looked up at the swirling clouds in the sky. It seemed the days where getting shorter, which was odd because it was the middle of summer. Usually, the days didn't begin to grow shorter until the end of fall.

Lying here in my hammock was my favorite place to be.I watched the wind blow the branches in the large oak tree in our back yard.

My father had built my tree house in the tree when I was five and ever since then we had kept adding more stuff.

Now it was huge and was my own sanctuary. My hideout!

The back door bursting open made me almost fall out of my hammock.

Mom and dad ran around the backyard like maniacs ripping down the hammocks, tearing apart my tree house. I stood from my hammock and gazed at them shocked with my jaw on the ground.

"We must go. Linton and Piper are meeting us out back in half an hour." My mom gasped as she ran around like crazy.

"Pack a bag of clothes and hygiene items Bre. Nothing you can't carry yourself." My dad informed me.

"What's going on?" I whined.

"The war has gotten worse. We must go. You will be 18 soon. We won't let them recruit you. They'll discover what you are and syphon your power." My father explained.

I felt as if my heart dropped to my feet and my anxiety went from 0 to 60.

I finally got my feet moving and ran upstairs to my bedroom. I grabbed my hiking pack out of the closet. My sleeping bag and everything was already attached. I filled my bag up with clothes, toothbrush, deodorant, shampoo, and body wash. Quickly glancing around my room one more time I shut the door and ran downstairs.

Mom was throwing our non perishable food in a cooler and dad was grabbing all of our camping equipment and weapons.

We all rushed around until we had everything we could pack and met Nin and her family outback. I hugged Nin tightly, both of us had tears in our eyes. We piled into Pipers minivan and drove to the Jungle entrance.

Dad and Linton concealed the van and we hiked for 3 days before our parents finally decided we where deep enough in to begin building a shelter.

We set up camp in the tree tops away from prying eyes. They wouldn't look for us up in the trees.

After all, it had been many decades since a Fae was born with wings.

It had been bred out of us. Kind of like reverse evolution. We didn't use them so our bodies no longer needed them and stopped creating them.

Our tree house reminded me of my one back home only this one was a lot bigger, and it saddened me because I missed home. Our entrance is a roll away ladder to help keep our location concealed. Our tree house is deep in the canopy of the largest trees in the jungle.

Hidden by the thick leaves and branches of the immense centuries old trees. Nin and I have our own room and our parents do as well. We all share a sitting, kitchen, and restroom area. Dad and Linton had built us a shower and a fireplace. We also have a kitchen sink and eating area. Our beds are our hammocks we brought from home and finally after 3 months of construction and weaving plants for our roof, our tree house was completed for the most part.

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We actually made the best out of our crisis. That is until my parents were summoned to war 6 months before I turned 18. I still could feel the apprehension of not having them by my side.

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"Please don't go!" I pleaded with my parents as they packed for their trip to the Capital to converge on the war.

The King had sent a summons that either they join or they would be imprisoned. So to save me they had decided to go. But I would rather spend a life behind bars than without them.

"Remember Bre, don't let anyone know what you are. No matter what they say, or what they do, as far as they know you are a white fairy. You are of the light and nothing else. Not even your mate will know. Got it?" My mother asked as she held my shoulders looking into my eyes.

"Yes Momma!" I reluctantly agreed.

"Listen Gem this isn't a permanent situation.

We will be back before you know it. Until then, you and Nin are going to have a blast together. Just don't stray to far from the Tree House okay?" My dad smiled down at me.

He had nicknamed me Gem when he and my mother had discovered I was a Gemini Faerie.

I nodded my head. I couldn't speak. For I knew if I did the sobs that where stuck in my throat would escape and I wouldn't be able to hold back the tears.

There was a pain in my chest like someone was twisting my heart, and it radiated up my throat.

"Bre I want you to be strong like I know you can be. And if something happens and the balance tips I want you to take Nin and run like hell. You don't look back or wait on anyone. Not even Piper or Linton." My mother explained. I again only nodded my head.

"No Bre look at me and repeat after me." She scolded, grabbing my shoulders and looking into my eyes.

"I won't wait for anyone." She continued. "I won't wait for anyone." I repeated as my tears began flowing down my face.

"I will run and not look back." She kept going.

"I will run and not look back." I sobbed.

"And if as a last resort I have to fight I will trust my magic to show me what to do." She instructed.

"And if as a last resort I should have to fight I will trust my magic to show me what to do." I stammered.

"And I won't leave anyone alive who has seen me use my magic to it's fullest potential." She said and I gasped.

I looked at my father shocked. My mother had always told me to neve harm another living creature.

"Say it Aubrette." He commanded.

I sniffled and turned my attention back to my mother.

"And I won't leave anyone alive who has seen me use my magic to it's fullest potential."

I broke down and cried all the tears I had been holding back now flowed freely.

"We love you Aubrette, More than all the stars in the sky." My mother cried.

"All the way to the moon." My father joined in.

"Around and around and back again." I finished the phrase my parents and I had said to each other every night since I was old enough to talk.

We all embraced each other tightly as we cried.

"Goodbye momma, Goodbye papa." I whimpered.

"It's never goodbye Gem, only I'll see you later." My father smiled down at me as they pulled away.

"No matter where you are in this world my beautiful girl, we will always find you as long as you wear this." My mother slipped a gold chain with a fairy charm around my neck.

I touched the charm feeling the cold smooth surface of the metal. It was a locator necklace. She would be able to pinpoint my location no matter where I was and her magic would bring her straight to me. She touched my cheek and smiled lovingly back at me and they turned and walked away.

I watched them until the forest enveloped them behind the trees and brush. Nin walked up beside me and held me tightly. I laid my head on her shoulder and cried until I had no tears left to cry.

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