The Calm before the Storm

Chapter 18

Chapter 18

Waverly's POV

I have no idea how long I have been out and waking up was pretty hard. I could feel people around me but I couldn't make out what they were saying at first. The throbbing in my head only made trying to prey open my eyes even harder. I could tell my head was lulling back and forth as I tried to get my eyes to open. Slowly but surely they began to open up and I could tell I was definitely in a room with a few other people. My head was hanging down when I opened my eyes, the first thing I noticed was the moldy looking floor covered with a really dingy looking flowered rug. The smell that hit me automatically reminded me of something decaying. Rouges, I thought to myself.  A woman's voice filled the air around me while I was still trying to get my bearings. "Miss Cleo, she seems to be waking up." As my head lulled back and forth and I started to lift it up someone else spoke. "Ah.. She is awake, how wonderful!" A woman with an annoying voice said a little too excited, followed by clapping her hands like some child who finally won a game. I am guessing she was this Cleo the other women spoke to. I slowly lifted my head and came face to face with that woman in my dream, only she didn't have black eyes like in the dream, her eyes were emerald green. Those eyes look much better on her than the evil dead looking black eyes from my dream. Although looking into them I could tell they were just as dead as her black eyes. She has long lost her soul, now she is a witch who will follow anyone with power. There was no hope in saving her soul, part one of the easy way out is thrown out the window. If she still had even a sliver a light left within her, I could have changed her loyalties, but that wasn't the case.

I tried to move my hands but looked back down to see that they were tied to the sides of the chair I was currently in. Luckily my wrists were tied flat against my hips; so that when they did whatever they were going to do with whatever crazy ass spell they had, they wouldn't notice my guardian mark slightly glowing to dampen the effects of the spell and allow me to eventually regain myself. "Waverly, it is so nice to meet you, finally in person. I will say that the photo I was given of you doesn’t do justice to how beautiful a creature you turned out to be."  she raked one of her fingers down my cheek and across my lips, her voice was too sweet to be real and she was borderline flirting with me. Ewww… was all I could think in my mind and if she touched my lips one more time I was going to bit the s**t out her.

I took a look around as she turned back to the dresser that was across from me in the middle of the wall. On the right there was a door, I am assuming that this is the entrance to this room. The walls used to be a pretty pink color, must have been a teenagers room at some point, I thought as I took in my surroundings. The walls had paint peeling off of them and dust was on just about everything except the new bed that was to the left of me in the corner of the room along with the broken down dresser that the woman was doing something on. That confirms it this is definitely the Rouge Territory. Oh how I wish I had a wolf to talk to instead of myself. I sighed to myself this is going to be harder than I thought and it was up to me from here.

"You poor thing, I have learned that the young Alpha Xavier used some dark magic on you to trick you into thinking that you were his mate." she tilted my head to show my mating mark. "Oh dear and he has marked you. This process will be more painful than I anticipated." Once again her voice was too sweet. You could tell it was an act and she sucked at it. "How awful he was for using your weakened state as a way to make you his mate, but don’t you worry I am going to fix that the best I can so you and your true mate can be together." She smiled at me while nodding her head to the other two women who have been waiting off to my left side for instructions, I guess. "What do you mean Xavier isn't my true mate and who is my true mate?" I was curious as to who this "true mate" was, even though I had a feeling that it was Xavier's Uncle Gideon. "You will meet him soon once we have removed that dark magic from you then you will see the truth in what I have told you." She smiled at me again and then just as her smile faded, her eyes changed color they were pure black like my dream now. I should be scared and to be honest I am just a little, but I have to do this by myself. No one knows where the Rouge Territory actually is so it will take some time before anyone in my pack could track us down and rescue me.

The two women moved to either side of me with a very eerily looking Cleo in front of me. "Now don’t struggle, it will only make it worse. Just give in and let it happen." Her voice was not like before, her voice was lower and more husky sounding and I for one know my eyes were wide with shock when she started talking to me again. She grabbed a bowl from the dresser and turned back towards me. "What is th-that?" I asked with a little panic in my voice as my last word broke. I tried to use my powers but that didn't do anything. It's like they were just gone and I was back to being a normal human. I was starting to struggle at this point enough that one of the other women grabbed my shoulders and the other forced my mouth open. "Like I said, Don't struggle and just let it happen. You are MINE Waverly and I WILL consume you with my dark power." My eyes were wide with fear as those words hit me like a freight train. This was Ravannah, the God of Darkness this was his plan all along not just a rouge alpha who wanted a mate, but a Rouge God who needs me to help set him free and plunge my world into chaos. He smiled a wicked smile as my fear hit him and he knew he was slowly getting to me.

They started chanting and the other women's eyes turned black as well. A cloudy black mist started to swirl around in the bowl as Cleo or Ravannah, whoever was in charge of the body in front of me started to pour it down my throat. I could feel it trying to force its way down, but I fought against it. I tried to spit it back out but the woman holding my mouth forced it shut and placed her hand over it to force me to swallow the dark mist. Their chanting got louder and louder, the light flickering on and off, all the while I am trying to stop this stuff from going down. I lose the battle with the mist and the most excruciating pain starts to radiate all throughout me starting at my mark. It was so painful I couldn't hold back the scream that escaped my mouth and the hot tears that poured down my cheeks. The pain was intensifying by the second until I couldn’t hear myself screaming anymore. The only thing I could hear was the chanting that they were still doing. Eventually I stated to have tunnel vision and I knew I would be passing out shortly, and with those thoughts my body slumped in to chair and I blacked out.

I awoke abruptly sitting up and panting. I could feel the sweat on my face and forehead, I wiped my hand across my forehead and it was dry. How odd I thought, I must be sweating a lot in the outside world. As I actually took in my surroundings I realized I was in the void.  A place it hoped to never be stuck in again and here I am, only this time it wasn't because I was on the brink of death, …or was I? The events of what happened flashed around me like the movie theatre again and slowly faded letting me know I was caught back up. I slowly started to get up, but a pain shot through me from my collar bone. I touched the place where my mark was, but there was nothing. I frantically rubbed over the spot multiple times before it sank in that my mark was gone or at the least weakened by the spell. Tears pulled up in my eyes as my heart clenched with the loss of my real true mate, not the imposter waiting for me in the real world right now.

"Get back to the mission Waverly", I yelled out to myself. This is only an illusion that I have to overcome. I looked around and noticed that I am actually really close to the surface I could see the misty walkway that leads back out. I started that way until I was stopped dead in my tracks. What is that? Wait who is that?, "Who are you?" I yelled out to the dark figure ahead of me standing on the path that I needed to take to wake up. "I am you, a better version of you." my voice was not as happy as it normally sounded it was rougher, colder and even more confident than I portray myself. So this is what arrogant looks like on me, I thought to myself. "How rude. I am not arrogant, I just know that I am the better version of us and my power will be immense and untouchable. Unlike you the goodie two shoes version of us, I your dark side will be all powerful and they will all bow down to me and my God Ravannah. Now just let go and bond with me, with your true self. What we were meant to be, not what they want us to be. We will be strong and not weak!" she or should I say I walked out closer to me, now that I could see myself I noticed that my eyes were like those women, black. I looked at myself and I was staring back with a smug look and dead eyes. "Like I thought, this is what arrogance looks like on me. I am NOT going to be you. I WILL take back my body, I WILL NOT BREAK SO EASILY!" I spat back at her venom dripping from my last words.

"The hard way it is I see. I do admire the fact that you are so stubborn at least we have that in common still. Well, have fun trying to find your way back here, because where you are going it is will take years to find your way back,…if at all." She threw her head back as a piercing high pitched laugh resonated around me, causing me to place my hands over my ears at the noise. I watched as she stopped laughing and threw her hands out in front of her, a wicked smile etching its way across her/my face. "Goodbye Waverly" she laughed as a force shoved against me so hard it knocked the air out of lungs, and knocking me down as well. The pressure against me wouldn't let up and my evil figure was getting smaller by the second. Suddenly black tentacle looking mist came out of nowhere and wrapped around each of my wrist forcing me into a sitting position with my arms held out so that I couldn’t move. I struggled to get out but it was no use, each time I struggled against it the tighter it became. I wish Bema would have done this in our training but it was a crash course so I couldn't be too disappointed that I hadn't been able to prepare more mentally than I did. I had to fight through this and win, everyone and everything counted on me.

A burning sensation in the middle of my chest started to slowly spread. It hurt so bad, my screams were echoing all around me in the void. The pain in my cries made the pain I was feeling so much worse, as I could hear the despair in each one of my cries. My heart hurt and felt like it would explode any moment. I watched a the light of the goddess was being pulled from. They were separating us but in a violent kind of way. The pain of my power, my essence being ripped from my being was too much. My vision blurred and soon I feel limp in the ropes of darkness that was holding me captive.

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I don’t know if it has been hours, days or weeks but I know I have been stuck in the void a lot longer than I wanted to be. I could hear people talking every once in a while but their voices as still very far away. There is a male voice that keeps asking when I will wake up, I am assuming it is Gideon. The other voice I already know is Cleo, she just keeps telling him that the spell takes time and she would let him know immediately when I started to wake up. It has been quiet for some time now, I really hope that isn't a bad sign to be honest. I already have my work cut out for me in here trying to find the recesses of my mind that holds my light, my pure soul. I HAVE to get it back to wake up, otherwise I will fade away and the darkness will inhabit my body as the evil side of me. The soulless version of myself. It made me shudder at the thought that I would be that if I lost, ironically to myself.

How more messed up can all of this s**t get. My parents are dead and so are my best friends, I was finally getting back to the old me after learning I am some crazy badass super human, and now my first premonition is coming true. I stopped walking and sighed, "Can I really do this? Can I win?" I said out loud to my lonely self. 'You are not alone my child. Remember what I told you, two futures will be shown it is up to you to decide which future you will take. Follow your heart it will never lead you astray, it will only give you strength and the reassurance you can overcome anything.' I really didn't expect an answer and definitely not from Eden. I hadn't heard or felt that wind since then so I was a little startled at first, but the wind that carried her words was calming. Helping me to focus and regain my wandering, and doubting thoughts. "I will not fail you." I whispered back. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and let it go. I focused on the light just like in my training. The blue string that glowed as it connected to me. I opened my eyes and saw the blue string going from me toward the dark void in front of me. Lifting my head high like the Luna and Guardian that I am I started heading towards the light within me. I will get out of here and destroy all of those who tried to harm and use me against those that I love.