The Ashen crown

Chapter 2 :mate

It started in her chest—a pressure like a star collapsing, a heat that made her feel uncomfortable . Her hair, the white striped marked, mysterious hair, suddenly ignited. Glowing. Smoke came out of her nostril accompanied with a spark. The spark became a flame, literal blue-white fire that didn't consume her but enveloped her. The white stripes blazed with silver light, moon-cold and star-bright. And between them, new colors emerged—gold like dragon-eyes, green like merclan depths, purple like fae glamour, black like ghoul-shadows.

She wasn't burning. She was becoming what was written in the prophecy.

When malisa woke up again it was already night time and she wasn't alone. Rafael was in her room looking at her as if to see through her. Her brow shot up in confusion as she noticed her environment.

This is not my room" she said as she sat up looking at him suspiciously.

You burnt down your room and my room was the only one available and too your mark" he said pointing at her face

The mark only appears when your mate is with you and only us dragons have that special traits but you're one now " he stood up and walked closer to her looking at her with a smirk," so mate, I just help looked after you...I'm Rafael " he said and went back to his seat leaving malisa stunned. She had felt the connection when she saw him but even though she was an early shifter she wasn't supposed to feel the mate bond till eighteen and so she didn't try to dwell much on it. She let out a scoff and tried standing up but felt like she was on air and looking down saw herself levitating

Down, she thought and she miraculously flew down.

The pack house was crowded with gossip and she got to meet the four elders who she had met at the border but they were already turned to stone. She later got to know what had happened and felt embarrassed.

The powers were new, vast. Malisa felt herself breaking, her blood a mixture of lava. Her body was trying to process what was within her, and she felt it. It wasn't just her magic alone but the magic of every supernatural being whose essence she had somehow, impossibly, resonated with. She was a witch and wolf and something else, something that needed the others to complement itself.

On the third day after the incident she had gotten used to her body suddenly turning hot and herself levitating. She trained alongside Rafael and her dad even though she had been a good fighter at the age of three she still needed to control these powers and feel one with them if she wanted to be what was in the prophecy she had to put in efforts.

Meanwhile Seraphina got wind of the three kings turning stone and her face countered into a frown making the slaves in her presence shrink in fear... "How dare they defy me like this " she cursed striking a slave nearby turning her into a worm... " Feed it to ursella" she commander and another maid quickly picked up the worm and fed it to a black bird beside her...... "Elena we shall meet soon " she said as her face turned evil as she broke out laughing.....

Elena sat still with closed eyes practicing the invisibility spell over and over again when she opened her eyes and spat out blood. She had binded her consciousness to seraphina's at the last minute when escaping so she'll know if she was thinking about her but because she did it wrong she got a backlash every time seraphina think about her and this was the first time in years she had felt the backlash, she stood and ran out to Davida telling him what she felt after all when she did it first she had lost most of her magic and Davida had saved her then. His face a mask of pure fear for his mate's health switching to anger.

" Does Seraphina think we wolves are easy to defeat?" he growled, his eyes turning red. As a lycan alpha king he was.more bigger than an average wolf and more powerful. He had single handedly killed a thousand witches then when the war first broke out, then he was younger and ambitious. Now he has a family and he's getting old for though he looks young as a twenty five years old he was after all close to Forty years .

Screaming outside caught their attention and on getting there they both stood in shock at the sight before them...