Chapter 1
Intro from author
Hi guys, I am from South Africa so I will be using the names of the places here. I will try to use names that are not hard to pronounce or say because it makes it harder to read.
This book includes vampires, werewolves, dragons and wizards and witches, who I refer to as the supernaturals.
The werewolves refer to their life partners chosen by the goddess as mates, the dragons, witches and wizards refer to them as soulmates and the vampires refer to them as beloved.
All the supernaturals have their own lands and territories that can only be known by them. No humans can get into the territories.
Every supernatural species has its own specific scent.
Werewolves smell like rosewood
Dragons smell like caramel
Witches and wizards smell like cinnamon
Vampires smell like citrus
We have been on the run for almost 4 years now, vampires started attacking the other supernaturals. They believe that cross-breeding will make them stronger, so they have gone after all the other supernaturals. They started with the dragons since there isn't a big population. The witches and wizards have a good relationship with the dragons since they both have smaller populations. The attack severely injured both supernaturals, which led to the witches sending all survivors to another dimension. Princess of the dragons Lisa, her cousin Chloe and her advisors Dora and Dean, who are twins. They will try to hide amongst the humans and try to find a way to free everyone from the dimension that they are trapped in while trying to survive and not be tracked by the vampires.
Lisa POV
I keep moving in and out of consciousness. I am about to have a vision and this is the worst time to have it. While trying to finish chewing the food I already have in my mouth before I completely zone out, my second in command and best friend Dora quickly pulls the basketball cap I have on lower so it covers my eyes since we are in a restaurant, because my eyes glowing will definitely freak people out while everyone around me acts natural.
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We are all walking along an unknown path that leads to a very foggy forest. The forest keeps moving and it seems like we are walking in circles. But I feel safe here.
I somehow see that we are caught in an illusion but there is a tree that stands out, so I head towards it. The closer I get to the tree, the more I see how different it is from the other trees. The colour of the leaves are white with blue lines, the bark is sky blue. I reach out my hand to touch the tree and I immediately get pushed back by a force. I feel hot liquid streaming slowly down my nose. I tried to wipe it off with my sleeve. I quickly looked back but I did not see anyone. Not minding that, I moved towards the tree again and reached out my hand. Once I touch the tree, it is soft but immediately feels rough and I am hit by another force, pushing harder than the last one. Blood streams out of my nose once more and my vision is blurry with tears streaming down. Once again, I wiped off the tears with my sleeve and I noticed that it was blood. I head towards the tree once again and take out a pocket knife that I always carry with me and cut the palm of my hand and touch the tree.
The fog clears up and the forest is now clear, the tree changes to a very vibrant blue, with the leaves being blue with white lines, there is a stream with a bridge at the right side of the tree and there is a cabin right after the bridge. As I begin to walk towards the bridge, I hear Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, very clearly, as if someone was calling my name right in my ear and everything disappears and I'm in the dark.
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“Lisa, Lisa, Lisa” Dora said while rubbing my back.
I come back to reality and she has a worried look on her
“Lisa, are you okay?” Dora asks
Finding my voice, I quickly said, “Yes, I am. How long was I out for?”
“10 minutes, it’s a new record actually” Dean, Dora’s twin brother says,
“Yey, look at you hitting world records. Can we leave now? The princess here has drawn attention to herself once again” Chloe, my cousin says with a sarcastic tone.
“She is right, we have our food in takeaway boxes”, Dean says with a worried tone.
“Drink some water and we can head out” Dora said quickly.
I gave her a smile. “ Why do you look so worried, I'm okay”, I said.
I stood up quickly and immediately felt light-headed.
Dora raises her eyebrows at me and hands me a bottle of water.
After drinking the whole bottle of water, I take a deep breath and nod that we can go
When we get into the car with Dean and Chloe occupying the front seats,
Dora looks at me concerned and waits for me to say something.
I just smile at her and see Dean also has the expression on his face looking at us from the review mirror.
“Guys, what's wrong?” I asked.
“I do not know how to say this but your nose was bleeding” Dora says as she shows me a plastic, that is filled with tissue and wet wipes with blood
“This is not the first time though,” I said,
“Blood came out of your eyes as well”, Dean says.
I fish out a pocket mirror from my clutch bag
I am shocked by how I look
I am met with barely noticeable blood stains on my face and red eyes.
“Mind telling us what that was about drama queen”, Chloe says.
“No, you need to clean yourself up. Hopefully, the water will help clear out your eyes, for now try napping. I will wake you up when we get home”, Dora says as she gives me a sincere smile that doesn't reach her eyes.
I don’t try arguing with her because I will have to fight against twins and I definitely do not have the energy for that.
I welcome sleep as it does not take too long for it to consume me.
We are in the garage when Dora wakes me up and I head straight to my bedroom to clean up.
Water seems to do the trick and my face looks normal, aside from a bit of swelling around my eyes, I look pretty decent.
My dragon, Issa, re-energizes me and I feel brand new again.
I am a hybrid. My mother was a witch, but sadly she was murdered, but before she passed away, she had a vision of her death and made sure to put a spell on her bond that would severe it when she passed away, with my father, the dragon king, to create a new bond with someone else so he would be happy again. Their bond was the rarest and they chose to keep their relationship private since my father did not need a soulmate to be king. My stepmother has always been a great mother. Everyone thought I was her daughter, since I looked a lot like my father. Only Dora and Dean’s parents knew my secret and we have kept it that way ever since because cross-breeding is frowned upon by the supernaturals.
My dragon has always been merged with my magic and I am mostly guided by her on what to do. My mom left so many books for me to read and learn from and my aunt came by weekly to help as well.
My witch genes have been kept a secret even from Chloe as well. My dad always mentioned how he did not trust Chloe's parents even though they are our closest family.
I head to the kitchen and find Chloe chatting up a storm with a very uninterested Dean, who tries his best to nod and not be rude.
Dora is warming up the left overs we had from the restaurant and I take a seat at the kitchen counter.
We have been living at an estate called Midlands. I bought a 5 bedrooms 6 bathrooms house, which came with modern minimal furniture. I have the main bedroom, of course, while Dean took the second biggest bedroom, which Chloe was okay with but Dora was not. Dean pointed out that Dora would be sleeping with me most of the time, which was true, so she did not have a choice but to let him take it.
We had to rent it out first for a couple of months to see if it would be safe enough for us like we had done with all the other places. We finally settled on this one since we have not been tracked down by anyone after the first 6 months and that was 3 years ago.
We have blended in with humans and run a few businesses to keep us afloat.
We got discovered back then because we lived very close to the forest, which is ideal for all supernaturals to do once they move to human territories and we were using cash from our family's trust funds. Once we figured out that was how we were being tracked, we got fake IDs and got new bank accounts under our new names, we moved to the city and things have been tough, but better alive than dead.
As we were eating, we all received a message from the estate ‘there are five black SUVs with tinted windows that have entered the estate unaccounted for, 2 security guards have been shot dead and 3 are wounded. Please be on high alert’
We run to the garage and get into the car with Chloe being the driver this time, as reckless as it is, she is the only one that drives well under pressure, unlike any of us.
“How did they find us this time? We have been so careful”, Dean says with a worried tone, looking afar as if he was just saying his thoughts out loud.
“We can't hide forever Dean, this was bound to happen.” Chloe says in a bored tone as we exit the house garage.
“Right now I could use directions to know the route to use to head out of the estate”, Chloe continues.
“ I am on it” Dean says as he comes back to reality and looks through his phone.
“Go around the street and use entrance 3, seeing there aren't any guards on it, but there should be some that will get there in 3 minutes, so we need to hurry up”, Dean says