Chapter 259: _Something Is Coming
Odessa’s POV
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I didn’t know how I got here but I wanted to get out.
I NEEDED to get out.
I was in a dimly lit throne room with black marble tiles. Familiar-looking marble tiles.
I blinked at the floor, squinting my eyes before I raised my head again and scanned my gaze around. The throne room was empty and cold, forcing me to rub my arms.
I was wearing a sleeveless white dress and my hair fell down my chest.
Confusion surged through me.
Something’s off. One second I was with Kaelos in my room and the next I found myself here.
Was I kidnapped?
’Sirena, do you know what’s happening?’ I queried mentally, bringing my gaze to the throne itself.
But Sirena didn’t respond. I couldn’t even feel her.
There were no sarcastic remarks, no logical suggestions... Nothing.
A cold shiver ran down my spine as I focused on the throne. It stood tall, black like obsidian and glistening under the dim lighting coming from torches etched on the walls.
But then my attention fell on something on the wall behind it, causing me to squint my eyes.
A black mirror...
"Wait..." I whispered, taking slow steps forward while still looking around, anxious that something or someone would jump out of the shadows and attack me.
I was barefoot so my footsteps were silent until I finally got to the black mirror.
However, when I got to the mirror, I realised that it wasn’t black.
No... It was reflecting an image of something black. A swirling vortex of energy which spun slowly.
I squinted my eyes, glancing back briefly before I stretched my right hand forward.
My fingers shook with hesitation and fear but I drew in a deep breath, letting my fingers linger only a few centimetres away from the mirror.
And then...
"You aren’t ready for what will awaken." A voice whispered in my head the second I touched the mirror’s surface, causing me to withdraw my hand quickly.
But it was too late.
Suddenly, the black vortex within the mirror increased its spinning and the throne room began shaking violently.
I blinked with shock, watching as cracks spread from the floor and then began inching up the walls and pillars of the throne room like snakes.
As if that wasn’t enough chaos, the spinning vortex in the mirror became so violent that a gush of wind began blowing out of it, trying to pull me in.
I struggled, gritting my teeth and trying to root my feet on the ground. But that seemed futile as my hair began whipping into the air before slowly getting sucked into the mirror.
"AHH!" I screamed, placing my hands on either side of the wall as I struggled, my heart pounding heavily in my chest. "Sirena! Sirena, aren’t you there?"
Silence.
She really wasn’t in my head anymore.
But then my mind instinctively went to one more name that I’ve never felt more desperate to call on.
"Kaelos!" I screamed at the top of my lungs but that proved to be disastrous.
A sonic howl escaped my mouth, hitting the wall and the mirror with such force that the mirror shattered into thousands of shards instantly.
I was flung backwards, the wall collapsing, and the tremors in the throne room only increased.
"Argh!" I grunted, hitting a pillar at the other side of the room and then falling to the ground.
A sharp pain lingered at the back of my head, causing me to grit my teeth. Just when I raised my right hand to rub my head, I realised something that I hadn’t noticed before.
The magic bracelet from the Elders...
It was... Gone.
"What in the hocus pocus..." I muttered, unable to take this anymore.
As cracks continued spreading on the walls and pillars in the throne room, I slowly rose to my feet, balling my hands defiantly, my jaw clenching.
My magic swirled inside me like a storm, just waiting for the right moment to burst out.
"Whoever or whatever the fuck you are, show yourself!" I yelled, my voice echoing around despite the thundering noise of the tremor affecting the room.
My ears perked up as I heard a silent and melodious whistle flowing around the room, causing me to pause.
I scanned my gaze around wearily, wondering where that was coming from.
"Are you playing tricks now? Is that what this is?" I snarled. "Well, I’m not your toy. You chose the wrong hybrid to mess with—"
"No, Odessa." A deep voice boomed around the room just then, instantly causing the tremors to cease.
A cold shiver ran down my spine, my instincts screaming for me to turn around. But for some reason... I couldn’t.
"You aren’t the wrong hybrid." The voice speaking behind me continued, sounding like it was advancing even closer to me. "On the contrary, you’re the right one. The key to awakening chaotic magic underneath the continent beyond your wildest dreams..."
My eyelids fluttered as I slowly got the courage to turn around.
However, when I did... There was nothing.
"All you have to do is embrace..." The voice continued echoing when suddenly, everything in the room began fading away into darkness, like a painting being smudged off its colour.
My breathing increased, my heart pounding heavily as I took several steps back.
To my horror, the floor and walls began disappearing into oblivion, the voice adding:
"... The darkness."
No...
I merely blinked and then everything was gone. No floor. No walls. No pillars, doors and decorations.
Just a vast empty darkness.
"Ahhhh!" I screamed as I began falling, stretching my hands out, trying to take hold of anything at all.
But there was nothing.
"Odessa?"
A bright light suddenly flashed past my eyes and the next thing I knew, I was sitting up on my bed and gasping heavily for breath. Cold sweat dripped down my body as I scanned my gaze around.
My room. I was back in my room.
And that last voice was...
"Odessa..." Kaelos’ hand grabbed my shoulder, forcing me to turn my gaze to him.
He was naked, sitting on the bed beside me although the bed sheets covered his lower bits. I was also naked...
"What’s wrong? Did you have a nightmare?" He queried worriedly, his silver eyes softening in the dark room.
My eyes stung with tears as I shook my head, trying to catch my breath. "T–That wasn’t merely a nightmare. S–Something... Something terrible is coming."