Chapter 8

'Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. Success comes from stubborn perseverance and the tenacity not to admit defeat.' ❤❤❤❤ AVONMORA ❤❤❤❤ Jason who has been staring heatedly at Jorkallun turned his gaze on Rae. "What did you just utter?" Jason asked in anger, his eyeballs changing from white to pure red. His skin going pale the more. For the first time in her whole life Rae felt afraid. She was grateful that she was sitting down and Jorkallun is right next to her, she prevented her fears from showing in her face and opened her mouth to answer, but Jorkallun beat her to it. "You heard her, so stop pretending as if you didn't. Just because you're the son of the king doesn't mean your bride to be should be rude. She doesn't have any right to give out any rules that are not in the school rules." Jorkallun said calmly. "Under the circumstances, I will forget what I swore to do if I ever set my eyes on you, but get the hell out of my sight before I change my mind." He said in anger, the school knows that they don't see eye to eye, and they made sure Jason and Jorkallun part never crossed each other. In a blur of movement so swift that Rae couldn't follow it. Jason raised his arm and hurled a knife made of fire across the room. It sliced into the desk, a quarter inch away from Jorkallun's feet. The pretty red haired boy wasn't even scared, rather he raised one of his legs and pushed out the fire knife away from his desk. "You don't fucking tell me what to do!" Jason yell. "Unless you want to fight with me and repeat history itself, I will advise you to tell your bride to come and fight for herself, they are both ladies, this situation doesn't concern you. So I will say it again, if you have a problem with her, face me and not her, she is now under my wings, the same way Lolly is under yours." Jorkallun said in a tired voice as he stretches out his arms. Jason turned to face Rae with the most ferocious look. "You are just lucky he got involved in this, stay out of my way if you don't want to DIE early, because if you don't, even him can not stop me ." Jason said in a stern warning to Rae and vanished into thin air, before he vanished, Rae briefly saw a pair of fire wings. Rae had to blinked her eyes twice to confirm what she saw, did Jason just disappeared? Was that wings she saw? He is a wolf and werewolf eyes doesn't change and they don't disappear. How come Jason wolf is different? A lot of questions that needed an answer and she doesn't think Jorkallun will tell her. She turns her head towards Jorkallun who has already shifted to his seat, ignoring her whole existence, he was already placing his head on the desk when he suddenly stops and he faced Rae. "Don't cross his part as he had said Rae, I am not as strong as he is, I might be a Dragon, but there are certain limits I can go. The only reason he didn't fight with me is because of our past friendship, so to avoid trouble, stay in your own lane." Jorkallun said with a cold voice and finally place his head on the desk. Rae had noticed throughout their entire conversation, they didn't mention their names, whatever causes their separation was really deep. She made up her mind to find out what had really happened and maybe try to bring back their friendship between them once again. Starting from Jorkallun, she was going to make the pretty boy smile and be friends with that handsome white haired boy. Rae has forgotten the audience they had, it wasn't until Serena Birdrock voice spoke to the students outside that she remembered them. "The show is now over students, go back to your various classes." Serena Birdrock announced as she made her way inside her class. The students quickly disperse as they went into their various classes. Some entered the class Rae was. Only one thing runs through their minds. Jason didn't fight and Jorkallun stood up for the new girl. "So, that went well, at least the two pair didn't fight or destroy the whole school again." Serena said referring to Jason and Jorkallun. "So yesterday I asked you all to find out who was the first witch Queen, so who has the answer to that?" All the students in the class turned to look at Rae. Rae wondered why all her classmates were staring at her including Sarah. "Why are those big heads staring at me?" "You do realize that you are the only witch in this class, so my guess is that they are looking at you to tell me the answer." Serena answered. "Oh, I don't know either." Rae said with a wave of her hand. "But I thought your grandmother is Lillian?" Serena asked. "Yes you are right, but I still don't know. You can ask Jorkallun, he knows everything and will gladly answer you, but me, I am still learning." Rae added with a wry smile. Serena didn't press the matter any further as Rae mentioned Jorkallun. "The first queen of the witches, her name was Queen Barb, the great grand mother of Lillian." Serena told the class as she flew around them. "So today, we are going to talk about different kinds of creatures we have in the whole Supernaturals." Serena told her class. "Who can tell me the type of creatures we have?" A male student raised up his hand. "Yes, Al." "We have the Arachnes creatures." Al said. "And what are they?" Serena asked. "Arachnes are supernatural creatures who have abilities similar to those of spiders." Al answer. "Correct Al, who else." Another male student raised up his hand. "Yes James." "We have the Crocotta creatures." "And what are they?" Serena asked. "Crocottas can mimic any person's voice to lure their victims out so they can feed. They feed on souls." James answered correctly. "Very good James, who else again?" This time around, a girl raised up her hand. "Yes Joanna?" "We have the Rakshasa." "And what are they?" "Rakshasa are creatures that eat the flesh, they sleep on a bed of dead insects and are great at shapeshifting." Joanna said. "Correct, we all have different types of Supernatural that King Roen rules, we have, Fairies, Hellhounds, Witches, Centaur, Leviathans, Wolves, Vampires and a lot more." Rae suddenly raised up her hand. "Yes Rae what is it?" "Why haven't any one of you made mention of Demons and Mermaids, or did they not exist?" Serena shook her head painfully. "We can't mention them Rae, it is forbidden." "Why? If they can't be mentioned then why are their histories and evidence of their existence not destroyed?" Rae asked intelligently, she had read about them in books. "The mermaids and Demons did something bad in the past and the priestess made the rules never to mention their names, so let's discuss about others things." Serena said with a smile. The rest of the day went by smoothly, even in the cafeteria, Rae avoided the Amazons warriors as well. Her mind wasn't there and Sarah noticed it. "What's bugging you?" Sarah whispered asked since they were still in the Cafeteria and the Amazon's Warriors were eyeing their table. "Thinking about a lot of things." Rae said not bothering to lower her voice. "Shhhh, keep your voice down." "Yes Mom." Rae said rolling her eye balls as she remembered her promise she made to her grandmother. "So can you tell me what you are thinking?" "Actually there are two things running in my mind that needs an answer, one is Jason, what type of creature is he and what did Jorkallun mean when he said 'Unless you want to repeat history itself'? What history was he talking about?" "Well Jason is a Tribrid, and also, didn't I tell you they once fought, the cause of their fight is still unknown to us till date, it took a whole year for the school to be rebuilt again. And since they don't see eye to eye, they made Jason and Jorkallun their own different special class, that's why you hardly see Jason, but Jorkallun, still comes to his old class which you met him." Sarah finished explaining. "I see, I have to make them friends again, they are too pretty and handsome for them to be keeping malice." Rae said after a while. Sarah laughed slowly that you wouldn't hear it, "And you think you can achieve that?" "I know I can." "Okay, I am not running or going away anytime soon, so what is your second thoughts?" "Demons and mermaids." Rae answered briefly. "I want to know why they aren't mention and what they did." Looking around them carefully before Sarah whispered lowly, "Follow me." With that Sarah stood up from the chair as Rae did the same, together they walked out of the cafeteria. Rae saw Lolly staring at her with heated eyes which she returns with a smirk. Following Sarah, they walked out of the school compound and Sarah took Rae to the back of the school where another gate is, it was heavily padlocked. Sarah removed one of her boots and collect the keys from it. Seeing the looks Rae was giving her, she smiled and told her. "My grandmother is the gatekeeper of this gate, I have the keys because she normally forget where she kept it." "I didn't ask you." Rae said with a smile. Sarah, with the keys, opened all the padlocks they used on the gate. Opening the gate she entered. "Follow me." Sarah said and they went inside the gate. Going further and further, Sarah stopped in her movement when she saw what she wanted to show Rae. "Where are we?" Rae asked as she saw herself facing a Huge gate that was not closed completely, and has nothing holding it, it stood alone. Standing right in front of the gate was a frozen lady. She felt drawn to her "We are at the Gate of Darkness, the gate I had unlocked when coming suppressed the dark powers coming out from this Gate of Darkness, since it hasn't been closed permanently." Sarah explained. "And who is the lady frozen at the front of the gate?" Rae couldn't help but ask. "She is Avonmora, the queen of mermaid. Her mate was a demon King. Her lover was the reason why there are no mermaids." "I don't get you? What did the demon king do?" "According to my grandma, he fought against the entire realm but lost the battle and the demons were seized, we don't know where the rest of the demons are kept. Avonmora pleaded on his behalf but he betrayed her and used her in opening the Gate of Darkness. The gods spoke to the priestess and they demanded the blood of all the Mermaids, which they use in closing the Gate." "But it is not closed fully, why?" "The priestess said that it remains one mermaid blood to close the gate forever, up till now, no one has ever seen any mermaid." Sarah said. "Wherever she is hiding, I hope one day she is fished out." Rae couldn't say a thing, she saw herself going closer to the frozen lady, standing right in front of her, she raised up her hand and touched Avonmora face. Where she touched shone. Sarah gasped out in shock when she saw the light coming from where Rae had touched. She went over to where Rae stood. "That's strange, Avonmora has never shone like this whenever she was touched." Sarah said aloud surprised. "Really?" Rae asked in surprise as well as Sarah nodded her head, "Because I also find it strange that this lady I just touched, is still alive." **** The water man stares at the crystal stone that helped the soul of Avonmora in it as it was moving around it aggressively, as if it was trying to break itself free. "Be patient Avonmora, is just a matter of time before you will be finally laid to rest." The water man said to the crystal stone in his hands. The water man could feel Tharollin almost reaching where the gods had kept his bones. His only hindrance now was finding out where the last mermaid is. Without her blood, all his plans he had laid out will fail. He knew she had been born, he felt it, but when he tried to search for the last mermaid, somehow, he couldn't find her. It was as if an invisible force was hiding her, as if a witch was behind it. Something suddenly clicked in his mind. Perhaps it was a witch that is hiding the mermaid, a very strong witch. If what he thinks is true, then, who might be the witch hindering him from achieving his aim? Who? The water man thought.