Hunted: Chapter 2

Chapter 2


     When I woke up, I had this huge pain in my head, but it went away after a minute or two.  I opened my eyes and noticed at once that I was on my bed with Lucas and my mom looking at me with concern etched into their faces.  It took me a while to understand why they were looking at me like that, but then the memory of me blacking out after the Amingaras left hit me really hard.  "What happened?" I asked while sitting up.  "You fainted and Lucas brought you home, and he explained everything." My mother's brow deepened in even more worry.
    "Everything?" I asked, curious to what that meant.  "Yes, I told her everything about the Amingaras, she needed to know that you're not safe anymore," stated Lucas.  I frowned at that, "I still don't get what's going on, you know.  I remembered that you told me that I was powerful and all, but I still don't get why those things are attacking me."  My mother sighed loudly, "I guess it's time to tell you, or it'll put you in more danger." I hope it's something to explain all of this, I thought crossing my arms for them to explain.
    My mother started to explain.  "As Lucas already told you, you're really powerful, able to control all kinds of glamour and fire, and you can charm and persuade people.  You can control any kind of glamour because some of our ancestors were the fey, the Summer, Winter, and Iron.  The reason you can control fire is a bit unknown because not one of them were able to do that.  And the reason why you can charm and persuade people is because one of our ancestors was also a demigod, but we don't know which one was their parent.
    "I know this is a lot to take in, so take your time.  When you finish, just ask for me, okay?"  With that, my mother left, but I felt as though she was hiding something from me, something she didn't want me to know.  I shrugged it off, because I might've made that up, and turned to Lucas.  "You have a lot to explain you know."  He looked at me innocently, "I don't know what you're talking about Scinny."  He said while mussing my hair.  I instantly straighten it and punched him in the arm.  He yelped, "Hey, what was that for?" "You know what I'm talking about.  How'd you know that I was powerful and never told me?"  He shrugged nonchalantly, "I wasn't allowed to, and plus, I was only supposed to guard and protect you."
    "So you're saying that you only became my friend to guard me?"  I asked, not believing what I was hearing.  "Whoa, hold on, I didn't say that!  I really am your friend.  You have to believe me okay?"  I could hear the panic rising in his voice as he said that.  I sighed, knowing that once that started to happen, he might start bursting in tears.  "Fine, but why are you guarding me, no offense to you though," I said in attempt to help him keep it together.
    Lucas was instantly happy that I believed him, but had a hurt look when he heard the second part but quickly recovered.  "I'm one of the best fey because I can control and touch Iron, and I have Winter fey blood in me like you."
    I questioned him.  "Oh, okay then, but who sent you to protect me anyways?" He looked uncomfortable and his brow furrowed in concentration, but it took him so long to answer, I gave up on waiting until he started to speak.  "Well," he started, but hesitantly, as if choosing his words carefully.  "the Council of the--"
    A high-pitched scream came from downstairs interrupted Lucas.  "Mom's in trouble!"  I scrambled off the bed as fast as I could, and swung open the door before Lucas could stop me.
    When I got downstairs, I saw a bunch of Amingaras and some demons that had tendrils of black all around them, fighting my mother for access to the stairs that led to my room.
"Mom!" I yelled.  I was half-way down the stairs when I saw Engrees behind my mother, stalking her.  I was about to warn her, but I was too late.  Engrees had already grabbed her, and she was kicking and screaming.  Lucas had walked up behind me when I saw Engrees looked at me with a smirk.  And then he started up the stairs that led directly to my room.
    When he was coming up the stairs, he had some demons following him with their tendrils of blackness, but not his fellow Amingaras, probably because he told them not to follow him.
    Lucas pulled me toward the closet that was close to my room, and I heard him mutter something, and he pulled out an emerald-colored sword, along with a black one.  I just stood there and gaped at him, since I'd never seen those swords before, let alone knew we owned them.  He had on a grim smile on his face, and handed me the emerald sword and I took it wearily.
    He looked at me in the eye.  "Do you remember how to use a sword?"  Despite the situation, I rolled my eyes.  "No, duh.  You and Mom made me practice sword-fighting with both of you."  I then understood.  "Wait a second," I stared at my best friend.  "Is that why you guys made me sword fight for hours?!"
    He didn't answer me, but instead faced the group of creatures that were coming up the stairs, so I took that as a silent yes.  I sighed and did the same, and Lucas started to speak.  "To use glamour, you have to picture a flowing bunch of threads.  Then imagine taking away threads until you have a bunch together and move it towards the target in mind.  Understand?"  He turned to look at me expectantly, so I did a face that showed I did, even though I was a bit confused.
Engrees and his demon minions had gotten all the way up the stairs.  They were getting closer.  Closer to me.
    Lucas turned back around and they had already gotten to the top of the stairs.  He shifted his position that I knew from all those hours of sword battling, made it a whole lot easier to attack.  They must have thought that Lucas wouldn't be much of a threat of what they'd heard from Engrees, but they were wrong to think that.  When Lucas has a sword in his hand, he turns into a different person, and even though he's taught me a lot of tricks, I still don't know them all.
    The demons found out that what they'd thought was very wrong when one of them used their tendrils to grab him, but Lucas always has quick reflexes when with a sword, and he cut off the tendril with no problem.  The demon screamed as its black blood dripped to the floor, sizzling on the floor, as if it was trying to burn through it, but couldn't.
I was almost grabbed by a tendril from behind me when I was watching Lucas fight, but had enough time to hack at it.  Some of the blood got on me and I screamed in pain.  Lucas was cutting off the tendrils and avoiding the blood, but when he heard me scream he got distracted and one of the tendrils that didn't get hacked off yet grabbed him.  He got lifted up and dropped his sword with a loud clank, but he kept yelling and tried to kick the demon, but never got near the target.  It was holding him at arms length.
    I ran and tried to help him, but another demon had taken the advantage of me trying to help my best friend and also grabbed me, but by my neck.  I thrashed around and clawed at the tendril holding me, but it got tighter, choking most of my air out of me and I stopped fighting to get free.  Everything around me was getting fuzzier and darker.  I could hear Lucas screaming my name, but just barely.  I saw Engrees coming toward me, taking his time, with a triumphant look on his face.
    He came up to me and his hand stroked my face.  Even though I knew I was tired and everything was fuzzy, I flinched involuntarily.  I think I heard Lucas yell something about letting me go and not to touch me, but I'm not sure.  I heard Engrees voice close to me, like it was right next to me, loud and clear.
    "The boss is going to be very glad that we got you with no problem at all."  Black dots were creeping into my vision again, but I could see clearly enough that he was closer to my face than necessary.
    Even though I was tired, I felt a surge of anger, and the wind picked up around me.  It was picking up fast, and Engrees' hair flapped around his narrowed eyes.  "So you can use wind too."  His hand that was stroking me curled around my neck and the demon let go of me, while he held me dangled a few feet above the ground.  "What else can you do?" he wondered, seemingly to himself.
    My anger flared and the wind picked up again, but Engrees just tightened his hold around my neck, blocking my air.  I tried to peel off his hold, but it was no use, his hold was too firm.  "Let go of me," I managed to choke out.  He just smirked and I got even more annoyed, but I didn't want him too see.  I tried to do what Lucas had told me about using my glamour.  I concentrated on my vision, and saw swirls of colors all around me.  The demons had a black-gray color around them that I knew meant they were Death's creatures and horrible.  Lucas on the other hand had a deep purple and ice-blue color, probably showing that he was worried about me and the Winter fey blood in him was the ice-blue.  Engrees had an alligator-green with light blue around him that showed his Amingaras blood and the light blue meant that he was sad and confused.
    Why would he be sad and confused?  I wondered, but I knew I couldn't any longer, or I would lose my focus and not use the glamour all around me.  I pictured all the glamour and split them up into bundles and directed them to the demons thinking of what I wanted to happen.  The glamour happily responded and they circled around the demons without them knowing.  All of the sudden, the demons had visible chains around them, binding them.  The demon that was holding Lucas dropped him all of the sudden because of all the chains wrapping around him.
    Lucas got up from where the demon dropped him on the floor, picked up his sword and walked over to where Engrees was holding me.  Engrees finally noticed what had happened because none of the demons were moving about like they would.
    He turned his head, and even though I was in a hold, I could also turn my head, but only a little.  I saw my best friend coming toward us with an expression that I've never seen him have before.  When I concentrated on looking at the emotions around him, what I saw surprised me and I knew what he was feeling.  The colors were like orange-red flames glowing around him.  I could see him try to contain it, but it didn't really work.  It just grew brighter and brighter.  I looked at Engrees, and his eyes betrayed a bit of fear of what was going to happen, but I knew he wouldn't let me go, even for his own safety.
    Lucas' expression was dark.  "Let her go now."  Engrees just stood there.  "I said now!"  Engrees' hand was shaking slightly that only I noticed, since he was still holding onto my head.  He set me down on the floor.  "Now back away," Lucas commanded.  He complied, but only after he said something about his boss, Amar, hearing about this.
    He left, and his demons slowly followed him out, since they were still in chains.  Once they all left, I finally relaxed, and the strong anger and adrenaline I felt disappeared, and I turned out to be exhausted and I slumped to the floor.
    Lucas walked over to me and bent down.  He cradled my head onto his lap and kept saying it everything was going to be fine.  I shushed him.  "Who's Amar?  And is Mom going to be okay?"  My voice sounded hoarse and tired.  He smiled, but I could tell that it was strained.  "Your mom is going to be okay, just rest now."
    "That's good," I whispered, and I closed my eyes.  I was about to ask him again on who Amar was, but I fell asleep right before I could.