Embrace the light (clairvoyant)-Chapter 33. Breaking The Curse

"Shani, he was taking me back hundreds of years ago he was explaining about the curse. And why he was to marry you, Shani... you are his repentant..." I was explaining to her as best as I could. She was back to pacing her step, but then stop and looked at me and Walter.

"Damn it, me and my morals. Why can't I just let him suffer! Arrggh! Goddamn it! The hell with my feelings, I'm fucking marrying the king of hell. Come on let's just get this over with. I'm so fucking done with my life." She looks defeated, but her eyes were glimmering with her spunky attitude.

"We're freaking doing this now, then we will leave you in peace..." she was taking out some stuff from her large purse. Then she was asking Walt to assist her in getting more stuff, we were moving things to his kitchen.

She was brewing her concoction in a large pot, putting various herbs and potions. Walter was lighting the candles, and closing all the curtains. It was almost evening, the light was darker but there was still a bit of sun on the horizon.

"Arkael! Come to us..." her voice was heard throughout the kitchen, as she started chanting her words. She let out her words as she chanted in an old language, that I didn't recognize.

The temperature dropped suddenly when she put in the last ingredient, and the pot let out a bluish smoke. Then Arkael appeared from the mist and walk to Shani, he let his hand out to her while she looked at him. It lasted seconds, then she was back to her usual self.

"Florence, come... we're doing this now, I need you to relax and put your hand in mine. Walter, would you stay next to her just in case. I've never done this before, but you will know when she needs you. Your bond is already strong..." she was giving more instructions to us, then started the ritual.

I could feel the energy in the room changes, Milo was nowhere to be seen. I guessed he hid back to his space in the spare bedroom. It was cold then turned to hot moments later when Shani poured the black potion into the pot.

Arkael was grunting now, I could see that he was hurting. I was looking at Shani, then to Walter thinking are we doing his wrong. Are we killing him? It looked like he was holding out on the pain like he was feeling more than he let out.

I reached for Walt, as my energy started to diminish. Shani was quickly draining me, I saw flashes of images of Arkael's past then his life in the underworld. It was horrendously dark and sad at the same time. Shani was looking at me, just as she was also viewing at the flashes of images.

My tears fall as I felt the sadness, I just couldn't help myself. Walter was holding me closer to him, he was sending me his positivity and was making me felt so much better with what Arkael had to endure his first few decades in hell.

But what I didn't expect was the ground moving, and the house shaking as if we were having an earthquake. I was holding to Shani's hand but Walt was suddenly at my back, he knows it, he knows that I needed him. Arkael let out a louder groaned that made the temperature ice cold in an instant.

We were breathing hard as the air became thinner like we were at a higher altitude. We could see our breath fogging as we breath out, Shani was chanting louder and putting more stuff into the pot. And that was when we see it, he was changing. His rotten arms were forming a human-like skin making him growl louder, the air was slowly warming up we could no longer see our breath fogging.

Shani kept on chanting her words, she looked between me and Arkael from time to time. I could see that she was trying to finish the ritual as fast as she could. Arkael looked like he was really in pain, he kept on lowering down his body as to hold off on his pain, until eventually Shani put her last ingredient that was on the table and put it into the pot and finish her ritual.

Arkael finally rests his back on the kitchen wall, as the air around us finally became normal and the ground had stopped to quake under us. He was panting, and let out the most agonizing sound known to men, and that was when I know that the ritual had finished.

Shani was resting her hand on the table like she was also affected by it. I could see that the ritual had taken more of her energy than she was expecting.

"Fucking hell... that was..." she breathed out her words and was still trying to form her sentence when we saw Arkael lower down his cloak.

"Thank you..." his voice was deep and sounded tired, but he had turned to his human form that I saw earlier when he was taking me back to his past. He was pale and tall, he looked tired like the ritual had taken all of his energy but above all else, he looked handsome and Shani was definitely affected by him.

I was not able to look past that, as the last of my energy was drained out of me. I could hear Walt cursed behind me as he scoops me up and took me to rest in our bed. That was the last of my memory of the event, as it all went dark afterward.

I didn't know how long I was out but the sun was shining through the curtains, I could feel that my body was stiff from too much sleep. I was slowly getting myself up when Walt saw me from our bedroom door and headed to my side quickly.

"Hey, how are you today?"

Today?

"How long was I out?" I asked him, my voice was raspy like I had been sleeping for days. Walt gave me a glass of water, as I drink it eagerly and he told me to slow down.

"Two days, well two and a half days... it's noon already, Shani said that I should let you rest and that it would take a much longer time for you to recuperate. You had drained me several times already..." he looked at me lovingly as he caressed my cheek with his thumb.

"Arkael?"

"He's with Shani. She called and told me that they were making things work, and said that we should come and visit when you're feeling better. Maybe in a couple of more days yeah? let Arkael adjust back to his human self first. Her elders are helping him with the process."

He was taking me back to his embrace, I was feeling the comfort as his energy flow throughout my body. But then my stomach decided to let out a loud growl, making me red in the face and he let out his sexy laugh.

"Well, that's my cue... let me get you something to eat, you must be famished. You should get your strength back, why don't you freshen up and I'll set everything up for lunch." He said as he cups my cheek and kissed my forehead and said that he loves me.