Chapter 35

i dont know how long i was trapped in the darkness, i didn't even know where i was, or what was happening to me, but it was like the darkness was holding me, keeping me where i was. i didnt know if that was a bad thing though, i felt no pain, no saddness, no fear. i felt nothing at all. i was just existing, like my entire life force had been placed on hold, waiting for the right moment to come back.

i didnt know if i wanted to go back, i couldn't remember the last time i was without fear, i can't remember the last time i didn't have to fight with everything i had just to survive.

but it was different now, i didn't have to worry. i didn't have to be afriad or worry that my power wouldn't work. i could be at peace at last.

i could find my parents and my sister and be with them in the eternal after world.

Maybe i would go to heaven, i have always tried to be good, to uphold the almighties law.

would he accept into paradise and shine his divine light upon me?

i Hoped that he would.

i wanted to be at peace forever.

i didnt want to be afriad anymore.

A light shone in the distance, pulling me towards it, stripping the darkness from around me and shoving me into a place i knew nothing off.

i blinked rapidly unable to see anything except for a woman with brown hair, a white dress flowing from her skin. but who was she?

"My sweet child, you shouldn't be here." The voice said softly, "You have to go back, before it is too late."

i recognised the voice, but only barely, no one else spoke to me in such a way.

i knew exactly who it was as she smiled, her face mostly hidden by the light. "Mom? is that you?"

The light nodded, "Yes my sweet child, but you can not be here, you have to go back."

"why?" i asked in frustration, "Why do i have to go back?"

"Now is not the time for you to pass over." My mother said softly, her voice kind and gentle, just as i remembered it.

but i didn't want to leave her, i didn't want to go back.

"I can not do it anymore mum." i say, trying to get to her but the light was stopping me, i couldn't move. "let me stay here with you."

She shakes her head, "i can not let you remain her my sweet girl, now is not your time. you have so much left to do." she reaches her hand out towards me and strokes my cheek so softly that i questioned if it was even real. "you have grown into a beautiful young woman, i am so proud of you."

i shake my head, tears streaming down my face and my voice breaking as i scream in frustration. "mum please, i dont want to go back, i dont want to fight anymore." i am forced to pause as my breath shudders and a sob escapes my lips. "Don't make me, please ... i beg you, i can't do it, i can't."

My mum smiles sadly, "i wish you could stay here, i wish that i could have you by my side." She sighs, the sound itsself heart breaking, my mind couldn't take it. i knew exactly what she was going to say. "but i can not allow you to, you have a destiny Ariel, you must go back, otherwise the end will come."

"i dont undersand!" I squeal, "i hate it, i hate the world."

My mum nods, her sad smile remaining. "yet you are the only one who can save them. You are the only one who can prevent the end of them all."

i grunt in frustration, hating the riddles and half answers. "What do you mean? What is going to end?"

My mother begins to fade, her voice was softer, and further away. "Go back Ariel .... Go back."

She was leaving me all over again, she was dumping me to my fate without even wanting to help, how could she do this?

I didn't want to go back, and I did not believe in destiny, People make their own choices, nothing was decided by some divine being.

I wanted to stay, this wasn't fair, She was supposed to take care of me and love me, But she was leaving again.

The darkness began to swell again, and I knew that I had to go back.

I knew that I had to listen to what she told me, but I was afraid again I didn't want to feel like this I wanted to be stronger. I wanted to have the bravery of those I'd seen around me, surely I could do something, Surely I can make myself be braver.

I had to try.

The darkness was leaving me, and I could feel my body starting to wake, I could feel the pain in my bones in the stretching of my muscles as they began to work again, but I didn't feel the same, I was ambushed by a severe hunger burned within my skin, begging me to quench the thirst, I didn't understand. What has happened after Fell asleep, what happened to my body while I was in the darkness?

It was like it was my body, but it wasn't, it wasn't the same as I have left it, I wasn't the same.

What have they done to me?

What have I done to me?

My eyes and looked around the room, it was the same room that the prince in a shared before the ceremony, but instead of the quiet room, I have the beeping of machines and wires attached to my body all over, taking note of everything, my heart, my blood pressure, even the sugar in my blood. But I don't understand why. I had only gone to sleep. It wasn't like I died.

I didn't die did i?

I couldn't have, I destroyed the chosen, I stopped them from hurting Celeste, I Managed to protect them all.

I'm certain of this.

Calen came rushing to my side, using his own natural vampire speed to get to me from the other side of the room, or where ever he would have been. I looked into his eyes, and I knew that something was wrong.

That something was different from before. My suspicions were right. Something had happened. Something has changed me and I was different from before. I wasn't myself anymore, and the look in his eyes, told me the truth.

I saw myself in the Emerald shadow of his eyes, I saw the redness around my own in his reflection, I could smell the blood running in his veins, I can almost taste it on my lips.

Just reach out and take it.

Just a little taste.

The truth was, they had turned me.

I was a vampire now.

One of the creatures I hated the most.

To everyone else I was dead.