Chapter 177: The Failed Kill

Skylar's POV

She went to work immediately, moving Skyler's body further away from Devon's. We moved closer, close enough to get a perfect shot, but not too close that she could notice us.

She knelt on the ground close to Skyler's body and dropped her bag beside her, she opened it started getting the things she needed out of it . She brought out a red silk cloth and covered Skyler from the chest down to her legs with it .

She placed three candles close to Skyler's head , one on each side and the third in the middle and lit them. She placed her book on Skyler's stomach , turning through it until she finally got to a page.

She recited words, words foreign to men, words I couldn't understand but somehow knew. She recited these words, and they sounded so familiar to me, but I had never heard them before.

She brought out a knife from the back, it looked like it was made from black glass and not steel

“ Obsidian” Killian muttered , his face revealing his shock

When he saw the confusion on our faces he continued “ when I was so much younger, father showed me a book, it was a book of our warrior weapons” he said “in the early days of the world , they did not use steel to make their blades, they used this.”

“ It's called obsidian,but popularly known as dragon blade, it got this name back then, because it was only gotten after a dragon died”

He heaved “ and there has been no dragon on earth for a very long time”

“ She's a witch from of old , of cause she would have an ancient relic” Devon said

Killian nodded his head “ this could be the very last of its kind”

I turned back to Ella who had made a big cut on Skyler's right arm , rubbed her hands with the blood.

She stood up , and moved to an open space , continued her  incantations and placed her hands on the ground , her voice becoming louder.

A body slowly rose  up from under the ground and lay there. I was left speechless with shock and looked back to see the same expressions on the faces of Killian and Devon

She went back to Skyler's body and knelt on the left side of Skyler, she made another cut on the left arm, and repeated what she had done earlier but this time she placed the bloody hands on her face.

Her body convulsed immediately, I could see Ella struggle to breathe as the witch left her body, her mouth was left open, as she screamed very loudly, and went quiet after that , slumping to the ground

A black fog slowly rose from her body , moving in the air till it got to where the body from the ground lay and it rested on it .

The witch immediately bolted up gasping for air. She stretched out her hands and looked at it , happy to be back in her body.

This witch bore a lot of resemblance to me, except for her black hair, she could be mistaken for me otherwise.

She got up and went back to Skyler's body , wanting to finally end things.

I immediately set the bow , placed one of the arrows from Killian into the bowl of blood Devon was holding and aimed, I put all my focus into it and aimed for her heart , then I shot it with all in him.

At that moment the witch turned as if she knew and the arrow missed her heart and hit her in her shoulder. She fell immediately weak from the hit , but before I could take another shot she was gone, into thin air , just like that.

I ran towards that place , with Devon and Killian on my heels, but the witch had already escaped, I had let the witch escape.

I slowly walked to Ella's body, but she was dead, her eyes opened and filled with the fear that haunted her for the last few minutes of her life. I gently closed her eyes and sat down there.

I knew I always do things wrong, why did I insist on killing Raven when I knew I never could do anything right , and because of my one mistake , because of this very mistake, a lot of lives were going to be lost and it was all because of me.

I dragged my legs close to myself as I sobbed, the pain was eating deep in my chest, I couldn't keep it all in , so I raised my face to the sky and screamed, I screamed till my throat hurt , I screamed till everything in me hurt , and when they was no sound left the come out , I slumped but

Devon was seated there by me.

Devon's POV

I had finally had enough of this, for the past three days Skyler had refused to eat. She had been wallowing in self pity and refused to see anyone, and I had enough of it.

This was not my Skyler, the Skyler I knew had a sharp tongue and an even sharper mind, but she let one defeat break her down. The witch may have gotten away but we could always find a way to defeat her.

I could feel the pain in her as she screamed to the sky that day, Killian went ahead to stop her but I refused. I thought she would feel better if she let it all out , but since she collapsed , she had only said a couple of words till today.

“ Alpha Devon , the food is ready” the cook said. Skyler had been refusing to eat with I and Killian, and she didn't want to go back to our pack. She said she couldn't face the people, after releasing a powerful witch and failing to kill it.

I took the tray of food from the cook who had insisted she took it to Skyler. I had to make her eat today at all costs.

I got to the room and knocked once, before opening it, Skyler was lying on the bed, covering herself including her face. She didn't react when I entered the room , but I knew she wasn't asleep.

“ Sky baby” I called , dropping the food on the reading table in the room “ you have to eat something,you can't go on starving yourself.”