by D. N. Hoxa
My Ella was still recovering in a room two floors above us with Dad. My senses were all over her. If anybody approached her floor, I’d be up there in a blink of an eye. Horatio was still keeping her unconscious even with all the blood that kept going in her system. He said her mind needed to heal first, and I agreed. She was still there, and I’d wait as long as I had to for her to heal, even years.
Arturo fully recovered, too. He sat on my other side, smiling like a man reborn. We all breathed a lot easier now. It was a good state of being.
Edison had lost his leg when one of Samayan’s spells directed at me hit him. Nothing anybody could do, but the head-shifter didn’t seem to mind—or so Aaron tells me. He was still healing from the spell and couldn’t make it to the meeting.
Big Mike lost his left eye. It wasn’t a pretty sight, but when I tried to say sorry, he grinned and said: “I can still see your boobs.” Any other day, I might have had something to say in return, but that day, I laughed. I laughed, and I didn’t even feel bad about it.
Kai got out completely unscathed. A bit pissed off that she hadn’t been able to kill Samayan herself but definitely happy to see him “explode into tiny little pieces of ash.”
As for Samayan’s group, the only one who survived was none other than Vlad, Captain of the Royal Guards. Aaron told me he actually mounted him to the wall in the castle with Frosty’s sword I’d given to him, and the mighty vampire couldn’t free himself fast enough before Samayan took over the room and began to throw me around against walls. After that, after the master was dead, Vlad didn’t even try to fight off whatever Frosty’s swords were made of. He was at the Base, chained to Horatio’s wonder chair, and Aaron wasn’t feeling anything but glad about it. I couldn’t wait to pay the old Vlad a visit. I was going to enjoy it, but I couldn’t say the same thing for him.
“After all of this is over, the Elders are going to be released from their prisons,” Kyahen was saying, “and their rule will continue as it did before.”
Right. I almost forgot. I’d agreed to releasing the remaining Elders from the prison of powers Samayan had put them in, meaning I’d have to open Illyon and give them the spell to freedom. I no longer feared the White Book of Wisdom, neither as a source, nor as a weapon. It was rooted too deeply in me now. Thank God.
“Kyahen is right. The Elders will be back in power, and they will rule over earth once again. However, things are going to be a lot different now,” I said.
Tytania was going to go back to the Fairy Realm to try and take her kingdom back from her son, so until then Kyahen would be left in charge. I preferred it that way, actually. But the rest of the Elders, Arlo, Eleanor and Stephan, would probably be a pain in my ass from then on. Because I planned to be very present in supernatural affairs on earth in the future.
“The SKO will continue to exist. It’s going to do the job it was always supposed to do, and it’s going to be a means to ensure nobody fucks around with anybody else from now on. Absolute power is bullshit. We’ve been there, done that.”
People began to whisper. At least twenty sat down, and another ten remained standing. I still had a headache so even though their whispers were low, they still got to me. Since he sensed it, Aaron slowly reached for my hand and squeezed my fingers once to remind me to calm down. Of course people were going to react that way. Everybody wanted power.
“Without power, there can be no rule,” Everett said, his thick voice overrunning the whispers easily.
I confess, I had begun to like the werewolf, but I liked him a lot better when his animal took over. The black furred beast was a sight to behold. We’d never be friends, but he was a man of his word. A smart and powerful man, too, and I’d want him to stick around and help keep the peace.
“Agreed. You will all have power, every person in this room, and those that aren’t currently present. It’s why we’re here. It’s why we’ll be here in the days to come, until we choose a functional system, and until we choose the role of each person in that system.”
“A democracy?” Everett looked outraged.
I laughed. Democracy would definitely not work in the supernatural world. “No, not democracy. We’ll make our own system. We’ll balance the power given to each and all.”
The whispers grew louder. I looked at Aaron and his grin mirrored mine. I couldn’t wait to wake up to that face for the rest of eternity, but that was another part of the life I planned to lead. We knew the day before, when we talked about the future, that this was going to be the reaction of the people. Nobody wanted balance. Nobody wanted to share stuff with others. Supernaturals didn’t play nice—didn’t understand the concept of playing nice—and that was the reason it had been so easy for Samayan to take over. Simply imprison those with all the power, and you’d get the people at your feet.
Well, that wasn’t going to happen again. And now that I had Illyon around my neck for everyone to see, and now that everyone had seen what it and I could do together, I doubted they’d be stupid enough to go against me. I had no desire in having power over the people—only the rulers. I was there to guard, as appointed by Illyon itself, and guard I would.
So in the end, the complaints they threw at me—even those that the remaining Elders would still throw at me later—wouldn’t really matter. What mattered was that the people were free, and that the people behaved. If they didn’t, Aaron had this wonderful idea of creating a unit that would take care of that. Not a unit formed of the people of rulers, no. An independent unit.
Ha! Imagine the whispers when we would get to that part!
The police—or whatever the people would want to call it—would make sure that they didn’t misbehave.
A new order was in…well, order, and I was no longer fearful of loss. Not only because Samayan’s soldiers themselves had spread word of what I’d been like in my few moments of glory at the castle, and not because Aaron said I looked like an angel of death, bringing down the stars’ wrath. But because I knew that whatever happened, I’d have Illyon. I’d forever have the power of the sky.
And most importantly, I would have all of my friends right behind me.
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