Hells Royalty The Princess

by Wennberg, Jessica

  "No. They are hiding very well in the darkness. If they would come just a little closer then I would be able to see features, but now they are only a black outline. Let's just go inside, it is only a human, so whoever it is they really cannot hurt us. Maybe they will just leave and not bother us anymore." I smiled up at him and the thought of just being normal popped up again, but I just pushed it out of my mind. I would never be normal, or ever live a normal life.

  He followed me inside where I turned off all the lights and lit some candles, by hand the normal, human way.

  "Oohh, are we getting romantic?" Jace used a seductive tone which he could have pulled off really well on any other female, but on me it just irritated me mainly because of the situation.

  "No, I just know how horrible a humans' eyesight is and I know that the flickering of the candle flames can screw up the eyesight even more. The way the flame dances around it makes the human mind play tricks on itself."

  "Ah, I see so are you trying to confuse the other human out there? Because you see I am no regular human, I am a prophet and my mind cannot be tampered with." He said it in a joking manner, but I knew the truth that when a prophet starts to have a lot of visions that it can in fact interfere with their mind and can also make them insane.

  Was I about to tell him, hell no. I was not going to be the one to drop that bomb, if his mom was smart she put that information somewhere in all the journals and he would find out eventually.

  We talked a little about some of the small details that he found out. He had discovered that his grandparents on both sides had also been prophets and other inconsequential details. After about two hours the hum of the new human disappeared so I decided to take a make perimeter check.

  "Ok whoever it was is gone so I am going out to do a perimeter check and see if I can find any clues. Stay inside, read some journals, and I will be back in a few." I smiled as I left because as he sleepily nodded that he would and even reached for a journal he wound up lying down on the couch where I vacated it and yawned loudly before he drifted off to sleep.

  The perimeter was clear so I could only assume that the person warranted me no harm but I would never put anything past anyone.

  I checked my spells and took the long way back around the perimeter. I could smell the rain it was just moments away and I waited in anticipation for it to land on me and bring me news from Grayson.

  Even before it hit my skin I could hear the whispers it was bringing to me. It was talking to me telling me what Grayson had said.

  "Okay, I hear you. I'll keep a watch out. You take care and be ever watchful" Grayson had warned me back, there he was always watching my back still to this day after everything that had happened between us.

  Chapter 9--Girls, Drama, and Demons…Oh My

  I awoke mid-morning after having fallen asleep around 3 A.M. Normally I can get by on a few hours of sleep and for a few weeks there it seemed that my new magic was draining my energy. Now I feel like I did when I was younger and could go days without sleep and still be fully charged.

  Hmm, maybe this full power stuff wasn't going to be so draining after all.

  I got out of bed and headed to the shower but on my way there my reflection in the mirror caught me off guard. No, I'm not so vain that I just have to look at myself, but I'm the type of girl who just goes natural and never wears make-up, nor do I rarely fix my hair other than a braid or a ponytail. But the person in the mirror was not the person that I had been seeing in the mirror lately. This woman was beautiful, she had full, shiny hair that held many different shades of brown that all seemed to stand out yet blend in together perfectly.

  My skin was also radiant and flawless. I was a walking demon-witch supermodel, a perfect weapon for a demon if those powers became more dominant. I checked my body and sure enough the scars that I had received from demon poisons were beginning to become less obvious, and unfortunately for me the demon powers were also purging my skin of my ink.

  Damnit, those tats costs me lots of money and they held so many memories of times I never wanted to forget.

  Looking at myself again I was in complete awe and complete disgust at the same time. My demon powers were warping me into the perfect beauty machine that could draw in and lead my victims to do vile, dark deeds. I was in awe because of the beauty that leads to the darkness and then disgust because of what I could be capable of doing to someone. I turned away at the full stomach of disgust and headed to the shower. I needed to wash away the fear of what was to come, and the anxiousness that I felt all over me. I was so jittery because of everything that was happening. Nothing was going how I had planned and it sure as hell wasn't happening like my mom had ever described in her journals.

  An hour later I was downstairs finding Jace still asleep on the couch. He had four open journals around him, clothes disheveled, and his hair was a right mess. I repressed a laugh and headed on into the kitchen to start some breakfast.

  I made coffee, oatmeal, and cut fresh fruit; it would all still be good whenever he decided to join the world. I made a plate and headed to the back porch for some fresh air while I ate. I couldn't help but be outside whenever I could, I was a witch and my natural abilities relied on the energy that the earth and all her aspects provided.

  Everything still glistened in the rain; drops still clung to the leaves and the porch rail. Soon the sun would dry them up but for now, they were here and I could still slightly hear Grayson’s voice in them.

  I finished eating and decided to check the property after the rain and also my protection spells need to be reenergized every day, no matter what. As I made my way around the property I noticed that a group of bushes on the west side of the house didn't have the reflection of diamonds like the rest but a glowed bright like rubies.

  I touched the bushes and sure enough it was blood that coated the bushes. It had been done after the rain so it was still fresh feeling. The blood was making the plants hurt because of the vile act that had been committed to put the blood there. After closer examination I found the source of the blood and discovered a small black cat, not quite an adult cat but not a kitten either.

  The heart and guts had been removed from the body but they were nowhere in sight of the area. Where were they? I had to deal with this now. I laid the cat back down gently and vowed to it that I would put it to rest shortly.

  I headed inside and rushed up the stairs to get my gear. After putting my boots on and grabbing a small leather bag that held some of my favorite items to help spell someone I headed down to wake Jace.

  "JACE! Get up, NOW!!" I yelled at him as I was heading down the stairs. He fell off the couch and landed with a thud that knocked his breath out for a moment.

  "What? What's going on?" he asked in a state between alertness and grogginess.

  "Someone came back and mutilated a cat. I don't remember hearing the human alarm again so I guess I am going to need to make it stronger and louder sounding." I told him as I went around to all the windows lighting candles and sage. I needed to purify the house of the death and the darkness that had occurred here. It was just a horrible act to commit and on my property where I lived and made everything as pure as possible. Ugh, the nastiness of people!!

  "A cat? But why, no one here knows you? Why would a human do this?" he asked all alert now and with a sound of shock in his voice.

  I opened the front door to go outside and start purifying the outside and that's when I found the heart and entrails. Written on my door in blood was the message…

  Slut - you need to leave Bitch

  No witch claims? Really, this was not going where I thought it was. This had nothing to do with me and my heritage…hmm; things were not fitting into place.

  "Jace, I found the rest of the cat and the message. It's not witch related, it's more bitch related apparently. This was not done for a supernatural reason." I sighed and made my way around the house purifying it.

  I heard him sigh as he read the message and then headed back in the
house. When I had made my way all the way around the house I found Jace on his hands and knees, scrubbing the porch. He had already bagged up the remains and was cleaning off the blood. The door was already clean, as much as it could be without some magical help.

  "I'm really sorry about this, I never thought she would go this far. That had to have been Elsie last night. Geez I cannot believe she would go this far." He was furious sounding.

  "You really believe that Elsie did this? Great! Just what I needed on top of everything, ex-bitch drama, like my life isn't complicated enough!" I muttered and went in the house; I had to go perform the actual spell to make the cleansing actually work.

  It took me till lunch to purify the house, the property, and finish cleaning all the blood and guts up. I also buried the cat with her parts', so she would finally be at rest.

  I did a quick wash up and headed out the moment Jace left to go home and clean-up. This was something that I was not going to let go, I was going to take care of this bitch once and for all.

  Luck must have been with me because she was getting out of her car just as I pulled up. I wasted no time and pulled up right in front of her before she made it in the door.

  "Hey, watch where you're going….oh no wonder. The driving skills match the driver, downright offensive." She glared at me and made to go around me.

  I jumped out of the Jeep and stopped her before she could go two feet, yes I admit to using my powers. I rather enjoyed the confused look that she was giving me, trying to figure out how I got in front of her so fast. Boy was I going to have fun with this one.

  "Elsie, how dare you trespass on my property last night? You are such a peeping tom and one who sacrifices animals is disgusting." I said to her loud enough for passersby to catch what I was saying.

  She turned a little paler, but otherwise kept her cool for the most part. Then she did the stupid female thing of tossing her hair over her shoulder and giving me that scoffing sound.

  "Uhh, I don't know what you are talking about. Why would I have any reason to even come near you, let alone be a peeping tom? Please! I am more dignified than that, I am a Southern Belle." She even had the face to go with the tone and I was pleased to be knocking this bitch off her pedestal.

  "Oh really, so that wasn't you last night in my woods watching me and Jace make out on the porch. Hmm, what other jealous ex-girlfriend does he have that's psychotic?" I really was trying to keep my magic and powers reined it, but it was getting harder to do that by the second.

  "You have really lost your mind new girl. I don't give a damn what Jace does anymore. You are so pathetic in your attempt to win him. Spouting all these lies about me being a peeping tom is just plain ridiculous."

  Then the bitch had the nerve to cock her hips out and put her hands on them like I was the freshmen geek and she was senior queen. Yeah senior queen bitch whose about to get knocked on her ass.

  "I'm not spouting lies about you being a peeping tom. I'm telling you and everyone listening that I know it was you who watched Jace and I and then took it a sadistic step further and sacrificed a poor cat on my door and left me a message in blood. Now I don't know anyone else here who is so desperate to get Jace back other than you. And as for me being pathetic, I don't have to do anything to win him over, you pretty much just handed him to me on an effing gold platter. And I'm quite certain that you just sealed your fate with him forever by completely pushing him away. Oh, I also brought you what I could scrape up of the cat, hope you can live with that." I then threw a cup of pigs’ blood with bits and pieces of its heart and entrails in her face.

  The scream that came out of her mouth rivaled my demon alarm on my property, that's how freaking loud she screamed.

  I didn't feel it was necessary to tell her I stopped by the butchers on my way over and got this from him. He was slaughtering a pig for food, so I just asked to have the scraps, I told him it was for my bitch who was in heat and was in need of some extra protein. Technically I really wasn't lying; she is a bitch in heat.

  "YOU BITCH! You will…" she started to say, but I stepped in close to her and talked only so she could hear me and my tone said everything.

  "No, you will listen to me. I told you not to mess with me. I gave you one warning and now there are no more warnings. You are on my shit list and karma is always on my side, she will be seeking you out now. I make good on my promises and I promise you, you mess with Jace or me again, I will see you dead. Do you understand that?" I didn't give her a chance to answer or say anything else. My point was made and I'll be damned if she didn't smell like she just peed all over herself.

  I smiled to myself, very pleased. I had stood up to a human, in well never and I have to admit that felt pretty damn good. No wonder all these chicks spouted off shit all the time, but lucky for me I do have karma on my side and she looks out for me.

  I drove home and was feeling all kinds of giddy, that was until I pulled up and found Jaces' truck in my driveway. Oh he was not going to be pleased with my actions. I had just done something dark and horrible. Oh my god, what had I just done? I gave in to my dark side and now I felt like shit, hells bells. Karma is going to be so pissed at me, because I had let the dark side take over for me to do that and she is not going to be on my side about this. Ugh, I felt sick, sick of myself.

  I went in and found Jace on the couch with a notebook and journals lying around. He was making notes of everything he was reading. Geez, he was like Sam Winchester, the demon hunter who researches everything, great but so damn annoying.

  "Hey, I've found out some very interesting things, come sit." He patted the couch and I couldn't help but just sit and listen, because I was still in shock.

  "Ok so my mom recorded all of her visions and as far as I can tell these first four journals everything has happened. I need you to do the spell again with these other three; they are next in line according to the symbols on the corners." He handed me a journal and pointed to the corner.

  "Ok, give me your finger." I wasn't going to argue or say anything else, because I was not in the mood to talk, I was more afraid if I started talking I would spill everything and I was not ready to admit out loud to someone else what I had done.

  I pricked his finger and dropped the blood on the cover and then did the same with mine. The journals opened with ease and I was in awe and frustration that both of our moms had worked together to create these journals.

  "So do you think she had some visions that could help us with the upcoming battles?" I asked thinking back to her visit with my mom.

  "Yes, I do actually. I mean she told your mom that you would meet a boy who would help you save the world and that was 10 years ago. I figure if she had that vision then she must have had others that could be helpful and I can only hope that she recorded them for me to uncover." Then he stuck his head back in a journal and started reading and taking notes.

  I would tell him later what I had done; right now I had to come to terms with it myself.

  "I think I'm going for a walk. You read and let me know what you found when I get back, k." I stood to leave but he grabbed hold of my hand.

  "Katilyn, you ok? You seem off." Now he wanted to talk about me.

  "Me, yeah I'm fine. Just still a little shook up about this morning. I just need some air and a connection to the earth to settle my mind. I'll be fine and you are completely safe here. Just read and see what you can find, maybe she left us the battle plan that we are missing." I smiled as best I could and then left the house.

  I had walked for over two hours away from the house, two hours at a normal human pace. Boy was I out of my sorts. At least if I wanted to get back in a hurry I could make that two hours only 30 minutes.

  I was well out of my wards, but I didn't really care. It's not like I was always protected when I went out. I sometimes didn't and wouldn't ward myself, if a demon really wanted to come after me; I wanted him to encounter the real deal.

  I sat down on a broken log and sorted through my feelings. I had a
lways believed that I would never give in to the darkness, especially over petty stuff. But this human crap really got under my skin. I guess I could see now why humans were such easy targets for demons and their trickery. There were so many emotions involved and so many different things that humans wanted to have done or given to them.

  The fear that I kept at bay about not being strong enough to fight off the full demon powers now completely overwhelmed me. I was stricken with a fear that I kept closed off so that I wouldn't perish on a daily basis.

  "What am I going to do? How do I fight off the darkness?" I asked out loud to nature in hopes that either she could help me or my mothers' spirit could help me.

  "Everything is all wrong. I'm alone and now making myself dependent on the visions of a new prophet who doesn't even know what half his visions mean. He keeps checking them with me to try and understand them and that should not happen. PLEASE, send me some help. I need and I want my witch nature to stay in control and I'm going to need more help than Jace can give me." I dug my hands in the dirt and listened with all my heart for any answers that might be given to me.

  NOTHING! For thirty minutes I got nothing is response to my plea. That was it; I brushed my hands off and headed home. I would go at normal speed, without any answers to myself, I was not in the mood to see or talk to Jace.

  After about 30 minutes of walking I got the tingling feeling that I was being followed and by a dark creature no less.

  I opened all of my senses, letting everything wash over me. The smells, the sounds, even the pressure in the air would let me know what kind of dark creature was following me. I also started touching trees and leaves as I walked talking to them in my touch asking them to assist me, give me some sense of who was following me.

  I could feel something about 50 feet out to my left, it was tracking me. Whatever it was it was big, no little minion, the power radiating off him was suffocating.

  "The hell with it" I muttered out loud. I couldn't very well just lead it straight back to the house where Jace was. The fewer creatures that knew about him the better.