Worlds Apart 4: Ryan's Hope
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Just then something snapped inside Liana. For every time she’d been kicked, bitten, pushed, made fun of, looked down upon, spit on, beaten, and called Omega, the power inside Liana grew…and grew…and grew…until a fiery red heat poured out of her chest and exploded outward, searing everyone who was filled with hate within a ten foot radius to ash. The Sword of Nuada flew into the air.
Though Liana magickally attacked as a Lioness female, once unconscious, she could not maintain her shift to reverted back to her human form. Without anyone to hold the sword, everyone expected it to fall to the ground in a clatter of metal. Instead, it circled in the air, twirling and twirling, faster and faster, almost celebrating in victory. Liana probably could have told them exactly what it was doing and feeling.
* * * *
With his mate still unconscious, Ryan pressed his neck communicator. Emergency transportation to the medical bay, STAT. Something has happened to Liana and she’s now unconscious.
Fifteen minutes later, Liana still lay in the pink mist of the healing chamber and Ryan was repeating the exact chain of events that led up to her being there to the third doctor on board the medical ships. Liana finally began to stir. Rushing over to the clear dome, he wanted to be the first thing she’d see when she broke through the layers sedation she’d been under while they’d try to figure out what had happened on the planet below.
What happened, Ryan?
That’s my question? How did you do whatever you did, love?
She shook her head, a V of confusion marring the lines of her forehead. “I just remember being very angry all of a sudden. Then it wasn’t just about The Black Rose or Valla but about all the times someone abused me because I was the Omega by accident of my gift. About all the things I’d taken, all the abuse, and as I thought about those things, I could feel the power building inside me, building and building, and I suddenly knew exactly how to free the sword. I had to free all the hate that had built inside me, and let it all out at once, in one big burst. I guess I’d stored up an awful lot of hate in my lifetime.”
Ryan chuckled, bending his head to laugh in his shirt. “You could say that. Valla never even got a chance to show off her sword-wielding skills, since you took out the Black Rose and every vampire in that particular compound all together.
“But that was just the beginning. We found notes, plans. And that Sword you found, that Sword that seems to have claimed you for now, says there are two other weapons that must be found before an ancient curse that was written ten thousand millennia ago kills us all.”
“And when is this deadline coming up?”
“You have until May 2012, or we’re all doomed.”
Epilogue
Valla Logann couldn’t believe that she was on her way to the legendary planet of Earth to beg one of their mythical Gods to help them in their war against the Iblisors. If they had their facts rights, and their own Goddess Mari insisted they did, then the blood-drinkers had once tormented those living on Earth as well. She could only hope that at least one of the Gods would listen to the pleas of her and her allies. But she knew it wouldn’t be easy.
Amy, Maryann, and even Eve and Liana had all told her many times over that men don’t show women of royalty, especially blonde women, much respect. They expect them to be no more than an accessory for their arms, without minds of their own. Well, she’d never fit into that role and she’d not try to. She had several Gods she would try to speak to first. Those of water would be easier for her relate to, so hopefully she wouldn’t have trouble with Pontis, Poseidon or Neptune. If those didn’t work out, well, she had others she could try. The best part of the trip was being out from under the eyes of all her older brothers and her overbearing father.
Besides, what trouble could she get into on a world where no one knows her and no one suspects she’s here?
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