by Amari A
Chapter 21
I fly towards where I sense Velshkar and land. I look over and see that Onyx is keeping up with me just fine. I land in an area of the forest that looks like it has seen better days. The trees look dead and there is nothing but rocks and brown dirt all over the place. My senses start tingling behind me and I turn and see Velshkar coming out of the forest along with his creepy human self and a few other dragons.
“Well, Princess Semaj, I see that you’ve played directly into my hand,” he says. “I knew that I could get you to come to me. All I had to do was kill someone close to you. I thought about doing that best friend of yours in, but I decided to hurt your dad too, while I was at it.”
“You may think that you have me where you want me but I hardly think that you do,” I say, trying to keep my emotions in check like Simon taught me.
“Well I disagree. You’re out here with only one measly dragon to help you while I have a whole army to address my every need,” he says.
“So I’m supposed to be scared that you need an entire army to take on one little dragon princess,” I say baiting him.
“I can take you on myself,” he says as he steps closer to me.
“I don’t think that you can. I think that’s why you hide in my dreams because you knew that once we got face to face your reign of terror would be over.”
“You don’t scare me Princess.”
“Yes I do. I scare you so much that you can’t sleep at night.”
I see the frustration building inside of him, but I still need him to try to attack me. I feel Onyx take a protective step towards me but I really don’t need him for this one. I know exactly what I’m doing. I got the idea from Simon when he said that my powers were tied into my emotions.
“I can guarantee you, Princess, I sleep just fine at night.”
“I bet you don’t. I bet you toss and turn just thinking, is this the day that Semaj is going to destroy me.”
“You’ll never destroy me, Princess! I will be the one to destroy you! Matter of fact, in order to prove it, I’ll take out your little friend right now,” he says.
He flies up into the air and lunges towards Onyx, but as soon as he does I pull all the anger and hurt I can from within me and shoot a fireball at his human form, disintegrating it. He immediately drops to the ground and I walk over to him. “Like I said, you never had me where you wanted me. You may have killed my mom, but I’m the one who got to kill you.”
He smirks. “You may think that you have done something, but Princess I’m only the tip of the iceberg,” he says before he disappears.
The dragons that were under his spell slowly come out of their trance and start to look around confused. I feel Onyx behind me again and he looks at me sympathetically. “Are you okay?” he asks.
I shake my head.
The dragons that were under the spell start to fly away, leaving Onyx and me in the forest alone. He wraps one of his wings around me and I start to cry, letting everything inside of me out. My mom was everything to me. She’s the one who reeled my dad in when he was on one of his rampages and she was the one who helped me understand him when he got into his moods now it was just me and my dad and he didn’t understand me at all. I pull away from Onyx and look at him.
“I think that we better head back to the castle now,” I say.
He nods his head. “I think so, too.”
Soon as the words come out of his mouth a heavy wind starts to blow around us and a deep voice booms around us. “You may think that you’re in the clear, chosen one, but there is much more to come and we won’t be as easily defeated as Velshkar was.” The wind dies down and the voice goes away.
“I just can’t catch a break,” I say as I start to fly back to the castle.
Onyx and I make it back to the castle in record time and see my dad, Simon, and Brenden standing outside of the castle doors. We land and my dad looks as if he’s completely broken.
“Did you defeat him?” asks Brenden.
“Yes,” I say.
“So it’s over?” asks Simon.
I look at Onyx and then back at them. “No, there’s something else out there and I’m not even sure what it is. But I can tell you that it’s a lot stronger than Velshkar was.”
They each look at me in disbelief and I look down at the ground. The job of a heroine was never done, but this was one job that I really wish that I could give back. I didn’t want this job in the first place. It got my mom killed, but I would make sure that no one else around me got killed and I mean it. Whatever was out there was going to regret the day it came across Semaj.
Dear Reader,
Thank you so much for reading Semaj’s story. As you can see, she is not your average princess. She has issues just like the rest of us in the world except her issues try to kill her on more than one occasion. There are five more books left in the series and they each get a lot longer so be on the lookout for them. It only gets crazier from here. And if you’ve enjoyed Semaj’s story or hated it, please feel free to leave a review online and share your thoughts. Reviews are gold to authors and help us improve each and every story that we write. Thanks for the support. I love to hear from each and every one of you, so please feel free to send an email to the email address at the end of the book to either me or Semaj because I’m sure that she would also love to hear from you.
Amari A
Coming Summer
2015
Semaj and the Den of Deception
About the Author
Amari A is a paranormal writer who resides in South Carolina. You can find her dancing around her room with headphones on, singing loudly to every song that comes on the radio whether she knows the words or not, or having conversations with the voices in her head. She loves writing about dragons, shifters, and anything out of the ordinary. Probably because she herself is anything but ordinary. She loves to hear from her readers, so feel free to drop her a line anytime.
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