SCHOOL OF MAGICAL ENLIGHTENMENT

VISIONS

NYSSA'S POV

I sat on a chair on my bedroom balcony, looking up at the moon, thinking back to the night Nicarra was hospitalized. I haven't told anyone except Sana yet, but that night, I had my first vision, and it was a vision of Nicarra's death and the destruction of the world.

When the dragon prince grabbed me, Jaka my siren rose in anger at his audacity, but when I gripped his hand to release his choke hold, my spirit was carried to a dark hall where I saw the silhouette of a girl continually stabbing a knife into a hot cauldron. A male scream filled the air as the contents in the cauldron turned into blood that spilt to the floor. The scene shifts to that of a bedroom with the dragon prince having intercourse with the blonde female that stood with him. I heard her moan as he had his way with her. I was trying to break out of the trance when I noticed the image reflection of a vanity mirror not far from the bed was different from reality. The mirror image was that of a different man. A blond, tall but lanky man with a huge dragon tattoo on his back. He looked angry with blood spilling from a festering wound on his chest. His actions mirror that of the prince, but he wept tears of blood and wailed sorrowfully.

He looked at me through the mirror and transformed into a huge blue dragon and rushing towards me but the scene changed yet again yet again and I saw the dragon prince screaming with a lifeless body in his arms as he rocked back and forth on the ground, covered in blood, mumbling to himself. The world around us was in chaos. The sky was coloured red as dragons fought huge creatures I had never seen before, and dead bodies littered the ground, soiling it with rivers of blood. I moved closer to the crying prince and heard him call the person in his arms his mate, begging her to wake up. I move closer to find Nicarra with her eyes closed and her head resting on the crook of the princes arm, unresponsive to his plea. Her white dress stained with the crimson red colour of blood. I run towards them, but the vision ends as I am dropped on the floor by the prince.

'I WARREN EDGAR DRAGONSTONE REJECT YOU NYSSA AS MY MATE.' he said to me, and like a sword, those words cut through the noise in the room, killing it in one swift swoop. Madness erupted around me, but all I kept seeing was the image of Nicarra's dead body, and it filled my heart with sorrow. I realized I needed to prevent her by all means necessary from coming to the hall and picked up my phone to call her. It rang a few times before she picked up my call. When I heard her voice, the flood gates of my tears opened, and I began to sob as I called her name.

'Nicarra' I said admist tears trying to form a sentence to prevent her from coming but before I could say anything else, my cousin Darell picked me up in bridal style making me drop the phone as he navigated through the chaos around us with his mate Sana following closely behind us. I heard a ferocious growl and looked in that direction to find Lisa's brother in the room with several other lycans, picking up his sister Lisa.. Time moved slowly, and my siren began to sing in my head as I watched him walk slowly towards an exit with pitch-black eyes. Some sirens had already begun attacking the dragons, so Darell dropped me and handed me over to Sana before he turned around to prevent the violence from escalating. Sana kissed his neck from behind before she pulled me out of the dining hall.

'Are you alright, princess?' Sana asked me, checking on my bruised neck and other parts of my body.

'Sana, please, I need to get to Nicarra, I don't want her to come here.' I said to her.

'We need to get you treated first.' she responded as she motioned for us to get to one of the ambulances waiting outside to treat students injured during the stampede.

'I will be fine, Sana. I need to get to Nicarra right now.'

'Nyssa, you have just gone through a rejection. We need to take care of you first!' she told me.

'No, I didn't, that is why I must find Nicarra.'

'Nyssa, please, your words are scaring me, we all saw.' but before she finished, I opened my telepathic link to let her see the visions I just had. She patiently browsed the interiors of my mind till I finished showing all that I had seen.

'None of this makes sense, Nyssa.' she said through the link

'He mistook me for Nicarra somehow and rejected me instead of her. I need to protect her, "I responded

'I fear dark magic is at play here, Nyssa, so you will need to proceed with caution. Dark magic isn't something to be triffled with lightly. I will advise you to tell no one...'

'But Nicarra...'

'Especially not Nicarra, it is obvious something is amiss with the dragon prince, the last thing we need is a war with dragons. If Nicarra finds out he attacked you, what do you think she would do?'

'Oh no!' I responded

'What? What is it?' she asked, looking at me worriedly.

'My phone?' I responded touching my pockets.

'You dropped it in the hall, why?'

'I was calling Nicarra when Darell picked me up.' I responded, looking at her.

'Thalassa, help us,' she responded, then we heard a lightning strike at another wing of the hall. Darrell walks out of the hall without a scratch, and Sana rushes into his arms. I look away to give them their privacy and see an ambulance pass in front of us, followed by several lycans and flying dragons. Jaka starts to sing again, and the largest of them stops to look at me for a moment. Darell stands in front of me, and the lycan resumes on his journey.

'What happened?' Sana asked him.

'Nothing to worry your pretty head about, my love.' Darell responded before he proceeded to hug me, whispering, 'Everything is going to be fine, Nyssa, I promise you.'

A phone rings, and I recognize the tone as mine. Darell fishes it out of his pocket and hands it to me. I see that it's Lisa that's calling and feel guilty for forgetting about her. I picked up the call, and she told me to meet her at the school hospital.

'Why, what happened?' I ask.

'It's Nicarra. She's hurt.'

It has been days since the incident, and I am glad that everyone came out of the hospital okay. I haven't seen the princes since our confrontation at the hospital, but the lycan prince calls his sister every day, and sometimes Lisa will extend his greetings to me, which makes my heart flutter.

Classes have resumed, but Nicarra and a lot of other people, including Darrell, have been prevented from joining us until the end of the school investigations. Many applaud me for my actions, not understanding the truth behind my silence. My thoughts were broken by the sound of Lisa's voice, 'Nyssa, have you seen my curling iron?' she asks.

'Bathroom, left corner!' I respond.

'Thanks,' she screams back

I chuckle and look in the direction of a few shrubs where I notice movement. After a few minutes, I look back up at the full moon basking beneath her beauty.

'You know it's very rude to stare.' Lisa's soft voice says behind me, and I turn around startled. We both laugh and start to talk for a few minutes until my phone rings, and I pick it up.

'Hello,' I say

'Hello dear' I hear my mums voice

'Hi mum, is everything okay at home? How's dad and grandpa?' I say trying to act normal.

'We aren't at home, that's why I am calling you.'

'Where are you?'

'We arrived at your school a few hours ago.'

'What! We? Dad came with you?' I asked, surprised.

'Did you expect me not to?' I heard my dad ask.

'Hi dad, its not like that. I know you have so many important things to deal with.'

'Nothing is more important than my girls, do you understand?' My father responds.

'Yes, Daddy,' I respond smiling.

'We tried calling Nicarra, but her phone is switched off. Is she okay?' My mum asks.

'She always switches off her phone at night because she is a light sleeper. I'm sure she's fine. Don't worry.'

'I need you and Nicarra to meet me and your father tomorrow morning. We will be sending a servant to pick you up early, so you need to be ready.'

'Okay, mum, no problem.'

See you both in the morning dear, love you.'

'Love you both, mum.' I say before hanging up

I look over at Lisa and see she's receiving a call as well. She drops the call soon after and looks at me with a worried look.

'My parents are here' she says and I respond that mine have also arrived.

'The dragon king is here as well with the queen.' she said

'So?' I asked

'So? You really don't know anything about the dragon king, do you?' she asks me.

'Do I need to be worried?' I ask and she tells me about the history of the man called the dragon king.

'What are we going to do Lisa? I can't let him hurt Nicarra.'

'We can't do anything till morning. Right now we just need to think of a plan to stall things till we are sure she's safe.'