Chapter Fourteen.
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Thane's P.O.V
"Willow try getting-" I furrow my eyebrows. Pain.
"Thane?" Like a wave, pain consumes me and I groan in anguish, falling to my knees. "Oh my god! Thane!"
"It’s okay, I’m fine Willow." I say through gritted teeth, getting up.
"No you're not." This pain, it's as if the inside of my head is about to explode. This is definitely coming from Ares. "Get me Athena."
"Thane don't-"
"Now." Running out of the room she disappeared and after a while she comes back with Athena. Athena is a witch that works for the elders and only with the elders. Once you work with the elders you can never work with anyone else, those are the rules, and right now me requesting her is not something that is done but I don't really have a choice. Miley isn't here and every witch here works for the elders.
"Thane."
"It's Ares, something is wrong and he's too far away for me to do anything about it. I need you to help him." She nods taking off her cloak.
"το σκοτεινό φως ζωντανεύει."
“Dark light come alive.” She chants positioning her hands in front of me. A circle of white candles surrounded me and the moment the pain gets even more severe the flame of the candles changes to green. "δείξε μου την αληθινή φύση του πόνου σου."
“Show me the true nature of your pain.”
"Ahh!" Athena's eyes grow wide and so do Willows. The fire, it's wrapping itself around me.
"Get him out." She says softly still looking at me with astonishment. She's frantic as her eyes scatter around the room, why?
"What?"
"GET HIM OUT NOW!" Willow reaches for me.
"Thane give me your hand." And immediately when our hands touch she pulls, trying to yank me out but I can feel the flames pulling me back. They’re pulling me back in. The last thing I see is the room being covered in those green flames before everyone goes black.
Ares's P.O.V
My body, it feels hot, why?
"I don't know but what I do know is that we shouldn't tell them." Hearing faint voices I try to open my eyes.
"Are you insane? Of course we should tell them.” Why do they sound so familiar?
"It's not our place Willow." Willow? My eyes finally peel open and I try shielding them from the light. I can barely lift my arm, what’s going on. "Ares, he's awake!" I see a blurred vision of Willow hover over me and feel her cool hand on my forehead. "His temperature is cooling down. Check Thane as well."
"Don't bother." Thane is here? His groggy voice echoes in the room. Finally adjusting my eyes I look around the room.
"Thane? Willow, Athena, Adrian.”
“How are you feeling?” Willow asks trying to get a good look at my face.
“I’m fine but, what am I doing here? And where the f**k have you been?” I look at Thane, my voice comes out a bit irritated. He sighs.
“Don’t raise your voice at me and I told you that I was needed somewhere.”
“Yeah in Alaska, where I was and you weren’t. You lied to me.”
“I don’t have to tell you every fucken thing I do Ares.” He says getting irritated.
“Guys-”
“Well you should! Instead of lying and making us unnecessarily worry about you. God! Do you think of anyone other than yourself?” I shout getting up and he does the same.
“Hey Ares-”
“Shut the f**k up you idiot.” It’s like my blood boils with every word that comes out of his mouth and before I even know it my fist makes contact with his face, it’s when gasps erupt within the room where I snap out of it. But before I can explain myself Thane’s hand is already around my neck and he throws me across the room. Falling to the ground I try getting up but he’s already in front of me, looking down at me.
“Thane don’t!”
“Fucken ungrateful.” His words sound so bitter. “I’m here because of you, covering your ass again, taking the fucken heat AGAIN! And you’re asking me if I think of anyone but myself? That’s all I ever do, and look at where that’s gotten me.” I watch him storm out of the room. Once he’s gone Adrian helps me up and I look at them.
“What is he talking about?” They try not to meet my eyes. “What the f**k is he talking about?” No, no it’s not true. It can’t be.
“That’s what he’s been doing here.” I look at Willow in disbelief as she explains everything to me. Why would he do that? “Ares?” When she calls my name I snap out of it.
“How could you guys just sit by a let him do this?”
“I tried Ares but you know how Thanatos is, he had made up his mind and there was nothing I nor any of us could have said that would have changed it.”
“You let him appear before the elders, risk his life and no one bothered to tell me.”
“There’s more.” We all look at Athena. “Thane knew you were in trouble so he asked for my help and when I tried searching for the true source of your pain I came across magic, dark magic.” I look at her in disbelief.
“What are you talking about Athena?”
“Someone used dark magic on you Ares and strong magic too.” The room falls silent.
Ramona Johnson’s P.O.V
Pain. All I feel is pain, all I hear is pain and all I see is pain. Coating me with this unbearable feeling my body falls numb and out of no where heat envelopes me.
“Ramona if you don’t hurry up you’re going to be late for school.”
“Mm.” I release a soft groan.
“Oh my god Ramona!” My sister runs to me, kneeling down she takes me in her arms. As a tear escapes my eye I say her name, before everything goes dark.
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