SCHOOL OF MAGIC AND ENLIGHTENMENT THE LOST NEPHILIM

CHAPTER 11

WARRENS POV

I am woken from my sleep by a nightmare, similar to recurring nightmare I used to have, not long after I returned home to my biological parents.

The reoccurring nightmare started with me constantly seeing a boy about my age, whom I had never met, with a bleeding hole in his chest blaming me for his death. Shortly after, the nightmares started turning violent with the both of us fighting. I didn't have a close relationship with my parents, so I called mama Winter who understood me better than anyone else, even more than Lucas and told her about the dreams. She took me to grandma Celine who is her biological mother and a powerful hybrid witch. Grandma Celine said I had been cursed and somehow bound with a spirit of a boy who had died a terrible and traumatic death, and his connection with me would slowly drive me mad. Grandma Celine with the help of her coven performed a cleansing ritual for me and the nightmares stopped. Grandma Celine however warned me not to tell anyone about the hex until she found a way to completely break it. Without knowing who or how the hex was made there was a possibility that I would encounter the spirit again, but if I did , to notify her immediately. For two years the nightmares stopped until tonight. However in this recent dream, the boy sat by a river of blood, showing me his blood stained hand, begging me to release him from his torment before proceeding to attack me and reopen the stitches in my back. The intense pain forcing me back into consciousness . I lay in my bed, with my hands behind my head trying to make sense of it all.

I wish I could tell my parents, but my father barely talks to me. He just looks at me with an unreadable expression and my mum is really gentle, always regal, prim and proper but she looks really fragile and is even quieter than my dad is. At least she smiles everytime she sees me. I pick up my phone and call Lucas but he doesn't answer, so I call Cecil to check on her recovery but she doesn't pick up either. I get up and go to the bathroom and turn on the showers, thinking about the conversion Lucas and I had in the hospital. He told me I attacked a hybrid siren princess, an action which could easily have led to war between three races and I can't even remember doing it. So many things happened to me that night and I remember some of them, but none of the actions that the I am accused of and if I didn't hear it from Lucas himself, I would have denied all of the accusations laid against me.When I told Lucas a little of what I experienced with Menace in my nind, I could tell from the look on his face he knew more than he was telling me but knowing Lucas, he wont tell me anything no matter how I much I ask him. I feel so alone in this.

As the water from the showers cascaded down my body, my thoughts go back to the events of that night. I remember walking into the dinning room with Cecil and seeing Lisa with her friend. I call Lisa over to me and Menace strangely started thrashing around painfully in my head, making it seem like my head was about to explode. I went deep into my mind to check on him because I didn't sense any danger but he wouldn't look at me, nor talk to me, nor let me take back control. I was trapped so deeply in my own mind and body, I didn't know what he was doing until he began to thrash around again in my mind leaving me a window to take back control. I used the opportunity to take control of my body again but when I did, I saw a small but velopcious, brown haired girl with the most beautiful purples eyes I had ever seen, running over to me with a look that would fell a dinasour but before she got close, Menace took over our body again and I saw her within my mind hitting my face, but Menace did nothing to protect us from her. The impact of her hand felt like my body was hit by a bolt of lightening and an intense burning sensation spread rapidly through my entire body. I asked Menace why he did nothing and he replied through pain that he needed to help our mate because only she could save us.

'Save us from what?' I asked him and suddenly a dark mist began to form around us. Menace used his body as a shield around me as the dark mist gathers getting bigger until it took the the form of a snake writhing in pain, seeming to be the most affected from the impact.

'What is that?' I asked Menace but Menace didn't respond. He growled at the snake and it hissed back at him before they both began to fight. The snake fell and Menace took over our body, walking towards two girls I saw were fighting in the snow. Menace grips the shorter, brown haired girl by the waist, who seemed to be having the upper hand over Cecil and carries her up. The physical impact made Menace to purr and the snake out of nowhere pushed Menace aside and took control of my body, gripped the girl tighter and elongated it's fangs to bite her on the neck but Menace raced back to the snake, took control of my body and turned us both around spreading out his wings. Menace opened his mouth to mark the strange girl but the snake bit him on the thigh and pushed us both into the deepest recess of my mind. I run to Menace to see the extent of his wounds and notice several bite marks all over him.

'Why didn't you tell me Menace?'

'To... protect... you... and... mate.' he responded with difficulty. Not too long after I felt several needles pricking my my back and knew that I had been wounded. Menace and I were released from the dark blanket surrounding us and we saw the snake writhing in pure agony for several minutes until it finally fell. It started changing form again and turned into blue dragon, of a smaller size than Menace. It looked at Menace and I for a brief moment before it laid it's head down, closed it's eyes and dissipated. The last thing I remember was the sweet smell of vanilla and Menace saying, 'Mine', before we both lose conciousness.

I come back to the present when my ears pick up movement in my bedroom and I wrap a towel around myself, extending my talons in preparation for the worst. I open the door and the smell of vanilla invades my nostrils. Menace rumbles within me and my entire body tingles as he merges his senses with mine, enhancing them. Using our warrior skills, I walk with stealth into the room and find that my bed sheets are rumpled with a gold pin laying on them. I pick up the pin curiously and hear a gasp on my balcony. Walking quietly, I see a female walking backwards and Menace purrs at the sight of her, lowering our guard. She seemed shocked at the sight of something and doesn't notice us until her back hits my chest and my entire body tingles with sparks.

She turns around and looks at my chest before looking up at my face with a look of both fear and surprise. She whispers something to herself as she tries to run but I grip her by the arm and sudden feel like the earth has been swept beneath my feet. I land on my bed with her on top of me and swiftly turn us both around using my weight to pin her on the bed, holding her hands above her head to prevent her from casting a spell. She struggles beneath me, grinding against my third leg, making Menace pants within me with his s****l urge growing and I close my eyes, desperately holding unto the little restraint I have left. She suddenly stops, realising the akwardness of our situation and I open my eyes to look down at her beautiful face and find her shivering beneath me, looking up at me with her hair fanned out across my bed. Suddenly my door bursts open and in walks Lucas with my adoptive parents alpha Jared and mama Winter who all look at us surprised, clearly misunderstanding the situation.

'Its alright son, we'll be downstairs. Take your time.' Alpha Jared says pulling out his wife and son while Lucas pulls a fist in the air before locking the door.

I groan wishing the ground will swallow me whole.