CHAPTER TWELVE
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NYSSA'S POV
THE NIGHT BEFORE
I sat in a chair on my bedroom balcony looking up at the stars 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 by my neck, Jaka my siren merged with my spirit to help release us from his grip but when we held his hand, we saw the silhouette of a hand continually stabbing a knife into a hot cauldron filled with dirty looking water. A male scream filled the air as the contents in the cauldron turned into blood. The scene changed to that of a bedroom with the dragon prince having rough s****l intercourse with the blonde female I met with him in the hall. I heard her moaning as he held her head down across a large bed, grunting as he intensified his savagery. I move closer to them but stopped when I saw through the reflection of a standing mirror the image of a different man pounding into the girl. The reflection I saw was of 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, as he continued pounding into the whimpering girl beneath him. He looked at me through the mirror and gave me a sinister smile before he withdrew from her and transformed into a huge blue dragon and rushed towards me but the scene changed 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 filled with destruction. The sky was coloured red as dragons fought huge creatures I had never seen before in the sky 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 catch a glimpse of her face and see that it is Nicarra. Her eyes are closed with her head resting on the crook of his 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 is in the room with several other lycans, looking at us with a death stare. Time moved slowly and my siren began to sing in my head as I watched him walk slowly towards us staring at me with pitch black eyes.Darell dropped me and handed me over to Sana before he turned around and took a defensive stand in siren form to prevent the Lycan prince from coming closer. 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 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 if 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.' I stopped her with my hand and proceeded to tell her all I had seen through our mind link. She listened carefully till I was done.
'None of this makes sense Nyssa.' she replied through the link
'He mistook me for Nicarra somehow and rejected me instead of her. I need to protect her.''
'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 advice you 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 were to know 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 lightening 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 its Lisa thats calling and feel guilty for forgetting about her. I pick up the call and she tells me to meet her at the school hospital.
'Why, what happened?' I ask
'Its Nicarra, she's hurt.'
The night was long but I am glad that Nicarra came out of the hospital okay.
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 not.
'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, no 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 mum. 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.'
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