A year and a half later.
The castle is empty. Akasha is long since dead and her minions left not long after that. I still have the castle though, even if the hunting is not good. I am still queen. My throne is still here, but I am alone.
As I stand on the balcony from my room, I fume at Eyroh. He should be back by now. Has he deserted me?
I know he is alive, for he can take care of himself, but he would have at least contacted me, even if the mission had failed, he would have come back�
I killed Akasha. She and her closest allies had planned a takeover. Vampires are no match for a fire demigod let. I remember fighting her. It had been a challenge, but she was speared on the end of my sword in the finale.
A breeze picked up. Eyroh? Maybe not. I missed him. And the others. They had been my comrades, my true power, my strength. Now they were gone.
�Navisa?� I whirled around form the balcony and heard a door slam downstairs. I ran to the main doors, in the large cavernous entrance, usually so full of grandeur but now empty. I looked around.
�Eyroh?� I called. �Eyroh?�.� I stared a the doors. �Navisa� said someone behind me.
I turned slowly. �Eyroh!� I exclaimed, lunging forward and hugging him. He did not move.
Still holding him, I asked �Where have you been? What happened?� not moving, he said, �Navisa, I have something to�that happened�.�
It was then that it hit me. This was NOT Eyroh. I stepped back in horror, retreating to the doors.
�You�re not Eyroh! You�re, you�re, you�re�.the human he took over. His SHELL!!! That is imposs��
�No, Navisa, I am Eryoh�s host, but I control him and his powers now. His abilities are mine.�
I watched with ever-growing dread as my comrades stepped out of the shadows, along with humans. I felt the demons in them, all suppressed but the power of the human�s soul.
This is not what they would do to me. Thousands of years of servitude. To a stupid, pitiling human�.
I opened the doors and ran, ignoring the pain from the thorn bushes outside the door and the darts that hit me in the legs and back. I ran, truly scared for the first time in my life. My feet flew over the ground, my legs screamed, unused to the treatment. I hit a branch, tearing out a chunk of sleeve and slicing open my arm. I kept going. I grew delirious and saw things that reached out of the ground to grab me. I screamed and turned left. Must get away. Got to keep going. Something dashed in front of me, picked me up bodily, and threw me backwards. Eyroh.
He materialized in front of me. So did the other four. The humans shot me with more darts. I got up and attempted to make a wall of fire between me and them to stave their attack off�.I couldn�t concentrate. I was helpless, the darts had somehow�.NO, I was Navisa. Queen of�.Nothing. I was weak. A human shoved me from behind. Eyroh, Coran, Katasha,, Oron, and Derran caught me. I shoved them away.
�NO!� I shouted. �Stay Away!��I was shot with a different dart, a more potent mix�. ��from me!!� I said, then collapsed.
Everything went black.
I woke up. My head pounded. My legs ached. I tried to get up from lying down and couldn�t, then I realized that I was chained to a solid block of stone. I looked around. There were several monks or witches or whatever. Then I saw what scared me the most�..five stone sarcophagi, each covered in markings of binding, and control. I looked up( or straight ahead, as I was laying down) My coffin. My chains, My binding stone. The heads of this operation approached. I could feel their power. I would hear one��We have the last, their leader. All that is left to bind he to the light. Then the tyranny of the demons shall end at their hands.� They reached the top of the palisade where our coffins sat. the male who had commented reached the top first, and the others filed in behind him. I looked over at them. They were hooded and wearing the colors of the elements. Fire, Air, Earth, Water, Metal, Wood.
Oh�.our powers. For Good? No. Never. I tried to break free of my bonds, but a feeling of doubt came over me. What would I do if I broke free? Eyroh and the others were bound. I would never be able to reverse that magic. My kingdom is gone. I have no one and nothing. I could wait. Bide my time. Seize the correct chance.
I decided.