Darkness The Diary of Samantha Owen (27 page)

In a single blink they were already in his house. He smiled seeing that his plan continued to go well. He entered the house, crossed a passageway and entered into the closet. He went down the old staircase and waited as the wall slid open. His smile became wider seeing his two prisoners sitting on the floor. He dropped Samantha down without any care and tied her up with the other two girls. Gaia, the only one who was awake, watched him.

“How could you?” she asked him.

“It has all been thanks to you, my dear. After your potion to paralyze me failed in the second minute, I decided to change the plan a little. Not everything can be out of control. However there is definitely some merit in it for you.” He said this knowing that this thought would pursue her for the rest of her short life. “I couldn´t have done it without you.”

He left the room happy, leaving them there. He thought that he would never let them go.

Gaia tried to call the princesses, but she couldn´t wake them up. After containing so much tension she started to cry without refraining from thinking in all the bad she had caused. She had not only put the messenger in danger, but also the destiny of the Kingdom was tangled up in her hands. Now things were not going to end well.

Chapter 19

It was daytime when I opened my eyes. A blinding light was straight on my face. I tried to adapt my pupils to the light. Then I forcefully awoke to reality. My arms hurt, my wrists were burning from the rope that restrained them and I didn´t know where I was. It was a stone room, with only one window, one bed and one table. When I turned my head towards the wall I saw her, I was filled with hope.

“Hi,” I said joyful to have company. She was on my left, very close to me thanks to the cord.

“Hi
,” she answered with a hoarse voice. “I am sorry. It is my fault that you are here.”

“Are you?...” I turned my head to my right and saw her. Her fair hair shone under the sunlight. Her skin was whiter than mine, she was stained with blood and I could see how her blue outfit was also stained.

I looked at the girl with as a matter of urgency.

“Is she alright? What happened to her?”

“I don´t know, when I arrived she was like that. Don´t worry, she is alive.”

Although I couldn´t see her face, I knew that she was telling the truth.

“What is your name?” I asked trying to find a solution to all that was going on.

“I am Gaia.”

“I am Samantha.”

“I know who you are. We all know,” she said with a neutral voice.

“Is there any way to free ourselves from these cords?”

“That is what I have been trying to do all night. But my skin is bleeding and I cannot bear the pain any longer.”

I remembered my daggers. Since I had found them I always had them on me. I trusted that what made others unable to touch them still worked to conserve them on my thighs. I moved my hands as I could until towards the left I felt it there. With all my strength I reached it. When I had it in my hand I started to cut the rope with her, but it fell from my fingers.

“How clumsy
,” I muttered. “Why are you here?” I asked to try and distract us as I tried to grab the other dagger.

“I am a witch. Ian wanted me to cast a spell to make me immortal. And he has me prisoner. He threatened me last night and I didn´t obey him. Yesterday I paralyzed him with a potion but it didn´t work and
as a result he went to look for you two.”

“What did he threaten you with?” I asked reaching the dagger with my fingers.

“With killing the man I love.”

That answer paralyzed me for a moment. I hadn´t thought about that. Elizabeth was with Eric when they captured her. And I didn´t have any way of finding out if he was alright. I managed to grasp the dagger and held it firmly. I started to cut the rope slowly and noticed how little by little the fibers starting to loosen. After a few minutes I managed to get set us free from that torture. Gaia got up rubbing her bleeding wrists. And I grabbed my sister and put her on the bed.

“She had a blow to the head which flowed with blood, it is now dry.” I pushed her hair aside and looked at her for the first time. We had never been together until this moment.

“Do you have any way of knowing if she is alright? Or any way to heal her? She has lost a lot of blood,” I looked at Gaia with desperate eyes.

“I don´t think it will work. I have never done it on twins. You, your body is different, it doesn´t work the same way that ours do. But I can try it,” she said as she thought about it with ideas going around in her head.

I watched her stir some things in the cauldrons that were on top of the table. In a short time, she returned with some herbs in her hands. I stood aside to give her space and watched as she knelt down in front of the bed. She put some herbs on her forehead and started to pronounce some words that I did not understand. A few minutes later she was quiet and put one hand on Elizabeth´s forehead and the other on her stomach.
Then she got up and looked at me with empty eyes.

“I am sorry, I didn´t detect anything. I couldn´t even contact her body to know if she is well.”

“Thank you for trying,” I said.

I sat on the edge of the bed looking at her. Her face was peaceful. I took her right hand and put in between mine. I did nothing. I didn’t move, I simply closed my eyes and spoke to her through my mind.

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I repeated these last words in my mind as though
they were a mantra. My eyes were tightly closed when her hand moved. I opened my eyes suddenly and saw her blue eyes. There were like our mothers. I felt happy to be able to make that comparison. Because although the circumstances weren´t ideal, I had found my family.

“Elizabeth, are you alright?” I whispered stroking her hand.

“Samantha,” she exclaimed, “you have to stop being like that.”

“
Like that? What do you mean?” I answered without having the minimal ideal what she was talking about.

“You cannot be so good to people, okay,” she said as she sat up. “Someday they will kill you for that. You cannot rescue me that way after all the harm I have done to you.”

Her crystal eyes looked at me. I knew that that was her way of thanking me. She hugged me tightly and smiled. She was alive.

“Very good
,” she said getting up. “Let´s get out of here.”

“You cannot
,” Gaia cut in, she was sitting in a corner.

Elizabeth who hadn´t known she was there ran towards her when she saw her.

“Are you alright?” she asked her worried.

“I am sorry, I shouldn´t have done it
,” she said sobbing.

“No
,” Elizabeth reprimanded her. “What you did was good. I would have done the same if I had had the opportunity.”

We were all standing. I looked at the high window in front of me, with its iron bars. We have to get out of here somehow.

“That is the only exit,” I said without taking my eyes off of the window.

“Yes
,” Gaia confirmed. “The wall behind you moves, but it can only be opened from outside. So if we want to leave, it will have to be through there.

Elizabeth and I looked at each other. We had thought the same thing. I didn´t know if it would work but we had to try it. She put herself beside me and gave me her hand.

“We should be careful” I said.

“Why?”

“The window is very high; we must leave at least one bar to be able to climb up.”

“Agreed,” she answered me in assur
edly.

The wall that was behind us moved and a big and silver being appears
, a Fallen One. His wings were folded, and then I noticed his arm and saw that he still had signs of the burn I gave him.

“Samantha
,” he said pleased, “it is a pleasure to meet you.”

“Ian
,” I answered pausing, “it is a shame I cannot say the same thing.”

His calm face changed to ang
ry.

“I suppose that I cannot leave you alone. It is a moving scene,” he said pointing to our intertwined hands. “But it is over. Elizabeth, come with me if you want to see your sister again.”

“No,” she answered him firmly.

“
She grabbed me strongly by the hand. But before we could attack, something separated us and hit me hard on my face.”

“Oh, my dear Samantha, when will you learn?” Susan said evilly.

Elizabeth tried to help me to get up but Susan prevented her.

“Don´t you dare, this is between your sister and me.”

“It is little wonder that Eric rejected you,” I let out a smile, “you are a demon without a heart.”

Susan’s expression changed letting her dark side become evident.

“Do not get between Eric and me.”

“Between him and you there is nothing
,” I answered as I got up from the cold floor.

“Get this over with
,” Ian shouted.

When I looked he had Elizabeth in his arms trying to
get free from them. When I looked again at Susan she was hitting me, making me fall again.

I didn´t have strength to get up. She passed in front of me and left. The wall returned to its place and I allowed a tear of pain escape. I had hurt my ribs when I fell. Gaia came running and helped me to get up. I sat on the bed and she went to look for something to give me. She returned with a bowl in her hands and told me to drink it. After a second of having it in my mouth I spat it out, together with the blood I had due to Susan´s punch.

“Much better,” Gaia smiled, “now you won´t have any infection.”

“Don´t you have anything for the pain?” I asked trying not to think about my mouth and my ribs.

“No, I am sorry.”

After a few minutes, I recovered and got up.

“This cannot stay this way,” I said determined.

I looked towards the iron bars and concentrate
d in all the anger that Susan had provoked in me, at the same time that I connected with my sister´s energy. Little by little smoke started to come from the first bar until it exploded with a dry noise making it disappear. I did not stop concentrating in my powers until I had exploded three more leaving only the last one.

“How have you done that?” Gaia asked me amazed.

“I don´t know,” I answered and it was the pure truth.

I grabbed the sheet that was on the bed and after various tries I hooked it round the last of the iron bars.

“Climb up,” I said to Gaia whose mistrust was shown on her face.

“Why don´t you vanish?” Gaia asked.

“I don´t have much strength, if we vanish in this condition we might get trapped in another dimension until we recover the strength to leave it. Or so they have told me.”

I don´t know if I convinced her, but
she didn´t ask again.

I looked at her and insisted that she climb up again. She took hold of the sheet and climbed until going through the hole in the window. I picked my daggers up from the ground and started to clim
b holding the sheets strongly between my hands. I placed them on the edge of the window and Gaia helped me to get up. I stayed for a moment breathing lying down on the grass. I got up and looked at Gaia.

“Do you know where Elizabeth might be?”

She shook her head. So I directed myself to the entrance of the house. I was shattered and poorly maintained; there were no signs of activity in any part. I stood in front of the door and closed my eyes to be able to concentrate.