The prince didn't like being ignored by her and wanted her to speak to him but he gave after trying for long. He cuddled her from behind and slept, Elena who was wide awake was more than surprised at how bold Esteban was. He dares to sleep on the same bed as the princess of Atria. She could kill him for doing that but didn't think she has in her to do that to him.
She eased into the hug and also slept. She dreamt of being in the spring lake with Esteban having a bath. She accidentally activated her powers and merged her dream with Esteban's dream. She walked into Esteban's dream which was a lot more different than her own. He was having a terrible dream, one that he has every single day.
It was a dark room that she was standing in, there was no single light in the room which was odd. She didn't understand how it was that she could have come from the lake to the darkroom. She kept moving forward dreading the feeling that she received with every step. She took slow steps getting a bad feeling about where she was. She could hear weird noises in the distance noises that sent a shiver down her spine. She hated the creepy crawlies and stayed away from the walls. She kept her eyes forward and listened to every sound in the hall.
She made sure not to make any sound at all, she could tell that something evil resided in the place where she was. She checked to see if she had the jade necklace with her to call her grandmother to help her if the need arises. The necklace was not with her, she didn't remember taking it off and it gave her a bad feeling. She continued down the path being careful since she didn't have any backup. She saw an opening in the distance released a sigh, she ran to the door. It was a relief to know that her abilities were not affected by the weird room.
"Tell me what you know now!" she heard a woman shout behind the door. The voice was full of malice and evil.
"I don't know anything," replied a voice that sounded just like Esteban.
"You are lying, there is something that you know about the vampire princess. You need to tell me her secret or else I will not spare you, I have the whole night to torture you so you better start talking prince," she said and Elena pressed her ear on the door to listen.
"I told you that I don't know anything," Esteban cried out. "Ahh," he screamed when the evil woman burned him with wolf bane mixed with vervain and magic that heightens the effect of both plants.
"Why are you choosing to protect the vampire princess, do you think she is ever going to like an impure hybrid such as yourself. Do yourself a favor and tell me what I need to know. There is no need to endure so much for her," she said and burned him again. The prince cried out in a pained voice that broke Elena's heart. A dark mist spiraled around her and her eyes turned pure black. She pushed the door open surprising all the people in the room.
"A blue bird told me that you were looking for me," she said in a thick terrifying voice that they all froze. The witches looked at each other with puzzled expressions, they always perform a spell that allows them to come into the prince's mind and force him to do their bidding. They are always in control of who or what comes into his dream but none of them heard her come in. And her appearance told them that she wasn't there to chat with them. They all knew that if they got hurt or die in the dream the same will occur in real life.
"You wanted to know my secret right, the truth is I am no ordinary vampire. I am a black blood vampire princess and future ruler of Atria," she said shocking all of them. "Circle magic, I won't say I approve of what you are doing," she declared.
"You shouldn't have come here, princess. Now you are going to regret it, we are not just circle witches but thread witches. We weave things into a reality and we can even make something real become a fantasy. With my thread I can turn you into a helpless human," said their leader getting her thread out of her bag. Elena looked unfazed by her threat. She took out her threat and started weaving a different destiny and life. She weaved a fate in which the princess had died with her parents and Atria was left without a successor.
Elena watched silently as she got work her eyes went to the boy at the corner with a burnt chest. She could feel that the witches had hexed him to prevent him from healing. Her blood boiled with rage, she swore that they were going to pay for what they did to her werewolf. Her heart bled seeing the state he was in, he looked so tired and his head hung low while blood trickled down his chest. Her eyes became their normal color and the mist vanished. Her anger disappeared and her heart only felt the pain that he was going through.
She felt like reaping each of their heads out of their body but she won't fight as a vampire but with magic. She chanted a spell under her breath that undid the thread the witch was weaving. The witches watched in awe as she did. It usually takes a witch so many years to master that kind of magic and most of them didn't even master it well. Yet a vampire was doing it so much better than them.
"You should know that my grandmother made sure that I mastered every type of magic that exists in this world for my protection. The reason the world never saw me was because I was cooped up in the palace learning everything I needed to become the most powerful ruler Enchanted forest has ever seen. There is no magic that I haven't mastered, I am this world's worst nightmare although I prefer being seen as a beautiful daydream.
She wore a wicked smile and stared at all of them with the thread in her hands. " But all these should be a secret and now that you all know I have no choice but to kill all of you right here and now. I won't do that though," she said still smiling, the witches knew that they had bitten more than they can chew. " Our Expotium," she said and the witches vanished.
"I will keep you in my palace and give you a slow but sure pain. You want to write my death, don't worry I will write my future with your blood," she said and ran over to Esteban. "Don't worry, I will take care of you. Those witches will never harm you again, no one ever will and anyone who dares will have me to deal with. She woke up and took Esteban into her arm and chanted a spell to break the one the witches put on him. She realized that he was bound by more than one spell. She became furious and she got up from the bed, she had to find a way and the right spell to break all the spells that were placed on him. She teleported both of them back to the palace with the prince still unconscious.