Chapter 20 THE BALL

The halls were a little busy but once we entered the ballroom the crowd was immense. Everyone was dressed so beautifully I looked like the room glittered. There were several chandeliers in the room plus electric candelabras. The lighting was beautifully old fashion yet timeless.

There were an orchestra and a DJ. I was guessing for musical differences and preferences or age differences for the literally ages. At the moment the orchestra was playing the song Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats from Andrew Lloyd Webbers 'Cats' theatrical. The overture of course the room was full of people both standing and talking and others on the dance floor waltzing around the room. Everyone seemed gay and merry oblivious to anything with James.

Emily's pov

As we entered the room I felt transported in time. It was so breathtakingly beautiful. I smiled at Samson, my hand slipping into his. Our entrance was announced and all music and dancing stopped and clapped. We arrived beside Augustus who then waved for all to settle down the applause. The applause slowly died down Augustus waited patiently for all to fall quiet to make his speech.

"My good people, friends, and family. I have much to be happy and proud of this night. For tonight we welcome a new member but not just to the coven but to my own family. Emily my dear." He ushered for me to come and step forward next to him Samson placed his hand behind my back and guided me to the spot next to his father while he stood on my right his father to my left. "Emily is Samson's my son's mate and soon to bless us all… Her father has also graced us tonight and is a welcome guest tonight as well. He comes for a renewal of alliances between us and our southern covens. For though I am the American king of vampires we all know there has always been tension between our northern and southern borders.

For though I am the king of the vampires we all know tensions between all have been----". His speech was cut short suddenly James arrived along with his mother, Giseld. Both together, striding through the entrance and toward where the royal family, my father, and I myself stood. I gasped at seeing them and at the fact that they weren't being stopped all were stuck just staring either spelled or stunned to a state of being frozen in place.

An even bigger silence fell through the ballroom at this. My own stomach clenched. "GISELD!" Samson roared, "HOW DARE YOU SHOW YOURSELF HERE! James how could you bring her before we know what she has done. Knowing she needs to be locked up and nowhere near our family!" James looked at him and evil glare across his face he laughed "our family, our family I have only ever been a bastard a second fiddle, a nothing to your family" shouted "James" said Augustus "what is this son what is the matter with you how could you say that. You are my son and always have been." James turned red in the face "LIAR YOU LIED TO ME TOLD ME NOTHING OF WHOM I WAS AND DOTED ON YOUR TRUE SON SAMSON.!" Augustus looked shocked and confused at his son James. "James please that's not true please son don't do this"

I then notice other than the argument it was silent then without warning spell was said by griseld I had moved slightly away from the family and due to this when the spell was cast I was knocked back hitting one of the ballroom pillars. As a wall formed not a foot from where I had stood. Preventing any and all from entering the royal family was trapped on one side and the rest of the gala on the other all the soldiers were now able to unfreeze but no one could break past the wall. The push toward the pillars somehow made me slide my stomach first and practically wrap around the pillar in impact. The pain was immense but I had to fight through I thought as I stood and went toward the wall I felt physically ill and weak.

I had to get to Samson I had to stop Griseld they needed help I needed to help something somehow placed my hand on the mirror wall and first tried pushing through it only causing the image to change nothing more instead of all standing around Samson and Augustus all stood around James and Augustus. As I was doing this my father ran out of the crowd toward me shouting "Mela, are you alright?!" I looked at my father and showed him what I was trying to do and said "help me, papa, we must get in" but even with my father's help we only made a part of the wall truly translucent the other still showed the distorted mirror image.

Looking through the temper wall James attacked Augustus as did Giseld Samson stepped in the way of James killing their father but it was too late to save him or stop griseld who laid the killing blow to Augustus. Samson started wrangling the knife from James when the wall dispersed as did griseld I couldn't move but then the crowd swarmed and each side of the ballroom went after a different brother those that saw the strange image roared for Samson's head and as they gained back their mobility attempted to go for it the other roared for James the confusion games James the ability to slip away but Samson stood in horror and shock.

I got jostled by the angry crowd now turning to a mob and slowly due to all I lost consciousness. But before I fell I felt liquid run down my legs I tried to brace myself but the pain and blood loss were far too great slowly the darkness overtook me and I was gone.

Samson's pov

James my own brother just assassinated our father, he killed him, the king, our father, and my father is dead. "How could you? How dare you? I screamed enraged at James who then got in my face and pushed me then all hell and chaos erupted. The crowd came in on us half attacking James the other myself. I couldn't understand why they were attacking me and I just dodged and didn't fight them back merely avoided being hit myself received quite a few blows to my sides and head but I managed to escape. Unfortunately, it meant leaving the mansion. I found the tunnels and traveled them to a safe house one about a mile away one of the few close ones we had in case of war. There I set myself up to hide for a while from the daylight soon to come. I prayed to the mother goddess Freya to watch over my love Emily and our child as well as my mother.