King Bastien & The Dark Court
I could feel the anticipation in the air. I knew the Dark Court had been enjoying revels in the forest, so I had been prepared to have a smaller hall than usual, but I shouldn’t have worried. We were the Dark Court after all. There’s nothing we enjoyed more than a sacrifice. And the Legend of the Daughter of the Dawn had been spreading since I had first planned on capturing her. She had surprised me.
I had expected someone soft and dainty like my beloved Queen of Light. And instead I had gotten a dark fury looking back at me, someone holding back a normally feisty nature. In another world we might’ve been friends. I looked upwards, at the slowly lightening sky.
It was almost time.
The doors of my hall suddenly slammed open, The Dark Court stood straighter. I looked forwards expecting my people bringing in Zira, only to see a single girl walk forward. I frowned. She wore all black leather, modern human clothes, her blue hair a cascade of curls around her like a halo. My lips curled. I knew just by looking at her that she was a mermaid. Not from my world, but from the world I had just taken Zira from. As if sensing me of knowing what she was she looked straight at me and curled her own lips.
“You took something that belongs to us,” She said raising her hands up. My eyes narrowed at the word us. I reached behind me for my sword, at the same time as water appeared seemingly from nowhere and attacked my Dark Court.
Before I could reach the sword that always hung on my throne, vines grabbed my arms holding me back, I glanced down at them in surprise, and when I looked up it was to see that the mermaid had been joined by a forest-fae girl with green hair braided away from her face.
The mermaid was attacking my Dark court with tendrils of blue-green water. Joining the fray were people in assorted leather ensembles attacking with swords, and surprisingly upwards a dragon of fire and a dragon of ice both attacked, making a circle of safety for the fae girl and the mermaid.
My eyes narrowed towards the green haired girl who had her hand out towards me clearly concentrating. “Treason!” I roared, knowing that I was looking at Raena of the forest Fae. I had heard the stories of the dragons who had been saved by finding their soul mates, one a mermaid, and the other Raena, the Handmaiden to the Queen of the Forest.
She smiled slightly tightening the vines on me, squeezing me. “Takes one to know one.” She said tensely.
I smirked, closing my eyes and concentrating. When I opened my eyes, the vines were blackening thorns appearing along them, poisoning the vines itself. I broke free and grabbed my sword just in time as a dark-haired pale man attacked me with a sword of his own. I met him, parry for parry. My lips curled, as I felt the inhuman strength of him.
“Vampire.” I swore, the man twirled, ducking from my sword, and making a razor sharp line of blood appear on my arm. I cursed at him once more, before attacking more furiously. He thrust his sword higher upon mine leaning close enough to speak.
“Fae King. You know better than to mess with Haven.” He snarled. I grinned as he mentioned the Academy for the magically gifted. “I had heard Lucifer had left the school in the hands of the soft-spoken Marcus.” I said enjoying the Vampire’s darkening gaze as I mentioned the Warlock headmaster, Marcus.
“Marcus should have stayed a Warlock for hire. He’s not exactly good at protecting the innocent is he?” I said feeling triumphant as the Vampire tightened his grip and screamed, attacking me with an added fury. The battle waged on, as the sky continued to get closer to the Dawn.