Chapter 25 - You're not leaving!

Chapter 25 - You're not leaving!

I sat in the garden with my uncle at the small table that was setup for us, I sipped my lemon tea and sighed. "I decided I want to tell father, today." Uncle looked at me with a straight face as I spoke. "I've given in my application and taken the entrance exam. The only thing that's left is to tell him."

Uncle placed his tea cup down on to the table and smiled gently. "I see. I have to say my heart doesn't agree with this idea, as I worry for you but keeping you caged up like a bird isn't going to do you any good." I looked at my uncle as he spoke.

"I knew you were going to spread your wings and fly one day. I hate to admit it but that day is today. So how do you plan to tell my stubborn bull headed brother." Before I could answer that question Victor, a young knight I knew well came running over in a panic. "My lady! It's an emergency!"

My uncle and I stood up and panicked. Uncle asked. "What happened?" He panted out of breath as he stood before us. "Haa…haa…Lord Orion, has received your application for the academy and has gone completely mad, my lady!" The ground felt as though it would crumble beneath me. This was not good. This was not the way I wanted father to find out. Victor pleaded with me with a pale face. "You must go now, Please! You're the only one who can calm him down!" 

I immediately ran towards the entrance of the castle. I can't believe I forgot about the application I will be receiving today, now there is no way I can convince my father in this state! I entered the castle and it was completely empty.

There wasn't a single person to be seen. "Where is everyone…?" I looked around. "Psst!" I hear a small noise and looked back to see Brother, Kore and pretty much everyone in the castle hiding in the kitchen.

Brother points behind me and I feel a large shadow cast over me and gulp. I turned around to see father absolutely fuming, a dark aura surrounded him as his face was hardened with anger. A vein in his jaw and forehead bulged on the verge of exploding. "Exactly what is the meaning of this…?" He asked as he held the confirmation letter, I looked at the word "accepted" and like an idiot exclaimed excitedly. "I got in!? I can't believe it-!" Fathers expression turned darker and I quickly composed myself. "Ahem, I-I mean, I have no idea. Haha…"

He clenched his fist. "You applied for the mage academy behind my back." I bit my lip feeling guilty for not telling my father first. "I really want to go father..." He gritted his teeth. "You can't go! You would have to leave Crescent city and stay there for who knows how long! Depending on magic skills some have been there for decades!"

I felt annoyed at his lack of confidence in me. "But I could finish faster like uncle, you don't know that!" I screamed back at him. "I don't care if it takes you 5 minutes! You're not leaving!" I stomped over to him, feeling just as pissed. "I have sent in the application and it was accepted! I will be going whether you like it or not!"

My father punched the wall next to him leaving a large dent but I didn't care to flinch if he was stubborn, so was I. "You couldn't have done this alone. It seems everyone here was an accomplice." He glares at everyone hiding in the kitchen as he says this and they all tremble with fear. "But even then there's only one person who you needed the most to send in the application. It was my dear little brother wasn't it?"

I knew full well father would never hurt a single hair on my head but I couldn't say the same for uncle Arthur. "You guess correctly, bother." We both looked back to see uncle walking towards us and he sighed at my fathers anger.

"I can't believe after 7 years you're still rampaging like a bull through the castle! Will you stop being so stubborn-Argh!?" Uncle went flying across the room as father punched him hard in the gut. "U-uncle!?" I ran over to my father and grasped his arm. "Father stop that!" Father ignored me as he walked towards him.

Uncle stood up, blood dribbled out of the corner of his mouth. "That's it you asked for it brother!" Uncle used his magic and restrained my father who became more pissed as he tried to break the magic chains restraining him. This was quite the daily occurrence at home and I sighed. "Release me now! How could you go behind my back like this?!" Uncles eyes widened, feeling offended by fathers words. "You make it sound as though I betrayed you! I only did what was right! Iridesa deserves to go to the mages academy! She earned her place fairly through her own efforts and I won't let you stop her!"

Father glared at him. "You would put her in harm's way! Have you all lost it! I will do everything to protect my daughter!" I felt annoyed at his words. It's not fair that I was the one always having to be protected! I want to be able to protect everyone too! I wanted to become stronger too!

I walked over to him feeling frustrated by his behavior. "I'm not speaking to you until you calm down and start acting like a rational adult!" I turned and ran out of the castle. "Iridesa! Iridesa get back here!" I ignored my father as I ran outside and left.

Paris felt his blood run cold. He couldn't believe that she wanted to leave! He was so mad he could tear the whole place down! He watched as his daughter ran off alone and unprotected. "Tybalt, where the hell are you?! Stop cowering like a mouse and get over here!?" He called his son and looked back to see Kore throw him out of the kitchen.

He stood up straight before his father. "Y-yes Father!" Paris felt so mad at not being able to break his brother's restraint and chase after his daughter. "Go after your sister and make sure she's safe! And once I'm out of here I will deal with this matter once and for all!" Tybalt immediately ran after Iridesa as his father ordered. 

I ran outside to town and eventually stopped at a secluded alleyway to catch my breath. "Haa…haa…" I was so mad. It's not fair! I had no doubts in my father's love, he had given me more happiness and love than I had ever dreamed of but he was so darn stubborn! I was so excited to see I had gotten accepted but now I just feel so pissed! I leaned against the wall and sank to the floor. "He's just so infuriating! I don't care what he does or says I am going to that academy!"

"Is that so, darling?" I flinched at the stranger's voice and looked up to see two strange men standing before me, they smirked at my reaction and I instantly put my guard up. "Too bad you won't be alive to go!" One of them reaches out for me as he says this. I immediately do as my brother taught me and kick him hard in the knees and dodge him before he grabs me. "Argh! Stupid bitch!" 

I activated my magic but I was scared it wouldn't be enough to fight them as my powers hadn't grown as much over the past 7 years. "Who the hell are you and how dare you approach me!?" They both laugh at my words and I frown. "You really must not know who I am to stand there and foolishly laugh!" The other one confidently speaks. "Oh, but we do, Iridesa Orion of crescent city."

I'm stunned at their words. It seems they approached me knowing full well who I am, they must not be from around here could it be they were hired to kill me but by who? As they step forward I manipulate the wind to slice into their skin and they wince with pain. "Come closer, and I will mutilate the both of you! Who sent you here!?" I say trying not to let them see how I'm trembling in fear. 

"Your dear grandpapa, of course! Lord Wayward!" I became confused at his words. "Oh, look here he is now!" As he says this I'm restrained from behind. "Ah!? Let me go!" I look back to see an old man with gray balding hair and blue eyes.

He looked at me with a crazy glint in his eyes. "I finally found you! 7 years! 7 fucking years I have lived in torment!" He tightened his hold on my arms and I winced with pain. The two men laughed. "Hey boss, don't you think we could play with her a bit first. It's such a waste to kill off such a beauty!"

I felt goosebumps at his words and paled with fear. Lord Wayward however seemed to be holding on to the last string of sanity and barked at them. "Shut up and do your jobs! Who knows when that insufferable father of hers will show up!" He threw me onto the floor. "Argh!"

He looked down at me with hatred and fear. "I regret the day I conceived your wretched mother! She drove me to insanity when she ran away for 12 years and then you had to show up just as I found out the bitch is dead!" I felt something snap inside me as he insulted my mother and I sent him flying as I raised my palm towards him. "Don't talk about my mother, you common trash!" He glared at me with anger.

"Argh!" Suddenly I'm kicked in the gut by one of the men and fall back.

They kept kicking me making it hard to breathe and I coughed up blood. They laughed at my pitiful plight as they towered over me with knives.

I was so annoyed... It had been 7 years but I hadn't gotten strong enough still… Is this how it ends for me…?

"Aaaargh! Argh!!!" I looked up to see one of the men vomiting large amounts of blood as a huge blade from behind sliced him open from the middle of his stomach. The man convulses with pain and collapses to the floor in a puddle of his own blood.

The other man looks back in fear and loses all the color from his face. "You shouldn't have hurt my sister. Now you pay the price."

Before the man has a chance to react Brother squeezes his skull with his bare hand, he places his thumb in his mouth and pushes two fingers into his eyes and smashes his head into the wall, breaking his skull entirely.

"B-brother…" I wheeze as I try to stand up. Brother throws the man away and looks over at me, his expression was terrifying and dark but I wasn't afraid.

I know he would never hurt me. He was about to approach me when I saw a figure behind him approach. "B-Brother, watch out!" Just as he turned around, Lord Wayward stabbed him with a sword in his side. "Argh!" I immediately become infuriated and channeled the wind into the palm of my hands and then pressed my hand against his face. "Arghhhh!" The wind bites into his flesh, blinding him and tearing into his face. 

Taking this chance, brother strikes him with his fist as fast as lightning, causing his head to explode like a melon. We both stood there drenched in his blood. "Urgh!" Brother suddenly fell to his knee clutching his side. "Brother!" I ran over to him as he began vomiting!