Revelations

EARLIER ON…

"YOU IMBECILE!"

A lady wearing a raspberry long red dress yelled in Darius' face.

She was a tall and slender beauty, exuding an air of authority.

Her voice was as tough as her looks, and she cut in as he spoke, turning her back to him and brimming with rage.

The room was large and neatly organized. It seemed she was a lover of candles as they laid lit on the tables and walls.

"What's wrong, my love?" Darius inquired, his tone concerned.

Darius was a dark curly haired man who wasn't as tall. He had broad shoulders and was muscular enough.

His body was covered in a black sleeve and a pair of trousers. It was hard to tell he wasn't harmless.

"I have checked and her soul is nowhere in the deadlands which means you did a terrible job at unaliving her." The lady responded.

"No. That can't be right. I- I did kill her. No one could have survived that." He assured her.

"Most times you forget who I am. I see what you can't and know what you don't and never will, so quit sounding like I was the delusional one when I say she isn't dead!." The lady walked away towards the window.

"I don't doubt your knowledge. It's just- I had no idea she would survive such." He said in a puzzled tone.

"My love…" he called out remorsefully.

The lady rolled her eyes in disgust.

"Her body doesn't lay in the waters. You killed the child but not the mother and still it doesn't make sense.

Give me your blood." She said,

Walking towards him quickly. Not waiting for him to understand her motive, she grabbed his left hand, lifted it higher and with the help of her long sharp nails, she carved a small cut.

The blood gushed out.

She placed her hand over the bleeding cut and afterwards walked towards the oval shaped mirror that rested on the wall.

Placing the hand on it, shut her eyes and remained silent in deep concentration.

Darius could only watch her, wondering what she was up to but she never really told him much of her plans. He was the book.

A minute after, she reopened her eyes, withdrew her hand and stared in the mirror patiently.

Slowly, a thick fog appeared in it. This made Darius marvel. His eyes widened, he hadn't seen anything like it.

The lady seemed to be waiting for something or someone.

The fog soon cleared revealing a feminine figure that was too dark to tell if it was even human.

Closer it came, moving like her feet had no business with the ground till she got close enough.

Darius was startled.

It was the sui generis baba yaga.

"What do you want, Lilith." She inquired in her usual creepy and unbothered voice.

"I believe you tasted the blood." Lilith replied.

"And the owner stands right behind you." Baba Yaga retorted.

"It's another who shares his blood I seek to find. Esther Stone." Lilith responded.

"Esther Stone. Lucky one. I believe you didn't find her in the deadlands. Well, she isn't here either." Baba Yaga responded.

"How is any of it possible? Not dead and not alive? What do you mean by Lucky one?" Lilith replied.

"Let's just say she is the first to eat her cake and have it." Baba Yaga replied, ending with a hysterical laugh.

Lilith turned away very upset. The mirror had gone back to its normal form.

"What did any of that mean?" Darius inquired.

"Now we must really put an end to her. It's one thing if her consciousness fuses with the host's and it's another if it takes over the host completely." Lilith sounded threatened as she talked to herself.

Darius wasn't used to seeing her in that state. She was always the headstrong one. The one who knew exactly how to get things done.

The one who knew how to create chaos and solve the problem. This was a first for him to see his beloved shaken by a mere thought.

"Make me understand." He pleaded.

With her eyes wandering about in their sockets, she turned to him slowly.

"For not carrying out your task effectively, you have succeeded in creating a far mightier problem.

Our advantage now is that her protectors do not yet know much about her potential.

Track her down and end this before she grows any stronger."

Lilith warned.

He rushed out. Assembling his men, they soon got set for the mission. His lover had commanded it and so it must be done.

'I won't fail you again, my love.' he promised as he left.

PRESENTLY…

With his right hand, he signaled that they all remained quiet.

His ears grew out listening to a sound from miles away and after several seconds he voiced,

"Darius."

"Darius? But how? How did he find us?" Nova found it hard to believe.

"Nowhere here is safe. I knew it was only a matter of time before Lilith found out. That desperate Bitch." Marlene cursed.

"What do we do?" Amanda asked.

"We leave." Marlene said, opening up a portal.

"You're joking right?" Mitch turned towards her.

"I know you wish to kill him in the worst ways possible but do not allow pain blind you, only then will you make a mistake you will spend a long time regretting." Marlene told him.

"I am not getting in that portal. He is going to pay." Mitch spoke vengefully.

"It's closing." Marlene said.

The girls had to hurry to where she stood. They understood Marlene well enough.

"Okay. We'll see you from the other side then." Marlene said, as they got into the portal one after the other.

"You are not going to take her?" Mitch probed, referring to Esther's body which still laid asleep on the couch.

"Nop." Marlene replied.

"What? Why?" He didn't understand.

"She is your responsibility now. Like it or not. Whatever happens to her is all on you. So carry on warrior prince." Marlene said, stepping in the portal.

Just a few more seconds and that portal would be gone.

The one who killed his lover and child was on the way ywt the body of his lover he must protect.

In between a rock and a hard place was where he stood. Thirsty for vengeance yet seeking to do what was right.

"You think he would come?" Judy inquired from Marlene while they stared at the closing portal.

They seemed to be in another apartment. Somewhere with more sunlight.

"He tries to be tough but she forever remains his weakness." Marlene replied.

And he came.

"You just made me seem like a coward." He said, annoyed as he moved to lay Esther on the couch.

"I need you to understand that your story does not involve you solving your problems with violence but love." Marlene told him.

"I don't want to hear any of it." He told her.

"It wouldn't be easy but the only place safe enough for the both of you is far away from here." She told him.

"I am done hiding. The girls can take her to whatever far away place. I must stay to avenge my wife and child." He said.

"For Christ sake, this is your wife!" Nova said, pointing her hands towards Esther.

"She is not Esther! She is Olivia!" He retorted.

"But it's fixable." Amanda said.

"I don't care. I only want vengeance and to be alone, for her soul to stop wandering because of the imposter in her body, for her body to be buried properly, for her to finally rest in peace!" He told them.

Marlene heaved a sigh.

"Maybe it's time you knew the whole truth." Marlene said.

"What do you mean by that?" He inquired.

"Isn't it strange how all of it happened? Just when her soul departs her body , another takes over and from a different world?" She began.

Everyone became interested at this point to know where she was headed.

"Long ago Esther died but then she wasn't Esther, she was- Rosa. When she died, the strangest thing happened.

She reincarnated into a twin flame." Marlene said.

"Twin flame, what is that?" Mitch inquired.

"She incarnated into two bodies. One here and one there.

Which is what I have been trying to tell you. Esther and Olivia are the same person.

The human world doesn't allow for extraordinary powers to show which is why it has been dormant in Olivia since birth.

Olivia and Esther are of the same age and if you look closely, something I know you have been avoiding, you'll get the same feeling when you look at her.

And now that both consciousness are in the same body, she can shift the collective consciousness of this planet.

She is more powerful than anything our minds can possibly comprehend.

Meaning things just got heated. The darkness will know eventually and seek to corrupt her. To make her a tool and if it succeeds, let's just hope it doesn't." Marlene concluded with a brief smile.

They couldn't believe all they had just heard. For Mitch, it was herder for him to digest.

Slowly he walked to an empty chair, taking his seat. Running his fingers through his long hair as his head remained in a bowed position.

He was shaken.

"Why keep this part from me?" He asked her.

"Just thought you needed a clear head first." She told him.

"Well now what?" He inquired.

"Now you see why it must be you who protects her. You will take her to Earth and do the work. Won't be easy but what can't you handle?" She said.

"I don't belong on earth." He told her.

" Come on, it wouldn't be your first time there now, would it?" She replied.