Realm of Wings

Jade, annoyed by the stunned expressions of the others:

When are they going to realize that as soon as I let my emotions show by crying and shutting down in sorrow and guilt, I will not ever let my guard down? I had noticed for someone to have followed us, after a day or two when we had left the city. But I hadn’t known for who it was if Trixie hadn’t been trying to hide her thoughts so heftily.

She had tried to get some sort of reaction out of me by thinking of the most stupid things one could come up to muster, but as I sensed that she was hiding something else with it, I did my best to keep a steady composure. I waited and waited until her true thoughts, and thus her secret, would reveal herself in a moment of tiredness.

I had the feeling that something was off, about me becoming the Queen, ever since I heard that I was the original offspring. But hearing it from Trixie, who heard it from Zeph and he on his turn from Echo, my thoughts became truth.

I truly wonder how my life will take its course, all due to the destiny that has to be unravelled. But I don’t have the time to think about how things will unfold right now. Instead, this morning, I will have to deal with these numbnuts!

“When did you find out?” Trixie.

“How did you know it was me?” Zeph.

“Why didn’t anyone tell me about it!?” Kallan.

I sighed and was worried about their heads as they sure would have figured it out by now, on their own, right?

“So, there is nothing I can hide from you?” Trixie complained and I scoffed at her.

“I was so far away from you all. You couldn’t have heard me!” Zeph.

“Jade, I know you have skills, but how wouldn’t I have seen him coming?” Kallan.

I miss Neil so much! He would have been reasonable and politically correct about an answer towards them, in contradiction to me as I’m about to bite their heads off! They kept on babbling, asking questions and also accusing the others of telling me, and so on. I got enraged by the second until I couldn’t stop myself.

“Shut up!” I yelled while nearly pulling my hair out. “Why are you still doubting my skills? Why are you all still doubting me? Haven’t we already established that I have an unlimited range of energy at my disposal? Haven’t we already realized the fact that I have saved your asses multiple times now?” I asked them angrily at which they lowered their heads.

“So, how in the hell did you guys think you could fool me?” I now only looked towards Trixie and Zeph, waiting for their confirmation on anything I just said.

“I just thought that now after losing Neil and all…”

“Really? You’d think that I wouldn’t notice for Zeph to lurk around and for you to have a secret, just because I’m mourning over Neil? You’d actually think that I would be compromising our mission to get rid of the rift, just because I’m crying?! Do you really think that I would let Neil’s death go down in vain? Well, did you?” I yelled towards Trixie now.

Kallan came in between us and gently pushed me away by holding my shoulders. “Come, let’s take a seat.” He gently spoke to me, while looking behind him as well. Trixie mouthed ‘sorry’ towards him as he took me away from them.

“What is this secret you talked about?” He asked me when we sat down.

“Trixie and Zeph know something about me. They don’t know what it is, as I don’t either, but we all know that it’s something bad. I had been waiting and hoping for Trixie to come and tell me on her own, but she didn’t so that’s why I’m this upset with her now.” I started to explain.

“Besides, you all still believe me to be the next Queen, but I know for certain that that’s not going to happen.” I sighed.

“What do you mean? Of course, you are going to be the Queen, what are you talking about?” Kallan said.

“No, I’m not. I don’t know how I know, but I’ve got this feeling that I won’t live to see that happening. And I’m really okay with that, Kallan.” I said with a small smile. “I have been fighting against bad people and creatures for all my life and if I should die today, I know that I have been doing the right thing. Don’t get me wrong, we are going to continue this mission and break down the rift with all my power and revive the tree somehow, just as Neil would have wanted me to succeed in, but after that…”

Kallan sighed deeply, listening to me with sadness in his eyes. “But after that, you believe your destiny to be fulfilled.” He continued my sentence.

“Yes, I think so.” I softly said while lowering my face.

Kallan, having disrupted thoughts about hearing this:

Never once had my belief about her becoming the next Queen, faltered. Not even after her saying all these things about her thoughts. I still believe that she is that person, the one to become our next ruler, but I can’t just dismiss her thoughts about this.

It wouldn’t matter should I let her know that I’m not completely agreeing with her, she might even hear my thoughts about it right now. But what’s more important is that should she be right, how awful that may seem, I’m not going to waste my time and do nothing.

While I’m going to love and care for her, I’m going to do anything within my power to prevent her from dying too soon.

I put my finger under her chin to raise her face again and gazed into those beautiful eyes of hers. Her blond hair slid to the sides, showing her cheeks and characteristic scars, the ones that I came to appreciate ever since I saw her. They are part of her, showing that she won’t back down, that she is willing to sacrifice parts of herself to do what is right. Even now, after saying that she would feel fine to not become the Queen, she only solidified her case into becoming one.

“Beautiful.” I whispered and kissed her on the lips.

I could tell Jade wanted more as her hands went up to circle my neck and grab the hairs on the back of it. She was urging me on to continue but we got an abrupt interruption from Zeph and his scrying orb.

Zeph started to curse and told every one of us to be quiet while he tried to get the thing out of his bag. “Hi, Echo!” He nervously said as he answered the call by rubbing the glass for a moment.

“Really?” A distorted voice came through, but it was Echo indeed.

“Really what, Echo?” Zeph asked as if he was dumb.

“They figured you out, didn’t they?” Echo asked but Zeph didn’t dare to reply to his answer, which made it the answer he knew already.

I decided to stand up and walk over towards my stupid little brother and took over the orb to talk to him myself. “Please tell me that it’s not true.” I asked through the glass.

A deep sigh came through and that was my answer as well, but he continued nonetheless. “I haven’t found a solution or something that could help Jade from deterring her destiny, I’m sorry.”

That was not what I wanted to hear! I wanted him to say he did have something, how little it may be. I just wanted a spark of hope, a glint of a happy future with her! Who would do such a thing? Why would someone want to put her through so much trouble, pain and mental torment, just to end her life after she’s done? Why!

Anger rose within me, surfacing my blackened skin and heating my blood until it was about to rupture through me! My fingers cracked upon the glass orb in my hands, nearly destroying the item even though it was as hard as marble.

It wasn’t until Jade put her hands on mine, gently getting the orb out of my grip and giving it back to Zeph, that I was fully aware of my silence and anger. Echo had been talking and asking me questions but I didn’t answer them, so that gave Jade the information that I was furious enough to block out everything else around me.

“Come, let’s take a seat.” She chuckled, and for a moment the irony was lost on me, but then I realized that I had done the exact same thing when she had become angry towards Trixie, only a few moments ago.

“Are we going to kiss and make up again?” She asked me with a smile when we were seated, again.

“How can you be so calm right now?” I asked her even though she had already explained her thoughts about this situation. She had already known somehow that she was going to be able to finish the mission but then wouldn’t live to become the Queen. She had already accepted her fate.

“Please don’t do this, Kallan. Don’t think about the end, I’m still here and I’m still alive.” She said. But she didn’t say it in a comforting way, to let me know that we have time to be together now. No, she said it with an angry tone, indicating that I shouldn’t be so mushy. She just told me to suck it up and I smiled because of this behaviour.

This, is how Jade is.

Trixie, almost getting disgusted by how they were looking at each other now:

Call me crazy but even though I’m glad that they were finally growing towards each other, this was just torment to a gay person!

Their eyes glimmered, Kallan pulled Jade closer to him, making her sit on his lap…

He was thinking all these extremely hot things he would do to her body but was hesitant to act upon those thoughts…

But she wasn’t going to have that, hesitancy I mean, so she reacted to it by kissing him and grinding herself onto his groin…

Soft moans were leaving her throat, coercing him to finally take the step and accept his urges to ravage his Queen…

“Ow!” I hissed from the impact on my shoulder while rubbing it.

“Come! You can’t keep watching them make out like this!” Zeph punished me.

“Well, what are we supposed to do then?” I asked him with a smirk.

Jade, hot and bothered:

In the corner of my eye, I could see Trixie and Zeph leave for a walk to give us some much-needed space, again. I had waited a long time for him to realize that he should be with me and he was finally giving in to his urges.

There is no more time left to wait for this. It might seem strange that we are doing this, trying to be together even though I know that our happy time wouldn’t last forever. This love that we are sharing right now, will be of a short moment. A precious moment, but short. I couldn’t tell you how many of these moments will come to us before I have to say goodbye to him, but I vow to myself to treasure them all.

Kallan reached for the bottom of my shirt and jacket and when I rose my arms, he took them both off my body. The cold cross-shaped pendant that I had gotten from sister Margaret got stuck on my nose and I pulled it down to my bare chest. Kallan then chuckled at me for not wearing a bra, as if I had anticipated this to happen, but he quickly disregarded that insinuation and started to suckle on one of my teets. Goosebumps rose all over my body while I rubbed my hands in his hair and I gasped when he gently bit on the nipple.

His thoughts were loud and clear for me to hear, at which I knew his intention to let our relationship grow before taking this step, had flown out the door. His anger towards the fact that there was indeed a big chance of me not making it through to become his beloved Queen, made him toss aside all other reasons for not listening to his heart.

And wow, was he making up for it!

He laid me down on one of the fur blankets as the sun was at its highest peak now, radiating enough heat to keep us warm outside, naked.

His body hovered above me and he gave me slow peppering kisses from my mouth to my cheek, jaw, collarbone, in between my boobs and finally down to my belly button. His big hands followed the contours of my body, shivering me, forcing me to take an extra amount of air to relish in the feeling of his touch.

I kicked out my boots and then he hooked his fingers at the waistband of my pants and shimmied them down while I rose my ass a bit for him to continue. Again, no underwear was to be found.

“Seriously woman, you could’ve worn some underwear! You’re driving me crazy!” He chuckled.

“That is your own doing. You waited too long.” I scolded him.

He tossed aside his shirt and pants and scooted on the fur, right in between my legs, hovering over my body once again. His elbows rested next to my shoulders, sinking in the fur, while he looked at me with his deep, dark, green eyes.

“And I bet you are going to remind me of that, for a long time, I guess?” He said with a grin on his face.

“Probably.” I smirked.

“What’s it going to take for you to shut up about my stupid mistakes?” He then asked.

“Well, for starters, you could finally do something about my throbbing frustrations down there.” I said while nodding towards our groins.

A/n: Next chapter is called: Finally! 😈