The Selection: Bride Of The Dark Dragon

LARA

He looked as if someone already attacked him, eyes madly searching for something and when he saw me, his gaze trailing down to my now bloody dress, he only got angrier from the looks of it.

“Demir! Run!” I shouted and he clenched his fists, lips twitching and his eyes flashing with dark magic.

“Please!” he snorted, “My soulmate can’t be thinking that I will run from a fight with the lowlifes who only know how to scheme and cover themselves by wounded girls!”

He took a step closer, and Fabian pressed a sword that he took from one of the guards to my neck, “Come closer and she is dead!”

Demir stopped and that was when I got really scared. There were so many of them and he was alone. If he wouldn’t fight back, then they could even kill him!

“They will not touch me!” I said firmly, “They need me more than anything! That’s what all this is about in the first place!”

Gideon shook me to make me shut up, but it was already too late, as Demir summoned his dark magic. The smirk on his face just let us all know that the Warriors of Light were in big trouble. Bria and some guy I didn’t know ran to attack him first and he knocked them both off their feet as if it was nothing special. He took another step, and this time Fabian threw himself at him, trying to get him with the sword and his Light energy attack at the same time. Demir dodged so quickly that the enemy didn’t even have the time to blink.

I tried to struggle in Gideon’s arms, but unfortunately, I was still bleeding and getting weaker and weaker. Even staying on my feet was a challenge at this point.

Demir spared no one, even though they were attacking him by Light energy that seemed to hurt him effectively. Slowly but steadily, he was getting closer to me.

“Enough!” Deon shouted loudly and I felt cold metal touch my neck once again. I was hanging in his grip by now, the last bits of strength leaving me. And even after everything I still couldn’t believe that the man I thought to be my brother was threatening to kill me.

“You wouldn’t do it,” Demir gritted through his teeth.

“I will if I have to!” I hear the cold reply, “I love her too much to let her end up in your arms. Besides, without her, we would all die anyway. And I’d prefer for us to be together in the afterlife than leave her with the likes of you!”

“The likes of me?!” the eyes of the emperor filled with dark magic again, “Together in the afterlife?! You and her are definitely going to be in different places!”

He took a step in our direction and the blade pressed harder into my flesh, probably even drawing more of my b***d. My vision became blurry but I still noticed some movement behind my soulmate’s back.

“Demir!” I half-whispered in a croaked voice, looking behind him and he followed my gaze, clearing the view for me as well.

I noticed two men and a girl with fiery hair. It took me a few moments to realize what was before my eyes, but one of the men was holding Primrose with a dagger at her throat. Just the way Gideon was holding me. Sean Sarn stepped forward, wearing a uniform of a royal guard.

“It’s over, Demir,” he said, gesturing for the other man to come closer, “Right this very moment the red dragons and rebel gerdians are attacking the palace from two sides. Our allies on the inside will help them as well. There is no need to turn all this into bloodshed. I think we all know that you already lost. You lost the moment you didn’t chase the golden-haired girl away and let everybody know about your weakness.”

“Don’t do it!” Prim growled and I noticed two bulky bracelets on her hands. They probably used them to block her magic. The man holding her pulled her hair, making her g***n from pain, and now it was Demir making an angry roaring sound.

“Are you really going to do it? You and Prim grew up together, Sean!” he reminded his ex-friend and the latter sighed heavily.

“That’s why I am not the one holding the dagger,” Sarn said coldly while his eyes locked with mine, “I am the one negotiating. Xander doesn’t want to take any chances. If you don’t obey, your sister and soulmate will be dead. It will cause you such strong physical pain that you will not be able to fight anyway. So, just give up. That’s the only thing you can do now.”

“No!” Prim and I shouted in unison, watching Demir clench his fists. I tried to summon Light again but I was too weak, my head dizzy and breathing ragged. He turned to look at me and I shook my head from side to side to try and stop him from the biggest mistake.

“If I do what you want,” he said calmly, way too calmly, “Will you make sure that they are both alive and treated well?”

“They will be alive, and I will do my best about the rest,” Sean replied dryly.

“No,” I whispered, throwing my head back, desperately trying to stay awake.

My eyes were closing and opening and the last thing I saw was Demir, kneeling with his hands up in the air. Fabian and two other warriors of light ran up to him and pointed their weapons at him. Sean passed them the bracelets just like the ones that Prim was wearing and they put them on.

I finally fell down, Gideon catching me into his arms and throwing away the dagger that he was threatening to kill me with. He was clenching me closer to his body, calling my name and trying to make me look at him. But in my last moments of consciousness, all I did was trying to turn my head in a way so that I could see Demir…

The last thing I saw was three of the Warriors of Light sending Light pulsar at the love of my life at the same time. I tried to scream but this was when my body gave up finally and the darkness consumed me…