Thana opens her eyes, she looks around and sees that she is no longer in the bedroom. She looks up and sees that she is in her father's throne room. She looks around and sees herself standing in front of the councils, her family, and the rest of the royal families. Glancing over all the faces she sees the one she was looking for.
Standing in front of her with his hands up arguing stands Micah. She runs up to him trying to get his attention. However, it is as if no one can see her. She takes a step back and watch the scene in front of her play out.
He is arguing with the council saying that Eleanor doesn't know the whole truth. She might have found them in the gardening kissing but that wasn't it all. They were mates. He pulls his shirt down showing Thana's mark on her. He walks up to the other Thana pulling her shirt down as well showing his mark. Both were fully healed and showing no signs of discomfort. Proving they were both true mates.
The Queen goes to stand in front of him and slaps him across the face. Telling him that a human and supernatural have never been mates before so what is so special between the two of them. That they were lying and that Thana was a whore. The other Thana leaps to her feet fighting the chains. She grabs the Queen throwing her across the room. She grabs Micah and pulls him behind her, taking a defensive stance.
Thana watches as her uncle starts to stand from his seat. He tries to break the tension, saying that since this has happened before that they should tread careful in this new discovery. Not wanting to upset the gods by breaking a mate bond if what the young couple says is the truth. The King not saying anything before stands raising his hand to silence the loud room.
He looks at his daughter and then the human Royal. Shaking his hand he walks over to his Queen helping her off the floor which she was still lying on. He then walks to his middle daughter asking if what she thought. Eleanor then smiles and says that she thinks her sister tricked the human into thinking that they were mates in order to seduce him.
Thana walks over to them, screaming in her families face trying to stop what is going to happen next. However, like before, no one will hear her pleas. She watches as her father nods and says that he has decided on what to do. He walks to the other Thana, he sighs and then brushes the hair from her face. He looks around the room and announces that due to what they know Thana is to be executed for breaking the first SCA. A supernatural must never lie with a human.
She watches as guards grab Micah pulling him away from the other Thana. They try to grab each other arms but more guards spill in grabbing the other Thana and pushing her down onto the stairs of the thrones. A man walks into the room holding the execution sword. The other Thana looks at Micah mouthing I love you. She closes her eyes and hears the executioner list her crime and give her last rights.
Thana watches as she see Micah free his hand from one guard, punching the other guard to be free. He runs over to the Thana standing in front of her as the executioner raises his weapon. Thana runs and jumps in front of him, hoping to stop the past from happening. The weapon glides through her and slashes the boy across the chest. Gasps and shouts are heard through the room as Micah falls. The other Thana catches him before he hits the ground. She cradles him to her chest. Tears falling freely from her eyes. Asking him what was he thinking. Micah just looks up at her, reaching his hand up to her face. He whispers I love you too.
Thana turns from the scene knowing what happens next. His hand drops to the ground. His eyes roll back into his head as he takes his last breath. The other Thana grasps her chest in pain tearing at her shirt. A glowing mark appears on her chest. She places her love carefully on the floor standing up. Thana watches as her uncle goes up to the other Thana trying to reach her. Before he can do that she starts shifting into her full dragon form. She whips her tail knocking her uncle to the other side of the room.
Thana walks over to Micah's body trying to hold him as the other Thana starts swiping her claws at anyone in reach. Multiple councilmen from both supernatural and human side are not quick enough and she tears into them. She slashes at the countless guards streaming into the room, trying to contain her. She watches her father standing guarding the queen and her little sisters behind her. He is bellowing trying to get her attention to command her to stop.
Eva breaks free from her mother's grasp and runs jumping on Thana's leg yelling at her to stop. That she is sorry no one believed her. The other Thana freezes and turns her head too the crying child. Suddenly she starts to shift back. Tears still flowing she grabs her little sister into a hug telling her that it isn't her fault and that she loves her. The other Thana then passes out.
Thana feels herself shaking and someone calling her name. Her eyes shot open and she sees the ceiling of the bedroom. She tries to sit up but can't looking to her sides she sees Kolt and Linkin holding her down. She looks around some more and she sees Teagen, and Erza trying to calm a distressed Thief who is trying to squeeze into the room however his big frame not fitting through the doorway.
"You were screaming, and clawing at your chest." Kolt says
Both Linkin and Kolt slowly take their hands off of her backing away. She sits up slowly trying to grasp that it had all been a dream. A memory from the night, a part of the half soul curse. Being tortured by the fact that she couldn't save him.
"I'm fine, please leave." Thana says
She rolls onto her side avoiding the gazes. There came a smash from the other side of the room. Quinten had thrown the glass cup full of pens across the room. Thana flinches when she hears the smash but doesn't move. Kolt and Linkin jump. Thief starts trying to squeeze threw the room again. Quinten whips around and punches the wall. Erza slips past the crazed griffin and grabs his arm before he can do it again.
"What is your problem?" Erza shouts
"She was screaming his name." Quinten screams.
"I want to know what happened!" He continued.
At this point Thana just wanted everyone to leave her room. She was still in shock from her dream and the pain of her back. She groans and slaps her hands on the bed. She sits up, wrapping the blanket around herself. She swings her legs over the bed standing up. Walking over to the arguing Erza and Quinten. She shoves Erza out of the way and turns to Quinten.
Quinten takes a step forward. He starts to demand answers. Thana closes her eyes sighing. Snapping them open she raises her fist and punches him in the nose. She then grabs a handful of his hair along with Erza's ear. She then walks them to the door throwing them on the ground.
"Listen, I love the redecorating going on in this sad little room, but I want to be alone right now." Thana says
She then turns and looks at Linkin and Kolt who are still standing in her room. Kolt nods and grabs the shocked wolves arm and they walk outside her room. She then promptly slams the door in their faces. Sliding down the door she curls on the floor. Letting silent tears spill.
Linkin looks at the others in shock. He points to the door then to Erzah and Quinten, bursting out in laughter. He bounces around laughing and pointing. Unable to do anything in shock of the events. None of them have ever seen anyone treat Erzah like a small child. Teagen joins in the laughter calling them all idiots. Erzah is quietly rubbing his sore ear. Quinten picks up a vase standing in the hallway and throws it. Yelling at the others that they should be getting ready for training and storms away
"Think moron, that wasn't a yell of anger but pain. The girl may be involved somehow but it wasn't her doing. Maybe if you were nice about it she might start sharing. Think about it, she was sentenced to execution then they changed it to banishment. She lost everything that day but the stupid griffin in our hallway. Being nice does wonders, because no matter what she is in pain." Teagen says.
Quinten sighs and turns back to the group. He agrees that he should be nicer, he just was upset that he could not be there to protect his cousin. They were only a couple years apart, he always viewed Micah as a little brother. It was hurtful that the one person he thought would protect Micah was involved in his death. He looks at the small witch in front of him. Quinten is aware that if he was to keep pushing Thana, Teagen would then get involved. He has dealt with her teachings before and didn't feel like dealing with it again. He raises his hands in a defensive manner.
"Okay, nicely it is. Happy?" He says
He doesn't want for a response. Walking to his room, he plans to start getting ready for the day. The others do the same seeing that they only had an hour to get ready before they are needed at the training fields. Before that the rest of the group decides that since Kolt never does anything to get ready that he should be the one to get Thana ready to head to training. She may not be able to officially start training but the Officers want her there, so after they can do the conduction ceremony.
Sighing he walks to Thana's door. He knocks on the door and asks to come in. He hears shuffling right around the door and wonders if she even moved from the door. Thana cracks the door and looks at Kolt.
"Uh, training starts in an hour, you were requested to be there so I am here to get you ready." Kolt says
Thana huffs, but without saying anything she swings the door open. Walking back to the bed she sits down. He goes into the closet and grabs the training pants along with black bandage wraps. He then goes to the bed tossing the clothes next to Thana. He then turns around indicating her to change. Thana easily switches into the pants She then take two of the wraps and wraps her feet. Then each of her wrists. She calls out to Kolt. He turns around.
"I need help with my chest. Please." She says quietly.
He nods and then goes to the bed. Sitting behind her he waits as she struggles to pull her previous bandages off. Grabbing her hand she stops halfway through. He takes the bandages off and cleans her wounds. Then carefully he wraps her chest. Once he was done he stands again going to the closet. He pulls out a case and a dark grey cloak.
Walking back to Thana he holds a hand out to her. She places her hand in his and he helped her up. Once she is standing he drapes the cloak over her. He then brushes the side of side of her cloak. Tracing over the mark on her chest.
She instantly slaps his hand away. Taking a step back, she quickly covers it. He chuckles and takes a step forward. He then turns around and goes to throw away the dirty bandages.
"It was obvious you two had a thing back when I would deliver to you. He did punch me the last time I was there, if you remember Thana." Kolt said
"So, since I already know you are a half soul. Care to tell me what happened. Is this why they didn't just kill you?" He asked.
"No, I don't really feel like sharing." Thana said.
"It could help you, talking about it. I assume your dream was part of the curse. The boss was a half soul. If you weren't already aware. I know what it does. It will just get worse." Kolt said
"He jumped in front of the executioner, they were just planning to kill me. Once they saw the mark they changed their minds." She responded
"Here I thought your dad just pulled some strings to keep you alive." Kolt answered.
Thana breaks into laughter. If only her dad cared, is what she thought. If only he were to stop and listen to someone outside his perfect little family, then none of this might have happened. Kolt glances to the clock. Seeing that they had only fifteen minutes before training started, he grabs the case and hands it to her. Thana breaks into a smile and takes the cse to the bed. Opening it exposes a scythe that is folded up.
The handle was all black but snaked around the handle was a golden metal that was designed like vines. It traced all the way up to where the blade meets. Dripping over the dark red blade. She traces the vines before grabbing it and taking it out of the case. In one movement the folded scythe is shaped back together. She then grabs it harness from the case. She careful straps it under the cloak across her back. The harness was basically strap with a pouch to hold the blade. It also had magnetic straps to hold the long handle with easy availability if needed.
Once she was done she went to the door. She went to open it when suddenly it closed. She whips around to yell at Kolt but collides with his chest instead. She rubs her face and turns her head up ward to see a smirking Kolt.
"I won't tell anyone about your little secret, however don't let anyone else see it little dragon." He whispers in her ear.
He then jumps back opening the door for her. She doesn't get a word in because he shoves her out the bedroom door. Once in the hallway she heads towards the kitchen to grab a quick bite. She goes to the bread bin and breaks off a piece of fresh bread. Turning to the living room she sees Linkin and Thief in a frozen stance.
Taking a closer look Thana notices that they are both holding different ends of a pair of pants. That is when Thana notices that Linkin has no pants on. She smiles and walk over to them petting the griffin. She whispers to the griffin while stroking his head. Thief coos and drops the pants. Linkin quickly puts them back on, giving her a nod of gratitude. Walking to the front door she opens it and points outdoors. The Griffin flaps it wings and chirps pouncing out the door. He quickly bounds into the sky. Turning back to the full clothed werewolf Thana begins to apologize for her pets behavior.
"I am sorry. He normally is better than this. It's been a stressful week. If he becomes to much just tell him to go outside. He is used to having free range of the kingdom."
"It's okay, I think I can get him to warm up to me." The wolf jokes
The rest of the group shortly fall into the living room. Once the group was all there. Erza announces it's time to go. They file out the door and head to the training grounds. It is in the middle of the Forsakens area. It takes five minutes to reach it. On one side of the training grounds there is a giant chalkboard with a bunch of names.
Erzah pointing building all the way to the training grounds then points to the board.
"That is the ranking board. It doesn't do much, but it is fun to see where you stand in the rankings. When you first get here you start at the bottom of the list. Then you fight each person for their spot. It's a good way to get people to want to train harder. There isn't much to gain from the ranking however the better ranking you have, the more leeway a person can have as well."
Thana notices that there is a small crowd gathered around the board. She goes to take a closer look, but Erzah stops her. He explains that they need to get to training, but she can look at it after. Thana follows after the group as they head to the other side. Erzah quickly mentions that there will be an introduction for Thana after, it will include her getting the mark of the Forsakens along with the mark. The mark which is branded on both forearms, to warn other people if they were to ever escape. A means to identify that they were criminals.
The group gets to the sand pits. Standing in the ring pulling mannequins around in different places is an Older man. Thana recognizes him as Marcus the Forsakens head trainer. He served the kings guard till he was injured protecting her grandfather from an assassination. After that he asked to be sent here to help get the forsaken legion members into shape. The old man greats the group with a grunt and a nod. He says a brief hello to Erzah before walking up to Thana.
He slowly walked around her. Thana stood a little taller, and raised her chin. He was sizing her up and she wasn't sure she liked it. However she was going to remain the appearance of indifference and powerful. It was how she was going to make it here. He started mumbling things.
"Fit, Confident, yes this is all what a trainee commander should have."
"Ah, a scythe. Not typical, but powerful when mastered."
He takes one more turn around her, and claps his hands. Turning to the group he orders everyone but her to start warming up. He then pulls her to the side of the ring to stand next to him as he yells out commands.
"Your uncle told me your situation, I am going to help you learn to control your new strength. However till you have control you are banned from sparing. I am going to place you at the top of the list, where you belong. It is a first to be placed at the top without fighting anyone. So be careful there will be people unhappy, but you are not to fight. You most likely won't be able to stop." Marcus told her.
Thana unsure of what to say just stares at the man. It made no sense to her why he would do that. If he didn't want her to fight wouldn't he just keep her at the bottom. It would make more sense. At the same time she could she his point. She is powerful and her animistic side would probably not be able to handle such a low ranking. The wrong person would try to pick on her and then she would lose control. However they could revolt and want to fight her more now.
"Your squad members will make sure you are not to fight. Also there is a strict command to leave you alone until your wounds are healed. That will hold people off for a bit." Marcus continues.
Thana nods, there is nothing for her to say. It is his decision. They spend the rest of the training in silence. Marcus would yell a command to the squad or point something out to Thana. She was curious to the level her squad was and she was impressed. Teagen being a witch had the power of the elements. She was gifted in all four. She would raise shields of stones or daggers of ice easily. However being a witch she could only use the elements if there was a source. Such as a bowl of water, or the lit candle for fire.
Quinten being a human meant that he had no special supernatural ability. However he was graced in hand to hand combat along with a bow. Able to hit a target mid air. Even though he was once a royal it seemed that it didn't stop him from being a good soldier.
Erzah and Kolt being both Vampires had super speed along with being able to use illusion magic. Both could create things out of thin air. However the illusions couldn't touch things it did distract who they sparred with.
Lastly Linkin was able to change into a giant, dark brown wolf. The wolf had grey and white splotches covering his back. He was powerful,yet like in human form clumsy. There was work to be done with him. He also used a whip as a weapon and was very skillful with it. Thana wasn't able to watch him long still uneasy with whips.
Finally, after four hours of training Marcus called everyone over. He announced they were done for the day but to be back here by dusk because Thana's introduction was then. Also that there were changes with the rank board and check it out. Marcus gives a wink to Thana, who had paled multiple shades. After that, he dismissed the group and sent them on their way.
Stopping at the board on they way back there was still a crowd around the board. They pushed their way into reading distance when they took a look at what it said. Thana took a look at the board seeing where everyone on her squad was placed. Out of two hundred names she saw that Quinten was placed seventeenth, Linkin placed elevenths. Thana kept reading to see that Tegean was fifth, Kolt was third and Erzah was second.
She glanced at first place and say her name listed next to it. She placed her face in her hands rubbing it. She muttered about the crazy old man was trying to kill her. Teagen pats her shoulder and guides her away from the board before anyone can tell she's new.
"Come on, let's get some food and get ready for tonight." She says.
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